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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 3h
AN ARTICLE TO READ… shado-mag.com/articles/do/...
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New anti-trans legislation affects all NHS users
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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 5h
A new Trump-inspired anti-trans law has doctors ending care in India - buff.ly/6mkmy5P
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 10h
Police in Bristol said they asked organisers of a far-right protest in city centre to move it or reschedule, because the big Shine Night Walk big cancer charity 10K fundraising walk of 2,000 people - mainly women - was planned for Friday night. Police confirmed the group refused, so walk postponed.
bristolpost.co.uk
Far right 'were asked to move' protest for cancer charity fundraiser
Police say they asked far-right Bristol Rises protesters to change their plans but 'an agreement could not be reached' so now the big Cancer Research event has been postponed
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 12h
You know those ‘spot the difference’ puzzles? I’m thinking of launching a ‘spot every racism in this political cartoon’ alternative….
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12h
People ask me this all the time, so I’ll just say: look at the transgender hate panic, a thing that had no organic element and did not arise from the public, and was instead imposed upon everyone by the world’s most hateful, poisonous and malignant media class.
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 11h
SECOND THOUGHT OF THE DAY… Will people please stop talking about failures of the trans healthcare system… It‘s working as intended‼️ The gatekeeping is to put people off, to deter people from transitioning. The intent is to limit our numbers. People driven to suicide is a successful outcome.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We TRIPLED our vote share. Second best byelection result in Green Party history. On a date that Labour chose to deliberately clash the same week as our conference. All with a brand new PM in previously a "safe" seat. Best response to all the absolute nonsense today? Join.greenparty.org.uk
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 14h
QueerAF can reveal figures that show 618 people have died while under the care of an NHS gender clinic, at least 21 by suicide. www.wearequeeraf.com/the-deadly-t...
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The deadly toll of the trans healthcare crisis: 21 suicides and over 600 other deaths
QueerAF can reveal figures that show 618 people have died while under the care of an NHS gender clinic, at least 21 by suicide.
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An absolute horrific, hateful interview from Jonathan Hinder. Trans people are used to the contempt shown towards them by Gender Criticals, but Hinder takes this to a whole new level of the gutter. A disgrace from a sitting MP.
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nice little nugget of horror buried in there
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I have a lot of admiration for this statement. I've always been a huge fan of Sian Berry, partly because she leads with empathy.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My reflections this morning, some thoughts on how we build back better from here, and a message to members and constituents. 💚🙏
Sian Berry
Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion
This morning, in what I know is a very initial and uncomprehensive way, I want to offer some of my personal reflections and thoughts on what we do now, in the wake of both conference, last night's by-election, and following the many powerful and heartfelt messages I have received from residents, constituents and party members in recent days.
I am full of regret for so much that has happened, and very sad Zack is not joining me in Parliament next week. Sincere congratulations to Sagal on winning her seat too.
On the motion, I voted and argued against it because I felt it needed serious amendment, and if not then sending back for more dialogue or voting down. But the clash of conference with an exciting and mobilising by-election campaign meant many of us were persuaded not to campaign publicly for these ends, while proposers were very organised and remained intent upon no changes at all.
I want to take my full share of personal responsibility for the result of all this in the votes at conference. I should have worked harder to persuade more of our leading figures to speak up in a unified way to say that the motion as written was clearly not reflective of our values and policy principles.
Both in the words of the motion and in how they have been heard in the country, I can hear genuine worry about what it means for our communities, and can see genuine damage being done to our strong reputation as a leading, principled and inclusive voice for human rights in Palestine and against the atrocities of the Israeli state.
I regret this hugely, and apologise to members and constituents for where we are now as a party, which I know is causing real concern.To Green Party members - especially those for whom thoughts of leaving must have crossed their minds in recent days - I say please stay and let us fix this together.
I am very glad that Zack has now said that he would have voted against the motion as it stood, and that he has agreed we have work now to do. We are not at all where we want to be today, but I know we can build from this starting point if we work together in a new spirit.
I stand ready to work with all my colleagues to restore trust in our processes and our party, fix the serious flaws in the motion that was passed, as well as to restore key policies aimed at inclusive peace-building.
And my principles dictate that I will always want to help find a way to do this work through understanding, listening and consensus building.
To my constituents, I want to reassure you this morning that the party's currently stated policy on this issue does not reflect my values, and that it will make no difference to the inclusive way in which I represent our fantastic, diverse, kind and inclusive community here in Brighton.
With love and respect to all, I look forward to important conversations taking place in the coming days and weeks to find a way to make sure our party is again a unified, enthusiastic and very clear voice for understanding, peace and human rights for all people.
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Managed to get the #BBC to admit that it made a serious error in its reporting about trans healthcare, when in *two separate articles*, it misquoted NWJCC to claim patients of the Welsh Gender Service were referred inappropriately. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #BBCBias
