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Fiona Sian
@fionasian.bsky.social
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Photographer, Company Director, Person. I thought this was a passing phase. In 1973. 🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺
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marcusjdl.bsky.social
You’d never know this was what was decided as part of that tribunal ruling…
But Ms Peggie's claims of discrimination and victimisation by NHS Fife did not succeed and were dismissed. • The tribunal also dismissed the claims which were made against Dr Upton.
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
fionasian.bsky.social
The other elephant in the room on the Peggie case.
Why the focus on Scotland?
December 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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talking-upscotland.bsky.social
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/09/i...
Ingrained cultural bias in Scottish media that disadvantages the independence movement
Professor John Robertson OBA In my previous post, Grok AI, correctly I feel, suggested that the above reporting was not a hit job and agreed that it was mostly cultural within Scotland’s medi…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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sophiemolly.co.uk
Conversion practice is alive and (un)well in the UK.
stephaniejane.bsky.social Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 4h
“and a school therapist told Ruby's mum she must have "made" Ruby trans by hoping for a girl during pregnancy. Her advice was to start forcing Ruby into "boys' clothing" to restore authority.”

Let’s go back to a 16th century way of thinking. And while we’re at it, let’s violently oppress the child.
sophiemolly.co.uk Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 5h
Of course they put this behind a pay wall.

“There are moments when I catch myself wishing she would just discover she wants to live as a boy,” says Ruby’s mum, “not because I doubt her identity but because I fear for her future in the UK."

Please share.

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December 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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lesleymcdowell.bsky.social
I've only seen The Herald report it accurately: www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2568...
'Dr Beth Upton is the real winner in the Sandie Peggie tribunal ruling'
NHS Fife’s handling of the dispute between Peggie and Dr Upton was an absolute dumpster fire but Dr Beth Upton should have cause to celebrate.
www.heraldscotland.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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johnlees.bsky.social
When are we to expect newspaper front-page interview features with Dr. Beth Upton about her two-year ordeal of having her right to anonymity removed and her name dragged through the mud and being decried as a sexual predator only for a tribunal to clear her and find SHE was discriminated against?
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
After reviewing all documents relied upon by Sex Matters the Peggie judgement was clear:

“There is very far from sufficient reliable evidence to establish as a fact that a trans woman… is a greater risk… within a changing room environment.”
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
The Tribunal’s findings on Sex Matters and Forstater are crystal clear:

• Not skilled evidence
• Not expert
• Not impartial
• Not reliable
• Polemic rather than evidence
• Material that could not support findings of fact

So why are UK news media & politicians listening to them!!??
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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bylines.scot
Two years of misery for two women show the damage done when moral panic overwhelms common sense in workplace matters | Jennie Kermode

@jenniekermode.bsky.social
Beth Upton exonerated, NHS Fife found guilty of harassment
Two years of misery for two women show the damage done when moral panic overwhelms common sense in workplace matters
bylines.scot
December 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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goodlawproject.org
An important point to come out of the Sandie Peggie case is that 'gender critical' employees can't take matters into their own hands and confront trans employees. If they do that it is likely to be harassment/ bullying/ a hate incident.
So far as her other comments are concerned, they were impermissible manifestations of her belief and were in our view what amounted to an incident of harassment by the claimant of the second respondent related to the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, reasonably perceived by the second respondent to be so, and were a breach by the claimant of section 26 of the Act and of the Bullying and Harassment Policy. The second respondent was entitled to view the actions of the claimant in those particular regards as being such harassment, or as a “hate incident” within the policy, and the first respondent was entitled in principle to act on the complaint made, but the detail of how it did so depends on all the circumstances as more fully addressed below. The second respondent was also entitled to regard the claimant’s actions as a breach of the second respondent’s Article 8 rights, so far as the claimant’s expression of her beliefs was impermissible. 1034. We also considered that the claimant had acted deliberately to be able to challenge the second respondent whilst they were alone. What she did was to wait until other members of staff had left the changing room, and for the second respondent to leave the cubicle, before raising her own beliefs directly with the second respondent in the manner we have set out. 1035. Whilst the claimant had not been informed as promptly and in the detail we considered appropriate, and the first respondent did not consider whether to revoke permission at all, the claimant did not herself raise any formal grievance under the policy. She is an experienced member of staff who had access to union advice. She knew, or ought reasonably to have known, that the first respondent having granted permission to the second respondent she required to have raised her concerns with the first respondent as the decision-maker rather than with the colleague to whom it had been granted, and in any event ought not to have done so in the manner that she did.
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Finland ended homelessness with a housing first strategy that gave people apartments before they secured employment

