The last paragraph: Those…who disagree…are denigrated as “activists”, as if being an activist is something one should avoid being, when in fact, we are activists merely because we care about the lives of all people (and this includes trans people).” Thank you TACCT I’m sick of the name calling…

As coroners continue to issue PFD reports citing delays in accessing gender affirming care as contributing to the preventable deaths of trans people, our government forcibly chooses to detransition trans youth. What’s happening in Brighton is unconscionable. It puts children in danger. Meanwhile…

🏊‍♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision. In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019. Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts. 1/5

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Joyce is utterly devoid of empathy, compassion or comprehension. It makes me weep that her GC (trans-hating) beliefs are protected and ‘worthy of respect in a democratic society’ when part of this belief is that trans people and those that love them are not worthy of respect at the undertakers.

✊🏾🩷🤍💙✊🏼 news: So I green carded my MP yesterday and finally managed to get a copy of @alicemydaughter.bsky.social's book into the hands of my MP Was able to get across a good amount of info on lived experiences, and also a clear rundown on the current issues with GIDS waiting lists,...

6 Nov 2025 -- Lost in the news last night, a small PA town elects state's first transgender mayor. Eria Deuso of Downington (30 miles west of Philly) won 64% to 35% over her Rep. rival. Can the statehouse be far away? @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

We're here! We're queer! We want a hot brown mayor!

Ian’s previously written compassionately about Alice. Here he writes on his own grief, as the first anniversary of his daughter’s death approaches, and how he found solace in Mexico, where Día de Muerto is much more than a tourist attraction, a day of remembrance and celebration of those we mourn 🩷

We love this! Parents have one job, to love their children unconditionally, we know too well there are many in the trans community who have been turned away from their families, so any parent willing to stand up be loud and proud have our total support! #transjoy ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

On Trans Parent Day I’m proud to share this post from @transparentaction.bsky.social I’m mindful that if you’re living without the support of birth family this may be a hard day. Sending love to all trans people, to parents of trans people and to everyone who loves and supports trans people 🩷

Didn’t know I needed to see a giant, demonic hare parading down a wet and windy Irish street, to restore my faith in humanity, but there you go.

Also the opinion of @greenparty.org.uk who unanimously passed a motion at conference for an informed consent system within primary care, calling for closure of GICs and for Primary Care Teams to be given the training and support to prescribe gender affirming treatments such as HRT. #jointhegreens

News in that children are now being prescribed weight loss jabs on the NHS. @wesstreetingmp.bsky.social Where are the trials for the use of these experimental drugs in children? How do you know it’s safe? 📢 SHOW US THE EVIDENCE 📢 All so utterly predictable and fucked up. Here we go again ✍️

My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down. He’s struggling to find any work at the moment. He’s a brilliant writer and has written for Dangermouse, Private Eye and many more… If you need a writer have a look at his website and please repost. www.mathew-owen.co.uk Thank you

Happy Halloween Four of Alice’s lovely friends came round on Wednesday and we carved pumpkins for her. Alice had no idea how much she meant to people. How much we all loved her. How much we still do. 🧡🔪🎃

Happening in the US. Happening here. @indiawilloughby.bsky.social wasn’t it you who posted on X last year that a Christian fundamentalist anti LGBTQ+ church group has been commissioned to provide some local UK CAMHS counselling?

The nerve of these two. The cognitive dissonance. The entitlement. Just looking at them makes me kind of fizz, like all my cells individually are trying to align and form some sort of marching formation to defend, or attack, I’m not clear, but they sure as hell bubble up some tension in me.

Just another reason never to believe anything written in “quality British newspaper” the Times. So incompetent they wouldn’t even own their mistake: “our reporter had been misled by an individual falsely claiming to be the former New York mayor.” Funny but not funny. The state of our media.

I need some of this energy.

Trigger warning Suicide Please read. It might save a life. I’ve had a 48 hour mental health crisis. I told someone I didn’t want to be here. That I was thinking of taking all my tablets. I said I was unsafe. Then they made to leave me on my own. That was the trigger. I didn’t matter. 🧵

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Philp is a racist. Pass it on.

Holy fucking shit, you weren't even exaggerating. What the fuck is wrong with these people. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/peers-derail...

The EHRC's dodgy (now withdrawn) guidance, and their terrible Code of Practice, are simply unworkable. They are putting businesses in an impossible position, all whilst undermining trans people's human rights. The government needs to put it in the bin.

“For me hope is a duty” Thank you Michael O ‘Flaherty @commissionerhr.coe.int for holding onto hope and giving a speech that gifts some hope to those of us that struggle to feel any hope at all or fail to maintain it when it dares to seed and grow. Hopelessness is a scary place and not a choice.

What the hell are heavy metals doing in tampons? I guess they’re everywhere and if they happen to be in a product that women insert into ourselves, which then leeches out into our tissues and damages us, that’s tough luck. Did tampon manufacturers know this and not care to warn us or fix the issue?

Hey @jonsopel1.bsky.social - remember you said the UK would never accept christo-fascist evangelical-right anti-abortion lobbying by the ADF? They don’t need to! They’re capturing the UK public (& your media mates) with identical “free speech” messaging (aka we want to spout transphobia) instead!

The journalist who exposed the post office scandal, the abuse of PO workers by those in power, here chooses to align himself with the abusers when it comes to trans people being monstered. A modicum of research would show him the GC movement is not about protecting women. Pawns, the lot of them.

I’m so angry and upset. These women do not speak for me. In dark moments I’m relieved that Alice isn’t here to witness it, for how could I protect her? All a mother wants is to keep their child safe. Then I feel broken that I even thought that. Cis women please sign to help counter this hatred ⬇️

A story of a reframing. Last week a friend shared, that in her anger at the proliferation of flags on local lampposts she packed her kitchen stool into her tiny car and set off, on a one-woman take down mission. With a step stool. Now, on seeing a flag I smile, imagining her bold, flailing effort.

Dangerous Recommendations by Healthwatch.👇 20250717_Trans experiences of healthcare PDF (1).pdf share.google/g4jzRNDzU6sr... Trans Safety Network's letter to the heathwatch👇 the link below transsafety.network/posts/danger...

Healthwatch is DHSC funded. It talks to people about their healthcare needs to inform best practise. Its July ‘25 report on improving LGBTQ+ healthcare seemed ok, then I found a disturbing line. Falkner and the EHRC did this. It’s not normal to accept so casually that some people have lesser rights.

From today till Sunday! Buy any book site-wide on @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social and they'll donate 10% of every sale to Bookbanks, the charity dedicated to getting books into foodbanks. uk.bookshop.org/shop/nairnbo...

Lots of lovely events coming up from @dublinmensgroup.bsky.social - a new group for gay, bi & trans men in the Dublin region - well worth a follow & a repost to help them on their way! #LGBTQIreland

Can confirm. Rose’s pots are stunning but her bubble wrap magic is itself a thing of legend and beauty. If your idea of a half hour well spent, is in the untangling of a tricky knot, then delicately unwrapping your pot will add to the pleasure of owning it.

FOR FOUR DAYS ONLY Waterstone’s are offering 25% off pre-order on selected paperbacks out spring 2026. The paperback will have a new chapter covering events from December 2024. I’m writing to the wire, waiting for the government’s response to the EHRC guidance…

GCs doing their thing, being utter ghouls about the suicide of a young trans person. Claiming a lack of news coverage as a victory for their cause. Alice’s death got coverage because my family sought press attention to highlight the appalling state of trans healthcare. As for saturation coverage…

How many years do you get for , “Yeah…I love you too…I’ll phone you in the morning…”?

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Has anyone made this FOI request of the south-west and the London CYP Gender services? This post ⬇️relates to the north-west service, where not one young person has been offered medical transition since the service was opened over a year ago. This isn't treatment. It's state sanctioned conversion.

I joined the Greens in June. Conference last weekend felt like a kind of homecoming. I’ve been adrift these last few years, mourning Alice, despairing at a ruling class that seems intents on heaping misery on all minorities. In the depths of grief hope wasn’t enough, but now it breaths life into me.

More 💩from transphobes. Falsely claiming research supports conversion practices, when the research explicitly condemns conversion therapy as "psychologically damaging" and linked to suicide. “This is the most upsetting use of my scholarship in my career ...It's lethally dangerous to LGBTQ+ kids"

Sadly, Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds is turning into a horrible battle against GCs to preserve trans inclusion 🏊‍♀️🏳️‍⚧️🏊‍♂️ @translucent.org.uk are stepping up (with @goodlawproject.bsky.social) for the legal fight Please support if you possibly can via this fundraiser: translucent.org.uk/keep-hampste... TY🙏

Dear god! Once I was a doctor, then I ran my own business, but when Alice died I became suicidal and withdrawn. I was able to write my book because it felt safe at home telling my truth. I’ve just started once a week at a mental health work placement in a garden centre, where I sometimes cry. 🧵

Breaking: over 3,000 people joined @greenparty.org.uk over conference weekend. Membership now stands at over 86,000. We’re just getting started. join.greenparty.org.uk

Glad this ⬇️landed before the deadline for a new chapter in my paperback. So many delicious quotes. Which one to pick? Such a hard task, especially with only 3000 words to cover the last 8 months. Then there’s the SC ruling, EHRC response, Section 28 v.2, FOIs galore, all to be written memoir style 😩

Just got a haircut, and my lovely barber, a Turkish guy who employs 6 people, and has a wife who's an IVF technician, is shutting up shop and moving to another country because his Indefinite Leave to Remain is under threat by these venal, stupid, posturing politicians, left and right.

She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

US news. A judge who ruled against Trump has been doxxed and receiving death threats. Now members of her family have been seriously injured escaping from this huge blast at her home. It’s being investigated as a possible arson attack. We’re living in bad times, says my mum. She lived through WW2.