Still giggling because an encoding issue means thay my Valentine's flowers came with a gift card that makes it seem as if my partner isn't certain about loving me. The ?? was supposed to be a heart emoji

Beyond how reprehensible and callous this is, lack of legal recognition causing people to be outed at work and subject to mistreatment was central to the Goodwin/I decisions. It's so bizarre.

“We would expect support for full social transition to be agreed very rarely” There you have it, the gov wants trans kids to rot in the closet

FWIW this was a big part of the strategy of Action 4 Trans Health, in doing things like collectivising training for trans people to do electrolysis and have machines for it so that we'd have practitioners within the community and reduce costs generally.

So it turns out there’s loads of us who are online enough to encounter the phrase “Butlerian Jihad” regularly, nerdy enough to know who Judith Butler is, but not the right kind of nerd to know it’s actually from Dune. My mind is blown by this revelation.

again: the UK has never once taken action anything like this with regards to any medication at all whatsoever. It is completely unprecedented for emergency powers to have been used to ban a medication for a specific group or for that to have been extended indefinitely pending (unethical) trials.

I am fucking begging you all to stop trying to frame being annoyed by other trans people's behaviour online in terms of oppressor/oppressed dynamics that do not actually apply here.

Seeing it in the discussions around misogynists being "gay" because they hate women by people who enjoy fantasies where misogynist men can be distanced and demeaned through connection to homosexuality. Seeing it through discussions around right wing transphobia targeting trans sexual health tech.

Wouldn't usually bother with the BBC, let alone complaining, but a recent inaccuracy really annoyed me. They've quietly removed the error and changed the phrasing to what I suggested. Obviously the only response I got was a mass reply about a totally unrelated thing

We told a friend that our new Christmas tree lights are programmable so, obviously, he insisted on making the trans flag tree

As the person who does most of the VM socials, let me tell you this: bluesky is absolutely the worst platform of the bunch for slapping random adult content warnings on innocent posts to bury them. Would super appreciate if you share the post below like hell, and donate a fiver!

Witnessing a nerdy trans woman playing Guess The Game is amazing because she'll see 2 pixels of a screenshot and say 'ohhhh that's Crongle Bonk 2 on the SNES'

And anyone who has watched magistrates nod-along with prosecution evidence in the mags courts will know exactly what I mean.

Cloudflare might be down, but at least web-related devs can tell blame it for their totally unrelated mess ups today. management will never know.

somehow this perfectly describes how I i feel about my partner, i really do love my dog

help us all take back control of the narrative surrounding our lives by first and foremost working to disempower those who have stolen it to enrich themselves paid for by the suffering and deaths of our siblings. Please stop fucking sharing bigoted shit onto my feed every god damn day lmao.

Managed to obliviously sit across from somebody reading Dorley Hall on the train to Manchester today. I regret being too awkwardly polite to say anything, because what are the chances of that??

This is the kind of cultural touchstone we lost when we moved away from 22-episode seasons and into prestige TV

This is honestly a fascinating read, because it contains a full account of the judge taking the barrister into his office and making him print out all of his citations and point out the relevant paragraphs. Which obviously he couldn't do, because half of them didn't even exist.

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you." - Miss Major, 2023 💔

In the early 2010s, I worried that R v McNally would eventually lead to trans people being prosecuted for sexual assault based on the idea that our presentation is inherently 'deceptive'. I let myself be convinced otherwise by people that had criminal law expertise. I think I was wrong to listen

Using recorded rain to get to sleep, only to take my headphones off and realise it's actually been raining the entire time

I had to explain Tony Blair's obsession with ID cards to a 22 year old today and I've never felt more ancient. I'm jealous that they have no memory of him as well

Thank you Seifer

Struggling to do housework through sobbing for the last 15 minutes because I thought about how much I love my partner. I know it's twee but I still haven't adapted to it after 8 years and I'm happy that I never will

every kid that grew up in the closet learned this young every trans kid learned this young Stick with your queer community; we've been through this shit, we know how to cope, we'll teach you

"sorry but i really dont see a way to create a pro-equality pro-worker party without giving bigots and landlords deciding power" well in the business thats what we call 'unsubtle foreshadowing for how things will go'

Unlike a lot of people, I don't think the Greens should accept any attempt at defection from Sultana. The YP factionalism and sexism is awful (and predictable) but everyone involved has consistently been incompetent, egotistical, tactically useless, and Labour-brained. Bluntly, she's a liability

Absolutely astounded to hear that the party that hired known transphobes is "being run as a “sexist boys’ club”."

Not even slightly surprised that Corbyn is harder on Sultana than he is on rabid transphobes he pals up with

Send your £55 to trans women instead. You'll see better results in political development and organising tbh.

How many of the MPs insisting that we need to 'police streets, not tweets' would claim that being told to 'touch grass' is a fully formed plot to kill and bury them?

Great, I've just found out that I share my birthday with Keir Starmer. Can I legally change it?

Love when hypermobility turns my life into slapstick. Just took out three pieces of furniture and ended up in the fireplace because my left ankle decided it isn't working today

The downside of being called Eve (I love it really)

The prize was partly founded by somebody that signed a letter to criticise Stonewall for being trans-inclusive and "undermining women’s sex-based rights" in 2018, so I can see how these ideas might've persisted. (Link to the letter: archive.is/OeXsz)

Ran upstairs in a panic because my partner messaged that she "can't see"... it was tears in her eyes from "thinking about how cute" I am to her. Dork.

If you never had the experience of being so desperate, at 14, for validation of something you couldn't even name that it made you vulnerable to exploitation, I don't want to hear about "feminine AMAB" socialisation from you tbh.

Amazing decision to rebrand WHSmith to TGJones. It sounds like an old timey trans insult. 'Oh la-di-daaa, who does TGJones think she is, Christine Jorgensen?'

URGENT: Following yesterday's public protests & our thread calling for everyone to contact their MP urgently here is some guidance on what you might say in an email. This is not a time for thinking someone else will fix this. Please read, share and ACT! www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...

Very important! We need to look after each other. And this shelter needs funds to help support LGBT folk bsky.app/profile/foxd...

While certain groups are celebrating as if women have ‘won’ something, a woman in this country faces life in prison as she has been accused of an illegal abortion. Her trial starts next week. This petition is still open, please support decriminalisation. No billionaire is coming to help.

My night was made from vodka, joy, and the anger of cis sisters — anger aimed at our country and courts. They proactively offered to be toilet escorts and effusive love because they don't care about the law or judgments. It was precious, pure, and a vital reminder of instinctive solidarity.

Don't just wring your hands about how awful it is. Contact lawmakers and let them know you are outraged. Let them know their constituents want answers about how they're going to protect trans people's access to spaces we've been using our whole lives.

We really need people to stop saying it's "unworkable". The costs of its unworkability will be paid by increasing trans women's precarity and vulnerability to sudden legal and economic sanction. The system does not need to be coherent if it externalises the risks and costs of policing on to us.

Walking away from large follower accounts comes with a cost. Sadly, it’s never the fascists who pay first: it’s the people who stand up for what’s right (and make nice bi-merch…)

A lot of people approach trans community organisers as if they were service providers who need to do a job for them and darlings that is not how this shit works.

my partner doesn't appreciate my rolled-up bananas of hair, i deserve a little gratitude :(

i want this for everyone instead of capitalism and war and the endless horrors