Finally got to see the Angel's Egg remaster in the cinema, and it was such a fantastically immersive experience! Great film about a girl with a special interest in water, and nothing deeper.

It’s fun to have gone from calling myself transsexual when I transitioned in 2002, to grudgingly updating to the new word and grumbling about bullshit “no trans person thinks you can change sex lol” rhetoric, back to calling myself transsexual again. Hello old friend, you’re so much fun to say.

There's a special place in Hell for the person who created the "sex and gender are different things!" talking point. I've hated it for as long as I've heard it. It's trash.

I'm so impervious to flirting that I thought somebody was just trying to be funny when she put a napkin in my handbag with her number on it and an actual kiss next to it 'Haha, she's doing the movie thing! What a fun new friend I've made' 🫩

RIP to a legend ▫️Survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki ▫️Pioneered drag culture in Japan and was one of the first openly gay celebrities there ▫️Had a relationship with Yukio Mishima and became his muse ▫️Delighted Hayao Miyazaki in the recording booth for Princess Mononoke #voiceacting

As someone who has extensively researched conversion therapy promoters operating in the UK I have been raising alarms about the uselessness of the UK corporate charity sector in addressing the practical realities of it for several years now and unfortunately I was fucking right.

I've said it before but I hate the way that some people speak to volunteers or campaigners like an angry customer. There's no resources or training and it's not a service. It's just people doing their best with very little and giving what they can

If you need someone to vent at, pay a therapist, or get a teddy bear. Don't send abuse to an effective org. I hope you understand that by making hard working campaigners like those at TSA deal with your bullshit, you are materially damaging your own interests – and the trans community's.

It's disgusting that an entirely volunteer trans org has been getting abusive emails for a difficult but necessary safety decision. If you have given them grief over this you should be utterly ashamed. Wasting our community's resources on soothing your tantrum – from an org actually doing the work.

Using a hair dryer while the air conditioner is on feels perversely decadent and like I'm just being mean to physics

love that I can track the intensity of a heatwave by checking how badly my curls have exploded

Burnham pays tribute to Josh Simons, who he says recognised it couldnt continue to be business as usual If theres anyone who understands what business as usual meant under the Labour right, its the man who arranged a smear campaign against journalists who were investigating them

My GP almost always makes a point of joyfully saying "I never once saw you smile before you transitioned. You came to life" whenever he speaks to me. I know how lucky I am to have access to a doctor that is just happy for me, even so many years later.

We have to do something about the creeping policing of increasingly normal stuff online. It's getting ridiculous. If I could post a movie clip of someone looking busty but clothed, even in a sexy way, I should be allowed to post myself doing it.

Literally there are conversion therapy manuals that start with isolating your child from all potential sources of safeguarding and supportive information and cutting them off from unmonitored internet access so they can find the number for ChildLine while you're not watching is right up there.

In fairness, the historical memory of the Suffragettes that's been actively maintained by liberal feminists has erased all the arson, bombing and suicide protest attacks in favour of loads of twee bullshit about votes for women sashes and glorifying simultaneously Emeline Pankhurst and Nancy Astor..

I'm in my 20s. I grew up with social media. Without that and video games, I would have been so completely isolated. We should be making the world safer for kids, not trying to ban them from it.

I frequently speak with advocates from other countries, where there is a proper institutional support network that targeted families or young people as individuals and as collectives lean upon & are actively supported by. In the UK there is just... nothing.

This by-election is revealing just how rapidly radicalisation has taken hold. The Reform signs around my house were already awful, but now there's a worrying number of confidently displayed Restore signs too. Some of my neighbours are simply evil people.

Didn't even last 12 hours before the grand ole u-turn. I cannot believe people are not just expecting this from Burnham, or don't consider it massively disqualifying. He's always been like this! We've seen like four versions of the man, just tell him which one will win and he'll be that one!

I'm 100% serious when I say that trans children and young people should avoid the new NHS CYP gender service like the fucking plague. Worse than nothing in every possible way. transsafety.network/posts/nothin...

