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Custodian of trees 🌳 for a Planning Authority 🇬🇧 and trans person trying to exist 🏳️‍⚧️

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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 20h
As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
This is the world JK Rowling helped create. This is what Harry Potter is funding. All the legal challenges to enforce this regime are backed by Rowling and her Harry Potter money.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 05/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If only one of them was holding a Palestine Action sign, they’d have been jumped on immediately.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
It's like Amnesty International UK have never heard of the Streisand Effect. I fully intend on challenging this DMCA strike and force them to litigate this in federal court in the US if they want to take it down. This is squarely fair use.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottomA nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.
A network graph visualization on a dark background showing connections between various accounts. The central, highly connected node is labeled "J.K. Rowling," with lines radiating out to many other nodes color-coded by region (UK, US, etc.). A detail panel on the right displays stats for her account, including her role as "Author & commentator," an in-degree of 153, an out-degree of 84, and 14 million followers.A scatter plot graph on a dark background comparing accounts based on "followers (log)" on the x-axis and "in-degree" on the y-axis. The data points are color-coded by region. J.K. Rowling is highlighted as a major outlier in the top right corner, possessing the highest number of followers and the highest in-degree. Other labeled points lower on the graph include various politicians, individuals, and campaign organizations.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14/08/2026
"They’ve asked me twice and I’ve had to explain my answer is never gonna change from a no.”"
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The BBC increasingly just report on what is being said by the billionaire press. They allow them to set the agenda which means our national conversation becomes about same trivial nonsense the Daily Mail are talking about. And it's becoming deadly. novaramedia.com/2026/08/13/b...
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BBC Failing to Inform Viewers About Climate Emergency, Says Polanski
The BBC is failing to properly inform viewers about the realities of the climate emergency, choosing instead to follow the lead of rightwing newspapers owned by billionaires, Zack Polanski has said.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 08/08/2026
#OtD 8 Aug 1845 UK Parliament passed an enclosure act taking away public land and appointing officials who could enclose more land without approval from MPs – one of 5,000 such acts passed. This dispossession created the working class stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1076...
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Cassidy Hettesheimer @cassidyhett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Cheryl Reeve’s shirt today:
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 31/07/2026
Reminder that we published an extensive interview with a former editor at The New York Times who laid out, in detail, how the paper's pushing of anti-trans bigotry was both very intentional and directed from the very top of the organization. The NYT plays a direct and major role in trans genocide:
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'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 30/07/2026
This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 29/07/2026
Féile an Phobail’s solicitor has a press release about the settlement. nitter.net/omuirighsols...
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Human rights law firm

Women's Rights Network Limited v Féile An Phobail Limited
A settlement was reached in relation to a legal action taken against our client, Féile an Phobail, in advance of this morning's High Court hearing which has resulted in the Plaintiff (WRN_NI) discontinuing proceedings forthwith.
The Plaintiff has undertaken not to commence any proceedings whatsoever against Féile an Phobail officers, employees or volunteers, arising from the decision to cancel the 'Panel discussion', the subject of these proceedings, that was due to take place on the 4th August 2026.
The Plaintiff has also undertaken not to attend the premises of St Mary's University College on the date in question or to organise or mount a protest in relation to the cancellation of the event.
Our client will not seek an order of costs against the Plaintiff and will undertake, on a without prejudice basis, to meet with the Plaintiff to discuss any future applications and to determine the suitability of any such application.
Our solicitor, Paul Duffy, commenting on the settlement said:
This welcome settlement brings an end to legal proceedings brought against our client. The decision reached by Feile an Phobail in relation to this event stands.
Our client is very satisfied with the outcome of these proceedings and feels vindicated in their decision to challenge these legal proceedings.'
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Lazzie BOO!! 😱 @lazzieb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I'm not 100%, but I think there's two problems with this: -GCism isn't grassroots. It's pretty clearly been dark money boosted. -I sincerely don't believe their infrastructure would function for anything pro-social. The vector of their 'peaking' worked because of the content, which was hate.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/07/2026
"Give him more than a week" say the people who have not been segregated from society, while he rolls out even more anti-trans policies and gives positions of power to people who hate us.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Worth adding some numbers to this. The British press decided to make trans rights into an issue. It just wasn’t an issue before. This was a top-down decision. shado-mag.com/articles/opi...
Two striking statistics come to mind.
The first is how the British media decided to obsess over trans people. This is very clear.
Between 2012 and 2022 alone, trans-related articles went from just 60 to over 7,500. By 2022, there were at least 125 times more articles on trans people than in 2012. This has facilitated the rise of a far right narrative vis-a-vis "gender ideology" which is talked about in civilisational terms: In effect, trans people are being portrayed not as individuals but as the products of an ideology that threatens the dominance of 'man' and perceived traditional gender roles.
Fast forward just three years and we see the Daily Mail actively investigate whether any of Tyler Robinson's neighbours or roommates were trans, which would apparently help explain why he shot the white supremacist and Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/07/2026
1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.
