John Bate @jflb96.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It goes like this, The fourth, the fifth, The minor fall, the major lift 221539
Reposted by John BateBender @djbthirteen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"If you’re cis and have been challenged or stopped because you’re perceived to be trans or perceived to be a gender that you aren’t (for example, a cis woman being challenged in women’s toilets), this form is for you too." 05530
Reposted by John BateSarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 15/07/2026If you know young people applying for uni, perhaps share this list with them 16835
Reposted by John BateTACC @tacc.org.uk · 13/07/2026Sex Matters says gender-critical voices are being silenced. Yet when Amnesty International UK published research critical of them, they didn't publish a rebuttal; they threatened legal action. Freedom of expression isn't a one-way street. We have responded to Sex Matters' email: 23797256
Reposted by John BateAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is. 102125697352
Reposted by John BateSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/06/2026One thing we mean when we talk about "stronger social norms" is racist chants, slurs not seen as normal by most normal people. Football did more than anything else to put the idea of "zero tolerance" into practice. Elon Musk's X is doing more/trying harder than anyone else to renormalise racism 7564156
Reposted by John BateBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country. 6262091710
Reposted by John BateKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 31/03/2026It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after. 43359534307
Reposted by John BateAbra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 22/02/2024On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo 90368764052
Reposted by John BateThe Advocate @advocate.com · 28/05/2025J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.” 🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk 17727511523
Reposted by John Batelumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 23/05/2025It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***. 652242655
Reposted by John BateRosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/05/2025Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart! 4431881499
Reposted by John BateDylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 16/05/2025In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong. 712013747
Reposted by John Bateactually madeleine is the scientist🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 @webway.bsky.social · 16/05/2025starmer is probably going to go down in history as the PM who had a chance to reverse the drive towards the farage reich but stood by and did nothing. but i don't really think that's fair. we need to remember how much he's been pushing for that reich 2445575
Reposted by John BateGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 15/05/2025They withdrew the whip and kicked Corbyn out of the party so they could give you a cabinet that’s slashing welfare, prepping the NHS for privatisation and demonising immigrants, and a PM whose ultimate grand strategy is playing bigot chicken with Nigel Farage. This cannot be stressed enough. 110431
Reposted by John BateThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 12/05/20253 months ago, I wrote this about centrist parties aping the far right, and how it's not just immoral, but suicidal. This is not secret knowledge. It's the most reliable effect in world politics. It's watching 40 guys getting killed by the same gorilla, one by one, and stepping up to take your turn. 191045456
Reposted by John BateA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/05/2025just a really long sustained and, as it goes on, increasingly obviously sarcastic round of applause to every Democratic op who is still pushing the utterly failed "culture war stuff is just a distraction" narrative and using "woke" as a pejorative. Republicans are gross weirdos just keep saying it. 232701690
Reposted by John BateDr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025🧵 The recent miscarriage of justice in the UK Supreme Court, where it created a class of people with fewer human rights than others, has led to two key developments. It has created an intersectional backlash against systemic transphobia in the political class, as well as embolden transphobes. [1] 515037
Reposted by John BatePeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025🔴 Remember the £330million contract given to Trump donor Peter Thiel's firm Palantir to build an NHS data platform? Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good Scoop on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...democracyforsale.substack.comPalantir's NHS data platform rejected by most hospitalsUS spy tech firm's £330million software isn't much cop, experts say 541059652
Reposted by John Batesinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 12/05/2025put this on your page to let people know your account is NOT a safe space for Lib Dems 49535
Reposted by John BateRuth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025The latest version of "What's wrong with the Cass Review" now includes the peer-reviewed version of the Noone et al. article on critically appraising the Cass Review. I have also made some minor edits to the introduction, e.g. adding the fact that the Cass Review cost £3 million to undertake.ruthpearce.netWhat’s wrong with the Cass Review? A round-up of commentary and evidence[last updated 12/05/25] Wednesday 10 April 2024 saw the long-awaited publication of the final report of the Cass Review. This report was commissioned by NHS England, and provides a review of eviden… 814653
