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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I'm sure it will come as no surprise that this petition has been signed by a number of transphobes - J Michael Bailey, Michael Biggs, Jo Phoenix, Helen Joyce, Holly Lawford-Smith, Jerry Coyne, and Colin Wight. Those are just the names that jumped out on a quick scan; there may be others.

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The UN's logic here applies equally to the blanket ban on trans women from all "gender-affected" sports under the supreme court's rewrite of the equality act. The nuanced, evidence-based framework they advocate is what we had pre-FWS, and which the court demolished.

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Well, isn't that interesting? Regardless of financial security, Labour's support amongst social conservatives is in the single figures. It's almost as if their rabid transphobia is driving away decent human beings in droves while bringing in basically no votes at all. Who'd have guessed?

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Hammer-beating row "took over my life", whines person who beat coworkers with hammer.

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I just marked this year's Trans Awareness Week in the best way I could think of.

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

This is a) terrible, and b) hugely better than the UK. Not sure what the % is over here - @hleehurley.com probably has a rough idea, at least - but we would kill for fully 30% of all stories about trans rights quoting trans people. And 30% is abysmal! It ought to be 100%!

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This is more than just denial of reality; it's an accusation. It's claiming that trans adults are lying about their own childhoods, in order to trick children into transitioning. It's why glinner loves the "groomer" lie. It's a blood libel intended to portray us as a threat that needs to be stopped.

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

"I am not competent to continue a prescription provided by a specialist, order 1-2 blood tests a year, and compare some numbers to reference ranges" is the kind of admission that should lead to a GP being struck off for gross incompetence. And yet!

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Some good news for trans people for once. Reid is the UN Independent Expert on protection from violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. He was one of the UN experts who criticised the supreme court ruling and urged parliament to act to protect trans rights.

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Even if it were true that reducing suicidal ideation did not reduce actual suicides, having experienced suicidal ideation, I can confirm that it fucking sucks! Reducing it is still very obviously a strongly positive outcome in and of itself.

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

It's also just plain wrong. Three studies found statistically significant reduction in suicidality. The fourth, and smallest, with only 19 subjects in the treatment group, found reductions that fell just short of significance. No competent statistician would describe that as "inconsistent".

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

IOW, the government thinks it's right and proper that trans people be excluded from "hospitals, refuges and sports clubs", and intend to make sure that stays the case. But don't worry, everyone, they hear our concerns! They're just not going to address them in any substantive way. Fuck Labour.

The Government welcomes the Supreme Court’s clarification of the meaning of sex for the purposes of the Equality Act, and the confidence and clarity it provides for women and service providers such as hospitals, refuges and sports clubs regarding single-sex services. Single-sex services based on biological sex are protected in law and will always be protected by this Government.

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Marty Davies @smartypantsmarty.com · 13/06/2025

More of this tone please 😏

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This is an excellent article, but I disagree with the excerpt below. In my reading, the supreme court's decision has done far more damage to the Gender Recognition Act than many people have realised, rendering it fundamentally unfit for purpose. CAVEAT: not a lawyer, this is just my opinion. [1/n]

The Supreme Court ruled on one issue: the definition of the words 'man' and 'woman' in the Equality Act. They decided that man meant biological man and women meant biological woman. In other words, a trans man is a woman and a trans woman is a man.

But this is only the case for that one piece of legislation. In every other piece of legislation, a trans man is still a man and a trans woman is still a woman. This is because the Gender Recognition Act states that someone with a gender recognition certificate has changed their sex "for all purposes".

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Well that's a hell of a thing to admit to a tribunal. "No, see, our film was about *spreading* transphobic lies, not *fact-checking* them!"

89. Professor Phoenix states in the Film, “We know that of those who declare themselves to be trans gender, with or without a GRC, that they have a hugely disproportionate rate of sex offending.”

90. She states she is relying on the Ministry of Justice’s own statistics.

91. Dr O’Neill gave evidence that this was in the context of trans women in prison and that there is a disproportionate rate of sex offending amongst that group. In the context of the Film she felt it was quite clear what was being spoken about. Dr O’Neill accepted there was no discussion in the Film as to how trans women came to be in prison, nor an analysis of the statistics as that, she said, was not what the Film was about.

