On Intersex Remembrance Day, we remember past harms and celebrate progress. Europe has taken a historic step and adopted the first-ever Recommendation protecting intersex people’s human rights. Here’s Kitty Anderson, co-chair of European intersex organisation @oiieurope.org, on what this means.

📃 We have instructed a team of barristers and are in continued correspondence with Ofcom, seeking answers. ⚖️ If those answers are unsatisfactory, we intend to challenge Ofcom’s decision to whitewash TalkTV’s transphobia in court. https://goodlaw.social/4wvh

Solidarity and sisterhood with @monisharajesh.bsky.social, @chimenesuleyman.bsky.social & @profsunnysingh.bsky.social, in the face of renewed bad-faith attacks from the usual suspects. Their work is amazing, their principles impeccable. Don’t read the Telegraph, don’t listen to muckraking podcasts.

‘Section 28 2.0’: New “transphobic” curriculum restricts teachers from encouraging Trans+ pupils to understand their identity 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-new-transphobic-curriculum-restricts-teachers-from-encouraging-trans-pupils-to-understand-their-identity/

NEW: Inside the Biden administration debates in late 2024 that could have changed the course of the Gaza war -top intel official sought to cut support for Israel but Brett McGurk pushed back -talk of "very likely" US liability -Blinken spoke of "ethnic cleansing" www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

This weekend is Aberdeen's Queer Arts Festival and I'm waiting to go into an event and they're playing a song with the chorus "don't fuck a fascist, that dick ain't worth it" followed up by Cabaret

Welcome to the Oligarchy Why Musk’s $1trillion pay deal heralds a dark and dystopian future unless we bring the super-rich to heel If we don’t deal with the billionaires, sooner or later they’re going to deal with us My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Gonna tell my grandkids that this was the opening to Day of the Doctor.

“biological pronouns” how about i punch you in your biological teeth

The CJEU will soon be ruling on whether this Danish housing policy is directly racially discriminatory (the Advocate-General's opinion says it is: curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...). The UK's Home Secretary wishes to base family reunion for refugees on such a policy.

Regardless of the truth of the matter, the Corbyn faction is *once again* leaking to a media outlet that was relentlessly hostile to them 2015-2019. And maybe what they're leaking is true but it sure seems like they're using it as an excuse to stitch up the conference. www.bbc.com/news/article...

We sent the presidencies of Harding and Nixon straight to hell for a fraction of the corruption that happens every hour of every day on camera in this regime

Not a goddamn one of these articles about Mamdani's campaign's effectiveness mentions their explicit embrace of oppressed groups and promises to, for instance, fund queer healthcare initiatives. Funny that.

Wonderful article by Marissa. TERFs oppress women. They don't protect women. Once you've read it, please make a donation to the outstanding Womens Aid if you can. womensaid.org.uk/donate-now/

Steve Reed MP, the housing minister who made a bunch of MAGA-style baseball caps for Labour party conference and had his staffers to line up while he autographed them, is calling the Green Party of England & Wales 'wacky'

All these Labour bed wetters who moan about not getting enough positive air time or decrying the greens etc lack so much self awareness, maybe you’re just shit and no one likes you, idk

Lesley Pearce, author, on Radio 4 now telling us that when she tried writing children’s books, she got fed up of the ‘politically correct’ illustrators as they put ‘brown faces and yellow faces’ in the books. Who has a “yellow faces”??? Ffs

Great to hear London Labour MPs panicking about losing their seats to the Green Party. For clarity, though - this goes way beyond just London. Across England & Wales, we're saying lower bills, tax billionaires and we're ready to take on Reform. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Excellent piece by my @heraldscotland.bsky.social colleague

'Celebrating the exclusion of 0.44% of the population from Rape Crisis while the organisation is in freefall (and probably won't even exist in 10 years because of funding cuts) is performative' || @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social👇 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴

"Life changing policies" 1. You'll be poorer 2. Or destitute or dead, if you're disabled 3. If you're already poor, we're upping the likelihood that your kid will die 4. We're arresting your gran for terrorism, if she survived winter 5. Make Britain racist & queerphobic again! 6. Ban the trans

telling progressives what they want to hear is exactly the same as telling racists what they want to hear, I have a degree from the University of Plymouth

Rosalind Franklin was only 37 when she died of ovarian cancer and she had ALREADY discovered the shape of DNA. She did not live to see her erasure by the Nobel committee in 1962. Anyway, fuck this guy and restore funding to the cancer moonshot, so the next Rosalind Franklin can live.

