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Yes. I have a friend who has been granted asylum in CH because he was likely to be killed in his own southern-African country, as a trans man. He got indefinite leave to remain within 9 months and can start a new life.

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 9h

The Swiss give a refugee an initial decision within 48 hours. If there are no grounds for asylum, the person is deported immediately. Not perfect but fair and clear. This is a better deterrent than the system of imprisonment that the Tories brought in by default and that Reform are proposing.

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That response is so utterly tone deaf. 🧏‍♀️

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There are serious issues for Parliament to resolve, to make legal and practical gender recognition for trans people a reality again in the UK. My letter to the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission: www.sianberry.org.uk/news/monitor...

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Monitoring the impact of new guidance From The Equality and Human Rights Commission - Sian Berry MP

I have once again written to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, asking questions of how they plan to monitor the impact of their new guidance, the Code of practice for services, public function...

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 09/09/2026

The letter is excellent. 👍💚

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Sebastian Bohrn Mena @bohrn-mena.at · 07/09/2026

Er hat recht: Schluss mit der Zurückhaltung.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Someone has died after a relentless press campaign. The very least the public is entitled to is an investigation into the press’ role in these events and an independent body to review complaints against the press in the future. www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/p...

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Defensive, evasive & hypocritical: The press reaction to the death of Jason Arday

The reaction of national newspapers to the death of Professor Jason Arday has exposed a brittle defensiveness at the heart of the press, and a determination to remain outside any meaningful accountabi...

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

But… FWS defines people by their “biological” sex under UK law, and once at Strasbourg is a “UK sovereignty vs ECtHR” confrontation. I have a feeling that trans people is the hill that the UK’s membership of the ECHR dies on.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.

A network graph visualization on a dark background showing connections between various accounts. The central, highly connected node is labeled "J.K. Rowling," with lines radiating out to many other nodes color-coded by region (UK, US, etc.). A detail panel on the right displays stats for her account, including her role as "Author & commentator," an in-degree of 153, an out-degree of 84, and 14 million followers.

A scatter plot graph on a dark background comparing accounts based on "followers (log)" on the x-axis and "in-degree" on the y-axis. The data points are color-coded by region. J.K. Rowling is highlighted as a major outlier in the top right corner, possessing the highest number of followers and the highest in-degree. Other labeled points lower on the graph include various politicians, individuals, and campaign organizations.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 21/08/2026

she introduced laws that demand you harass and discriminate against any woman who you don’t think ‘looks woman enough’ @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is responsible for the rise in misogyny in the uk. she’s spent two years enabling it and writing it in to law she has made misogyny mandatory

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I didn’t know of Prof Jason Arday until the pile-on. His face was kind, beautiful, and sensitive I thought. I hope that his death brings some good, maybe a realisation of the harm that racism can do. And that many of his bullies are prominent transphobes, who should never be heard from again.

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In a further episode of “scratch a transphobe, find a racist” are we surprised that Helen Joyce Gender was part of the murderous pile-on to Jason Arday?

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Which is why the Supreme Court’s FWS was a godsend. If trans people never existed in law, then the EHRC wasn’t taking rights from us.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Quite weird to hear BBC News describe Jason Arday as “the black professor accused of plagiarism”. Is every story about a white professor going to include the relevant adjective?

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Re-upping this article, which has had a very positive response, about Burnham’s cowardice and transphobia and Labour’s attempt to avoid responsibility for the transphobic hate it is spreading. the-quiet-part.ghost.io/bully-burnha...

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Bully Burnham and what Labour doesn't want to talk about.

The EHRC Code of Practice attempting to segregate and exclude trans people from public life is now been imposed and immediately there are court cases about it all over the country, a sure sign that it...

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And the end to the awful “biological sex” dogwhistle

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 01/08/2026

i had hoped the transphobia would pause under andy burnham and @lucympowell.bsky.social and they’d jus leave us alone. that’s not happening tho is it. they’re fully intent on persecuting us forever.

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

They have an article but it says “tens of thousands” instead of 150,000, and states the FWS decision like it’s natural law. I can’t decide if it’s openly transphobic or whether the writer was trying to be supportive within the transphobic editorial rules.

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Freda Wallace She/Ra @missfreda.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

What people are beginning to realise, if they did not know already, is that Rowling is financing the whole UK "gender critical" network. It is a project she is willing to invest millions in. If there were any real journalism in this country, it would be investigated and exposed.

