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BREAKING: WIN 🏳️‍⚧️ 💥 The High Court just refused Sex Matters' permission to ban trans women from the Hampstead ponds. We're relieved that the ponds can remain a place where trans people have always belonged. Thank you to the all the people that pushed back against division.

And so continues the trend of Reform absorbing the absolute worst elements of the Tory party

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

Never forget Farage and Badenoch promised us ICE in Britain.

genuinely stunning image

URGENT 🚨 We have just one week to stop Sex Matters infiltrating a vote to ban conversion therapy. We must stop them. Use our tool and tell the MPs to stand up for what's right ✊ https://goodlaw.social/945cd5

This seems like the kind of action a regime takes in the hope of ensuring its survival, but then it serves to hasten its own demise.

Entirely typical of the BBC's treatment of trans people that it presents Michael Foran, who is literally on the advisory Board of the Sex Matters hate group, as an independent expert.

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

“Time to withdraw from Trident”, now an immensely Sensible thing, a mere six years after every single one of the nation’s most raging blowhards was flailing and rolling gargling in mortal terror on the floor at the idea of not smashing the nuclear button.

The idea that a trans woman’s presence in a woman’s changing room denies dignity to women in the space is such heteronormative nonsense. Pure panic. No danger present, only phobia. What makes women intrinsically ‘safe’ to women? It assumes all cis women are straight and all trans women predators.

"Nadhim Zahawi, a few years ago you tweeted: 'I'm not British born Mr Nigel Farage, I'm as British you are. Your comments are offensive and racist. I would be frightened to live in a country run by you'" Nadhim Zahawi has just joined Reform.

The Vagina Museum is a proudly trans inclusive organisation 🏳️‍⚧️ We won't be silenced with our commitment to telling the entire story about anatomy, reproductive justice and bodily autonomy! Trans people have always existed and will always exist.

“God damn them all.”

Trump started it. Reform and Tories are at it too. And Labour already heading in that direction. All cruel, potentially deadly and does nothing to fix the cost of living crisis.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

This is wild, as Trump himself is not talking about this in terms of morality at all, and is instead being very upfront about the fact its naked American imperialism. He would probably see a defence of it in terms of morality as a sign of weakness.

Mike Tapp is giving his best "fascist collaborator" here

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

Despite what we are often told, this line from Mamdani’s inauguration speech is what true pragmatism actually looks like: “Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”

Fascinating thread but I don't feel it's that complicated? This is what happens when you go out of your way to performatively kick your own coalition in the hope of impressing voters who never liked you to start with.

Just donated, it's a very worthy campaign, and a really good use of a Christmas message by a political party leader, rather than vague niceties.

This gives me real hope. In the last 24 hours you've donated over £20k to @calaisappeal.bsky.social Please do watch my Christmas message here: youtu.be/lopMMkz0law?... and donate here: www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

The UK will celebrate net emigration and depopulation come 2027. And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done. The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.

Those people are not terrorists and we all know it including Labour MPs.

Glad for Unison members that they will no longer have an uber Starmer loyalist as their leader!

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

The real victim at the centre of this absurd case is very clearly Dr Beth Upton To witness the way in which she’s been dehumanised and vilified by Peggie and their (Sex Matters) legal team, the tribunal judge, the British media, and UK politicians has been beyond horrifying Solidarity Beth

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

▪️ Lift the puberty blockers ban ▪️ Reject EHRC guidance ▪️ Legislate to ensure single-sex spaces are trans-inclusive by default. Posting this from my speech at the Trans Day of Remembrance vigil, because yet again trans women and girls are being excluded from their spaces.

The Express is furious about this because the moment you show those who repeat anti-immigration rhetoric the real human stories their narrative collapses. The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family. And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.

Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

for the record everyone should be mad *at the government* for this

Evil, evil, evil people.

Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March. Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday! Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Imagine being turned away from a bathroom, hospital, or cinema for “not looking female enough”. The leaked EHRC guidance could do just that. Along with my Lib Dem colleagues, I’ve written to the Minister calling for new, inclusive, practical guidance that protects everyone’s rights.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK

There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.

Its quite striking to me the similarity with the no more jury judgements thing Labour wants to do how they say “criminals shouldn’t get juries“ when the reality is that its “people wouldn’t get juries“

Just constantly accusing various sections of the public of "gaming the system" seems to be the overriding comms and policy strategy of this wretched Labour government.

and we all have to pretend that this is what Gordon Brown's government had intended the law to be for the last 15 years

Interesting that re transgender rights, the only party to get an noticeable uplift compared to what they are getting as a minimum across the different issues are the Scottish Greens. Despite the Tories making it a culture war wedge, it's actually their worst issue.

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

This by Mahmood is frankly not only disgusting, but also massively disingenuous. It equates seeking asylum with illegality, there's nothing illegal about seeking asylum no matter the route. It ignores that Labour's policies penalise those in need of protection, and plays to hard right rhetoric.

The BBC was founded to “provide impartial news”. If it's going to be the UK's biggest media organisation, it has to do its job right. Hold the BBC to account 👇 https://action.goodlawproject.org/tell-the-BBC-to-stop-attacking-trans-people?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=socials

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com: