A Community Sponsorship Group is fundraising to meet the costs of bringing an Afghan family incl a child & 2 women to Ireland They have been granted humanitarian visas because of severe risk to their lives as a result of their ethnicity & human rights work. www.gofundme.com/manage/help-...

PLUS: Energy company TAQA has SLAPP-ed a former employee after he refused to participate in practices he believed violated labour and immigration law. Their cease-and-desist letter sought to prohibit the target from discussing the matter, even “in private.” www.the-case.eu/latest/from-...

⚠️ IT'S A (DOUBLE) SLAPP! @casecoalition.bsky.social has verified TWO new SLAPPs, both concerning Italian citizens who tried to raise their voices for the public good. 📣 Italy, where are your SLAPP protections? 👀 #StopSLAPPs

If clinicians and academics can’t critique approaches to mental health treatment without fearing lawsuits, how can we have honest, evidence-based discussion in psychotherapy & healthcare? 🤐 SLAPPs don’t win arguments, they just silence them. #StopSLAPPs #AcademicFreedom

📚 O’Dowd’s piece was a professional critique - the kind of contribution journals exist to foster. Moreover, it was taken down immediately after O’Malley complained... 👀 Yet instead of moving on, O’Malley pressed ahead with legal threats, demanding damages and costs.

✋ It’s a SLAPP! 🤔 Why debate when you can silence with a lawsuit? Stella O’Malley and her organisation Genspect are doing just this in threatening to sue fellow psychotherapist Leonie O’Dowd over an article in the Irish Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy. 👉 www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...

'Huge waiting times for trans healthcare in the NHS, in children’s & adult services, are by design. Better political & institutional decisions in Spain have removed this waiting list, delivering far better outcomes at a fraction of the cost' growinguptransgender.com/2025/10/12/t...

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳 It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

‘I deserve to heal’: freed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah on his prison ordeal and next steps

3 women die w/n 9 days in September because of poor conditions and lack of medical care Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi: “Detaining sick prisoners in the prisons of the Islamic Republic is a clear example of torture, and killing them by denying their right to medical care is an act of crime" #Iran

Great article in today’s Irish Times about @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social and today’s @global-run.bsky.social. Look out for a wave of joy and positivity and solidarity in parks around the country (and the world) today. @grahamclifford.bsky.social #SpeirGorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

New TKDB protest for the 1st Nov

SEEN Police UK state the drop in number of hate crimes against trans people is fraud, as GMP are taken to Judicial Review after a secret policy of refusing to deal with ANY reports of hate crimes against trans people is obtained. How far does this go? This ‘data’ is shit www.gov.uk/government/s...

AGP, defined as "sexual arousal felt by a male at the thought of himself as a woman" barely made it into DSM-V, as a specifier to "transvestic disorder," not a standalone diagnosis. It has no relevance to a diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria, but is routinely used by Genspect & others to sexualise...

"By filing these claims, O’Malley and Genspect are attempting to chill public debate on matters of significant societal and medical importance."

Stella O'Malley (7 years experience of well-funded anti-trans rhetoric) & Genspect (4 years of well-funded anti-trans advocacy) have taken legal action against 70-year-old Leonie O'Dowd (40+ years experience of counselling & supporting trans people) to shut her up. www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...

When asked who she met in Yarmouk, Catherine Connolly deflects into a twee story about swapping rosary beads with a Palestinian there. Is this who she swapped with? The commander of the @Butchers of Yarmouk', her guide when visiting the site of the massacre of Palestinians?

A reminder - especially for all the far-right aligned snoopers here: The anti-trans hate-group ‘Sex Matters’ and especially Maya Forstater- have been lobbying the government for mandatory Digital-ID 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Dear Immigrant. When you’ve finished your night shift at A&E, please spend a couple of hours picking litter in the park or we’ll kick you out. Yours, the Labour Party

This is Genspect trying to pathologize trans people as inherently violent and prone to terrorism and mass murder by virtue of their identity. This is an absolutely heinous proposal.

Anti-trans hate group Genspect is formally calling for trans people to be repathologized. This is most certainly to set the stage for mandated conversion therapy and potentially forced institutionalization. archive.ph/yA2Wh

We join @pressfreedom.bsky.social in condemning Israel’s killing of 31 Yemeni journalists and media workers, the deadliest attack on the press in 16 years. Journalists are civilians and must be protected under international law. We call for accountability and end to impunity. @penmena.bsky.social

A Community Sponsorship Group in Dublin are raising funds to meet rent & living costs of an Afghan family, incl a child & 2 women,who will soon arrive in Ireland They will be granted visas bec of very severe risk to their lives bec of their former human rights work www.gofundme.com/manage/help-...

