Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

We've written & published a short summary statement regarding the Sandie Peggie V NHS Fife Health Board employment tribunal case & the judgment given yesterday. Much of the media coverage has missed key information, the most important aspect being that all claims against Dr Beth Upton were dismissed

Between the Leonardo case and the NHS Fife case that's two employment tribunal judgements back to back that conclude a bathroom ban is not only unjustified under the Supreme Court judgement earlier this year but would infringe significantly on the rights of trans people. Major, needed, good news.

Just gonna sum up *that* tribunal result via a meme

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

Great Britain, banana republic.

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

We need more mainstream voices telling it like it is about the anti-trans mob: that they are a bunch of miserable twats obsessed with harassing and bullying children. Bring back shaming people like this and ostracizing them from society, not bending to their every deranged whim.

“Ireland, Spain and The Netherlands will boycott next year's Eurovision Song Contest, after Israel was allowed to compete.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've seen a lot of friends and people I've worked with also handing in their resignations from positions (both ambassador and volunteer based) from the Guides and being explicit about the fact it's because of the exclusion of trans girls. So proud everyone (who's normal) standing up for *all* girls.

Once again thinking about every actor trying to justify taking the money for the new HP series.

BREAKING: Employee who demand a trans-exclusive toilet policy loses employment tribunal. All claims, direct and indirect discrimination, harassment, and 1992 Regs, dismissed. Judgment: www.gov.uk/employment-t...

transphobes using money and power to bully little kids is absolutely no different from mobs turning up to intimidate refugee families, and you should treat anyone who so much as excuses either of these things with complete contempt

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.

Summer Sessions need to start doing a festival pass where you can go to a bunch - either all Glasgow/all Edinburgh or a central belt mix - for a discounted price because the line ups for next year are crazy good.

Swinney hosted an anti-far right summit in Glasgow... seven months ago. What exactly were the outcomes of it?

An extraordinary thing, this. A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase. Register now for tickets. www.transmissionlive.uk

Central to the 2010s Legitimate Concerns discourse that paved the way for our current pre-fascist moment was the refusal to acknowledge that these "concerns" were based on demonstrable fictions, filtered through socially constructed prejudices. I.e. they were not, in fact, "legitimate".

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Do we genuinely need to start campaigning for buffer zones around schools because of racists twats?

God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group

Trans people have exhaustively detailed the links between the anti-trans and anti-abortion movements, we warned that transphobia was a wedge issue for the religious right to roll back women's rights, only for us to be ignored, and of course UK TERFs are setting their sights on abortion.

Seems The Herald is more than happy to reward a group who campaigned for segregatation laws. Funny how if it were targeting any other minority other than trans people there would be a uproar...

I often see people saying we have to be careful about using the term evil. But fuck it, if you support a policy that brings potential harm to a vulnerable minority or just makes their everyday life extremely difficult I'm going to call it how I see it. It's YOU that needs to take a look at yourself.

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I'm currently in the Canary Islands and I think I can hear Hampden from here

I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.

Story in @glasgowbell.bsky.social this morning about the dire state of the Mitchell Library which needs £25m for stabilising works. If I was an immensely wealthy Scottish writer this is the sort of project I would fund with 2% of my fortune instead of obsessively trying to eradicate a minority group

As the slimy power-hungry sharks circle

me: the BBC has a right-wing bias because they can’t even do a write-up of a trans person’s memoir without getting a quote from a hate group person on the right: the BBC has a left-wing bias because they cancelled the Black and White Minstrel Show in 1978

Great letter in the Herald. I can confirm the abuse feminists get from transphobes is worse and more threatening than what I get from anti-abortion men www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2560...

I do not think we are prepared for the acceleration of early onset dementia due to chat gpt, and the wave in care demands that's about to hit our health services because of it.

Heads up 😅 Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc 📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++ Template here! If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗 actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

We can't forget to thank Sabrina Carpenter for her contribution to this Zohran win

More than $8 million from Mike Bloomberg. $3 million from Airbnb's co-founder. $3 million from the Estée Lauder family. $2 million from Bill Ackman. $1 million from DoorDash. $200K from Walmart's heiress. Zohran didn't just beat Andrew Cuomo. He beat the elite.

And note that he never rejected what some sneeringly refer to as "idpol". Never came close to throwing minorities under the bus. On the contrary. The affordability agenda came hand in hand with him actively standing up for those principles. He could never have mobilised his base like this otherwise.

Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”

New Now, Now music in 2025 what a blessing ♥️

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

in my humble moderate opinion i think sam altman should be tried at the hague and everyone at openAI should be tried as an accessory

Say it with me.

I would read the hell out of a deeply reported piece on how the media/political elite addiction to Twitter is shaping their views, which in turn shape the views of millions of people. It's a total reality-warper.

This parliamentary group should be dissolved immediately. Its members have disgraced themselves. They pose as protectors of women while cosying up to the Magdalene laundries, for pity’s sake. It’s vile, unconscionable hypocrisy. They’re unfit to hold public office. Keep the spotlight on this, please

Sorry to be the friend that's too woke but Lily Allen seems to have a very strange relationship with sex workers and it's very obvious she doesn't see them as real, human, women. Both her and ex-husband seem like truly horrible people.

if brianna were alive today labour would be smearing her as a rapist, forcing her in to conversion therapy, and denying her existence. also: she wasn't killed by her phone. she was brutally murdered by her transphobic class mates. the way labour are exploiting esther ghey is disgusting.

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“It’s a discourse that sets people against one another.” The UN special rapporteur on poverty says that welfare cuts and the collapse of the social safety net are behind the rise of the far right: https://bit.ly/47oKpSr