Ashleigh Talbot 🏳️⚧️
@ashleigh.whatthetrans.com
Trans, femme, co-founder of @whatthetrans.com, fighter of MS, wheelchair user, player of TTRPG's, Lego enthusiast, solarpunk devotee, bassist and theremin player. she/her. And now as of June 2025, member of the Green Party! 🟩♻️💚
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A life on the progressive side
This candid three-part podcast series is hosted by Ashleigh Talbot, a musician from Manchester diagnosed with primary progressive MS in 2022.
www.mssociety.org.uk
All three episodes of my mini podcast with the MS Society are available here, for your perusal :) www.mssociety.org.uk/support-and-...
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Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
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It was always inevitable that the loudest and best-funded (by people in Epstein's emails) anti-trans freaks who spent years trying to brand trans people as sexual predators, would instantly start defending Epstein.
It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.
It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 AM
It was always inevitable that the loudest and best-funded (by people in Epstein's emails) anti-trans freaks who spent years trying to brand trans people as sexual predators, would instantly start defending Epstein.
It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.
It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.
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Yknow thinking more about MPs championing the no phones in schools thing in Brianna Ghey’s name just how arrogant you gotta be as a cis person not to wonder where all the trans people endorsing your project are at named after a girl murdered for being trans
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Yknow thinking more about MPs championing the no phones in schools thing in Brianna Ghey’s name just how arrogant you gotta be as a cis person not to wonder where all the trans people endorsing your project are at named after a girl murdered for being trans
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QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
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Says the dude swimming in donations - or are they investments - from private healthcare interests. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike
Health secretary accuses doctors’ union of ‘cartel-like behaviour’ and tells it to ‘get real’ over pay demands
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Says the dude swimming in donations - or are they investments - from private healthcare interests. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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If you look at the internet while at school, you are substantially more likely to magically become trans. Didn't you know? These ideas only manifest during school hours. We could have saved Breanna if she just had a pouch around her phone during the daylight hours.
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
If you look at the internet while at school, you are substantially more likely to magically become trans. Didn't you know? These ideas only manifest during school hours. We could have saved Breanna if she just had a pouch around her phone during the daylight hours.
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People in the UK aren't getting transphobia from weird niche online communities.
They're getting it from the prime minister, the BBC, politicians and the newspapers in every newsagents in the country.
They're getting it from the prime minister, the BBC, politicians and the newspapers in every newsagents in the country.
when this piece of shit is asked what good phone pouches are supposed to do, shs responds glibly about online radicalisation. where else would children learn to be transphobic in the tolerant UK, after all? ridiculous
On Brianna's 19th birthday, this morning I joined @cheshirepcc.bsky.social and the Brianna Ghey Legacy Project Phone Free Education campaign at the launch at Jodrell Bank of a new £150k initiative to make Cheshire the first county in the UK where ALL state high schools have lockable phone pouches.
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
People in the UK aren't getting transphobia from weird niche online communities.
They're getting it from the prime minister, the BBC, politicians and the newspapers in every newsagents in the country.
They're getting it from the prime minister, the BBC, politicians and the newspapers in every newsagents in the country.
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In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
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oh the bbc is getting its face eaten by leopards? man that's so weird if only they hadn't spent the last decades opening the leopard enclosures
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
oh the bbc is getting its face eaten by leopards? man that's so weird if only they hadn't spent the last decades opening the leopard enclosures
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Maitlis, like all of the freaks on this programme, are too stupid (and egotistical) for their own good. An outcome where ‘this will close the only healthcare facility doing this’ is not really not worth the story.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Maitlis, like all of the freaks on this programme, are too stupid (and egotistical) for their own good. An outcome where ‘this will close the only healthcare facility doing this’ is not really not worth the story.
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Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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You’re going to have to start calling them fascists lads, it’s what they are and they aren’t even embarrassed about it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
You’re going to have to start calling them fascists lads, it’s what they are and they aren’t even embarrassed about it.