“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013 www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

A major component of the EHRC expecting “trans people to simply follow The Rules” is that it explicitly positions trans people as illegal transgressors by continuing our lives as we were

While we're talking about Mary-Anne Stephenson, she said to my face in 2013 that her friend calling us tr*nnies "is not transphobic". It's long been clear that she will endlessly lie and deny for the sake of hate.

Much of modern politics is inventing a fake problem to counterbalance a real problem and then arguing that the fake problem needs more attention because it has been, up till now, sadly neglected.

ONE FROM THE VAULTS RETURNS! For a special Tenth Anniversary season! Ten brand new episodes of the original trans history podcast. In our first episode, we chart the life of tarot master, sci fi writer, and 70s trans activist Rachel Pollack! Please share! m.soundcloud.com/onefromtheva...

By far the biggest problem with delegating judgement to machines is the people who own the machines can tune them towards outcomes they prefer but those who don't own anything can't. It's not the technology. It's a transfer of decision making power from rational accountable systems to capital.

i only have myself to blame really, but I made the mistake of a) using reddit and b) saying 'I don't think the UK legislating for prenups is good, they should be outlawed due to potential abuse' reddit men love when you say that because they've convinced all women are stealing witches

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

"im not owned, im not owned", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform in keir starmer

Red Wall discourse has so clouded Labour’s mind that they’re sleepwalking into doing to university towns what Thatcher did to mining towns

1/🧵 The Supreme Court has today overturned Cheshire West and removed important protections for severely disabled people. This case hits all the keywords: guidance, segregation, “never had the right”.

The current composition of the UK Supreme Court is genuinely awful. So many of their judgments are legally conservative rollbacks.

The UK trans & non-binary passport fund goes live this coming weekend; offering a glimmer of hope for a future that's self-determined for those in the community on low incomes. This initiative has been set up by the organisers of @essehouse.bsky.social via donations and gifts from their supporters.

People really fucking like maximalist takes on things. You describe the decline in human rights in the UK and people will be like "it's always been max-bad haven't you noticed" as if you've not spent the last 25 years around activists watching friends get arrested, observing that it getting worse.

I don't put my faith in State institutions, but it's still depressing to think that the last senior member of the UK judiciary to actually understand reality and the law around trans people might've been Lady Hale in 2004

Reading this it's rarely hit harder to me how disconnected amnesty are from grass roots hate researchers. This is a great report in that amnesty have a lot of weight but there's so much information amnesty seem to just not know

Living in Makerfield is surreal right now. Suddenly, everyone knows we exist and I have to hear or see analysis of where I live in every political space

thinking about the way that whenever I qualify my answers people think that the uncertainty means that I'm wrong or don't know that I'm right and correct me by repeating what I said back to me but with more certainty www.psypost.org/updating-the...

After a six-year struggle to overturn the expert evidence, his mother was vindicated at a high court hearing in January Now back under her roof, Dylan – who recently turned 16 – is able to talk about his ordeal for the first time

Hi —👋— my partner — 👩‍❤️‍👩 — has a colleague — 😮‍💨 — that uses em dashes to add vaguely related emojis — ⁉️ — to every sentence — 😭. It's like LinkedIn became sentient

Isaac's deconstruction of the 'privilege' framework here is desperately vital because it's no longer used as a tool to name and identify vectors of oppression, but rather a competitive bludgeon through which we assert why others don't have it as bad as we do. It has become anti-solidarity.

I know a lot of people from outside the UK who follow @pinknews.bsky.social to try to stay on top of UK development - friends, can you help spread the word? Boycott now - stop following them, remove them from your press lists, never click through to their website. Disgusting betrayal.

Labour are slashing the applicability of Disabled Students' Allowance to many types of disability and leaving students dependent on the whims of free services. Such progressive values: wonkhe.com/blogs/dfe-pr...

There are two things you can do right now to support young trans people in England. 1) Engage in political advocacy and community support. I've got *loads* of advice on this in my blog post and zine "But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic".

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.