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Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️

@ashleigh.whatthetrans.com
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Trans, femme, co-founder of @whatthetrans.com, fighter of MS, wheelchair user, player of TTRPG's, Lego enthusiast, solarpunk, bassist, theremin player and Green. 💚 she/her.

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Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 13h
Oh but it's okay, because “They can use their own facilities." Which facilities would these be, Bridget? Do tell, We're listening. Which facilities, Bridget? Please, tell us all about these facilities that definitely exist all over the country and not just in a few select places?
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026
The idea that women are given special rights based on sex is a remarkably absurd framing and not how discrimination protections actually work in practice. It can only stem from a thoroughly right-wing understanding of the world that believes marginalized people are granted extra entitlements.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026
The UK right's current political project is to co-opt the language of antidiscrimination to make bigotry legally unimpeachable.
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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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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 28/09/2026
Here's our latest episode, there's a couple of things in it that are a bit time sensitive so I'll put those below. But enjoy the podcast!
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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it's not racist, it's 'anti migrant' activist it's not transphobe, it's 'gender critical' activist it's not homophobe, it's 'family values' activist it's not rapist, it's 'boys will be boys' activist it's not an nazi england, it's andy burnham's labour gov
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Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 22/09/2026
New episode! :D
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Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 20/09/2026
Great. Sounds fun.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 19/09/2026
I'll give you a clue, it's a nice small, round figure.
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 18/09/2026
My article published by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention last year, resonates loudly in 2026. www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/...
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Left in the dark: how the recent court ruling has affected trans people
Since the UK Supreme Court ruling in April 2025, being themselves has become more difficult especially for trans womenBack in April 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, the definition of ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ refers to biological sex. This legal clarification, though presented as a matter of statutory interpretation, has had far-reaching and deeply personal consequences for many trans individuals across the country. Since the judgement, a growing number o
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
This seems to be what they are for, for the last 20 years.
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 16/09/2026
yknow despite it all youve gotta hand it to ed sheeran: against all expectation, he's finally managed to create an entertaining experience
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good plan, Australia and Canada. Huge sigh, UK. How long do we wait, how much do we lose, how stupid do we have to be?
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There is literally no pressure group small or mad enough that the government won't indulge them if they oppose immigration.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
so the exact scenario all of us opposing this have warned about for the last 2 years
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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Eye-wateringly stupid defence from Rowling’s team here - ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’ - Really? So that £70,000 towards the bathroom ban was by accident? The JKR Women’s Fund was made by an impersonator? At least have the spine to admit you want us dead
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J.K. Rowling’s rep responds to Lilly Wachowski’s accusation of ‘funding trans genocide’ (exclusive)
J.K. Rowling’s representative responded to Lilly Wachowski accusing the author of ‘funding trans genocide’: ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’
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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 11/09/2026
"The Government have rejected concerns raised by a panel of eleven UN experts who say EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces risks 'institutionalising discrimination,' against trans people." thebricknewspaper.substack.com/p/government...
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Government rejects UN experts’ warning on single-sex spaces guidance
“There are clear laws in place to protect trans people from discrimination,” a Government spokesperson said.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11/09/2026
Lol of course they have, because they are not concerned at all. It is what they want.
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Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 10/09/2026
Today in Just Chronically Ill Things, I stood up too quickly, something bad happened in my leg and now I'm on morphine.
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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As a lesbian I heartily condone this strike and am willing to pick up any slack required.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 09/09/2026
Much like Section 28, this new era threatens to erase an LGBTQIA+ minority group  But this time, they may be harder to overturn 👇
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Section 28 2.0: A complex web of anti-trans guidance that will make it vastly harder to overturn
Anti-trans rhetoric has been spread across a growing myriad of guidance and documents, with Trans+ children headed back to school facing segregation and teachers banned from “encouraging” them to question their gender.
