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So why are a Labour government peddling lies about trans people to deny them healthcare? Pot. Kettle.

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Dr Paul Martin of @lgbtfdn.bsky.social says people will “pay the price” for the EHRC Code of Practice, which is now in force. 🎥 Watch the full panel now on our YouTube www.youtube.com/@wearequeeraf

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Vera Smith @wheeera.bsky.social · 4h

I thought you ignored people who didn't dox themselves? Do I have to do what a random man tells me to? 😭

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h

Cis guy walks into a women's locker room and immediately proceeds to sexually assault women. JK Rowling: this is trans people's fault.

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Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

we are not a serious country rofl

Katie Price and MP Suella Braverman set to be chained together for C4 reality show Celebrity Handcuffed
By LAURA FOX, ASSOCIATE SHOWBUSINESS EDITOR

Published: 15:02, 5 October 2026 | Updated: 15:04, 5 October 2026

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 05/10/2026

Please don't forget about us trans people. Facing the worst attack on our rights in this country due to Labour's current transphobia. Don't forget my community. That's all I ask. Please.

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Vera Smith @wheeera.bsky.social · 4h

But not for Trans people? You are not very good at this.

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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 12h

Hey cisgender folk, I loved Harry Potter when I was younger too. I have a lot of warm nostalgia from the early days. If I can let it go, you can let it go. The cost is too great for my kind.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Welcome to #TransTuesday! Buckle up as we talk TERFs, where they come from, why they're terrible, and how if you simply watch what they do... they tell on themselves and give up the game CIS PEOPLE: send this to everyone in your life who thinks TERFs have some good points, and make 'em read it

tillystranstuesdays.com

TERFs, PART 1: ANTI-SCIENTIFIC BIGOTRY - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays

Welcome to Trans Tuesday! It’s time to talk about everyone’s least favorite acronym, that bane of compassion and acceptance and rational thought: TERFs, part 1: ANTI-SCIENTIFIC BIGOTRY. What the heck ...

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Vera Smith @wheeera.bsky.social · 5h

New paper dropped in July looking at relentless negative media coverage of trans people and the effects on their mental wellbeing Conclusion: It's another attritional force grinding trans people's mental health to dust. Go figure. Neat, very cool. 🫩

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Frontiers | Mental health impacts of anti-trans stigma on transgender people in Australia: a mixed-methods study

BackgroundAnti-trans stigma has escalated globally, yet there is limited empirical evidence examining its mental health impacts on trans populations.MethodsI...

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Vera Smith @wheeera.bsky.social · 5h

"Dox yourself so I can find you and call you slurs irl!" Says petulant man hold with a superiority complex 😭

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 19h

I prepared to fight for HRT. Five minutes later, I had a prescription. My trans friends can wait years for similar treatment. I wrote about what that contrast says about whose healthcare is treated as healthcare, and whose is treated as politics. medium.com/@heatherpate...

medium.com

Five Minutes for Me. Years for Them.

This afternoon I picked up my first prescription for HRT.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These trans people making us look like bigots for wanting to banish them tsss

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18h

You don't get much more petty than a transphobe.

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 18h

Just a reminder that Rowling is ‘comfortable’ having a rapist in the White House. All because he hates trans women as much as her.

J.K. Rowling C @jk_rowling
C...
Well, James, we had to choose between between male rapists being locked up with women and the eradication of women's single-sex spaces, even down to homeless shelters and rape crisis centres, and knowing we share a single opinion with Donald Trump. I'm comfortable with my choice.
BEG LBC V
@LBC • Apr 16, 2025
"How did you end up on the same team as the self-confessed sex offender?"
James O'Brien asks those who see trans people as a threat: "is Donald Trump your man?"

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Vera Smith @wheeera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Aight that's angry enough. CYA later bsky. 🫩

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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

all bluesky does now is make me angry. it's just x again.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tapping the sign

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Vera Smith @wheeera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I realize this is full of typos but 🤷‍♀️ Potter lawyers only* target trans people and their allies, this can and should* be seen as pinkwashing

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Vera Smith @wheeera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hey life, Ya know when I said "could this get any worse?" That was a rhetorical question... Not a challenge 🫩

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Vera Smith @wheeera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🫩... Its one of those days huh..

