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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/03/2026

"In a UK survey of over 4,000 trans people, TransActual found that 99% say media coverage has harmed their mental health, 99% have heard politicians express transphobic views, and many have been refused non-transition healthcare simply for being trans." transactual.org.uk/trans-lives-...

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Trans Lives 2025: Continuing to endure the UK’s hostile environment – TransActual

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

She seems fine. I’m glad Labour is fighting this from something closer to the Greens than Reform. She’s still a Labour candidate. People still have lost their trust in Labour. I can’t see why anyone should choose this candidate in Gorton over Hannah Spencer 💚

Labour’s candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election, Angeliki Stogia, has spent the last 12 years campaigning for good homes, better transport and a greener Manchester.

Now she’s running to unite Gorton and Denton and stand up to Reform.�

Vote Labour on Thursday 26 February.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The Epstein Files ought to comprise the easiest political case against the billionaire class ever conceived. Any politician who supports policies favouring the ultra-wealthy should never be able to escape this association.

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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 17/01/2026

btw i have no idea why ministers are telling starmer to fire streeting but i agree with them. he should never have been given a cabinet position to begin with. he shouldn't be a frontline politician at all.

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TransForum UK (they/them) @transforumuk.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

This is absolutely hilarious. He has abandoned his principles but his voters haven't ... so they're abandoning HIM.

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

🚨 NEW | Starmer set to lose seat to Greens 🟢 GRN: 32% (+22) 🔴 LAB: 26% (-23) ➡️ REF: 18% (+12) 🔵 CON: 7% (=) 🟠 LD: 5% (=) 🟥 YRP: 2% (-17)* MRP estimate via @ElectCalculus, 1-8 Dec

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Laura Del Col Brown (she/they) @lauradelcolbrown.com · 13/05/2025

Decided to write to all the London attractions In a Friend/Member of and ask for assurances they won't treat trans visitors unfavourably in future. Natural History Museum are first to respond

Dear Laura

Thank you for getting in touch and sharing your concerns with us. We understand that the recent ruling and subsequent guidance have caused uncertainty and concern for many.

Please be assured that the Natural History Museum is committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for all. We are currently reviewing the implications of the recent Supreme Court ruling and awaiting further clarification and industry specific guidance.

We appreciate your support and your advocacy for inclusivity, and we want to reassure you that our commitment to treating all our visitors with dignity and respect remains unchanged.

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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"So to ensure that everyone feels respected and supported during their visit, we provide gender-neutral, accessible toilets across the Gardens" I'm nonbinary, and I have never felt less respected and supported than when you use gender neutral toilets to segregate binary trans people.

In line with the interim guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and to comply with the Equality Act, our single-sex facilities are provided on the basis of biological sex. We appreciate that this may be upsetting, particularly for those who wish to use facilities that reflect their gender identity.

So to ensure that everyone feels respected and supported during their visit, we provide gender-neutral, accessible toilets across the Gardens (separate from the male and female designated toilets). Their locations are listed below.

Victoria Plaza
Palm House Pond
Ruined Arch
Temperate House
Brentford Gate
Kew Palace
Orangery
Family Kitchen
Pavilion Bar & Grill

In addition, the toilets inside the Botanical Bar & Brasserie are all gender-neutral.

Thank you for sharing your concerns, and we look forward to welcoming you to the Gardens again soon.

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 14/05/2025

🏳️‍⚧️ "They will not win because, for all these reasons and more, they cannot win. Ultimately, even if everyone else wants to let them, we will not." www.wearequeeraf.com/how-did-this-s…

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How did this Supreme Court ruling happen? A brief history of how Great Britain became Terf Island

How the UK anti-trans machine turned the UK from a place of hope for the Trans+ community, to hate

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 14/05/2025

This reads like more evidence that the interim EHRC guidance was drawn up by Kishwer Falkner and cronies, without input from neutral expert staffers. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

They said: “Most people, including some fairly senior ones, had no idea the interim guidance was coming until it was published late on the Friday evening.

“They woke up to texts from family members and friends saying: ‘What’s going on?’ Staff working on sex and gender issues hadn’t been told, and nor had the duty press staff who were meant to explain it to the media. It was completely shambolic.

“This is, understandably, a fairly inclusive workplace and quite a few staff have trans friends or even partners. They suddenly had to try and explain this guidance which made no sense.

