yeah basically. head of science dept used to stand in the corridor Id have to go through to get to 'form' after dinner and hassle me to put my blazer on to the point where I'd use a backdoor to avoid her specifically. she got other teachers in on it and I had an argument with one. So suspended!

shit. I forgot to add a very important detail the teacher watching you isn't like... a teacher teacher. they don't know shit lmao. they're pastoral care or whatever. You are given textbooks and a worksheet. briefly told what the lesson is. and you're expected to figure it out!

I mentioned previously how Brianna was taught in school primarily in isolation and idk if non brits know what that means. Tldr it's a room, generally with stalls in it so you can't see other kids and a teacher watching you. it's generally where kids are sent for bad behaviour.

"im supporting her mum" I wanna address this one real quick because this is what we call "scapegoating". Do you honestly expect us to believe that after her daughter was murdered in a way that had nothing to do with phone use, Esther Ghey came begging for you to ban phones during school time?

So, given that a lot of trans people are offended that Brianna's transfemicide is being turned into a crusade against phone use, when Brianna had a supportive online community and was murdered offline by her classmates: Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?

there was a vending machine in my school which had a weird shell that was like a good 10 or so cm clear off of the actual machine inside. The coin slot didn't have a flap. And this meant people's change would fly out and land in the bottom. I figured this out quick. Probably made about £100/yr

It's not even that we have to state basic facts of our social reality. It's that our ideological opponents already act in ways that clearly illustrate they're perfectly aware.

a lot of queer folk can't quite put their fingers on why they're so angry and upset about this shit and yeah no this is it. We all know and we even know that they know too. Eg the MP can't even give a single line explaining how this phone shit would have helped Brianna. They're just playing dumb.

I did weirdly I can't find the "Charlotte Nichols slams Wes Streeting's puberty blocker ban" or "Nichols vows to protect trans lives following SC ruling" headlines or articles. in fact... it doesn't look like you've had much to say during any of the times politics has smashed into our lives.

lmaoooo. The pouches open with a magnet and the teachers are just believing that the kids haven't opened them throughout the day. incredible. what a garbage waste of everyone's time, money and energy which again; does absolutely not a god damn thing to address causes of Brianna's murder.

vastly more important than "get them kids off them screens" bullshit is, in my opinion at least, knowing how to have a healthy relationship with everything screens give you access to and being able to choose to shut it off when you need to. It's how you use screens, not that you use screens.

speaking of screens being great for a plethora of reasons I've been p burnt out and generally just too busy to work Trans Writes for over a year now because a lot has happened offline. But I still want to do the big rework and to do that I think I'm going to need loadsa money. mayb I stream?

by the by I've said before and I'll say again - I don't agree with the "we need them kids off them screens" values of the boomers. screens are great for a plethora of reasons. But if you do want kids off screens and making friends offline then you need to address the reasons they've 'retreated'.

I'm not getting up Esther's ass too much. She is a grieving mother even if obviously a tory. But our government should absolutely know better. They're backing (and probably somewhat architecting) Esther's thing because they already wanted to do this and Brianna's murder is just an excuse.

musicians who upload their full music video as YouTube ads who hurt you?

They loved her. She loved them. and they were all only able to find each other and be those beacons of support because they had phones. If you want to take that away from kids like Brianna? fine. do what evil shit you want. But take her name out of your god damn mouth. @charlotte2153.bsky.social

i think the most sick thing about govt going all in on Esther's phone shit after her daughter was murdered in a crime which had not nothing to do with phones ... is that I spoke to Brianna's friends. On Tiktok. They were everything to her - you want to take that away from other kids like Brianna?

the idea of a trans inclusive BBC is a big foot for bigots. it never existed but the thought that it might keeps them scared of and hunting for it.

I was also invited to watch a talk by a transphobic barrister at the BBC. with about 50 people in attendance. the whole talk was just bigot shit about self ID and other nonsense bigots had just made up. And lol, we paid for that. with our license fees. noone faced any consequences for this.

I was once given a list of bigots at the BBC. About 20-30 of them in senior positions who had openly supported bigotry. Not a single one, to my knowledge, ever faced any consequence or real pushback. Neither on their actions or their clearly successful attempts to sway the agenda more bigoted.

Tim Davie, according to sources actually in the meetings, is not pro trans. He isn't anti trans, no. But he doesnt understand or want to advance trans issues in any meaningful way & the rise of transphobia in the BBC can be attributed more to a lack of action rather than any direct decision making.

idk. it's probably not never that. but honestly I kinda get it? it's fun, everyone likes to be fun. It's just frustrating that the best way to get trans communities online to notice you and talk about what you're doing is to be a bigot. like... that seems fundamentally unsustainable, right?

