if you are a man considering weighing in on the latest graham platner story i urge you to take a beat. women who are your peers are watching.

Only some people get to defend themselves slate.com/news-and-pol...

If only there had been a sign the man was bad. A literal Nazi tattoo, perhaps.

No surprise that Monica Harding withdrew her signature, she completely ignored a trans child and their parents pleas for help. northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

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This is in regard to some people defending Graham Platner because the women accusing him of violence/abuse are women that are right wing nutcases.

Even far-right women/Nazi women, gender-critical women/religious extremist women etc. can be victims of sexual violence & abuse & I think that’s unacceptable. They deserve to be shunned from society & condemned as the monsters that they are, but do NOT lose their right to not be sexually violated.

NEW COLUMN: Carney once again surrenders authority over Canadian law to Trump’s Yankee Empire, and our elbows have never been floppier. www.jakelandau.ca/p/carney-sur...

Lotta people showing their ass with this Platner stuff. Mostly men because men.

A must read from a must follow: @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social, starting the conversation on what this week's Supreme Court bombshell decision means for disabled people, and human rights in the UK more generally.

You do not, under any circumstances, need to give credit to Nazis. Being correct about the genocide in Gaza does not give this monster any credence. He is a grifter who knows where the wind is blowing. The genocide is happening in the first place is because of his degenerate ilk. Fuck Carlson.

I'm a trans journalist who's investigated and written extensively about the Catholic Church's trans healthcare ban. According to Bluesky mods, simply criticizing the well-documented, anti-trans actions of the pope/catholic church hierarchy and asking people not to praise them is now "intolerant."

To our trans communities: we see you and we value you. 🏳️‍⚧️

One for the legal bods… MP @samcarling.bsky.social pointed out a potential legal inaccuracy with the updated Code here (timestamp 17.49) parliamentlive.tv/event/index/... 1/

Yeah, it's almost like the EHRC's 'gender critical' chair is deliberately misrepresenting the law in accordance with her own personal prejudices. Shocking.

@democrats.org (and all liberals)

your willingness to accept 1% less hitler than the other team is why we have so much hitler going around these days

Say what you will about Hitler, but at least he isn't a dang cheeto

Israel has burnt to death a family of 5 people in their homes in Gaza. ▪️ Manar Ibrahim Labed ▪️ Hassan Rabah Labed ▪️ Mohammed Hassan Labed ▪️ Rafah Hassan Labed ▪️ Tamim Hassan Labed A week after they burnt two pre-teens alive in another apartment in Gaza. The US/Canada arm and fund this genocide

With just four mainstream media platforms publishing 17,000 anti-trans articles over 5 years there is no justification for any LGBTQ+ outlet to publish anything by any transphobe.

Thank you very much to the Independent for including me in this year's Pride List. Great to be at the event hosted by the wonderful @queerbritain.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

This video is an attempt to explain the parliamentary processes being used to give the EHRC guidance legal status and why I think they are a problem in themselves. Am sure it’s not perfect but I hope it’s helpful in trying to navigate the acronyms and actions being taken.

In case your MP doesn’t understand the point of signing the Early Day Motion (EDM) against the updated Code of Practice, this brilliant video by @stellacreasy.bsky.social is a great explainer. @tacc.org.uk @transactualuk.bsky.social @transsolidarity.bsky.social fb.watch/Hxhrq906tk/?

This is an awkward but thoughtful response from Josh Newbury MP. He is on the same page as us legal folks. Rare.

This article is the exact opposite of what we need to do about AI! We need to stop its real-world problems because they are the same problems that are ruining everything everywhere! Why do you think the AI moguls all want to argue stupid scifi nonsense like "Does my AI love me or will it kill me?"

Liberals, not unlike fascists, have a fetish for idealized pasts that never existed. The main difference is, fascists don’t romanticize the past, and openly yearn for its barbarity, ignorance and violence. Liberals merely convince themselves that there was no barbarity, ignorance & violence.

Fagottoni, the noodle that sound like me 💅

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Where are the 'UK sparks global concern' headlines?

I was talking to my gender critical friend the other day and she said “I want to kill you” so I said “respectfully I disagree” and she said “i bet you’re plotting terror against me right now” and I said “what makes you say that” and she said “websites” and I said “oh” and then she shot me, amicably

Good. Women's rights and trans rights are not remotely in conflict. 'Gender critical' belief and trans rights are in conflict, which is why 'gender critical belief' should not be protected - let alone privileged and prioritised, as it is at present.

It just occurred to me that I blogged the letter I wrote to my MP about the transphobic guidance laid before Parliament last week, but I forgot to share it anywhere 🤦🏼 This might be useful to other people who have a minister as their MP. Ministers can't sign EDMs owen.blacker.me.uk/posts/blog/2...

I don’t think I have ever seen a post better exemplify why liberalism is the handmaid of fascism. This person is stating that the “maximalist line” (which is that trans people should have equal rights) is “politically dangerous” and should be sacrificed to fascists even if one believes in it.

“We have conflated the widely shared view that Black people should be treated as belonging to their assumed humanity for the vast majority of practical purposes, with the maximalist view that the difference between White and Black people should make no difference at all.”

an hour after this was posted, a labour minister told parliament that customers should "alert member of staff" if a trans person walks into the "wrong toilet"

It's been an absolute horror show to watch from afar what's happening to trans rights in the UK under a Labour government.

Happy Pride from the Labour Party.

Where is the TERF Bathroom Bill? Where is the legislation to ban the ones who actually assault and grope women in public bathrooms? I’ll never stop pointing out that they’re banning us because they’ve merely imagined us doing the things *they* do. All while funded by literal nonces.

How can Labour MPs have the guts to say stuff like this?!

margin of error blah blah, but dem support for us existing declined a point more than independent lmao one might theorize that it's because democrats receive opinions from the party and independents do not, such that dem authority figures saying we suck is indeed Bad, Actually go figure

This is horrifying. It classes disabled people as not fully human, because it is saying that they cannot ‘feel’ the same way as an able bodied person would in the same circumstances. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

It appears the government won't be satisfied until it has hounded trans people out of society altogether. The Government are choosing every moment and mechanism they can to demonstrate they don't care about their lives. We have to draw the line. Reject the framework.

We now have a senior KC specialising in regulatory law reviewing the Naomi Cunningham case. As indicated in the thread below, whether or not we refer her to her regulator will depend on the advice we are given. Obviously we will let people know.

"We are deeply concerned about the potentially devastating repercussions of this proposal on trans patients’ access to healthcare" and "the ability of trans healthcare staff to conduct their everyday duties", say the British Medical Association. www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

I hope every single transgender civil servant sues them for creating a hostile work environment

Reminder this Pride Month that the more than 40% of transgender adults have attempted suicide and 81% of transgender adults in the U.S. have thought about suicide. williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transp...