I’m sorry, I know it’s a minor point, but crack dens are traditionally indoor establishments. What the scaremongering Labour minister is describing here is a crack paddock.

HOLD ON I WROTE AN ARTICLE FOR THIS

The friend who actually asked the question about whether I might be trans died last year, and I cannot describe the heartache I feel whenever I think about her and the fact that I couldn't fully express the enormity of the gift she gave me.

It's really disturbing how in the mid 2010s there were several regularly active trans journalists in the British mainstream press and presently there's like maybe 2 who occasionally get some token comment somewhere when someone's given us a kicking.

Not the "I've just transitioned so now I'm going to set myself up as a tiktok oracle on all things trans" girls coming out swinging in defence of the egg prime directive. I'm sorry babes, but suffering through working out you are trans on your own does not make you nobler than someone who had help.

I haven't yet had to disclose to any medical professionals that I'm taking testosterone yet, and I am dreading when it will eventually need to come out and I need to say, "I promise you it's NOT a gender thing, I'm just trying to get shredded, cis women do this too, can we please move on?!"

I often see people joking about this being "deadnaming" but it is interesting insofar as it shows that people only really refuse to call somebody their chosen name as an intentional display of disrespect and they only pretend this isn't the case to gaslight trans people they're being transphobic to.

Stories on instagram last half as long this is actually the prime minister saying revenge porn is okay dokey if you post it on a story ffs

I think there was a kind of magical thinking there. Famously, Lucas handed Empire and Jedi over to others to direct, while he exercised complete control over the (noticeably weaker) prequels, so Disney thought "clearly Star Wars works better as a collaborative project."

we weren’t negative enough and now no-one gets to have ram or hard drives

i remember the news for Cameron fucking the pig, and Thatcher dying, and nobody actually getting any work done, and i’m bringing this up for no reason whatsoever

Social media appears to have been a lifeline for Brianna Ghey, something she used to connect with other trans people, something that would have been difficult to do when I was her age. But her mother is talking about how social media "killed her", that she "died twice." It's revolting.

The ratchet clicks tighter. EHRC have concluded their regulatory action which was started by the hard right Tory party as basically a witch hunt on trans inclusive policies in any public sector or charity body with a tip line to report bodies promoting trans inclusive use of single sex spaces.

"Not responsible for the creation of the moon" Super win.

Arrested on his birthday lol

So why you standing by while the courts rip up the equality act big man Weasel wanker

AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED

A DAY FOR CONSEQUENCES

Sodha could be forced to wear a skirt & heels to work (& “smile!”), use a toilet based on her race & support (from lower, sex-based, pay) relatives sacked for being pregnant, gay or old. But as a victim of her trans rights-stripping agenda, the difference is I will always fight such discrimination.

Prince Andrew being arrested for giving away state secrets but not arrested for being a pedophile should tell you everything you need to know about Britain.

I didn’t even know misconduct in public office was a crime here 💀 You’re telling me that’s been illegal this whole time??!

PERFECTLY AVERAGE AS ALL THINGS SHOULD BE

Most parents have to grapple with their children, queer or not, finding their own identity and interests growing up, but Esther Ghey has really latched onto the idea that a social media ban would have prevented her daughter's death (by preventing her transition).

Well I'm glad it's being made explicit that that Esther Ghey views her daughter being killed in a hate crime on the same level as her daughter retreating into social media to find other trans and queer friends to cope with a transphobic offline climate.

hi can I interest you in a blessed paradise whose hunger only sacrifice can appease? a desperate community insisting on ancient tradition & terrible necessity? a game played without dice or a GM, driven by a bloody oracle deck & a biting token economy? anyway if you like the wicker man play HARVEST

My wedding dress is almost ready 😁😁😁

Shameful that the EHRC has no written records of any meetings with trans-led organisations over the last five years when trans rights have been under such assault. Human rights apply to everyone and the EHRC should know full well that its job is to stand up for everyone’s rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

Back to back raves at the weekend and not eating for basically an entire day on Sunday is not conducive to a good workout on Tuesday, it seems...

They’re announcing that they plan to strip women and girls (the main beneficiaries of the Equality Act) of their rights and protections next. We told you so. It was always transphobia. Hate all the way down:

Banning social transition in schools is abuse. There’s no gentler word for it. It’s relegating young people to constant degradation and places students and faculty in inherently adversarial positions. It also precludes stealth transition, forcing young trans people out to their peers.

You can tell transphobes know this too because if they’ve heard of Money they immediately try to DARVO him onto the trans ally side, the clearest possible indication that he’s just an optically inconvenient one of theirs

"The images were fake. But the loss of power was real. The humiliation was real. The sense of being reduced to a body – something they could manipulate and degrade – was painfully real. "And this abuse was a warning. A message to women like me: 'This is what happens when you challenge us.'"

Like many people, the “gender identity” stuff actually held me back. It was reading a literal dissertation about the complexities of biological sex that opened the doors for me. I didn’t realize I was just a woman until I started estrogen, and the “known forever” things only came to me after HRT.

Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything." And. Yup.

I just wrote a column about rich people being accorded the presumption that they’re smart when they’re really dumb and it is publishing tomorrow but …she just skeeted it out.

The problem of conversion therapy is, as ever, not that conversion therapy doesn't work (although that's true) but that it constitutes an act of violence to suppress almost exclusively vulnerable people's core psychological development and that is devastating.

Yeah I agree with this. My concern is not that young people are given the "correct" bodies, or modifications or whatever because there is no such thing as a correct body. My concern is that the system is insistent on doing deterrent coercion to young trans people seeking to actualise themselves.

It’s the Government’s duty to protect all communities - including trans people. They’re failing to do that. Trans people deserve safety and dignity. www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...

I applied for an ADHD diagnosis before COVID happened and only had my appointment Oct last year. They still won't give me medication for most of a year despite coming to a conclusive decision that I have ADHD. The system is designed to force people out of it and push us out of society.

Patients were forced to go private at great personal cost because NHS assessments for ADHD have waitlists up to 8 years long. And now, despite having those diagnoses, GPs are just refusing to give people meds they need for a diagnosis they have because... fuck you, that's why. Cool!

Yet Iceland, despite being a smaller country can do this: "They have more patients and about half the staff of the NGS, yet in two years they eliminated their 700 person waiting list. They usually only need 30-45 minutes of assessment, and in their intensive weeks they’d start 30 people on HRT"

This too. And in a just world, having it be difficult to imagine what it's like to be us wouldn't be a problem but cis people insist that their imaginary must be thrust on us through policy and enforcement rather than occupying a difference of minds.

chican3ry.medium.com/a-rough-and-... If you need someone who isn't trans to confirm this, the 20thC has decades of academic research papers with psychiatrists and therapists bemoaning that trans people simply won't stop being trans. Not electric shocks, psychotherapeutic gaslighting, even Exorcism.

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Having a proportional representation system of voting in the UK would absolutely give us more Reform MPs, but it would also ensure they had to compromise and be even less effective than they would be if they default into power via FPTP. That is the first change to fixing the UK, it really really is.