I have become more sympathetic to the idea that saying you can’t hold Trump voters morally culpable for Trump regime actions is patronizing. It partakes of an old and to my mind destructive left wing habit: to think of conservative white voters as not quite adults.

Always alarming when hierarchy is deemed “natural” (psssssst - it’s constructed and changeable) Is it time to whip out my fave Le Guin quote again?

I talk/dream/practise/read a lot about hope as a way to imagine myself into a liveable future. This current timeline certainly makes it challenging. I’ve been stuck on hard mode but it’s my first time playing the game, and ya know? I’m tired. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country. Join us. The time is now. Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...

My research into the effects of the UK puberty-blocker ban was published only 10 days ago, it has already been viewed more than 7,000 times! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The idea that Rowling just has a controversial opinion is wrong and dangerous, too. She’s one of the world’s leading transmisogynists—a bigot stoking violence—and she delights in endangering women. It should be socially unacceptable to display Harry Potter merch.

The law is systematically oppressing trans people so I'm afraid if you actually want to call yourself trans allies or a 'trans inclusive organisation' then you cannot be upholding that law. And if you aren't comfortable advising people to not legally segregate, then you were never an ally.

The Ministry of Justice scrubbing LGBT, race and gender from its diversity policy isn’t neutrality it’s erasure. You don’t protect marginalised people by pretending they don’t exist. This isn’t progress. It’s a warning sign, and we should all be paying attention!!

If you cannot run your business by following simple laws, you don’t have a business, you have a racket.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense) then please sign this open letter I and others have put together to UK Archaeological associations to urge overt and resolute solidarity with trans archaeologists, and the wider trans community docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

This is heartening and, I find, the common experience. We hear time and time again the narrative that *everyone* believes that trans people are bad, evil, whatever, and the support for this is a handful of the hateful usual suspects. Then along comes pushback and people flood in in their thousands.

🧵 A Thread of UK University Statements on the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Guidance Against Trans Inclusion This thread catalouges statements by UK Universities in relation to the Supreme Courts transphobic ruling and the EHRC guidance for trans segregation. I'll try update it daily. 1/?

A friend who is a trans woman and who plays women’s football received an email from the FA about the decision which contains this paragraph. Free therapy to cope with the fact you’ve been transphobic bigots, fucking brilliant.

The UK is a fascist state with the pretence of democracy. Autism is not a disease. Being trans is not a disease. Neither need cured. Leave us the fuck alone!!

The reality in the UK right is now the ideology of trans eradication is being given more legal protections than the reality of being trans. And if you can't see that with everything that's going on, then you are part of the problem. Do better, listen to trans people, fight back against the bigots.

Really excited* to see UK universities/educational institutions roll back any trans protections they’ve had in place thanks to the new clarity of all being defined by how *squints* our genitals appeared at birth??? Fabulous. Love that for all of us. *filled with dread

I wrote about the Trump administration’s embrace of the pro-natalist movement, and the need to combat pro-natalist misogyny in cultural terms. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This statement from the Crab Museum is sublime. The claims about "biological sex" are the same hijacking of science that justified racism in the past - and still does today 🏳️‍⚧️ www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

JK Rowling's "plan" that came together, based on the available evidence: Pretend to be a women's rights supporter. Focus at least 90% of your energy on targeted harassment and discrimination of trans people. Elevate your bigotry to global heights, along with fascism and cis male abusers. Celebrate.

The UK Supreme Court is Wrong. Trans Women are Women Trans Men are Men Non-Binary people are Non-Binary. The court's ruling on biological sex is not only wrong, it is dangerous, overty transphobic, and further highlights the organised transphobia of the UK's cis-supremacist society.

Honestly, such grim news from UK Supreme Court. We're going the way of US & everyone should be concerned. Just let people live their quiet lives - just like they did before Wicked Witch & her flying goblins got all exercised about things that don't concern them. Thoughts & big hugs to all xx 🏳️‍⚧️

The Supreme Court of the UK is about to rule on the rights of trans women in a case in which no trans women were allowed to give evidence or participate in any way.

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

For $45 billion we could literally end child poverty in the United States forever. Seriously. We could feed and house and clothe and educate every kid. Every single one.

Something I see three or four times a week on my feed is "why isn't there a left-leaning version of the alt-right media ecosystem" and just stop asking the question because we all know the answer, the answer is that there's no money for it! No money means no alternative media ecosystem! That's it!

"Universities are reviewing transgender equality policies after the University of Sussex was handed a record fine from the higher education regulator." [Times] Reminder, those policies were to stop trans people being harassed and abused

We've been saving this little pup for when we thought you all might really need a gold star. And, given the current circumstances, here she is. 13/10

stop using chatgpt if u want misinformation just ask me and i’ll happily lie to u

archive.ph/A9m2x Hi, I hate it here 💀

Right. Torygraph putting out a hit piece on top surgery (and surgery for AFAB trans folk in general because how dare we 'mutilate' ourselves out of being breeding stock) means a) a re-up on 'please email your MP' and b) hey, petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.

There's something so pernicious about the assertion that not-yet-teen girls should be forced into motherhood, and that Black children can be tried as adults, and yet that white men who are 25 should be coddled because they're just babies (who really like eugenics).

This is huge. My petition got approved. It challenges the UK government to the lift the Puberty Blocker ban on the grounds that it contradicts article 8 of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child. Please sign and Repost ✊️🏳️‍⚧️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

I am trans, and I am tired, and I am scared. So I wrote about it ✨ If you expected this to be proofread and better argued, allow me to refer you to the above! Art by @pinebones.bsky.social 1/12

Been thinking a lot on this Donna Haraway's quote from 'Staying with the Trouble.' —So timely.

Keep on loving, keep on fighting youtu.be/rt8CU9agvU0?...

Had a grand time @tag45.bsky.social, and especially enjoyed collaborating with @bromolloy.bsky.social for @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social and Niamh’s session! See y’all next year!

Amazing artist rendition of my own TAG session from my good friend Ron