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Excellent statement. I particularly liked the fact that they were willing to clearly call out the ruling as transphobic, as well as highlighting the part allowing us to be excluded from both men's and women's spaces simultaneously. And, of course, referencing the ever-fantastic @jessothomson.co.uk

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

"My view is that despite the law being very clear, actually, a few very determined transphobes have crawled their way to the heart of the law like maggots in an apple. A system that has been working perfectly well since 2010 has now been unnecessarily tampered with..." Hell yes.

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Perhaps that august body could protect its own standing by not throwing people's rights in the bin to suit its own prejudices. Respect for the court is important, when the court is worthy of that respect. It has breached that social contract, and politicians and legal people should make that clear.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21/05/2025

Trans people have been excluded from every single step. From Cass. From the Supreme Court. From the EHRC. From politics. From the media. And still, trans people will be blamed when this explodes in everyone's faces despite trans people warning, for years, that this is what would happen.

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Is...is this a thing? Because to my non-lawyer eyes it reads like the kind of transparently sophistic horseshit a debate club nerd throws out when asked to defend an untenable position and is hoping to at least score some points for cleverness. It reads like "the card says Moops" cranked up to 11.

103. We also reject the submission that the carve out in section 9(3) only operates in respect of future legislation and not legislation, such as the SDA 1975, which was already enacted at the date when the GRA 2004 was enacted. Ms Irvine submitted that the GRA 2004 itself made exhaustive provision for how the rule was to apply to existing statutes. We do not accept that; section 9(3) refers to "any other enactment" and those words have a clear meaning.

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Losing ground to transphobes would hurt ever so slightly less if they weren't all so fucking STUPID.

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Just imagine if an MP or a political party were willing to speak this clearly and forcefully in defence of our rights.

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

This is worth expanding on a bit. It's the logic of conversion therapy. It's the logic of corrective rape. It's saying "we know you better than you know yourself, and we're going to make you conform to our view of you". Seeing it in a supposedly scientific report is absolutely chilling.

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The government explicitly addressed this point during the committee stage. The speaker here is David Lammy, and the word "gender" was clipped off the end of the last sentence. Too many laws to name all of them, and they were of the opinion that the existing text was clear. More fool them, I guess.

The basic principle of the Bill in clause 9 is that the issue of a gender recognition certificate will mean that a person's gender will become, for all purposes, the acquired ''gender''. For example, an applicant who was born male would in law become a woman. There are many places in law where the word ''sex'' is used rather than gender. Clearly, it would be ludicrous if a person were treated as being a female whenever the law referred to gender, but male whenever it referred to sex.

The Joint Committee on Human Rights highlighted the potential for uncertainty as to what a transsexual person would be considered to be in law. In response to that, the Government inserted an explicit mention of sex as well as gender in clause 9. Amendments Nos. 14 and 15 would remove that reference and could then lead to a situation that the Joint Committee feared—that is, a person being treated as male for some purposes and female for others, depending on whether the law refers to ''gender'' or ''sex''.

Amendment No. 18 proposes to take care of that problem in relation to sex discrimination law. However, the law includes references to sex in many other places; there are literally thousands of other references. For example, in reply to the points raised by the hon. Member for Daventry, some provisions require certain tribunals, such as social security appeal tribunals and disability appeal tribunals, to have at least one member of the same sex as the claimant. A number of provisions also require a person to disclose his or her sex or to give information in relation to another person's sex—for example, section 92 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and section 11 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 25/04/2025

I gave an interview to Al Jazeera on the Supreme Court judgment, and the surrounding context. I think it's possibly the best thing I've ever done (?) so give it a listen. youtu.be/dhRKIZi60NI?...

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UK court defines 'woman'; trans women left in limbo | The Take

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

More frequent?! PIP reassessments are already every two years, which is a colossally stressful waste of time and energy for most claimants. Assessments also cost money, so this isn't likely to make savings, except by making the process even more miserable and driving people away. Fuck Labour.

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 24/10/2024

This is a great poem by Danielle Coffyn. IF ADAM PICKED THE APPLE

IF ADAM PICKED THE APPLE
There would be a parade,
a celebration,
a holiday to commemorate
the day he sought enlightenment.
We would not speak of
temptation by the devil, rather,
we would laud Adam's curiosity,
his desire for adventure
and knowing.
We would feast
on apple-inspired fare:
tortes, chutneys, pancakes, pies.
There would be plays and songs
reenacting his courage.

But it was Eve who grew bored,
weary of her captivity in Eden.
And a woman's desire
for freedom is rarely a cause
for celebration.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

VALJEAN AT LAST WE SEE EACH OTHER PLAIN

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

One obvious problem Republicans have here is that many of the arguments SciAm make against Trump apply more or less equally to the party as a whole. They can't very well say "yes, we should absolutely reject candidates who are climate deniers", can they?

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

That last screenshot is...just...I'm losing my fucking mind here. "No doubt this hospital is held to a lower standard - but this is largely because they so frequently kill their own patients". THAT'S WORSE, YOU CLOWN.

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a man says okay but that 's worse in front of a woman

Alt: Chidi from The Good Place saying "Okay. But that's worse" to Eleanor.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

Oh so now a woman has been done the injustice of being called trans suddenly there is mainstream pushback against gender policing in sport ey now its undeniably affecting ~Real People~

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 31/07/2024

Me trying to fall asleep every night

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 30/07/2024

More than four months in the making, a story I've been calling my "Big Finland Piece" is finally here. It describes the efforts of Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala to export Finland's deeply dystopic version of transgender healthcare to the wider world.

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Fifteen-Year Old Assigned Masturbation as "Homework" in Finland Transgender Clinic — Assigned

Experts from Finland seek to export their approach to treating trans youth to the rest of the world.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

May Hillary Cass not know a moment peace as long as she walks this earth. Blood on her hands. Blood on her hands. Blood on her hands.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 06/05/2024

To all trans folk. It's really hard right now, but we've got this and we'll get through it. We are an AMAZING community and we look after each other as much as we can. We also have some great allies watching our backs. Remember, you ROCK! You're WORTH IT, and you're LOVED!

Image of a simple trans flag (blue at the top, pink below, white in the middle, pink below the white and blue at the bottom)

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

“It’s actually the transgenders who are homophobic”, I scream, as I continue to insist that gender/sex is defined by an innate and immutable relationship to natural roles in heterosexual reproduction

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

Kind of love it when a cis person goes “there’s no simple solutions here“ and you get to reply “no there really is a simple solution and it would be accepting trans people instead of appeasing bigots“

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

The history of transgender medicine is the field was dominated by eugenicists and abusive quacks for much of the last century and the moment trans people had succeeded in throwing most of them out liberal media and conservative politicians said "now wait just a goddamn minute"

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tpwrtrmnky. @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

The biggest DARVO in trans issues by far is pretending that trans healthcare has been captured by "gender ideologues", when what's really been happening is the slow grueling process of removing the influence of weird abusers who shouldn't be practicing medicine on anyone

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/04/2024

“I saw a really floofy dog” should be a completely acceptable reason to be late to a meeting

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

In fairness, Jesse is a terrible judge of whether or not to keep posting garbage takes like this one, so I can sort of see where he's coming from here.

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Critical Cupcake 🌈 ♿ ⚛️ @criticalcupcake.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Today in Parliament we have seen the culmination of how the right wing attacks science directly. A single speech legitimises the disregarding of decades of studies and research instead imposing an ideologically driven set of recommendations that will lead to deaths.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 12/04/2024

In light of how difficult a week its been, I'll just say this: I intend to survive the rough few years to come. You should get it firmly in your head that you will too. Every one of us who survives this will be a gift and a blessing to the world.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

Bringing back this one thats been goin around tumblr cause it’s relevant again

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Critical Cupcake 🌈 ♿ ⚛️ @criticalcupcake.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

If an organisation was set up with the sole purpose to attack people because of their Race, Age or Religion, the government would act to stop them, in the UK, with the full endorsement of the Charity Commission and the EHRC they grant them charity status. 🤦‍♀️

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Fascinating: regret rates for trans surgery are so low compared to other surgeries that researchers are asking whether informed consent model used for trans people could help reduce regret for other medical procedures. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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Researchers Ask Why Surgery Regret is So Low for Trans Patients, What Can Be Learned — Assigned

Dr. Harry Barbee answered our questions about the direction of research into trans patients’ post-surgical regret, and how other areas of medicine might benefit from understanding the unusually lo...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

When the question is "what's wrong with men" the answer is always that society is failing them; when the question is "what's wrong with women" the answer is always that they're failing society.

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