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Yvonne O’Dell 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (they/them/theirs) PhD researcher @archanchistleic, sometimes poet, archaeological theory enthusiast, dogkin, and plant pal ✨

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 14/07/2026
Transphohic orgs threatening a human rights org with legal action is a new level of brazen. It's kind of disorienting that it's probably going to work.
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...
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UK warns gay travellers about US anti-LGBT laws
The UK government warns LGBT travellers to be careful in the US due to laws affecting LGBT people in North Carolina and Mississippi.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 22/05/2026
bsky.app/profile/malr... Literally this, it's like when Nazis start saying "I'm not racist I just love and care about a future for the white race. It's okay to be white! Don't infringe on my rights, you racist!" They know what they are and they're taking the piss.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 22/05/2026
This is why when stating their beliefs positively rather than in the negative of what they're critical of (trans people), they describe themselves as believing that sex is immutable, innate and has inherent importance to it. They regress to the anti feminist idea that it's Just Basic Biology.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 22/05/2026
The gender critical movement objectively formed in response to trans rights advances and a desire of the people who formed it to repeal trans rights. Cherry Ann Austin, the founder of seminal GC campaign Fair Play For Women joked about trans women dying of cancer as something she wanted.
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Ron @ronkilljoy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho... This is so unbelievably absurd and harrowing.
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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
New School Guidance announces: Full bathroom ban. Full PE ban. Full school trip accommodation ban. Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 12/02/2026
The disrespect and dehumanisation is off the scale.
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269. When discussing requests with children, schools and colleges should take time to sensitively explain that supporting any degree of social transition will not include allowing access to toilets, changing rooms or boarding or residential accommodation designated for the opposite sex, and will not include allowing children to join PE classes designated for the opposite sex where th reasons for single-sex PE 70/201
270. The school or college should also make sure that children and their families are aware that while the school or college will appropriately sanction any cases of bullying or harassment,and take a strong stand against bullying, the school or college must also be conscious of the rights of pupils and staff in relation to their religion or belief. However, schools and colleges supporting social transition might consider discussing options with pupils and staff such as using names instead of pronouns.
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smallest church @smallestchurch.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
be the chaotic good you wish to see in this trash world, i can't stress this enough
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/01/2026
Screaming "wtf" and waiting for a spontaneous uprising is going to discourage you. There won't be a spontaneous uprising. That's just not where the people are at. Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
That’s unfair; it also convinces people to kill themselves.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I have become more sympathetic to the idea that saying you can’t hold Trump voters morally culpable for Trump regime actions is patronizing. It partakes of an old and to my mind destructive left wing habit: to think of conservative white voters as not quite adults.
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Ron @ronkilljoy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Always alarming when hierarchy is deemed “natural” (psssssst - it’s constructed and changeable) Is it time to whip out my fave Le Guin quote again?
A photo of Ursula Le Guin accompanied by the text, “We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”
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Ron @ronkilljoy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I talk/dream/practise/read a lot about hope as a way to imagine myself into a liveable future. This current timeline certainly makes it challenging. I’ve been stuck on hard mode but it’s my first time playing the game, and ya know? I’m tired. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
‘Tis but a scratch says the black knight, whose arm has been cut off. Scene from Monty python and the holy grail.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country. Join us. The time is now. Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
My research into the effects of the UK puberty-blocker ban was published only 10 days ago, it has already been viewed more than 7,000 times! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The idea that Rowling just has a controversial opinion is wrong and dangerous, too. She’s one of the world’s leading transmisogynists—a bigot stoking violence—and she delights in endangering women. It should be socially unacceptable to display Harry Potter merch.
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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 23/06/2025
The law is systematically oppressing trans people so I'm afraid if you actually want to call yourself trans allies or a 'trans inclusive organisation' then you cannot be upholding that law. And if you aren't comfortable advising people to not legally segregate, then you were never an ally.
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Equality Amplified @equalityamplified.org.uk · 18/06/2025
The Ministry of Justice scrubbing LGBT, race and gender from its diversity policy isn’t neutrality it’s erasure. You don’t protect marginalised people by pretending they don’t exist. This isn’t progress. It’s a warning sign, and we should all be paying attention!!
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Ministry of Justice scraps public support for LGBT in diversity overhaul
Department promises to take ‘evidence-based’ approach after updating equality and diversity policy
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
If you cannot run your business by following simple laws, you don’t have a business, you have a racket.
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Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 03/05/2025
If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense) then please sign this open letter I and others have put together to UK Archaeological associations to urge overt and resolute solidarity with trans archaeologists, and the wider trans community docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Open Letter to CBA, CIfA, FAME, and UAUK, in relation the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Interim Guidance
