Ten things that I like. 1. Crisp, dry snow. The Alpine kind, not the slushy knock-off that we get in the U.K. 2. Moving water. Crashing waves to trickling streams, it’s all music and energy and life. 3. The shipping forecast. Simply poetry. 4. Really good comedy. Including pantomime.

Thinking about this a bit more, it’s kinda interesting. I spent most of my life assuming I was invisible, because of repressed dysphoria and wanting (and working hard) to just blend into the background. Since that was my comfort zone, it’s hard to leave it behind…

(I’ll just add my brain tells me that everyone is staring at me even when that’s not the case*, which is why I find it particularly tricky at the moment). *as far as I can tell

Walked back to my car through a shopping centre in a part of town I’d normally avoid (I don’t come here often and don’t know my way around). Nothing bad happened. But hyper-vigilance is exhausting.

"Third spaces" for people who aren't comfortable with trans-inclusive gendered spaces. Why should it be trans people who are segregated?

Emily Maitlis seems unable to apply the same standard to her (or the media's, more generally) coverage of "trans issues" 🤔 In fact, it's worse than that. Her starting point is simply that healthcare experts are wrong, for #reasons, and she and her fellow GC journos are brave for pointing it out.

Labour policy is being celebrated by Tommy Robinson. That's it. That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.

If anyone needs any convincing of the extent of political journos' credulity, I suggest you Google "Joe Lycett Kuennsberg Truss" and watch a (very) senior political reporter get comprehensively pwned by a comedian.

107/ He turns to Schedule 3, He accepts, it may be invoked to justify both direct and indirect discrimination. However, in either case it must be proportionate means to a legitimate aim. One cannot rely on the kind of hard, categorical rule set out in the first bullet point. It misstates the law.

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The standard of political reporting in the UK is catastrophically low. I say "catastrophically" because the cosy relationship between political journos and the political class prevents the latter from being held to account by the former. The media is complicit in creating the current situation.

Deep breath, once more for those at the back, seeking asylum is not illegal. No matter route used, which considering Labour has closed pretty much all the last remaining alternatives means irregular ones. Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.

Unfortunately, the Government aren't on Bluesky to hear our voices @darrenpjones.bsky.social. All they hear is the hatred and bile amplified by and from X And on X this will never be enough And for a Government to be seen as creating policy based on those responses is despicable and weak

I should add that becoming more like the political parties that your voters hate is not a good way to keep your voters. Which is why after nearly thirty years of voting Labour, I’ll be switching to the Greens or Lib Dems.

100% this. The use of the word "biological" here is disingenuous. Until the current moral panic, sex assigned at birth (for that is what it is) was simply an annotation on a birth certificate. It has as much relevance to a trans person's adult physiology and health as their recorded birth weight.

I cannot conceive of how any human can possibly need that much money. EVERY YEAR. I'm not picking on Jennie here. There are many, many more people just like her (including people who are paid far more). But this is a system that's beyond broken.

Jennie Daly's remuneration: £750,000 salary £75,000 pension contributions + bonuses including stock to total of ~£3,000,000

Every year I reach peak (cardio) fitness sometime around late August / mid September. And then the clocks and the weather change and I lose motivation. I guess this is ok and part of the natural rhythm of things, but I always struggle to make peace with it. 1/

Busy

The gender critters are unhinged, part 9427

Start your Queerstmas shopping early ✨👉 awkward.gay 👈✨

Not feeling it today. Back in bed. Cat decided he’d keep me company though 🥰 I was supposed to be going for a run but I can barely get it together to get to the bathroom, so… maybe tomorrow?

If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees, either - it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents or - it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

EHRC: the law now requires Black people to use their own facilities. It’s not segregation; it’s only segregation if you do that to white people. Oh, sorry, when we said Black we meant trans, and when we said white we meant cis. Did we mention we’re the equality and human rights regulator?

I’ve just realised one of the many refreshing things about Zack Polanski is that he almost always appears cheerful, and regularly smiles. And it comes across as genuine.

I’ve been following @reactiveashley.bsky.social’s excellent summary of the GLP judicial review with interest. I’ve also found that reading about the EHRC’s transphobic defence has been very triggering. So I’m going to skip reading about Sex Matters’ intervention. Self care. But TY Ash 🙂.

3/ The hate group Sex Matters has instructed a young barrister. If they are struggling to grasp the proceedings, they can consult him. It is entirely inappropriate for a “charity” to harass other parties involved in litigation.

The new trans healthcare toolkit from @annehealthcare.bsky.social looks like it is an essential resource…

English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books. Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich. Social vandalism.

It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.

To be clear: this is the EHRC’s counsel admitting in court that it had been wanting to find a way to exclude trans people for some time. They’re not even hiding it.

Hey night Bluesky* I’m awake when I should be asleep, and stressing out about EVERYTHING. How’s your night (/day) going? 🙂 *other times of day may apply. Check local conditions

<dismissve handwave> “The trannies can just use third spaces that don’t currently exist, but they can use their powers of advocacy to ask for them to be built. What? What’s wrong with that?”

“We had to do something” is not the same as “what we did is right”.

This is in itself an astonishing admission (although not a surprise in the context of the EHRC’s conduct).

“The framing of anti-trans hatred as in the interests of women and lesbians is false. As a survivor and an “adult human being belonging to the female sex class,” let me make this clear: [‘gender critical’ transphobic] CUSW’s rhetoric only exacerbates the danger I face in public.”

🇬🇧 When asked, 84% of Trans+ people say Britain feels unsafe for them That’s not a minority That’s an overwhelming majority of a community being pushed into fear by the British media, government, and society at large 2.

Could we get this to 7500 letters over the weekend? It only takes 5 minutes! It’s still important to let your MP know: the EHRC’s appallingly transphobic guidance CANNOT be approved. 🙏🏻

“We are a tiny minority who face discrimination on a daily basis. It's hard to date and nigh on impossible to get healthcare support...if we are too feminine we are just perpetuating female stereotypes and if we are too masculine we're some sort of sexual deviant with a fetish.” -Charlotte #Trans

I've just used an online calculator to work out comparative CO2 emissions for: 1. flying + car rental vs 2. train The results are astonishing. Do I know anyone with any knowledge in this area? Are these about right? I'm sceptical about the train... 1. 713kg CO2 2. 11kg CO2

It's my one year HRT-versary in a few days. I wanted to celebrate it. But I'm feeling very deflated, after the judicial review. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Apparently the BBC is too pro-trans. Which is... a complete reversal of the truth. Have your say 👇🏻

It's note worthy that the Greens aren't just winning. We're taking seats from everyone and we're coming from fourth or fifth place to first, to do it. But it takes a lot of work from us regular folks! So help us out join.greenparty.org.uk

Hey! Calling all Wonder Women! We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit. 50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.

Wes Streeting will not save Labour.* Come back in a few years and tell me I was wrong. *also, he's a lickspittle cunt.

"What is a woman?"

Anyone want to tell the EHRC's KC that this is exactly how things have worked for decades with almost no issues or incidents until the recent spate of attempts by gender critical to harass their trans coworkers?

Sure would be nice if I got tagged with some forearm pictures for when I land in North Carolina. Sure would be.

Weird how anti-LGBT extremists will get performative gender dysphoria from occasionally being referred to as being "cis" or as a "pregnant person" and weaponise that relatively minor discomfort to justify the eradication of people who experience that same feeling but a million times more intense.

I've completed a big project for one of my clients, three days before I said I would. I think I might have another coffee to celebrate...