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#UK #NHS #TransRights While prescribing HRT for a gender incongruence patient is considered "dangerous" by the NHS, citing biased systematic reviews, that same NHS has no problem putting the same patients on SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, a cocktail of antidepressants).

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 22h

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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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every cis person needs to read and understand this.These decisions aren’t taken lightly. Our Labour government is effectively making political refugees of trans ppl and their families who flee and seek safety overseas. It’s shameful. They can stick their dignity and respect where the sun don’t shine

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

“Everyone should be assigned a fixed sex at birth that is policed by the state” is basically The Handmaid’s Tale. This is why many feminists oppose “gender critical” politics — it just enables authoritarianism. Trans rights and women’s rights are secured together by refusing biological essentialism.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m considering leaving the UK also. I don’t want to. I’m a Londoner through & through. Burnham is by far the most transphobic PM ever. Transphobia is a flagship Labour policy. It’s also a political litmus test for how it will treat minorities & capitulate to oligarch media. A test it has failed.

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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#UK #TransRights #NHS When the time arrives and the new systematic reviews turn out to be as detrimental as I'm predicting them for the little bit of healthcare we have left, remember this skeet. The McMaster review clearly linked to National Institute for Health www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie...

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ex-Commissioner of the EHRC, and one of the people involved in drafting the Equality Act 2010, raises significant concerns about the Supreme Court ruling and Code of Practice (note: the posts in this thread are not in chronological order) www.linkedin.com/pulse/has-eq...

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Has the Equality and Human Rights Commission done its job?

The EHRC’s draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations Last November, I wrote on Linked In about my concerns that the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice submitted to government o...

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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#UK #EHRC #TransRights I'm rather curious exactly what the terms and conditions are, because they haven't specified them in the news article. www.equalityhumanrights.com/news/funding...

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Funding available for organisations to give evidence to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) | EHRC

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riajourno.bsky.social @riajourno.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An 80-yr-old activist was filmed calling Andy Burnham a 'bastard' as police removed her from a Palestine Action protest on Sunday. She was later identified as Elizabeth Morley, the daughter of an Auschwitz survivor. #UKnews #AndyBurnham #UKPM www.ibtimes.co.uk/elderly-prot...

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Elderly Woman Calls Andy Burnham a 'Bastard' as Police Remove Her From Palestine Action Protest

Elizabeth Morley repeatedly called Prime Minister Andy Burnham a 'bastard' while being led away from a Liverpool protest against the Palestine Action ban.

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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Homophobes are very grateful to the transphobes who pathed the way for this. The racists can’t wait to get their turn. It’s only a matter of time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Christian 'discriminated' against in job retraction over LGBT views, court hears

Felix Ngole was rejected for a job after his potential employer discovered his views on homosexuality.

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Still gathering signatures, still reaching new people, still receiving largely positive feedback and messages of support. Lots more to do of course but some meaningful activities planned. Compassionate cis women in the UK please keep signing, everyone self, please keep sharing notinourname.org.uk

Spoiler alert:
Trans women were never the issue

NION
notinourname.org.uk

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 27/09/2026

Over 85,000 people have asked their local NHS Trust to say no to Palantir. Time is running out, so every email counts. Will you email your local trust and ask them to stand against Palantir? notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/ema…

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Say no to Palantir in the NHS

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 25/09/2026

We have heard today from one of our members in Glasgow that Category is Book in Govanhill has been attacked again for the second time in a fortnight. The main shop window has been smashed again. www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...

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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please watch this VIDEO: The media is deliberately ignoring Andy Burnham’s Transphobic Section 28+ now imposed on schools. A lot of trans children are being bullied, victimized, abused and harmed at school by the government’s transphobic “KCSIE” diktats. Many are now school refusing…

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 24/09/2026

Make sure you get down to your local protest next week and join the international day of action to say NO to Palantir ❌ Not able to make it? Take action with our digital tool instead 👇 goodlaw.social/74abab

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

UK government is calling for evidence on puberty suppressing hormones for children and young people with gender incongruence. It’s asking: what research has emerged since 2023. How has the evidence base changed? What makes the evidence hard to generate, evaluate and use in clinical/policy decisions?