If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense), and you would like to sign this open letter then please fill in GOOGLE FORM LINK. Responses will be manually inputted. The for...
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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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Bodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This is heartening and, I find, the common experience. We hear time and time again the narrative that *everyone* believes that trans people are bad, evil, whatever, and the support for this is a handful of the hateful usual suspects. Then along comes pushback and people flood in in their thousands.
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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 30/04/2025
🧵 A Thread of UK University Statements on the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Guidance Against Trans Inclusion This thread catalouges statements by UK Universities in relation to the Supreme Courts transphobic ruling and the EHRC guidance for trans segregation. I'll try update it daily. 1/?
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A friend who is a trans woman and who plays women’s football received an email from the FA about the decision which contains this paragraph. Free therapy to cope with the fact you’ve been transphobic bigots, fucking brilliant.
This is not a decision that we have taken lightly, and we know that this news will be deeply disappointing. In the immediate aftermath of this news to help support you through this, we have partnered with Sporting Chance to provide you with free, fully confidential, online talking therapy with specially selected therapists, should you wish to do so. Up to six sessions can be provided to you and to do this you simply need to contact Sporting Chance by email at
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 27/04/2025
The UK is a fascist state with the pretence of democracy. Autism is not a disease. Being trans is not a disease. Neither need cured. Leave us the fuck alone!!
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NHS to test all trans' children for autism
Every child referred to a gender clinic will be screened under new guidance following Cass Review
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Health Correspondent 27 April 2025 4:02pm BST
The NHS will test all children who believe they are transgender for autism under new plans seen by The Telegraph.
Every child referred to a gender clinic will be "screened for
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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 23/04/2025
The reality in the UK right is now the ideology of trans eradication is being given more legal protections than the reality of being trans. And if you can't see that with everything that's going on, then you are part of the problem. Do better, listen to trans people, fight back against the bigots.
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Ron @ronkilljoy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Really excited* to see UK universities/educational institutions roll back any trans protections they’ve had in place thanks to the new clarity of all being defined by how *squints* our genitals appeared at birth??? Fabulous. Love that for all of us. *filled with dread
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I wrote about the Trump administration’s embrace of the pro-natalist movement, and the need to combat pro-natalist misogyny in cultural terms. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 22/04/2025
This statement from the Crab Museum is sublime. The claims about "biological sex" are the same hijacking of science that justified racism in the past - and still does today 🏳️‍⚧️ www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
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Small museums respond to UK Supreme Court gender ruling - Museums Association
Vagina Museum and Crab Museum pledge their support for trans community
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Simon Lamrock @simonlamrock.com · 19/04/2025
Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
Photo of thousands of people with placards and flags packing Parliament Square.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
JK Rowling's "plan" that came together, based on the available evidence: Pretend to be a women's rights supporter. Focus at least 90% of your energy on targeted harassment and discrimination of trans people. Elevate your bigotry to global heights, along with fascism and cis male abusers. Celebrate.
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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 16/04/2025
The UK Supreme Court is Wrong. Trans Women are Women Trans Men are Men Non-Binary people are Non-Binary. The court's ruling on biological sex is not only wrong, it is dangerous, overty transphobic, and further highlights the organised transphobia of the UK's cis-supremacist society.
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Honestly, such grim news from UK Supreme Court. We're going the way of US & everyone should be concerned. Just let people live their quiet lives - just like they did before Wicked Witch & her flying goblins got all exercised about things that don't concern them. Thoughts & big hugs to all xx 🏳️‍⚧️
A banner with the trans flag and 'Repost this is trans people are welcome and safe with you' written
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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The Supreme Court of the UK is about to rule on the rights of trans women in a case in which no trans women were allowed to give evidence or participate in any way.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/04/2025
Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off
Sometimes older voters aren’t just naturally more conservative. It’s just that wealthier and whiter people tend to live longer and healthier lives.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 12/04/2025
For $45 billion we could literally end child poverty in the United States forever. Seriously. We could feed and house and clothe and educate every kid. Every single one.
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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 04/04/2025
Something I see three or four times a week on my feed is "why isn't there a left-leaning version of the alt-right media ecosystem" and just stop asking the question because we all know the answer, the answer is that there's no money for it! No money means no alternative media ecosystem! That's it!
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/04/2025
"Universities are reviewing transgender equality policies after the University of Sussex was handed a record fine from the higher education regulator." [Times] Reminder, those policies were to stop trans people being harassed and abused
Universities review trans policies after big fine
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Universities are reviewing transgender equality policies after the University of Sussex was handed a record fine from the higher education regulator.

