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hilaryonline.bsky.social @hilaryonline.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Just the biggest setback to equality in the UK. Read TransActual’s segregation report and if you’re a woman who considers it a disgrace and want to see a more compassionate approach, please consider signing the @nionwomen.bsky.social letter. Men can share it too
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
“In response to receiving this document, I did what the FA clearly haven’t: I actually spoke to trans men and transmasculine people Every single one said they disagreed with the way the declaration was worded.” I wrote about the FA banning trans men on the sly 👇 transwrites.world/fa-trans-men/
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FA deliberately humiliate trans men who want to play football - Trans Writes
After trans women were recently banned from the women’s game, attention is now turning to new restrictions on trans men, who must sign a declaration all are refusing to accept.
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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 03/05/2025
There is no clash between women's rights and trans rights that wasn't already appropriately addressed by the EA 2010. If there was a legitimate reason for a woman with, eg, a penis to be excluded from a service, this could be done. Of all things, a Guardian article sets this out very well: 2/
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‘Trans women have never felt like a threat’: women’s refuges grapple with supreme court ruling
UK gender decision ignites debate among professionals working in the domestic abuse and rape crisis spheres
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 20/06/2025
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UK puberty blocker ban causing "serious adverse" harm to trans youth, study shows
A new study has revealed that the ban on puberty blockers in the UK is having serious and adverse effects on young trans people.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 08/06/2025
The BBC just printing Maya Forstater lying through her teeth. Zero evidence of any assaults by trans people in bathrooms. Plenty of evidence of assaults by GCs.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
the prophecy was spoken 🥹
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
the member of staff who needs to check if u have a penis but not in a Rude Manner
4 panel comic

Panel 1: A Pink Person stands in the foreground. In the background a door opens, revealing a yellow person with a huge smile plastered on their face

Panel 2: the yellow person begins to move forwards, doing a jaunty walk. The big smile is still locked on their face

Panel 3: the yellow person is now right next to the pink person, smiling, with glistening eyes. They place a hand on the pink person’s shoulder

