Exactly this

just for anyone who lost track; The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.

Seems there has been some co-ordination. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Lost for words at where we are, the absolute cruelty

I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.

I love it

I just bought myself a drumkit 🫨

Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies. This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.

The message on IG from Alice (posted by her friend Sandy Ho). As always, Alice blazes a path for the rest of us, fearlessly & with humor: "I'm honored to be your ancestor & believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."

Incredibly sad to hear of the death of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. I was always amazed by her generosity in our (small) interactions, and I've got a lot from her writing. Rest in power, what a force.

There are people you never have the honor of knowing but you feel the ripple effects of their person and their work from the folks who have met them. Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.

Missing being with these beauties on the picket line ✊️

Solidarity with SHU UCU on strike. I’m on a research project based there just now and the loss of so many Professional Services staff is acutely noticeable. It’s inexplicable to treat a sector that brings so much to the UK as disposable and its staff as if they aren’t people. Stop it.

I'm off sick at the moment so not able to strike, but so grateful to all my colleagues on the picket lines ✊️

As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n

SUPPORT US AND CELEBRATE YORKSHIRE! We teamed up with Black Lodge Press last year to pay homage to The People's Republic of South Yorkshire. Celebrate South Yorkshire's history of radicalism with these iconic designs: buff.ly/ugjHqKQ

Been having a pretty grim mental health time, but was at least reassured to see an old faded rainbow zebra crossing to welcome all the mad queers into the psych assessment unit (regrets at not taking a photo)

No scabbing, please. Support your striking library workers.

The man in the queue behind me said Oh excuse me miss, you dropped ---- and then we both stared at the conker I'd dropped on the ground And he said Umm --- And I said Oh! My conker! :(

UNISON members who support LGBTIQ+ people may want to actively oppose their union on this one.

I can't emphasise enough that putting this question front and centre as a mandatory requirement, acts largely as a deterrent to accessing healthcare for trans people.

111/NHS direct is a joke. Having to misgender yourself to the people there for no reason is outright humiliating. It's designed to put trans people off reaching out for healthcare support. There were years of surveys that worked on finding respectful ways to gather this information, disregarded.

Love that both the local outdoor swimming group and local cycling group I'm in are both now just full of transphobic debate

Shame on @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social for this and solidarity with trans staff 💔 www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/exclusive-tr...

Little joy today - dug into the heap of stuff I've been piling up in the garden for the last three years and found compost (and lots of woodlice)

The NHS are forcibly detransitioning trans kids in Brighton and calling it “managed withdrawal.” Their own impact assessment acknowledges trans kids will be at increased risk of harm as a result, don’t want this, and are likely to just use DIY hormones instead

And here’s something you can do to voice your opposition to the RSHE guidance. We must stop it being implemented as it is in September 2026. Tell the government it must be revised. Sign and share 👇 openletter.earth/the-urgent-n...

This is the end result of anti-trans bigotry: more harassment of girls and women, more policing of gender roles, more gender McCarthyism.

So we're promised new trans schools guidance over summer which us unlikely to go well. We've got new rse guidance which is gonna make schools too scared to discuss anything trans anyway. How's this actually gonna work in practice?

Clause 72 in particular is functionally identical to Clause 28 of the Local Government Act in 1988: "[S]chools... should avoid materials that... could be interpreted as being aimed at younger children, or that... encourage pupils to question their gender."

It's unbearable

A rat casually sauntered past us in the garden last night so I googled 'rat in garden' and now have too mucn rat empathy

Amazing how even comments under local reporting about the hosepipe ban manage to be transphobic

LinkedIn really is the place where souls go to die

Putting away some washing & noticed my three frog/toad t-shirts side by side, making both current me & 8YO me very happy

If you’re free from pain and gifted with energy, ask how you can help share some of the load. Email your MP! Use a subject banner e.g. ‘Please VOTE AGAINST the Welfare Bill’ as this close, MP offices will likely scan the inbox. Ask friends in Labour seats to do same. Your help matters. 2/2

Fuck you BBC. How dare you conflate the IDF with Jews. You antisemitic pieces of shit.

The Govs selection of yet another anti-trans bigot for this important position shows clearly and openly it is pursuing an anti trans agenda if its own. Neither the Gov, the EHRC nor the UK has a single shred of credibility left when it comes to equality.

Cheery (useful!) Monday morning reading from @aoir.bsky.social

Cannot recommend getting a cat for your cat highly enough.

@transactualuk.bsky.social guidance transactual.org.uk/equality-act... Dr Charlotte Jones and @tigslater.bsky.social did a toilets research evidence guide at aroundthetoilet.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/t... Dr Sandra Duffy, trans lawyer has response info at sandraduffy.blog/2025/05/21/r...

If you're low on spoons @goodlawproject.bsky.social have an online form submission thinger at action.goodlawproject.org/ehrc which does it for you.

From The Guardian on the proposed disability benefits cuts. Calling up MPs spouses to bully them into submission. Astonishingly childish behaviour from this government. Are these the people we want leading this country?

We want to hear about experiences of discrimination or challenges faced in single-sex spaces in the UK. We especially welcome responses from Black people and people of colour. Complete the survey at: tinyurl.com/SingleSexSpa... #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #TransAlly

😬 I seem to have engaged with Linkedin. Times must be desperate

So good!

It really was huge. I arrived at 13.50 and got in at 16.35. It was due to end at 16.00 but I heard they had extended til 19.00.

Lazy hive mind literature search- can anyone point me to literature that discusses either 1) experiences of trans and nonbinary kids in PE/sport; 2) outcomes of dividing boys & girls up in PE in primary school. The more accessible the better