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This is the biggest rollback of LGBT rights in the history of the UK. I'm ashamed to even live here.

BREAKING 🚨 The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared. It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating. But politicians still have time to stop this.

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The aim and effect of leaving the ECHR can only be to reduce rights protection in the UK - maybe for some immigrants, but potentially for other groups out of favour with the government of the day, and ultimately for everyone /2

You can't be anti-fascist if you're transphobic. And if you're "gender critical" then you are at the very least a collaborator, if not fash yourself, because "GC" is gender fascism. It doesn't matter how left-wing you think you are.

Haemorrhaging support every day, wrecking what would have quite an easy nice legacy, making the lives of minorities actively worse and making sure I feel anxious and depressed all the time....Sir Keir has played a blinder again!

The Prime Minister is actively stirring trouble and xenophobia.

“I don’t want asylum seekers to live on my street” is genuinely a wild thing to say as a notionally progressive politician

The direct line from Britain's weird fringe anti-trans extremist campaign to No.10 Downing Street

Today, along with over 80 partner organisations, we are writing to MPs across the UK calling for robust Parliamentary scrutiny of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) forthcoming Code of Practice. Read the full statement on our website: www.scottishtrans.org/scottish-tra...

Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities

Keir Starmer’s new director of communications isn’t just the founder of Portland Communications – which represented Qatar, Russia and Kazakhstan – he’s also come straight from the board of the anti-trans charity Sex Matters. The government is heading in a dark direction.

The “British person” in this instance was me; I do find it deeply amusing that, as well as being extremely racist about British Indians and their role in British food culture, this America has managed to name the curry that was most famously created in Britain

I know it’s been said but WOW nothing makes me think someone is more pathetic than obsessing over the flag assigned to the manmade borders you’re born in to. Frightened little rabbit boys, they’re so pathetic x

Women from all walks of life are joining together to say: Not in Our Name. We are a diverse group — women of faith and none, women of colour, disabled women, queer women, working-class and professional women standing up in support of the trans+ community. ✍️ Sign our letter at change.org/nion_women

This is a UK organisation, and the petition currently stands at over 40,000. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the majority are supportive. The noise comes from a tiny minority.

what if the UK had a major political party that appealed to people who didn't love pogroms

All three parties want the votes of the same 35% of the electorate because those are the people who will vote for crackdowns, flag-fucking, means-testing, xenophobia, war, bungs from donors and stomping hard upon the sick, the poor and the left, and that is exactly what all three parties want to do.

Flippancy about snowmobiles and fur coats aside, not to mention the risks of emboldening far right misinformation, there's a lot here which is just plain cruelty. Parents can't try and save to buy a child a toy, people can't listen to audiobooks. It really is a "they should suffer" type of policy.

If there is 'a widespread perception among much of the public' that egg-stealing goblins hide in their attic you don't address their 'legitimate concerns' by declaring a war on attic goblins, you point out loudly & confidently the truth: that their beliefs are insane, propagated by nasty crackpots.

Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

Noone gives this take the other way round, do they? No one advises conservatives that calling their enemies communists, extremists, anti-semites, Britain haters etc. "doesn't work" Because political name calling plainly *does* work, if done regularly at sufficient volume with a big enough platform

People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.

Question for the media? At what point does the human become merely an "asylum seeker"? And when does the asylum seeker become human once more?

The problem with “strategic silence” or whatever you want to call it from pro-trans people is that anti-trans people are definitely not being silent. So now we have our first proper position on trans rights from Your Party and it’s this. Well done!

Again, if the key touchstone for this new party is going to be Gaza, I ask "what niche is it filling that isn't already filled by the Greens", and if the answer is "well the Greens aren't transphobic enough" then I ask why you think bigotry is a selling point for the Left in the era of New Fascism

I agree with the message but the random Billie Piper has thrown me a little.

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

Guess it’s time for your periodic reminder that mentally ill people are actually statistically less likely to commit violent crimes; more likely to be victims; and more at risk of hurting themselves than others. If you want to curb gun crimes curb guns. Threading some studies here!

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”

I firmly believe that the views and values the Bishop of Oxford shares here reflect those of the majority of UK residents. Farage is false on so many levels. Man of the people? I think not. blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...

Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law. Join me and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent. @friends_earth 👇 foe.uk/ksojs

Learning the shooter was a detransitioner spouting the same shit detransitioners have been smearing all over the country for the past decade really boils my blood at the people who jumped on the chance to salaciously report "the first trans woman mass shooter" yesterday.

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

This, from the Quakers, is worth reading. It's a serene, confident, utter rebuke of the hate and fear that's peddled by Sex Matters. The last two pages are smokin'. If you're on the wrong side of the Quakers, you really need to sit down and have a good chat with yourself.

At this point there's an entire cadre of British opinion columnists who are so divorced from reality, capacity for political analysis or critical thinking, and obsessed with inflicting suffering on minorities that they single handedly make me question whether opinion columns should be banned.

Rylan not only pushed Reform (and Labour actually, but he swallowed the Reform line on Labour being commies etc) rhetoric on immigrants, at one point he literally said "that's the narrative we're being fed". SOOOOO fucking close to getting it. Like, SO close.

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

I'm in a down mood, everyone post your favourite Simpsons quote. The more obscure the better. This is one of mine, always makes me laugh.

Children are dead. Not because Americans need arms for self defense. (we can regulate the type and amount of guns anyone is allowed to purchase) Children are dead because America values the right of one person to go to the range on the weekend and play with military grade weapons for fun & leisure.

If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, it’s literally just Tuesday.

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp... in case you are also fed up with them platforming Farage

There is so much terrible about all of this, but what strikes me most is how often the teen suggested involving his family so he didn’t go through with the suicide and it appears that each time, ChatGPT discouraged him.

Everyone can contribute something to the fight, but because certain actions tend to get all the coverage, it can be easy to feel shut out. So here's a thread of ways to help that do NOT include: Going anywhere Calling anyone Writing anything If you want to help, we want your help. Let's go....