At this point, I genuinely believe the entire public is being actively gaslit by both the media, and Esther Ghey herself, into forgetting that Brianna Ghey was murdered, by people she knew from school, in real life, who were partly influenced by transphobia, fuelled by the media and politicians.

A new study of 445 adolescents treated at pediatric gender clinics in Canada found that after a mean 2.4 years, 94.6% still identified as trns. Of the 353 who started hormonal treatments, 1.1% discontinued them. www.jahonline.org/article/S105...

The Pod Save America bros hosted one of the most transphobic columnists in mainstream media for a friendly chat. *groan*

Discrimination based on gender identity or expression is illegal in New York City. Trans New Yorkers are protected by law. Our City will protect your rights, defend your humanity and stand beside you without hesitation.

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.

The Code gives gender-critical belief proactive protection: do not presume animus. Gender reassignment gets reactive protection: justify your presence, then complain after exclusion. That is not protection; it is a hierarchy that downgrades trans people legal protections.

🚨 EHRC guidance update: Polite exclusion is still exclusion. This CoP is about as unfair and unworkable as before, with only small tweaks. Clearly many service providers will just go gender neutral to avoid the headache, but this risks pushing trans people yet further out of public life.

So the single-sex spaces guidance was too politically toxic to publish before the elections, but now Labour has taken a kicking it is suddenly useful again. That is not leadership. It is throwing trans people into the culture-war machine and hoping the tabloids clap.

#OtD 10 May 1933 German Nazis held their first book-burning. In Berlin they burned the library of the Sexology Institute, founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, which supported LGBT+ rights. Joseph Goebbels declared: "No to decadence and moral corruption!" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1131...

A win! Pride flag returning to Stonewall National Monument.

"Orbán’s Hungary has been the model for the global fascist assault on democracy. Maybe it can also serve as a model for its defeat." Important piece from Jason Stanley for Zeteo on the big story of the day:

Orban’s defeat shows that when we stand together against the politics of hate and division, hope wins and the far right friends of Farage can be defeated.

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth. goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

Good to see Guardian following up Democracy for Sale’s story about Labour Together paying a PR firm to investigate journalists Key point: confirms our reporting McSweeney knew what was going on When will Labour Together come clean about what happened? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone. He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein We have published it in full. www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...

"Merrick Garland had these files for four f**king years!" From the new 'We're Not Kidding', Jennifer Welch (@ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social) and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social slam the Democrats for not releasing the Epstein files during Joe Biden's presidency. Watch here: zeteo.com/p/jennifer-w...

I can confirm that Sex Matters has been refused permission to bring its anti-democratic, exclusionary, and bigoted challenge to the inclusive space at Hampstead Ponds. More to follow.

Jones: All you do is keep people fearful because you get paid 45 million a year to keep people fearful so they don’t pay attention to the CEOS taking their healthcare. You don’t care about the American people. You want them to be afraid of immigrants because all you have is fear.

In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.

The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood. Scum.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor

Leaked audio from Cass talking to NHS Sheffield. drive.proton.me/urls/EPMR96E... Leak is thanks to Trans Kids Deserve Better www.instagram.com/reel/DSf3rqb...

EXCLUSIVE The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”. Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights

The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations! His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind. It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.

At first I was disappointed with her. Now I’m just appalled.

1/🧵 I am viewing a never-before-seen file on “gender reassignment” or trans inclusion policy at the National Archives, Kew. The Supreme Court should start sweating. A bagful of receipts!

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...

Well now that parts of the Epstein Files are finally being released we know why friends of Donald Trump have been fighting non stop to suppress them. Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, and Peter Thiel were all taking pedophile island vacations

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

Next at #TeenVogueSummit: @thevivllainous.bsky.social is taking the stage to chat with Politics Editor @leximcmenamin.com and Editor-in-Chief @versharma.bsky.social 📣 Revisit our cover story with Vivian ⬇️: www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...

Model Vivian Wilson addressed the right-wing myth that trans people are violent, online harassment, and her NYFW debut at Teen Vogue Summit: "I'm not going to shoot anybody, I'm a model." More details. ⬇️

Lush has launched a trans flag bath bomb to help support transgender and gender-diverse people around the world. 75% of the sale price of the Lush Liberation vegan bath bomb will be donated to organisations that advocate for transgender rights, including TransActual, My Generation and TENI

Lemkin Institute release, Statement on the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission: Violation of the Paris Principles and erosion of protections for transgender and intersex people. Read it here ✊🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 bit.ly/EHRCUK

Did you know James Dobson funded TERFs? So happy to hear that James Dobson is dead. www.transadvocate.com/fake-radical...

The report gives evidence of people: - Choosing between going to work or their mental health & dignity - Outed by insensitive employers - Excluded from previous safe spaces - Harassed for following ‘the guidance’ - Harassed for not following ‘the guidance’ - Threatened, bullied and harassed

He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...

And let me be clear -- I wish on JK Rowling everything that she wishes upon trans people.

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

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