Reposted by John Bateedith @edithcharles.bsky.social · 04/06/2024It's never a bad time to remind everyone: 111074336
Reposted by John BateFumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · 12/05/2025I am speechless... >> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...m.youtube.comFirst fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, MyanmarYouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive 401897659
Reposted by John BateDr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 12756002842
Reposted by John BateAshleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 10/05/20251/🧵 Many new archive finds. The UK considered in 2002 to use a remedial order under the Human Rights Act to bring the law into compliance with Goodwin & “I”. The government opted for primary legislation because of the “complex knock-on effect”. 1319051
Reposted by John Bateรℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 07/05/2025not everything is about money and you can’t target both reform and green voters simultaneously. greens won’t vote for labour’s bigoted policies and your bigoted policies will never be disgusting enough for reform voters. 58214
Reposted by John BateGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Don't take it from me. Take it from the government's own assessment: Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie. A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comUK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block developmentWhitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building 381065515
Reposted by John BateKatie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 03/05/2025ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 9350321879
Reposted by John BateGreens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 04/05/2025DOGE is just more austerity…and who benefits from austerity? Billionaires do. Reform would destroy our public services with their Trump style chaos. Labour laid the groundwork. Greens are the alternative to Farage and Starmer. No more austerity. No more cuts. 37039
Reposted by John Bate🏴🚩 Trans Kafka (any pronouns) 🍉🍉🍉 IS A REAL HUMAN PERSON! @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Okay friends. Today I am writing a thread that I have been thinking about for a long, long, long time. It's really, really important. It is also very heavy. Cis people, read this. Look with your eyes open at it. Sit with it. Feel it. Absorb it. Trans people, take care. This is about history. 🧵 19662377
Reposted by John BateECT Scotland @endconversiontherapy.scot · 02/05/2025Our statement on the decision by the Scottish Government to drop the bill to ban conversion practices in this parliament. 112550
Reposted by John BateNadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Labour losing Runcorn was avoidable and as much a result of our party’s failures as Reform’s rise. Now, we need to learn the right lessons, not double down on the same mistakes. Cutting disability benefits and scrapping the Winter Fuel Allowance made voters abandon us. [1/3] 2321705338
Reposted by John BateRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 02/05/2025If we lose it just means we arent right wing enough and if we win it means people like us going more rightwing so my advice is go more rightwing now give me a million pounds 534257
Reposted by John BateArthur Webber 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 02/05/2025You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this. 22196982329
Reposted by John BateDr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025🧵 Labour UK has set about persecuting & now effectively criminalising trans & non-binary people. Suddenly they are sending gaslighting mails like this. There is no difference for Queer ppl between Labour, Reform or the Torys. Vote Green, LD or Monster Raving to tell them to stop. [1] 1924273
Reposted by John BateHeather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 30/04/2025Nish Kumar nailing the stupidity of bathroom bills back in 2019 47721
Reposted by John BateJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 25/04/2025The BBC keep doing this. This isn't true. This is straightforwardly wrong in law. The ruling *only* applied to the Equality Act 2010. Trans women are still legally women for the vast majority of purposes! That's the whole point of the Gender Recognition Act. I've put in a complaint. So can you. 251381424
Reposted by John BateGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/04/20251. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comLabour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George MonbiotThe horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 581621980
Reposted by John BateJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 25/04/2025I've been so busy with other stuff I haven't posted about Lesbian Visibility Week yet, so just to say: I think trans lesbians are some of the coolest people alive. I am in constant awe. You rock. 619423
Reposted by John BateMark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 22/04/2025As Keir Starmer does a “trans women are men” media tour today, I hope people think about that time he invoked the memory of Brianna Ghey in Parliament as part of a gotcha for Rishi Sunak. Abusing her memory for PR whilst plotting to remove the rights she would’ve had to live as herself. He’s sick. 181791592
