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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
3 books out of 12 left on the Polari First Book longlist, 7 out of 12 remaining on the main longlist. a colossal show of solidarity esp from debut authors
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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 12/08/2025
Wes really hit the ground running, meeting with a bunch of hate groups within weeks of the election
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
To clarify: When the puberty blocker ban came in, it was stated that young people ALREADY on blockers under NHS treatment would be allowed to CONTINUE getting them. These are some of those young people. The NHS is now BREACHING the blocker ban ruling!!! 😠😤
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This👇
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
It's important to note that the Polari Prize is not an automatic submission situation. You have to ASK to be considered. I doubt many authors will be asking next year. Even if they don't support trans rights, the reputational damage and stress if something like this happens again is enough.
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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Queer writers are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with their Trans+ family, friends, and colleagues - and against the creeping normalisation of transphobia. When figures like John Boyne use their platform to legitimise their transphobic rhetoric, they doesn’t just negatively impact Trans+ people
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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Can I just put in a word for medieval and early modern people. The average age of marriage for a woman was 25.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 07/08/2025
I was in a shop earlier and an assistant, wearing terf colours, asked if she could help. When I declined she took a shit in my shopping bag. This is totally true. Don't ask any follow ups, just put it in the paper.
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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Our statement on the actions at Wes Streeting's office last night. We refuse to sit and watch as trans young people have their healthcare stripped from them. We refuse to allow Streeting to cover up their suicides. We refuse to endure the violence and humiliation. They will have to go through us.
A photograph of the front of Wes Streeting's office in Ilford. there is pink paint on the window, reading CHILD KILLER, although a car is parked in front of it, and white paper on one side barely hiding a puncture in the glass. Wes' name is also covered in pink paint on the email at the bottom of the red banner-style signA different angle of Streeting's office, showing the CHILD KILLER text more visibly. Three punctures with spider-fractures are visible across the front of the office windows.JUSTICE FOR TRANS YOUTH

On July 31st, a group of activists representing BASH BACK took action against Wes Streeting's office in Ilford, in response to his continued abuse of trans people in the medical system, and attempts to cover up the suicides of trans young people under his watch as Health Secretary.

In the months since the puberty blockers ban, we have seen huge backpedals in the healthcare rights afforded to trans people - and young people especially - in an NHS system that was never kind to us in the first place. 

Under Streeting's rule, GPs have been banned from conducting blood tests on trans patients accessing HRT, and trans people have been banned from accessing hospital wards that fit their gender, leading necessarily to poorer quality of care across the board. Streeting, along with NHS England, the EHRC, and Hillary Cass, have paved the way for state-mandated conversion therapy, which has since led to the Department of Education's proposed introduction of a "Section 28" style bill, preventing discussion of transness in the classroom. 
It is clear now that Wes Streeting and the Labour government intend to erase trans people from public life, and will go out of their way to do so, no matter how many bodies lay in their path.A poster on a black paper textured background, with the logo (an inverted pink triangle with "trans symbol" spokes at each corner, sat between "Bash" and "back"

WHEN TRANS LIVES ARE UNDER ATTACK, WHAT DO WE DO?
STAND UP

BASH BACK
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Jooli-AHH! Boolia 👻🍂🎃 @jooliaghoulia.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
How can you not love Seth Green?
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The grotesque sight of a Labour Chancellor protecting actual fraudsters from the consequences of their acts, rather than supporting the millions of people defrauded. Turns out capitalism - however badly it acts - is more important to Labour than the population it supposedly acts for.
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 19/07/2025
This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice
Screenshot:

No room for wokeness!
@Wokenessisevil
Notice how no one, not a single soul, has ever complained about the female gaze in entertainment.

