So once again PN have shown their arses so a reminder that if you want news relevant to trans people from UK based outlets, @transsafety.network, @transwrites.world, @whatthetrans.com and @wearequeeraf.com all exist and do much better reporting with far less resources.

It's autumn, time to wear my new tights! 🍄

"But they're family" fuck off, that person fundamentally disagrees with my existence as a neurodivergent, queer, disabled person. They think that I shouldn't exist, or they promote harmful anti-science rubbish that harms my communities. My life and mental wellbeing are worth more than their biases.

'centrists', liberals, whatever you want to call them who think that facts will beat out fascism and that science will win the day should be reminded of things like this they all keep saying transphobia is 'reasonable concerns' or 'common sense' while completely ignoring what scientists have to say

My GP is refusing me a flu jab. According to the NHS website I'm eligible for it. The message from my GP literally says "we've added you to the enquiry list. Someone will contact you if they decide you're eligible" what the hell.

Sorry but are we really supposed to believe that these tory mps defecting to reform, are the ones to bring about meaningful change, when they’ve been part of the demise of the country? They’re scrambling to save their career not the country.

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Or you could actually do your fucking job and moderate the racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, ableism on here, including the multiple death threats people have shared with you in replies to this and other posts. And maybe stop banning queer people for things that don't go against the rules.

The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified

The way that e.g. "not wanting a transphobic candidate" is being widely portrayed as "wanting a perfect candidate who doesn't exist" is so indicative of the do-nothing centrist mindset btw.

Graham Linehan’s arrest isn’t about a ‘joke’ – it’s about incitement to violence against trans people in an already hostile climate By Philippa East @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

“Overall, Gavin Newsom supports the LGBT+ community” I’m going to stop you right there You can’t round up on this shit

Bottom line is that anti trans politics is part of fascist politics and you can’t fight fascism by taking on and surrendering to its ideas

You can't just "wish ill" upon someone. That's not allowed. You have to use your vast fortune and influence to shape public opinion and law against the millions of people upon whom you wish ill.

they should suspend people for wishing JK Rowling well, tbh

A thread worth reading

Deliberately misgender trans people? That's transphobic. Defend someone who is deliberately nisgendering trans people and saying it isn't transphobic? Guess what: that's also transphobic.

And I’m very, very sorry for Boyne’s sexual assault ordeal. I was also sexually assaulted as a child. I’ve tried to use the experience to drive my compassion & empathy for other queer kids like I was, cis or trans. The world is hard, transphobia makes it harder for everyone. I wish he could see that

Opining about the male loneliness crisis while women are losing access to reproductive rights, the maternal mortality rate is rising, and women are being forced out of the workforce is a real choice. It is a choice to ignore the deaths of women to promote the perceived victimhood of men.

Stop saying Starmer is implementing Trump policies, he's not. He started months before the US election and told us he would when campaigning. Streeting met with transphobic groups 4 months before the US election and extended the PB ban 3 months before. This isn't Trump, this is Labour.

As the mother of a young trans person, Alice, who took her life in 2022 aged just 20, and as an ex-NHS doctor, I am struggling to find the words to express my dismay and sadness at this story. Whatever happened to do no harm? 🧵

I did write out a multiple post response to this idiocy, but I think it's just easier to say that Giles is a perfect example of white male privilege.

The appalling thing about the “LGB Without the T” gays isn’t just that they abandoned the most unfairly demonized people now when all of our support is so needed but that they still pat themselves on the back for being out-and-proud freedom fighters 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 Sorry, no. You’re collaborators 👎🏼

Another open letter. This time to M&S. I don’t have any nostalgic desire to protect this brand. Other undies are available. And back in the 70s my local store had fuzzy, mustard yellow pillars that gave me static shocks every time I went near them. Anyone else?