“The pushback has been really strong. Some stakeholders are saying they can no longer work with us. Loads of staff say they’re looking for other jobs. The approach from the chair and senior leadership has been really secretive and paranoid.”

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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Now THIS is how you do a response statement.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

For cis allies; something you can do to support trans people… A list of suggestions from @annehealthcare.bsky.social

Cis-allies: Now’s the time to step up 📢

If you’re feeling helpless after the UK Supreme Court ruling and the EURC’s response, here’s 5 practical steps you can take to support the trans community right now:

1️⃣ Tell your MP you oppose the ruling and anti-trans guidance — use a template, personalise it, and hit send.

2️⃣ Stay informed, avoid media spin, and learn the facts from trusted, trans-led sources.

3️⃣ Support legal funds and healthcare access for trans people.

4️⃣ Make your support public — show up, speak up, and wear your allyship proudly.

5️⃣ Challenge transphobia when it’s safe to do so — silence helps no one.

There are plenty more things you can do to help - attend protests and marches, have those awkward conversations with your colleagues, friends, family - but these are a starting point.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 14/05/2025

I'm suing the EHRC. “Akua Reindorf KC, was overheard in the Supreme Court building plotting with activists from other hate groups about the next steps to take once the judgment was delivered. This is one of the factual grounds for the challenge.” open.substack.com/pub/ashleeee...

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I'm suing the EHRC.

Anti-trans interim guidance challenged

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/05/2025

1. The organization TGEU (Transgender Europe) has just released their annual transgender rights map. “For the first time in its 13-year history, setbacks in human rights of trans people now clearly outweigh progress" The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Europe’s Latest Trans Rights Map Shows Unprecedented Regression

“For the first time in its 13-year history, setbacks in human rights of trans people across Europe and Central Asia now clearly outweigh progress.”

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This is worth noting; the EHRC has form. It has previously produced “guidance” that, like their current“interim” hogwash, was ignored by everyone.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 11/04/2025

Another day, another needing to say "The young men who buy into Andrew Tate's bullshit are not victims but perpetrators of the rape culture he sells them". I think there's an argument to be made that they are often victims of some kind of fraud/con artistry/grift. But not victims of the misogyny.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/02/2025

I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe. She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today. RIP Elisa.

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Vet found hanging draped in trans flag

The suicide letter they won't publish

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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 11/11/2024

Until now, the consensus on X has been that it is a necessary evil for anyone in politics. But I know my presence on X no longer benefits my role or the people I seek to serve. So I have left, for good. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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X under Musk is like a toxic partner, MP says in ‘break-up letter’

Labour’s Sarah Owen has joined a list of MPs leaving Elon Musk’s platform over its rise in misogyny, threats and intimidation

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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 14/02/2025

LGBTQ+ people are some of the strongest I know. They aren't 'snowflakes' for asking to be treated with dignity in public life. This LGBT+ history month, I asked for a timeline on: ➡A full trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban ➡making anti-LGBT hate crime an aggravated offence ➡Reforming the GRA

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Progress isn't inevitable - we need to fight for LGBTQ+ rights | Sarah Owen MP

YouTube video by Sarah Owen MP

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

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Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher

Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

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LeaveTransKidsAlone @transkidsrule.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Me too. Early on when you don’t know where to turn for support. But most parents do enough research and have their children’s best interests at heart to see through this eventually. It’s just the transphobic ones who stay to listen further. And Wes Streeting 😡

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 01/02/2025

🚨 Revealed: Wes Streeting met with and expressed sympathy for pro-conversion therapy parents group Bayswater Earlier this year, an investigation exposed how the parents in the group conduct abuse towards their children. This is what we've uncovered 🧵👇

Screenshot of QueerAF news article with headline: Revealed: Streeting met with and expressed sympathy for pro-conversion therapy parents group Bayswater and screenshot of Wes Streeting speaking on the video footage QueerAF has obtained

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

An important thread ⬇️ If I’d found Bayswater, I could have been easily drawn in, by its carefully crafted language, which affirms parental desires over those of the child, whilst claiming to have the children’s interests at heart. It’s a support group for transphobic parents. Nothing more. 1/2

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The political conditions to erase trans people did not just appear. Social anxieties about transition, fears about “trans predators,” and hostilities towards gender fluidity cultivated a climate that degrades trans life. Transphobia dressed up as “legitimate concern” led us to such violent politics.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

A reminder: LGBT folks aren’t an “ideology” or “agenda.” We’re people. Some of us are talented. Some of us are nice. Some of us are weird. Some of us are annoying. Some of us do bad things. But we all deserve to thrive in a society that doesn’t force us to justify our existence or debate our rights.

