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Will you wake up tomorrow in a world where you’re free to participate in society as an equal, where the risk of people baselessly calling you a paedophile won’t frighten most employers from hiring you? Will you be free to drink as much water as you need without worrying what toilet you might need?

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When you go home tonight, will you brush this off as just the cost of doing business? Will you, like your colleagues, decide that trans people are a ‘debate’, not thousands of actual, living people, with hopes and dreams that the political movement this column’s author is a part of wants to kill?

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When you decided to become a journalist, knowing it was an underpaid and overworked profession, and you got a job at the standard-bearing newspaper for the centre-left, even in a minor capacity, did you think you’d be posting gloating opinion pieces about how removing rights from minorities is good?

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Specific question to the social media person who posted this and reports back to higher-ups about engagement: do you feel good about this? There’s obviously no hope for Susanna, she made her bed on the side of trans hatred a long time ago, but maybe you haven’t. Do articles like this give you pause?

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frances @fcm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Don’t even bother with the semi-sympathetic cartoons next time, lads, just skip straight to the op-eds telling us how exactly us being removed from society is great because blah blah blah waffle lies to cover up seething hatred

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This is Manchester, we segregate trans people differently here

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frances @fcm.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

ms. cait, my family adopted a cat with a similarly slightly off ear who had a similarly hard time on the streets almost a year ago and has also grown into such a loving lad, and every time I see a picture of adonis I think that he’s cousins across the ocean with our boy

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frances @fcm.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

having a crashout about your bad movie take spiral into web of claims that podcasters are mi6 millionaires with occasional light misgendering is certainly one way to prove how normal you are!

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frances @fcm.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

the speech and language therapist asks me to say who I’d like to model my voice after without listing any more of the original broadway cast of company and I simply smile. does not he know of the many other Sondheim recordings

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frances @fcm.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

‘new trick’ twice, clearly the trans medicines are affecting my cognitive function and so should be banned

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frances @fcm.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

you gotta still try it though

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frances @fcm.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

increasingly concerned that suing is going to accomplish nothing, given the courts’ new trick of disregarding written law when it suits an anti-trans interpretation, and the new fun trick that ‘no I don’t want to be around transes’ is a ‘legitimate aim’

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British trans healthcare: you have to laugh or you’ll (action that would make you ineligible for further treatment)

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they didn’t even call me a good girl!

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my GIC gave me the wrong weight to get down to for surgery, so I busted my arse to get to there and then they said ‘oops lose another ten kilos and get back to us chubs’. fun jokes with the doctor lads

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frances @fcm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

give the bastards what for (submit meekly to their absurd demands while trying to advocate for the healthcare you deserve)

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on one level it’s the state’s loss that it indoctrinated me with an irrational reverence for it and made me want to help my fellow citizens only to create conditions that made that impossible. on another level it’s very much my loss, I would’ve been a great and maybe happy Jane Normalwoman

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frances @fcm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I tried so fucking hard to be normal, have had at this point three different ‘proper’ career opportunities in public service that have just failed to work because I was unwilling to shrink myself to pretend to be anything other than trans, and unfortunately it seems it’s unemployability as a result

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frances @fcm.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

@edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social can’t fit a field in there but the oldest English speaking university in the world has something to say

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you are a senior member in a party almost all of whose leadership would answer no to all of these questions if asked point blank by the sun

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unless you’re trans or part of my immediate family I will now forever treat you with suspicion, because according to this data even if you’re friends with someone like me you’re still more likely than not to oppose me having healthcare

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Jesus Christ. fuck every single person in this awful country. if anyone I interact with is more likely than not to think I’m a danger to women who shouldn’t be allowed to use toilets or access the healthcare I need to stay alive, I am simply not going to help any of them ever again

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if a decade of ‘visibility’ has turned even those people who count us among their nearest and dearest against our rights, then we obviously need to do something else, fast

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if fewer than half the people in the country who claim to have trans friends and family members think I should be allowed to use women’s toilets, then it’s clear that “representation!!” is not sufficient to make this hellscape liveable

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awful country. easy to blame media but the public are willing to lap up propaganda about anyone who is part of the Other

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if most people don’t believe people should be allowed to *socially* transition (which is fucking nothing, let’s be honest here) then they simply do not believe that trans people are morally equivalent to cis people. if this is the case then trans people are frankly justified in doing (redacted)

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