So, fans of a man with multiple jobs who's VERY posh and has boring hair, attack her for having multiple jobs (she's just a plumber who's training as a plasterer, while running for MP) and for being "posh" bcos "she has an M&S bag & nice hair" 🤔 It's the hair, isn't it? Nigel's jealous of her hair

#1TransManADay 🏳️‍⚧️Day 30 River Buddy Butcher (b1982) US stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer & podcaster known for personal, observational comedy focused on his vegetarianism, feminism, love of baseball, and experiences as a queer trans masc person (he/they pronouns). 1/3 #TransMen #TransComedy

#1TransManADay 🏳️‍⚧️Day 30 Chris Mosier (1980-) US triathlete, duathlete & racewalker. #Transrights advocate. Began transition 2010. 2016 won place on World Championship Men's USA sprint duathlon team (35-39yrs group) becoming 1st out trans athlete on a US national team of non-assigned sex #TransMen 1/5

As a trans man, I feel pretty icky about trans men competing in women's sport. I don't care that he isn't on testosterone. Trans men are men. Regardless of medical transition. This plays straight into the hands of TERFS, who will laud him for 'accepting' trans men belong with women.

Almost like the right wing are trying to make a lie true simply by claiming it enough times (in this case, that young men in the UK are overwhelmingly right wing)

I've written a blog aimed at cis ppl, on the recent revelations of rising trans suicide rates since NHS England removed gender affirming care for u18s, in particular about my involvement with trying to seek the truth and the trauma the gaslighting by Appleby, Streeting, Cass and the media causes.

16.6% of children who died by suicide were LGBTQ+, 7% (46 of 647) were trans. 8% of 16-24 yo Brits are LGB, and 0.5% of the UK population is trans (many trans ppl are of course also LGB). Keira Bell's experience matters, sure, but enough gaslighting. The tragedies above matter far, FAR more.

When Mandelson was a Labour member & Corbyn PM, Mand said: "I work every day in some small way to bring the end of his term in office." The reward for "kicking the left again & again..was a blind eye was turned to the fact [Starmer] knew abt the rship between him & Epstein." youtu.be/L1kE4-FmQ84?...

#1TransManADay 🏳️‍⚧️Day 29🕯️ Apollo Moon/Forest Harader (1998-2024) US transmasc adult content creator & performer. Prominent trans man of colour in a cis white dominated industry, who used his platform to celebrate his trans identity & uplift others in the community. 1/3 #TransRights #TransMen #LGBTQ

Trans migrants "were subjected to serious medical neglect, harassment and solitary confinement for weeks at a time — which the United Nations considers to be a form of torture. All said they felt they were uniquely targeted for abuse for being transgender." #TransRights

"At the pond, women have been made to feel unsafe by anti-trans activists." Mary recalls some “standing at the gate, looking up & down at anyone that came in to decide if they were woman enough.” This also defied all "the pond stands for" (women of all shapes/sizes) AND put male police in the space.

Counterpoint: "Horrific acts against a staggering number of women & girls" ARE MORE DEPRESSING than "smarmy jerks" getting rich from managing other people's money, or abusers sometimes being "charming", or "accomplished people" sometimes being "terrible judges of character." Sort your priorities.

- Deaths almost 4 times higher than Appleby's report stated - Govt then banned puberty blockers for U18s - UK trans ppl face AVERAGE 25yr waits for FIRST appt One detransitioner's regret has been prioritised over the continued EXISTENCE of trans kids, in an unforgivable example of systemic cis-bias

Exchanges like this improve life immeasurably

"Your military superior, that’s not your shift manager at Taco Bell or Starbucks. They have complete and total control over you.” - Mikey Weinstein, president of Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Translation: "Trump is your King. You must love his Queen."

