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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025.
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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Labour banned trans women from its women's conference floor ~200 turned up to a hall that used to hold 1,000 Unison, Usdaw and every affiliated union stayed away over that one issue Labour's own ballot sheet: zero union votes on 4 of 6 motions. No mandate angryaida.substack.com/p/its-offici...
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It's official: Labour's transphobia has no mandate from women across the UK
Labour held its women's conference, barred trans women from the hall, and women across the country stayed away.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21/09/2026
Anyone else having their rights being restored debated at the Lib Dem conference?
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass.  It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots.  This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Rowling smoked a cigar and celebrated while a trans woman died by suicide after the Supreme Court misjudgement. Jo Maugham of @goodlawproject.org
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How the Supreme Court tipped Anna over the edge | Good Law Project
Billionaires like JK Rowling have funded a blizzard of legal attacks on the trans community – and her allies in the rightwing and far-right press have pursued a campaign of trans hate, says Jo Maugham
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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
After heavy rain, it would be rude not to.
River in full spate.
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Hackney Cycling Campaign @hackneycycling.org.uk · 13/09/2026
We have some rides planned for next Sunday, 20th September, as part of London Cycling Festival! - Feeder to main "Kidical Mass" ride, starting from Stonebridge Gardens, Haggerston at 10am - History ride starting in Hackney Central at 3pm See here for more info: lcc.org.uk/events/lcf-h...
Photo of large group of cyclists, including children, riding down a road
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Natalie @natalieg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Good god people are losing their grip on reality. The posts discussed in the link below are absolutely disgusting. I am ashamed to be a citizen of the same country as these people.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 06/09/2026
"Masked activists bring chaos to Dover in protest against migrants" "Trans activists show who they really are: a violent mob"
Telegraph page 5 today - Masked activists bring chaos to Dover in protest against migrants and Who are the disguised protesters who brought port to a standstill?Telegraph 20 April 2025 - Trans activists show who they really are: a violent mob"
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
ICYMI this is what the BBC were up to while Channel 4 were investigating Reform for allegedly breaking the law on party donations
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TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🧵 Joint statement: Bulgaria's Supreme Court backs legal gender recognition Read the full analysis of the ruling on our website: tgeu.org/joint-statem... #TransRights #LegalGenderRecognition #Bulgaria #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
​Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O​’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.
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Natalie @natalieg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
And now they come after adult care who would have guessed?
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 27/08/2026
The Green Party are standing up for their right to make trans people feel safe and welcome, so we're defending them in court Get involved 👇 goodlaw.social/yndo
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Help the Greens protect trans members | Good Law Project
The Greens took action to protect trans people. Now the party is facing legal action – so we’re defending them in court
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Hackney Cycling Campaign @hackneycycling.org.uk · 26/08/2026
Our September meeting will be a week from now—will be held on Zoom as per usual. Hope to see you there!
Hackney Cycling Campaign
Join us for our next monthly meeting
Wednesday 2 September 2026 19:30-21:00
Online meeting — register at hackneycycling.org.uk/about
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 24/08/2026
The Lancet: Attacks on LGBTQ+ health are a threat to all www.thelancet.com/jo... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/08/2026
Transphobia is the definition of a luxury belief. Only the wealthy elite can think that the issue of a trans girl playing middle school volleyball with her friends is more important than people not being able to feed their kids, get healthcare, or pay the rent.
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026
Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10
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Inkluderende feminisme 💖 @inkluderendefeminisme.no · 20/08/2026
The Anti-Gender Movement Is an Anti-Rights Movement! Together with friends and allies across the continent, we are launching a joint, Europe-wide call to reject anti-gender politics in all its forms.
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Feminist, human rights and democracy organizations call on all sectors of society to reject anti-gender politics in all its forms - Inclusive Feminism
A platform for democracy.
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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Reform UK policy on PIP
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20/02/2026
Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter -
PAUL McMULLAN:
Oh, yeah -
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- which is one case that you truly do regret.
PAUL McMULLAN:
I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station.
Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.BROOKE GLADSTONE:
And you offered her 50 pounds -
PAUL MCMULLAN:
Yeah.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for.
PAUL McMULLAN:
No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.BROOKE GLADSTONE:
So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless?
PAUL McMULLAN:
I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I?
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself.
PAUL McMULLAN:
Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Oh my god what TF is wrong with #BBC #BroadcastingHouse? They have got KATHLEEN STOCK on to do the review, SPECIFICALLY to talk about Jason Arday. When she was one of the most egregious examples of the pile on, just days ago. I have turned the radio off. Shame on you BBC.
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Natalie @natalieg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
All that rewilding in Stourbridge causing major problems I see www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Multiple fires destroy homes and cause devastation in West Midlands
The region's fire chief says the service took thousands of 999 calls across "one of the most significant" incidents in its history.
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Natalie @natalieg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
When you combine what is said in the video below about how to deal with breaches of the CoP with this: translucent.org.uk/trans-women-... i can’t see an avalanche of court cases happening.
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Trans Women and Single-Sex Spaces: 2026 UK Council FOI Report
Trans Women and Single-Sex Spaces: 2026 UK Council FOI Report : proving yet again there are no issues trans women using single sex spaces.
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Too often, the public conversation gives the impression that one narrow viewpoint speaks for all women. It doesn't. Over 100,000 UK women have already signed our letter because they believe in fairness, inclusion and treating trans+ people with kindness, compassion, and inclusively. Join us.
“The majority of women are trans-inclusive, or are happy just living their lives alongside trans people without any concern. However, we are being ignored – by politicians and the media – in preference to a small, loud, group of ‘gender critical’ anti-trans lobbyists masquerading as ‘feminists’.”
#WhyWeSigned
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I actually think along with schools and prisons this is actually the worst of Labour’s transphobia, worse than the toilet stuff. Many trans people will either not be clocked or be able to survive on a don’t ask don’t tell basis. In the NHS we have no privacy and are entirely vulnerable
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I mean, fine, right, whatever - but has the Prime Minister said a single word about three nights of far right violence in Norfolk? Get your priorities right for fuck sake. The bloke act is wearing thin fast
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is a really inadequate Home Office statement in these circumstancds It empathises with this protest as expressing legitimate concerns, singles out violence against police, and simply fails to say "violence threatening asylum seekers, migrants & other minorities is shocking + wrong"
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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
And don't put this on the EHRC. This is Labour's bathroom bill. The Labour Party could have intervened in the Supreme Court case. It could have immediately introduced legislation to ensure trans inclusion. It didn't - despite being eager to do so for car dealerships.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
You can't just...say stuff is illegal now.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It's like the government claiming that legislation passed 16 years ago means it's been illegal to let blue cars into car parks this whole time, and their only comment is, "We expect owners of blue cars to comply."
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Sunday Times refuses to apologise for Jeremy Clarkson column that compared disabled benefit claimants to dogs www.disabilitynewsservice.com/sunday-times...
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Sunday Times refuses to apologise for Clarkson column that compared disabled benefit claimants to dogs
The Sunday Times has refused to apologise for a dehumanising column by television presenter and journalist Jeremy Clarkson, in which he compared disabled people who receive benefits to dogs. Clarks…
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Oh no! Transphobic bigots will only have… -2 billionaires, -the world’s largest social media app, -£millions in US far right donations -the entire UK mainstream media, -the president of the United States, -every British fascist, and -the Tory/Labour/Reform party supporting them.
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
You should hang your heads in shame for producing guidance which is practically unworkable, intrusive and discriminatory, which does nothing to improve the safety of cis women, while making the lives of trans and gender non-conforming people considerably less comfortable and potentially dangerous.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 05/08/2026
Good Law Project are supporting a legal challenge against this transphobic code of practice. Please join our fight back 👇 goodlaw.social/n8fy
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Fight back against the code of practice
The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us
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Natalie @natalieg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is simply never going to be complied with because in so many situations it simply cannot be.
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Natalie @natalieg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
‘The fox’s guide to chicken security’ (HT SL)
Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate
Kemi Badenoch says Joshua Bonehill-Paine will now advise the Conservatives on tackling extremism.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 02/08/2026
Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
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My father was a Conservative...