[photos show Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) and Alan Ritchson (Reacher) with ripped muscles]
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 19/07/2025
sure would have been nice if the WSJ and NYT had published these stories about Trump and Epstein a year ago
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AGC @agc1985.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Updated: Starmer’s Labour: The most anti-LGBT+ govt since Thatcher. A list of the awful things they've done and said regarding LGBT+ people, especially trans people.
Labour: Ditched its longstanding pledge to demedicalise gender recognition for trans people before the 2024 election • And then abandoned even plans for watered-down reform • Made the Tories’ temporary ban on puberty blockers for trans children indefinite • Endorsed the flawed and discredited Cass Review • Refused to pass legislation to protect trans people’s gender recognition following the recent Supreme Court ruling • Introduced a new Section 28 for trans people • Banned trans women from standing for internal Women’s Officer posts • Oversaw the UK dropping to its lowest ever place in the ILGA-Europe rankings of LGBT+ rights in European countries • Has adopted covertly transphobic language (‘sex-based rights’, ‘transmen’, ‘transwomen’) in internal documentation • Took no action against Rosie Duffield even after years of vile social media posts targeting trans (and bi) people – including sharing a post denying Nazi persecution of trans people • Re-elected Duffield Women’s PLP Chair on International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 2021 • Suspended the whip from Stonewall founder Michael Cashman for (rightly) criticising Duffield • Reappointed a ‘gender-critical’ bigot, Baroness Falkner, as Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission • Then tried to appoint ANOTHER ‘gender-critical’ figure, Mary-Ann Stephenson, as Falkner’s successor! • Suspended Lloyd Russell-Moyle, a gay MP and one of the most vocal pro-trans parliamentarians, on bogus charges shortly before the last election • Oversaw the introduction of new CPS guidelines that put trans people at risk of prosecution if they do not disclose their gender identity before having sex • Multiple Labour MPs attempted to dilute a motion at the Council of Europe condemning anti-LGBT+ hatred • Labour MPs abstained on backing trans rights in Scotland • Unlike other European countries, has not issued updated travel warnings for trans travellers to the US • Hosts anti-trans groups at its conferencesHealth Secretary Wes Streeting: Responded to the (flawed, discredited) Cass Review by saying he’d been wrong to say trans women are women • Banned the use of puberty blockers, against international best practice and evidence, and severely restricted gender healthcare for trans children • Supports segregation of trans patients in hospitals • Has expressed sympathy for conversion therapy groups • Implemented a ban on young trans people being able to obtain hormone therapy outside the NHS • Has overseen guidance directing GPs not to monitor trans people’s blood values – putting them at harm if they are forced to self-medicate due to NHS failings • Wrote in The Sun to share the lie that the NHS no longer uses the term ‘women’ • Shared the false claim that the practice history of doctors who transition to a new legal gender would not be disclosed to patients • Shared false claims that terms such as ‘breastfeeding’ are being ‘erased’ • Invited transphobic groups to produce NHS exclusion guidelines • Has overseen a rise in GPs refusing hormone prescriptions to trans people, which can have serious mental and physical health consequences • Responded to the recent Supreme Court ruling by calling on those who’d previously recognised trans people’s lived gender identities to reconsider • Was named What the Trans ‘Villain of the Year’ in 2024 • Issued an apology to Duffield for how she had been treated, ignoring her years of vitriol against trans people on social media

STARMER’S LABOUR: THE MOST ANTI-LGBT+ GOVT SINCE THATCHERPrime Minister Keir Starmer: Responded to the recent Supreme Court ruling by declaring that trans women are not women • Attended a deeply homophobic church to deliver his Easter message • Then did it AGAIN two years later! • Supports the exclusion of trans women from sports • Refused to meet with trans Labour members to discuss concerns about institutional transphobia in the party • Left Marsha de Cordova in post as Shadow Equalities Secretary even after she shared overtly transphobic content on social media • Staged a fake meeting with LGBT+ community members (in reality all Labour staffers/councillors) for a publicity stunt • In 2023, expressed ‘concerns’ about the Gender Recognition Reform Bill in Scotland that was supported by his Scottish Labour colleagues • Believes trans children should require parental permission to socially transition Education Secretary and ‘Equalities’ Minister Bridget Phillipson: Responded to the recent Supreme Court ruling by immediately declaring trans people should use toilets according to ‘biological sex’ • Supports the removal of anti-transphobia policies at universities • Supports trans schoolchildren being outed to their parents • Welcomed the fine imposed on the University of Sussex due to students using their free speech to protest campus transphobia • Erased the word ‘trans’ from the new schools guidance  • Prohibited schools from promoting ‘gender identity’ and ‘social transition’ – Section 28 all over again • Requires schools to misrepresent the law about ‘biological sex’ and gender recognition

