spending my day interviewing trans people for a piece (hopefully coming out next week!) and what a stupid, stupid, mean, absurd state of affairs

Maybe this is just being Pollyannaish and not knowing enough about foreign policy but is there a way we can ever have alliances that don’t include countries committing active genocide?

Trans people who hold positions as elected Labour representatives and spend time not only caping for Labour On Here specifically attacking the most pro trans leader in England…. Are you ok? Do you want to talk about it babes?

I agree with this and while I’m not a polling expert by any means, although I have used polls for working on campaigns, I find MiC very dubious. Poor quality questions, with polls that seem egregiously designed for clickbait.

Absolutely no hate meant to this person, but I rather disagree with this. Some people might do it for this reason, but I think for a lot do people it’s genuinely because they really care about trans people and think it makes the world a better place for us even in a small way.

This is an excellent piece - I’d recommend all to follow @polphilpod.bsky.social his op-eds are top notch.

www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeak... my husband works for Blizzard 🫣 This is like the 5th round of layoffs where he’s lost colleagues and we’ve gone through weeks of stress re whether he’ll lose his job. It’s criminal the way Microsoft behave

Case in point. I consider myself a pretty open minded and easygoing person for the most part, but I’ve been radicalised on this partly by Helen’s fellow travelers. I don’t think trans people have to give up the one inch of supportive social media we have to bigots in the name of “heterodoxy”

It's ullegal to dislike her unpleasantness & her unpleasant friends who want to be unpleasant. This is basically her argument. I had to have a look at that thread & oh boy

This is why I’m rather wary of some of the “Bsky is too intolerant”! Thinkpieces. Ofc normal people should be welcomed to talk about hobbies etc here - but Helen’s made it quite clear time and time again her issue is that the “in-group opinions” here are pro trans.

Perfection. My favourite show of all time

Not the woke homophobia in the replies🥴

*middle class centre left policy wonks and BBC journalists” Trump is an absolute scumbag villain on absolutely everything… on this point though, he really does some to get it!

It’s me, the last human alive on this earth who doesn’t believe in gender roles. I’m so sorry to the radfems, you were judged too harshly, please come back, we need you!!

i agree with all of this, my concern is many centrist types don't view criticism from their left as legitimate they get normal pushback on here, fall down crying, & go back to twitter to be yelled at by nazis (who are allowed to have opinions)

As much “hate”? I’m so sorry but I can’t take seriously the idea that (admittedly occasionally insufferable) on here give as much “hate” as neo Nazis who post pro holocaust propaganda and hard right MRAs who post non consensual AI porn of women they dislike. Please let’s be serious

This is hysterical

Something that really bothers me about others on the left (I’m sure this applies to the right/centre too but maybe I don’t notice) is how people insist on describing events as they wish they were rather than as they are. It helps no-one - facts are value free.

Can someone please tell me who is the trans woman who was chased off here actually was and why? Completely out the loop and it’s half my TL with no context 😭

….. ew

No “transgender woman (a biological male who identifies as a woman)”? Does the style guide not apply to cis women? Are your readers only confused when it’s actual real trans women being spoken about?

The way the transphobic moral panic, laundered via a particularly reactionary brand of feminism has just been so neatly reworked for racism is really astounding. Like I thought they’d try it, but I didn’t think it would be *so* smooth for them

LOL this post is art. Just…. Wow. MUCH more funny than the Rentoul stuff from yesterday, there’s a devastating subtlety in this one that makes the pathos all the greater.

Still going through old resources and this from a 2018 Stonewall research paper (One of the only ones they haven't binned) on supporting trans women in domestic and sexual violence services just broke my heart. Content warning for transphobia, abuse, and bullying.

The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law. After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.

'inside the red-faced hawk is a dove, with an almost physical horror of violence' 'Trump is as close as a pacifist as we've seen in the White House' Pure pundit brain from Ian Leslie in March 2025

This is so odd from her… like what is she up to?

If this is actually what a GRC means, then why can’t we have self id? What’s the serious answer to that? Why would they put so many administrative barriers, and refuse to reform the GRA if this was the only purpose of a GRC?

Suddenly was reminded that Larry Ellison/Oracle are about to take control of US TikTok…. God democracy is really on the way out isn’t it?

I know Germaine Greer is transphobic, but the Female Eunuch is still a seminal text and when she said “Women have very little idea of how much men hate them” I really think she was right at the time. Now we have the internet I think we really *do* know now.

That this twit was until recently seen as such a trusted and critical contributor to No10’s operation really explains a lot.

For some people there is literally no social problem or controversy that couldn’t be fixed if only women would sacrifice their freedom, dreams, and independence.

Something that I think gets lost here, which I think Sunak also couldn’t understand is that I think the public view Starmer in the context of what came before, rather than as a fresh start. So there’s a cumulative effect where they same as just same old same old - and that adds to the anger

The thing to understand is no compromise would be enough for the GCs. It is not enough that they are allowed to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces. Everyone else must be forced to do so. It is not enough that they are allowed to speak their views. Everyone else must be forced to listen.

So much of the modern reactionary movements really are just as rooted in a certain style of atheist pseudo logic as they ever were in religion. The current obsession with sex essentialism both in terms of transphobia and general misogyny calls to “biology” are exhibit A of this

The only “sex based rights” you should have is to not be discriminated against based on your sex. The idea that implementing authoritarian sex checking policies for entry to toilets and the bloody Women’s Institute is not some “right” that was fought for.

I know who can be shocked by this stuff anymore? But I still find this piece absolutely jaw dropping. It reads like something you’d read from the Restoration era US South. Skin crawling racism, just absolute poison.

I've been doing this as a comedy bit for years, but I do believe it; before I die, I will see the establishment of a Royal Commission on Britain's failure to attract sufficient immigration, and many of today's broadsheet ethnonationalists will be on it

Sims 2 omg I miss those days. Probably my most played game of all time, they never recaptured that greatness 💔

so it happened - greens just met labour in the polling average

Socialists who support generative AI confuse me so much, like hun do you not see what’s happening?! 😭

I actually used to really enjoy her columns about fashion and 80s films etc before she became…. Like that. My parents have always had a physical subscription to the Graun, and even as a teenager her column was one I would always read. Weirdest thing is she was such a bog standard libfem

Went to watch the gay hockey show and it’s not available in the UK until 10th Jan?!

How it feels to still have no clue who Will Stancil actually is x

I HATE Christmas. There, I said it.

Merry Christmas, shoutout to all of us who’s families insist on waiting all day to open presents 😭

If I was a Sensible Moderate with Centrist politics, I’d probably want to have devoted at least somewhat more time to saying I disapprove of genocide, facilitating genocide and draconian crackdowns on protests against genocide, than I had to bitching about protests being childish and self-indulgent.

More in Common are just such a weird polling company. The way they phrase questions is super dodgy as to gain maximum clickbait value vs quality insight. And they only ever release in graphic form, they rarely share the data for further scrutiny. Something up them just rubs me up the wrong way

"dems would be center right in uk/eu" staggers on, zombie like, immune to evidence the uk tories just proposed deporting 4-7% of the uk's population - self-partition- they are, in fact, to the right of adam schiff