"What if transition goals were less about looking a specific way, and more about becoming the kind of person that pushes open the doors of the cage so everyone can get out of it?" On 'transition goals' and what that could mean if we're brave enough.

We should also have a frank discussion about the gender-conservative craze seducing our mothers ;P They go online to these radical extremist sites like Mumsnet and get obsessed with their niche gender ideology to the point it's all they talk about!

This is such a good example of how women are rewarded for reinforcing conformity to gender as control. All that matters here is the optics of a conventional gendered woman supporting the norms. The fact that she didn't put any intellectual effort in doesn't contradict that, it underlines it.

There is a certain grim humour in seeing terfs saying how disappointed & sad they are in Hilary Cass and that she 'doesn't know what she's talking about' because the leaked interview shows her acknowledging that trans people might exist, even though she still thinks we're a problem.

Don't talk to journalists about DIY HRT.

Excellent thread. The issue for me is always that there is no group of people who acknowledge they are 'doing conversion therapy'. The people who do this stuff always disguise their acts & make opposition out to be a mere ideological disagreement. It's not, it's opposing abusive quackery.

I live for the day when cishet men are held to account for their emotional constipation, unresolved insecurity and absurd dominance displays, instead of just being called closet cases by people who are too cowardly to acknowledge they still think being gay is the most awful thing you can be.

When this #BBC article was first published, it accurately described Dr Beth Upton - the woman found to be harassed by Peggie - as a trans woman The piece was then scrubbed - replacing an accurate description with a transphobic slur instead of the language trans women use to describe themselves

I can't imagine this sour lot appealing to anyome, tbh.

I'm really proud of this. It's something I've been trying to articulate for a long time. Huge thanks to Forge for publishing it. 🧡

It's my dad's birthday. He was the first hero I had, and as I grew up I realised what a terrible human being he is. I am sad, because I'd like to be able to celebrate the man I thought he was when I was 8, and that man never existed.

Of course they put this behind a pay wall. “There are moments when I catch myself wishing she would just discover she wants to live as a boy,” says Ruby’s mum, “not because I doubt her identity but because I fear for her future in the UK." Please share. archive.is/newest/https...

One of my favourite ironies of surviving quiverfull crap is that the several children I bore to be part of god's right wing army are all lefties who all love and support their trans dyke parent and refuse to speak to their racist bigot grandfather. Congrats, fundies, you played yourselves.

God didn't give me enough for one of my babies and she had developmental delay because of it. What a skinflint. Also, he gave me a potentially cancerous lump that required I stop nursing another one of my babies, so his planning is also way off.

What I find so incredibly disingenuous about these people is that they would eat their own toes before improving the situation for women and others in regards to parental leave & other measures which might help those who wanted to nurse their babies. They just want to control the breeding stock.

In case you're as confused by the headlines in the UK media as I was, the outcome of the Peggie case is: The bigot nurse lost. It's still not lawful to harrass trans women. The court only agreed that the employer should have acted sooner to stop the harrassment.

I genuinely think one of my favourite things to see in passing when out and about is two men who are obviously together, holding hands and being lovingly affectionate. It still carries so much stigma, but it makes my heart glad every time. We need to see love lived to believe we can live it too.

I think what makes me so angry about these orgs excluding trans women isn't just the decisions themselves, it's the handwringing 'ally' language. "We stand with you!" Does it soothe your conscience as you watch trans folk get picked off as you 'stand'? What good is it to stand & do nothing?

It's not a coincidence that the statement GG issued will demonstrate to the girls who are allowed to stay that compliance is the highest virtue. That's the role for women. Non-conforming ones always have to be sacrificed to enforce the obedience, willing or not, of the rest. It's deliberate.

The only *logic* in excluding trans girls and young women from Girl Guides is if you don't believe they are girls & young women. If that's the case, say it. If that's not the case, don't do it. Claiming to be inclusive & also sad about pushing out a marginalised group is incoherent cowardice.

I note they still want the free labour of trans people to run the organisation while excluding trans girls and young women from participating on the basis of pressure from bigoted pressure groups. This is such a cowardly, mealy-mouthed statement.

Painfully middle-class professional whiner, Maya Forstater, has always poured scorn on period poverty. Not getting a contract renewed because of her tantrums about pronouns is a 'human rights' issue. Youngsters on benefits making do with bloody bog roll stuffed in underwear is just tough luck.

However bad the dysphoria I feel about my sexed anatomy, I push against the tendency to indulge misogynist language about it. It's an easy shortcut to perceived 'masculinity' but I don't want to be the kind of guy who talks about female anatomy with disrespect, even if mine causes me distress.

I've been struck recently by how many slurs directed to trans folk, whether trans women or trans men, are based in misogyny. Slurs based on body parts, and rooted in disdain for both women's sexuality & bodily autonomy. On trans men, the purpose is to diminish, on trans women, it's to demonise.