...my mother voted Labour...

...so suppose, by rights, ought
to be a Liberal Democrat...

...but in actual fact, I'm a Nazi!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The EU is about to ban 'video glasses' because they break invasion of privacy laws. The UK needs to ban them too.
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Karen (yes, yes, I know 😈) @karkin64.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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cornish person girl @gemma.transwrites.world · 01/08/2026
thats what really hurts about @amnestyuk.bsky.social's withdrawal of their report. not the withdrawal itself but it feels like theyre joining a myriad of other orgs who have seen the odds and decided trans people are just not worth fighting for vs the worldwide government and media billionaires.
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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 01/08/2026
I fear healthcare is all that's left. LGR is gone in all but name. Segregation starts Wednesday. I have a stash of HRT and whilst only 8 months it does allow some breathing space.
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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 01/08/2026
With Wednesday coming up fast I would say to focus on the 150,000 at Trans Pride last week. When the dread sets in, remind yourself of the numbers. Remind yourself of the 150,000 people who stood in the streets of London that day cheering us on. Also remind yourself I love you. You rock.
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Natalie @natalieg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
‘Recruiting’? It’s not a fucking job interview. Robbie Gibb can’t help himself can he?
BBC headline ‘Puberty blockers trial can start recruiting children after judge rejects legal challenge’
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