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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️

@emma82.bsky.social
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Early 40’s, trans woman based in the West Midlands. On HRT but not out (yeah I know!). Think I have found a new home on Bluesky

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Annastea 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ (Anna Na Maus) @annastea-p.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Apparently the British public need to read about this rather than the impending double rise in energy costs in January. Amazing that both things come out on the same day.
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Just been reading the latest decision from the NHS. What the actual F? How can they not see how cruel this is and the damage this is going to do so many lives of people who have suffered enough already?!
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
*Knocks on doer* Is anyone there? Been a while since I’ve been here, hope it’s improved since my last time I visited!
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Happy long weekend (for those lucky enough not to be working that is!)
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Only just found this out, am I ok to celebrate belatedly?
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Anyone else had this flu type lurgy thing a couple of weeks ago for it to come back with a vengeance?
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Has it got any better here?
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Day 2 of the hangover 😬
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
@k1ng1e2.bsky.social pleased to have made the list, especially with my lack of anything much on here of late!
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Today’s the day 😁
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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a good morning greeting card with a yellow flower in the water .
ALT: a good morning greeting card with a yellow flower in the water .
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Settling down for the tennis now #wimbledon
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
How’s everyone e enjoying this weather?
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
…but paying for it today!
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
So Oasis was a blast!
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Really very haphazard on here of late, nothing personal just life is busy and social media seems to be full of hate, however to all the lovely folk I normally interact with… I hope you’re well! Xx
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Where oh where has stock of the Nintendo Switch 2? 🙏🏻
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Hi everyone, it’s been a while…
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Dawny B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
There’s so much going on in the world I think I’m going to try and do this x
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
So how many of you have tucked into an Easter egg already?
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
@lafeeverte.bsky.social good luck for today and wishing you a speedy recovery! X
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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The Supreme Court ruling is a travesty. The existing rights of trans people - a minority - are denied without allowing that minority to give evidence or set out their argument. Instead, all evidence was taken from anti LGBTQ + organisations. This is appalling.
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Well that sucks, though not really unexpected in today’s world 😔
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Whenever anyone says; “Stop” My brain subconsciously goes; “Hammertime”
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Currently laying in a hotel room in the dark, slightly bored so talk to me please 🤣 Other half isn’t feeling well and we’re on a city break so it’s not as weird as it first sounds!
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Screamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 09/04/2025
This made me spit my coffee * * no soft furnishings were harmed
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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
"Gender affirming care isn’t the controversial, understudied or farfetched luxury it’s painted as by those invested in a relentlessly anti-trans agenda. For those who are waiting to medically transition, it is a lifeline – one that’s in desperate need of protection" www.vogue.co.uk/article/munr...
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Munroe Bergdorf: “Gender Affirming Care Is The Reason I’m Still Here. It’s Also Under Greater Threat Than Ever”
“Gender affirming care isn’t the controversial, understudied or farfetched luxury it’s painted as by those invested in a relentlessly anti-trans agenda,” writes Munroe Bergdorf. “For those who are wai...
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Heading into the weekend totally exhausted! Joy 🤣
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
So hard these days to tell the difference between an April Fools and the actual news!
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Not been on here much lately as life has been very busy. Hope all those who I interact with are doing okay x
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Wide awake 😬
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Mima58 @j-oarchiere.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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sentiment bot @sentimentbot.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
😌 Hey @emma82.bsky.social! You're keeping things just a little sunny in your messages. Your sentiment score is 0.13 (slightly positive). Those positive posts are a good look on you. Keep that energy going!
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
@sentimentbot.bsky.social how am I doing?
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Does anyone have any recommendations for nipple covers? Reusable would be preferred and serious answers only please!
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
We're continuing to hear reports of GPs refusing to prescribe trans people their HRT, even if they have a letter from an NHS gender clinic asking the GP to prescribe. We're in regular contact with NHS England (and others) about this unacceptable situation. #TransHealth #Transition #HRT (1/2)
Text says: Has your GP refused your HRT? Let us know. https://tinyurl.com/TransActualHRT Illustration: a worried looking person
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
😂 been there!
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I have the type of hangover that just is going to shift today. No matter how much junk food I consume!
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IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is messed up trans misogyny. Can someone tell me what the perks of being trans and a woman are? Compared to a privileged straight white cis guy? The only reason the son of a famous snapper is appearing in the Daily Trash is because he’s spouting transphobia.
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Sometimes whatever you do is just bloody wrong 😔
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Today is a reminder of just how precious life is x
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I know it’s a lovely day out there but I’m afraid the PlayStation beckons!
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 09/03/2025
“I didn’t want a transgender child. I’m so ashamed of myself now” Nothing but love for @alicemydaughter.bsky.social for this interview with the Sunday Times magazine for her book, "Her name is Alice"
Double page Sunday Times magazine spread - “I didn’t want a transgender child. I’m so ashamed of myself now”
When Caroline Litman discovered that her 16-year-old wanted to become a girl, she was heartbroken. She explains how she learnt to accept Alice as her daughter — but couldn’t save her life
INTERVIEW BY LAURA PULLMAN, PORTRAIT BY ANNA BATCHELORThe shock set in the moment they found the GP’s letter, left open in the kitchen beside the kettle. It was an autumn morning in 2018 when Caroline Litman’s husband, Peter, rushed upstairs to confess to his wife that he’d glimpsed the letter to their 16-year-old. It raised the possibility that the anxiety their child had been suffering might stem from “gender dysphoria”. The couple were blindsided.
“It wasn’t a boy child that I longed for. It was a happy child. If transitioning could bring that happy child back out, I was all for it”

