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Lyra 💕 @lyra-scotland.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This report is certainly a worthwhile read by Amnesty. It does some digging on how much anti-trans propaganda we see in the UK and the numbers it find are shocking. On average 9 articles PER DAY on trans people in the last 5 years. Does that seem proportional? media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Li...
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Just checked and this is real - Scottish Labour’s manifesto refers to trans people using slurs and commits to a policy of explicit segregation in public life
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
And there it is, what Labour means when they say they are for Workers. They are for you ONLY if you are a worker to their statisfaction
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🔴 'Domestic Terrorism': ICE Contractor Palantir's Tools for Tracking Dissent Peter Thiel's firm – which has contracts with the UK's NHS and MoD – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE's data platform to conduct mass deportation, @nafeez.bsky.social reports
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‘Domestic Terrorism’: ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent
Peter Thiel’s controversial data firm – which holds contracts with the UK’s NHS and Ministry of Defence – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s data platform to ...
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 07/10/2025
Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Was able to contribute a little to the Eugenics zine featured amongst the brilliant collection alone. Highly recc keeping an eye on the DARK materials, they’re written in plain language so can be a great way to introduce folks to some complex topics! #disablityresearch #zine
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/06/2025
The EHRC is bound to protect the right to protest. Instead, it is trying to crush it. That's why Good Law Project is intervening to resist an injunction which would prevent – and criminalise – protest on the EHRC premises. goodlawproject.org/the-ehrc-is-...
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The EHRC is silencing trans rights activists
The EHRC was created to protect our rights. Now it's trying to quash peaceful demonstrations
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Had the honour of getting to cowrite a response to the recent UKSC verdict & the creep of biological fundamentalism with the incredible Dr Cas Lovelock, reflecting on our personal & professional lived experience. #transrights #disabilityjustice #transkidsdeservebetter #lgbtq
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Out of the Clinics, Into the Streets!
Authors Ambrose McMonagle and Cassandra Lovelock reflect on the growing fervour of anti-trans rhetoric and the on-going failures of the political establishments through lived experiences, both persona...
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 09/05/2025
Trans and being told by your employer you can no longer use the toilets at work (especially if not out to all your colleagues)? A cis woman who has been challenged when using the toilet? Otherwise affected by the SC judgment? Please share & fill out this form: goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...
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The Supreme Court ripped up the Equality Act – what has it done to you? | Good Law Project
Use the form to securely share your experience with us.
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Presented “Disability and Deinstitutionalisation: revisiting Lennox Castle” to other sociology students at Glasgow Uni, reflecting on the work I’ve carried out in this 1st year of my PhD. Many thanks to Dr Lovelock for advice on presenting sensitive & emotional research, & driving me to fieldwork.
Ambrose stands in the bottom left corner of an image, wearing a black skirt, black boots, white shirt and black hat. They are speaking voice notes into their phone and balancing with their walking stick against overgrown grass. In front of them behind spiked fencing is the ruined entrance to Lennox Castle, affected by graffiti and fire damage. Ambrose stands with their walking stick and wearing a pinstripe grey suit trousers and waistcoat, and a bolo tie. They are presenting a slide on “models of disability” which contains an image by disabled artist Dolly Sen of a charity tin which has a label on it of “Help the normals”, and a table with key features of the medical and social models of disability. Listed under medical is: disability = impairment, biological reality, individual deficit & medical intervention, prevention and care. Listed under social  is disability / impairment, social barriers, sociopolitical & environmental, and activism and disabled people’s rights. The presentation is in a small seminar room with white walls and red carpet and black chairs.
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Edinburgh said No Pasarán! (Incredible community organising by @rtie.org) #transrights #queeracademics #lgbtq
Ambrose wears a denim blue jumpsuit with badges sewn on reading They/Them; Trans Rights are Human Rights; and Gender Bender Cisstem Offender. They are smiling behind a blue face mask. They hold a homemade protest sign which reads “I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape” (Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer). The sign is decorated with drawings of flowers. There is a large crowd of people around them, all protesting for trans rights. A progress pride flag, and a non binary flag, wave against a blue sky with scattered clouds, above the Princes Street skyline in Edinburgh
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Malena 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇷 @malenagla.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🧵For Women Scotland crowdfunded £230,000 for this trial. I am going to tell you as an actual feminist what £230000 pounds could have done for women in the UK. -Fund housing for women escaping gender violence for eg it could have paid two months of rent for about 160 women
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Next Chapter Scotland @nextchapterscotland.org.uk · 07/04/2025
Have you spent 10 or more years in prison? Prison Reform Trust is looking for research participants.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 26/03/2025
Yeah, this is what epistemicide looks like. "Do not treat trans people like they are deserving of dignity. Do not speak against their dehumanization. It is illegal to push back against their vilification. The right to spread transphobia supersedes trans perspectives and voices."
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
For those interested in the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 context, the Scottish Union of Mental Patients (SUMP) was est 2yrs prior to its London counterpart. SUMP presented their “Petition for the Redress of Grievances put forward by the patients in Hartwood Hospital, Shotts Lanarkshire” on 18th August 1971. 1/?
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 18/03/2025
Having tackled other societal menaces, such as disabled adults and transgender children, Starmer announced yesterday that he’d be forming a posse to erase every last galago, before they can get their tiny paws on our precious bananas.
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Starmer: “The moral case for bludgeoning those cute bush baby things you see at the zoo”
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has issued a statement explaining the “moral case” for bashing to death the adorable, wide-eyed bush babies holding back our nation.  Having tackled other societal menaces,...
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
If you want to write to your Labour MP about disability benefit cuts but have limited spoons, here’s a template from @sensecharity.bsky.social you can use: t.co/E8QB6EDi9o Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!
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https://action.sense.org.uk/page/167765/action/1?ea.tracking.id=twt-org
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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Labour’s Proposed Disability Cuts Will Kill People – We Need You To Help Us Fight CN: DWP I need everyone in the UK who isn't directly affected by these potential cuts to read this. Sunday was my birthday, and I spent it in a planning meeting with DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts) about how to…
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Labour’s Proposed Disability Cuts Will Kill People – We Need You To Help Us Fight
CN: DWP I need everyone in the UK who isn't directly affected by these potential cuts to read this. Sunday was my birthday, and I spent it in a planning meeting with DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts) about how to fight Labour's Green Paper on cuts to disability benefits (because of course I did). I have spent the time since mostly curled in a small ball under my duvet, trying to get my heart rate down.
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Already making notes for new readings from this! My personal reccs would be: - Care Work, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - Tonguebreaker, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - Decarcerating Disability, Liat Ben-Moshe - Empire of Normality, Robert Chapman - Become Unbutterable, Fiona Robertson
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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 21/01/2025
Don't fall for the "you got nothing then!" replies to simple statements of obvious fact "It was a Nazi salute" "Well what about all [gish gallop], prove it was a Nazi salute" "Nah man, it was a Nazi salute" It calls out the utter absurdity of them writing a thesis to defend a fucking Nazi salute!
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Tom Royston @tomroyston.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
R (Clifford) v SSWP [2025] EWHC (Admin) decides today that the 2023 WCA consultation, run by the Department for Work and Pensions, was unlawful.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
when some guy getting questioned for a position of international power and stature says “I’m not going to get into hypotheticals” he should be asked why not. Aren’t you asking for a job that’s going to involve planning for hypotheticals bro. Bro. Is that not the case
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
With thanks to @mcaulayjoseph.bsky.social for the reading recommendation to start my New Year with. May 2025 be the year I finally wrangle Social Reproduction Theory. #theory #reading #phdlife
A dark wood cafe table takes up the foreground, with a pale yellow cup filled with a latte, and a chocolate brownie on a plate beside it. Taking up the most space in this foreground is a book with a cover that colour gradients from deep pink to cool blue. The title of the book reads “Family Abolition. Capitalism and the Communizing of Care” with the author’s name M.E. O’Brien in thick white block capitals. 

In the background  there’s another cafe table with someone working on a laptop, and a dark blue with glass panels door is caught in the uppermost left hand corner of the image.
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 11/12/2024
BREAKING NEWS Trans Kids Deserve Better are occupying Wes Streeting's Office at Ilford North. Get down there and support everyone. For folks who want to support. Signal announcement group: www.transkidsdeservebetter.org/adult_suppor... We've Been advised to share this.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/12/2024
"Equality, dignity, and freedom for all individuals" are words that were actually said today in the Northern Ireland Assembly as they discussed how important International Human Rights Day is at around the same time the NI Executive was voting unanimously to ban on puberty blockers.
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Two months in and this is perhaps the most accurate summary of my PhD journey thus far. #phd #phdthoughts #writing #research
A laptop sits on a table in a coffee shop, with a split screen showing reading text on the left, and notes in red text and / or highlighted yellow on the right side, a hand is typing on the keyboard. A semi finished coffee in a pink mug sits just by the crop fo the image. 

In the centre overlayed atop the previously described scene is a cropped Tumblr ask post where Anonymous asks: “who is the biggest hater in history?” And a user replies “Me when I’m in a mood”
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Trans Safety Network @transsafety.network · 02/12/2024
Council of Europe expert committee say puberty blocker trial might violate rights of the patient Written by @mall.bsky.social
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Council of Europe expert committee say puberty blocker trial might violate rights of the patient
A new report from CoE confirms previous concerns raised by British Medical Association that the intended trial of puberty blockers starting in 2025 violates CYP trans patients' rights
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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Some notes from someone who's been living 'my government is trying to kill me' for 20 years: Don't tell people at risk 'we survived before, we'll survive now'. Many of them won't, and they know it. 1/
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
🚅 London bound for the Stuart Hall Foundation Fellowship welcome event! Excited to meet up and hear about everyone’s projects, even if I’m still working out how to pitch mine (very thankful to my friends for patiently editing over messages when I have signal) #PhD #London #Travel
Sitting on a LNER train a leg is crossed wearing a grey and white pinstriped suit and showing off a black and white cowboy boot. Above the crossed legs are a folded out table seat with a laptop and a orange can of ginger beer.
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
✨Life Update: I’m starting a PhD at Glasgow Uni this October, with funding from SGSSS and a fellowship with the Stuart Hall Foundation. Sad to leave team ScotParl this Tuesday after three years, but excited for the adventures that lie ahead. 📷 Audrey Ho
A short young white person with a flop of ginger hair wearing thick glasses frames in their mid 20s sits on the floor of a museum hallway, cowboy boots peaking out of a pinstriped trouser and waistcoat suit, with a white shirt with large collar and rolled up sleeves. Their arms are propped up on their knees with their face smiling and propped up by their hands under their chin as they look straight at camera. The museum floor is pale wood, with busts on plinths in a white material behind them, and white ceiling rafters visible above.
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
Matching @docphoenix.bsky.social book with my coffee A political nerd since I was 11 watching the LD/Tory coalition form whilst down with flu, who now works in policy and research at ScotParl I’m likely a bit biased…but, whether you’re a politics hater, stan, both or neither: it’s a must read!
A bright pink book cover detailed with icons from political conspiracies such as Q, Trump supporter iconography, and movements such as the EU flag, Extinction Rebellion…and most importantly a Liz Truss lettuce. Beside it is a pink coffee mug holding a latte. The book title reads I Heart Politics: How People Power Took Over The World, the author: Phoenix Andrews.
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Any recommendations for the poetry corner of my desk at work? Always looking for more queer/trans/BIPOC art and words! These beautiful ones have been repurposed from the Programme for I, Joan. #poetry #poetrycorner #lgbtq #collage #trans
Three poems are layered in a collage on a pin board, Death Before Detransition by Jennifer Espinoza; Burdened by my own Contribution by Tanaka Fuego, and Soft Rocks by Elijah J Harris. There’s also an image of astronauts with rainbow shading and a speech bubble stating “I use they/them pronouns”.
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
Due to Unhelpful Brain I haven’t been able to enjoy a book in months. So, my Christmas Eve Treat is trying out reading, at my own pace, a book I’ve had in my sights for a while! Thank you @lighthousebks.bsky.social for providing respite from Loud Christmas! #reading #neurodiversity #books
The book Empire of Normality, subheading Neurodiversity and Capitalism, by Robert Chapman sits atop a pair of old washed out denim jeans. The cover is white with a shape of a face in side profile, instead of facial features the profile is instead filled with a vintage wallpaper of hummingbirds.
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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
It's been a week with no Minster For Disabled People. Today, they have announced it will be scrapped. It was created in 1974, but I guess it's too 'woke' for the people who run our country. After twenty years of killing us, they've finally decided to stop pretending they care.
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Just clicked submit on my PhD Funding App: I still don’t know the difference between it’s & its (despite having worked as an editor and writer) I’m too, big a fan, of commas, I also want to thank my potential supps for supporting me through it when I’ve been v unwell. #phdfunding #disabled
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Bastard pain flare ups mean it’s a bed = desk day. My own disability and health are both things that have come crashing down this year, but in my research for PhD funding I’ve discovered work that has let me learn to try and be kinder to myself, even if just a lil bit. #phdfunding #disability
Three books sit layered facing the viewer. On the right is Crip Theory by Robert McRuer with an abstract oil cover, in the centre is Tonguebreaker by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha with a drawing of a BIPOC person raising their fist, wearing a vest saying “no more spoons” and tulips growing where their head should be, and on the left is a black and white cover with an illustration of women looking through or out a window titled On Being Ill. The three books are spread atop an grey apple laptop and everything is on top of a white and green monstera plant themed bed spread.
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Today we mark #transdayofremembrance It's been a year since I spoke at TDOR for the first time, and its been a fucking hard year. My heart goes out to each and everyone of my trans and nonbinary siblings. Pt1/?
A non-binary person (Amy) in a brown trench-coat with dyed pink hair stands behind a microphone. To their left is a home made trans flag held up by multiple other members of the LGBTQ community due to its sheer size. There are candles and a group of folks listening in front. 

This picture was taken at Bristo square at Edinburgh University last year as part of their trans day of remembrance speech
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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
I think this poem, Because Of Us by Em Berry (@skinhungry on insta), has shattered me. I looked it up and it's true. I had no idea. As a disabled person who uses gauze regularly, this was a body blow.
Because Of Us

This morning I learned 
the English word gauze

(finely woven medical cloth) 
comes from the Arabic word or Ghazza 
because Gazans have been skilled weavers for centuries

I wondered then

how many of our wounds. 
have been dressed 
because of them

and how many of theirs 
have been left open 
because of us

Em Berry/@skinhungry
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
So excited that the SG Non Binary Equality Action Plan has been published today: first of its kind in the UK! After working on the GRA in a professional capacity, it was nice to be able to participate in a personal capacity for this through engagement sessions held w NB folks. #nonbinary #lgbtq
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Non-Binary Equality Action Plan
First plan in the UK to improve the lives of non-binary people.
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Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ambrose-mcm.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
After a parliamentary term taken up with being very unwell, I’ve treated myself to my first Pokémon game to explore over Recess! Any tips from those who aren’t complete newbies like myself? #Pokémon #Nintendo
In the foreground sits a yellow Nintendo switch lite, with a screenshot from Pokémon Scarlet of a young trainer with red hair, a white hat, a white shirt, red stripe shorts, a black bag pack, white knee length socks with red bands and trainers looks on at the sunny fields full of Pokémon.

In the background lies two slices of thick buttered white toast on a white plate with a blue rim, atop a yellow and white chevron print blanket.
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