Reposted by John BateJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/04/2025A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID. 5548901668
Reposted by John BateA Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Bridget Phillipson’s statement is shockingly bad. - “Move Forward” has never been more loaded. - There has not been a single real reassurance for trans people. - A load of bullshit about mixed sex wards which has nothing to do with trans people or this judgement. Plus a load of culture war. 18492117
Reposted by John BateGrant White @grantwhite.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Reminder Starmer used the murder of Brianna Ghey to attack Sunak. He was quite happy to acknowledge trans people when he needed a disposable attack line, the spineless coward. 531663
Reposted by John BateAvery Edison @averyedison.com · 22/04/2025they’re calling it my most vindicated take of all time 2587128
Reposted by John BateEsheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 20/04/2025There are two stories about Starmer here. Next one below. This is who he has always been, a deeply unpleasant individual 1/3 novaramedia.com/2023/11/14/t...novaramedia.comThe Corruption Behind Starmer’s Rise Has Finally Been Exposed | Novara MediaDetails are starting to emerge of the most secretive and dishonest leadership campaign in the history of British politics. 2212652
Reposted by John BateSooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 20/04/2025🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?” This was their response: 4918291020
Reposted by John BateDr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Just an IMPORTANT advisory to all LGBTQ British people, under the British Common Travel Agreement with Ireland, EVERY British subject has the right to live, work & love in Ireland*. Our courts are not political & the far right has less than 1% support.news.sky.comTrans women to be strip searched by male transport police after court rulingBritish Transport Police, the force that polices Britain's railways, is adopting an interim policy while it digests the Supreme Court's ruling that the definition of a "woman" under equality laws refe... 1628876
![For years, Sex Matters has portrayed itself as a victim of censorship. According to its public messaging,
gender-critical voices are supposedly excluded from civil society, silenced by institutions, shut out of
debate and denied freedom of expression. Every disagreement is framed as an existential attack on free
speech.
Yet the moment a major human rights ('non-anti-rights') organisation publishes research that is critical of
them, their response is not to publish a rebuttal, commission alternative research, or engage with
Amnesty's arguments. Instead, they boast that they were prepared to sue Amnesty International for
defamation.
The irony is difficult to ignore.
This letter repeatedly invokes freedom of expression, dialogue and human rights. It speaks of "constructive
dialogue", complains that Amnesty failed to engage with them, and insists that differing views should be
respected. Yet the same letter proudly declares that had Amnesty not withdrawn its report, Sex Matters
intended to drag one of the world's best-known human rights organisations into court.
Apparently, freedom of expression is a universal principle right up until somebody expresses an opinion
they don't like.
This has become a familiar pattern. When gender-critical organisations are criticised, they frequently
respond by claiming persecution. They argue that disagreement amounts to censorship, that criticism
amounts to discrimination, and that being called out for their campaigning somehow infringes their human
rights. But criticism is not censorship. Being challenged is not being silenced. And having your views
scrutinised is not an attack on free speech.
Freedom of expression cuts both ways. If Sex Matters believes it has the right to publish reports, lobby
government, intervene in court cases, criticise public bodies and campaign against the rights of
transgender people, then Amnesty International has the same right to analyse those activities and reach
conclusions that Sex Matters dislikes[...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:njup4kv6td4bzhh6g64faacb/bafkreidy7kpyusod2zfw5swnir4kknhavqcx7vgqkfzuhddyxhik3fwv4a)
![the "stop doing math" meme except it says "STOP DRIVING CARS". the meme reads:
* PEOPLE WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ISOLATED IN CAGES
* YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for building ONE MORE LANE
* Wanted to travel large distances anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "TRAINS"
* "Yes please give me NO GREENERY. Please give me INFINITE PAVEMENT" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what Civil Engineers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the concrete and asphalt we built for them
(This is REAL Civil Infrastructure, done by REAL Civil Engineers):
? [Image of the infamously hideous Breezewood truck stop]
?? [Image of a gigantic mega parking lot with thousands of cars]
??? [Image of the infamous I-405 gridlock photo with tens of thousands of cars not moving]
"Hello I would like [Image of a graph of global surface temperatures] climate please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ywbm3iywnhzep3ckt6efhoh7/bafkreihghfkhhhasmr6sn5mj7uxs53v46wu2cns5saeln64grjp3ltfvpm)