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Someone has highlighted what’s going on. Great report here: www.forbidden-colours.com/hate-review/...
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The Hate Review: United Kingdom
How the anti-gender movement spread across Europe
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Want a signed copy of one of my books? Now’s your chance! I’ve currently got copies of all my books available to sign and sell direct. Just drop me a DM and I’ll happily arrange your very own signed copy 🤗🤗🤗 Details of each of my books are here: www.waterstones.com/author/phili...
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Freelancers Make Theatre Work @freelancersmake.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We’re working with Dr CN Lester (@cnlester.bsky.social) to bring trans freelancers together for confidential, supportive conversations about the impact of the EHRC Code of Practice and what support is needed across the creative industries.
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- Nicola - 🌸🎀💕 @paneraiwearer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Hate crimes rise" but "sexual orientation, disability and transgender identity are unchanged or falling." Unchanged or falling is because the UK no longer recognises or accepts hate crimes against trans folk.🙄 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Hate crime figures rise after more offences motivated by religion and race, figures show
Figures supplied by police forces suggest nearly 150,000 hate crimes were recorded between April 2025 and March 2026
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 08/10/2026
Transphobia looks like: - using the terms "Biolgical women" and "Biolgical man" - using the term "trans-identified" - Accepting the segretion of trans + people from their cis peers - Deliberately misgendering a trans + person - Deliberately using their pre-transition name
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/10/2026
Trump’s October surprise? His own desperation. All those campaign rallies, all that effort, all that hype, only to end up with a half empty stadium.
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Collecting data helps us understand the situation for trans people in the UK and work to improve it. Respond to our Trans Lives Survey 2026 transactual.org.uk/trans-lives-...
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Trans Lives Survey 2026 – TransActual
This survey is the 3rd Trans Lives survey, hosted by the non-profit organisation TransActual, and providing vital information on the experiences and views of trans people in the UK. Your answers will…
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 08/10/2026
You probably think this is a touch of hyperbole. If you do, that just tells me not only are you not paying attention, you are actively ignoring all the trans people this has happened to. This is life in the UK as a trans person in 2026.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 08/10/2026
Galop said trans victims and survivors had been left in a "dangerous state of limbo" following the EHRC code of practice in response to the minister's comments.  Understand more 👉 shorturl.at/lKlph
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Equalities minister doubles down on Trans+ exclusionary approach for single sex spaces in Labour conference interview
Minister for Women and Equalities Bridget Phillipson, answering a series of 'gotcha' style questions on Trans+ rights with The Telegraph at Labour conference, said she wouldn’t let a trans woman into a women’s refuge. She's previously run a refuge for women and children fleeing domestic violence - Attitude
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/10/2026
This is so damn bleak. "The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ruled this week the biological sex of a transgender woman fatally shot by Samuel Ward Jr. in June 2022 was not only relevant to Ward’s claim of self defense but supported it." jamiescoop.substack.com/p/court-judg...
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Court: Judge ‘misled’ jury on biological sex
Tennessee appellate court first to rule on gender identification ‘evidence’
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
⚠️ ATTENTION, any fans or anyone who believe that Jonathan Pie (Tom Walker) is in any way a progressive… He’s a transphobe. Evidence: How he talks about us and over us, not even able to get terminology correct… And agrees with this right-wing podcaster like a nodding dog… youtu.be/CxhNRLP8v8Q?...
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Why They Lied About JK Rowling – Jonathan Pie & Andrew Gold Debate
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Please fill out this if you haven't already 🙏
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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BINGO!💥
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This gaslighting is honestly jaw dropping. It’s not enough to take away our rights, but you also chide us for not pretending anything has changed?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The prosecution case is that Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate used and threatened physical and sexual violence in order to maintain control and compliance." Where are the voices from the self appointed defenders of women and young girls who would usually be on this? www.reuters.com/world/uk/tat...
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Tate brothers used 'lover boy' model to exploit women, Britain says
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate used a "lover boy" model to lure women with the ‌promise of romantic relationships before coercing them to create online pornography, British law enfor...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We must be vigilant.
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GOP Senator Offers Stark Warning About What Trump Might Do If Republicans Lose Midterms
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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#UK #NHS #NCISH Twice in the past year have I tried to warn everyone about the consequences of certain decisions taken by the NHS. The first warning was when I highlighted that no patient had received a primary diagnosis of gender dysphoria/incongruence since July 2024. Secondary diagnosis however
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/10/2026
"Transgender rights activists are spreading misinformation about guidance that protects single-sex spaces by claiming it erodes trans people’s rights, the equalities regulator has said." [Times page 2]
Trans activists ‘wrong over single-sex code’
Geraldine Scott - Assistant Political Editor
Transgender rights activists are spreading misinformation about guidance that protects single-sex spaces by claiming it erodes trans people’s rights, the equalities regulator has said.

