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Stephanie Anne Calvert

@stephannecalvert.bsky.social
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Polyglot velocipedal ornithologue, musician, Cymres and novelist. Disreputable older woman, doing her best to age disgracefully. Currently working on books 21 (a novel) and 22 (group of novellas). 'Sussex Border Stories' She/her

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trans people are normal, transphobes are not.
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Crimson Liar @crimliar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well I guess we'll be buying a different toothpaste from now on. It comes to something when your toothpaste brand supports radical anti-trans fanatics! www.colgatepalmolive.com/en-us/news/h...
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Harry Potter™ x Colgate: A Partnership Adding a Bit of Magic to Everyday Routines | Colgate-Palmolive
Colgate’s oral health partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products (WBDGCP), on an innovative collection of Harry Potter-themed toothbrushes and toothpaste, aims to turn oral hygie...
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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Here, this is important - how Labour bit on "compromise" and ended up in a decade barring trans people from not just every bathroom of any sex label, but from _hospital wards_. Yeah. Hospital wards. It's too long to quote here so I screencapped a […] [Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]
A month ago, the Labour government’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, or EHRC, officially implemented a revised Statutory Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions, and Associations. The backstory and legal mechanics of this are complicated, but functionally it is one of the most authoritarian bathroom bans in the developed world. All institutions, public or private, must exclude trans people from single-sex spaces of their gender (a trans woman cannot use the women’s toilet) and may also exclude them from the spaces of their sex at birth (a trans woman also cannot use the men’s). 

In addition to bars, coffee shops, restaurants, gyms, schools, universities, charities, and so on, this also applies to venues like hospitals. An oncology department that has men’ s and women’s wards will be forced to bar trans people from both—they should be put in a “side room,” said Mary-Ann Stephenson, the Labour-appointed chair of the EHRC, which wrote the Code of Practice. But these are in short supply and used for more rational purposes like severely immunocompromised patients. This is acknowledged by Labour members of Parliament, such as Kevin McKenna, to be unworkable and dangerous, but they’re doing it anyway.

There is good reason to worry that these changing rules will act as a green light to violent bigots across the country. In the U.K., both trans people and cis people who don’t fully meet their gender stereotype (for instance cis female cancer survivors who may have short hair or mastectomies) have reported a massive increase in abuse and harassment.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reform UK Councillors, know the 5 stages.
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Stephanie Anne Calvert @stephannecalvert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bloody cyclists, not paying no road tax, need registering and... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Thousands of illegal ghost plates on cars revealed by new cameras
Illegal registration plates are far too easy to get hold of and are putting the public at risk, BBC is told.
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today brings further nuggets of GC delusions 'gold'. Peggie has been on paid leave since March 2025. Its about to run out and she is using this as some sort of terrible affliction of threat of poverty.
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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 26/09/2026
Wonder if they are aware of the £38,555 of funding she has received... not for her case but so "she can treat herself to something she loves."
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Let’s show Sandie some love and support, and imagine that when this is all over, she can treat herself to something she loves."
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Freda Wallace She/Ra @missfreda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
S.Peggie loses on every point apart from the administrative failures of NHS systems. GC lawyers have wasted NHS time and resources for a vanity project with net-zero result for them or Peggie. The aim is never to win legally but use the story to lobby politically through media.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Senedd presiding officer accuses Reform MS of offensive comments in Welsh Gender Service debate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Senedd presiding officer accuses Reform MS Joe Martin of offensive comments
Joe Martin called for "butcher" doctors who performed surgery on children to be jailed.
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Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In other words, do the things any sane legislature would have done rather than let stand the notion that a certain group "didn't actually have rights to begin with, whoopsie everyone".
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*Hollow laugh* Hypocritical bigot Bridget Phillipson has systematically and intentionally weaponised violence against women as an excuse to remove trans people’s human rights, in a way that will result in lots of cis women being harmed and harassed also.
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Farage and Badenoch have
'weaponised' violence against women, warns Bridget Phillipson
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
This is actually hell, right?
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Full story: reason.com/2026/09/21/j...
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Judge blocks warrantless ICE construction site raids after agents in Alabama arrested a U.S. citizen 3 times
An Alabama construction worker and U.S. citizen was detained and handcuffed three times despite having a valid REAL ID.
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gtjr.bsky.social @gtjr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Samantha Hay @samanthah.me · 25/09/2026
Wonder if trump threatens to sue they will fold as quickly as they did on the anti trans report?
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The justice system in the UK is fucked. This violent man angrily assaulted a young woman in front of dozens of witnesses for exercising her right to protest and gets a 'conditional caution'. I'm waiting for the free speech absolutists and protectors of women and girls to call out this misogyny... ⏰
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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I will assume that reddit posts on this topic are made-up*, but it doesn't matter because this exact scenario is extremely plausible. And the school have got the law as it stands wrong. The intersex girl's sex is a question of fact not law and would need to be 'discovered' by a court.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Video of the fascist Danny Tommo slashing a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) boat rescuing migrants at sea www.instagram.com/reel/DdmJaD4...
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Phylosoma™ @phylosoma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wait for it .......and there it is. 😆 🤣
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Stephanie Anne Calvert @stephannecalvert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dear Labour Party. Try growing a spine. Ratcliffe didn't 'lose the moral high ground' because: HE NEVER HAD IT Stop pandering to the right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sir Jim Ratcliffe loses moral high ground by living in tax exile - Labour Party Chair
The billionaire businessman told the BBC he has lost confidence in the UK due to a combination of high taxes and high immigration.
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The motion: congress.tuc.org.uk/motion-17-op...
Motion 17 Oppose the EHRC Code of Practice (Services, Public Functions and Associations)
carried motion
Carried motion
Received from: TUC LGBT+ Conference