They want you mad at trans people and immigrants so you don’t think about them shifting wealth from the bottom to the top with every move they make. And Trump’s trillions transfer is accelerating the process.

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

“I want to make it clear - trans people are just people who are trans, queer people are just people who happen to also be queer. It is not the most interesting thing about us. We are also just people with goals & hopes & problems” www.sacbee.com/news/local/a... www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

Probably just racism if I'm being honest with you

Meanwhile, the "patriotic" dimwits on X are posting AI pictures of the Arc de Triomphe to show 'support for the country they live in.' I laugh because otherwise I'd seriously be weeping.

A Community Sponsorship Group are raising funds to meet costs of an Afghan family, incl a child & 2 women, who will soon arrive in Ireland, granted visas as a result of the very severe risk to their lives because of their ethnicity & former human rights work. www.gofundme.com/manage/help-...

It would seem like GP Dr Alice Hodkinson doesn’t actually like medicine in general… telling someone who questioned her preference for homeopathy to “go poison themselves on prescribed medication”! 😬 edzardernst.com/2019/09/a-re...

Meanwhile Elon Musk’s dad is at an oligarch-hosted fascist conference in Moscow, hanging out with Alexandr Dugin and George Galloway…

Like Leonie O'Dowd, my defence would have rested on truth & what is now called "honest opinion" but used to be (more descriptively IMO) called "fair comment on a matter of public interest." As a therapist publishing a professional opinion, Leonie has an additional defence of qualified privilege.

6/ Analysis - @jamiewareham.co.uk "This is a rare positive ruling for the Trans+ community - but it only received a handful of mainstream media stories. I'm confident if the ruling had been negative, it would have been blasted across headlines as a propaganda tool against gender affirming care."

5/ How have Gender Plus responded? Dr Aidan Kelly, Director of Gender Plus, told QueerAF he was "delighted", adding “Transgender healthcare is subject to the highest levels of scrutiny and as a committed provider of safe healthcare we've always held ourselves to rigorous standards."

1/ Topline A judge has upheld the Clinical Quality Commission's (CQC) rating of the UK's only regulated provider of private transgender health for children as "outstanding" 👍 This thread was first published in our free weekly newsletter 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...

Ever notice how the moment someone criticises a ‘gender critical’ transphobe - especially their ‘queen/martyr’ - that one of their anti-trans activist-journalists comes straight out of the gates to attack them! It’s almost like it’s a private PR propaganda agency for the terminally bigoted!?

So happy for both of you, Waad Alkateab and Hamza Alkateab to return back to #Syria after being forcibly displaced from #Aleppo.

Our friends at @transsolidarity.bsky.social are organising a mass lobby of MPs for 25 June 2025. We have built a tool to generate an email so you can tell your MP what you think about the Supreme Court's policy making and ask them where they stand. goodlaw.social/34f8da

“Ms Forstater said: "Women have already been assaulted and many, many are self-excluding because of the policy Dr McCloud endorses of allowing men to self-identify into women's toilets, showers and changing rooms.” Assaulted? Hasn’t happened. Policy? No, the FUCKING LAW you bigoted POS.

Good Law Project file a judicial review setting out how the EHRC Interim Update has caused fear, humiliation & distress. They argue that organisations who follow it cd face in discrimination cases, & in some cases cd commit a criminal offence. www.wearequeeraf.com/following-eh...

The family of the Abassi children are still searching for them, trawling records of orphanages to which the Assad regime abducted the children of those they disappeared & murdered. Heartbreaking searches for loved ones who were among #SyriasDisappeared www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Federal immigration agents in riot gear squared off with hundreds of protesters for a second consecutive day on Saturday in Los Angeles County, filling streets with tear gas and smoke. nyti.ms/4kUON0y

‘Invest in defence now or start learning Russian later’ - NATO Secretary General www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Next time politicians and policy makers claim that despite stripping back support and services for trans people, they still believe they deserve “dignity” and “respect” - ask them specifically *which* part of the definition applies to their exclusionary actions?!?

“The anxiety experienced by family members in Ireland when a parent, child or spouse is in danger overseas is appalling. Some live daily with the fear that their family member is going to be arrested or killed, or drafted into a domestic or foreign army.” www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Throughout their respective tenures, neither Hafez al-Assad (1971–2000) nor Bashar al-Assad (2000–2024) addressed the #UnitedNations General Assembly (#UNGA) in #NewYork.

It's Monday. You might hate your job but at least you're not a Russian general about to explain to me how 1/3 of my strategic aviation got blown up in a morning by some cheap Alibaba drones.

Remember, Liz Truss is the person who, while in position as the Minister for Women & Equalities, appointed Kishwer Falkner as the Chair of the EHRC, in an attempt to UNDERMINE equality and human rights for trans people! 😣 She has form for supporting malicious actors!