Mary-Ann Stephenson, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said criticism of its updated code of practice had made the “real alarm” felt by trans people worse by wrongly suggesting they had lost protections or would face sex checks.

Stephenson said women had also been affected by not having access to single-sex spaces. She said: “Women who believe that their right to privacy, dignity or safety have not been properly protected deserve to have those concerns taken seriously too.”

Last week the Liberal Democrats passed a conference motion branding the code discriminatory and “unworkable”.

At Labour’s conference Joanne Thomas, the general secretary of the Usdaw union and chairwoman of Labour Unions, said the law and the EHRC code would hurt trans and nonbinary people and argued that rights had been rolled back.

Stephenson said the code did not create new law or abolish protections for transgender people.

She said: “Recognising women’s need for access to single-sex services doesn’t require us to dismiss the rights of trans people. And recognising the vulnerability of trans people doesn’t require us to dismiss women’s concerns.”

The EHRC’s code of practice came into force in August, 16 months after the Supreme Court ruled that sex in relation to the Equality Act must be defined biologically. This means single-sex lavatories, changing rooms, hospital wards and refuges must be used based on a person’s birth sex, not the gender with which they identify.

The Good Law Project, which is backing a legal challenge against the code, accused the EHRC of producing “discriminatory” and “unworkable” guidance and said service providers which followed it would be “helping to strip trans pe…
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 05/10/2026
It is deeply irresponsible for any politician, let alone a senior Conservative, to peddle the same far-right nonsense about Luton that we see from the likes of Yaxley Lennon and Reform.
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Tory shadow minister claims Luton has ‘no-go zones’ where ‘white people won’t go’
Blake Stephenson tells fringe meeting at Tory conference that the town is ‘a very dangerous place’ with ‘ghettoes’
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 04/10/2026
Quite tragic to see the political party which had been one of the most steadfast in defence of my own minority community step on this completely avoidable rake.
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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The sindo forced to publish a decision about being found to be transphobic towards trans women by... referring to us as transgender men. Jesus fucking Christ!
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Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is written to fly under the radar, from today’s Sunday Independent (Ireland). The press council upheld a complaint about an offensive and transphobic opinion column by Brenda Power. Sindo was required to publish the decision. @mams4transrights.bsky.social @jesalady.bsky.social
A half page article from the Sunday independent with the headline OMB2590 A woman and the Sunday independent.
The article outlines the complaint, the appeal and the decision. 
The complaint relates to an opinion column deploring the fact that an unnamed td provided a character reference for a man convicted of sexual violence against children. A sentence in the column argued that this case threw light on the possibility that a man would “identify as a woman” in order to commit sexual violence.
The press council concluded that “a reference to a protected group [trans people] in this context should have been extremely carefully scrutinised”. It found that the Sunday independent was in violation of principle 8 of the press council code of practice.
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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 04/10/2026
My GP recommends swimming for my back. I want to go. There are 2 communal changing rooms. Labour say I should use the mens. I am a visibly female woman with a GRC. If I use the mens there's a serious risk of me being confronted and worse. So where do I go? I don't. I'm segregated from society.
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 04/10/2026
you all think this is stupid but @lucympowell.bsky.social and @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social have been stealing kemi's equalities plan for the better part of 3 years now so she must be good, right? no way they'd enact her entire lgbt+ policy platform, also called the cass review, if she was a dumbass
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Andy Burnham is responsible for this. Anti-trans government guidance and anti-trans Section 28 were imposed on his watch.
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We love it when good people are happy to show their allyship. Thank you @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social for signing, sharing and supporting. This is what unity over division looks like. You’ve joined 113k compassionate women in saying the hate and harm is not in our name. notinourname.org.uk
Baroness Natalie Bennett stands in a room and smiles. She wears glasses, a long scarf and is holding a large placard that reads

“I signed the letter. Not in our name: women in support of the trans+ community”
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm so pleased Zack made a Fair Rents Guarantee a key part of his conference speech - keeping up pressure on govt on behalf of the millions of renters who have no choice but to transfer an unsustainable and growing proportion of their income straight into the bank accounts of landlords.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m hearing that Tesco is saying trans employees must use gender neutral/disabled toilets. This is not legal. Talk to GLP or Translucent if you are in this situation.
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Critically Axed @criticallyaxed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fitness and purity stats stewarded by hi-vis vests. Nothing says "casual Saturday morning jog" quite like issuing a corporate-style data report, pie charts, and global attendance metrics just to gatekeep a parkrun.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With love and respect to every colleague and fellow member, here is my personal view on motion E02, which Greens are set to debate tomorrow as part of our afternoon plenary.
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Critically Axed @criticallyaxed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nothing says "challenging sexism" quite like men organising a group to police women's categories at a Saturday parkrun. Men inserting themselves right into a gender-exclusion campaign because nothing helps female sports like a bunch of male allies leading the purity charge.
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Critically Axed @criticallyaxed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Claiming to be 'politically homeless' while happily bunking with GB News, the far-right, and reactionaries to push anti-trans moral panics doesn't make you independent—it just makes you a fellow traveller in denial.
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 03/10/2026
EVERY UK MP needs to read this You are all part of a government that is creating a situation so hostile and unsafe that people are leaving the country This is not an isolated case. You have the power to do something about this.
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