GC Feminists don't like acknowledging it, but every single tactic they use mirrors prolife rhetoric. 'I couldn't get sterilised but children can if they say they're trans!' = 'In one part of the hospital the wanted baby is alive and in another, they're killing the unwanted baby on a whim!'

It's a good barometer of how horrific things are for trans folk in the UK that, for a long time, Linehan's belligerent obsession, seen here in full technicolour, meant that most GCs kept a wide berth from him, but are now feeling safe enough from consequences to tweet support for the hateful fool.

🧵/ Today a damning parliamentary report on the state of palliative care services in England was published. Services are patchy, underfunded & “ill-equipped” to address end-of-life needs. Bereavement support is “frequently inaccessible. The palliative care workforce is in a “critical” situation”.

I don't think we're going to have a successful Amazon boycott till we break their monopoly on indie books. They have a clever strategy to build their monopoly, which any functional government would have banned: if you want your indie book listed in Kindle Unlimited, you have to be exclusive. 🧵

This is the sort of study that, if GCs were honestly concerned about trans youth, would reassure. However, they think the high percentage of folks who stay on HRT *is* the problem. It's not *just* that GCs leverage detransition - it's that they also consider successful transition a problem.

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. All women — Indigenous, sex worker, racialised, disabled, trans, queer, elder, maternal, single, married, childless, religious, poor etc — deserve to flourish in a world without men and governments policing their lives.

Weird how if you’re trans and 17 and seeking gender care you’re a “child,” but if you’re assaulted by a 57-year-old man you’re an “activist”

Today I was thinking about 'lefty' GCs regularly dismissing violence against trans women as 'just because they're SWs' and saying to trans women who disclose assault, "Well, you wanted to be a woman". I really think transmisogyny is the way 'GC feminists' give vent to their low view of *all* women.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Fascist Reform leader Richard Tice would get REALLY upset if you shared this widely on all forms of social media so lots of people can keep it and bring it out before the next election to show that he is as big a liar as Keir Starmer. So please don't, he would be *very* upset.

In response to the laughable fiction presented in the letter sent by Sex Matters to BBC Board members, we have sent a rebuttal letter to clarify the real facts, rather than their Orwellian tale.

Ellie Chowns, "People are frustrated with the problems of the country" "It's inequality, not immigration, at the root of that" "There are very irresponsible, dark forces, whipping up hatred"

The local garden centre religious statues do not play.

I just had my heart dragged from my body, shattered into stardust, and placed back into me joyful, full, and raw. I watched Come See Me in the Good Light with my beloved. I regret nothing.

Personal bodily autonomy is an absolute, and every effort to curtail it inevitably becomes mired in regressive conservativism. It's the basis for all appropropriate consent scenarios, including healthcare, work, & personal relationships. Not your body? Accept that your opinion has no authority.

Let me tell you as someone who spent a decade supplying locums to the NHS why Streeting’s plan is awful 🧵

I’m so fucking angry. This is exactly what I’ve warned all you continual supporters of Labour about for years. They have NOTHING for you- only threats that what follows is worse, as they appeal actively to the supporters of those evil policies. Leave this rancid, ideologically hollowed out party.

As a newcomer to Canada, discovering land acknowlegements has been humbling, and a really great way of keeping in mind my privileges and responsibilities, especially as a Brit.

Last night was particularly bad for night terrors, to the point where our little black cat came and soothed me like a gentle, nurturing sweetheart, with no velvet paw swiping sass at all. Of course, emotionally the day after is usually the pits and she's now Madam Snooty McJudgystare again.

"If trans women are women, why not just say [pregnant] women?" Transphobes love to demonise trans women as 'pushing themselves into women's spaces' but this is literally cis bigots completely vanishing pregnant trans masc and enby ppl, and making out that trans women are who this language is for. 🙄

No celebration of the bravery this girl had and fight for a world where she could have lived as herself but instead regret of affirmation and judgement for her “foolish“ choice to be her in this world and if only she had been more sheltered and controlled maybe she would be alive

We all live with this knowledge of the risks we take and the bravery it takes to be ourselves and we’re being confronted with a horrific scenario where the idea is that us getting punished for it is only natural, nothing to be done about it but to keep us in the closet

I've made considerable content speaking about shifting the negative perception of masculinity by being a decent masculine person & it's always depressing when trans masc folk run headlong into a version of red-pill misogyny. We make a change by being the change, not by whining 'Not All Trans Mascs!'

My dad giggles as he says the very worst things, even while he's angrily ranting. He once told me about a gay-bashing he joined as though it was a funny anecdote. I used to think he changed, but the truth is, I just became an adult who rejected his kind of manhood and now see who he always was.

Enjoyed this. What good does it do to point out that cis people sometimes get procedures that are almost identical to some trans healthcare, when it's specifically trans healthcare that is under threat? Do we seriously think noticing irony is the lever that will tip the scales towards equity?