People are harshing on some “diverse reading challenge” thing that’s going around, and I get it, but looking at what you read and asking yourself “what isn’t represented here?” is imo a good and healthy practice

The Ghost of Christmas Future has a message for Keir Starmer. Alexei Sayle brings you his alternative Christmas message from the streets where Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol.

Welsh mythology speaks of the monstrous Gwiber. It had the ability to live both on land and in the water, an ability which it put to good use by terrorizing local folk and eating their livestock. This is the first time one has been captured on film, in Rhyl..

Rather than a blog, I ended up writing a short essay! It’s about who gets epistemic authority, who bears the harm of delay, and why trans people are asked to justify their existence at all. transiness.com?p=260

The Trump administration is trying to legislate trans people out of existence

Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits

The BMA has published an updated policy position on the rights of transgender and non-binary people in healthcare settings. www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...

Palestine Action hunger strikers are ‘dying’ in prison, UK doctor warns https://aje.io/hbrilj

When the NEA asked us to promise not to publish trans, nonbinary, or gender fluid authors, we told them to kick rocks. (Actually, formally, with a unanimous vote by the Board of Directors, we told them to kick rocks.) So the NEA rescinded our funding.

whoever is writing reality lately is really getting heavy-handed with it. no subtlety at all

Postman fired as footage caught him kicking over rainbow garden gnome https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/11/postman-fired-as-footage-caught-him-kicking-over-rainbow-garden-gnome/?utm_content=1765873200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Hundreds gather outside Girlguiding HQ to demand trans ban is reversed: ‘Adults debate, children bleed’ https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/13/girlguiding-trans-protest-london/?utm_content=1765792817&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

When The Law Said No: How GC Arguments Failed in Court The headlines say Peggie won The actual judgment? Trans women don't pose safety risks. Trans inclusion is lawful. GC beliefs don't permit harassment. @helenbelcherobe.bsky.social @helenwebberley.bsky.social @heatherpaterson.co.uk

Trump administration deadnames trans admiral Rachel Levine on official government portrait https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/08/rachel-levine-deadname-portrait-trump/?utm_content=1765210803&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Madonna comes for Trump for failing to recognise World AIDS Day https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/02/madonna-comes-for-trump-for-failing-to-recognise-world-aids-day/

The persecution of brown people and mass deportations will not create the white country of far-right fantasy. apple.news/AK-BZAaH5TAG...

I feel I should be awarded the inaugural Bluesy peace prize. I have not killed anyone or started any wars. Ever. This puts me streets ahead of yesterday's FIFA Peace Prize winner. I also try to be nice. Funny too. Helpful. If this starts trending I will start shopping for a nice tuxedo & bow tie.

I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.

Thousands call on Girlguiding to reverse 'out of touch' trans ban https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/03/girlguiding-trans-girls-ban-petition/?utm_content=1764901200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Thousands call on Girlguiding to reverse 'out of touch' trans ban https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/03/girlguiding-trans-girls-ban-petition/?utm_content=1764912000&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Conservative Americans were asked why queer people bother them – the answers are surprising https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/02/conservative-americans-were-asked-why-queer-people-bother-them-the-answers-are-surprising/

Historians have the WORST gaydar.

PSYCHOLOGY | Negative thoughts cling to your mind because your brain is built to protect you, not to make you happy. apple.news/Ai4n71tNHR7m...

Britain is the least supportive G7 country on trans rights, report reveals https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/uk-trans-rights-ipsos-survey/?utm_content=1764292800&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Gay MP perfectly explains why EHRC's 'shocking' guidance on single-sex spaces is 'unworkable' https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/ehrc-guidance-trans-josh-babarinde-lib-dem/?utm_content=1764296400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Early New Year's resolution, before the madness takes hold. STFUAFO will be the acronym of 2026.

Six lies transphobes tell about puberty blockers – debunked https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/puberty-blockers-terf-lies/?utm_content=1764159601&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trans Day of Remembrance: Zack Polanski and Kate Nash deliver powerful speeches at London vigil https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/21/trans-day-of-remembrance-zack-polanski-vigils/?utm_content=1763742004&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump vs The BBC. Love or loathe the BBC, recent events have put the UK's journalistic sovereignty in peril. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCMn...

#TransAwarenessWeek: Mother says her trans child is 'not a threat' as she opens up about her own journey to acceptance https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/17/trans-awareness-week-mother-of-trans-child/?utm_content=1763509200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Beam Dump xkcd.com/3168/

Alastair Campbell says senior BBC figures are ‘in the JK Rowling camp’ on trans issues https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/14/alastair-campbell-bbc-trans-bias/?utm_content=1763295600&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Plastic containers for portions of dog food: pupperware.

EXCLUSIVE: 60,000 cisgender women write powerful open letter in support of trans community: 'We have had enough' https://bit.ly/3JWgBVl

Some people need a little more shame tbh.

From *that* BBC News memo and paraphrasing: BBC News are insufficiently transphobic. That *is* news to me.

'Anti-gay 1980s headline or anti-trans headline from today?' asks new online quiz https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/04/have-i-got-news-for-you-inspired-game/?utm_content=1762687200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

A sobering read for a Saturday morning via @naomiaklein.bsky.social

Life’s too short to argue with people online, and even too short to think about the ones you held back from arguing with. Don’t give them your time. It’s not worth it.

Are fewer people really identifying as trans and non-binary? The truth behind the questionable data https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/04/trans-people-are-staying-right-here/?utm_content=1762270804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Students using ChatGPT beware: Real learning takes legwork, study finds

The last article in The Gender Clinic Files is now out! The Gender Services Monitor is available from tge article, and my website will be updatted later today. Huge thank you to @wearequeeraf.com & @whatthetrans.com for their work on this series, which finishes off with a Q^A next week.

NEWS | The playbook: Extremist rhetoric is given an outsized platform through manipulative and toxic social media platforms, racist violence spreads. We see their public rhetoric move to the right, giving credence to extreme beliefs of fringe FRE. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Not true. What is true is YOU voting for Reform brings with it stuff you don’t really want. Use your voting powers for good.

Long shot (mainly due to how little engagement I get on here), but I'm looking for freelance writers with an interest, or specialism in, classical music. If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.

They only went and fucking did it.

Farage: epic grifter

New survey reveals 91% of UK trans people distrust the Labour Party https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/23/new-survey-reveals-91-of-uk-trans-people-distrust-the-labour-party/?utm_content=1761553200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

We've been a little quite lately, and that's because we've been beavering away on something very special. We'd like to welcome you inside with our fanny-tastic new Inner Circle patron scheme... www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/patron

"A blanket ban on access to gender- affirming spaces does not support healing. It retraumatises. It isolates. It tells vulnerable young people that their needs don't matter." A powerful letter from a parent of a trans child in the National today, calling for the govt. to challenge EHRC guidance.