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Marie Leanne Shrewsbury

@crapcerealandpills.bsky.social
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Older trans woman. GID dx 1990. DID dx 2003. We live through this so no-one else has to. We publish a research heavy trans rights article approx. every 6 weeks. Unsolicited DMs blocked.

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Deb's Noise 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 @debsnoise.bsky.social · 13h
NHS commissioning multiple 'reviews' until they get one that delivers the desired results. Medics & researchers register their concerns about this mendacious approach
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Marie Leanne Shrewsbury @crapcerealandpills.bsky.social · 11h
Now this is very interesting. The Equal Opportunities Commission, who were merged into the EHRC in 2007, openly supported trans rights. @hleehurley.com
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Malcolm X-Bluebird-X 🇪🇺 #FBPE 🇪🇺 #RejoinEU @brothermanshaft.bsky.social · 12h
Good grief! Tower Hamlets kid. There were parts too dangerous to be in day or night. That's now 'Canary Wharf' & I'm glad it was razed. NF candidates stood in all Borough Wards, Racists would march at the weekend & you'd be sitting in class with their kids on Monday en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_To...
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1978 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election - Wikipedia
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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A skeet that reads "Begging cis people not to press the button that makes children kill themselves. "But it's such a pretty button,'" they protest, sweat pouring down their face from the effort of not pushing it. "It looks like so much fun to press." Dead children, we remind them. "..what kind of children?" they ask."
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 13h
As we all know, the decisions made up until now by the NHS have been politically motivated. I would expect, from these evidence reviews, we will not see an improvement in care. Because the govt/NHS cannot be seen to be wrong, and the exposure that their decisions were driven by anti trans ideology.
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LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk · 04/10/2026
TINY meeting, MASSIVE flag. Thank you to all who participated in our silent protest this morning. leftfootforward.org/2026/10/excl...
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Exclusive: LGBT Greens protest Green Party women’s group platforming of gender-critical speaker at conference event
A member of the gender-critical group told the protesters to "get the f*** out"
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 12h
📚 One of the Nazis’ first major book burnings targeted the world’s first Trans+ clinic, where more than 20,000 books and pieces of research into Trans+ lives were erased. For #BannedBooksWeek, from our archive with @smartypantsmarty.com 👇
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This Nazi book burning happened at world’s first trans clinic
Book burnings are a historic image many of us recognise. But the connection to the transgender community is little known
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Private Healthcare. You don't want it.
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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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Marie Leanne Shrewsbury @crapcerealandpills.bsky.social · 12h
I wonder what the most preposterous story about trans people would be? Like that you could type up and send to the daily mail?
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 13h
“What happens when a state can make accountability harder and harder through sustained non-cooperation, refusal to implement judgments and rejection of the institutions created to hold it accountable?” A question for UK trans ppl to ponder if we won in Strasbourg, and the UK govt simply ignores it.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Members of the Patriotic Alliance are stopping cars with non-white people in them and harassing them like this. This is a hate crime, arrest these people.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 13h
Whose stories get space on library shelves? Over half of UK school librarians have faced requests to remove books, largely LGBTQIA+ titles. Meanwhile, our investigation found a book encouraging parents to suppress their child’s trans identity in 58 public libraries #BannedBooksWeek 📚
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58 UK public libraries have parenting books with advice to encourage children to detransition
An anti-trans book that encourages ‘desistance’, the practice of ‘reverting back to a cisgender identity’, is available to parents all across the UK
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a Mae of blood @eversonpoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
it's almost like spewing hate constantly affects people negatively huh, who would have thought?
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20h
I try not to use the term when others are more appropriate, but this is just gaslighting. Most of Gaza is destroyed to bulldozed rubble and nobody who matters is even speaking up about it, because they know what would happen to them and their careers if they do.
The Green Party's decision to equate Zionism with racism is shameful. Jewish self-determination is not racism. We can challenge the Israeli government and defend Palestinian rights without denying that principle.
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The Paul of the House of Usher @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 16h
Proud Reflux-American @InternetHippo tweet

“New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"”
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Marie Leanne Shrewsbury @crapcerealandpills.bsky.social · 13h
Space 1999 Dragon's Domain. It looks rubbish to watch as an adult. Also that episode where the guy is haunted by a ghost of himself with half his face burnt off.
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Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And where an obvious trans woman can perform oral sex on someone, that person can then get laughed at by their friends, change their story so that they didn't know the person was trans, then have the trans person sent to prison for rape. This literally happened
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Marie Leanne Shrewsbury @crapcerealandpills.bsky.social · 13h
Astronomers discover planet orbiting distant star in the wrong direction. Transgender people are believed to be responsible.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 05/10/2026
Mary-Ann Stephenson was a long-term anti-trans campaigner, was functionally the Sex Matters selection for Chair of the EHRC, and it was the Labour Party who appointed her to run it - overruling their own Equalities Committee recommendation to refuse her for lack of experience in any other area.