This Conference notes the issuing of new guidance on the implications of the Supreme Court judgement of April 2025 on Thursday 21 May 2026.

Conference unequivocally condemns the EHRC’s proposed Code of Practice as a direct attack on LGBT+ equality.
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Stephanie Anne Calvert @stephannecalvert.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Dr Helen Webberley @www.helenwebberley.com · 19/09/2026
What landed best this week: What it really feels like to debate your existence
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What it really feels like to debate your existence | Dr Helen Webberley
Helen reflects on debating Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull on Triggernometry, and what it costs when non-experts claim authority over trans lives.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 19/09/2026
A ‘gender critical’ Scottish Labour executive committee member and councillor failed to declare on her register of interests the company she set up to sue her trade union, in an apparent breach of the Scottish Councillors’ Code of Conduct www.wearequeeraf.com/scottish-lab...
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Scottish Labour councillor failed to declare role in ‘gender critical’ group, breaching Council rules amid trade union legal action
A ‘gender critical’ Scottish Labour executive committee member and councillor failed to declare on her register of interests the company she set up to sue her trade union, in an apparent breach of the Scottish Councillors’ Code of Conduct
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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
Yuck, this account was following me 🤢
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Classic #resist hero: repost vs. actual beliefs.
Repost from the transphobic bluesky user Paul f. Tompkins is talking about. They have reposted a screenshot of a post that says “ every time I taught the diary of Anne Frank, the students in my class would ask how in the world could that have happened? How could normal people let it happen? Look around, friends.”Post from the person that Paul F Tompkins is talking about. It says “I’m saying trans People are a mental and physical illness and should be treated as such and I’m not going to let my kids die of climate change because someone thinks they are the wrong gender.“
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Dr Caz 🌳🇪🇺 🇺🇦🔸 @drcj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026
Holy shit. Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined. "I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports." This is getting out of control.
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Stephanie Anne Calvert @stephannecalvert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh dear How sad Never mind www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Addison Lee founder owes £20.5m in tax after UK tribunal ruling
HMRC wins challenge over John Griffin’s claim to be non-dom despite having lived in England since childhood
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Stephanie Anne Calvert @stephannecalvert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
These procedures are for cis people, not trans, so...
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Maggie Nickson @maggie-nickson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Despondent weatherman goes off-script on live TV to explain why he 'can't' forecast anymore
A veteran meteorologist warns that federal budget cuts are degrading hurricane forecast accuracy.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 16/09/2026
Hugely fun and funny take on JK Rowling's denials that her advocacy for women to be protected from the acceptance of trans people by society by @alyssaur.bsky.social. The humble social media manager who made this post laughed out loud and so will you! assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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J.K. Rowling’s Agent Insists She’s Not Funding Trans Genocide - Assigned Media
Comments from Lilly Wachowski in Variety prompted a public response from the author's agent.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington
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Stephanie Anne Calvert @stephannecalvert.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Hooting Orange Shit Gibbon is going to go ballistic. Like sone of those weapons he no longer has. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Iran war has led to US munitions shortfalls, Pentagon inspector confirms
The inspector also found a bottleneck in resupply, despite President Donald Trump's claims that US supplies are "virtually limitless".
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Stephanie Anne Calvert @stephannecalvert.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay today is #BirdyLongLegs Synchronised bin chickens
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
via Ministry of Wibble
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 15/09/2026
The TUC, congress of all the UK's trade unions, have voted to condemn the EHRC guidance and backed self-ID. Good luck finding reporting on it, you'll struggle to find it, even as the papers report on plenty of other things the TUC has voted on, and speeches. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/tuc-...
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TUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans people
Delegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable'
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
That’s because dykes can place higher than fifth.
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Stephanie Anne Calvert @stephannecalvert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
But remember that when completing a witness statement, it WILL ask "Have you ever been known by another name?"
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Stephanie Anne Calvert @stephannecalvert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
WTAF? "We're not going to criminalise people who have engaged in armed robbery because by engaging in armed robbery they will have been forced so they are victims of armed robbery"
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AVK | Wide World of Batshit @avk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Stephanie Anne Calvert @stephannecalvert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I will simply say 'Greg LeMond'. IYKYK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hyrox apologises for allowing race to continue after athlete soils herself
Some raised concerns around hygiene while others praised the competitor's resolve to finish the race and push through adversity.
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