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ILGA-Europe @ilgaeurope.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The UK Government's #KCSIE 2026 guidance retains serious human rights concerns, especially for trans, non-binary, and intersex young people. We urge the UK Government to ensure compliance with equality and human rights obligations bit.ly/3T6kjAc
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Joint Statement on the UK Government’s Final KCSIE Guidance
ILGA-Europe and eight other civil society organisations express serious concern following the UK Government’s publication of the final 2026 Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, which will come into ...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/07/2026
Ten years ago in the UK, even conservative MPs were supportive of self ID and warned about the dangers of trans bathroom bans in the US. Now a center left labour government is implementing a nationwide bathroom ban by fiat on August 5th without even so much as a vote.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/07/2026
Where are all the people that signed the Harper letter? Where is FIRE foundation?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/07/2026
JK Rowling signed the Harper's Letter just so you know how full of shit everyone who signed it was.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
When trans people are under attack, "don't be political" is not an option. And we'll never be silent when a Labour Government are making life impossibly hard for trans people. We see you. And we stand with you. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It's always lovely to see people supporting the LGBT+ community. Someone needs to tell London Labour Assembly Members who all abstained this week on a motion standing up for trans rights and challenging the EHRC. Why abstain on people's human rights and then "celebrate" Pride?
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It is the dawn of a new era. Hear our battle anthem. Welcome to the new InfoWars.
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I know there are trans people right now, wondering if anyone is going to stand up for their simple right to exist. Well, I am.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Yes. If you're a bigot who wants to divide communities, a billionaire wanting to preserve your wealth or a "newspaper" that wants to preserve power: we're very sinister indeed. To everyone else: feels a lot like hope. Join.greenparty.org.uk
The greens could be about to get even more sinister
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
At this point, I genuinely believe the entire public is being actively gaslit by both the media, and Esther Ghey herself, into forgetting that Brianna Ghey was murdered, by people she knew from school, in real life, who were partly influenced by transphobia, fuelled by the media and politicians.
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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A new study of 445 adolescents treated at pediatric gender clinics in Canada found that after a mean 2.4 years, 94.6% still identified as trns. Of the 353 who started hormonal treatments, 1.1% discontinued them. www.jahonline.org/article/S105...
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Stability of Transgender Identity in Adolescents Seen in Multidisciplinary Specialized Gender Centers: A Multicenter Study in Canada
To determine the proportions of adolescents continuing with their gender identity after referral to specialized gender clinics, the proportion continuing with gender-affirming hormones, and the propor...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/06/2026
Discrimination based on gender identity or expression is illegal in New York City. Trans New Yorkers are protected by law. Our City will protect your rights, defend your humanity and stand beside you without hesitation.
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Kicks Off Pride With “Trans Rights Are Human Rights” Campaign
The campaign will highlight existing protections for transgender and gender-nonconforming New Yorkers.
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Callum 🌳 🌲 @calhen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The Code gives gender-critical belief proactive protection: do not presume animus. Gender reassignment gets reactive protection: justify your presence, then complain after exclusion. That is not protection; it is a hierarchy that downgrades trans people legal protections.
4.100 Examples of stereotypes in relation to religion or belief are that persons who hold or manifest certain gender-critical beliefs necessarily have negative attitudes towards trans people, or that persons who hold or manifest the belief that same-sex sexual activity is sinful necessarily have negative attitudes towards gay people. The judgment explains that: “it may be that some persons who hold / manifest such beliefs have such animus, but it is stereotyping to assume that all do.”32
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🚨 EHRC guidance update: Polite exclusion is still exclusion. This CoP is about as unfair and unworkable as before, with only small tweaks. Clearly many service providers will just go gender neutral to avoid the headache, but this risks pushing trans people yet further out of public life.
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Callum 🌳 🌲 @calhen.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
So the single-sex spaces guidance was too politically toxic to publish before the elections, but now Labour has taken a kicking it is suddenly useful again. That is not leadership. It is throwing trans people into the culture-war machine and hoping the tabloids clap.
Screenshot of an X post by Sam Coates Sky reporting that Bridget Phillipson says government guidance on single sex spaces, following last year’s Supreme Court ruling, will now be published this month. The post was made at 3:58 PM on 10 May 2026 and had 47.2K views.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 10/05/2026
#OtD 10 May 1933 German Nazis held their first book-burning. In Berlin they burned the library of the Sexology Institute, founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, which supported LGBT+ rights. Joseph Goebbels declared: "No to decadence and moral corruption!" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1131...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A win! Pride flag returning to Stonewall National Monument.
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Trump admin ordered to permanently restore Stonewall pride flag
The LGBTQ+ pride flag will be permanently returned to Stonewall after the Trump administration settled a recent lawsuit with several nonprofits.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"Orbán’s Hungary has been the model for the global fascist assault on democracy. Maybe it can also serve as a model for its defeat." Important piece from Jason Stanley for Zeteo on the big story of the day:
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What Viktor Orbán’s Landslide Defeat Can Teach Anti-Fascists Across the World
Philosopher Jason Stanley, who has been visiting Hungary for over 15 years, breaks down the historic defeat on Sunday of Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu’s top EU ally.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Orban’s defeat shows that when we stand together against the politics of hate and division, hope wins and the far right friends of Farage can be defeated.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/02/2026
The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth. goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...
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New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 06/02/2026
You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
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Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Good to see Guardian following up Democracy for Sale’s story about Labour Together paying a PR firm to investigate journalists Key point: confirms our reporting McSweeney knew what was going on When will Labour Together come clean about what happened? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour minister was provided with intelligence files on journalists
Exclusive: Material gathered was personally given to Josh Simons when chair of pro-Starmer thinktank, say sources
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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone. He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein We have published it in full. www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...
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Peter Mandelson issues secret notice demanding press leave him alone – read in full
LATE on Friday evening, this notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news…
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