To have the power to have done something to stop abuse, victimisation or harm and to do nothing... I have deeply personal experience with this and it's simply inexcusable. Abhorrent. A sinister kind of harm.
And then to excuse that behaviour? No. Absolutely not.
Wow, an objectively terrible take. We're having our healthcare, our safety, our ability to earn a living, our dignity and our rights taken away/eroded and we should be.... Grateful for their silent allyship?
Another word for that: bystanders. In some ways they're worse than those doing the harm.
Zack on stage at wembley.
Trans rights are human rights.
Thank you, Wembley.
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For the last few days, our lift has been out of order because it made a very scary noise. We are pleased to report that we are once again fully flat access to all galleries with a lift in full working order.
It turned out, the lift needed lube. The moral of the story is lube is IMPORTANT.
New School Guidance announces:
Full bathroom ban.
Full PE ban.
Full school trip accommodation ban.
Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/
I was citing the figure in the following tweet. Wikipedia says between 1 in 20k and 1 in 99k in the general population so don't agree with the assertion or comparison there.
An amazing thread but this stat stood out... In the general population it's more like 1 in 20k
Such oppressive practices all designed to enforce patriarchal norms at the expense of the careers, health and dignity of so many women.
Since the #Olympics are on, let's repost a classic thread here: a brief history of the practice of "sex verification" in sport.
Content warning: This thread will mention anti-intersex discrimination, FGM practices and body shaming.
Two years on HRT today and honestly it's so surreal. So much has changed that I struggle to really even recognise or remember who I was (or was trying to be).
I know this though... I'm at far greater peace than I've ever been and that is the only validation I need. The rest is just cherries on top.
Did you see all the “Countryside is too white”, “countryside is racist” hoo ha last week?
If you were anywhere near RW media or the hell site, you can’t have missed it!
Want to know where it all came from? Why there were over 30 “news” pieces about it in just 4 days?
Let’s take a look!👀
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I love this one. I also love that you can't see while your eyes are moving.
This is just heartbreaking 😔
I'm going to look at getting rid of my TV license over this stuff. As much as I love iPlayer and Radio 6, this level of frankly abusive language is abhorrent.
(and yes I know I don't need a TV license for the radio)
Yeah, I had to double check. Might actually complain about that one as it's nuts.
'A political calculation' In his opening argument, O'Neill said there was no case law from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg which says trans identifying male prisoners have to be housed in the female prison estate.
Awful, typical and thank you for continuing to push. Here's an article recently where they used "trans identifying male" not as a quote: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on Wes Streeting in today's London Standard 💜
They're also using "trans identifying males" online to mean trans women. I've given up complaining.
I cannot recommend City Mapper enough! Really takes the stress out of London travel.
Entirely unsurprising the BBC reporting framed it differently: BBC News - Watchdogs raise concerns over transgender prisoners
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oh wow... On the restaurants list it goes!
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Trans people having been watching the BBC do this for years on issues affecting us so this comes as no surprise, but still it's an incredible failure of journalism.
First gig of the year: Fantastic Negrito! Great fun, amazing stage presence
Baroness Cass backs ban on social media for under-16s Oliver Wright - Policy Editor, Ben Clatworthy - Whitehall Editor, Max Kendix, Stefan Boscia The paediatric doctor who led the damning review into NHS treatment of children with gender dysphoria will spearhead an effort to ban under-16s from using social media. Baroness Cass said medics were seeing young people fall victim to sextortion, cyberbullying and radicalisation, and that the “longer we wait, the more children we fail”. She is now leading a cross-party move in the Lords to ban under-16s from apps such as Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram. An open letter signed by 60 Labour MPs urges the government “to show leadership on this issue” by raising the minimum age for using social media. Cass, writing for The Times, likened the danger posed to children by social media to other preventable health threats. “Consider nut allergies. When children died, their families demanded action to protect others,” she said. “We did not tell grieving parents we needed more data, or that causation wasn’t conclusive, or that most children like nuts so we wouldn’t act.” Cass has tabled an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would introduce an Australia-style ban on social media for under-16s, which is backed by the Conservatives as well as Baroness Berger, the Labour peer. No government decision has yet been made on whether to oppose the amendment in a vote expected to take place on Wednesday. Sir Keir Starmer is said to have become more open to a ban amid growing pressure from backbenchers. Government sources said another option under consideration could involve raising the “digital age of consent”, which governs whose data can be processed by internet companies, from 13 to 16. Ian Russell, whose daughter Molly took her own life at 14 after being bombarded with self-harm and suicide content, has said bans could have “unintended consequences” that leave children at “greater risk of harm by treating the s
Ian Russell, whose daughter Molly took her own life at 14 after being bombarded with self-harm and suicide content, has said bans could have “unintended consequences” that leave children at “greater risk of harm by treating the symptoms, not the problem”. Russell, who chairs the Molly Rose Foundation, and the NSPCC, the children’s charity, believe the law should be tightened to put the onus on technology companies. They want an Online Wellbeing Act to force platforms to build algorithms that direct accurate, reliable and safe content to children, rather than feeding them potentially dangerous posts. They said in a joint statement: “Blanket bans on social media would fail to deliver the improvement in children’s safety and wellbeing that they so urgently need. They are a blunt response that fails to address the successive shortcomings of tech companies and governments to act decisively.” Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, said yesterday that she believed the country is “not doing enough” to keep children and young people safe. She told the BBC: “I do think we need to look at the existing legislation we’ve got and see whether it goes far enough. There are strong arguments for banning under-16s from social media but there are also real concerns ... about whether it pushes children to darker, less regulated places on the internet.” A government spokesman said: “It’s important that we properly scrutinise the evidence to make sure that we take the right decisions.”
Hilary Cass, who wants to ban u16s from social media, comparing social media use to a nut allergy because that's how she does science for kids.
Darlington statement that the presence of a trans person "violated dignity" just feels great when being told trans people should be treated with dignity and respect (as long as, you know, nobody else is in any way put out, confused, ill informed, prejudiced, bigoted or sometimes just even near us)
A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.
So. 2025 has been the most significant year of my life so far. And it's not even particularly close.
Trans rights came under attack this year in the UK. I have been trying my best to help fight back.
I've been a little busy. Here's a thread of some of what I have been up to 🧵
Why did you transition, wrong answers only
I love it when men slowly and gently explain things to me that I already know
We’ve today formally written to multiple public bodies about BBC reporting on transgender people.
Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6