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Most of the UK’s neighbours have conversion therapy bans France Spain Belgium The Netherlands Germany Norway Portugal & around 30 others incl; Vietnam Argentina Canada Samoa Conversion practices are psychological & physical torture most often targeting trans children. Sonia Sodha disgusts me.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The transgenders not going quietly - how dare they

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Vera Smith @wheeera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🙄 ffs... I'm so tired of being Trans and British. Why couldn't I just pick a fight? 🫩

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/10/2026

"Transgender rights activists are spreading misinformation about guidance that protects single-sex spaces by claiming it erodes trans people’s rights, the equalities regulator has said." [Times page 2]

Trans activists ‘wrong over single-sex code’
Geraldine Scott - Assistant Political Editor
Transgender rights activists are spreading misinformation about guidance that protects single-sex spaces by claiming it erodes trans people’s rights, the equalities regulator has said.

Mary-Ann Stephenson, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said criticism of its updated code of practice had made the “real alarm” felt by trans people worse by wrongly suggesting they had lost protections or would face sex checks.

Stephenson said women had also been affected by not having access to single-sex spaces. She said: “Women who believe that their right to privacy, dignity or safety have not been properly protected deserve to have those concerns taken seriously too.”

Last week the Liberal Democrats passed a conference motion branding the code discriminatory and “unworkable”.

At Labour’s conference Joanne Thomas, the general secretary of the Usdaw union and chairwoman of Labour Unions, said the law and the EHRC code would hurt trans and nonbinary people and argued that rights had been rolled back.

Stephenson said the code did not create new law or abolish protections for transgender people.

She said: “Recognising women’s need for access to single-sex services doesn’t require us to dismiss the rights of trans people. And recognising the vulnerability of trans people doesn’t require us to dismiss women’s concerns.”

The EHRC’s code of practice came into force in August, 16 months after the Supreme Court ruled that sex in relation to the Equality Act must be defined biologically. This means single-sex lavatories, changing rooms, hospital wards and refuges must be used based on a person’s birth sex, not the gender with which they identify.

The Good Law Project, which is backing a legal challenge against the code, accused the EHRC of producing “discriminatory” and “unworkable” guidance and said service providers which followed it would be “helping to strip trans pe…

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Mary-Ann Stephenson, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said criticism of its updated code of practice had made the "real alarm" felt by trans people worse by wrongly suggesting they had lost protections or would face sex checks.” Has she read her Equality Impact Assessment?

Summary of EHRC EIA
EHRC acknowledges that there are potentially negative impacts for those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment from the updates to the Code as a result of how service providers implement
FWS.
They state that whilst this may have a negative impact on trans people with a GRC (current or future certificate holders), their view is that it is important the guidance accurately reflects the correct legal position.
EHRC note that these updates reflect the law and will facilitate a better understanding of legal obligations and entitlements. These changes aim
to mitigate the risk of unlawful discrimination or harassment by helping service providers balance the benefits, needs and impacts across potential user groups. Subsequently, this will assist providers in determining whether separate or single-sex provision meets the proportionality test. They state they sought to limit any negative effect in accessing services for those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment by advising service providers to consider alternatives and mitigations to separate and single-sex services.
OEO additional impact assessment
As set out in EHRC's ElA, the updates to the Code are expected to have a significant impact on people with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment. In addition to the concerns detailed in that EIA, there are further impacts to note as follows.
Exclusion: The updated Chapter 13 provides guidance on when it is lawful to exclude trans people from services aligned with their acquired gender (e.g. domestic violence refuges, hospital wards, and changing rooms) based on their biological sex. It also covers competitive sport which may leave trans people with access to sport. Chapter 12 also provides guidance on restricting membership to an association based on those sharing one or more protected characteristics. Some organisations such as the Women's Institute and Girl Guiding have already made the decision to restrict…