Sociobiologist Trivers, given $40K by Epstein, said of Ep victims "by 14/15 they're like grown women were 60yrs ago so the acts aren't so heinous", dehumanises trans ppl: Trans women: Attractive "organisms"(!), prostitutes whose cocks men can suck heterosexually Trans men: "The worst of both worlds"

#1TransManADay 🏳️‍⚧️Day 27 Andreas Krieger (b1965) German shot putter, competed for East Germany pre-transition & won gold at 1986 European Championships. Infamous for being unknowingly doped with steroids from age 16, masculinising his body. Came out as a trans man in the 90s 1/4 #TransRights #TransMen

Green party leader Zack Polanski just took Wes Streeting to task for his transphobia, links to Epstein, and dodgy Palantir decisions www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

#1TransManADay 🏳️‍⚧️Day 26 Rocco Kayiatos/Katastrophe (1979-) US rapper & community builder. 1st openly trans hip-hop singer. Raps abt lives outside mainstream gender & education, trans male struggles & his contested place in queer & hip hop culture, inc community, space, privilege, sex & self-worth 1/4

#1TransManADay 🏳️‍⚧️Day 25 Jack Bee Garland (1869–1936) aka Babe Bean. US author, nurse, soldier, journalist, translator & adventurer, who lived as a man in San Francisco. Half-Hispanic, he occupied a variety of intersections. In 1897, he was arrested for the "crime" of cross-dressing. 1/8

Study in British Journal of Sports Medicine: No observable differences to cis women in key metrics after 1-3yrs of GAHT. Physiologists: "Comparing trans women to cis men isn’t a fair or meaningful comparison” Sex Matters: Some unscientific fuckwittery in which they continue to call trans women men

I'll be away for a few days, so will carry on with #1TransManADay when I get back

#1TransManADay 🏳️‍⚧️Day 24 Balian Buschbaum (1980-) Pole vaulter & motivational speaker. Became German pole vault champion 1999, setting national record at 4.42m. His P.B. is 4.70m (2003). In 2007, he retired to begin transition, choosing "Balian" after the blacksmith in the film Kingdom of Heaven. 1/3

@RogerPielkeJr Making Complete Sense of the Debate Over Trans Athletes I agree with Roger. Athletes sis or trans should be looked at individually & holistically, that they are a sum of all their advantages & disadvantages which result in performance. youtu.be/2-ohQiLWWwA?...

#1TransManADay 🏳️‍⚧️Day 23 Charley Darkey Parkhurst (1812–79) "One-Eyed Charley", "Six-Horse Charley" US stagecoach driver & rancher. Tho most sources call him "she" & "a woman who fooled everyone" (trope that trans identities are deceptive) he presented as male before teen yrs & for his whole life 1/6

#1TransManADay 🏳️‍⚧️Day 22 Patricio Manuel (1985-) US boxer. 1st trans boxer to fight professionally in US, defeating Hugo Aguilar, who learned Manuel's trans status 2 days before. Unlike many of Manuel's opponents, Aguilar said "It doesn't change anything for me. He wants to win, I want to win too" 1/4

Change a letter, ruin a film: The Lice of Brian Stat Wars Vestworld

The Ditches of Eastwick Helpraiser Mary Popping

#1TransManADay 🏳️‍⚧️Day 21 Anderson Bigode Herzer (1962-82) Brazilian writer & poet who died by suicide aged 20. The film Vera by Sérgio Toledo is based on his profoundly difficult life. His chosen name Anderson is common, Bigode less so, meaning mustache. #transrights #transmen #translivesmatter 1/3

Petition to boycott World Cup here - not many signatories yet so let's get this going. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bo...

