Seriously...I was an early member of GLF, a former Deputy Chair of Liberty, involved in consultations on both the GRA and the EA and various trans health initiatives. I have had a distinguished career in publishing and writing. Of course they'd never appoint me but turning me down would look bad.

I am a truly insignificant person who doesn't rate my own Grokipedia entry.

Did we all know that Lee Harvey Oswald was an SF reader?

These are the words I try to live by in my politics.

Small victories are how we survive and thrive.

Miss Major has passed. One of the best of that generation of trans women of colour who started our fight.

The Attorney General of Texas has ordered an undercover investigation for terrorist conspiracy of anti-fascist and trans groups. The forcefem fiction practically writes itself...

Good man on this issue...

An excellent LRB piece by the late Connor Gearty which sets the For Women Scotland judgement in a broader context of the current UK Supreme Court walking back all uses of the HRA to limit regressive state power and promote extension of human rights. He will be missed

Demo against Digital ID and surveillance state at Angel. A lot of honking in support.

The first of many to get caught, I hope. Too many people in public life have taken money from foreign powers to act in ways that harm us all. Ironic that so many of them tout conspiracy theories while being part of actual conspiracies.

This is an excellent thread on how the brilliance of Vergil is closely tied to his ambivalence about power and success. It can be argued that the effectiveness of Octavian/Augustus was that he tolerated that level of ambivalence towards his autocratic rule from great artists.

Ian Dunt being excellent - if on Substack - about Starmer's version of ID cards as an example of the folly of making concessions to racist populism. substack.com/@iandunt/not...

Excellent piece by @notrightruth.bsky.social about trans community as the antidote to trans despair. ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...

One of the reasons why the Right oppress trans people while also consuming vast amounts of porn about us is that they want to keep us poor, marginalised and available for low paid sex work. They hate the idea of our having other options.

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

Russia is facing a cold cold winter with the logistics of keeping warm seriously fucked and a million war dead. Constant provocations are intended to make NATO do something that will enable Putin to unify Russians in patriotism. Which makes Trump's suddenly turn to hawkishness a bit interesting.

I'm very excited to see that there's a new monograph about the work of Tessa Boffin.

This is amazingly good news though too late for the two friends of mine that out killed.

He's definitely plotting to get rid of Starmer and become PM, and has realised transphobia might get in his way. I mean, his other major areas of liability are his relationship with private health care and his personality and he clearly can't change either of those....

Farage wants the UK to quit the ECHR. It is exactly what Putin wants, for the UK to join Russia and Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR. It would be a huge victory for Putin in his war against human rights and the international rule of law. Farage is a traitor.

Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

I'm not sure all of them are yet committed to our physical eradication or incarceration but that's their direction of travel. They are getting annoyed that most people don't comply with their desire that we just shut up,go away and stop being difficult.

A lot of people on the Left will tell you that Trump is a greater threat than Putin. There is ample evidence that they are the two cheeks of the same arse.

A lot of people on the Left will tell you that Trump is a greater threat than Putin. There is ample evidence that they are the two cheeks of the same arse.

With the Heritage Foundation and the FBI terming trans people a terrorist movement, perhaps Julie Bindel should reconsider all the times she's referred to us as a militia or as the Taliban, if she'd prefer not to be thought of as a Fascist shill who helped incite an attempt at genocide.

Just how far will Trump have to go down the path towards dictatorship before Starmer criticises him? Shooting demonstrators? Expelling Democrats from Congress?Putting Obama on trial ?

If trans people were actually a death cult as claimed by the US Right, we'd be getting a lot less lip from them...

I’m reading a book about the history of conversion therapy in 20th Century 🇬🇧 and it’s striking how much the NHS had exactly the same institutional issues back then as they have in trans healthcare right now. Everyone blamed everyone else, complaints went nowhere, and politicians ignored it

In Parliament this afternoon!

This is one of the few things which, in the present climate, might force the Cabinet to a rethink. Unless it just makes them more stubborn...

The EHRC guidance is unworkable for business. Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

If the legacy media had reported honestly the scale of the Trans Pride demonstration, they would not now be able to represent the Far Right demonstration as a sign of imminent democratic collapse and civil war.

Trump is trying to ban most sorts of women's birth control. jessica.substack.com/p/trump-birt...

Kirk posed himself as a media-friendly 'responsible' next generation fascist who might one day be electable whereas Groypers' whole point is to be utterly objectionable sewer dwelling shock troops.

As I expected all along, Red on Red violence. No one hates a Fascist more than another Fascist. cf The Narcissism of Small Differences.

As a matter of principle I regret the violent death of anyone even a vile promoter of hatred. As a matter of pragmatism I will not exhibit in public satisfaction over a death which will be represented as a martyrdom by the advocates of industrial scale murder by the state.

You cannot represent as a martyr for free speech someone whose entire line was that most people who weren't white, male, Christian and straight should be excluded from debate. Or who used the public arena to lie and intimidate.

I don't have to say anything. So I won't.

Why would Julie Bindel want to go to a trans-inclusive Pride except to make a fuss about being asked to go away? It's like she wants to be the Fairy Carabosse cursing the infant Princess Aurora with eternal sleep

Goddess, imagine what trans people could do if we had a tenth of the power out enemies attribute to us!

"Zack Polanski said it was 'rank hypocrisy' for Nigel Farage to call for Angela Rayner's resignation and not to do so himself." inews.co.uk/news/green-p...

That is weirdly hilarious.

The rationale for Trump's ban on trans people owning guns is that we are mad, so the next step will be incarceration in Kennedy's health through work camps is slave labour and forced detransition. I'm sure Farage will do something similar.

Had Rayner sought expert advice on her complex tax affairs, the press would have gone after her for exploiting loopholes. Which they don't do to eg Farage.

Tale as old as time. Blairism persuades potential threats from the centre Left to compromise on one small thing after another so as to alienate any friends or supporters and then picks them off at leisure for some petty sin. She needs to apologize to all the minority groups she let down.

Great thread.

For some reason I can't see a post I want to delete.

Am I still on here or am I suspended or something?

I don't fully understand how Tim Allen became a trustee of Sex Matters when Portland, the company he founded, was doing PR for Russia and Qatar, two of the most misogynist regimes on the planet. Wasn't there, I dunno, a conflict of interests?