STARMER’S LABOUR: THE MOST ANTI-LGBT+ GOVT SINCE THATCHERJustice Secretary Shabana Mahmood: During protests against LGBT-inclusive RSE in schools, argued that pupils’ ‘religious background’ and ‘age appropriateness’ should be considered • Agrees with J. K. Rowling’s views on ‘biological sex’ • Claimed it is ‘absolutely unacceptable’ to criticise the recent Supreme Court ruling • Home Secretary Yvette Cooper: Passed guidelines that would allocate trans women to male prisons – threatening their safety and dignity • Responded to a demonstration for trans rights by condemning washable chalk graffiti on a statue • Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy: Deleted all her past tweets supportive of trans people when the government switched to an explicitly anti-trans position • Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar: During the NHS Fife tribunal case, backed the ‘gender-critical’ nurse accused of harassing trans doctor Beth Upton • U-turned on previous support for gender recognition reform in Scotland • Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens: Shared content from gender-critical group Woman’s Place UK • Parliamentary Under-Secretary Feryal Clark: Described LGBT+ affirming education as ‘nonsense’ on social media • Parliamentary Under-Secretary Jess Phillips: Shared a conspiracy theory on social media alleging that the murderer of Phoenix Netts was a trans woman • Tonia Antoniazzi MP: Accused Welsh government of being ‘dictated to’ by Stonewall and having an ‘ideological culture’ • Jonathan Hinder MP: Supports exclusion of trans women from (non-competitive, mixed-sex) Parkruns
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earwicga @earwicga.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
TalkTV is airing attacks on trans people without broadcasting the views of those who support trans rights. Call on Ofcom to take action: goodlaw.social/66f6a3
goodlaw.social
Ofcom: stop TalkTV broadcasting hate
TalkTV is Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News for the UK – a constant source of toxic hate and far-right lies. Over the last 11 weeks, TalkTV has been spouting transphobic hate again and again – totally ignorin...
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 15/07/2025
www.gov.uk/government/n... This guidance mandates that children are taught that they have different legal rights based on their biological sex. So much for kicking misogyny out of classrooms.
gov.uk
Misogynistic myths kicked out of classrooms to protect children
Government publishes final statutory relationships, sex and health education guidance for schools.
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Dr Jake Taylor @astrojake.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
All my friends are leaving academia because it’s impossible to get a job in the UK
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The temporary shutdown had flushed a lot of stress toxins secreted by my organic parts and I actually felt better.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard
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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
With a eugenicist as Minister of Health, what could possibly go wrong...?
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19/06/2025
Hillary Cass was selected from a candidate pool of one. Kishwer Falkner was appointed by Liz Truss because they viewed the EHRC as too close to Stonewall. Christian Concern are behind the Darlington Nurses and Wes Streeting.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19/06/2025
Kathleen Stock quit, she wasn't fired. Maya Forstater's temporary contract wasn't renewed, she wasn't fired. Hadley Freeman quit, she wasn't forced out.
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WIRED @wired.com · 19/06/2025
SpaceX Starship 36 exploded ahead of a test flight in southern Texas on Wednesday night, sending a huge fireball high into the sky, followed by thick clouds of smoke and large flames. In a statement posted on X, SpaceX said the rocket experienced a “major anomaly” while on a test stand.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 30/03/2025
Gonna start a campaign about a Rapid Onset Lesbianism and base my entire theory on Kathleen Stock. I'll be able to produce as much evidence as Stock has to back her claims about trans people. A surefire winner.
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WIRED @wired.com · 12/06/2025
BTW, our new guide on protesting safely in the age of surveillance is unpaywalled. From phone safety tips to just how much law enforcement can track your movements, take a look at the guide:
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I really wish Simone Biles (& others) would read this – or literally any of the similarly in depth analyses of the research & complexities surrounding trans ppl & sports (no paywall) on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/trans-peop... & Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...
juliaserano.substack.com
Trans People and Sports: Everything You Need to Know
I have been writing about transgender people and issues for over twenty years now.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
An apology. Yesterday, I suggested on this site that sooner or later, Reform's new chairman, David Bull, would make an absolute turnip of himself. I was wrong. There was no "later" to it.
Reform chairman tells Susanna
Reid 'psychic tried to kill
to kill me as
evil spirit took him over
Former Most Haunted Live presenter appeared
on Good Morning Britain after getting role in
Nigel Farage's party and admitted 'I believe in
ghosts
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Reshare to scare the data bros and popularism acolytes
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 09/06/2025
