Huge appreciation for @abcnewsaustralia.bsky.social radio. Updates on local fires and evacuations very very very much appreciated, and very very very necessary. Please increase funding for this essential service. #auspol

Pleased that the Brisbane Supreme Court overturned the ideologically toxic & unfounded Qld LNP decision to ban trans youth from accessing public healthcare. Why are any 🇦🇺 parents *still* having to go to court so their kids can access healthcare? My family went thru this a decade ago. It’s awful.

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Some people might laugh but there's something actually important in this as I have heard others talk about how a fear of dying is palpable among fascists. They carry hell with them in real life.

I am so concerned for LGBTIQA+ youth across Australia without supportive and affirming parents/caregivers. Those at private religious education facilities? It’ll be like going back to the 1980s for these kids. Where do they go? What limited choices will they think are before them? All avoidable.

We’ve been saying this forever. The social media ban will harm kids

Single JobSeeker just hit $400 a week How would you go if you were getting that little and were randomly not paid? 'Happy' #AntiPovertyWeek #AbolishMOs and #RaiseTheRate Great piece from @amyremeikis.bsky.social on the current debacle www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic... #NobodyDeservesPoverty

they do this all of the time. They beat people and arrest them for celebrating.

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Happy Wear It Purple day to everyone! Now more than ever, trans youth need your visible support. Hope you’ve got some purple on today, or even just some purple bling! 🏳️‍⚧️ 💜 🏳️‍⚧️

Reading about trans youth in Texas today. Awful. Fucking awful. The cruelty is the point- those politicians are sick. Trans youth deserve So. Much. Better. Privileged supportive family’s are fleeing the state (fleeing the country if they can). The rest are stuck there until they can escape 💔

Thinking of all trans youth out there without support. So many don’t realise that life will get so much better. Being unsupported and existing in a hostile home and school environment is temporary. It will get better. So much better. So hard to see that in the moment though. But it will improve ❤️

This is un-fucking-believable. @albomp.bsky.social Australia should be absolutely POURING money into the CSIRO, repairing the damage of Morrison's cuts, and nabbing as much talent as we can from anywhere we can find it. Australia won't become better or more prosperous by being stupid. #auspol #CSIRO

Sydney. This Sunday. Tell the Albanese govt it’s beyond time to sanction Israel, stop the starvation of Palestinians and stop the siege on Gaza. #NSWPol #FreePalestine #MarchForHumanity #AltText

We are getting closer to the point of everyone quickly trying to pretend they have always called this genocide

In a landmark decision, the International Court of Justice found that polluting countries are now legally obligated to address global warming. www.democracynow.org/2025/7/24/va...

The Australian Institute of Family Studies, using peer-reviewed research in their newly published page (July 2025). #TransKids #ParentsOfTransYouth #AltText If all parents loved their kids unconditionally, this link wouldn’t be necessary. Parents need to/can do better! aifs.gov.au/resources/sh...

Israel wants to imprison 600,000 Palestinians in the "ruins of Rafah." A "humanitarian city" from which no one is allowed to leave. The Israeli army will guard the "city." An Israeli human rights lawyer calls it "preparations for a crime against humanity." www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/l...

Sanctioning Francesca Albanese for trying to stop a holocaust, while funneling a genocidal maniac billions in weapons and diplomatic support, is some heinous evil empire shit. It's an assault on reality.

Beyond time to sanction Israel for their genocide, war crimes, and creating the largest cohort of child amputees in history. It has to stop. It must stop. The longer this continues, the more we lose of our humanity, collectively and individually. #Auspol #Canberra #FreePalestine #AltText

5 years into the ongoing pandemic, 4 people with Long COVID share their stories as their battle against COVID continues. "Hospitalizations, job losses, chronic symptoms, and a fight for acceptance: People living with LC share their real-life ups, downs, setbacks, and triumphs." archive.md/xqZ8t

THREAD: Updated version of my definition of Contrived Authority. It looks like the Starmer government is deploying Contrived Authority to further remove healthcare from young trans people. This needs to be regarded as a form of violence directed at them by Streeting/Starmer…. 1/n

A campaign to lobby Woolworths, Coles and Kmart to quit carrying cookware containing PFAS pls

So we just passed through the Tas ferry terminal check-in. All masked. Staff there asked if we have COVID because we're masked. No, we're trying not to get it. There is 6x more COVID than last trip we did 3 months ago. Noone cares.

Until you get close to it you never really grasp just how many people and groups there are telling govt what they want to hear so they can say they have “talked to govt” and groups and people who advise the govt to do nothing because that will never be controversial.

Hetero Awesome Fest - Guerrilla Performance - Boise, Idaho - Boy 🚨 A QUEER PERSON HAS SNUCK ONTO THE STAGE AT HETERO PRIDE THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨

The rhetorical sleight-of-hand is especially blatant in this passage. It says that cis boys also can’t get testosterone without “a permissible diagnosis.” Omitted is the fact that they’d inevitably get diagnosed with a “congenital defect” if their testosterone was the same level as a trans boy.

The federal government imposing a stop work order on Trevor project for the national 988 suicide hotline on the same day that the Supreme Court greenlit a ban on care despite the risk of suicide sends a clear message: The United States government officially wants trans youth to kill themselves.

"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice we're willing to make." They acknowledge the harms of trans youth being left untreated and then greenlight banning treatment. It's psychotic wanton cruelty.

The sheer level of logical contortion required to say that banning trans care “doesn’t exclude any individual from medical treatments on the basis of transgender status” is truly mind-blowing.

The United States is committing genocide against its trans population, and SCOTUS just legalized it. That's the truth.

Fuck Chuck Schumer. This is a direct ripping away of rights from transgender people. Our lives are not a distraction.

SCOTUS just gave states permission to ban gender-affirming medical care for adolescent gender dysphoria (against the advice of all major medical orgs) At least twenty studies have examined the mental health benefits of this care. You can evaluate them for yourself: open.substack.com/pub/jackturb...

This decision is rooted in cisnormativity and transphobia. It’s part of an attempt at erasing trans people from society. But it also simultaneously function as a way of building precedents that can be used to undermine racial equality and “Make America White Again.”

Reading the Supreme Court decision, I think back to what I wrote with sociologist Blu Buchanan. Attacks on gender-affirming care are fundamentally rooted in white supremacy. Attacks on trans people are part of a broad-ranging agenda of reconfiguring society to better serve white supremacy.

🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, concluding that it does NOT discriminate on the basis of sex, is not subject to heightened scrutiny, and survives rational basis review. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Skrmetti www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Just finished writing a response to a parliamentary inquiry, and the NSW Department of Education needs to desperately and urgently replace Bulletin 55. It is over a decade old, inaccessible, and no longer fit for purpose. NSW trans students deserve to have a safe schooling experience.

I hope the federal election outcome gives the ALP the confidence to overtly stand up for trans youth. It’s past time for these very vulnerable kids to be protected by 🇦🇺 anti-discrimination law. No school should be able to expel a student solely because they confirm who they are. #Auspol

Sunk cost fallacy, anyone? Christ, these people are the absolute antithesis of (constructive, activist) queer joy

Watching North of North on Netflix, and it’s like chicken soup for the mind and heart during these insane days. #NorthOfNorth #Netflix #Chill 🎥 🇨🇦

I just finished #northofnorth and it's SO GOOD!! I need everyone I know to watch it 🤩 Siaja is such an amazing messy character, the visuals are beautiful and the music is amazing. My only criticism (as always) is that it's way too short 😭 I need 587346 more episodes, I'm begging for more seasons🙏

Just finished watching #NorthOfNorth. OMG. It’s a beautiful, funny, sentimental and heartbreaking story with brilliant visuals. I loved it so much. Hope there’s a season 2! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

Surprisingly, not an awful article! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1. They are criticising a curriculum they signed off on. 2. States departments interpret the curriculum. No one teaches the national one. 3. They can only withhold funding from private schools. 4. They have no idea what they're talking about. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Precious little Mark Latham has some serious anger management issues and foot in mouth disease. #auspol

Just in! Mark Latham ordered to pay Alex Greenwich’s legal costs after losing defamation case

Thank you to Devonport Library and The Hive in Ulverstone (lutruwita/Tasmania) for refusing to host hate-speech by anti-trans activists. It makes our community safer and the vast vast vast majority of the community thanks you. #politas Specific details in next post for anyone interested.

We celebrate all of our Trans siblings every day, all of our Queer, GNC, 2S+ and all of our family who is in danger under a regime that will start with us, but certainly won’t stop with us. We wish you all a good fight and thriving survival for the coming years. And where you fight, we do too. 3/3

I’m appearing before the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into public toilets this morning. Not an April Fools joke!! Public 🚽’s can be terrifying for trans youth, to the point many end up with urinary tract infections because they would rather hold on for a dangerous amount of time, than face public 🚽