Documents relating to the treatment of trans students and staff have been taken down or are being updated in the wake of the Office for Students (OfS) fining the University of Sussex for breaching free speech.

Its investigation sprang from the treatment of Kathleen Stock, a former professor at the university, who was forced to resign after harassment over her views on sex and gender. She said many colleagues ostracised her or failed to speak up. After the fine of £585,000 was announced, Stock said that several other universities still held the same policies as Sussex.

Arif Ahmed, the OfS’s director of free speech, said Sussex’s trans and nonbinary equality policy statement meant that students or staff wishing to express or discuss lawful views, including gender-critical views, could have been concerned about breaching that policy and facing potential disciplinary action.

This policy required academies to “positively represent trans people and trans lives” in relevant course materials.

Now several institutions appear to have reviewed their policies, according to Times Higher Education.

One law firm, Shakespeare Martineau, said it had held conversations with several institutions because of the decision. Smita Jamdar, its head of education, said: “The main theme is anxiety that institutions cannot be sure if they are compliant or not.”

The University of Leeds has updated its website to say the institution’s trans equality policy is being reviewed in light of the OfS investigation. Its policy currently says that the university would contain material that positively represents trans people and their lives.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 05/03/2025
We've been saving this little pup for when we thought you all might really need a gold star. And, given the current circumstances, here she is. 13/10
a tiny white dog stands on a tile floor and looks up at you. they’re wearing a big plush yellow star around their teensy noggin, like the world’s most congratulatory lion mane. we really needed to see her today.
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charlie 🎃 @shanyabug.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
stop using chatgpt if u want misinformation just ask me and i’ll happily lie to u
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Ron @ronkilljoy.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
archive.ph/A9m2x Hi, I hate it here 💀
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Finn McLellan @saranadosfiction.com · 10/02/2025
Right. Torygraph putting out a hit piece on top surgery (and surgery for AFAB trans folk in general because how dare we 'mutilate' ourselves out of being breeding stock) means a) a re-up on 'please email your MP' and b) hey, petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services
Introduce a law to legally protect the right of those aged 18 and over to transition using NHS services. This should specifically cover physical transition, including hormone treatment and surgery, as...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.
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Ron @ronkilljoy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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a group of drag queens are standing next to each other and one of them is saying pretends to be shocked
Alt: a group of drag queens are standing next to each other and one of them is pretending to be shocked
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Sara Lang @saralang.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
There's something so pernicious about the assertion that not-yet-teen girls should be forced into motherhood, and that Black children can be tried as adults, and yet that white men who are 25 should be coddled because they're just babies (who really like eugenics).
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 05/02/2025
This is huge. My petition got approved. It challenges the UK government to the lift the Puberty Blocker ban on the grounds that it contradicts article 8 of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child. Please sign and Repost ✊️🏳️‍⚧️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Lift restrictions on prescribing puberty blockers to trans children.
We want the Government to reverse the restrictions it has introduced relating to the prescription of puberty blockers to children. The Government introduced legislation banning them from being prescri...
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Ron @ronkilljoy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I am trans, and I am tired, and I am scared. So I wrote about it ✨ If you expected this to be proofread and better argued, allow me to refer you to the above! Art by @pinebones.bsky.social 1/12
I am trans, and I am tired, and I am scared. Art by Holls Walck (Pine Bones) with the text, "I want to be me, is that not allowed".
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Ethel Baraona Pohl @ethelbaraona.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Been thinking a lot on this Donna Haraway's quote from 'Staying with the Trouble.' —So timely.
From the introduction of the book, "The task is to make kin in lines of inventive connection asa practice of learning to live and die well with each other in a thick present. Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places."
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