I worked at festivals once and I don't even know how they managed it but I opened a portaloo to find a literal mountain of shit peaking above the rim of the toilet. Like... did they just keep shitting on top?? one after the other?? did they have to stand on the sides to reach???? a mystery.

just saw a story about someone getting fined a grand for leaving trash next to a bin that was over flowing and while I don't think they should've got fined and that bins shouldn't be left long enough to start overflowing... Wtf lmao??? Just find another bin it will take like 10 minutes tops???

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it's okay I'm allowed to say it, I'm one of you.

you only need to type four letters into the search bar on here to find a bunch of massive dorks "CMDR"

not a petitions fan & also I think this one is a little off. Not that I don't fully support what they're getting at, it's just the inclusion of intersex people in our law goes way beyond the EqA alone. The binary is pretty deeply woven into a lot of shit and is gonna take a lot of work to undo.

idk man I'm just sick of waking up everyday and finding four hundred assholes on here are sharing screen shots from transphobes - often not even particularly famous or influential ones - on twitter being transphobes. genuinely logging in less and less because I just cba with it any more.

so now Rose has to answer questions in a tribunal about how inconsiderate she was for having not the foresight to consider the feelings of bigots she didn't know about and was doing absolutely nothing to. That's trans life in the UK right now.

THE BIGOTS HAVE LITERALLY COMPLAINED THAT ROSE SOMEWHAT NOTICED THEY WERE BEING WEIRD ABOUT HER. And they've proceeded to try and turn that into more reasons to justify their hate for her. Simply because she is transgender and their Internet friends told them to.

so the article says Rose didn't know who complained which is p standard for HR stuff. So what actually happened here is the bigot was staring at Rose and giving her a dirty look and Rose did the thing where you notice someone is looking at you and you look back at them like "are you alright?"

I think it speaks volumes in these cases about who is being intimidated and bullied given that pictures of trans women are often blurry candids snapped by journos outside the court whereas the cis women are in posed group photographs.

wild how we have a whole political and media class who will comfortably admit they view phrases like "allahu ackbar" - a fairly common phrase used even by non religious Arabs like how non religious brits still say stuff like "Jesus wept" - as exclusively indicators of terrorism and "islamism".

it turns out when you decide someone is a threat based on nothing but the fever dreams of other bigots on the internet you can get really paranoid really quickly. And if you live in the UK you can make that trans people's problem so fucking easy.

this is, to be fair, one of their better pieces which doesn't simply concede all ground to the bigots immediately. But we are only here because of the BBC and others having done that for about a decade. The "journalists" responsible will never be held accountable for it either.

you pull this shit on me I'm not giving you evil looks, I'm giving you house bricks through the windows at 2am.

the absolute gall of these bigots to complain about someone allegedly giving them evil looks AFTER THEY HAVE DECIDED SHE IS A DANGER TO THEM AND THEY'VE TRIED TO GET HER FIRED AND/OR BANNED FROM USING THE BATHROMS. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

can't afford 300k on a property that already exists? try 300k on a property that doesn't! housing crisis solved.

thats specifically why the rhetoric of Forstater and Robinson alike tends to avoid talking about the people they hate and instead tries to shift focus onto "issues" and imagined "conflicts of rights". It isnt "X group is bad and we should harass them to death" its "X issue is the cause of X group".

sometimes im really smart and very good with words other times ive only just realised cinco de mayo means 5th of may

i see a lot of people in my feed with a bad take on this ngl. it is bad that the cops stopped him without a good reason! it is bad that they demanded access to his phone based on his shitty beliefs alone! these are not good things we should be calling for more of!!!!!

@vcorenmitchell.bsky.social u can just block him btw

Is JoJo's Leave perhaps the best song of the 2000s because she told the toxic man to get out? youtu.be/PLhphe6dC60?...

fuck the guardian etc etc But I'm quoting cos I also enjoy Since U Been Gone and other 2000s music about toxic men women still somehow find irresistible and I just want to ask why lmao. why are all the 2000s bangers absolute babes begging the worst guy to love them. they're all like it!!

I've been saying "communities" for a while now cos yeah. as much as I wish there were one big solid community of us, there isn't. I do want to bring all of those communities together tho and get us fighting on the same pages. That'd be sick.

everyone is so hard on Emma but she's a trail blazer who left the family business to pursue a career in media search Emma Barnett family business on Google for more info

a fascist into femboys? unheard of!

weird how basically 300% of the gays* are allegedly transphobes too yet somehow they can only find the same 5 each time to put a name to their bigotry. *according to stats made up by other bigots

Last I heard it was innumerable gay people lmao