I spent the last week writing up this essay on what it means to be trans in this moment. What it means to live under authoritarianism as the scapegoated minority of the moment and how it feels inescapable as an infinite loop.
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Yes, I admit this is a more angry video than I usually publish, but, hey, I am angry. As with removing puberty blockers for trans young people this has nothing to do with preventing medical harm. If it were the bans would be blanket bans. This is about saying trans individuals should not exist.
Labour has been hoping that it can abandon left wing and progressive politics, and that the trade unions they were founded by – and who pay their bills – would just put up with it. Looks like that is no longer the case.
These files confirm that Mandelson's malign influence runs through this Labour government.
Starmer knew exactly the choice he was making when he appointed him. He has to go.
I say stuff to NHS managers like “There is no solution to this that doesn’t involve some of your colleagues being punished,” and they look at me like I’m from Mars. The idea that we can be harmed and that we might want or deserve redress for that harm is incomprehensible.
I’d say what does the Labour gov think is gonna happen with trans people when you ban HRT but I reckon they genuinely do not think about it and just think we’ll drop this whole “being trans“ thing and see they’re doing it for our own good
@richardburgon.bsky.social : "how did it even get to the stage where the PM was interviewing Mandelson.. the simple answer is political. It's because it suited the interests of a tiny faction in the Labour party, funded by big business, who wanted Mandelson at the heart of things.." 🎯
Trying not to catastrophise about the fact that the review of hormones for 16-18yo trans people that led to their banning for new patients is being followed up by a review for hormones for adult trans people. But am failing tbh and just want to run away from everything
PM's Chief Secretary Darren Jones says the govt paid £75k to Mandelson because it would have cost the taxpayer more to contest the payment.
Really poor reasoning. The govt should have contested payment to avoid giving cash to a man sacked for lying about the extent of his relationship with Epstein.
@annehealthcare.bsky.social have produced a very useful guide about what to do if your GP stops your hormones prescription or refuses care. Remember you have rights and options, and they have legal, ethical and professional obligations.
From mandatory ID cards to arresting pensioners for holding up cardboard signs to cosy deals with US tech spy firms:
It's good to see lawyers pushing back on their increasingly authoritarian Govenrment.
We must protect jury trials.
Begging these people to read my paper on how we should be evaluating evidence in a way that makes actual sense.
Imagine if Israel had been invaded would they say '700,000 had been displaced'.
No they would be screaming about War Crimes and extermination.
But of course they are happy to see the people in Lebanon killed.
Scrapping jury trials is an affront to the very foundations of our democracy.
From the moment this government was elected, it has come after the civil liberties we all hold dear.
This is yet another outrageous assault on our fundamental freedoms. I will be voting against it.
Very excited to be appearing at Wembley Arena tomorrow night as part of Trans Mission.
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It’s these caterwauling idiots who slowed our move to clean, renewable energy leaving us economically exposed and the plaything of tyrants like Putin exploiting oil & gas markets. They are the enemies of Britain masquerading as patriots. They’ve destroyed this country and will bury it eventually
Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the governments jury trial reforms
Every Labour MP should listen to her incredibly powerful and brave statement in parliament today
You read the fine promises in the Government's VAWG strategy - and then you listen to this.
"I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do," as James Baldwin noted.
As a rape survivor myself, I agree with everything Jess says, and desperately wish we didn't live in a world where people like Charlotte have to disclose their own experiences in opposition to the weaponising of our suffering.
Netanyahu has tried for years to get a US president to go along with his desire for a war with Iran. He finally found one. Then he used chemical weapons on Lebanon. This man is committing war crimes and igniting hatred that will start more killings and destruction everywhere.
Cclegraph 'Cambridge has been infected by trans activism. We're launching a battle for women's rights'
Again, the business of British newspapers is in large part just recruiting and exploiting the most bizarre cranks you can find for your horrible, unrelenting reactionary projects. IIRC the one on the right here is the daughter of a Times arts columnist, who is also a committed Gender War wacko.
The IDF went into a hospital.
Forced everyone out at gunpoint.
Then left newborn babies to starve and decompose in incubators.
Bombing a school is nothing to them.
The most frustrating features of the anti trans side is how they constantly cite systematic reviews as objective when they're filled with subjective choices that can be adjusted to ensure certain outcomes. From exclusion criteria to individual analysis, it's still subjective. This is the proof.
In the words of Jon Sopel: "What the actual fuck?"
GB News has suggested migration in the UK is a "genocide" of white Brits.
Is conspiracy theory the only thing that can get through its guests' "dull, dead synapses"?
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Trump is spending $1 billion a day waging war on Iran. Meanwhile...
Trump's sons are investing in a drone company that could soon receive Pentagon contracts.
And of course Trump's Big Oil donors stand to gain windfall profits as the price of oil skyrockets.
War is a racket.
Israel is using white phosphorus AGAIN in Lebanon - the chemical weapon ignites instantly upon contact with oxygen, and sticks to skin
I generally assume that political parties know what their constituencies think better than the rest of us do: they spend so much money on polling and focus groups.
But I would be *amazed* if they understood how viscerally they are loathed by young progressives for pushing trans people under a bus.