Shortly afterwards, there were moments of light. Alice asked if the family could get a new dog — their old dog had recently died — and within a week they had found Pippin, a one-eyed Romanian rescue dog who became a dependable friend. That summer Alice came downstairs from her bedroom wearing a dress for the first time — a floral item that seemed to make her giddy with happiness. “I was trying so hard to be loving and accepting,” Litman says, “but inside I was, like, ‘What’s she doing? She looks ridiculous.’ Oh God, bless her!” she says, laughing fondly. “I felt really uncomfortable.”In the UK, Litman argues, trans healthcare is not fit for purpose. In March 2020, after Alice had turned 18, she was discharged from CAMHS psychiatric services as she was now a legal adult. Aged 19 she moved out of home to live with a friend in Brighton. The hope was that she would find a job or complete a course that could lead to a university place, but by her mental health was too fragile. In April 2022, using an e-consult form, Alice told a new GP in Brighton of her fears that she wasn’t taking the right medication. “I often feel hopeless, and helpless and that life is not worth living,” she wrote. An appointment was made for July.

She didn’t make it. On May 26, 2022, around 8.30am, a policeman knocked on Litman’s front door. She assumed that something had happened to her 95-year-old mother, who’d spent the night in hospital after a gardening accident. “My brain was protecting me,” she says, quietly remembering that morning.

The offcer suggested that the couple sit down in their living room before breaking the news. A body had been found by a passer-by earlier that morning on the Undercliff Walk between Brighton and Rottingdean. The first devastating task was telling Kate, who was studying for a history master’s at Leeds University, and Harvey, who was travelling with his girlfriend in Guatemala, before they heard the news somehow elsewhere.

Litman doesn’t like gentle euphemisms for death. “I just find it so offensive because Alice’s death wasn’t peaceful and calm and a slipping away,” she says. “It was cruel and brutal, harsh and horrible.”
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Knew I shouldn’t have searched #sundaygutters
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Emma Dabbadoo 🌸🏳️‍⚧️💚 @emmadabbadoo.eurosky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy international women’s day to every single woman on this earth, shall we all shine bright like the diamonds we are, like we do every day! Except terfs, you lot can fuck off.
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Admittedly low in terms of problems in the world but seriously how poor is eBay now!? No protection as a seller I’ll never be using them again!
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Emma 🏳️‍⚧️ @emma82.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Hmmmm, morning!?
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