'Double exclusion': It is possible that trans people could be barred from both the space aligned with their gender (because of their sex) and the space aligned with their birth sex because of possessing the protected characteristic of gender reassignment), effectively leaving them with no service at all.
Alternative provision: While the Code states it is "unlikely to be proportionate" to leave a trans person with no service (especially for essentials like toilets), providers may lack the funding or space to offer
'third-space' or gender-neutral alternatives.
Involuntary disclosure: New guidance explains how service providers can request information about an individual's sex at birth. This may force trans people to "out" themselves in public or professional settings.
Similarly trans people have expressed concern - as in the Good Law Project litigation against EHRC - that having to use disabled toilets will
'out' them.
Policing of gender: Potential 'policing' of gender presentation, which could lead to increased harassment for trans people and cisgender people who do not conform to traditional gender stereotypes.
Safeguarding risks: Concern that excluding trans women from female services could mean they have to use male services, where they could face a disproportionate risk of violence and sexual assault (although this will depend on the nature of the service in question).
Relations between groups: The debate on single sex services and the treatment of trans people is particularly divisive at this time. The Code of Practice may exacerbate these tensions. This may be somewhat mitigated through careful communications surrounding the Code's publication.
Our assessment is therefore that the likely impacts on gender reassignment as a characteristic are negative, in relation to each of the 3 limbs of the PSED. Mitigating factors are the ability of service providers to create 'third-space' provision for trans people, and the guidance in the Code on when it is, and is not, p…

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Vera Smith @wheeera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah the Streisand effect goes brr. They already know they fucked up. Stfu and let the attention die.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/10/2026

It took like a week for him to change his mind on the "enjoy the camps" thing. All it took was people saying it to the mod team instead of trans people.

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trans people are subjected to abuse and threat every single day, and moderators are, like, ‘Meh! Suck it up!’ But the moment they are subjected to it themselves, THEN they do something about it. It’s always the cis way of throwing us scraps of protection, only when it affects them.

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The Paul of the House of Usher @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do you know how difficult it is to have a conversation with Helen Lewis and come out of it looking like the bigger dickhead?

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Vera Smith @wheeera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"I ask one thing of you, more. I ask because that is how we achieve a future of more." More friends, more conversations, more hearts turned. You can help make a future fit for the new world. 👇

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some VERY interesting information about the Labour candidate in Holborn & St Pancras who appears to have links with prominent members of JLM…

thecanary.co

Labour's Holborn candidate 'is Zionist JLM member'

Sagal Abdi-Wali has extensive links to pro-Israel Labour figures and a terrible record when it comes to Gaza and Palestine in Camden

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just rename it to the Romesh Ranganathan Broadcasting Corporation already

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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I will say it honestly and openly. The gender critical movement has long since radicalised into a Nazism-adjacent, genocidal political ideology. Put that in your fucking complaint...

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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

maybe the british government shouldn’t have spent years creating, enabling, and sustaining this black market of human trafficking

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Vera Smith @wheeera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Biting the bait fed by right wing media IS the problem. Andy is a comfy tool: easily used. The fact that he's taken any stance on it IS the problem. Appeasment doesn't work. He has done the exact same thing with trans people. He could have stfu, shut the question down and moved on. But no.. 🤷‍♀️

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Vera Smith @wheeera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

People I like and respect from the other side? The other side want me not to exist. My maximalist positions are from the fact the opposition want me not to exist. Thus - there is no one on the other side that I like and respect.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's also a trick question. The real one is: what are you going to change when that tests says "yes, trans"? Are you then going to treat them like the human they are? Protect them from abuse of shitheads like wes shitting and andy burnham? If so, why cannot you do it now?

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/10/2026

anyways, i propose that we ban everyone from saying other users should enjoy concentration camps. i think this would be a positive move towards a safer website.

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Vera Smith @wheeera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is better PR management than I've seen from basically any other party. This is not to condone the motion.

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Vera Smith @wheeera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I wish I could leave this country sooner

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