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I totally agree; while not the same, for those it targets it is far more persecutory and negative in impact. I hope people remember Section 28 and think you wouldn’t want something that bad to be repeated—let alone something that is worse.

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There are large protests, and quite frequent ones, but they are almost always given no media coverage by the mainstream UK media, which almost across the board is not merely routinely anti-trans, but grossly transphobic in how any issue to do with trans people is *framed*. It’s quite deplorable.

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It’s Section 28 all over again in the UK. In some future time, there will have to be an apology to trans people whose lives have been blighted by this fascist curtailment of their freedoms. But I don’t see any hope of the perpetrators of it ever seeing one solitary consequence of their cruelty.

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Burnham had the opportunity to reject the EHRC guidance which was tabled in Westminster in July/August. He did not. Burnham had the opportunity to reject the KCSIE guidance for Department of Education schools any time before September. He has failed protecting trans people’s rights in the UK.

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I can’t underline more that the most dire changes underway there were set in motion by Kier Starmer, but actually became ‘guidance’ and ‘policy’ that was allowed to pass into regulatory norms under the Andy Burnham regime, which is now, unquestionably, the most transphobic UK government in history.

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 02/10/2026

Cis people, read this post. The UK is NOT a safe place for trans people anymore, and it will only change for the better when cis people stand up for us. I’ve written polemics, I’ve written fiction to highlight how bad things are over there, but it won’t make any difference if cis people don’t help.

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That is one clever and mischievous cat.

Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 29/09/2026

There are some lovely Burley Griffin houses out here, of course (a friend lived in one in Armidale, other side of Melbourne), though they’re not as well documented (and looked after) as they should be.

Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 29/09/2026

The architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin? (She had some notable influence on the plans for Canberra.)

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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

YouTube video by Etch

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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

YouTube video by ABC Education

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 13/09/2026

This dude sounds like he’s parroting the rhetoric of the LGB alliance. Beyond ignorance, this attitude suggests malice.

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 11/09/2026

I celebrated 25 years of togetherness with my now wife on Thursday. We got together on 10 September 2001.

Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 08/09/2026

There’s definitely a story to be told, but you would never read it in the pages of The Times.

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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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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 06/09/2026

I wrote the skeet out and about one second after hitting send I thought, *of course* Rebecca would know about that… But yeah, I was a tender young thing of 21 when the first attack on the WTC happened and in my experience (non-US) it’s definitely not so well-known. Sorry for being pedantic!

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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 06/09/2026

(Anyway, I’m sure you know about that… and that episode of The Lone Gunman which was slightly prophetic, though there were novelists like Tom Clancy around who wrote scenarios using jet planes as weapons of destruction.)

Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️ @64ordle.au · 06/09/2026

Or rather, this was a reaction to what could have happened with the 1993 bombing of the WTC carpark, if it had been a more powerful detonation, which the attackers had hoped might cause one of the towers to collapse…

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Ghost 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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Michael is a broken vessel when it comes to treating trans people with respect, just as it was when he tried to address rampant misogyny in the atheist movement. He wouldn’t know the meaning of ‘respect’ if he tripped over it and got a black eye.

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

That sounds a little bit on the genocidal side of things, like Trump in the last week saying he ‘would end transgender’ after the mid-terms. Personally, I object to being ended.

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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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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.

My precognitive skills are very much lacking, but I can see around a few corners!

Hehe! Tempting, but I was aiming for realistic fiction. Admittedly both of those are possibly more likely than the NHS providing timely gender affirming care to trans youth under the current UK government ;)

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

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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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The BBC *really* *hates* trans people. Look at this bullshit framing about a trans man who had his medical procedure cancelled with less than a day’s notice. Boycott the BBC. bsky.app/profile/park...

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Haha, yes, I discovered that the plot of one of my stories about the shitshow that is the new anti-trans school guidance in the UK was actually plausible.

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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Fucking Spectator needs to be razed to the ground and the earth salted.

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

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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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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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I can’t underline more strongly that the guy’s belief that all trans people are child molesters is the 2020s rebadged version of the same irrational prejudice from the 1970s and 1980s, that all gay people are p…dophiles. Same bigotry, same apparent mental derangement, and anti-social tendencies.

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

The chap seems to have the exact same sort of aggressive derangement that Glinner does, of believing every target of his obvious bigotries is a pervert, and seems to have no ability whatsoever to even make an attempt of civility. There’s probably no hope of him being deprogrammed from this.

A Bluesky post by @letitbeta.bsky.social:

“This fucking nonce for starters”

Below, an image of @lordaslan.bsky.social playing his guitar, with another insult, “They’re not the brightest of the human species”

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Sad! I bet they don’t wash their hands though.