Anyone talking about the 90s like it was a feminist haven free of a manosphere has clearly forgotten about what the 90s was actually like or never bothered to study it

if you’re a straight dude trying to figure out how to get laid, the people you should be listening to are your friends who are women, and if you don’t have any friends who are women, you should probably be focusing on solving that problem before you try to solve the getting laid problem.

i really hope adrian and ellie lose badly. i want the result to be embarrassing for them.

Pedro Pascal spoke up for trans rights and has been targeted with a smear campaign as a result. False allegations lobbed by TERFs have since become a meme and entered the YouTube podcast sphere—not unlike the previous anti-MeToo smear campaigns I’ve covered. spitfirenews.com/p/pedro-pasc...

Updated: Starmer’s Labour: The most anti-LGBT+ govt since Thatcher. A list of the awful things they've done and said regarding LGBT+ people, especially trans people.

This statement could not be more arrogant, tone deaf, or self-serving. You were not in a room 'engaging', you were at a party socializing. You were not being 'visible', you were props in a photo op. You were not being 'listened to', you were being patronized. Pathetic.

Labour’s Section 28 moment reveals the ugliness and dishonesty of its authoritarian transphobia…

The UK spends less on welfare than almost any EU country & yet Labour have allowed for the “scroungers” rhetoric to mask their cruelty. Again. Brits need to learn that they too can have nice things. They just need to stop falling for the most obvious propaganda & stop voting for neoliberals.

Darkly hilarious that multiple Labour-affiliated organisations are currently unable to function, due to the lack of legal clarity following a ruling the party's leader (and its Minister for Equality) welcomed for providing 'clarity'. 🤦🏼‍♀️

The term "Genuinely disabled" is an ableist dogwhistle. All disabled people are "genuinely disabled".

If your defence of Labour's anti-disabled, anti-immigration, anti-trans/non-binary, anti-human rights, anti-international law policy agenda is "yeah, but Reform", you're saying marginalised groups' rights don't matter, only whether they should lose them to the hangman or the firing squad. #r4today

Keir Starmer is racist, transphobic. Islamophobic and ableist. It’s okay to say it. He is the Prime Minister for bigots. No one else matters.

Some cis gay men say “trans men being gay undermine same-sex attraction” without realising how they sound just like the “letting gays marry will undermines the institution of marriage” crowd. If you feel your sexuality is threatened by how others define theirs, please get a decent therapist. Thanks.

this is a common lie pushed by rape and abuse apologists. dropped charges does not mean the system finds someone innocent.

Sorry it's a bit late but...

I know someone of you use them... @roll20.net & @drivethrurpg.com have decided to be nazi collaborators.

The idea that Rowling just has a controversial opinion is wrong and dangerous, too. She’s one of the world’s leading transmisogynists—a bigot stoking violence—and she delights in endangering women. It should be socially unacceptable to display Harry Potter merch.

It can't be stressed enough not only how hard it is to access PIP, but also that it is not an "out of work benefit", making Starmer's defence that wants more people returning to the "dignity" of work by cutting it utterly ignorant and offensive. share.google/35VLynC4Mz0j...

Streeting described the Cass Review as a "Watershed" moment for gender services for young people. My peer-reviewed research on the appalling effects of his puberty-blocker ban should be a watershed moment for this policy. If he doesn't end it now he is responsible for the harm being caused. 1/4

Angela Rayner says that Labour MPs who rebel against the Welfare Bill will lose the whip There are 403 Labour MPs Any Labour MP who votes for withdrawing PIP support from the disabled as outlined in this welfare bill is an absolute disgrace

I want to see non-disabled people shouting about the disability benefit cuts. If you spoke out about trans rights, abortion rights, or migrant rights in recent weeks? Good on you! If you aren’t doing the same for disabled people, ask yourself why.

Rebecca Paul MP — who at the Women and Equalities Committee last week spoke so much about women's rights (in order to undermine trans people's) — is now speaking in Parliament against the decriminalisation of abortion. You couldn't make it up. These people are not feminists.