Panel 3: the yellow person instantly becomes incredibly sinister and hisses “Do you have a penisss”
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Wes Streeting sat in a room with trans kids and their parents pleading with him to make affirming healthcare accessible, while they told him harrowing stories of self-harm and suicide (one teen had TWO trans friends who had taken their lives). A week later he banned puberty blockers! 😖
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 11/05/2025
Official press release from TKBD: transkidsdeservebetter.org/trans-youth-...
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Trans Youth leave bloody handprints on NHS HQ in protest | Trans Kids Deserve Better
One activist said 'I am taking part in this action because I'm tired of trans voices being silenced. It makes me sad that the NHS are disrespecting people who have sadly taken their own lives and are ...
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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
It shows that they are aware of the public pressure and that sneaking out bigotry on a Friday evening got them noticed. So, time to write to your MP again and tell them that the EHRCs response is piss poor and that you expect them to hold the EHRC to account: bsky.app/profile/amer...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/05/2025
We believe the Supreme Court has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act. Over 8,000 people have supported our case - will you join us? goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
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Prof Stephen Whittle @profstephenwhittle.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Trans women have never felt like a threat www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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‘Trans women have never felt like a threat’: women’s refuges grapple with supreme court ruling
UK gender decision ignites debate among professionals working in the domestic abuse and rape crisis spheres
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
It will not come as shock to those of you who know us on BlueSky but my favorite part about IBD is that all recommendations are 20% off. Which means I'll land all my "this book will rewrite your understanding of language" or "this book peels layers off your brain" recs with "AND TODAY it's 20% off!"
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 24/04/2025
Over 1300 British writers, including Michaela Coel, have signed an open letter expressing their solidarity with the trans community after the UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex. www.thepinknews.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Michaela Coel among writers expressing solidarity with the trans community
Over 1300 British writers have signed an open letter expressing their solidarity with the trans community after the UK Supreme Court ruling.
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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
For people wondering why the UK's Equality And Human Rights Commission is acting counter to human rights, I'll c+p a combination of threads from a couple of years ago. They cover the systemic attack on many marginalised communities by idealogues trying to dismantle human rights law. 1/
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 16/04/2025
That is also not true, by the way? Para 236 pretty explicitly lays out how bouncing trans men from a women's space wouldn't count as sex discrimination, owing to their "masculine attributes". The opinion is hypocritical and happy to enforce a double standard for the sake of upholding cissexism.
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Hedge Wizardly 🌱🌈 @hedgewizardly.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14/04/2025
I started tracking paper numbers on 16 April 2024. On 14 April 2025, with one day left to complete the year, the total for the Telegraph, Times, Mail, and Guardian/Observer stands at 1,074 articles about trans people, nearly all of which were attacks and barely any with quotes from a trans person
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/03/2025
1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/03/2025
Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper... But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?
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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 10/03/2025
Weird how Cass was splashed worldwide, but multiple countries produce reviews that all rubbish Cass and come to completely different conclusions (namely that PBs are effective and as safe for trans kids as cis) yet you wouldn't know about them if you weren't online and following people like Erin
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Trans Safe Harbor Network @transsafeharbor.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Our work began with information gathering. The fruits of that labor is a list of 28 ”safer“ countries for trans people who are considering migration. We will roll out information about each of these over the next few months in this thread. We hope you find this information useful. 🧵
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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🚨 UK #booksky today is the last day to complete the government's AI consultation form. @fossilfreebooks.org has a handy guide on their IG if you're feeling daunted by the task: www.instagram.com/p/DGQktlEIxd...
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 22/02/2025
If you’re not trans and you believe believe yourself to be a progressive ally type of person I highly recommend you read up on a prison practice called “v-coding” because with any luck it will make you physically ill and shock you to the point of action
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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
and if they can't get her to do it herself, they'll lie and lie and lie about her until a member of the public steps up
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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
We need more disabled characters in media! ♿️ I’ve put together a starter pack of artists with amazing disabled OCs to help promote accurate, beautiful representation. Please share! go.bsky.app/9NvnnLb #Disability #OC #OCSky #DisabledOCs #Art
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Badly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I woke up yesterday to learn that PBS had scrubbed my work, the PBS Independent Lens Map of Gender Diverse Cultures, from their website, without warning. These folks are throwing us under the bus so fast, they're gonna throw out their backs doing it. badlylickedbear.substack.com/p/when-the-n...
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When The Nothing Came for Me
Having one's work erased in a time of genocide
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 wrote a book called echolalia echolalia 🎃 @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Last week I got DMs from Gazans that the eSims we sent them and kept topped up allowed them to graduate university. This is why eSims are still necessary. Donate: bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza
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Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Another new study of trans athletes and once again, it supports inclusion. TW volleyball athletes displayed similar exercise performance and biomarkers compared with CW & lower results compared with CM. bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...
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Body composition, exercise-related performance parameters and associated health factors of transgender women, cisgender women and cisgender men volleyball players
Objective The inclusion of transgender athletes in competitive sports has promoted significant dialogue and controversy among exercise-related professionals. The objective of this study was to investi...
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charlie @ohcharliej.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
in my head murderbot looks like a pimply 20 year old working their first job in fast food. but i do concede alex has the eyes down to a t (i am SO excited)
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/02/2025
Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country
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Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country
WASHINGTON—According to a new report published Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, you live in a deeply embarrassing and barely functional country. “Our latest research and statistical analysis show...
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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
NO. I refuse to have Gemini. I already went through each gmail account and specifically turned it off. Today it turned itself back on.
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Gab @gabjet.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Since this is going around again without any new information: As far as I can tell, this particular order accomplished absolutely nothing. The executive branch scrubbed mentions of trans people from .gov websites, but it never had the power to order retractions and no journal voluntarily complied.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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charlie @ohcharliej.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
be it as it may that i am confined to an app, the more i learn i am soooo glad i left the evil bird app
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 17/02/2025
New Article: Trans Allies Systematically Intimidated Inside Tavistock whatthetrans.com/trans-allies...
Person wearing mask holding up sign saying "ignorance = fear, silence = death"
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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now @benjanun.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The extended Gunmetal Olympus bundle is here! $15 for THREE full-length novels, various novellas, short stories, and a gorgeous mecha artbook. If you want more GO, here it is. If you're just getting into our world of lesbians and mecha, this is the perfect way to start. itch.io/b/2877/monst...
Image of a red-dominant scifi landscape. 

Text:The extended Gunmetal Olympus bundle. Monsters. Mecha. Greek mythology as you've never seen before.
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charlie @ohcharliej.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
valentines day and being single and all that but consider the bits of love that stay with you past stagnating bumble convos, these first days over and over, the spotify additions and storygraph recs, a decade ago i was given a mug by a girl i barely knew and i drink from it every morning still
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/02/2025
The National Park Service has removed "T" and all mention of transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument. Trans women were some of the most influential activists behind the Stonewall movement and what followed. 3 articles of clothing laws were why raids happened. Erasure.
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charlie @ohcharliej.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
why did my dating app start making improvement suggestions bro get that machine out of there
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charlie @ohcharliej.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
bought my first pair of big trousers and aside from needing to change them for slightly smaller big trousers i think they might become my new personality
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
There's a saying among trans people. It's "Death Before Detransition." And what it means, the reason it's gained currency, is that death is more acceptable to most of us.
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