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Criticizing Zionism is not anti-Semitism
A daily mail article titled *greens labelled 'firat openly anti-semitic party in the UK' as members approve Zionism is racism motion - but leader polanski skips vote"
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 16h
They use the lie that we never had the rights that are “rightfully“ being stripped from us. As I say… Gender Critters lie… all the time… It’s all they have… LIES, DAMNED LIES AND HEAVILY CHERRY PICKED STATISTICS‼️
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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 16h
If trans people haven't lost protections, then how come it's open season on any organisation that welcomes trans people Why are gender critters using the SC judgement and the EHRC guidance as a cudgel to threaten anyone that doesn't enforce segregation?
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 21h
“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.” Has she read her Equality Impact Assessment?
Summary of EHRC EIA
EHRC acknowledges that there are potentially negative impacts for those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment from the updates to the Code as a result of how service providers implement
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They state that whilst this may have a negative impact on trans people with a GRC (current or future certificate holders), their view is that it is important the guidance accurately reflects the correct legal position.
EHRC note that these updates reflect the law and will facilitate a better understanding of legal obligations and entitlements. These changes aim
to mitigate the risk of unlawful discrimination or harassment by helping service providers balance the benefits, needs and impacts across potential user groups. Subsequently, this will assist providers in determining whether separate or single-sex provision meets the proportionality test. They state they sought to limit any negative effect in accessing services for those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment by advising service providers to consider alternatives and mitigations to separate and single-sex services.
OEO additional impact assessment
As set out in EHRC's ElA, the updates to the Code are expected to have a significant impact on people with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment. In addition to the concerns detailed in that EIA, there are further impacts to note as follows.
Exclusion: The updated Chapter 13 provides guidance on when it is lawful to exclude trans people from services aligned with their acquired gender (e.g. domestic violence refuges, hospital wards, and changing rooms) based on their biological sex. It also covers competitive sport which may leave trans people with access to sport. Chapter 12 also provides guidance on restricting membership to an association based on those sharing one or more protected characteristics. Some organisations such as the Women's Institute and Girl Guiding have already made the decision to restrict…'Double exclusion': It is possible that trans people could be barred from both the space aligned with their gender (because of their sex) and the space aligned with their birth sex because of possessing the protected characteristic of gender reassignment), effectively leaving them with no service at all.
Alternative provision: While the Code states it is "unlikely to be proportionate" to leave a trans person with no service (especially for essentials like toilets), providers may lack the funding or space to offer
'third-space' or gender-neutral alternatives.
Involuntary disclosure: New guidance explains how service providers can request information about an individual's sex at birth. This may force trans people to "out" themselves in public or professional settings.
Similarly trans people have expressed concern - as in the Good Law Project litigation against EHRC - that having to use disabled toilets will
'out' them.
Policing of gender: Potential 'policing' of gender presentation, which could lead to increased harassment for trans people and cisgender people who do not conform to traditional gender stereotypes.
Safeguarding risks: Concern that excluding trans women from female services could mean they have to use male services, where they could face a disproportionate risk of violence and sexual assault (although this will depend on the nature of the service in question).
Relations between groups: The debate on single sex services and the treatment of trans people is particularly divisive at this time. The Code of Practice may exacerbate these tensions. This may be somewhat mitigated through careful communications surrounding the Code's publication.
Our assessment is therefore that the likely impacts on gender reassignment as a characteristic are negative, in relation to each of the 3 limbs of the PSED. Mitigating factors are the ability of service providers to create 'third-space' provision for trans people, and the guidance in the Code on when it is, and is not, p…
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/10/2026
It took like a week for him to change his mind on the "enjoy the camps" thing. All it took was people saying it to the mod team instead of trans people.
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Marie Leanne Shrewsbury @crapcerealandpills.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Really feeling at a low ebb today. I think writing to our MP yesterday has really brought us down. Sometimes you know shit is bad but it's when you sit there and put it in words, somehow it becomes realer. I need a bath. And pharmaceuticals.
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Deb's Noise 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 @debsnoise.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Everyone in the circle of the dinner parties she attends are onboard with her eliminationist project, so she expects we oiks to comply or face the consequence. She has yet to realise that her goals are flawed, futile & in opposition to science & human variety. she'll go to her grave bitter about it
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exactly. Disenfranchisement is one product of the transphobic extremists’ agenda. A new study from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law found that one in four transgender Americans will face significant hurdles in voting this fall.
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Ember Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Channel 4 copyright claimed my review of their ADHD documentary. Silencing disabled critics etc and whatever.. I’ve disputed it (like it’s quite clearly fair use) but they have 30 days to drag it out. If you’d like to buy me a coffee to get through this there’s a link in my bio 😩
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 04/10/2026
@sarahsackman.bsky.social is a member of the labour party. the labour party that has literally divided our society by introducing segregation laws that have been condemned by the united nations. they're so oblivious and lacking in self-awareness. the labour party is an enemy of antifascists.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 03/10/2026
Cisgender people, particularly in the UK, please read this 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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Jockyfox @jockyfox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Excellent substack from @natashadevon.bsky.social ✊🏼🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @heatherpaterson.co.uk @transgenderreport.com tashthinks.substack.com/p/the-right-...