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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

ACTION THIS DAY… Please email @amnestyuk.bsky.social to give them your support for the list of anti-trans organizations, which they are felt under pressure to withdraw… Email: feedback@amnesty.org.uk Here are my thoughts…

Anti-trans rights list
Dear Amnesty International UK, las a trans-woman am a member of the trans community and am deeply troubled that you have seen fit under pressure to withdraw your list of anti-trans organizations. I understand that you will have felt pressure, probably financial pressure, to do so given the deep pockets and litigious
nature of the "Gender Critical" movement. However, I would point out that the trans community in the UK is under an actual genocide warning from the Lemkin Institute. For a human rights organization to fold under pressure as you have done is to follow the precedent set by civil society institutions under the third reich. You will of course understand where that ended up for the persecuted minorities under the Nazis. It is worth pointing out that the LGBTQI+ community was
persecuted first by this monstrous regime, trans people especially. I would urge you to have courage in the face if this pressure and to stand up for your principles so that a more just society can rise once more from
above the forces of darkness which are swirling around us. Trans people will only of course be the first... Remember the poem by
Martin Niemoller.
Best Regards
Kirsty McTear

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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

STATEMENT FROM THE ANNE FRANK TRUST UK… www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=... will be of interest to @jolyon.goodlawproject.org, @jessothomson.co.uk

The Anne Frank Trust UK is deeply concerned by comments made on GB News this weekend during a segment discussing London Pride, in which a guest claimed that Pride celebrates and welcomes paedophilia and bestiality alongside LGBTQ+ identities. These claims are false, harmful and promote stereotypes which are deeply dehumanising, and
should never be given a national platform. At the Anne Frank Trust UK, we educate young people to understand the causes and consequences of prejudice, and equip them with the knowledge, empathy and confidence to recognise and challenge discrimination in all its forms. Language that stereotypes, vilifies or dehumanises any group risks fuelling prejudice and undermining the
dignity that everyone deserves. We stand in solidarity with LGBTQ+ communities and with every young
person who heard these words and felt less safe as a result. We call on GB News to take responsibility for the content it broadcasts
and to uphold its obligations under Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
Dan Green
Chief Executive, Anne Frank Trust UK

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

With trans rights under attack as never before, we need to show our support for the trans community. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a

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I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 03/07/2026

Sex Matters are currently courted by the UK government and EHRC as if they were a real feminist organisation only interested in the rights of women, and at the same time they were attending that far right conference ARC alongside all the other fascist groups.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This is such an important point.

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Labour are evil on trans rights, but don’t underestimate how bottomless the pit of evil can be. Reform will have to out-Reform Labour and will be psychotically creative in their sadism.

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The apartheid regime of South Africa also talked about how giving the Black population their own space in the Bantustans helped protect their dignity and traditions. “Dignity and Respect” is what abusive regimes do.

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Screamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 24/05/2026

The linked article is long, but extraordinarily good. I highly recommend you make the time to read it. Especially if you’re *not* trans 🙂

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IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

People forget it was a CONDITION of transition that you use your true sex toilet. They have lied and lied and lied from the start. Spent millions. And because we were completely locked out by media - and the actual court itself - they had a free run. The biggest rights robbery in British history.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 24/05/2026

This. I had to swear in front of a Commissioner for Oaths that I would live fully in my new sex until death under penalty of contempt of court. (I also had to pay them to do that)

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Lisa Power @thisislisapower.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Today’s the anniversary of the passing into law of Section 28 in 1988, the first homophobic legislation in a century. Politicians and media said it was our own fault, told us to shut up and give up. We didn’t. Dont you dare give up now on trans people.

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Smazak 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 she/her @smazak.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Repost if no cunt in Whitehall gets to decide where you pee

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Sod the UK government. I’m going to pee and change where I frigging want to. I’m happy that I live in Switzerland and travel mostly to Germany. No one cares where I pee, and long may that remain so (although I am worried). But all thoughts of retiring in the UK are gone. Sod you transphobes.

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

You mean they put a polymarket bet on kitchen table futures.

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Or cut them into strips and put them into the smallest room ready for appropriate use?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The people who use these ponds want them to be trans-inclusive. Sex Matters want to tell them who they can and can not have at their own ponds. Time to see them for what they are: a bunch of mean-spirited curtain-twitching Mary Whitehouse busy-bodies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Hampstead Heath ponds to stay trans-inclusive with new upgrades

The ponds will stay trans-inclusive and will receive upgrades for more privacy for women.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

They don't find space to mention his swivel-eyed transphobia but they did find space for this - "He's also one of the most irrepressible extroverts in politics [...] belting out Robbie Williams' Angels on karaoke with the words: "I'm loving Starmer instead." #GreentitsIsACunt

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I get the feeling that Streeting wouldn’t care if the economy tanks and Farage followed him as PM… as long as Wes gets to be PM.

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I get the feeling that Streeting wouldn’t care if the economy tanks and Farage followed him as PM… as long as Wes got to be PM.

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🗳️POLL | #GE2029 with Streeting as PM: ➡️Ref: 32% (+17) 🟢Grn: 21% (+14) 🔵Con: 15% (-9) 🔴Lab: 15% (-20) 🟠Lib: 11% (-2) { Seats } ➡️Ref: 373 (+368) 🟢Grn: 101 (+97) 🟠Lib: 72 (-) 🟡SNP: 47 (+38) 🔵Con: 17 (-104) 🟩Plaid: 10 (+6) 🔴Lab: 5 (-406) Poll: @YouGov, 28 Jan 2026 x.com/LeftieStats/...

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Emma @thearidesbikes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Yes, I wondered about this. Every person without an E-ID, including every foreign cis woman, would have to use the men’s…

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