I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.

If Russia is banned because it contradicted Eurovision’s mission of peace and cultural unity… Then why isn’t Israel?

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈I dream of the day when the world can become a place where transgender people can live proudly and freely as themselves, and where they can love freely As a mascot, I see human love as beautiful and wonderful. I love you all today as well♡

This! WI and GG..

There is much to say on this, but the very first point that must be made as a matter of urgency to the NEC is that excluding trans women is not a "compromise position", it is a segregation position, a biased position, a transphobic position and a morally repugnant position.

In the last twenty years, mega-donations to political parties from the super-rich haven’t just doubled. They haven’t just trebled. They’ve gone up sevenfold. And that money isn’t generosity. It’s to buy influence so politicians serve their interests, not our constituents.

Stop saying “DEI” or “equity-related.” Stop using the words they choose to mask their vile racist ideology with the language of those they hate. Say they want to remove any books that speak to the lives of anyone who isn’t white, straight, Christian, or male. Name the hate. Make them own it.

“Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) approved plans on Tuesday to limit the main conference hall to biological women delegates” … Can someone please tell me how they plan to check attendee’s “biology”? Will this be by mouth swab, genital check, or “we can always tell” radar??? 🤷🏼‍♀️

The GCs on twitter are very confused by this. It's fairly simple – given FWS only decided whether EA sex means 'biological' or 'certificated' sex, it did not change the legal position for under 18s. Regardless of how FWS was decided the position for trans girl guides would be the same.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS

It was always inevitable that the loudest and best-funded (by people in Epstein's emails) anti-trans freaks who spent years trying to brand trans people as sexual predators, would instantly start defending Epstein. It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.

v good thread to show to your cis people who don’t understand the kafkaesque web of insane bureaucratic nonsense that british trans people have been trapped in for decades

The economy is incredibly broken. We should move to universal basic income.

I do not understand how anyone goes through life without this reality just completely poleaxing them from time to time. I mentioned it to my brother once and he was "fuck Beth, that's grim, you need to go outside" and it's just like "this is outside too!!!" How the fuck do you turn aside???

This is exactly what transphobes do.

If your politics have become “We must do fascism-lite, or the fascists will win”, then the fascists have already won.

Trump knew about the rape of young girls at the Epstein residence and said nothing, yet he claims to be “protecting women and girls” by attacking trans people.

I organise EIAs for a living. You do policy, you do an EIA. It's the first thing an FoI request would ask for. If it's a trans thing you don't fuck around because there's a cottage industry in asking for FoIs on this stuff. This is insane to me.

You do not have to hand it to the Catholic bishops. In the same meeting, they banned gender affirming care at all Catholic hospitals nationwide. www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...

It can be decades after a conflict ends for a country to even start to be considered "safe". Many refugees may never be able to return due to long term trauma. Mahmood is specifically talking about leaving vulnerable people in limbo and fearful for their futures. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Gender Ideology” is the transphobic version of the antisemitic hoax conspiracy theory the “Protocols of The Elders of Zion”

In the UK, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's friendship with Epstein has led to total disgrace. He's been stripped of his titles, reduced to the status of a pariah. Nobody is defending him. He's a TOTAL disgrace. In America, Jeffrey Epstein's close mate, Donald Trump, remains the president. Insane.

Love this from @zackpolanski.bsky.social Zack: No, no, the Emperor’s naked. Perfection 👌🏾

FOI reveals the EHRC couldn’t even be bothered to finish an impact assessment for their new code of practice. When Bridget Phillipson asked for it on 8 October, all they managed to hand over was an unfinished “working draft”. 1/

If someone says “gender ideology” one more time like it means something, I’m going to lose my mind. Stop pretending like there’s not an entire scientific literature on gender identity and gender dysphoria. They’re trying to ban the teaching of that scientific literature.

Transphobia now threatening to derail work on tackling climate change. Billionaires who own super yachts and fly in private jets overjoyed at the distraction. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Welcome to the era where nothing fucking works. It’s going to get worse before it gets better

Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.

please welcome your new prime minister, wes streeting! [close-up photo of what turns out to be a thumb with googly eyes]

Has he admitted the EA, according to the SC, was written to end the rights afforded by Croft, Goodwin, GRA etc. meaning ministers had knowingly and deliberately misled the European Council at the time of royal ascent?

Every teacher, administrator, etc that did not immediately act to stop this should be charged as an accessory to the distribution of CSAM and should lose basically everything they have.

More evidence that the "gender-critical" transphobes are working with fascists including Russia, Iran & Saudi Arabia. All countries where women are treated very badly. "Gender-criticals" are not feminists & they do not "protect women" They are trying to hold the COP 30 to ransom to be transphobic

What doesn't get highlighted enough: bans on trans care almost never end just at healthcare specific to us. They're often a cover for just refusing to treat trans people period, for anything. Broken bone? Surgery complications? Infection? Bigoted medical institutions are happy to let us die.

Kazakhstan’s parliament has voted to ban so-called LGBTI propaganda. If approved, the law would silence LGBTI voices & restrict freedom of expression for everyone. We stand with LGBTI people in #Kazakhstan & call on the Senate to reject this harmful law #HumanRights #Equality https://bit.ly/4rcRpLk

working at the nyt

Glinner is full MAGA now. Sees someone criticising his favourite pedo rapist president, gets really racist in response.

Local areas can lead the way on protecting nature, making lives better and securing a safe future for all of us - but they need government to stop starving them of funds. @carladenyer.bsky.social led the way with her Climate Emergency declaration. Now time for the Government to step up.

It’s pretty well known that cis guys will do some fucked up shit to make women’s spaces not safe. My point is that they’re actively saying let cis men in cos they’re cleaners when that’s rife for abuse but ban trans women when there’s zero evidence trans women are dangerous.

If one of the journalists who covered the Tavi can actually say, hey the BBC isn't actually pro-trans, why can't any of the other journalists?

So the "report" about the doctored Trump quotes was itself doctored.... www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

The latest Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies is out, and it's a doozy: a special issue on "Dynamics of Transphobic Content and Disinformation". With topics including Youtube, Mumsnet, LGB Alliance, Chinese TERFs, and transvestigators, this is an vital read! bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org

They hate scrutiny Reform UK in Kent looks set to drastically cut the number of committees scrutinising its work, @bylinetimes.bsky.social can reveal, amid claims it can’t raise the numbers to do the work, following a wave of suspensions of its own own councillors.

The Guardian (and every other media outlet) knows whether this really important story is true or not - but they won't say because of (I assume) source protection. My question is, how does this serve the public?

People who believe that children should be made into mini adults and punished for trying to learn their bodies To the point of legislating them into suicide Absolutely believe that proximity to someone who does awful things is a “tool”

Let me just say that Valve really knows their audience by picking these two as poster children for the Steam Machine: store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma...