Tim Allan, who just quit as Starmer's director of comms, was on the board of the trans-eliminationist hate group "Sex Matters", whose director of advocacy Helen Joyce urged transphobes to get through to "decision makers" so that the "numbers" of trans people could be "reduced." That's what they did.

If McSweeney has gone Streeting should also be out the door… In fact he should have gone first.

The PM, all his advisors, the entire front bench. Let’s go, new PM, new cabinet, mix it up.

I founded Trans Safety Network on the basis that one of the key things we needed to do under the anti trans backlash was document and highlight the organisation of harm occurring to trans people. Understanding that such harm is the product of organised powers whether intentionally or unintentionally

It's really haunting to me that one of the key things that the Cass Review, the Appleby Report, the Sullivan Report etc have been designed specifically to do is to hide the harm that has been arranged to happen to trans people.

My theory several years ago when I set up TSN was that understanding how harm was organised means opportunities to challenge, deconstruct, disrupt the organisation of harm. To make it clear where systems controlling trans life are being set up without trans input that this was a vehicle for harm.

I've been banging the "discrimination, hate crime and harm are structural" drum for a long time. I've been long past particularly caring about random acts of personal hatred because there's really not a lot we can do about those incidents treated in isolation.

Then the government set up the Cass Review where they excluded trans people from the research board to prevent "bias", where she worked it seems extensively with members of SEGM (a US based international pro conversion therapy advocacy body close to the trump regime masquerading as scientists).

And then she put out an interim policy calling for puberty blocker prescriptions to be put on pause. And then people pointed out existing studies showed large increases in suicidality for vulnerable patients where such policies are put in place. then we started going to funerals for dead trans kids

So after that Hilary Cass called us Shroud Wavers. transwrites.world/hilary-cass-...

The government responded by commissioning the Appleby Report. This was hastily conducted over I think 2 days if I remember correctly. I don't believe Appleby consulted any of the trans rights organisations raising the alarm over the shocking rise in our young trans people dying.

He just dismissed it all as has now been proven by Good Law Project's hard won success at getting a government data monitor to answer a freedom of information request. goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...

This only after many previous requests were blocked with agencies claiming that letting the public know the truth about the scale of trans suicides was a risk of causing more suicides among trans youth. A claim that only helped continue the policy that had instead in secrecy claimed trans lives.

Even this revelation risks having nothing change. This government doesn't give a shit if tens of trans children have already died. They've appointed people who patients have accused of doing conversion therapy to design the education for new gender clinic staff.

Like all radical centrists they see trans people as necessary victims to throw under the bus as a hedge against a Reform Party right wing victory in the face of moral panic about the loony left being too kind to anyone otherwise vulnerable to a kicking.

This sickens me so deeply because anyone who knew young people and their families within the trans community knew this was true. Could viscerally feel the damage that has been done to a whole generation. And the instinct from Labour was not to address the harm – it was to cover it up. Unforgivable.

Furthermore these figures are underestimates. If Alice had died at her first OD her death wouldn’t have been recorded as a trans death. How many other child suicides are deaths of trans people who’ve not yet come out to hostile family or came out and were abused, with their identity denied in death?

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

"I had no reason to believe the known liar was lying to me" is at least something Starmer has in common with his core supporters.

Rowling extended an invite to Epstein for the "Cursed Child" broadway debut. Musk emailedEpstein begging to be allowed on the island. Epstein chatted with evo psych guys about the suitability of trans women for prostitution. Society is organized around the sexual exploitation of the vulnerable.

The only trans people mentioned in the epstein files are victims. Hundreds of known anti-trans people are in them, though, either rubbing shoulders with the rape-cult, an active part of the clique, or trying to gain access. Are you getting it yet?

Take a moment to think of all the wonderful trans people you know, and how devastating it would be if they were suddenly gone. Now remember that they would feel just as devastated about YOU being gone. If you’re trans, you have to live.

Hey guys, please share this - it's had a great response so far, but like we don't have a marketing budget, nor do we want to really advertise ourselves outside of the community (who we want to help). I have my key with me whenever I go out.

I’m not allowed to safely use a public bathroom because a literal island of pedophiles said trans people might be sketchy. … and somehow that’s barely a sliver of the things that happened thanks to a literal island of pedophiles making stuff up.

There's not a single trans person in the Epstein files who wasn't a victim. Every "they're coming for your kids" transphobic pundit was actively protecting the most documented pedophile ring since the Catholic Church. Everyone from Libs of TikTok to Matt Walsh has gone silent

Transmisogyny is a key engine of fascism.

Don’t ever let people forget this.

I think this needs to be a reminder that the truth is slow but it can be and will be dragged out into the daylight eventually through hard work. The UK Labour party and the previous Tory administration have made a mockery of evidence based policy design but we will get there.

Hey, pals, this study is headed by Lisa Littman, noted transphobe and pseudoscientist. She's on the advisory board for the genocidal anti-trans group GENSPECT. Do not, under any circumstance, participate in this junk study.

You're telling me the previous decade of escalating conservative rhetoric and anti-trans sentiment was never going to stop at transphobia? I'm shocked. This is my shocked face.

It's a real full-circle moment because rhetoric that was refined in anti-trans propaganda is now being turned around to argue against gay marriage. Note the renewed focus on children and the deployment of "biological parents" as a more-naturalized, more 'legitimate' category.

Natural. Biological. Going full tilt into the natalism and the mandatory organization of society around reproductive imperatives. Well, no one ever accused reactionaries of being original.

BREAKING: WIN 🏳️‍⚧️ 💥 The High Court just refused Sex Matters' permission to ban trans women from the Hampstead ponds. We're relieved that the ponds can remain a place where trans people have always belonged. Thank you to the all the people that pushed back against division.

Brianna met her killer at school. The killers used Tor to watch snuff videos on the dark web. The BBC and Sky initially omitted that was transgender from their coverage. The Tory party wanted her to be buried under her deadname. I have no idea how social media plays at all here

Let's talk about the politics of Nation-building. Immigrants and racialized Others are often cast as a similar threat to the people of the Nation---the, ahem, Volk, if you will---as queer people. A "reproductive threat", whose malign influence threatens reproduction---of culture and Citizens.

The Daily Telegraph writes about how BREXIT was a bad idea and Joe Rogan is sad that ICE are killing people - you fuckers are the makers of this sort of world

The ultimate establishment post. Criticizing everyone else for using "fascism" for years and when you finally use it yourself, calling everyone who doesn't "perverse". Fuck you, The Atlantic! You normalized their message with your endless paranoid scare campaign against so-called "wokeness".

Let's also bring in the connection with tech giants: Google hosted a CBP app that used facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.

This is what epistemic vandalism looks like. Not just erasure, but insisting on a standard of communication that is by default dehumanizing, degrading and degendering, laundered as neutral language on pseudoscientific grounds. Encoding bias into how we are even referred to.

Oh are we doing that whole bit again where we pretend Brianna Ghey died because of social media rather than because of the people who stabbed her 28 times.

The effective conclusion of the ET is that trans people have to use third spaces. I think based on very poor legal analysis and uncritical adoption of "gender critical" talking points. But as I say, not binding, and all the relevant issues hopefully to be decided shortly by the High Court.

It’s hard to explain quite how many chickens have come home to roost in just this one story for the entire post Cold War order, which has now exploded in the most disastrous, embarrassing and undeniable way possible, yet somehow without anyone admitting that any bit of it might be their fault.

It's important to note that, as with Peggie, this is an Employment Tribunal decision so it is not case law and sets no precedent. The only interesting aspect of it is the reasoning behind the analysis.

Wes Streeting emphasising the NHS has adopted a 'holistic' model of care for trans kids. Please read this first peer reviewed article on what that looks like in practice: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.

Surprisingly mask-off transphobic even for the WaPo

macchiavelli wouldn't stand for this shit

trans bitches will be like "I'm such a horrible evil manipulative person" and then you ask her what horrible evil manipulative behaviour she's shown and it's like "I like being nice to my friends to make them like me more :("

This Government has no moral authority left to protect. But still, this is an agonising read from the great @georgemonbiot.bsky.social.

The BBC platforming Curtis "democracy is incompatible with freedom" Yarvin is a new low from a corporation without far left to fall. Their normalisation of radical, genocidal, and far right ideas continues apace. I swear any day now their signature red will be augmented with swastikas.