If every one of us put a drop in the bucket every day, we'd fill so many buckets. The unsung heroes are just as important.

People who catastrophise about Gillick having been thrown out are going to sew a lot of confusion about the law in the UK. It's really important to listen to legal experts on these topics and not panic. Conservatives do desperately want to destroy Gillick but the court of appeal isn't about to.

Great explanatory thread about the new CPS guidance on "sex by deception". The key is, it's hard to know whether or not someone else knows you're trans, and many trans people just don't talk about it much, or at all. Not to mention, this adds a whole legal layer of risk to gloryholes and darkrooms.

This incidentally is why I am always wary of "stranger danger" stuff posing as feminist: Bc when you imagine "A strange man in an alley" you picture him as unalike the men you know as possible- Which often means if you're white, the man you see as the danger, is a man of colour. It gets racist fast.

pretty much my final big piece @huckmag.com is this from @travellerpride.bsky.social on their incredible work and their amazing plans for the future (which you can help realise by donating!) give it a read + donate here! www.huckmag.com/article/the-...

Even the threat of this reduces trans people's quality of life: If you know it's coming, you reduce your dose, trying to save a few days' worth at a time so that you have a buffer for when the prescription inevitably is delayed. Meaning your hormone levels are chronically low, which is bad for you.

GPs cite “lack of expertise”. Then bloody learn. At Alice’s inquest Dr Barratt Tavistock GIC lead clinician said he could teach GPs how to treat trans people in a couple of hours. It’s not lack of knowledge. It’s lack of will to treat. Any doctor who won’t treat any patient shouldn’t be a doctor.

Has anyone thought about a die in at the Xmas day mass of wes's church? Just putting it out there

Good morning, friends and fiends! It's Friday, which means I can FINALLY share my interview with the incredible @pennyblake.bsky.social! I've been fighting the urge to hit the publish button early all week because this one is just so so good. What are your weekend plans? #dnd #ttrpg

You can read my article on the government's alarming lack of transit sites for Romany Gypsies and Travellers in the UK here freedomnews.org.uk/2024/12/13/o...

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

Now that SEENinpublishing are ramping up their crusade to hide all published evidence of trans people existing from kids, it is more than ever your moral duty to make zines about us - Our culture, our lives, our thoughts, our ways - and litter them around where they can be found, shared and copied.

Having just had a conversation with @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social that included the statement "You can't sleep here, there's too many cursed little guys...' I must throw their hat in the ring!

incredible piece from the legends at Trans Kids Deserve Better on stunning action outside Wes Streeting’s constituency office yesterday. so much of the coverage of the puberty blocker ban has spoken for or over trans kids - now hear directly from them: www.huckmag.com/article/we-a...

Another action in Nottingham Protest on sunday www.instagram.com/share/p/BABz...

Trans Kids Deserve Better members told me that two gender critical activists hung around their encampment for about 2 hours messing around with their stuff, and appear to have stolen a trans teen's mobility aid.

My take on the letter (full text included in the ALT). Sent to Streeting and copied in to my local MP. Just seen an indication that at least one of his inboxes is already full. Don't let up.

If you’re a cis person who often posts here or on Twitter about transphobia and how you disagree with it, please consider calling or writing to Wes Streeting today - there’s a script here to make it easy: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Signed. I hope I can appeal to even my limited number of followers to do the same.

They've left now, and they've advised everyone to stay warm.

Alt text isn't working for some reason. Description of the image is of two police officers standing outside Wes Streetings office.

Police have now appeared.

Apologies for the lack of ALT text on the previous picture. I will write ALT texts from now on.

It's pizza time! Very kind person has given us some pizza.

Socks Powerbanks Sleeping bags/mats Stand to pee devices (no toilets here!)

Hi everyone, Lily here! I'll be taking over for a bit as this protest goes on. I hope to spend the night here. It's SO cold TKDB need for the Wes Streeting office occupation ASAP: Jumpers/coats/warm clothes Handwarmers/hot water bottles Water Toothbrushes/toothpaste Deodorant

Okay, our reporter is gonna be there overnight. Handing them the reigns for this thread to Lily. You can check out her personal account here: @nearchitecture.bsky.social

Food has been delivered

I can only stay up till 10pm tonight. So I might have to continue this in the morning. But tkdb will be there overnight tonight.