I see the 2021 scandal around Kate Clanchy's book "Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me" is back in the news as Clanchy receives an apology from the publisher of that book. Here's a reminder of the racism, Islamophobia, anti-LGBT comments, and fat shaming from the book.

The planet is dying. I know the fight against fascism feels so acute, but there will be nothing left to fight for if we don't bring these longer term challenges. Please - will you support our climate litigation?

The only upside of the Danish system is that occasionally their immigration ministers get to see the inside of the jails their government is responsible for.

i am feeling them. - replaced my healthcare with conversion therapy - stripped me of my civil rights, legal protections, and legal recognitions - attempting to introduce segregation laws that will mandate i be persecuted and discriminated against effectively turning me in to a non-citizen

I would say attacking the disabled, stripping trans people of their rights & healthcare, nuking protest rights, freezing nanas, telling immigrants they've done enormous harm & the country risks becoming an island of strangers bcos of them, & aiding & abetting a genocide is pretty live changing, yeah

There are years of this government yet and they are already openly campaigning on the next election that they are doomed to lose because they will not address the reasons they are unpopular. It will be this shit for the rest of the government now.

Let’s be clear: @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social and Labour own this cruelty Trans+ children and teenagers are being harmed by a Health Secretary who could stop it all tomorrow But every day Streeting refuses to end his anti-Trans+ crusade, he makes a deliberate choice to let his cruelty continue

Denmark steals possessions of people seeking asylum, as policy. It returns people to situations where they are killed. Mahmood is copying some of the worst policies going. Labour once again showing it's just another anti-asylum, anti-human rights, government. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today is Intersex Day of Solidarity and Remembrance. It's an opportunity to highlight the continued struggles faced by intersex people globally, from unnecessary medical intervention or stigma. We all deserve to be treated with dignity, and live a life free from discrimination.

It's telling that Sex Matters and For Women Scotland have basically turned their entire attention into trying to legally bully women's organisations into either excluding trans people or being driven out of existence. They'd prefer all women and girls to suffer than for trans people to just live.

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Thank you @feministgreens.bsky.social for supporting @nionwomen.bsky.social! Women — if you haven’t yet signed our NION open letter, go here: notinourname.org.uk Everyone — if you haven’t yet joined the Green Party, go here 😆 join.greenparty.org.uk

Today would have been Brianna Ghey’s 19th birthday.

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

Mamdani is also a threatre kid. He's breaking down boundaries every which way.

It is a very good thing Tom Harris is no longer an MP. What a foul attitude to take to young people taking an interest in politics and the House of Commons making space to accommodate them, as any serious democracy should. "This lot"? A sublime encapsulation of the bitter ageism blighting politics.

You can’t pander your way out of supporting genocide and arresting those that protest it, looking trans kids in the eye before taking away their healthcare and accusing the NHS of “anti-whiteness”. The dude has a majority of 528 and is toast.

Not just any filmmaker, but his filmmaking partner… that he was dating

This wasn’t about leaking GTA VI. It was: Rockstar illegally firing union members to stop the studio from unionizing. it directly contradicts Rockstar’s PR narrative and confirms almost everything that people suspected was going on.

We cannot continue to allow the NHS to get away with this. They want to ruin us. Erase us. We must show them we cannot be ignored. xoxo BASH BACK

The Scottish Greens stand with Rockstar's workers. ✊

I think we all understand what it means when "minority has any sort of facial expression" becomes evidence of guilt right?

Labour told us all to fuck off and alienated us constantly by being right wing ghouls in every conceivable policy decision now they’re crashing in their polls they want us back with a few weasel words? Doesn’t work like that Morgan.