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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️

@danielle-actually.bsky.social
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Older than I look - doctor, public speaker, musician. Suing for workplace discrimination. Writes about Trans Liberation, Marginalised Communities, LGBTQI+ issues, Politics, Autocracy, Health Tech. #IDSky #WomenInMedicine

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Starmer: “If you don’t like our policies you can leave.” Voters:
Gorton & Denton by-election, 2026
Source: Britain Elects
SIAIS r EFTIES
Green GAIN from Labour
40.7
28.7
25.4
1.9
1.8
Grn
427.5
Ref
414.6
Lab
725.4
Con
76.0
Lib
72.0
1.4
Oth
78.9
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 27/02/2026
“I said we were here to replace Labour and this is what replacing looks like.” Zack Polanski talking to volunteers after our stunning victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election. join.greenparty.org.uk
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Another weird Liverpool performance, but I tell you what - Hugo and Flo are becoming quite the dynamic duo 👏🏻🤩⚽️ #LFC
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/01/2026
Wanda is a real one. I once ran in to her at Fire Island at Cherry's. She was dancing with her wife. I went up to her to thank her for standing up for trans folks. She asked if I wanted a hug and she gave me one and we briefly danced together.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
Post from Amanda Gorman’s Instagram that says 

amandascgorman
Minneapolis, Minnesota
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been.
Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
* better angels of our nature.
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
By condensing a range of anxieties into a single enemy, the phrase ‘gender ideology’ produces “existential fear”—your core values are under attack!—that “can then be exploited” by authoritarians (as described by Judith Butler)
motherjones.com
How the right uses "gender ideology" to blame trans people for everything
MAGA learned from global autocrats the language needed to push fear.
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
@lukefoley.me Hello - LFC fan in Naarm too 👋🏻
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Trans on Trams 🚃 My trans agenda is getting to my hairdresser and having a good ol’ catch up
Danielle, a trans, on a tram, wearing sage top, camel skirt and simply existing
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Melbourne, winter, 2025
A simple photo of a city building - Art Deco style, straw coloured, strong lines and squares, against a bright blue clear sky
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Marcie Bianco @marciebianco.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“Anthony Spirito, 28, came in from Hoboken to join the pro-Zohran crowd, holding a sign that said “MAGA Italians vanfunnculo,” Italian for ‘go fuck yourself.’” EPIC 🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
@marciebianco.bsky.social Saw this today, instantly wanted to forward it to you
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert tells studio audience CBS is canceling 'The Late Show,' to end in May 2026.
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I signed and encourage you too transjustice.org.au/review/
transjustice.org.au
Tim Nicholls, scrap your sham 'review'
Demand Tim Nicholls scrap his sham 'review' and reinstate healthcare for trans youth.
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Marcie Bianco @marciebianco.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
“The Ultimatum: Queer Love” is anything but queer. Say Brussel sprouts! www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
msnbc.com
Opinion | "Ultimatum: Queer Love" proves the marriage industrial complex has come for the gays — and won
What the show proves most of all is how successfully the marriage industrial complex has come for, and won over, the gays.
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Know Yourself - Kae Tempest www.instagram.com/reel/DLhrAjB...
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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Funny how when Rogue One was first announced, I wondered if something as diaphanously light as Star Wars could support a more grounded exploration of war and fascism, and now the franchise has found its true voice (and relevancy) again in exactly that.
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Queerazon.com @queerazon.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Happy Birthday, Cyndi Lauper! 22 June 1953 From pop queen to fierce LGBTQ+ advocate—you’ve always let your true colors shine. #CyndiLauper #80sMusic #TrueColors #QueerIcon #QueerAlly
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BlueinOhio @sharon43302.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Imara Jones @imarajones.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Today the Supreme Court used the greatest hits of discredited anti-trans, pseudoscientific ideas in order to rule against the equal access of trans kids to healthcare.
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colin feral @sal.gay · 16/06/2025
Harron Walker @harronwawker.bsky.social profiling Jules Gill-Peterson is such a dream, thrilled I got to work on this banger
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This Historian Has Seen the Future of Trans Health Care
Jules Gill-Peterson doesn’t want to fight for trans joy. She wants to fight for what trans people really need: resources, hormones, and surgery. Her latest arena? The Supreme Court.
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Excellent work from Natacha. This section on new NHS gender services for children is really worrying. “We (a healthcare service for trans children) may not be gender affirming”
A screenshot from the quoted article. It reads:

One parent also reported that when they asked for confirmation from the new children's gender
'services' that they would not use their child's deadname and misgender them, they failed to confirm that they would.
They actually said the sentence, We may not be gender affirming but we will try and use the right name and
pronouns.
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Jack Who Wanders @jackwhowanders.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This entire rhetoric of "Oh, maybe we're just being too confrontational towards the people who very openly want us to not exist" really isn't a winning strategy. Ask Victor Klemperer how well trying to be nice and quiet and complying works.
An article from the New York Times, June 15, 1934, titled "Urges Good Will By Jews for Nazis" urging that it is not hate or attempts to fight back that will end Nazi oppression in Europe, but cultivating good will. The  statement likens a boycott on German goods as "a war".
Unsurprisingly, this turned out to be absolutely insipid and useless advice. Just as unsurprisingly, the NYT have not learned anything from their past mistakes.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Y'all!! Resistance Summer School made @thecut.com !! This is a great piece about the new wave of post-grad, independent lectures being taught outside traditional structures. As I said in the article, we don't need to wait for elite permission to share knowledge! www.thecut.com/article/lear...
thecut.com
Get Your Highlighters Ready
The hottest place to be this summer is at a lecture.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Irish Independent Interview with me out recently. Ireland is the first key bridgehead where the Biological Purity believers and GCIM are trying to roll out their Ideology to the EU. I wanted to warn Ireland about this British colonialist assault on their free and independent country.
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This is EXACTLY why the US Christo-fascist right-wing poured so much money into funding ‘gender critical’ transphobic litigation in the UK - to legitimate transphobia-tainted rulings and so they can then export the trans-hostile judgements to use back in US States! 😣 It’s Laundering transphobia! 😖
US states told: Follow UK guidance on trans children
Federal agency urges medical directors to adopt principles of UK inquiry on treating gender dysphoria
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Someone was SUPER keen to wear their new pants to work today
Person on a train wearing a pair of trousers with the size sticker still stuck to the side
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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Nadine Smith @nadinesmith.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Veteran reminds active duty Marines to uphold the standard and refuse any illegal order to harm US civilians. #NoKings
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 06/06/2025
Happy 1 month anniversary to the release of my debut book, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman. Thank you to everyone who has grabbed a copy, read it, written me about it, posted about it, listened to the audiobook, and more. Thank you everyone who helped get me here, here's to the days ahead.
a book with a blue cover on a stack of records called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman by Niko Stratis
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Radek is astute. We need more like him
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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"As we celebrate Pride let us pause for a moment to remember. This is an image of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget." #PRIDE #AIDS #HIV
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 28/05/2025
How the UK anti-trans machine turned the UK from a place of hope for the Trans+ community, to hate 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/how-did-this-s…
wearequeeraf.com
How did this Supreme Court ruling happen? A brief history of how Great Britain became Terf Island
How the UK anti-trans machine turned the UK from a place of hope for the Trans+ community, to hate
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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Star Wars is 47 today. So here’s a classic of mine on celebration, where R2 plays the ABBA hologram for Obi Wan.
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Rafał Trzaskowski @rafal-trzaskowski.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Posłuchajcie. To ważne. Spotkajmy się w niedzielę w samo południe. #WielkiMarszPatriotów
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023. They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
sltrib.com
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The best thread 🧵 on old-school self-promoting A-holes
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I've never seen it so well put before.
A tweet from NBC news: Measles vaccination among babies skyrocketed in Texas as the outbreak grew, new research shows. 
Reply by Alex Griswold: Because in practice anti-vaxx is a luxury belief based on the assumption that your neighbors' vaccines do in fact work
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2025
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect
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Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Yosemite climbers unfurl transgender pride flag on iconic El Capitan For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
nbcnews.com
Yosemite climbers unfurl transgender pride flag on iconic El Capitan
The group of LGBTQ activist climbers said the flag, which is 55 feet by 35 feet, is the largest ever displayed on the face of the world-famous rock climbing destination.
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Trans Woman Support @tws-website.com · 20/05/2025
You cannot "politely disagree" with someone's existence #we #exist #respect #rights #love #riseup #standup #change #together
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20/05/2025
Is it too much to ask for an IRS Commissioner who understands the law?
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Danielle Actually 🏳️‍⚧️ @danielle-actually.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I think this whole aesthetic needs a revival *Alt-text: 4 pictures of women reclining on day beds and chaise longues.*
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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The #Trump administration has made unprecedented attacks on science. It’s time for the states to step up. #science #medicine #research www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...
12. Replace research into vulnerable groups.
Dr. Jack Turban, pediatric psychiatrist and scientist: The G.O.P.’s approach to transgender youth is incoherent. On the one hand, they say there isn’t enough science in this area. On the other, they canceled grants for transgender health research and refuse to issue new ones — a recent Times report found that nearly half of recent N.I.H. grant cancellations were for L.G.B.T.Q.-health-related research. States should fund health research for vulnerable groups the Trump administration has abandoned. California Senate Bill 829, which would create the California Institute for Scientific Research, is model legislation that replaces funding cuts from the federal government, potentially including areas like transgender health research. It’s essential other states establish similar institutes.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 19/05/2025
I can't stop thinking about how the "Gender Critical" response to hundreds of leading UK biologists signing a letter saying sex isn't binary or immutable is "I can't believe that school kids know more about biology than these biologists". Can you imagine saying that out loud without thinking?! Mad
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 17/05/2025
One month ago, the Supreme Court made a ruling that rolled back trans rights in the UK It made this decision without listening to a single trans voice Today, to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, we’re bringing those voices somewhere they can't miss them 🏳️‍⚧️
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