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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My guess is cis people think trans people are "biased" because we're in favor of trans people not dying. In reality, cis people who persist in pretending to know anything about trans lives in the face of overwhelming evidence otherwise in the name of just asking questions are biased AND ignorant ...

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Quinn Rhodes (he/him) @onqueerstreet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My latest newsletters is about crying at London Trans Pride, what suicide prevention really looks like, and how impossible it feels to imagine a healthcare system that actually centres the dignity and autonomy of trans people. www.genderbent.co.uk/hormones-are...

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Hormones are suicide prevention

because I missed National Suicide Prevention Month in September

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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 12/10/2026

Reporters Without Borders "deeply concerned to hear of the arrest of journalists covering a protest in Leicester, particularly given they had identified themselves as such to police. “No journalist should have to weigh the risk of arrest against their duty to inform the public."

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At least five journalists arrested at Palestine Action protest

At least five journalists were briefly arrested while covering a pro-Palestine Action protest in Leicester on Thursday.

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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/09/2026

A funny thing about giving people access to information and community is that they start finding language to describe a thing they are experiencing!

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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I so desperately want cis people to understand this - the GCs are not feminists, they dont believe in women's rights, they dont value the agency or rights of children. GC is an abuser, forced birther, misogynist, racist, anti working class manifesto of bigotry. Its Andrew Tate with a Chanel handbag.

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cornish person girl @gemma.transwrites.world · 10/10/2026

The most annoying thing about this piece is that there's like four separate lines in the piece that would have made better headlines such as; "More than 2,000 legislative and policy-based initiatives have intended to reduce the rights of transgender individuals" as just one example.

screen shot from The Commonwealth Times. A news article headlined 'study shows anti-trans legislation causes distress among transgender individuals' by staff writer Olivia Rine

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Classrooms up and down the country need to prepare young people for the wider world – an ever complex and changing world – and that only happens if their classrooms, their learning materials and their discussions reflect the diversity of experiences in that world.” LGBT lives are not “ideologies.”

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Forcing 'impartiality' in classrooms is a Trojan horse for bans on queer lives

Under the guise of ‘impartiality’, right-wing forces are increasingly focused on restricting which topics and perspectives young people have access to

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 08/10/2026

COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ADHD diagnosis has allowed me to actually live up to some of my potential at work, but go off Wes.

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm giving away 5 arcs of my queer, trans, COVID-concsious cryptid hunter romcom LOVE AND LAKE MONSTERS US only, ends Oct. 16 Enter: forms.gle/KeLWFuFacXsN...

A stack of the advance reading copies on the floor.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 07/10/2026

On some level the trans kids in sports debate is about keeping locker rooms “normal - white, heterosexual and cisgender - because if a young trans girl is fine in a locker room then young queer kids are too. And that’s not what sports are supposed to support some believe.

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm thrilled to share that we raised $750 for Authors Against Book Bans. Thank you to everyone who turned out!

Authors Blair Fell, Zakiya N. Jamal, Ella Dawson, Katherine Grant, Shelly Jay Shore, and Joanna Shupe

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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 07/10/2026

Writing about the Tumbler Ridge arrest today, and I'm honestly appalled at the level of intentional misgendering from officials and media. To be clear, I don't care if the suspect is offended. This isn't even about pronoun policing. But this sort of stuff is what spreads anti-trans hate at large.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/10/2026

One of the reasons public opinion on trans health care is where it is is because a lot of cis people will never ever believe just how corrupt the professional medical class running our health care really is.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 06/10/2026

About the US but applies equally to the UK

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/10/2026

For @us.theguardian.com, I spoke to Native WNBA fans about the loss of the Connecticut Sun. “For a tribe that fought long and hard to be granted tribal sovereignty, the [sale] decision being taken out of their hands can feel like a violation of that sovereignty.”

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‘I will not be moving on’: sale of WNBA’s Connecticut Sun leaves Native fans facing cultural loss

The Mohegan Tribe made the Sun the first Native-owned franchise in pro sports. Fans say the team’s move echoes centuries of erasure and displacement

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The religious right is steadily expanding its definition of what is sexual — and restricting what it deems acceptable in public spaces. Tech companies, in want of less oversight, are taking the hint. The deplatforming that started with sex workers / kink / trans has come for gay bars.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/10/2026

You can tell this is all bullshit by the quote marks in the headline. If it wasn't bullshit they wouldn't need to quote someone talking bullshit, they could just print their headline. TBF the trans activists bit is also bullshit as it's just trans people.

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

"We're all in this together" deserves more skepticism, especially when invoked about those in power. Real question: are we? If someone's goal is "fight fascism" and another's is "protect my personal power and status even if it means collaboration" then no, we're not remotely out for the same thing.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's easier to think that people are cutting off their family because of social contagion or viral therapy trends than it is to accept that families are very often places of pain and domination where escape is the only alternative to lifelong misery or death.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think when we hem and haw about people going no-contact with their families and what it says about society, what we're often doing is revealing our own discomfort with seeing others starting to pull blocks out of the Jenga tower of Empire and refusing to suffer Just Because.

