The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

Breath of the Wild.

'centrists', liberals, whatever you want to call them who think that facts will beat out fascism and that science will win the day should be reminded of things like this they all keep saying transphobia is 'reasonable concerns' or 'common sense' while completely ignoring what scientists have to say

In between last Thursday and our University Open Days last week, the road outside the main entrance to the campus was plastered in England/UK flags hung from the streetlights. That this happened directly before the Open Day appears to be directly targeting the diverse groups who would attend.

'I play for Manchester City and I've had abuse for supporting trans rights - but it only encourages me' Kerstin Casparij says the messages she received from online trolls were just a tiny snapshot of what she imagines trans people have to face on a regular basis.

No outrage from me...... She's bang on the money here. #nadiyahussain #charliekirk #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes #selectiveoutrage #racism

Buried details: the 18% of kids whose identities shifted over the course of the study were overwhelmingly between binary trans and non-binary or vice versa. The number who shifted between binary cis and trans was very low indeed - out of a subset of 254, precisely *one* kid shifted in this way.

Never a truer word spoken.

Less than 24 hours ago the @nionwomen.bsky.social petition of women in support of the trans community had just hit 50,000. Now it has passed 52,000. Please sign and share if you have not already. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

🟢 New leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social on how to grow the economy. "We need to destroy this really bad metaphor that the household budget is anything like a national economy."

adding fictional characters to art: thread

As a cis woman, I haven’t seen a single anti-trans/“GC” argument that would actually make anything fairer or safer for me. But I’ve seen plenty that would make things worse. [9/9]

The “trans people in sport” discourse is flaring up again this morning. It’s the same question: do trans women have a biological advantage? (Notice how they erase trans men entirely.) Here’s my hot take: So what if they do? 🧵 [1/9]

Their proposal was subjected to a procedural device called "Move Next Business", which is essentially "not only does conference not agree with this, but it regards it as s waste of time to even debate it" This requires a 2/3rds majority. It got at least 4/5ths.

For those who pay attention to UK politics, the Liberal Democrats and #LDConf A bunch of TERFs tried first thing this morning to impose a transphobic policy on our internal elections (they wanted to exclude trans women from the gender balance criteria) They failed, spectacularly.

University Open Day today, so it is time to unleash the big guns.

I very much like the idea of 'sex' being a beautiful surface in R3 with two main peaks but plenty of interesting geometry in between.

Transphobes dictate which people are male and female. This is incorrect. You can perceive a person's sex but you don't get to dictate what sex that person is. Each individual decides what sex they are. To not accept them as that sex is a removal of their human rights & dignity.

I think today might be a switch-off day again. It's so disheartening.

Support your local non-league/terrorist club. We are the Clapton, always antifascist. Donald Trump, get in the bin.

Here's a better idea: every data centre you build, you build enough renewable energy to power it, and you supply the waste heat from your cooling system to power homes and businesses nearby. Simple. Common sense. And fair.

Kerstin Casparij is such a wonderful person 💜

This is a seriously good read. "And even if I were wrong on strategy (I’m not), the moral cost here is just too great. Legislating that hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens cannot safely leave their homes, and that the rest of us must be complicit in this oppression, is evil."

As if it couldn't get any worse for Labour, the Spanish have decided to invade.

How do we call people in rather than out? The world is complicated - and our conversations should reflect that.

Here’s the letter with full list of signatures. We know where to shop now! www.transsolidarityalliance.com/businesses-o...

Queen

‘Heroic Christian leader’ is an unusual way of saying ‘bigoted, fascist arsehole’, but perhaps this is one of those UK/US English things.

How do we fix this mess?

If hundreds of thousands of people's lives can be simply upended against all understanding of previous case and statute law, and government does nothing to stop it, then how can you have any kind of stable life going forwards? /2

Having had time to think over the past couple of weeks while I've been out of the country, I've come to realise that what's happened already is a complete destruction of trust in government and the courts. /1

"You've let me down, you've let the squadron down... and worst of of all you've let yourself down."

Fantastic work here by @transsolidarity.bsky.social, highlighting the ridiculous burden the EHRC’s new Code of Practice would place on UK business, forcing them into trans-exclusionary practices that are “incompatible with modern business values”. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

Just when you think there can’t be a new low. Some people just want to watch the world burn.

I need to be distracted from my SC anger, but Paravision and XG are serving up one of the dullest games of Dota I have ever seen in this lower bracket final. This TI is sorely missing Heroic.

This woman calling @lbc.co.uk yesterday about Charlie Kirk and “free speech” was brilliant. Vanessa Feltz flummoxed.

Adding a wholesome post into the abyss. Today I went swimming for the first time since transitioning. The local trans group organizes a session where we have the whole pool booked out, which avoids any awkwardness. It was so good to see so many trans people just enjoying themselves.

I had never heard of this Kirk guy before Wednesday. I am now utterly sick of the sight of him being plastered over our media daily.

“I and my two female colleagues who were the joint authors, went through the act section by section in considerable detail, asking ourselves which interpretation works,” he explained. Read: we had the conclusion we wanted and crowbarred it in, ignoring all contrary evidence. archive.ph/ADBFC

“I noticed you were considering moving slightly and wish to caution you against it.”

there literally is NO ISSUE WITH TRANS WOMEN IN WOMEN'S SPORTS www.forbes.com/sites/lindse...

This is extremely offensive. Most research is unfunded and we are expected to continually produce at the same level on an ever-shrinking amount of allotted time. They have always traded on academic’s love of their research and willingness to invest their free time to it.

I was wolf-whistled on the way to the station this morning. Unsure if transphobic and ironic or misogynistic. Not quite sure how annoyed to be. Why can’t people just leave other people alone?

A quick lurk this evening on Bsky, but had to laugh at this, which appears in the SM transphobic nonsense they submitted to ONS. Apparently it's OK for anyone to ask about GRCs if you want to nip in for a wee, though. They are such a bunch of hypocritical morons.

PS. Before I go, mathematicians are fucking great, this rocks and I am proud to have contributed to it. www.lms.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

I think I need to hide away from the news cycle for a while for my own good. Fare the well in the meantime, Bluesky friends. On a happy note, I was out in Sheffield this evening, nobody cared that I used the correct loos and everyone was very nice. Fuck the EHRC.

New statement from the Lemkin Institute of Genocide Prevention, released today (5th September)

If reports of the EHRC guidance are correct, it is not compatible with trans people's human rights. It would usher in a system of segregation, policed via threats of legal action by those with money to burn. Trans people, as well as people who are not trans, face harassment.