The length of this protest is going to be lengthy so updates may be slowish as it progresses.

Been told the folks at the site need as many adults on location as possible. Last action outside the department of education. There was not enough of a turnout of adults and it was not good enough. We need to rectify this now.

Press Release from TKDB transkidsdeservebetter.org/teenage-tran...

Next year’s programme is shaping up nicely! 💚

Also feels apropos to say: We have binders and are giving them away to any Traveller of any kind who needs one. A mix of mostly pre-2019NOS GC2B and Spectrum Outfitters, and a few odd one offs of other brands, in sizes 2XS to 5XL - styles and colours are too varied to list, so ask and we'll answer!

Wes Streeting REALLY making sure he earns our first annual Ernst Röhm Award, to the point that by now I can't even remember who the three other contenders were.

Big up all the brave people who have spoken about against years of alleged abuses of power against Pink News CEO and COO. This isn’t just a Pink News issue, but hopefully exposing this will be the start to creating a safer media landscape for LGBTQ+ journalists

A Romani friend of mine has just sent me a photo of my book, which she found on the shelves of the Queer Britain Museum book shop. So happy and truly honoured!

As someone who is semi-accidentally running a queer art collective now: These are so important to support. Giving us a chance to work together, to influence each other's styles, and to put bread on the table, is worth a fortune. And you can help it happen, by buying from collectives like this!

One of the joys of my life is being part of the small but perfectly formed @travellerpride.bsky.social crew doing great work at the intersection of two marginalised communities that I’m proud to be a member of If you want to help you can support our work here … www.gofundme.com/f/traveller-...

We love Delaine LeBas ❤️

As much as winter is the season of bare branches, the few winter blossoms are really something special. The yellow is mahonia; A sweet, perfumey, hyacinth smell that carries half a mile in frosty air. The pink is viburnum, which is rich like clover honey. Only three weeks until the days get longer.

I am amazed by how fast we are gaining followers here so - thank you! We are Traveller Pride, we're a small CIC (a team of 3, none of us full-time) who work to provide things to the LGBT& or Queer people who are also Travellers - Both being defined as broadly as possible.

Supporters of the Kurdish Community Center in London have called for a march tomorrow to protest against state repression. Date: Sunday 1st December Time: 1:30pm Start point: Trafalgar Square #HandsOffKurds

We are EDIRPRËLL EVÅRT, a joyful modular design that fits right in to your trailer, boat, or museum.

I'm getting a wisdom tooth removed this afternoon, so expect slow or no replies over the weekend (or, potentially, nonsensical replies as I log in out of habit whilst still under anaesthetic.) So if you need us, email us, and one of the other two will get back to you!

Today it's Creator Day on itch.io ! That means if you purchase my charity solo TTRPG inspired by Romani and Traveller folklore, even more money will go to @travellerpride.bsky.social 🙏🙏💚❤️💙🐴https://pennyblake.itch.io/light-in-the-lantern

Poem in response to the disgraceful treatment of Romany Gypsy and Traveller children by Manchester Police last weekend. The resistance flag was designed by Dean Rheims. I'll be recording and publishing soon. Feel free to use and share as part of your own activism in support of the GRT community 🐴💚❤️💙

Seeing posts back to back, of the upcoming protests against GMP for their brutality towards Traveller children, and then images of paper coffins from the Trans Kids Deserve Better protests, and it feels like the defining characteristic of the State as we have it is just cruelty towards children...

Linking the tweet because the video is longer than sixty seconds: Our friend and comrade Martin Ward, exhorting us all to come to the demonstration tonight at 6 in Manchester, against the brutality and unfairness of Manchester police x.com/TravellerLGB...

Manchester Anti Fascist Collective announce: Tuesday 6pm a peaceful demonstration will be held by the people of Manchester in support of the Romany Gypsy and Traveller Community in a stand against police violence and discrimination here and across the UK 1/2 www.instagram.com/p/DCwuuYBNfo...