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I urge the UK Labour Govt to remember the foundations of solidarity against all oppression, as epitomised by all the LGBT people who supported the miners in the 1980s. Trans people need that solidarity now. Lift the block on gender recognition reform! www.thenational.scot...

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Greens urge Labour Government to lift block on Scottish gender bill

THE Scottish Greens have called on the UK Government to remove the block on Scotland’s gender reforms ...

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Today marks the start of LGBT+ History Month. LGBTQIA+ rights were won through decades of activism, solidarity & struggle. We must remember this & continue to stand in solidarity with community members. Human rights are non-negotiable. We must not let those who seek to divide & marginalise succeed!

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A trusted source tells me the Labour government is quietly working with a handful of handpicked LGB organisations on a so-called "conversion therapy" ban Labour has already shown it’s willing to throw Trans+ people under the bus, and this bill will likely do the same for *all* LGBTIQA+ folk 1/

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transmetalmum.bsky.social @transmetalmum.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

GP's are getting away with saying they can't prescribe HRT to trans patients because they're not suitably trained. This is blatant discrimination. On the other hand, Cass/Streeting get away with ensuring that trans kids get no medication and neither are trained in that field. Get the picture??

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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

To the “reasonable concerns” wankers who think we should concede to transphobes on sports because it’s “too complicated”, this is what sports bans lead to.

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Heather Herbert is Baking Bread. @heatherherbert.uk · 15/01/2025

"This government remains steadfast in its dedication to protecting and listening to LGBT+ people. The Secretary of State has taken steps to build bridges with the LGBT+ community and stakeholders " Bollocks is it, and Bollocks has he

Dear Heather Herbert,

The Government has responded to the petition you signed – “An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services”.

Government responded:

The Government and NHS England are fully committed to implementing all recommendations from the independent and evidence based Cass Review. We do not support an independent evaluation of the Review.

The Independent Review of gender identity services for children and young people (the Cass Review) was a comprehensive and independent review commissioned by NHS England to make recommendations on how to improve NHS gender identity services for children and young people. The government and NHS England have made a clear commitment to implement its 32 recommendations in full.

The Cass Review is robust, evidence-based, and the most comprehensive assessment of gender incongruence in children and young people that has been produced to date. It was underpinned by a systematic review conducted by the University of York and a programme of proactive engagement. Dr Cass’ team engaged with over 1000 individuals and organisations across the breadth of opinion on this subject including trans, gender questioning young people, as well as support and advocacy groups.

Dr Cass’ team have been transparent around the methodology used throughout the Review and have made this information publicly available on the Cass Review website. The link to access the peer-reviewed systematic evidence reviews that informed the report and recommendations is available here: https://adc.bmj.com/pages/gender-identity-service-series.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 15/01/2025

Uk government is fully committed to killing trans people. Please keep sharing this petition! 🏳️‍⚧️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Government responded
This response was given on 14 January 2025

The Government and NHS England are fully committed to implementing all recommendations from the independent and evidence based Cass Review. We do not support an independent evaluation of the Review.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

So concerned about women in sport and an entirely made up threat to women in sport that they’ve decided to inspect the genitals of all women in sport

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is going to deter thousands of women and girls from taking part in sport. Far, far in excess of the number of trans women it will affect.

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phantasmAgaric 🍄 @lalonde.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

the role of TERFs is to launder transmisogyny with a veneer of progressivism, to provide an easily defensible bailey against trans liberationary arguments. it is not a mass position and 99% of the people using these arguments don't believe them

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 15/01/2025

🎵 Trans+ figures like Wendy Carlos not only defined the genre but were also instrumental in developing the modern synthesizer. Without her, we wouldn't have electronic music like we do today www.wearequeeraf.com/im-so-gratef...

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I'm so grateful to this trans woman for pioneering electronic music

Without Wendy Carlos, electronic music would have taken a vastly different shape. Working with Robert Moog, she changed the course of electronic music

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LGBT Foundation @lgbtfdn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Make a direct impact on LGBTQ+ lives – become a Helpline volunteer today! ☎️💫 Our helpline is at the core of what we do, offering a safe place for callers to reach out when they need support, are looking for resources, or simply want to chat. Learn more and apply at lgbt.foundation/vacancy/help...

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