They're welcome to keep believing this if they like, but it's going to lose them the next election.
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
They're welcome to keep believing this if they like, but it's going to lose them the next election.
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My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
Astro-TERFs - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
In the backlash against trans rights in the UK since the late 2010s,
the LGB Alliance has been implicated as a leading exponent of the new
moral panic, typified by its newspaper campaign against GRA r...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
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I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.
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Farage says leaving the ECHR is the “unfinished business" of Brexit and that the UK is "not sovereign” while we are in it.
But Farage lies. And Brexit is a shitshow. So, “finishing” it should fill us all with dread.
Sovereignty without rights is dictatorship.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
But Farage lies. And Brexit is a shitshow. So, “finishing” it should fill us all with dread.
Sovereignty without rights is dictatorship.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Leaving the ECHR won’t stop the boats, 300 organisations warn in rallying cry
Prime minister Keir Starmer urged to make positive case for ECHR after Kemi Badenoch pledged a Tory government would leave the treaty
www.independent.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Farage says leaving the ECHR is the “unfinished business" of Brexit and that the UK is "not sovereign” while we are in it.
But Farage lies. And Brexit is a shitshow. So, “finishing” it should fill us all with dread.
Sovereignty without rights is dictatorship.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
But Farage lies. And Brexit is a shitshow. So, “finishing” it should fill us all with dread.
Sovereignty without rights is dictatorship.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
It kind of feels like Zarah Sultana is the one and only member of Your Party who isn't a committed transphobe.
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It kind of feels like Zarah Sultana is the one and only member of Your Party who isn't a committed transphobe.
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Sure, but the problem here isn’t a failure of understanding: it’s that the people in charge are very cranky right wing reactionaries who despise those people, and would rather crash the bus again and again than ever seriously court their approval.
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Sure, but the problem here isn’t a failure of understanding: it’s that the people in charge are very cranky right wing reactionaries who despise those people, and would rather crash the bus again and again than ever seriously court their approval.
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Normalise calling people who are obsessed with bringing trans people up in every argument “weirdos” and “perverts” instead of debating them
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Normalise calling people who are obsessed with bringing trans people up in every argument “weirdos” and “perverts” instead of debating them
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The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots…
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
November 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots…
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
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News in that children are now being prescribed weight loss jabs on the NHS.
@wesstreetingmp.bsky.social
Where are the trials for the use of these experimental drugs in children? How do you know it’s safe?
📢 SHOW US THE EVIDENCE 📢
All so utterly predictable and fucked up.
Here we go again ✍️
@wesstreetingmp.bsky.social
Where are the trials for the use of these experimental drugs in children? How do you know it’s safe?
📢 SHOW US THE EVIDENCE 📢
All so utterly predictable and fucked up.
Here we go again ✍️
November 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
News in that children are now being prescribed weight loss jabs on the NHS.
@wesstreetingmp.bsky.social
Where are the trials for the use of these experimental drugs in children? How do you know it’s safe?
📢 SHOW US THE EVIDENCE 📢
All so utterly predictable and fucked up.
Here we go again ✍️
@wesstreetingmp.bsky.social
Where are the trials for the use of these experimental drugs in children? How do you know it’s safe?
📢 SHOW US THE EVIDENCE 📢
All so utterly predictable and fucked up.
Here we go again ✍️
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i can’t believe marina elizabeth catherine dudley-williams, daughter of sir alastair edgcumbe james dudley-williams – 2nd baronet, is in favour of the class system.
I see Marina Hyde has done one of her zingers about the royal family's paedophile problem, which concludes with "oh but the gossip"
November 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
i can’t believe marina elizabeth catherine dudley-williams, daughter of sir alastair edgcumbe james dudley-williams – 2nd baronet, is in favour of the class system.
Blessed Samhain, y'all.
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Blessed Samhain, y'all.