Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Pretty sure the disabled and trans communities would disagree with you.

"How many trans people have you seen on the BBC in the last 5 years?" "How many trans kids/families have thanked you for getting the Tavistock closed down?" "Name me one Olympic medal winning trans athlete" Simple questions, all with the same answer, yet never asked.

Like and share this if you've received online threats of violence for being trans, or supporting trans people. I have.

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Seeing British centrists celebrate what happened in the USA last night and pretending they wouldn't have all been cheering for Cuomo is pretty funny stuff.

Brilliant 🧵

Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR

It's cool and all that Brianna Wu finally recognizes that her TERF buddies are snakes, but she spent months cheerleading genocide and where's her apology for that? She spent weeks calling an Asian woman racist names on social media and said it was okay because her husband is Asian.

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

200 billion dollar valuation btw💀💀💀

Almost 60,000 women have signed this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social women to say that the transphobes do not speak for them. Meanwhile the Daily Express front-pages seven transphobes, falsely claiming that they “represent women”. If they do not represent you. Please sign. notinourname.org.uk

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

Link has helped me with basically anything I’ve ever tried to do on this platform- he’s a genuinely good guy and this is such despicable behavior by a skin thinned CEO who has convinced herself she’s the smartest person in the room

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i feel like the bluesky team, or at least maybe jay in particular, has an attitude that everyone hates them forever irredeemably even though most people i've spoken to about this are disappointed, upset, and bewildered, with a strong sentiment that we'd just like them to stop fucking around already.

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...