I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

"If Labour is to make progress, it must move forward" Truly profound stuff.

I don't want to share any private space with a terf. They would violate my dignity because they don't mind their own business. I've said this before but I think now, more than ever, we should have separate rooms for them. Utter weirdos

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking. It exposes that much of the world has been cowed. Most notable exception: the Latin American left. That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves — and that’s no coincidence. This is naked U.S. imperialism: an illegal assault on Caracas aimed at overthrowing a sovereign government and plundering its resources. Starmer’s Labour government must condemn this unequivocally.

Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there. Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.

A quite demented Leader column published today by The Times. First, this in which it says that the Supreme Court decision mandated that single sex spaces be divided on the basis of "biology" not gender.

Just astounding how much these people tell on themselves by always resorting to this "racism against everyone else is taken seriously" drivel. I mean, has Rachel ever actually spoken to a black person about how calling out racism tends to go for them?

Brilliant news from Aotearoa New Zealand, where trans health professionals have won an interim halt to the country's politically-driven puberty blocker ban. Wishing them all the best for further legal action.

So, Laura Kuenssberg's introduction to her interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson is just hideous. Let me count the ways. 🧵

the brits should be so embarrassed by their transphobia, they got completely bamboozled by an American evangelical plot. they think they’re so much smarter than us but they got turned into a country of jug hooting bigots without even needing to be told it’s what God wants.

I'd happily forgotten this clown existed but to be reminded of this kind of smug, incurious certitude that ITSELF is entirely about playing to a slavish audience who will lap it up is grim.

As with Brooks' reporting of the judgement, a quote from Maya Forstater, and from Peggie's lawyer, and absolutely nothing from anyone supportive of human rights.

I mean on what planet was this not going to happen? The entire point of the tranaphobia moral panic is that it's got enormous resources behind it. This racist bigots lawyer's would have been champing at the bit to continue drawing on them.

So just to be clear, the TERFs who claimed Peggie won a resounding victory are also insisting the judge is an idiot who doesn't understand the law,that the judge farmed the ruling out to ChatGPT and are rejoicing at her appealing? Why are they so eager to discredit a resounding victory? HOW ODD!

"It held that the evidence of Dr Upton should be preferred and that Dr Upton had not falsely claimed that Mrs Peggie had been guilty of harassment, as Mrs Peggie had in some of her remarks impermissibly manifested her gender critical beliefs" Uh huh.

Could a journalist please ask Joani Reid MP what or who the 'virus' is? Without clarification, it sounds an awful lot like she thinks the existence and recognition of trans people is the virus. That's far more extreme than even Reform have come out with.

HR departments countrywide need to start treating gendercrit employees as potentially hostile. As soon as you are required to interact with one, you dust off the rulebook, you dot every eye and cross every t, and you assume bad faith at every turn. They are a threat to every organisation.

Leaving aside the fact the ruling is overwhelmingly unfavourable for Peggie and makes clear she is dishonest and harassed the doctor, I wonder why this story quotes an utterly irrelevant opinion from transphobic group Sex Matters with no corresponding quote from any org that supports trans rights?

The TERFs immediately rushing to say that the judge in the Peggy case doesn't understand the law is absolutely fucking hilarious. Total wingnuts.

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

In the ruling itself, the first reference is in paras 1000 (p233) onwards, particularly para 1028 on p 238. Para 1034 is quite damning

"The only way to stop bullies is to stand up to them. Anti-trans campaigners have been making legal threats, trying to force trans people out of public life. They thought after the SC decision the whole world would suddenly agree with them. But they've misunderstood the law, as well as human nature"

So many people who imagine themselves to be Marxists have a deeply liberal and idealist understanding of transphobia. It's not a debate, it's a power struggle and if you aren't willing to clearly take trans people's side, you are a scab.

🚨 BREAKING: Chancellor continues freeze on housing benefit – missing a crucial opportunity to prevent homelessness. As rents continue to rise, this will directly lead to homelessness for many of us. #Budget2025

A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly. Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.

These people are truly batshit. Absolutely everyone and their dog understands they're obsessive TERFs but when it suits they become smol bean journos who merely have an "informed" interest.

*sad trombone noise*

I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...

Proud to back @transliberationgroup.org.uk — a brilliant grassroots group fighting for trans liberation within Your Party. Their demands are essential for real party democracy. With trans people under unprecedented threat in the UK, I’m proud to always stand with the trans community.

The worst thing about this BBC crisis is it provoking a legion of dullards to wheel out the "it's attacked by left and right, it must be doing something correct!" take

I cannot believe I paid money to go watch this woman several times.

God @cmatbaby.bsky.social is cool.

TERFs are so astoundingly thick.

On the left, Skys sports correspondent saying that away fans are normally banned when they've caused violence before but "that's not the case here" On the right, Maccabi 'fans' beating a man unconscious in Athens earlier this year.

Could literally anyone ask him directly why he thinks this shit is worth defending? His brain would explode.

It's very cool to see all the "it's racist to conflate British Jews with Israel" Zionists racing to suggest a bunch of extremist racist thugs are just smol bean Jews trying to go about their lives and banning them is akin to Nazism

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Starmer again invokes "leaders of the Jewish community" in support of further crackdowns on anti-genocide protests, and absolutely no-one in our fearless media points out that this rather conflates Israel with British Jews.

One of the favourite pastimes of TERFs is smugly suggesting you read the Supreme Court ruling, then immediately revealing that they have not in fact read it when you ask them specific questions about it.

"It's wrong to conflate British Jews with Israel. Anyway here to discuss developments is a random British Jewish person who is a total wingnut for Israel."

Today @theobserveruk.bsky.social has published a column suggesting that the protests that happened re: the kidnapping of the flotilla were, in fact, celebrating the Manchester attack. Absolutely unreal.

Lord, grant me the confidence of a mediocre dullard who strides into literally any discussion about trans people and barks "WHAT RIGHTS DON'T TRANS PEOPLE HAVE THEN?"

It shouldn't be so refreshing to hear a politician saying it's wrong to conflate British Jews with the state of Israel but here we are.

As always, absolutely no-one in our media will ask our politicians why they believe anti-Zionism is racism against British Jews, but also that it's wrong to conflate Israel with British Jews.

Amazing.

Team Zarah all the way and yes, she should probably just join the Greens at this point.

“we’re here because any path that avoided this would have required a fight. It would have involved being screamed at by angry, insane radicalized idiots. And powerful people in politics and the press decided that they weren't up for that.”