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Hel @gracewells1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The exclusive short story from July Last year on my Patreon has been released on scribblehub. A secret, an accident, and a camping trip. www.scribblehub.com/series/25799...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026

Every day, the stories from the UK read like a dystopian novel.

Screenshot of a Reddit post from r/transgenderUK titled "Excluded from school for supporting a trans girl." A parent describes their daughter, who has Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS), choosing to use the boys' restrooms in solidarity with a trans classmate who was forced to do so, resulting in her being excluded from school.

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hi! This is out today and it’s awesome! And I am proud to be connected to it! SUPPORT TRANS PEOPLE!!! WE ARE FUCKING MAGICAL!!!!

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What Happened at Aleister Crowley’s Boleskine House? | #WITCHYAF

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kimasher.bsky.social @kimasher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Happy 70th birthday to Australian television today! 📺🎂🇦🇺 youtu.be/UCRmx6g6mGE?...

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ABC'S FIRST TELEVISION BROADCAST, 1956

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 08/09/2026

Trans rights are under greater attack than ever before. We cannot let politicians claim no one told them. Our friends at @transsolidarity.bsky.social are hosting a mass lobby TOMORROW from 1 – 5pm, in the Houses of Parliament. Join us bit.ly/4i91O8O

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Mass Lobby for Trans Equality - 9th September 2026

The law around trans equality is fundamentally broken. Government inaction is hanging trans people and organisations out to dry - with a confusing mess of challenging rules and lawfare.

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 28/05/2026

The hilarious thing about being queer is that sometimes they do shit like this to you /before you’re even aware that you’re queer/. That’s what happened to 13-y-o prepubescent me. Oh sorry, ambiguous meaning of hilarious (depends on your point of view)

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender” Today is exactly 5 years since @theguardian.com censored the words of non-binary academic, Judith Butler. These are the censored words. Still valid now.

It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender. The anti-gender ideology movement is not opposing a specific account of gender, but seeking to eradicate "gender" as a concept or discourse, a field of study, an approach to social power. Sometimes they claim that "sex" alone has scientific standing, but other times they appeal to divine mandates for masculine domination and difference. They don't seem to mind contradicting themselves.
The Terfs (trans exclusionary radical feminists) and the so-called gender critical writers have also rejected the important work in feminist philosophy of science showing how culture and nature interact (such as Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, EM Hammonds or Anne Fausto-Sterling) in favor of a regressive and spurious form of biological essentialism. So they will not be part of the coalition that seeks to fight the anti-gender movement. The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times. So the Terfs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which include high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people.
The anti-gender movement circulates a spectre of "gender" as a force of destruction, but they never actually read any works in gender studies. Quick and fearful conclusions take the place of considered judgments. Yes, some work on gender is difficult and not everyone can read it, so we have to do better in reaching a broader public. As important as it is, however, to make complex concepts available to a popular audience, it is equally important to encourage intellectual inquiry as part of public life. Unfortunately, we are living in anti-intellectual times, and neo-fascism is becoming more normalized.

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Princess Daisy 🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪👑 🇵🇸🇨🇺🇸🇩🇺🇦🇮🇷🇻🇪🇨🇩🇪🇭 @daisygeekytgirl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I forgot to share this update yesterday but the trans-inclusive travel advisory has been changed. (1/2)

A map of the countries by safety.

Red places (Do not travel) are places you should avoid.
Orange places (Reconsider your need to travel) are places you should try to avoid unless you really have to go.
Yellow places (Exercise a high degree of caution) are probably fine but keep an eye out.
Green places (Exercise normal precautions) are relatively safe but do be careful since nowhere is risk free.

Some countries have regional differences. They are represented with black lines except Canada since its provinces can be separated on the map.

A map of the countries and their regions by safety.

Red places (Do not travel) are places you should avoid.
Orange places (Reconsider your need to travel) are places you should try to avoid unless you really have to go.
Yellow places (Exercise a high degree of caution) are probably fine but keep an eye out.
Green places (Exercise normal precautions) are relatively safe but do be careful since nowhere is risk free.

Some countries have regional differences.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dear BBC News, If you'd like to actually fulfill your mandate to inform the public of the reasons people take small boats please feel free to invite me onto any of your shows. I'm a world expert in this with an award winning book on the topic. Or you can just have a man stood shouting in the sea.

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 03/09/2026

This is appalling, as though Auntie had decided to berate the survivors from the SIEV-X. Australia‘s ‘stop the boats’ anti-immigration racism has begotten so many illegitimate children. Abolish the BBC.

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An Anarchist Who Tried Her Best @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I feel like there’s something deeply, deeply tragic that Terry Gilliam, the Brazil / Munchausen / Don Quixote guy, who spent his career celebrating the triumph of human imagination and possibility over the “realistic”, became a TERF in his old age. Eventually just switched sides to join forces…

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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 02/09/2026

Today, as many of us will sadly be aware, the Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 guidance came into force. This guidance will not keep children safe. I have written to the Minister for Education, telling her that she is fully responsible for the harm this guidance will cause these poor kids.

"Dear Secretary of State,

Today was my daughter’s first day at high school. For her, it was everything a first day of high school should be: excitement, nerves, new teachers, new friends and the beginning of a new chapter. She walked through those school gates expecting to belong there, and came home with the joy of a child who has started something new.

This is how it should be.

But if she was trans this experience would be very different.

Thousands of trans children will have experienced something very different today. As Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 comes into force, an estimated 3,500 trans children starting secondary school today have instead been left facing the possibility of being outed, segregated or made to feel that their very existence is a problem. While other children were worrying about whether they would make friends or find their classrooms, some trans children were worrying about whether the adults responsible for their safety would expose them, exclude them or treat them as fundamentally different from their peers.

You have done this in the name of safeguarding, but there is nothing safe about making vulnerable children afraid of the very institutions that are supposed to protect them. There is nothing protective about policies that can make a child feel that being honest about who they are could put them at risk. And there is nothing responsible about ignoring the foreseeable consequences because it is politically easier to appease a small but extraordinarily noisy anti-trans movement than to stand up for the children you were elected to serve.

You chose them. You chose their campaigners, their rhetoric and their relentless pressure over the wellbeing of the children affected by your decisions.

You were warned. Parents warned you. Teachers warned you. Children's organisations warned you. Trans people warned you. For years, you have been given every opportunity to stop and consider where this road leads..."

"There are an estimated 50,000 trans children in our schools...They deserve to walk through their school gates excited about seeing their friends, learning something new and finding their place in the world. Instead, your Government has made thousands of them wonder whether they are welcome in the first place...

When you deliberately create an environment of fear, stigma, forced disclosure and exclusion around a group of already vulnerable young people, you cannot simply shrug your shoulders when those children suffer. When some of them become isolated, when some stop asking adults for help, when some become so overwhelmed by the hostility surrounding them that they lose hope, you cannot claim that nobody could have seen it coming...

And that means you cannot later hide behind the comforting fiction that you were simply following the evidence, or that you had no alternative, or that somebody else was responsible. You are the Government. You have the power to decide what kind of schools our children grow up in, and today you have chosen to make those schools less safe for trans children.

If a trans child is pushed further into despair because of policies your Government knowingly chose to implement, remember this moment. Remember the warnings. Remember the parents who told you what you were doing. Remember that you had the power to protect these children and chose political expediency instead.

Their lives are being put on the line.

And if the worst happens, the responsibility cannot simply be passed around until nobody is accountable. Their blood will be on your hands.

...Every child deserves to feel that way.

Including trans children.

You are the Secretary of State for Education. Your responsibility is not to the loudest campaigners, the easiest headlines or the politics of the moment. It is to the children standing at those school gates.

Protect them. All of them. Before it is too late.'

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The S4C public-service Welsh-language news managed to get through a whole interview feature and article on the same trans person denied healthcare without mentioning "biological sex" or a 29-year-old's lost breastfeeding opportunities, btw The BBC specifically is making a choice here

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Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 02/09/2026

Yes. This isn’t about separating art from the artist. This is about the fact that if you watch or give any attention to this show (including piracy) you are putting money into a bigotry machine. You’re literally funding hate.

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 03/09/2026

So I suppose the story I wrote last month, where some inventive impersonation happens to obtain a prescription for testosterone, wasn’t that far off the mark. Fuck the NHS. archiveofourown.org/collections/...

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 31/08/2026

The new ‘Keep Children Safe In Education’ guidance that effectively requires transphobic segregation of trans students in UK schools, takes effect tomorrow, 1 September 2026. The UK government has stripped trans youth of medical care, and now they’re going to make their lives a misery in education.

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 01/09/2026

I don’t think a lot of cis people in the UK realise just how horrifying this repressive environment is going to be for trans children and youth. I wrote a few stories to flesh out how bad it could possibly be, but I feel sure it will be worse in practice. archiveofourown.org/collections/...

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First Day and other stories | Archive of Our Own

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 03/09/2026

It seems both cowardly and exploitative of the Bigoted Bullies Corporation (BBC) to relaunch The Infinite Monkey Cage like so, without explaining why Robin Ince *isn’t* involved. Boycott the BBC.

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Tom @tomel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Man who spent decades making a point of being cruel to people shocked to find the cruelty is the point.

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 02/09/2026

But, but, but… That opinion piece in The Atlantic *told me* that “Sorry America: Donald Trump Is Too Funny To Be a Fascist”, so how are we to reconcile this genocidal piece of eliminationist rhetoric except as pretending to be a lil bit fascist for “fun” on Fox. /sarcasm Actually not fun. At all.

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 01/09/2026

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First Day and other stories | Archive of Our Own

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 01/09/2026

Genuinely pathetic. Fuck off, Sir Queer Harmer.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Trans👏symbol👏does👏not👏mean👏gender👏neutral👏 That👏says👏trans👏segregation👏

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Trans human rights should not be dependent in any way on biology At the same time, the science is pretty clear that transgender modality is a natural phenomenon

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 21/07/2026

/First Day./ A transgender girl’s first day back at an ordinary London high school, a little over a month from now, once new guidance and policies come into effect for the 2026/27 academic year. Please note the content warnings if that is needful for you. www.patreon.com/catherinecow...

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First Day | Catherine Cowie

Synopsis: a transgender girl’s first day back at an ordinary London high school, a little over a month from now, once new guidance and polic

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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

It's utterly heartbreaking that in the past two years trans kids have been so specifically targeted by Labour: Told they can't have medical treatment, only conversion therapy Told they are not allowed play sports with their friends Schools, even if they want to be supportive are not allowed to be

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 31/08/2026

Monozygotic (MZ) or identical twins are significantly more likely to both be trans (21.2%, 47/222) than the case of dizygotic (DZ) of non-identical twins (8.7%, 21/241), out of 463 twin pairs, suggesting genetics *does* play some part contributing to gender identity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Using twin data to examine heritable and intrauterine hormonal influences on transgender and gender diverse identities - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Using twin data to examine heritable and intrauterine hormonal influences on transgender and gender diverse identities

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In a brief moment while the kids are out the house I'm having a quick cry before regrouping, making plans A, B and C, and trying to act like the responsible adult in the room who has got clear solutions to systemic oppression and eliminationist violence.

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We are working towards alternative options but those options haven't yet worked out. It's really scary and stressful. Most of all it's deeply sad. She has actually been happy at school. That happiness has been stolen from her.

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

For many, today is the last weekend before school restarts. Sorting uniform, finding books, preparing to be reunited with friends. For my kid, who won't be returning to school, it is a time of huge uncertainty. We don't yet have a clear path forward. English schools are no longer a viable option.

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 31/08/2026

I thought about Cal’s daughter a lot over the last month when I was writing my recent collection of stories, because the most recent update made her immediate future seem bleak if she had to return to her school for the new academic year in the UK. I don’t think a lot of people in the UK are aware…

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 29/08/2026

You’d have to have rocks in your head to believe that people who just want to live honestly and true to themselves, are somehow an organised terrorist group (as alleged by the Trump regime in the US) or ‘a huge problem in a sane world’ (in the words of a well-known UK transphobe). This is bonkers.

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 29/08/2026

Louis’ observation here about the blatant double standard is a sad indictment on the ‘newspaper’ (a term barely fit for most of the UK’s gutter-dwelling establishments of supposed journalism) that under editor Kath Viner, gleefully participated in the racist free-for-all that killed Jason Arday.

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NHS cancelling surgeries for adults even after they’ve already paid for travel + accommodation and waited years to get there. Some were about to be wheeled into theatre! Every manager responsible for this decision must be sacked and every patient paid compensation.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Its been compared to the great migration.

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Over 400,000 transgender people have fled their home states for safer ones since the 2024 election
This marks one of the largest domestic relocations in modern U.S. history.

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 29/08/2026

Wow. Bullshit in the UK from high up within the NHS playing politics, is completely indefensible. Normal Island being normal yet again… (This is NOT, I’ll repeat that, NOT normal)

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Cassie Workman is Witchy AF is finally coming!!!! so proud to be a part of this!!! Hail Satan!!!!

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Cassie Workman is Witchy AF | OFFICIAL TRAILER

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 28/08/2026

The fifth in my series of stories about transphobia in UK schools is now freely available! Fifth Column Following on from the previous story, the teachers at the high school find themselves in conflict over physical harm to one of the trans students. archiveofourown.org/collections/...

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Fifth Column - Catherine Cowie (cathycowie) - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]

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Steven Brumby @stevenpbrumby.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This flash flood in Nepal-Tibet is horrific and here’s hoping the international community will offer every assistance to the local community and all the visitors impacted. The trigger appears to be glacier collapse - which scientists have been warning about for years … www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Collapsed glacier likely caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, scientists say

Preliminary investigations by scientists have pointed to a collapsed glacier as the cause, highlighting the issue of rapidly melting Himalayan ice.

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 26/08/2026

Ick. The poisoned IP poisoning other properties, just to remind y’all there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism …

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 26/08/2026

British press accountability challenge level: IMPOSSIBLE

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 26/08/2026

Good grief, the gimmicks never cease. There was never a need to change the old flavour.

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the migraine has achieved sentience🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraculous.net · 25/08/2026

hey you know how i talk about the comorbidity of hate? misogyny is the most readily acceptable hate for boys and men to start with. every single racist, transphobe and homophobe all start somewhere and most often it's misogyny.

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