State cop cars are being DESTROYED by protestors who are throwing all kinds of rocks, bricks, bicycles, and scooters onto them. Sent to me by someone on the ground. The CHP has kept 101S closed for unknown reasons, and thought it was a great idea to park all their cars directly under a bridge.
Cop cars littered with debris under a bridge
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Megan E. Human * free Link @zombiscribe.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I mean a) awesome but b) shit like this needs to be shared far and wide. Make it perfectly clear what the "violent protests" actually are. Good people protesting for others and the state enacting violence on them for it
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Minorities and women in history are often portrayed condescendingly as innocents who stumbled into consequence--Rosa Parks was just tired and wanted to sit down, etc. Society doesn't want to acknowledge the strategy and training that goes into battles for social justice. People worked for our wins.
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The Diva Weava (she/her) @divaweava.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Yassssss, Ma’am! They also don’t teach how foot soldiers had to TRAIN for 18-24 months on how to be nonviolent/politically nonviolent bc humans aren’t naturally nonviolent.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 08/06/2025
If you're a British trans person or ally I really think you MUST fill in the EHRC consultation on whether to segregate trans people from society If you need a hand doing that, @notrightruth.bsky.social and I will be doing a respond together live stream Tuesday 8pm! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wfw...
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Respond to the EHRC consultation together! With Katy Montgomerie and Dr Ruth Pearce ❤️
YouTube video by Katy Montgomerie
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Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🚨🚨CALL TO ACTION🚨🚨 The new EHRC chair candidate, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, has a history of transphobic actions. MPs *must* scrutinze her. Sign the open letter and use the template to email the WEC to demand MPs protect trans rights! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Letter to member of the Women and Equalities Committee, June 2025
Please fill out the form below by Friday, 20 June 2025, to add your signature to this letter. Share this form widely to anyone who might be interested. The author, Anna Langley, is doing this to help...
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 06/06/2025
Akua Reindorf is profoundly ignorant about the history gender activism.I spoke to her face to face about it. During our conversation, she professed to, for example, never have heard of Sandy Stone, and thought that "trans activism" was a phenomenon only of the last decade. She's an ideological hack.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Amms 💚 Green Party 💚 @ammsland.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Wow, that is quite something... They forgot to change url: www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Which still has same message as previous title. Other changes in article itself:
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People aren't things @pellowponders.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Hey peter? Why do you describe naomi cunningham as simply 'a barrister' rather than as the chair of sex matters, an organisation that stands opposed to trans people and who reindorf, at this same talk (not a debate) states she advises people to go to for advice on matters she's not expert in?
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
As the government's preferred EHRC leadership candidate, Mary-Ann Stephenson will have to meet with the Women and Equalities Committee prior to her appointment. One thing people can do is email members of the committee and ask them to scrutinise her position on transphobia.
committees.parliament.uk
Women and Equalities Committee - Membership - Committees - UK Parliament
Committee membership for the Women and Equalities Committee.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/06/2025
Never interrupt them while they're fighting each other. But never forget who they are.
Photo of Elon Musk giving Nazi salute
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WIRED @wired.com · 05/06/2025
It is likely that quantum computers will soon be able to break the encryption methods that secure your passwords and anything else kept under digital lock and key. Here's a little demonstration, purely for illustrative purposes, to give a better sense. Test it out now: wrd.cm/3T7TtUO
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/06/2025
I know everyone is loving the Musk schadenfreude but we have to stay on the alert for the possibility that Musk is going to turn his sights to those centrist dem conventions going on and further entrench transphobia and anti-immigrant sentiment. And they would easily work with him.
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Freya 🇵🇸⚧️🏴 @wrpl.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
hey this site lets you look at twitter without an account nitter.poast.org/elonmusk enjoy :)
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earwicga @earwicga.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
June is Pride Month. Let's call out companies who show support for LGBTQ+ people while also advertising on GB News, a channel that pumps out LGBTQ+ hate. Tell these companies to pick a side - hate or Pride: action.goodlawproject.org/pick-side-ha...
action.goodlawproject.org
Pick a side – hate or Pride
June is Pride month. So our social feeds will be awash with corporate rainbow logos performatively signalling their support for the LGBTQ+ community. But some of the same companies celebrating Pride a...
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