Every British columnist is currently writing articles like "I Will Have MI5 Classify My Adult Children As Terrorists If They Screen My Calls," so I assume that devoting the entire UK press to destroying trans people is going well.

Would be great to get Esse House a little festive donation boost going into the new year. The minimum contribution is a share of this post. Go on. It's Christmas.

My gift to you: the worst Christmas playlist, to horrify your friends and relations. Apple Music & Spotify links at shitm.as

me: you boy what day is it today? boy: nonces shout out of the window day. me: oof you’ve absolutely done me there.

One year I brought sugar cookies to a friend’s Christmas party. A woman I don’t know tried one, wrinkled her nose & said “bit dry, needs icing”, like she was Paul Fucking Hollywood. Now every year while icing the cookies I mutter “here’s your icing, your MAJESTY”.

shout out to Denise and all the other local newspaper commenters putting in the extra hours over the holidays to make sure festive cheer doesn't get out of hand

☠️MORTIFYING CHRISTMAS STORY TIME Ahead of the big day tomorrow, here’s the story of The Worst Thing That Ever Happened At Christmas. A few years ago, the two of us were invited to a communal Xmas dinner at a friend’s house, where all the guests were to bring different Xmas dinner components. 1/

Merry Christmas, everyone. Sending love to those of us who find this time of year difficult for whatever reason: it’s just a day and there will be better days. I hope you can be kind to yourself today and every day.

Merry Christmas, I got you a personalised Scottish French wine.

If you want an alternative Christmas playlist for tomorrow, I’ve made a few over the years. Here’s one with The Fall, Sparks, Half Man Half Biscuit, Momus, Mazzy Star and more… open.spotify.com/playlist/6Jk...

I keep forgetting to post this, one of the best things I heard this year. It’s is just wonderful - Emma’s vocal is beautiful. You could say that this song is… oh yes… tree-mendous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxiS...

if you leave a small glass of cognac out on your doorstep in glasgow on christmas eve paul buchanan will visit and bless you. tomorrow will be christmas m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfnr...

Given that going ”nah” to arsehole family is in The Discourse rn, here’s a song I wrote about that very thing. unquietmind.bandcamp.com/track/the-ne... (I know it says the first of very many 2025 releases and then I didn’t release any more things in 2025. But there’s TONS coming.)

It’s why I care an awful lot about media reform. The media ecosystem as it is now ruins families. It has torn mine in two. And I am far from unique in this experience. My choice to cut out my father and brother is still a painful one. But it’s one I’m proud of. I choose myself and I my peace.

Obligs. #TotP

Like, I dunno, maybe the onus should be on Uncle Dave to let the family have a single meal without his opinions on "Muzzos ruinin' London since Mayor Al'Khan'ida took over" instead of on the kids to grin and bear it?

Cheers to all of you who’re estranged from family. I hope you have a warm, contented, and good end to your year without those fuckers in your life. You’re free.

I can’t think why every prominent transphobe in the UK keeps coming out with takes like ‘don’t cut off your abusive family’

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

This is all so depressing.

Merry Christmas! Here’s the gift you definitely didn’t ask for… the penultimate part of the 25 Worst Columns of 2025 brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...

“You could just tell something was off about them” sounds a little too close to “the victims were idiots for not seeing what I saw” so try and stop saying that whenever someone you found annoying on TV turns out to be a sex pervert.

A third of Labour voters would be disappointed if their child was gay is a savage indictment of how successive Governments have pushed, or stood by as others have, the Overton window.

Scratch a transphobe, find a reactionary/fascist holds up yet again.

If civil servants joining pride marches is seen as "political" then surely all those "SEEN in..." groups dedicated to harassing trans people in whatever sector are even more political? You can't have it both ways Kathleen

On the 15th of December this year, Aotearoa New Zealand passed the 2.5 year mark for Self-ID. As we always said, there have been zero issues arising from this. Not a single incident recorded formally or informally, not a whisper of a problem. The anti-trans activists lied to everyone.

This is great.

“Double-check your sausage before putting it out for guests” is sage advice at any time of the year, tbh.

Where Shona Craven, chief spreader-of-transphobia at The Herald and its sister papers, sticks her neck out to defend loyalty to a sex offender. One found in position of indecent child images. Because when trans people must be smeared as the chief threat to all women - the real threats get let off.

Goodness me, it’s like someone rewrote The Twelve Days of Christmas with sex pests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

With the suggestion of further normalisation of hate speech in the UK under the pretence of free speech by the police, it is sad to see how far we have fallen as a nation that was once tolerant and respectful of people. Politicians now govern based upon social media with no morals

Yup. It's the chattering class driving it, always has been. IMO it's not even the American religious right to blame, sadly. It's a home-grown product of a very British self-image of cleverness and propriety indignant at those vulgar prole kids demanding they "respect pronouns," how very dare they?!

Since the Guardian are doing the "a handful of women’s groups have started to question the “unintended consequences”" thing, time to repost the open letter from Irish feminists telling UK transphobes to piss off

Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment” Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment” Student: “I didn’t do the assignment” University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask” some days I just want to scream and scream

any woman who thinks she can dismiss the extraordinary advances of the feminist movement and still enjoy rights and freedoms like owning her own house, having her own credit cards, not being sexually assaulted by her spouse, having any rights to her children, voting, working in the professions,

Many of us agree that a privatised BBC would be worse. But the BBC is institutionally rotten and would need a fundamental change of governance and a change of management - minimum - to start earning my trust. We are way too far gone for just “holding it to account”. Fundamental changes. Now.

I keep thinking about this. I was talking to a journalist friend about Project 2025, and he was saying how so much of it is being executed with frightening efficiency. And it is all the more frustrating because everyone with the power to stop it was so thoroughly and repeatedly warned.

I wonder what I'm doing on social media sometimes. And then I see posts like this. Being out isn't just for myself. I hope that by being out, fierce, and happy, online and in real life, I can change some minds. And maybe some lives. May you all have a joyous and proud holiday! ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

There's a difference between willing but gullible ordinary people being sucked into a carefully engineered movement and one that was started organically by ordinary people. Organised Transphobia is the former.

the biggest lie the british press tell about trans ppl isn't actually about trans ppl. it's their claim that 'gender critical' is a grass roots movement. it's a ruling class bigotry sparked and spurred on by the american religious right. it's a media and political class bigotry.

What Cass making this claim does indicate is a) how fully immersed in the conspiratorial world of anti-trans propaganda she was and b) how she will blithely assert things with no actual citation or data, or any plausible connection to gender healthcare in the UK.

This is an actual assertion in the Cass Report, designed to foster the "transing away the gay" conspiracy narrative

👇 Also, tech that makes (and is often marketed specifically for making) non-consensual nudes of anybody of any age. It's sexual abuse.

At para 102, Alice Sullivan’s legal team expressly identifies her positions as ‘transphobic and anti-trans’ speech, and argues that any university policies seeking to protect their employees against this sort of harassment is universally unlawful.

Deceased

literally fuck anyone who doesn’t see at this point that it’s an organized nationwide effort to make trans people unemployable. every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.

Former BBC employee Jack Murley has posted on Instagram about the repeated homophobic abuse he received while working for the corporation - often from BBC staff. He says the BBC has now formally apologised. www.instagram.com/p/DSaZBd4DO8F/

Sara Ahmed: “Whenever people keep being given a platform to say they have no platform, or whenever people speak endlessly about being silenced, you not only have a performative contradiction; you are witnessing a mechanism of power.”