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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is Andy Burnham’s first party conference speech as PM. We’ve taken your messages from the mass lobby on tour to Labour conference in Liverpool, with our friends at @transactualuk.bsky.social and @scottishtrans.bsky.social We aren’t going anywhere.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A significant trend here is that most of these technologies were being developed by states and academics, rather than private companies funded by venture capital who demand exponential growth. Let's kill several birds with one stone and do away with tech oligarchs.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Would love to know what "disagreeing well on gender identity" would look like. Pretty sure the answer is accepting factually incorrect premises, not calling bigots bigots and nobody being mean on bsky. Sorry about my standards ig. Is this article "disagreeing well"? bsky.app/profile/keyn...

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I can't stop imagining! What's next, lawmakers without a democratic mandate? Unthinkable.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I would make a joke about how this person is paid to write about politics for a living and all my impostor syndrome is cured, but genuinely think it is an impressive skill to turn your brain off selectively enough to come up with this. Not a useful skill, but I sure couldn't do it.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Imagine if a right wing party openly wanted to "overturn" a law. What if even more than one?! They'd have to write down it in some sort of.... manifest of changes to the law. Does that make sense? Can they do that? Why did daddy disappear before saying peekaboo? Many serious questions remain.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a masterpiece. How dare a political party plot to change the law, politically. It's dictatorial to do democratic politics about a law which was re-written by the supreme court last year. Presumably without anyone suggesting that change, since that would be political. Reeks of desperation.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You can see in this thread the difference it's made to "the trans debate" to have moved from hypothetical harms and fears to one in which the rights have been rolled back and people have to actually reckon with policy realities. Keep pushing! The tide is looking slack.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm an advocate for giving people some grace for how they manoeuvre in public if they are in fact solid behind the scenes - but I have the extreme privilege (/curse) of being 'inside' enough to know who has our back despite any slips, and who doesn't. Most don't and have no reason to trust anyone.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So I think part of it comes from the assumption that engaging in calm asks without power behind them is a trap that leads to... UK labour. And broadly the strategy within which we've seen the left decline to political irrelevance here. Having been out in the cold for so long, why assume good faith?

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You and several commentators involved are, I trust that, but I think one of the driving fears behind hitting the 'threaten abstention' button is that those in control and who we hear from most (the yglesiases of the world) are in fact very, very keen to jettison our rights not just rhetorically.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You've covered a lot of useful intellectual ground in this thread, esp in delineating the overlapping discourses and explaining the emotional states different folks are bringing to it. This is the bit that I think is missing tho - even as an outsider it's clear that dems aren't on the same side here

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Crowdsourcing is what the internet is for!

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nope, unless you're going back pretty far in the past. Even then though nowadays we have a politics of active transphobia that simply didn't exist at the time, instead being subsumed by gay panics back then. It's qualitatively different now. From fairweather friend to active persecutor.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Truly this turn has had such a negative impact on my general sense of curiosity while On The Internet. Also the world, and aging, but the Algorithmic Swarm preying on my personal desire to know and understand things makes me reflexively want to not know things when it's on those terms!

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

People seem to suddenly forget that there are system effects. Both in terms of letting stuff slide, and also in withdrawing electoral support. They could get it back! Easily! The demand is clear! I don't think queer people would refuse to back a candidate who apologised and then backed their rights.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Seems like the resulting demand is "you can ask them not to take your votes for granted, but do not, under any circumstances, do anything that would signal that your votes cannot be taken for granted."

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And sorry but this is what "don't take out votes for granted" means. It means that they might be withheld or transferred! So much of this is tone policing *any* attempt to push back against transphobia among democratic candidates.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Brief notes on today's discourse: - US folk should do whatever they can to avoid transphobia becoming bipartisan consensus. It's so bad. - Punishing and sidelining dems who capitulate to fascist framings is good for long term health anyway - Yes the specifics of the election matter to the decision.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is why I think the retelling of accurate history is so important. Self ID was dropped by the Tories in 2020 and then Labour in 2023, which was around the time Stonewall was starting to quiet down too.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This manufactures consent for removing trans healthcare because it supposedly undermines the breeding potential of (white british) nuclear families. Looking forward to when they start including a judgemental side note on whether any cis guy featured in their reporting has had a vasectomy.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sure would be a shame if everyone flooded their complaints inbox about this transphobic, misogynist bullshit. Nobody should be reduced to their capacity for child rearing but the bbc news team apparently thinks that is the most important fact to communicate. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

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Make A Complaint | Contact the BBC

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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Picture the scene: It’s 2am, and a gas explosion has levelled a building, the whole street is uninhabitable. You are a local authority emergency planning & response officer trying to set up a rest centre. How tf are you supposed to be following the EHRC code there? Experts say you can’t

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Glad they are at least being honest with people that what they are selling as 'true stories' are about as true as the Blair Witch Project was.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This was already pretty clear to be honest, the UK publishing sector has a long long history of pushing completely fabricated misery memoirs whose job is to blend heartwrenching/gory details and the confirmation of people's odd beliefs about poverty or marginalisation www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Nh...

