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Jane Bell

@janebella.bsky.social
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I'm mature, trans, feminine in most contexts, and I don't give in to age. I like disco, history, art, science, hiking. I was a long-time electronics/software maven, so I'm inclined to comment on tech. 🔞

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Kaz Self 🏳️‍⚧️ @kazself.com · 14h
The BBC have gleefully put up a news article on their website about trans people and the NHS. And of course they quote Forstater. No doubt when I die from breast cancer through lack of screening, the BBC, Forstater, Rowling et al will celebrate my passing. But I’m not dead yet. #TransWomenAreWomen
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Katerona @hohnmensontennis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Not killing trans people is political but this is OK and on the BBC news website right now. The BBC want to kill trans people. That's the only conclusion. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 14/10/2026
The BBC doesn't want you to see this, but we do 🏳️‍⚧️ Our exclusive Christmas cards are available now, ready to fight hate and bring hope! 👇 goodlaw.social/ac3c35
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
They close ranks around their own until they have absolutely no choice
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geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I think everyone in Labour has responsibility for letting transphobia get this bad in the UK. You have a responsibility to push back within your party.
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
One of their own
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If Associate Membership for countries like Canada starts happening, we will also be part of that. British people are the world's number one compromisers in all kinds of negotiations. We always split the difference
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/10/2026
Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Censorship and illegal discrimination that blocks employment of trans people in mainstream roles
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trans Londoners may want to consider attending this…
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I have always avoided applying that phrase to myself, because it was a gay thing. We are often tagged on at the end of a list, and no good has come of it.
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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026
Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly
Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Probably more that it's harder for them to go out without surveillance
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Clickbait as ever. Shameful of the BBC
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
While the Green Party motion is arguably accurate, it will achieve less than nothing, in addition to what the UK government have already done. It's a failure to understand the Art of the Possible.
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Collected Broadcasts of Kemi Badenoch sometimes remind me of some scripted by Victoria's dad Alan in the 1970s. The are, similarly, for the Birds
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Most of the UK’s neighbours have conversion therapy bans France Spain Belgium The Netherlands Germany Norway Portugal & around 30 others incl; Vietnam Argentina Canada Samoa Conversion practices are psychological & physical torture most often targeting trans children. Sonia Sodha disgusts me.
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Abuja rules instead
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I wonder how they stay afloat
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We loved your show in Bath - especially when you found our max-funny level near the end. The legroom was ace too.
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If Man City were a political party, I'd be outraged. I suppose, to people like me, it is "Only Football", so we won't be looking out the pitchforks and torches. If some people in the Middle East, with oil money to splurge, decide to do so in Manchester, I think "So what?"
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We don't know much about this yet, and will probably only know more if they are charged. What someone writes on your birth certificate, and the things assumed to come along with it, are not necessarily the same things a person identifies with in adulthood.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gaby Hinsliff, campaigning for a cut to the UK state pension, omits the important contextualisation of state pensions in neighbouring countries, a significant omission. The only country I could find with a lower state pension is Portugal. This information seriously undermines her argument.

Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage?
Gaby Hinsliff
Gaby Hinsliff
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Half-forgotten celebs. New Album New Book I wonder if there's a pattern
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He could call them "The Archies"
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyone who has been following the build-up of establishment transphobia over the last 15 years or so will know that it is in part a wedge to homophobia, misogyny, ableism, racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia xenophobia etc. Transphobes are never just bigoted against trans people.
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I think I would feel mildly embarrassed if they did. I guess I show no signs of not being OK. My oldest cis friends more or less carried on as before, except for one - the biggest sssy-in-denial. I made many new trans friends, and a few cis, after being openly myself
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Boom. More pushback labourlist.org/2026/09/tuc-...
labourlist.org
TUC Congress backs motion opposing EHRC guidance and calls for gender self-ID - LabourList
Unions have backed calls to campaign for gender ‘self ID’ and for a change in “discriminatory and unworkable” guidance around transgender rights.
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Letter post is a dead duck, so it depends how much we value it as a parcel delivery servce
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
... the further away you are, and the less you have travelled, the less detail you see. Untravelled Americans sometimes refer to Europe as though it were a single country. Many Japanese people perceive little difference between England, Scotland, Ireland, and often even France.
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This was a really interesting summary from someone who knows. I made lots of work trips to Germany - Mainly North Rhein and Bavaria. As with any country, before you engage with it, it seems monolithic, but progressively, you perceive the detail. Differences in accents, culture and attitudes
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Not the first time a politician has floated this idea. In the time of Michael Foot and Tony Benn, Labour proposed to do this in order to abolish the Lords, but they lost the subsequent election.
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There is absolutely no doubt this condition is real. I have witnessed it in someone first hand, long long ago. Before a birth, nothing seems amiss. At some point, rational thought goes completely, and imagination takes over.
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Democracy is not supposed to rely on a once-and-for-all vote. That's what happens when a democracy votes in a dictatorship. It's time to ask the question
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 21/08/2026
Trade unions representing millions of workers are standing together against the erosion of trans rights. UCU is proud to be among the unions challenging the EHRC guidance and defending trans, non-binary and gender-diverse staff and students.
thetimes.com
Unions pledge to resist EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces
Eight unions representing millions of workers have vowed to fight new rules that restrict access to facilities based on biological sex
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The unintended consequences of vapes seem similar to those of e-scooters. Vapes were supposed to help smokers to quit, but they mostly help non-smokers to start. E-scooters were supposed to replace car travel, but they have mostly replaced walking.
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In England, this centuries-old hill carving illustrates the effect in combatants. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ce...
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 17/07/2026
Excuse me Police Scotland. Please arrest Thomas.
Hate speech.
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The World Cup includes many teams who have no idea what "sportsmanship" means, just as Eurovision includes many acts who have no idea what "pop music" means.
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Viva L'España
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Their media friends have just started to turn on them. With any luck, it will turn into a feeding frenzy, as it has with other groups
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I've learned to collapse my hiking pole when I'm walking on one of those, otherwise, the tip gets caught in the gaps
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"I'd like to arrange some home insurance, can you set up a policy for me please?" "What the fooch?! I mean - what the fooch?! I'm too fookin' knackered, so ye can fookin' do one!!!"
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
NION Women is proud to stand alongside a coalition of UK women’s organisations in a joint statement on the EHRC’s updated Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations. Read here 👉 notinourname.org.uk/womens-organ...
Women's organisations speak up against the EHRC's updated Code of Practice

NION Women are proud to be a joint signatory
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The people who attended will have been OK with all of that
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If they did that, he'd stop the tournament and send everyone home. All this after the grovelling FIFA Peace Prize
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The Warlord of the Air
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Football is tribal - stylised mock war - and it brings out primitive instincts.
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Jane Bell @janebella.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
So good they named it twice (in the song line)
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 30/06/2026
I think Lord Collins should start his global mission championing LGBT+ rights by talking to the regressive government of this little known nation called the UK.
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New UK Envoy to champion LGBT+ rights globally
New UK envoy Lord Collins will champion LGBT+ rights globally, strengthening partnerships to tackle discrimination, violence and persecution.
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