[I'm cis] Before this Government came to power, it was uncontroversial to say that the Equality Act 2010 prevented discrimination against trans people. Since the Supreme Court judgment, Labour has actively promoted an interpretation which says the Act REQUIRES discrimination against trans people.

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

Hi @chriselmoremp.bsky.social, I know lying is now so common in the Labour Party (see Gorton & Denton) that dishonesty is the New Black for Labour, but this is such an obvious lie coming from a party that has worked VERY hard to deny trans people in the UK our dignity… 1/6

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

FAO @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social, I got this from a friend elseweb, not sure where it originated

Christine continues to be a stalwart ally surprising no one that has had the pleasure of meeting her :)

A social media ban is a get-out-cheap approach to social media by the Government. Actually regulate big social media firms? Actually hold them to account for their business practices? Actually expect them to moderate their platforms? No! Let's cut off the kids from online community instead!

If you're able to support the Lib Dem campaign in Gorton & Denton, helping build the fighting fund will be a massive help. www.mcrlibdems.uk/donate/gd

This would be more convincing if the party at large and Munira herself weren't still using the nazi CSAM production app :/

Wes Streeting has blood on his hands.

The concept of the BBC is a wonderful, beautiful, precious thing. Evil people know this as well as I do. Since Hutton, they've done their absolute utmost to destroy it, and, like with the NHS, they're winning. Heartbreaking. All the support to Robin but I hate SO much that it's come to this.

I stand with Dr Beth Upton

President Elect of the @libdems.org.uk the wonderful @joshbabarinde.bsky.social says trans rights in parliament (and gets a non answer from the government spokes)

Pip is ace! I really recommend working with her on videogames if you can. (and also talking to her about lichens and beetles... and maybe drawing and crochet too)

It’s really fucking unfair that so many of us have to spend our one precious life fighting for the fundamental right to exist just because some evil fuckheads have decided to waste *their* one precious life trying to eliminate us

Get to know your mutuals! List 10 ransom things you like #promosky Sam Vimes Cheese Ice cream Drowsee (look it was my first lvl 100) Rubick from Dota Highland cows (emo cows!) German shepherds Midori and lemonade @chrisn.xyz Boardgames

Zohran Mamdani in New York Catherine Connolly in Ireland Rob Jetten in the Netherlands Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly The rise of the far right is not inevitable. If we work together, we can dare to hope.

This is a great and eye opening way to show the direct correlation between the homophobic attacks of the 80s/90s and today's transphobic attacks! haveigotphobiaforyou.com

Oh this could be massive, love this - "OK you say thats the case, lets talk about how that means you are in breach of this enforcement".

And the gender criticals will still say that care is too easily accessed because they don't think trans people should exist at all.

There’s a developing trend of people standing for positions in left wing parties being “not openly transphobic” in the light of previous “just a little transphobia, as a treat” positions. I’m not supporting any of them. Open support for trans rights is a bare minimum.

They'll have doctors & schools & shops, & train stations, right? They'll be flood proof, affordable, with solar panels & heat pumps & swift bricks, right? It won't just be a bunch of isolated houses with only car access, in the middle of some muddy fields, built by the cheapest bidder? Right?

We, the Liberal Democrats only official women's group, wholeheartedly stand by the amazing Woman that Cllr Chris Northwood is. She is an inspiration to many within the party with her dedication to the party and her constituents. She is a very deserving winner.

Very proud to have been awarded the Patsy Calton Award at today's #LDConf. Very moved by those who nominated me and that I've inspired others. I've just tried to do the best job I can.

The single best thing I've read on summing up being a trans person in the UK (or America) at the moment. shonfaye.substack.com/p/well-its-o... I especially resonate with the ending about not taking to people about it anymore.

We're now at the point where BBC News openly repeats slurs for trans women without quotation marks and without challenge. I've made yet another complaint to the BBC, but given how that usually goes...

Palestine Action gets classified as a terrorist organisation by Labour, but working for an organisation which is actually terrorising trans people in the UK gets you a job in Number 10.

www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.

UK organisations with trans members/service users: this is the time to:- a) refuse to comply with transphobia b) make it clear to your trans members/service users that you are going to refuse, so they know they are safe. Don't be intimidated into appeasing fascists, please.

I will be very happily taking advantage of this right that the Lib Dems secured next year

"trans women are the strongest people i know"

Get your cis friends to read this. It reveals how the anti-trans hate groups are really part of a web of extremist right-wing hate groups…

There is no obligation to make toilets trans-exclusionary, and doing this, before the guidance was submitted to and ratified by Parliament, is nothing more than Parliament choosing to make itself an exclusionary place.

Would be great if @youngliberalsuk.bsky.social and @libdems.org.uk actually echoed this.

Kate Nash takes aim at ‘f**king idiot’ gender-critical feminists in iconic pro-trans song ‘GERM’

Cis women in the UK. Would you mind signing this please? www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

All over BlueSky I see people telling immigrants, relatives of immigrants, people married to immigrants, that they’ve misunderstood Starmer. Stop. Just stop. We know what it feels like. Don’t tell us we don’t. Don’t tell us we’re wrong. Just don’t.

If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there. (Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...

Sat eating tea with the gf while casually discussing what requirements we have in our escape route if the UK keeps going this direction, I hate it, we shouldn't have to be considering this.

This commons session is hideous, saying "trans people deserve respect" while constantly punching them in the face is horrendous.

Disgusting watching the House of Commons and the gaslighting from the Equalities Minister. It's clear that Labour are happy to rollback trans rights, and sell it as "no change". We have no friends in government.

Labour and Tories currently having a contest on who can punch down at trans people the hardest in the commons. Disgusting to see.

The absolute fuckery of the Labour party on trans rights. Fuck these fuckwits and their absolute pandering cowardice when it comes to protecting one of the most vulnerable groups of people in our society. Fucking amoral fucking fuckbags.

There isn't a story on the BBC News site about today's trans rights rally at Parliament Square where it's estimated 20k attended. But they did have a story last week about the Let Women Speak transphobe rally in Bristol where 100 people attended.

I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni

On today's #TransDayOfRemembrance this image from Celeste, a game which draws heavily on trans themes, is the one that comes to mind first. I cried when I first came to this scene, playing the game early in my transition. I'll be attending Manchester's vigil later this evening.

@emily.omelette.gay a fellow omelette!