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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 28/05/2026

The TERF movement has been going for decades and the GC movement has been funded by multiple billionaires for over a decade and they STILL haven't come up with a biological definition of female that includes all cis women and excludes all trans women. Maybe that alone should tell you something

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people. This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists. The study underpinning this played one particular trick. Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Trans healthcare needs to be led by trans people, to be accountable to trans communities and trans youth. Folks who don't believe in the existence of a trans child cannot continue to hold the reins of healthcare policy and governance. This is where we start.

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 16/02/2026

Their "student experience" was adversely affected by the pandemic emergency? Everyone's fucking life experience was adversely affected, and millions died. The rhetoric of this being a customer service dispute is offensive.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/02/2026

The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth. goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...

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New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project

A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Re-upping this again, because it’s a great take-down of the restrictive transphobic “data” activism.

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Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Solidarity with my colleagues who are experiencing this - as the leaflets we handed out to students on the picket lines said - when you go on strike you lose your wage because you stop working. It's ridiculous to have to make up the work you've already lost pay for 😡

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Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Piloting the methods tonight. I'm all about the quants now

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cornish person girl @gemma.transwrites.world · 03/12/2025

just for anyone who lost track; The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.

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Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Lost for words at where we are, the absolute cruelty

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Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I just bought myself a drumkit 🫨

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The message on IG from Alice (posted by her friend Sandy Ho). As always, Alice blazes a path for the rest of us, fearlessly & with humor: "I'm honored to be your ancestor & believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."

Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."

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Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Incredibly sad to hear of the death of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. I was always amazed by her generosity in our (small) interactions, and I've got a lot from her writing. Rest in power, what a force.

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Tọ́pẹ́ @graceishuman.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

There are people you never have the honor of knowing but you feel the ripple effects of their person and their work from the folks who have met them. Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.

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Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Missing being with these beauties on the picket line ✊️

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Solidarity with SHU UCU on strike. I’m on a research project based there just now and the loss of so many Professional Services staff is acutely noticeable. It’s inexplicable to treat a sector that brings so much to the UK as disposable and its staff as if they aren’t people. Stop it.

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Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I'm off sick at the moment so not able to strike, but so grateful to all my colleagues on the picket lines ✊️

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n

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Sheffield Transformed @sheffieldtransformed.org · 02/11/2025

SUPPORT US AND CELEBRATE YORKSHIRE! We teamed up with Black Lodge Press last year to pay homage to The People's Republic of South Yorkshire. Celebrate South Yorkshire's history of radicalism with these iconic designs: buff.ly/ugjHqKQ

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Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Been having a pretty grim mental health time, but was at least reassured to see an old faded rainbow zebra crossing to welcome all the mad queers into the psych assessment unit (regrets at not taking a photo)

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.eurosky.social · 25/10/2025

No scabbing, please. Support your striking library workers.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The man in the queue behind me said Oh excuse me miss, you dropped ---- and then we both stared at the conker I'd dropped on the ground And he said Umm --- And I said Oh! My conker! :(

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

UNISON members who support LGBTIQ+ people may want to actively oppose their union on this one.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 28/08/2025

I can't emphasise enough that putting this question front and centre as a mandatory requirement, acts largely as a deterrent to accessing healthcare for trans people.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 28/08/2025

111/NHS direct is a joke. Having to misgender yourself to the people there for no reason is outright humiliating. It's designed to put trans people off reaching out for healthcare support. There were years of surveys that worked on finding respectful ways to gather this information, disregarded.

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111 online

What was your sex at birth?

Female

Male

This online triage depends on knowing your registered sex at birth, not your gender identity.

If you are doing this for someone else, tell us their sex at birth if you know.

We need to know this information so we can ask relevant clinical questions.

If you feel uncomfortable giving this information, or do not see an option that represents you correctly, you can call 111 to talk to a nurse.

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Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Love that both the local outdoor swimming group and local cycling group I'm in are both now just full of transphobic debate

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Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Little joy today - dug into the heap of stuff I've been piling up in the garden for the last three years and found compost (and lots of woodlice)

A big builders 'dumpy' bag full of compost with two gardening gloves at the top

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Marty Hades 🔥💀 @smartypantsmarty.com · 30/07/2025

And here’s something you can do to voice your opposition to the RSHE guidance. We must stop it being implemented as it is in September 2026. Tell the government it must be revised. Sign and share 👇 openletter.earth/the-urgent-n...

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The Urgent Need to Revise the RSHE 2026 Guidance and Centre Trans, Non-Binary, Intersex, Asexual and Gender Non-Conforming Voices

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Eli Erlick @elierlick.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This is the end result of anti-trans bigotry: more harassment of girls and women, more policing of gender roles, more gender McCarthyism.

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Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

So we're promised new trans schools guidance over summer which us unlikely to go well. We've got new rse guidance which is gonna make schools too scared to discuss anything trans anyway. How's this actually gonna work in practice?

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 15/07/2025

Clause 72 in particular is functionally identical to Clause 28 of the Local Government Act in 1988: "[S]chools... should avoid materials that... could be interpreted as being aimed at younger children, or that... encourage pupils to question their gender."

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Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

A rat casually sauntered past us in the garden last night so I googled 'rat in garden' and now have too mucn rat empathy

Rats are 'neo-phobic', which means they have a fear of new things. They don't like disruption to their territory, so place obstacles in their runs and move things around in the garden frequently

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Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Amazing how even comments under local reporting about the hosepipe ban manage to be transphobic

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Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

LinkedIn really is the place where souls go to die

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Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Putting away some washing & noticed my three frog/toad t-shirts side by side, making both current me & 8YO me very happy

Three frog tshirts:

Tiedye blue pink and white with a skateboarding toad and text saying 'live laugh toad'

A white t-shirt with three fairy frogs with wings

A white t-shirt with a frog with a megaphone saying fight for trans youth

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

If you’re free from pain and gifted with energy, ask how you can help share some of the load. Email your MP! Use a subject banner e.g. ‘Please VOTE AGAINST the Welfare Bill’ as this close, MP offices will likely scan the inbox. Ask friends in Labour seats to do same. Your help matters. 2/2

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Fuck you BBC. How dare you conflate the IDF with Jews. You antisemitic pieces of shit.

BBC statement on Glastonbury 2025

"Millions of people tuned in to enjoy Glastonbury this weekend across the BBC's output but one performance within our livestreams included comments that were deeply offensive. The BBC respects freedom of expression but stands firmly against incitement to violence. The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable and have no place on our airwaves. We welcome Glastonbury’s condemnation of the performance.

"The performance was part of a live stream of the West Holts stage on BBC iPlayer. The judgment on Saturday to issue a warning on screen while streaming online was in line with our editorial guidelines. In addition, we took the decision not to make the performance available on demand. The team were dealing with a live situation but with hindsight we should have pulled the stream during the performance. We regret this did not happen.

"In light of this weekend, we will look at our guidance around live events so we can be sure teams are clear on when it is acceptable to keep output on air."

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