THREAD: The *tone* of Streeting’s excuses for continuing to harm trans children with his puberty-blocker ban is very revealing. It reveals the government’s core strategy for imposing ever further restrictions on trans people’s lives while protecting transphobes’ hatred… 1/8

Asking for a friend: can anyone recommend an LGBT-friendly counsellor around the Monaghan/Cavan area who works with teenagers?

...or that people are entitled to privacy and dignity. And if you break open the Pandora's Box that some people aren't deserving of certain rights and freedoms, aren't entitled to privacy, because you find them icky and don't like what they do with their freedoms, you've just let fascism in.

You don't get to erode trust in science and medicine, refuse to listen to experts in the field and trans people ourselves (which as the sole stakeholders in our own healthcare, you should), and not expect that you've opened the door to the likes of RFK Jr and other cranks and crackpots.

This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....

If any political group is willing to sacrifice LGBTQIA folks to get ahead they will sacrifice anyone, and I will not support them.

truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself

Mic drop.

You know, we aren't too far from the writer of Father Ted becoming a Born Again Christian, right?

You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.

Sometimes, you live long enough to become the thing you used to parody...

Graham Linehan has argued for years that "trans activists" are the establishment that he is fighting against, yet, when he incites violence against trans people, the whole UK establishment - the prime minister, health secretary, Met police chief and the entire Uk Press - mobilise to defend him.

Then the Met Police Chief should be immediately removed from his role. The police are there to ENFORCE THE LAW not decide what is or isn’t against the law. Gl1nners tweets called for violence against a minority, there is no ambiguity. That is against the law. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

People are saying that it was disproportionate to have 5 officers turn up to arrest Graham Linehan, but he actually released his own recording of the event, which shows that he entirely lost the run of himself in the moment, and it was probably good that 5 officers were on hand until he calmed down.

Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.

"Thank God the Catholic Church never had with the police the special relationship granted to trans activists." - Graham Linehan. Have you ever read such offensive, ahistorical bollocks in your life? What a slap in the face to all the victims of systemic child abuse in Ireland.

Given that Graham Linehan blogged about it, when he arrived back in Heathrow last night he was arrested over this tweet and two others. He has to show up for another interview in October. He also ended up in hospital with high blood pressure and is banned from tweeting.

"I hope you see justice one day." Bookmark this.

This is a cruel policy that makes no sense, it threatens to criminalize a vulnerable group for no reason, and it shows Sinn Féin up for the political windsock that they are. A party that changes its principles according to the geography of an island can’t be trusted. www.europesays.com/2367033/

I do wish people would treat transphobia as the serious red flag it is, because if someone is repeating bullshit pseudoscience talking points from right wing cranks, that's just as bad as conceding to anti-vax nonsense and undermining trust in science and medicine, alarm bells should be sounding!

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

I am once again BEGGING people Leftists to stop doing this. When you fat-shame a racist, they may or may not care, but your fat friends see your post, and they certainly do care, because you're telling them how you really see them. People who enjoy bullying like this don't belong on the Left.

I think 100% of liberals who complain about trans people not voting for their guy wouldn't vote for their guy if he was campaigning to remove their own rights. Literally not one of them would. Empathyless inconsistent selfish losers

People forget, but Twitter was also terrible at moderation before Musk when it came to trans people, allowing the most obscenely hateful rhetoric against them, while suspending them for the mildest of comebacks. Almost like it's mostly cis people with a bias in charge, isn't it?

“You enter legally, and suddenly, because of someone else’s whim, you’re illegal. It doesn’t make sense.” Trump is running the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.

There is a campaign to make sure you don't hear trans voices in the news: it's an actual organisation in the media "Seen in Journalism" dedicated to making sure there aren't trans stories in the news, that if a trans person features in a story they MUST be described in certain derogatory terms.

For someone who founded "Polari Prize: The UK's LGBTQ+ book awards" his views are very strange. Perhaps he assumed the Q was for queen or something. I don't know. x.com/ALLIANCELGB/...

Information relating to the M&S complaint, reportedly from the trans woman whom the complaint was about. Almost everything claimed in recent articles is extremely inaccurate. 1/

** The Official crowdfunder link for my case commenced in the European Court of Human Rights ** A legal first: trans and non-binary lawyers leading the case: Oscar Davies, Olivia Campbell-Cavendish and me as client. Trans Legal Clinic in partnership with W-Legal. www.translegalclinic.com/mccloud

This is one of the most pathetic UK governments to ever exist.

Graham Linehan getting more and more irate about JK Rowling not supporting or mentioning him has made the news in the UK. It's the definition of cishet, male "gender critical" privilege, to have your whining about a "gender critical" woman not "supporting" you reported as news.

The Polari Prize is fundamentally damaged, because Paul Burston, the founder of the prize, is a "gender critical" movement supporter. No trans person can accept or take part in this award as long as Paul - or anyone with so-called "gender critical beliefs" - remains a part of it in any capacity.

To so many cis people support for trans people is just a vibe rather than actually standing up for actual trans rights when they are under attack

It's three years this week since the UK media reported that 1000 families were going to sue the Tavistock (Gender Identity Clinic) for medical mispractice. There wasn't one "family", let alone 1000. It was clear, at the time, that it was bullshit propaganda, and even clearer now. 1/

Here is a high profile "Gender Critical" activist confirming what is obvious: Paul Burston, founder of the Polari Prize, is a (low profile) "gender critical" activist. To accept a prize from a GC activist in 2025 is a huge slap in the face to the trans community. It gets worse... 1/

Paul Burston is the founder of the Polari Prize and a supporter of LGB Alliance. Malcom Clark is a founder of LGB Alliance, and he is currently using transphobic slurs and calling trans women who have an issue with the Polari Prize "freaks." That is what you support if you support the Polari Prize.

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

Paul Burston founded the Polari Prize. His name appears on a 2018 petition supporting LGB Alliance, a transphobic organisation, located in 55 Tufton Street, a home for British Right Wing thinktanks. Anyone who remains on the longlist for the Polari Prize is saying "fuck you" to the trans community.

The Polari Prize issued a statement saying it believes its longlistees can hold “different positions on substantive issues.” This is like long listing a racist with authors of color then telling everyone it’s a mere “different position on a substantive issue”. Trans people are a fact. Not an “issue”

We're now at a total of a quarter of the longlisted authors choosing to withdraw from the Polari Prize this year.

The founder of the Polari Prize follows a who's-who of British "gender criticals" on Twitter, because of course he does.

On the last day of testimony in the Sandie Peggie tribunal, her legal team were desperate to show that others support SP in the hospital & are "too afraid" to come forward, so they called a witness from a GC org to report an anonymous phonecall, and their other witness didn't show in the end!

Joanna Cherry showed up to the tribunal to support this woman today

Republican women would rather die than admit they were wrong on abortion bans. It's mind boggling. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

When Rowling says "men", she means trans women, and this tweet endangers all women. It had multiple replies where "decent men" and "real men" were being urged to commit vigilante violence. And when they do commit that violence? "Nothing to do with us," will be the line. 1/

seven years on the dot.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.