#1TransManADay 🏳️‍⚧️Day 20 Laith Ashley De La Cruz (1989-) US model, actor, activist, singer-songwriter of Dominican descent, from New York. Named top athlete among boys AND girls at school, Laith came out as homosexual at 17 (didn't use 'lesbian'), realized he was trans at 19 & came out 5 yrs later 1/5

#1TransManADay 🏳️‍⚧️ Day 19 Michael Dillon (1915–62) British doctor, author, Buddhist monk, 1st trans man to have phalloplasty, 1st surgeon to perform orchiectomy on a trans woman His ideas on gender affirmative treatments in 'Self: A Study in Endocrinology & Ethics' were "decades ahead of his time" 1/9

I like the original cartoon :)

This isn't abstract. Cass zeroed in on trans men under 25, painting them as confused autistic girls, naively duped by doctors, escaping male gaze, easily led by friends & TikTok trends. They're quietly establishing "biological women" aren't bright enough for bodily autonomy. That means repro rights.

Please sign & share! On 29th Jan the Council of Europe will vote on banning conversion therapy, and Sex Matters are trying to influence it. Good Law Project's tool ⬇️ lets us email Council of Europe MPs (NOT YOUR LOCAL MP!) to ensure transphobia is NOT the only voice they hear. goodlaw.social/9f10d1

Organisations that have signed our “Biological Sex” and Its Variants are Transphobic Slurs open letter. Any organisation that would like to sign the letter in support, please get in touch with us via DM or our website. tacc.org.uk/biological-s... Individuals can also sign via the link above.

The reason trans men are erased is cos if the far-right kept talking about "removing biological women's healthcare/rights", everyone would realise what they were doing Our 'side' MUST stop consenting to & perpetuating that erasure. Challenge it! Visibilise ALL the groups GCs erase! IT'S ON PURPOSE!

“Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect storm for those seeking to spread disinformation at unprecedented speed and scale. And it’s virtually impossible to detect.” This is a chilling reminder that AI poses a serious threat to democratic engagement. We need to resist this tech.

This BRILLIANT talk by Zoe Playdon tells how Ewan Forbes' case, conducted in secrecy in late 60s, affected trans rights in the UK AND globally. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQI Posting #1TransManADay for trans men to see our history AND bcos our erasure facilitates loss of cis female repro rights

#1TransManADay 🏳️‍⚧️ 18. Harrison Browne(1993-) “I stand proud as a trans man WITH AN EPIC MOUSTACHE.” Canadian actor, filmmaker, author & ex ice hockey player. After 4 yrs known as "the trans man" on women's teams, he came out publicly in 2016, becoming 1st openly trans athlete in a pro team sport. 1/6

Distressing that Canada, which has the most to lose from this change, is ready to face reality, whilst Starmer bets on Churchillian nostalgia for the 'special relationship' and actively rejects meaningfully closer economic engagement with the EU, which must be where our future lies.

Zack: "We'll wave at Labour as we zoom past." 💚

#1TransManADay 🏳️‍⚧️ 17. Jonathan Ferguson (1915–74) Irish electrical technician who flew aircraft in the Air Transport Auxiliary (W-113) & worked for the Ministry of Aircraft Production during WW2. In 1958, he had sex reassignment surgery, referring to pre-transition simply as "when I wore a skirt" 1/5

#1TransManADay 🏳️‍⚧️ 16.Billy Tipton (1914–89) US jazz musician, bandleader & talent broker, famously outed at death as a trans man. His musical career spanned 5 decades, ending with arthritis. Paramedics who attended his death discovered he was assigned female at birth, leading to a tabloid frenzy. 1/5

"We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... Great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons... You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration, when that integration becomes the source of your subordination."

I would MUCH rather be making silly meme images of witch sharks, horny moon dinosaurs and horse raves than having to insist on politicians and their stans not being complete amoral assholes. THIS IS THE REAL RADICAL TRANS AGENDA! I don't get to live in that world, so neither do you. 🤬

Not as bright as some, but this was down in South Devon about an hour ago! #aurora #auroraborealis #northenlights

"I think they basically legitimized, they mainstreamed disinformation...they put a stamp of legitimacy on medical falsehoods. They legitimized anti-trans hate, really." Same in UK except anti-trans misinfo is uniform across almost all MSM - exposés like this are vital so ppl grasp that's deliberate