"Women's health clinics offering breast screenings would be unable to provide this service to trans women. This is despite the fact that trans women who have had more than five years of Gender-Affirming Hormons Therapy (GHAT) are forty-seven times more likely to develop breast cancer than men"

I'm not joking about this at all: if Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Rupert Lowe etc. were on stage or TV doing all their Rivers of Blood stuff and Mr. Blobby came out and did blobby things at them their reactions would destroy their political careers.

The right in this country have totally lost it, a complete and utter collapse of any kind of cordon sanitaire with the far right in favour of gutter racism. It's been slow, but the grinding move from "anti-white racism is real" from far right agitprop to Times leader is complete.

i wrote this a week ago

This is the thing that's been getting me re: the judge's remarks. "Criminals are known to lie and fake injuries, so police are justified in ignoring a slurring guy who clearly can't sit upright's claim that he was stabbed, just because he's considered a suspect" is vile

the post itself is also not even close to @disrightsuk.bsky.social's actual statement, which was pretty good, centring the intersection of disability and transness, and adamantly refusing to pit marginalised people against each other: bsky.app/profile/disr...

Henry Nowak died because police are bastards. Racist opportunists who do everything in their power to ignore police bastardry when it's turned on someone from a different heritage to them are full of it.

It just feels absolutely mad to me that we're being asked to believe the police would have treated that poor boy any better if he were black

Red Wall discourse has so clouded Labour’s mind that they’re sleepwalking into doing to university towns what Thatcher did to mining towns

An avowed white supremacist political organisation is currently leading in the UK opinion polls. The UK media enabled this.

an hour after this was posted, a labour minister told parliament that customers should "alert member of staff" if a trans person walks into the "wrong toilet"

Yeah, if there’s ever any accountability for the behaviour of two different British governments here, then a whole lot of important people are *at very least* going down in history as willing collaborators with genocidal fascism, if not going to actual prison. So none of them will budge an inch.

fuck absolutely everyone involved in getting us to this point, trans women are women, trans men are men, non binary identities are valid and sex and gender can both be changed "biologically" if any such meaning can be usefully attributed to that phrase

I think it’s great the global climate took another hit so the BBC could produce this slop showing infamous BBFs Churchill and Gandhi

✋🏻 Is it because our press is contemptuous of their opinions, the NHS is killing their friends, Government is drowning them in debt, Local Authorities have sold off their spaces, Ministers are in bed with the AI that will take their jobs, we sold off their homes, and the world is burning?

The hoopla about social media is an excellent example. No one is even asking whether older people are radicalised, or damaged more, or in greater number, than digital natives. We just kneejerk demand the removal of the autonomy of younger people.

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This is something i woulld like non UK folk to understand about the culture and cult of Gender Criticals here - they have so much more free time than anyone else and are incredibly over entitled. They are incredibly bourgeois too, shitting on workers. Its not a grass roots working class anything.

A million views on X for this video where someone harasses an innocent and polite M&S employee about changing rooms. It’s a horrible, nasty society the gender criticals are trying to create.

Palantir are able to embrace employing neurodivergents because neoliberal neurodiversity inclusion logic fits neatly with their far right techno-feudalist politics. This is the same productivist inclusion logic being embraced in most big businesses (universities, banks, etc.).

We haven't had to fire any shots so it's not obvious but a blockade of this magnitude would generally be considered an act of war. We did not do this in the 1962 missile crisis, we allowed ships not carrying weapons to proceed to Cuba

Very good article about Britain’s upcoming bathroom ban and the erosion of British democracy. If they can do it to us, they can do it to anyone!

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At some point people are going to need to come to terms with the fact that the aim of Labour Together was to restore and solidify the party as a fiefdom for pigs, slobs and worms; that it succeeded fully in that goal; and that every person who remains in or affiliated with the party is irredeemable.

Beyond hideous, what is being done to trans people on the UK - by the so-called EHRC, the so-called Labour Party and the so-called justice system.

There we have it - you have to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces (so maybe avoid having them if you can). A bathroom ban from people who recognise that they’re doing a bathroom ban, and feel guilty about it. Shameful. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Centre-to-centre-left politicians and journalists need to get it into their heads that immigration doesn't mean immigration. Reduce it to zero and Reform won't be unfurling Mission Accomplished banners at flat-roofed pubs.

Labour and the British state remain addicted to massive overreach that's impossible to enforce, which of course leaves the door open to the dream of centrists everywhere: toilet vigilantes.

I thought it couldn't be as bad as it sounds in this article but it absolutely is. Worse, even. "Replace the brunette..." blog.youtube/news-and-eve...

"In YouTube Shorts, a new “Remix” option will let users write a prompt to remix a creator’s video by changing its style or even adding themselves into the video, without changing the basic context of the video." Only fascists will use this feature and only fascists will enjoy watching.

Funny how there's always a reliable guard of MPs ready to go whenever gambling restrictions get tabled, isn't it?

Fascinating this MP wants instrusive checks on people to browse the internet but doesn't want it for gambling because it would be bad for the animal cruelty industry.

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This is so bleak, ie take away our desire for (affordable, generic) food so that we can focus on buying expensive consumer products. www.ft.com/content/5ffb...

The history of asylum and refuge in the UK for the past thirty years is such a blot on our national conscience, and such a powerful obstacle to all our aspirations to be a decent and humanitarian society

SICKOS

This is one of the things I *hate* about the UK. We have some absolutely fucking incredible people working in our media, not just the creatives writing things but the people putting the nuts and bolts together and it's like the government just never invests in it.

Bro is just like me…

Starmer (soulless Alan Partridge voice): Think about a football in a pint. That's the economy.

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They're just straight up calling autism a social contagion now. Exactly the same thing they did to trans people.

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