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The Rise and Fall of Misery Memoirs

YouTube video by Sarah Z

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One thing about the modern commentariat is that their phantams of authoritarian woke 1 allows them to feel like brave contrarians against a progressive consensus that doesn't really exist while in fact weathervaning hard with all their friends and indulging in maximum groupthink.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Dude very nearly predicted the current trans panic and journalistic response to it word-perfect. In 2011. Arguing with Andrew Sullivan about the "well hang on, let's hear them out" tendency of journalists wrt eugenicists who have obvious ulterior motives.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Something tells me that the findings of this study are a foregone conclusion and that the sample bias is going in the other direction... Anyone in that position would be akin to volunteering for a Wakefield study on childhood vaccinations.

Screenshot from the advertisement for study participants noting Dr J Bailey and Dr L Littman as principal investigators - two of the most notorious cranks to have had their work pathologising trans people thoroughly discredited.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Watching the concept of 'woke 1.0' crystallise over the last couple weeks has been fascinating. Ah! A sudden consensus appears from nowhere! How curious. All they want is to be told no, there are no subjective moral standards to which you will be held accountable by the public anymore.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The cold fury this puts in my chest. Gleefully burning rare books - whether they are considered valuable or not - on the altar of hype and profit, siezing and fencing off the intellectual commons to sell back to us, is just disgusting. Someone [redacted] immediately.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Finding someone to argue this from the perspective of the offspring is obviously catnip in the same genre as the interminable "I'm a liberal/feminist/socialist, but..." articles whose job is to be man-bites-dog while exploiting the human tendency to respond to in-group signals for propaganda.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Once you start seeing it through this lens, a remarkable proportion of books, op eds, features, even news pieces can be summarised as "why won't my darling child go back to how they were when they accepted my complete authority over them, before they self-actualised (and got QUEER)"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Press regulation now. It shouldn't take more people losing their lives to dehumanisation and vilification in the 'news', not because their stories or misdeeds warranted it but because it gave ammunition for the pet panics of a reactionary media that's lost touch with reality.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"Things are newsworthy when they reinforce my beliefs about the people who annoy me on the internet. I am a successful and senior British journalist."

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Should be pinned to the top of every single intercommunity argument about tactics. In particular: the people doing the kind of direct action work that other people like to fantasise about online are ABSOLUTELY not talking about it online, are you high? Doing the work > masturbatory discourse

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The best one of these was the NHS Fife tribunal where the spin that they won was so extreme that everyone from LOTO to the BBC had to walk back their celebrations & claims (respectively) of victory when they realised they actually lost on most of the substantive grounds. Hilarious day.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

But hey you know who isn't timid about trans rights? ASLEF, the union in question!

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Powerful unions boycott Labour Women's Conference over trans ban

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Personally I reckon calls for more bathroom provision for workers could be a good opportunity to be in solidarity with allies with similar goals and align them to push for what we all want, rather than something we dismiss to highlight our plight. ALSO yes the relative timidity on our access sucks.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Also GWPF primer for anyone lacking in the prerequisite nerdy interest in the political climate denial machine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glo...

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The Global Warming Policy Foundation - Wikipedia

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Also it's part of a campaign called "don't call me queer" and truly, they didn't need to worry about that. Queer is a deliberately fluid and fuzzy term but I am in fact very happy to clarify that being a member of LGB alliance is disqualifying.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is dire even by political polling standards. Utterly misleading and shoddy about it. And from a *registered UK charity* whose legal objects are "advancing education & raising awareness" and "conducting or commissioning research on equality & diversity issues". They are the GWPF of gay groups.

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Scottish Parliament's decision to collect and present data based on 'biological sex' has made it harder for researchers to use data to understand and tackle inequalities. 📝 I've written to the Scottish Parliament requesting information on this change: kevinguyan.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Page 1 of a letter from the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab to Members of the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body. You can read the full text via the URL.

Page 2 of a letter from the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab to Members of the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body. You can read the full text via the URL.

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Trying to make sense of gender pay gap reporting after the UK Supreme Court ruling on 'sex'? 🔢 @jenitennison.com has written a guest post for the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab explaining why organisations should continue to report gender data. gensexdatalab.business-school.ed.ac.uk/updates/orga...

A white background with lots of numbers in black.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Yeh the obsession with everyone being on the same platform to scream at each other is weird imo. Sometimes it's better to have different conversations in different places. It's just inconvenient for people stuck in a monolith media mindset.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It is understandable but disappointing when elected politicians defer to polling on human rights issues. It is utterly unacceptable - indeed a dereliction of duty - for the chair of a body whose purpose is to uphold human rights to defer to polling on human rights issues. A scandal.

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