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Sammi Narramore @narramoreart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Can you imagine being approved for a surgery, waiting years for the appointment, and when they day comes you finally meet the surgeon - it's cancelled by a subcommittee which has decided too many people in your country want the surgery.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.
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Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 06/09/2026
Excellent and potentially worrying thread.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
It's just wild that the UK elected a former human rights lawyer as prime minister and things got considerably worse for human rights.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"If the Labour party did something even vaguely like this.." Labour Together was set up & run by the likes of McSweeney, Mandelson, Reed & others. It was found to have broken electoral law on multiple occasions. Not only did Lab take no action, it promoted the people involved!
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A-3440 @redlester.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
They’ve actually got a reporter yelling at people on a boat “why don’t you do this legally?” Come on BBC let’s apply that same method to billionaires and businesses with dodgy offshore/crypto accounts etc. 🤬🤬🤬
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Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 30/08/2026
Not until the last brick falls from the last Wetherspoons onto the last heterosexual will the UK know freedom.
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Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 29/08/2026
The WTT team, coordinating nationally to edit episodes, check stats and deal with the aftermath of a significant scoop: busy busy busy Me, at Manchester Pride: Sounds great guys have fun imma keep on dancing at the pink! pony! club!
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Shannon Nosurname 🏳️‍🌈 🏴‍☠️🐸 @theshayd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Those pics of book burnings we associate with the third reich? Decades of study by Magnus Hirschfeld gone up in flames and the official beginning of what we now call the Holocaust
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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There could hardly be two women who have chosen to do more different thinks with their wealth and fame
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Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 25/08/2026
Ah yes, advancing all those LGBT+ rights that this government is already globally known for: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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UK: Revised Code of Practice risks institutionalising discrimination against transgender and gender-diverse persons, warn UN experts
GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today warned that the UK’s revised Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions, and Associations, in force as of 5 August, may place transgender and gender-divers...
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Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 24/08/2026
Friend of mine's an influencer, she got an offer to 'collaborate' with Vichy and I'll be honest, reeeeeaally not sure about their phrasing there, given the name...
An image taken of a shelf in a Superdrug store in the UK, advertising a line of skincare products from 'Vichy laboratories'.
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Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 24/08/2026
Probably a 3. Maybe a 4 if I'm in the heavy wheelchair and can run over your feet.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 23/08/2026
Does anyone else just...get angry all over again about this? I've had a nice weekend, chilled out with friends, played games, then I remember Mary Ann Fucking Stephenson is where she is and that this was approved by the "equalities" Minister despite objections from two key human rights committees.
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Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 22/08/2026
Okay I know taking photos of your hot drinks is a bit done but look at this cute little number in a weird little cup I got from the cafe attached to the bike shop near me. It's like a tiny vase!
A picture of an oat milk chai latte topped with cinnamon in an unusual curved cup. It is brown and the top curves over the sides, so that it ultimately resembles a small vase.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions. They told YOU to recycle better while they polluted more. Don't fall for it. Hold systems accountable. #ClimateCrisis
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
All the adults working on the wizard bigot show made an active decision to endorse a vile campaign of hate. We do not in any way have to reward them for that, let alone sympathize with their plight. Which they CHOSE.
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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Law of Unintended Consequences (2025), Section 7, sub-section (4)(d). I laughed and laughed.
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KD Smith @kd-smith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I remember this. It was shocking to see such an overt expression of eugenics. She claimed it was just a philosophical question, not a suggestion. 🙄 Important to note how long the UK campaign to revoke trans human rights has been running, and how infiltration of institutions has been key to it. 😟
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PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The purpose of the far-right Gender Critical Ideology is to get otherwise left-wing people comfortable with the idea that an innocent minority can and should be apartheided and/or eradicated without requiring any material evidence of it being necessary.
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Daniel Lismore @daniellismore.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Nigel Farage first act as MP for Clacton is to boycott Clacton, lie about the reason why, and then call Clacton constituents “nobodies”
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