A wildly racist and utterly dishonest choice of picture

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“What’s happened is that the window has shifted so dramatically that it’s now perfectly acceptable to be horrifically homophobic, racist or transphobic – not just with your mates, or in public, but in the media and Parliament. It’s acceptable again. The new normal is it’s okay to be a bigot again.”

The only way is to SMASH this system from the inside. Hero, icon, martyr really, Nick Clegg took one for the world, by infiltrating this world and becoming one of those extremely rich, straight, white guys in Silicon Valley, then <checks notes> no, that's it, he did nothing except defend them.

Makes me feel very not good that the BBC openly refers to trans people with slurs. If you weren’t aware, to call a trans person “biologically [their sex assigned at birth]” is a slur - it’s dehumanising and inaccurate!

If you're a parent with kids at school in Edinburgh it's time to get in touch with your school admin and make clear you will not accept them bullying trans kids out of education. This is cruel and discriminatory behaviour. Child cruelty. goodlawproject.org/what-have-i-...

We are on the cusp of AGI, definitely for real

🚨 NEW 🚨 Sign and share this letter to Ministers to express your business' or organisation's concerns with the EHRC's proposed Code of Practice www.transsolidarityalliance.com/businesses-o...

Jesus www.reuters.com/investigates...

Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...

Anyone interested in the reaction of queer authors to the Polari prize committee honouring an anti trans author would be well advised to look up the affair ignited by the shortlisting of a book called ‘The Man Who Would be Queen’ (by J Michael Bailey) for a Lambda Literary Award in 2004.

Great piece explaining the rationale behind the Polari Prize withdrawals and backlash. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Important thread from @sachacoward.bsky.social re impact and misrepresentation of the Polari story. 🫶💪🏳️‍⚧️

If you have never heard this album, it's one of the greatest of all time. Please listen ASAP! (preferably on #vinyl but anywhere will do)

What the actual??

JK Rowling has had her Linehan "chair" moment. It was bound to happen sooner or later.

"Describing Boyne’s proud bigotry and support for a hate campaign as just a ‘radically different position on substantive issues’ is insulting and greatly downplays the situation." Withdrawn: @vavapoetry.bsky.social, @jaseokundaye.bsky.social, and @aetwigg.bsky.social www.pajiba.com/miscellaneou...

The Polari Prize for LGBTQ+ Literature Faces Pushback Over Nomination of Self-Described TERF

Open letter on the Polari Prize longlist and the inclusion of John Boyne, who openly expresses his transphobic and misogynistic views. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Authors, if you feel safely able to, please consider signing this open letter to the Polari Prize

Labour’s school guidance is Section 28 all over again for LGBTQ+ people

The fight for trans safety is a fight for everyone’s safety – MPs must have the chance to debate it | Freddy McConnell

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Please sign this open letter from @prideineducation.bsky.social 🙏 You don’t have to be a teacher or educator to sign it! Sign here 👉 openletter.earth/the-urgent-n...

So, instead of editing out the 2 perpetrators they choose to edit out the person who objected to the broadcast www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Last chance to sign this open letter, which closes 9.00pm today 🤗 We already have over 1,250 signatures, which is fantastic! Once it closes I will print the whole thing out with all names and deliver to Bridget Phillipson. Thanks to all for your support 💪💪💪 docs.google.com/forms/d/180G...

‘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/

"The disparity is staggering: one side is throwing tantrums over colours on the pavement, the other is fighting for the bare minimum of dignity. And if your faith is shaken by a symbol of inclusion, it might not be as strong as you think." metro.co.uk/2025/07/08/w...

“In response to receiving this document, I did what the FA clearly haven’t: I actually spoke to trans men and transmasculine people Every single one said they disagreed with the way the declaration was worded.” I wrote about the FA banning trans men on the sly 👇 transwrites.world/fa-trans-men/

This is absolutely appalling.

This is not ‘a victory for common sense.’ It is censorship. It is cruelty. It is Section 28 all over again, only without an actual law. And we told you it was coming.

Trump officials ‘secretly’ changed US health data in ‘gender ideology’ crackdown, researchers allege www.euronews.com/hea... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Peter Hain says anti-apartheid campaigners would have been treated as terrorists under logic used to ban Palestine Action - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

This week the Lancet published landmark research investigating the death toll of Elon Musk's dismantling of USAID. 14 million lives projected to be lost by 2030. That's over 2.4 million dead men, women & children a year. Thanks to one man's venality & cruelty. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This FOI is absolutely damning - the levels of collusion are disgraceful.

Well done, @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social. 👏 Yet another human rights organisation #TheLemkinInstitute calls out the UK on trans and intersex rights following the Supreme Court ruling. www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale... They join: ILGA-Europe Human Rights Watch 18 UN Independent HR Experts

With 38 hrs to go to the EHRC consultation deadline I'm seeing posts from people feeling bad they're too stressed to engage. The GLP⬇️has removed all but the last step, a general comment box. This is a far easier task. I hope it helps those who want to, to get their voice heard without too much pain.

🚨One of the most terrifying elements of the Trump budget bill is NOT getting enough attention. The Bill will make ICE the biggest policing and incarceration agency in the US. Bigger than the FBI, with more jail space than the Federal Prison Bureau. It’s a budget for a police state.

“The organisation’s true agenda is, I believe, best described as ‘eliminationist’: seeking [to]… make transitioning so difficult, dangerous or pointless as to functionally eliminate trans people from public life and society.” Very powerful and well-written piece. Please do read. 👇

If you need to get out, don't feel any guilt about trying to make it happen.

"In this moment of global reaction, Australia has never felt so much like an island refuge. And I am deeply grateful for that. But I mourn the open-hearted country that I remember Britain being." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

OK folks, really need your help. Trans Pride NI is getting zero funding, nothing from the council or Belfast Pride and if they don't hit £5k, it won't happen. They're over £2k now. Can we get this to target? Please share. Thank you ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

Take a minute today to be silent. 9 years ago today, 49 lives were stolen and 53 injured at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. A hate crime that targeted LGBTQ+ and Latinx people. We remember them. Pride is survival. Pride is protest. Pride is remembrance. We fight on. #Pulse #NeverForget

Nine years ago, a gunman entered Pulse Nightclub & took the lives of 49 people, making it one of the deadliest acts of hate-fueled violence in U.S. history. With @equalityflorida.bsky.social, @equalityfed.bsky.social, & millions across the country, we call on our leaders to #HonorThemWithAction.

RIP Sly Stone. youtu.be/ihiqyTMcbPg?...

You can make a difference & stand up for progressive liberal values. All you need to do is add your pronouns to your bio & sign/share this petition, together with 31,116 other women. Take your power back!

We've made it easy to respond to tell the EHRC what you think of its wicked attempt to humiliate trans people. Please use, share in your networks, and allow us to contact you in the future. goodlaw.social/9e59e9

This should have been done a long time ago. www.theguardian.com/business/202...