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Cassandra 🌈 #notaphase

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#humanrights are not a zero-sum game, #equality , #equity , and #justice for all. Through IDIC a better future is still possible. 🖖 (anything/but/it) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️+♀️+✊🏽+♿️ rights = human rights. Stop erasing intersex & nonbinary folk.

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KISSman @kissman.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I didn't know about this Signal For Help hand gesture until today. I'm quite sure that a lot of other people don't know it either (as demonstrated in this video). If you just learned it now too then it was worth posting. Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 01/10/2025
Transgender parents are smashing damaging perceptions of gender roles in the family www.wearequeeraf.com/transgender-pa…
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Transgender parents are smashing damaging perceptions of gender roles in the family
Queer and trans households are steadfastly raising children to live without gender bias
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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Truly exceptional article from @polphilpod.bsky.social on the political meanings and impacts of Labour's transphobia and how it strengthens fascism worldwide: www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat... Even if you're not a capital-L Liberal, this is very much worth your time
liberalcurrents.com
Britain’s Bathroom Ban
The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
THE TIDES ARE TURNING 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 39 percent saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians You’re gonna say this isn’t enough. You’re right. But these numbers were almost unthinkable a year ago.
washingtonpost.com
Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds
Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
As a feminist, it’s just SO EXHAUSTING that I have to investigate EVERYTHING that seems remotely supportive of women, to make sure that it’s not a Trojan horse being used by ‘gender critical’ transphobes to sneak in anti-trans hate under the guise of “protecting women”! 😫
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Atleast I’m Enjoying The Ride @guyforgetghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Truly not afraid to spew their hate. 🤬 When a man uses the word “female” in their diatribe—you know they hate women.
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 30/09/2025
Amtrak police seem to be using "a hostile arrest campaign reminiscent of anti-LGBTQ policing from the Stonewall era," says a letter from Congressman Jerrold Nadler and others.
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Legislators object to possibly 'discriminatory arrests' of men allegedly cruising at Penn Station
Amtrak police seem to be using "a hostile arrest campaign reminiscent of anti-LGBTQ policing from the Stonewall era," says a letter from Congressman Jerrold Nadler and others.
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Cassandra 🌈 #notaphase @iforetolditso.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Correlation =/= cause. "being frequently stressed, anxious or moody could be linked to a shorter lifespan." Things that cause people to be frequently stressed, anxious or moody also often cause shorter lifespans. Beware toxic positivity framing because you can't fix poverty with "CBT". #health
Prof Sam Illingworth
‪@samillingworth.com‬
🧠 Personality and longevity
 
A study of 22,000 adults found that people who describe themselves as active, organised and helpful live longer. Those who feel anxious or moody face higher risks.
 
🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
 
#SciComm 🧪
Being organised and active may be predictor of longer life, study finds
Researchers find specific self-descriptions predict mortality risks better than broader categories such as extraversion
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 29/09/2025
GOP lawmaker said trans people “harm” children. He just pled guilty to child porn charges. - buff.ly/qhtgf9Y
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 29/09/2025
The far-right think tank claims half of school shootings are by trans people. That's not true.
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Heritage Foundation uses false data to smear trans people as school shooters
The far-right think tank claims half of school shootings are by trans people. That's not true.
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Cassandra 🌈 #notaphase @iforetolditso.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A poetic irony has sparked a wave of bullshit depicting bullshit. This phenomenon highlights how liars love to lie as much as water is wet, which wasn't so much of a problem when the internet used to demand "proof or stfu", a sane person with a working memory explains.
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Cassandra 🌈 #notaphase @iforetolditso.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
"to help curb [bigotry] in the UK [Hope not Hate] recommendations included policies that allow migrants to ''be part of Britain'', including pathways to citizenship and the right to vote." www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/18/u... Hence why "Labour" is rushing to self-destruction by doing the opposite.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Re: the male loneliness epidemic, there is *still* not enough emphasis on how many heterosexual girls and women are staying single out of self-preservation, because the sexual norms that many heterosexual boys and men have adopted are exceptionally dangerous.
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Alexis @alexisx-au.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Dear cis men: When you talk of 'men' on the one hand, and 'females' on the other, many women take that as a red flag made of ick.
Picture of Quark the Ferengi, from Star Trek, saying 'females'.
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
If you mention that Wolverine is 5’3” on Twitter, a hundred nerd chuds leap out of the aether to battle you like a flock of Hand ninjas
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
It's beyond time to stop listening to Ezra Klein. www.jezebel.com/only-an-idio...
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Only an Idiot Would Think We Need Anti-Abortion Democrats
It's beyond time to stop listening to Ezra Klein.
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 22/09/2025
the guardian cut this from a piece judith butler wrote for them. the guardian targeted butler long before the american right did.
"THE ANTI-GENDER IDEOLOGY IS ONE OF THE MOST DOMINANT
STRAINS OF FASCISM IN OUR TIMES!"
"So TERFS will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by the struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia, and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which includes high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people.
The anti-gender movement circulates a spectre of
"gender" as a force of destruction, but they never actually read any works in gender studies. Quick and fearful conclusions take the place of considered judgments"
- JUDITH BUTLER
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
We are close to ending the threat of AIDS. With long-acting prevention and treatment, we have all the tools we need. But recent international funding cuts mean instead of ending AIDS by 2030 we are likely to see 4.2 million unnecessary, preventable AIDS deaths by 2029.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
It's weird how Tylenol caused autism (first diagnosed in 1943) before it was even invented (1955). What a clever drug.
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maryeb2.bsky.social @maryeb2.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
@massgovernor.bsky.social Use MA State Police to investigate this hostage taking by ICE agents. Sure, they may shift these guys to NH or NY, but meanwhile they get put on notice. Can’t believe investigations weren’t started when car windows started getting smashed. 😡
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Cassandra 🌈 #notaphase @iforetolditso.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Never trust someone who thinks people are analogous to objects that can have an imaginary value imposed upon them.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
These people are REALLY weird, obsessing about trans women in prison in NI when there are no trans women in prison NI.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Errr... Trump has been saying EXACTLY the same things as Streeting when it comes to trans children's healthcare.
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Interesting that every time we discuss women's rights at Lib Dem Conference the group that claims to care so deeply about "the rights of women and girls" is completely and utterly absent.
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I am a stuck and broken record but every time it's true: scratch a terf, sniff a racist.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Anyone who can’t see through the “free speech!” “Cancel culture!” Bullshit now - the whole project has been about amplifying bigotry & shutting up criticism, is utterly complicit - Gervais, Carr & all- the reason they have far right fans is not the quality of jokes but the quality of propaganda
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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The Equalities and Human Rights Commission does not know what any of those words mean.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 21/09/2025
Groups including Sex Matters, the Safe Schools Alliance, Transgender Trend and the Bayswater Support Group of parents who advocate for abusing trans children, were all invited to contribute to the consultation 👇
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'Section 28 2.0' RSE consultation featured four explicitly anti-trans groups, FOI reveals
An FOI seen by QueerAF shows the anti-trans organisation included in a consultation that led to RSE guidance that will introduce what has been widely described as a 'Section 28 2.0'
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Cassandra 🌈 #notaphase @iforetolditso.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"Do not promote, GLORIFY, or incite violence against individuals or groups." So you arbitrarily cannot talk about the D-Day heroism of liberating Europe in 1945, quote Churchill's never surrender, etc, OR this guideline will be interpreted however by whoever for whatever reasons. #blueskycensorship
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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
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nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social @nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🚨 Are trans people now disabled in the eyes of the law? And is it fair on disabled people when their already limited facilities get turned into the “trans solution”? #NonbinaryBarrister #TransRights #DisabledRights #EqualityAct #SupremeCourt
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Cassandra 🌈 #notaphase @iforetolditso.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
@darrylayo.bsky.social Would you mind replying to me with the url for the youtube vid about the lady in Japan? Reading your post kinda reminded me of someone I know and I just wanna check and see if this is a whole phenomenon.
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
650 businesses ask the Minister for Women and Equalities and the Business Secretary to reject the EHRC’s ‘unworkable’ draft guidance on single sex spaces. Just imagine a trans woman who has been living as a woman for decades being forced to use a men’s loo - it’s daft and cruel.
independent.co.uk
Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’
Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
THREAD that shows how badly Wes Streeting has got this wrong; There is no “conflict” between cis women’s rights & trans people’s rights. This is a fabrication that Wes Streeting is either dishonest or gullible enough to believe. Empirical evidence Streeting is wrong 1/3 Hasenbush et al (2019)…
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Gender Identity Nondiscrimination Laws in Public Accommodations: a Review of Evidence Regarding Safety and Privacy in Public Restrooms, Locker Rooms, and Changing Rooms - Sexuality Research and Social...
Legislation, regulations, litigation, and ballot propositions affecting public restroom access for transgender people increased drastically in the last three years. Opponents of gender identity inclus...
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
After a woman spoke to the media about suffering a miscarriage while in ICE custody, DHS falsely claimed she was a murderer, according to new reporting from the Daily Beast. www.jezebel.com/kristi-noems...
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Kristi Noem’s DHS Hits an Abhorrent New Low
After a woman spoke to the media about suffering a miscarriage while in ICE custody, DHS falsely claimed she was a murderer, according to new reporting from the Daily Beast.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Reminder: The Trump election campaign spent $215,000,000 on anti-trans adverts alone. More than anything else. Transphobia (or “gender-critical beliefs” as transphobes call it) is CORE to fascism. Transphobia is FRONT & CENTRE of fascism, not adjacent or an add-on. All transphobes are fascists.
truthout.org
Republicans Spent Nearly $215M on TV Ads Attacking Trans Rights This Election
“That's $134 per trans person in anti-trans ad spending,” civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo said.
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A new report reveals nearly 100 instances of anti-abortion censorship across TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and LinkedIn. www.jezebel.com/crucial-info...
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Crucial Information About Abortion Access Is Getting Censored on Social Media
A new report reveals nearly 100 instances of anti-abortion censorship across TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and LinkedIn.
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Kythra Suntamer @kythra.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
indivisible.org/resource/unm... #feminist #feminism #women
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Unmasking MAGA: Exploring the GOP's War on Women This Women's History Month
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Snacks @snacks59.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Right
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
english.hani.co.kr
[Column] Imperial tyranny, Korean humiliation
This incident should prompt us in Korea to comprehensively reassess our investment projects in the US
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Cassandra 🌈 #notaphase @iforetolditso.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
If the UK really wants to protect children it needs to wake up and stop trying to appease convicted criminal run foreign governments that protect pedophiles.
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Democrats Abroad Canada @demsabroadcanada.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The ‘Women’s Rights’ section has been recently removed from the US State Dept Human Rights reports. Apparently the Trump Administration no longer views #womensrights as #humanrights. Who’s next? Watch The Feminist Lawyer 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNdCxkcFC/ @demsabroad.bsky.social
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
🩷 Cis women and trans+ people have more in common than we’re told That’s why we’re saying loud and clear: Trans rights are human rights and they're women’s rights too! ✍ Add your name to our letter of support from women to the trans+ community: www.change.org/NION_Women #TransRights #WomensRights
NION Women Poster - Our poster can also be used as a flyer*
Image of poster saying - Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

