@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish). Zack is spot on.

Starmer on Tuesday: "We must stand against racism" Starmer on Wednesday: "Human rights laws are stopping us sending people to face torture so we need to rethink them." Labour on Tuesday: "Labour is the party of working people" Labour on Wednesday: "If your boss mistreats you, tough shit"

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I love chatting with trans women and helping them with things, but part of me wishes I knew someone who knew more and could help me with all the stuff I still have to work out. I feel like I’m expected to be strong and stoic all the time when I definitely don’t feel like it. 😐

Wes Streeting to gullible idiots: "I want to treat trans people with dignity and respect" Wes Streeting to transphobes: "I will segregate the evil transes for you"

a reminder that the “first they came for” poem was written by a nazi who did not include how he actively contributed to everyone before him in the poem getting disappeared, which describes pretty well the average person with power in our society.

@graemedowniemp.bsky.social After Streeting's crocodile tears over the state of trans healthcare, here he is talking to a transphobic audience saying he's looking to introduce trans segregation in the NHS. This is neither respectful or empathetic

Just a week ago he was positioning himself as a friend of trans people. Trans people said he was a liar. We said his words were meant for cis people. If you believed him, you're at best cabbage brained.

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men. There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

"Greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels have pushed the acidity of the world's oceans past a safe threshold", crossing the seventh of nine planetary boundaries supporting human life on Earth: www.cbc.ca/news/climate... #Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoLNG #NoPipelines

I wonder for how many military people it was a radicalising moment to see the British press and political class go all-in on ‘protecting women’ from trans women and yet just kind of boys-will-be-boys away the rampant threat of sexual assault of women soldiers

"The British Army tried to suppress a report revealing that female soldiers were locking themselves in their bedrooms at night to avoid sexual assault by drunken male comrades." [Tiny piece in the Times p13]

This. Vaccines and paracetamol do not cause autism, but also autism is not something that should be eliminated, any more than queerness or lefthandedness or any other harmless minority characteristic.

"don't even take my word for it, as a politician, listen to British doctors, British scientists" says Wes Streeting about paracetamol. Never heard him say that once about trans healthcare.

a much smarter, less white person than I once described dystopias as "what if it happened to white people"

You can not “debate” someone who doesn’t believe what you are exists and is aggressively opposed to you because they believe your existence is in opposition to an all-powerful invisible authority figure they worship. Fuck off.

Why is the Labour Party sending text messages to its members asking them to endorse Bridget Phillipson as Deputy Leader, when Lucy Powell is also running? Favouritism? Apparently, BP’s also calling trans-supportive Labour MPs to ask for their support, claiming she intends to protect trans rights! 🤔

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Interesting that both Phillipson and Streeting are campaigning by saying they'll be nice to trans people despite being two of the party's biggest anti-trans MPs.

A problem with most people thinking COVID-19 is no longer a threat is that I just had a weird loss prevention dude follow me around a grocery store (occasionally coughing) because he could not fathom that anyone wearing a face mask (despite me also using a cane)- wasn't nefarious. We're in a surge.

if you go to a tommy robinson rally you don't have 'reasonable' or 'legitimate' concerns. you're just a bigot.

Been having a tough day. Utterly disgusted with the numbers of hateful people marching through London yesterday. I really thought we were better than that.

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

What are you going to do @stellacreasy.bsky.social ? The trans people in Walthamstow need you to speak up for them.

They are forcibly detransitioning people. They are denying life saving abortion care. They used the lifeless body of Adriana Smith as an incubator without her or her family's consent. They are denying millions vaccines which prevent deadly & chronic illness. These too are violence.

I'm so fucking sick of seeing these posts from liberals panicking about the availability of COVID vaccines when almost none of them are wearing N95s. If you're not masking, you've likely been infected multiple times. The vaccine prevents you from dying outright, not catching it and spreading it.

In Britain 2025, if you're undergoing a criminal trial and police investigation for smashing a teenager's phone, BBC News at 10 gives you a platform for your defence. But only if you promise to ramble on a bit about how much you hate trans people.

Ah yes, the famously cancelled Glinner being given a full interview and main page story on the BBC News site in which he gets to say he's the victim and literally blame trans rights for destroying his marriage. I'm sure in the interest in balance they've given trans people the same coverage. No?

Farage would be irrelevant if the media had treated him like the do left wing politicians and that's all you need to know about why he is where he is.

THIS!

Please use this amazing application to email your MP about the EHRC guidance update for single-sex spaces.

Authors - get that bag.

This sort of word choice helps reinforce the notion that covid is actually over, and meaningfully hurts us all. But what do I know about public health messaging 🤷

Cis people, please pay attention. If nothing else, bear witness. But maybe before it comes to that, do something more helpful?

i'm watching from america going, "this dude tweeted about sexually assaulting a child with a phone and he's got politicians going to bat for him? wtf is wrong with people over there?

Everyone is rushing to defend Graham Linehan as some martyr to free speech but don't actually state what he tweeted. He explicitly called for people to violently assault trans women in the bathroom. In another instance, he cyberstalked a trans minor. He's legitimately a danger to trans people.

It is peak UK that a transphobe being arrested for inciting violence is the Free Speech Issue Of The Moment, rather than the suppression of anti-genocide campaigners.

can i get a hell yeah for Lev Goldberg who just became the first openly transgender person to swim across Lake Ontario?

No one mentioned why Graham was returning to the UK? > The Irish writer is separately due to appear in court on Thursday, September 4, accused of harassing Sophia Brooks, an 18-year-old transgender activist.

The prime minster of the UK Keir Starmer says it is ok to punch trans women. That’s where we are right now. So if you do get punched make sure that your solicitor calls Keir Starmer to court to state why he gave permission to the public to enact violence against trans women.

Dear @zackpolanski.bsky.social how hard is it to mention trans people in one of your promo videos? Or you just all talk like the rest of them? Come on we're all waiting! Actions not words! I'm not an after thought. Trans rights now!!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

The speed with which Labour came to the, at least implied, defence of Linehan, despite a track record of abuse and threats from him, exemplifies just how embedded the dehumanisation of trans and non-binary individuals has become as government policy. They really don't care who gets hurt.

Please for the love of Mercy say something strong about trans rights. Show the transphobic members of the Green Party the door and tell them to use it!

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

Just got my GRC in the mail and it included a massive packet of info from the gov’t. Tucked away in that packet is this paragraph. The whole of the EHRC BS is predicated on my comparator in the EA2010 being a man. The gov’t has now told me my comparator is a woman in this information. Who’s right?

What a surprise! A notoriously abusive transphobe gets more (favourable) coverage in the U.K. news media than the record breaking 100,000 people who marched at London Trans Pride! The U.K. media is a biased anti-trans propaganda machine! 😖😣

The UK media will defend you on their front pages if you encourage people to set fire to hotels full of asylum seekers, or if you encourage violence against women because some trans women might get hurt but they will call for your imprisonment if you protest genocide or the destruction of the planet

My life has got significantly better since starting HRT, but as I’m under a shared care agreement with my local GP it could be taken away at any moment. Frankly terrified of being pitched back into that abyss of incorrect chemistry.

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