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A Mere Solicitor

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They / Them Just a lawyer, cross about injustice and the world burning. Typos, terrible jokes, and pointing out the law. Anon as thoughts my own. Look after yourselves. Look out for your friends. Look for the helpers.

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 01/10/2026
If anyone is in touch with any of the local trans inclusive safe spaces orgs around the country can you reach out to them and ask if they would be willing to speak to me over the next day or so please. I have opened my DMs.
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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1 man out of 57 men in the group chat did even the bare minimum of sharing the chat log after the fact. None stepped in and stopped it. So yes, all men.
Marisa Kabas •@marisakabas.bsky.social • 1h do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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I mean, yeah. A bunch of us are there with you but we keep getting lumped in with rapists. I'm not going to light the fire if you're going to throw me on the stake.
The rampant misandry in online discourse is a big reason Andrew Tate has a huge following of morons and Trump won two elections.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29/09/2026
🚨 We need to hear from YOU Have you had a problem accessing gendered services since April last year, outside of school and the workplace? Are you a service provider worried about remaining inclusive? PLEASE let us know through this form - and share widely goodlaw.social/mzb3
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/09/2026
Oh bsky.app/profile/ecmc...
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today is Andy Burnham’s first party conference speech as PM. We’ve taken your messages from the mass lobby on tour to Labour conference in Liverpool, with our friends at @transactualuk.bsky.social and @scottishtrans.bsky.social We aren’t going anywhere.
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My new article, co-authored with @sandraduffy.bsky.social is out today, please read & share: "Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic - Cal Horton, Sandra Duffy, 2026
Trans children in the UK are the targets of an escalating moral panic, centred around access to affirmative adolescent healthcare. Combining moral panic theory ...
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Curse of the Libby Dead @captainlibatron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You don't have to talk to abusive boomers if you don't want to
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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a smart thing to be able to evidence. It’s also terrible:
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is demonstrably proven, via multiple studies as well as commonsense, that preventing young people explore and acknowledge their own identity has massively harmful impacts. Labour reviving Section 28 against trans young people will cause untold harm, just as the original Section 28 did.
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nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social @nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What happens when the law forces complex questions of sex and gender into rigid binary categories? At #ELLA2026, I spoke about where this leaves trans, non-binary and intersex people following For Women Scotland. How do we move beyond the binary?
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Anyone here know python and can help me with some home school coding help please. How to convert any number into hexidecimal form using code in python without using the hexidecimal function 1/2
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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you make a space safe for neurospicy people, you make it easier for everyone to thrive. There’s a world in which we are less evil and more “productive” and the right wing press have panicked at the idea. The moral panic is a policy choice.
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 17/09/2026
1/🧵 From the agenda for next week’s meeting at NHS Wales. But we can assume the arbitrary decision to “pause” referrals was made on a summary of the same information. And, after a month, there is still nothing of substance that can be presented. Sorry, but people should lose their job for this.
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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Attacks on bodily autonomy start with attacks on reproductive rights and trans rights for a reason. The lesson of the last 20 years is stopping them early is the answer.
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The NHS Wales JCC subcommittee on Quality, Safety and Outcomes have now released their “Incidents and Concerns” report that was considered at the August 26 meeting, following which all Wales gender reforming surgeries were immediately halted. jcc.nhs.wales/committees/q... 1/
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 13/09/2026
Anyway, the reason people shout at trans people about who they vote for – rather than candidates, or actually significant chunks of the electorate – is because we are people you can easily punch down at. It's that simple. It's purely a power exercise, and feeling like you are doing something useful.
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Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am inordinately proud of a piece called 'Hy-Brasil Law School: A #feminist law school for the island of Ireland’ just published in the Dublin University Law Journal Used #Backcasting #Prefiguration #Utopias & #(anti)hagiographies pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publicati... 1/2
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Hy-Brasil Law School: A feminist law school for the island of Ireland
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/09/2026
These people are all over UK institutions. In many cases they are running them. bsky.app/profile/writ...
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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you're trans in the UK join a union. They're not all perfect, but some are still trans supportive (to varying degrees).
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Theresa Davis @helresa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And document everything, get a notebook and record every action, comment, etc with date and time. This will be useful to show a pattern of abuses etc
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 12/09/2026
To be clear – I would argue this is almost certainly unlawful discrimination under the Equality Act 2010, even under the Code of Practice.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
DAVID Milliband? The BBC pulling a "they all look the same to us" on top of everything else?
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Kate Osborne MP @kateosbornemp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It was great to join the mass lobby for trans equality yesterday in Parliament and meet with trans people and allies who shared concerns with me around the EHRC’s new Code of Practice
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 10/09/2026
This photo by David Bird shows the huge line of trans + people and allies outside parliament yesterday.
A huge line of people waiting to enter the Palace of Westminster for the 2026 trans lobby of parliament.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 09/09/2026
In Parliament today, supporting Trans+ Solidarity Alliance's Mass Lobby So many people chatting to their MPs!
A selfie of me in Westminster Palace, wearing a suit and hi vis, holding a Mass Lobby placard saying Trans people deserve real equality
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Great to be at the @transsolidarity.bsky.social event in Parliament today and to speak to so many amazing folk who took the trouble to come down and meet their MPs. I will never stop fighting for the rights of my trans siblings and the whole LGBTQ+ community.
Carla stands in in an old part of Westminster in front of a crowd of people. She is holding a sign that reads "Trans people deserve real equality" (the word real is underlined). Carla stands in an old part of Westminster. She is in conversation with two people. They are all smiling.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Once more.
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Esse House UK @essehouse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you are able to attend - get to the mass lobby at Westminster www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2026/info
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Mass Lobby 2026 Useful Info | TSA
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW | On a shocking interview… ANALYSING JUSTIN WEBB’S INTERVIEW WITH ED MILIBAND ABOUT SANCTIONS ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/analysing-...
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Analysing Justin Webb’s interview with Ed Miliband about sanctions on Israeli settlements
On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question.
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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I do not know a surprising amount about DIY hormones. and neither do you. Especially not any controlled substances which are plastered over the press positively when cis people take them but will be on the front pages as a moral panic as soon as the press find a trans victim.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 09/09/2026
Good luck to everyone attending the mass lobby today!
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🏳️‍⚧️ Are you mass lobby ready? It’s tomorrow! 1pm to 5pm Read all about how it’ll work: www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...
Mass lobby booklet
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social @nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
WHAT DOES THE EHRC CODE SAY ABOUT NON-BINARY PEOPLE? Despite the headlines, the Code does appear to recognise protections for at least some non-binary and genderfluid people. So what does that mean in practice? Here it is in 6 points. #EHRC #NonBinary #GenderFluid
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 07/09/2026
Similarly why do you think a group of people who are all there in a clearly premeditated uniform were so quickly dismissed as a spontaneous demonstration by Kent Police?
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 07/09/2026
Oh they're just spelling it out now
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 06/09/2026
"Masked activists bring chaos to Dover in protest against migrants" "Trans activists show who they really are: a violent mob"
Telegraph page 5 today - Masked activists bring chaos to Dover in protest against migrants and Who are the disguised protesters who brought port to a standstill?Telegraph 20 April 2025 - Trans activists show who they really are: a violent mob"
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 07/09/2026
Imagine, after trans people turned up in masks to intimidate people, the government saying "we're working as hard as we can to give you everything you want". No, trans people wrote on some statues with chalk at a peaceful protest and the Home Secretary said they were a disgrace.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
furthermore, Morgan popularized attacking trans ppl as potential predators within feminist & lesbian movements in the early 1970s, setting the groundwork for ppl like Raymond later
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 04/09/2026
Support your local trans legal expert. What else is Bluesky for?
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New podcast series in production - please sign up to patreon.com/robininnce
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/09/2026
The Farage sting is not on the front pages of: The Times Belfast Telegraph Daily Express Daily Mail Mirror Star Metro Morning Star Telegraph Guardian Herald i Independent The Journal The National The Scotsman
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Freda Wallace She/Ra @missfreda.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The polling company JL Partners featured in tonights Channel 4 News Exposé on Reform is the same one used by Sex Matters and LGB Alliance . JLP are linked to American Christian investors that hope to shape UK policy.
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I wonder if enough media people respond like this we might be able to move some kinda needle somewhere
an email that reads: 
I understand you are doing as your job requires, but please never
email me again about anything Harry Potter. This PR enables deadly
transphobia and I want no part of it.

Cheers
Ash
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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Organising - why bother? Lots of despair from trans folks on the tl and other places of late. Things are horrible and scary. I also think we’re doing brilliantly at fighting back given the asymmetry of arms at play. We are so deep in a pit at the moment in terms of trans rights in the UK.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Remember last week when I told you that Reform had got its own ‘investigative journalist’ into the papers and all over the TV? These bent polls are the same tactics. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/who-watche...
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Who watches the Watchman? Reform UK’s new ‘investigative journalism’ front revealed
The story of a brave reporter infiltrating the migrant boats is a perfectly tooled piece of propaganda designed to give Nigel Farage a new version of the same old story.
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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The great noticing on Reform had begun. Not before time. @channel4news.bsky.social leading the charge. Who else has is prepared to pick up the batton?
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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Speaking of Harry Potter, I resigned from my position at Universal Studios a month ago over all of the Wizarding World/JKR shit. I am now paying my bills and paying for a wedding purely thru YouTube and Patreon. I loved working at USH. I was very conflicted leaving. Fuck Joanne.
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