Saturday's Together Alliance march was incredible. We know that the far-right are looking at the USA - the mass arrests, the political violence, the deportations - and they see a blueprint. Here's how we stop them:

The AMA supports gender-affirming care. That includes a wide range of treatments, of which surgery is just one. All evidence indicates that gender-affirming care works remarkably well. Top surgeries are only given after thorough assessments and have incredibly high satisfaction rates.

What's really going on here is twofold. First, the anti-trans "reporters" on this issue do not know their own beat. As I've said before, the anti-trans argument is a conspiracy theory. It posits that the medical field is handing out surgeries to kids at the slightest hint of gender nonconformity.

The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them! The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.

that's how colonial hegemony works there is no politics and no ideology just The People who count as people and the Others who don't

In the interest of full transparency with the trans community I regret to inform you all that I lost my complaint. The complaint was made by the Good Law Project (GLP) on my behalf. The BSB have decided it's okay for a barrister to mock a trans woman's attempt to commit suicide.

A Facial Recognition system devised by Israel to aid a Genocide, used on the streets of Britain… This is totally unacceptable!! youtube.com/shorts/XSE0u...

The new EHRC Chair made a point of including “belief” (obviously thinking of covering her ‘gender critical’ transphobe friends) but not a peep about gender! 🤔🤔🤔

No mention of gender in her keynote speech. Not a single mentioned of trans people's human rights in the entire speech. Her use of the acronym "LGBT" I feel comes over as contrived and forced. www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

Even better (worse?): Pre-HRT she was one of the best athletes in the men’s competition. After, she was merely “pretty good” among women. If anything, she is a perfect example in how trans women *don’t* have an advantage and may actually lose out a bit. www.forbes.com/sites/lindse...

We need to correct this BS by Stephen A. Smith because it keeps coming up. Lia Thomas was ranked Men's 63rd EISL and 20th at UPenn the year she was on HRT but still required to compete on the Men's Team. Pre-HRT she was ranked Men's 4th EISL and 2nd at UPenn. She was NEVER mediocre.

For whoever needs to hear this I'm the only Jewish person to lead a political party - third largest in the country. The Daily Mail have been & always will be my enemy - they historically supported fascists & continue to do so. I'll take no lectures from them on Antisemitism.

I'm going to start a thread collating expert responses to the IOC's sex testing policy. Please feel free to reply with additions. I'm more interested in the views of scientists than lawyers or philosophers, but everything counts.

they very carefully do not cite timnit gebru whose "the color of surveillance" conference which i attended at gw law last year hosted a panel discussion *from* the exact data workers named here

TIL that Doctorow was talking shit about Audre Lorde (in the same way that y'all fave at Techdirt did on that podcast):

Caturday Melissa Riane

i think you should support trans women on the basis that discrimination against us hurts us. when things are done to hurt us we feel it. we feel pain. we are real people. we want to be treated fairly right now, not in the future, but now, because it hurts now.

labour: - attempting to eradicate a minority and manufacturing 'evidence' in order to justify doing so - immigration policies are to the right of the bnp - building a surveillance state - abusing anti-terror laws to ban protest and free speech - culling disabled ppl labour are far right

labour are the far right.

Unfortunately truth does not matter one tiny jot to Reform followers

And that's still with people tactically intending to vote Labour because they think it makes sense to beat Reform UK. It doesn't anymore.

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

Yes - I was aware. Hence the gif 😊 www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oc...

"In other words, the perceived worth of higher education has waned just as women have begun to outnumber men within it. Is it really a coincidence?"

UK Mandates Rooftop Solar & Heat Pumps For New Homes Beginning In 2028 cleantechnica.com/2026/03/26/u...

Really hoping a full press & media review will be a green policy, we can’t survive as a democracy with such corrupt media monstering trans people, immigrants, benefit recipients etc and constantly platforming the far right.

This is why Daily Mail journalists are going after my family now. The right wing propaganda machine will not work on the Green Party. We're ready to end Rip off Britain, end the cost of living crisis and make hope normal again.

Signs to ‘US war crimes base’ appear in Fairford, Gloucestershire

i love pigeons

I think the clocks in UK go back tonight. Or forward. Not sure. Is it forward

Some resources to read more: aho.org/fact-sheets/... www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Have you ever heard of breast ironing? This week, while taking part in a 4-day free cancer screening initiative in Cameroon's South West region, I was reminded of the horrors it causes and why we need to talk about it. 🧵 A thread.

South Dakota Governor signs bills erasing trans people, making abortion and emergency contraception a felony, and allowing children to marry adults on the same day. theneedlenews.com/20... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

"Human teachers...had disagreed with the things the State had wanted them to teach. Sometimes they had wanted their students to read books." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Nazi shit: “By mandating sex testing & excluding transgender & intersex women from competition, the International Olympic Committee is embracing a policy that invites confusion, stigma and invasive scrutiny rather than clarity or safety” Everyone loses to this bigotry. Now everyone is a specimen.

A few months ago politicians (especially in the “Labour” Party) were trying to ridicule @zackpolanski.bsky.social for saying this. Now, I suspect they are trying to pretend they weren’t.

I'm so proud of my friend @cosmos.blacksky.app! Can't wait to dig into this gorgeous gorgeous book. Come see us in conversation at Cafe con Libros April 14! www.cafeconlibrosbk.com/event-info/b...

despicable. fuck this.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Of course slavery's a crime against humanity and every country that can't bring itself to recognize it as such is showing its whole cowardly ass.

she was knighted and then became a bishop? choose ONE chess figure, dammit

after texas passed the SB8 “women’s privacy act,” they threw state troopers on bathroom doors that checked your ID to see if you could wash your hands or pee. that’s…not great?

yeah, i will be honest and it may come as a surprise but i don’t like this idaho bill one bit.

I only wonder what the world would be like if this kind of energy was spent actually protecting children from pedophiles or protecting women from rapists, instead of protecting no one from completely imaginary dangers.

Slopworld is not inevitable. People have power! Use it!

maybe your news website is dying because every 3 millimeters of scrolling leads to a new video ad or "sign up for our newsletter!" pop-up modal I have to X out of and then the new ads that auto-load fuck up the text and now I have to scroll half a page to read the paragraph I was just on fuck you

solidarity with all my trans brothers sisters and themsters. You are loved. You are valid. You are enough and you are beautiful just the way you are. Fuck the IOC and the rest of these bigots.

Is this Labour government saying that people from war torn countries have no right to education? But I assume it is still ok to authorise weapon sales to countries that play a big part in those wars. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

'Discrimination': Noun: "the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people". This Labour government should be ashamed.

basically screaming "i only make this shit to fund my transphobic lifestyle" at this point