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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her

@kirsty-mctear.bsky.social
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I am a trans-woman and chartered mechanical engineer who works for a major defence contractor in the UK. After 2 decades of not being active in the community, I am now very active in the fight for trans rights. 🖕 to the UKSC and the EHRC.

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 23h
The number of do gooders who wail about Reform's racist policies and tear their clothes crying "this is a battle for the soul of our country"? Trans people are being genocided on UK soil and do we see the same outcry? The same gnashing of teeth over transphobia? No. No we don't.
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 12/10/2026
Labour have promised for over 100 years that they would abolish the House of Lords, yet we still have unelected millionaires and failed MPs creating laws in the UK. The only way to build a truly democratic Scotland is with independence. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 12/10/2026
We need more of this. Questions need to be asked, and pressure needs to be applied. They cannot claim they are unaware if we have the receipts. (Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DeKiVPZ...)
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
On BBC, a “Protect the Dolls” t shirt is erased. In the US, opening of a revered comedy show says women in the gym are dressed like whores - and still we hear talk of the oppression by “the woke” - to hell with every comic that has monetised their base by pretending they’re a free speech rebel
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
PONDERING 🤔… Had that T-shirt carried the slogan “Stop the Boats, would it have been censored❓ #BigotedBroadcastingCorporation #TransRights
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
WEEKEND REPORT… 1 cafe visit, One hike, One pub visit, Shopping (multiple locations) Uses of appropriate female toilets: Multiple. Incidents of Transphobia: Zero.
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A good thread 🧵…
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
To whom it may concern…
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Fuck the #BigotedBroadcastingCorporation.
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF WASTWATER 11/10/26… Instalment 5 Some panoramas. No Alt as it keeps crapping out
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF WASTWATER 11/10/26… Instalment 4 The Other side No Alt as it keeps crapping out
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF WASTWATER 11/10/26… Instalment 2 Fuelling up at the Wasdale Head Inn. Delicious veggie chilli dish. Winter fruits crumble and vegan ice cream… not sweet, quite tart. 2 pints of Wainright One wee. No Alt as it keeps crapping out
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF WASTWATER 11/10/26… Instalment 2 Coming off The Screes No Alt as it keeps crapping out
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF WASTWATER 11/10/26… Instalment 1 The Screes No Alt as it keeps crapping out
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Heather Herbert is .... @heatherherbert.uk · 11/10/2026
www.thenational.scot/news/2662604...
thenational.scot
Fury as BBC censors pro-trans message on Strictly Come Dancing star's T-shirt
THE BBC has sparked a backlash after censoring a pro-trans message which appeared on a Strictly Come Dancing star’s T-shirt.
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
FIRST THOUGHT OF THE DAY… The pollute-o-crats hastening climate and environmental breakdown are doing so deliberately… After all, it will enable them to sell us things which nature gives us for free. Perhaps at some point, they‘ll charge us for breathable air.
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Jacey is a suitable combo of my actual name for privacy reasons @spacegrace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s official Labour voters are more transphobic than the general population. But sure it’s just a few bad eggs at the top of the party and not part of their brand…
Graph showing that approximately 52% of Labour voters in Holborn and St Pancras didn’t/wouldn’t vote for the Green Party because of their position on on gender trans issues, compared to 43% of all respondents.
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
CONFESSION TIME… I am an extremist… I have invested in a tofu press. #TOFUEATINGWOKERATI
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
FINAL THOUGHT OF THE DAY… The trans community is often accused by the likes of the LGB Alliance and other transphobic organisations of trying to “trans away the gay”… But I would suggest that their agenda is to prevent people from transitioning, and in effect to gay away the trans‼️
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Picture of an Alpine flower.

Caption:-

Trans. People are such fragile little flowers…
… But look at where we have to grow.