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

People with HIV have greater risk of cardiovascular disease. A new study finds that women’s risk is almost twice that of women who do not have HIV. www.aidsmap.com/news/oct-202...

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 03/10/2026

this is so often ignored by cis people debating amongst themselves about if trans people are a little *too* touchy. Most of you don't know what it's like to have your entire existence politicized and weaponized or what toll it takes on us.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have never heard of any newsrooms with alarming practices like those described in this thread. If you have, I’d like to hear from you. Contact in bio.

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Quinn Rhodes (he/him) @onqueerstreet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I really enjoyed this, and especially 'All Petts Are Off'.

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Taking this opportunity to share an old story I wrote. There is a way back after suicidal ideation, with the right support. One of the first steps is often finding someone to talk to.

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LGBTQ+ people talk about hope and survival after suicidal ideation

Eight LGBTQ+ adults and two trans teens shared their experiences with The 19th.

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The 988 hotline’s LGBTQ+ youth service is back, over a year after the Trump admin shut it down. LGBTQ+ youth can once again press 3 after calling 988 to talk with specially trained counselors. This is what it looked like when the service stopped last year — partially in June, then fully in July.

This image shows an area chart demonstrating that calls, texts or chats to 988 by LGBTQ+ youth seeking specialized services through "option 3" rose continuously from September 2022 to July 2025 — then suddenly dropped down to zero, since the option was discontinued. The visualization looks like a cliff.

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Quinn Rhodes (he/him) @onqueerstreet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a piece I’m writing, I’m looking for publications/ organisations/activists who used trans-inclusive language when talking about the decriminalisation of abortion in England & Wales earlier this year. If you have LITERALLY ANY EXAMPLES, please drop links below or email quinn@quinnrhodes.co.uk

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/09/2026

Oh bsky.app/profile/ecmc...

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

fun fact: one of the things that made me decide "no, I will get an actual diagnosis", rather than just assuming, was the subtitle of a thread about ADHD on the SomethingAwful forums because it hit so hard it hurt it was along the lines of "if you were lazy, you would be having fun"

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our government thinks you're a terrorist if you protest this.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If she was wearing a balaclava and called migrant men sex offenders she's probably be given an AAA pass

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026

"Banter" First line: A senior Northern Ireland nurse who humiliated a junior female colleague by pulling down her scrub trousers has been struck off. He was also convicted of sexual assault but that was quashed on appeal and he was convicted of common assault.

Senior nurse struck off for humiliating colleague in ‘a bit of banter’

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Quinn Rhodes (he/him) @onqueerstreet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I haven’t sent a newsletter for months but I’m working on one this afternoon and would love to finish and send it. However, my brain is being a dick about my ability to actually finish anything, so support and encouragement would be very welcome rn.

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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Appalling that in 2026 our local queer spaces are getting their windows panned in. However I was so glad to be able to contribute to the massive outpouring of support from the community to help the shop fundraise for shutters. I love Category Is and recommend that you visit if you're in Glasgow

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Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Who knew the abigail shrier who wrote this transphobic book was also a misogynist who blames women for no longer tolerating being treated badly and so men getting lonley Absolutely none of us 🫣

IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE book cover by abigail shrirer

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Category Is Books had their windows smashed again. Donate to support them if you can www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis... #categoryisbooks #glasgow #queerbookshops

Four panel comic.
Panel 1. Image - a cartoon dog like character wearing a striped jumoer and blue trousers reads a purple book beneath a book opened like a pup tent. There is a flag that reads Category Is Books. There are five stickers: hope will never be silent, trans liberation nkw, queer queer queer books, fiercly independent and Daniel Quasar's Progress Pride Flag
Text - There is a steady rise in violence...
Panel 2. Image - the character stands looking forlornly at the book tent flattened on the ground, the stickers torn, the flag crumpled.
Text - against LGBTQ+ folk and their spaces. When it happens...
Panel 3. Image - a group of cartoon creatures help to put the book tent back up. One sits atop the spine of it holding the 'Category Is Books' flag aloft. Speech bubbles read "stronger!" "Queerer than ever!" "More Book!"
Text - our community rallies. And when it happens...
Panel 4. The book tent it restored. The cartokn creatures sit on top and inside it, reading and having lively conversations. The flag Category Is Books flies proudly again.
Text - i wish we didn't have to. I wish we were already safe.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People were like no, using genAI doesn't deskill you. And then *all* the CEO's started announcing that not only is deskilling the explicit goal, but then they brag that they don't know how to toast a poptart

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is because us transes can’t be trusted to report fairly on our own community, see, see how this works? The logic … it’s astounding. Transphobes committed to the bit however, they’re always welcome to comment related to trans lives, no matter how egregious the lies …

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/09/2026

this is 100% true AND this story has esp pissed me off w/ the gutting of "mainstream" LGBTQ media + journos. there is a version of this story we could giggle at without Ted Cruz seeing but the LGBTQ newsrooms left are either all owned by same company or self-funded and struggling so instead, this

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