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The Right Are Claiming Pride is Obsolete in 2026
.... Here is Why they are Wrong
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Marie Leanne Shrewsbury @crapcerealandpills.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Naughty naughty very naughty.
Flyposter on lamp post reading "Buy a trans person a gun"
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 04/10/2026
Woman accusing Sherrod Brown of forcing transgender surgeries isn’t from Ohio, didn’t have procedure as minor www.news5cleveland.c... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Woman accusing Sherrod Brown of forcing transgender surgeries isn’t from Ohio, didn’t have procedure as minor
In an attack ad against U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a woman accuses the Democrat of pushing transgender surgeries on minors "like her." She didn't have surgery until she was an adult.
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Katie Neeves - Cool2BTrans - Trans Ambassador @cool2btrans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The UK is not a safe place for trans and non-binary people. Please read this heartbreaking blog post about a family who have fled to Australia to escape the state-sponsored transphobia in the UK. 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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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My placard for Trans Pride London in 2025. Labour is still the genocide party, it’s just doing it with confidence & a smile now. It is STILL; -Exporting arms to Israel -Not recognising genocide as genocide -imposing Transphobic Section 28 on kids -imposing transphobic segregation & exclusion.
LABOUR

The Genocide Party
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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 03/10/2026
51% do not need protection to participate; just the very small minority of transphobic women feel that they need protection because people call out their bigoted views
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Another political party where women need the presence of police in order to participate. 
How is this acceptable to any party -  that 51% of those who vote need *protection* to get involved in the politics of our own country in the 21st century...?!"
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 04/10/2026
The Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t goodlawproject.org/is-this-the-firs…
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Is this the first ever SLAPP by our own Government? | Good Law Project
The Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
An image of Peter and a guy holding up a colour chart. The lighter skin tones are labeled as "victims of feminism" while the darker ones are "rape gang"
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Transgender Conduit @trans-conduit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm in Spain ATM. 🇪🇸 And every time I come over I wonder if I should start the process of leaving. Bigots will delight in us leaving - until services stop functioning how they want them to function and they suffer due to the lack of people whose skills are fleeing the country with them... ⚧️😞🌈
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 04/10/2026
www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
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Couple shout transphobic abuse at passenger on train
British Transport Police are appealing to a number of witnesses
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So, a lot of rape apologia going on because people like the rapist. This is why we cant organise against the fascists - too many oppressors or stanning for oppressors whilst claiming to be the oppressed. There are no acceptable rapes. Not in history, prison, war, parties, not at home.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Vile transphobic bigot Bridget Phillipson is leaving trans women survivors of domestic violence with nowhere to go. Trans people are particularly vulnerable to domestic violence & this disgusting government taking away support is putting lives in danger. Statement by @galopuk.bsky.social.
If the UK Government's position is, as the Minister for Women and Equalities, Bridget Phillipson, said on Sunday, that trans women should not be allowed in women's refuges, then it's their job to ensure trans+ people have accommodation they can access. Anyone who is escaping abuse and violence deserves a safe place to go.
But the Supreme Court Ruling and the EHRC's updated Code of Practice has put trans+ victims and survivors in a dangerous state of limbo with no clear guidance on what services they can turn to.
Over the last year, it has been virtually impossible for our frontline services to find anywhere safe for trans+ victims and survivors to go. Despite the fact that trans+ people are at particularly high risk of experiencing abuse and violence. We need direct action now from the UK Government to support trans+ people to find safe accommodation.
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Marie Leanne Shrewsbury @crapcerealandpills.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We threw the telly out the window back in '92 and still get threatening letters from the bastards. They can 100% take this and stick it where the sun don't shine.
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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think the use of the word "insanity" here is justified, speaking as a certified crazy person. /genuine
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
notable both that this is happening and is being pushed by popular GC accounts
Tribunal Tweets 
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Mental health nurse Amy Gallagher is bringing an employment tribunal against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust claiming racial harassment, belief discrimination and victimisation. While undertaking
psychotherapy training with the Trust, Miss Gallagher says she raised concerns about aspects of teaching on race, including material concerning "whiteness", "white privilege",
"white fragility" and critical race theory.
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They are still finding the bodies of children abused by these nuns. This institution was open until the 60’s. Some of the laundries were open as late as the 90’s. Never forget More infant remains uncovered at former mother-and-baby home www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tuam: Remains of 10 more infants uncovered at former mother-and-baby home
Experts who are carrying out the dig at Tuam in County Galway have published their latest regular update.
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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 03/10/2026
the plainness with which this is put covers up a sort of powerless rage that you feel as a parent of a trans kid. it’s, to say the least, an alienating experience to see people bicker over the niceties of this or that pension policy when the party and the government has done this to your family
This Labour Government is the worst thing to have ever happened to trans children.
They have step by step dismantled every protection that supported my daughter. We have tried so hard to help her grow up with happiness and self-esteem through a childhood in an increasingly transphobic UK.
At every point when the Labour Government could have made something better, they have turned around and given her another kick.
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