Original Image attribution: <a href="https://stockcake.com/i/alpine-flower-resilience_3807978_1795463">Alpine Flower Resilience</a> by <a href="https://stockcake.com">StockCake</a>
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ANOTHER ARTICLE TO READ… and there’s a video as well… glaad.org/washington-v...
glaad.org
‘Oh my, we can’t have that.’ Voters Recognize a Trans Sports Ban Means Gender Inspections on Every Girl Who Wants to Play | GLAAD
Ballot initiatives in four states are asking voters to strip access to school sports with dangerous consequences for every girl and family. Speaker Laurie Jinkins...
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
AN ARTICLE TO READ… shado-mag.com/articles/do/...
shado-mag.com
New anti-trans legislation affects all NHS users
An online and print magazine, shado stands for See | Hear | Act | Do and promotes the engagement between arts, activism and academia. %
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
FOURTH THOUGHT OF THE DAY… Has anyone ever witnessed a “GC“ telling a joke against themselves or using self deprecating humour❓ The answer will tell you everything you need to know about them‼️
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
CABBAGE AND POTATO CURRY… Made according to a recipe on YouTube that was published this week, link in comments. Accompanied by my vegetable rice.
Cabbage and potato curry.
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
THIRD THOUGHT OF THE DAY… Most people buy newspaper as a child would buy a comic. They buy it for the gossip, the television guide, and the sports section. Some may even buy it for the crossword puzzles but most don’t take them that seriously. Except of course, the gullible political classes‼️
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
SECOND THOUGHT OF THE DAY… Will people please stop talking about failures of the trans healthcare system… It‘s working as intended‼️ The gatekeeping is to put people off, to deter people from transitioning. The intent is to limit our numbers. People driven to suicide is a successful outcome.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
People ask me this all the time, so I’ll just say: look at the transgender hate panic, a thing that had no organic element and did not arise from the public, and was instead imposed upon everyone by the world’s most hateful, poisonous and malignant media class.
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
FIRST THOUGHT OF THE DAY… Being trans does not make a person suicidal. It is not an inherent flaw. But treating people like shit does. You wouldn’t treat a dog how trans people are treated… www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t... 
wearequeeraf.com
Understand the LGBTQIA+ news: The deadly toll of the trans healthcare crisis: 21 suicides and over 600 other deaths
What it would take to reduce the 48,000 people wait list for transgender healthcare in the UK?
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3f
goodlaw.social
Sadiq Khan: Pull the plug on transphobia
Tell the mayor of London to switch off JK Rowling’s Christmas lights
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 09/10/2026
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/the-...
lgbtqnation.com
The flood of online hate is harming trans & nonbinary people's mental health, new study says - LGBTQ Nation
Just tuning out seems to help.
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
FINAL THOUGHT OF THE DAY… Gender neutral toilets are only gender neutral when only gender neutral toilets are provided… If gender neutral, ladies and gentlemen’s toilets are provided… Then the gender neutral toilet is segregationist. End of, no further debate.
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Alex 🏴Ⓐ🔆 (The Anarchist Turtle) @theanarchistturtle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The absolute state of trans ally journalism
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ETHICS AT WORK… He is an organisation doing the right thing… www.prideineducation.co.uk/news/pride-i...
prideineducation.co.uk
Pride in Education: Statement on the European IDAHOT+ Forum 2027 — Pride in Education
Pride in Education has decided not to attend the European IDAHOT+ Forum, which the UK Government will host in London in May 2027.
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
HOW LONG UNTIL SIMILAR OCCURS IN THE UK? To be perfectly honest, it’s a miracle it has not already.
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
FOURTH THOUGHT OF THE DAY… The USA has had 30 years of Fox News… Look what happened‼️ GB News was set up to do the same to us… And it is working ☹️
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
THIRD THOUGHT OF THE DAY… Trans people bad… Live streamed executions good. This is what the fall of a civilisation looks like.
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🧵 SECOND THOUGHT OF THE DAY… This “culturally British“ bullshit shows that Robert Jenrick is not culturally British, quite the contrary, is utterances as un-British as they can possibly be.
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
FIRST THOUGHT OF THE DAY… It is rather depressing that the voters of Holborn & St. Pancras chose piece of a lobby fodder over @zackpolanski.bsky.social. They chose the party of segregation and apartheid. #NAZILABOUR aka #REDREFORM #TRANSGENOCIDE #TRANSAPARTHEID #TRANSERASURE #TRANSRIGHTS
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
BONUS THOUGHT FOR THE DAY… Trans-People: Forever cursed by fair-weather allies, mostly.
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
FINAL THOUGHT OF THE DAY… In 1943, fascist Italy was defeated by military power. In 1945, Nazi Germany, was defeated by military power. In 1945, fascist Japan was defeated by military power. In 2026, there is no military power coming to save us. We are on our own. It’s up to us.
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ERRR… ONE SLIGHT PROBLEM… Don’t you think that if there was indeed an underground transgender mafia running the UK, things would be better for trans people❓ No waiting lists, No institutional transphobia, Full rights, J. K. Rowling institutionalized, Hate groups banned, Just to name a few things
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
SECOND THOUGHT OF THE DAY… The media, especially the gutter press stirred up the “social contagion” of teenage pregnancies. Too many teenagers getting pregnant (outside of wedlock) too early. It was a national scandal… Now the very same “news” outlets are concerned about the falling birth rate 🙄
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- Nicola - 🌸🎀💕 @paneraiwearer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Khan's Oxford Street christmas decorations.
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At its core transphobia is a rejection of trans identities or the belief that trans people should not be visible and able to participate in public life. transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/10...
Image shows a trans flag hanging down amongst leaves. Text reads: Transphobia: the data behind discrimination

>> At its core transphobia is a rejection of trans identities or the belief that trans people should not be visible and able to participate in public life.
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Meg for Democracy @peaceful1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Vote 🗳️ and insist that Congress #AbolishICE
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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In the same vein the UK very much kickstarted a global wave of far right inclined transphobia. I have noticed people who advocate for Zionism often advocate for transphobia. The Balfour Declaration and Raj era Criminal Tribes Act have a lot to answer for.
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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3f
goodlaw.social
Sadiq Khan: Pull the plug on transphobia
Tell the mayor of London to switch off JK Rowling’s Christmas lights
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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sadiq Khan is promoting a franchise owned by a transphobic genocidal bigot by allowing Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus. We all know how he'd react if Tommy Robinson waved pork chops in front of Muslims.
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
⚠️ FIRST THOUGHT OF THE DAY… There is a by election occurring today. I would urge all eligible voters in Holborn and St. Pancras to vote for: @zackpolanski.bsky.social of the @greenparty.org.uk.
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@transactualuk.bsky.social @translucent.org.uk @scottishtrans.bsky.social @tacc.org.uk @transexilenetwork.bsky.social I‘m sure all the trans organizations are aware of the human rights review coming up. How can we in the community assist❓ humanrightstracker.com/en/un-treaty... #TransRights
humanrightstracker.com
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) | Human Rights TrackerUniversal Periodic Review (UPR) | Human Rights Tracker | Human rights tracker
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