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Puberty-suppressing hormones for children and young people accessing gender identity services

How has evidence on puberty suppressing hormones for children and young people with gender incongruence evolved since 2023, and what challenges affect its interpretation and use?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Clive is of course correct, and the key thing here is not that Watson has succumbed to temptation: he was a bullshit artist and a crook ten years ago too. This is just what the system looks like when there is no longer any need to pretend these people work for you, not their future employers.

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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis

When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 24/09/2026

Wait til he hears about the UK newspapers....

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 24/09/2026

“Climate change and nature loss have never been issues for climate and environment ministers alone. They are defining challenges for our citizens, our economies, our foreign policy and our national security.” bit.ly/4hn1lO3

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UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 19/09/2026

She is trans and therefore has no choice but to take seriously the catastrophe currently being inflicted on that community specifically www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

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The American Transgender Refugee Crisis

If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 23/09/2026

When the health department published Palantir’s contract with most of its pages completely blanked out, our legal action forced ministers to reveal key sections about the protection of personal data. And now we’re doing it again. Support our challenge for transparency: goodlaw.social/xcsv

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Make the government come clean about Palantir | Good Law Project

Together with Democracy for Sale, we’re challenging the information commissioner’s decision to keep ministerial briefings about Palantir’s platform hidden

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WIRED @wired.com · 22/09/2026

When Andy Burnham served as the Manchester regional mayor, he did so in the only region of England that refused Palantir access to its data. Now, as British prime minister, Palantir could be his first major test in office.

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The UK Government Faces a Reckoning Over Palantir

Andy Burnham once kept Palantir out of Greater Manchester. His first test as prime minister is whether to cut the company’s £330 million NHS contract—and risk a rupture with Big Tech and Washington.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 22/09/2026

⚖️ NEW ⚖️ The latest High Court judge appointees are all white, and nine out of ten are men – no wonder the legal system fails to deliver justice: goodlaw.social/ac7w

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The new High Court judges: 90% male, 100% white | Good Law Project

The latest High Court judge appointees are all white, and nine out of ten are men – no wonder the legal system fails to deliver justice

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

‘The report is expected to say that there is no direct evidence of widespread overdiagnosis of autism and ADHD in Britain’ Preview of what is expected in the independent review led by @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Peter Fonagy liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/476...

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ADHD is not being overdiagnosed, major Government report set to find

Landmark report expected to rule out mass overdiagnosis but warn support can be hard to obtain

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 20/09/2026

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The only 4 constituencies where rejoining the EU wasn’t the preferred option were those of Lee Anderson, Farage, Tice and Lowe. In those 4, the top answer was ‘don’t know’. Confirming that Brexit has no real support at all. Not surprising for a total shitshow. And makes red lines seem very silly.

Independent front page.

Voters across Britain back rejoining EU
Reversing Brexit is most popular option in 646 of 650 constituencies, finds new electoral survey of 12,000

Bar chart showing
Which EU relationship respondents most wanted the Uk government to propose

EU membership 35%
Single market 6%
Customs Union 5%
Uk govt position 18/19%
Starts quo 8/9%
Don’t know 16%
Loosen ties 11%

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Overdiagnosis” is just a rightwing wedge campaign against the NHS.

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You don't have to be an activist or an expert on trans issues to know that exclusion doesn't speak for you. More than 110,000 women have already signed our letter because they want another voice to be heard: one of fairness, compassion and solidarity with the trans+ community. notinourname.org.uk

Two middle-aged women hug and smile. The quote says

“We need to join together to show that 'gender critical' anti-trans lobbyists do not speak for the majority."

#WhyWeSigned

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

WHAT IS A WOMAN? Here's an answer for Democrats who should know better and keep taking the fuckin bait re: trans women in sports: espiers.medium.com/the-correct-...

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The Correct Answer to “What Is A Woman?”

There’s a real answer, but it’s not a good faith question.

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Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you could stop obsessing about what a real woman or a real man is, you might notice that none of that matters as much as billionaires profiting while ordinary people face a daily battle against the cost of living.

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We’re asking our supporters across the UK to write to the Chief Commissioner of NHS Wales ahead of Tuesday, to demand that surgery is reinstated immediately while the investigation goes ahead, and to issue a formal apology for making such an irresponsible decision.

Text reads: Update on NHS Wales decision to pause gender affirming surgery. The NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) will meet on Tuesday 22nd September to discuss the unprecedented cancellation of all transition-related surgeries and surgical assessments for adults referred via the Welsh Gender Service (WGS).

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