*Great for handing out at feminist events
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 15/09/2025
Update: the EHRC has completed its internal review and upheld its blanket refusal of our FOI requests under Section 14(1). They admit some requests were “well focussed, purposeful and of public interest,” but still refused them all. 1/
Response letter related to Freedom of Information Act requests. The letter addresses request refusals, resource constraints, and compliance issues. Tone is formal and explanatory.

Text: "Response
I have reviewed our refusal of the requests set out in Annex A of our refusal
notice to determine whether the refusal was appropriate and compliant with
the provisions of the FoIA.
The Commission has disclosed the relevant decision-making document used
to determine our refusal of the requests under a separate FOI request,
reference 12231728, and I have considered the rationale contained within this
document alongside the points raised in your review request as part of my
review.
While I continue to respect your right to request information under the FoIA
and acknowledge that some of your previous requests have been well
focussed, purposeful and attract value on matters of public interest, the
volume, frequency and nature of the requests set out in Annex A of our refusal
notice would place a significant sustained demand on the Commission’s
resources if it were to comply.
We aim to be transparent and helpful in our responses and have endeavoured
to meet our obligations under the FoIA, as evidenced by our continued
compliance with targeted and proportionate requests submitted since our
refusal notice was issued, including the request referenced above (12231728)
and a request concerning workforce diversity and the protected characteristic
of gender reassignment (12045024).
As such, your review request is not upheld, and the Commission maintains its
refusal to comply with the requests set out in Annex A of our refusal notice
under Section 14(1) of the FoIA."
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 13/09/2025
Opinion: Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah by a cisgender man, but trans Americans were wrongly dragged into the tragedy by misinformation and amplified by conspiracists and bigots. An apology and respect is owed, writes Marie-Adélina de la Ferrière.
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The Wall Street Journal owes trans people an apology
Opinion: Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah by a cisgender man, but trans Americans were wrongly dragged into the tragedy by misinformation and amplified by conspiracists and bigots. An apology and respect is owed, writes Marie-Adélina de la Ferrière.
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Cassandra 🌈 #notaphase @iforetolditso.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Reminder: Mx has origins in the feminist movement. When they say they are against Mx because it is "gender ideology" they really mean they are against women (and people perceived as women) having agency and hate men (and people perceived as men) who don't comply with their own patriarchal ideology.
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