Now they’re proposing a 4 day work week and 6 hour work days

True work life balance

Meanwhile in the US, people work two jobs and can’t afford food or healthcare.
December 8, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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talking-upscotland.bsky.social
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‘Scottish’ Daily Express front page claim on grooming gangs loophole applies ONLY in England where things are less strict
John Robertson OBA The ‘Scottish’ Daily Express front page claim that ‘unregistered emergency carers are able to operate on a short-term basis with no regulatory oversight due to …
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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talking-upscotland.bsky.social
Reposted to counter BBC Scotland's stop and search panic:
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/19/a...
As Teachers’ Union estimates 30 000 violent incidents involving a pupil attacking a teacher with a weapon in England’s schools how knife possession in Scottish schools has plummeted
Professor John Robertson OBA In the Mail today: Teachers are quitting the profession en-masse, as they battle impossible workloads, toxic work environments, a ‘broken’ Special Education…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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kirsty-mctear.bsky.social
But the wierdo “Gender Criticals” don‘t want to talk about this…

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY, Especially to transphobes.

www.planetrans.org/2025/04/anti....
Anti-Trans Activist Nicola Murray Found Guilty of Child Abuse
Nicola Murray who benefited monetarily from Scotland's "Let Women Speak" was found guilty of child abuse and listed as a child predator.
www.planetrans.org
December 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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resolutionfoundation.org
🚨New research published today🚨

Reforms to Scottish disability payments suggest that the system can be kinder without being costlier.

Full story 👉 buff.ly/OAMzq06
Quote graphic Louise Murphy, Senior Economist at the Resolution Foundation said: “The recent reform of adult disability benefits in Scotland offers valuable lessons to policy makers in the rest of the UK. Although eligibility and rates of pay for this type of support are consistent across the UK, the new application process has been welcomed by claimants as granting them greater dignity than before. “After an initial ‘bedding-in’ period when applications and awards spiked, award rates are now slightly lower in Scotland than in England and Wales, as are the number of awards paid at a more generous enhanced level. “With the Timms Review due to recommend reforms to PIP in 2026, the recent changes in Scotland suggest that reforms which provide claimants with more dignity don’t necessarily result in significantly higher costs for Government
December 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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theabigailthorn.bsky.social
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A table of many big tech companies like Etsy, Microsoft, Twitch, YouTube etc with their revenue per employee listed. That’s how much money the company takes in divided by the number of *salaried* employees. At the top is the only British company on the list, OnlyFans, with $37.6m per employee in 2024
December 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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mc00.bsky.social
Reform UK are running a “cash for access scheme in all but name”, a senior SNP MP has alleged after they launched a £10,000-per-year membership which comes with exclusive access to party leadership.
www.thenational.scot/news/2567713...
'Cash for access' row as Reform UK open 'exclusive' £10k membership club
REFORM UK are running a “cash for access scheme in all but name”, a senior SNP MP has alleged ...
www.thenational.scot
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
Puberty blockers have only ever been recommended to be taken for 2-3 years. For a young person who started taking them at 12, the NHS is forcing trans kids to stay on them for over SIX YEARS!!! 😖

This is MEDICALLY NEGLIGENT and will absolutely have negative physical & mental side effects! 😣😤
fiercemum.bsky.social Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 1d
We are hearing that those few who were on NHS GIDS prescribed puberty blockers before GIDS closed, who were transferred to a small legacy clinic at Nottingham, are now being told all referrals for MDT panel approval to start hormones have been stopped. 1/2
December 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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robinmoirawhite.bsky.social
Britain was backward in 2002 before Goodwin and the 2004 GRA. FWS in the Supreme Court has turned the clock back 23 years and confirmed Britain’s ‘banana republic’ status as far as the rights of transgender folk are concerned.
December 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
'This is an issue for everyone' – cyclists urged to join solidarity rides with trans community after exclusion from Cycling UK list

Three rides will take place in Bristol, Edinburgh and London on 14 December 👏🏻💕🚲

www.cyclingweekly.com/news/this-is...
'This is an issue for everyone' – cyclists urged to join solidarity rides with trans community after exclusion from Cycling UK list
Three rides will take place in Bristol, Edinburgh and London on 14 December
www.cyclingweekly.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
fionasian.bsky.social
And now it’s hoovering up all NHS England’s data. Streeting could have stopped this, but he and the rest of Labour are in thrall to the tech bros.
Why else would they still be developing policy by Twitter trend?
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d
Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data.

It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1
The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
Robert Reich
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December 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data.

It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1
The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
Robert Reich
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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goodlawproject.org
This is NOT FUNNY AT ALL (giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...).
A Reform UK councillor’s business has been handed a £40,000 fine after the company was found to have hired someone without the legal right to work in the UK.
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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hleehurley.com
They're going to find it much harder to Cass their way to an adhd ban, but they're going to give it a go anyway.

Once again, overplaying their hand. Far more people with kids with adhd than with trans kids.

This will hopefully show more people who they really are
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
pete_wharmby_books & ••• HADLEY FREEMAN Wes Streeting must stand up to the ADHD activists I can help with the minister's review: some people are just confused by life Hadley Freeman pete_wharmby_books Ah, as expected the right wing press (and Freeman's pipeline from the Guardian op-Ed pages to the Times is worth looking into) is now piling on, suggesting that these scary ADHD activists are just trying to ruin things for everyone. Not, like, try to improve people's self esteem and sense of what is going on. 2025 is so horrifyingly, predictably *boring*
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM