Grannies4Equality
@grannies4equal.bsky.social
Equality, human rights and human decency.
Supporting the heroic people of #Syria as they celebrate freedom & recover their country following 14 years of genocide.
Psychotherapist.
#DSGBV #FreeSyria💚 #TransRights🏳️⚧️ #SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #StopGazaGenocide
Supporting the heroic people of #Syria as they celebrate freedom & recover their country following 14 years of genocide.
Psychotherapist.
#DSGBV #FreeSyria💚 #TransRights🏳️⚧️ #SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #StopGazaGenocide
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I have created a starter pack of those who support & provide accurate information about the Syrian struggle for dignity, freedom & justice.
Please reply with those I haven't found yet, or let me know when they arrive here.
Don't forget Syria
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Please reply with those I haven't found yet, or let me know when they arrive here.
Don't forget Syria
go.bsky.app/9FkfuUb
A Community Sponsorship Group is
fundraising to meet the costs of
bringing an Afghan family
incl a child & 2 women
to Ireland
They have been
granted humanitarian visas
because of severe risk to their lives
as a result of their ethnicity & human rights work.
www.gofundme.com/manage/help-...
fundraising to meet the costs of
bringing an Afghan family
incl a child & 2 women
to Ireland
They have been
granted humanitarian visas
because of severe risk to their lives
as a result of their ethnicity & human rights work.
www.gofundme.com/manage/help-...
October 31, 2025 at 9:09 AM
A Community Sponsorship Group is
fundraising to meet the costs of
bringing an Afghan family
incl a child & 2 women
to Ireland
They have been
granted humanitarian visas
because of severe risk to their lives
as a result of their ethnicity & human rights work.
www.gofundme.com/manage/help-...
fundraising to meet the costs of
bringing an Afghan family
incl a child & 2 women
to Ireland
They have been
granted humanitarian visas
because of severe risk to their lives
as a result of their ethnicity & human rights work.
www.gofundme.com/manage/help-...
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PLUS:
Energy company TAQA has SLAPP-ed a former employee after he refused to participate in practices he believed violated labour and immigration law.
Their cease-and-desist letter sought to prohibit the target from discussing the matter, even “in private.”
www.the-case.eu/latest/from-...
Energy company TAQA has SLAPP-ed a former employee after he refused to participate in practices he believed violated labour and immigration law.
Their cease-and-desist letter sought to prohibit the target from discussing the matter, even “in private.”
www.the-case.eu/latest/from-...
October 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
PLUS:
Energy company TAQA has SLAPP-ed a former employee after he refused to participate in practices he believed violated labour and immigration law.
Their cease-and-desist letter sought to prohibit the target from discussing the matter, even “in private.”
www.the-case.eu/latest/from-...
Energy company TAQA has SLAPP-ed a former employee after he refused to participate in practices he believed violated labour and immigration law.
Their cease-and-desist letter sought to prohibit the target from discussing the matter, even “in private.”
www.the-case.eu/latest/from-...
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⚠️ IT'S A (DOUBLE) SLAPP!
@casecoalition.bsky.social has verified TWO new SLAPPs, both concerning Italian citizens who tried to raise their voices for the public good.
📣 Italy, where are your SLAPP protections? 👀
#StopSLAPPs
@casecoalition.bsky.social has verified TWO new SLAPPs, both concerning Italian citizens who tried to raise their voices for the public good.
📣 Italy, where are your SLAPP protections? 👀
#StopSLAPPs
a cartoon drawing of a red alarm with the words siren blaring above it
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a red alarm with the words siren blaring above it
media.tenor.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
⚠️ IT'S A (DOUBLE) SLAPP!
@casecoalition.bsky.social has verified TWO new SLAPPs, both concerning Italian citizens who tried to raise their voices for the public good.
📣 Italy, where are your SLAPP protections? 👀
#StopSLAPPs
@casecoalition.bsky.social has verified TWO new SLAPPs, both concerning Italian citizens who tried to raise their voices for the public good.
📣 Italy, where are your SLAPP protections? 👀
#StopSLAPPs
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If clinicians and academics can’t critique approaches to mental health treatment without fearing lawsuits, how can we have honest, evidence-based discussion in psychotherapy & healthcare?
🤐 SLAPPs don’t win arguments, they just silence them.
#StopSLAPPs #AcademicFreedom
🤐 SLAPPs don’t win arguments, they just silence them.
#StopSLAPPs #AcademicFreedom
October 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
If clinicians and academics can’t critique approaches to mental health treatment without fearing lawsuits, how can we have honest, evidence-based discussion in psychotherapy & healthcare?
🤐 SLAPPs don’t win arguments, they just silence them.
#StopSLAPPs #AcademicFreedom
🤐 SLAPPs don’t win arguments, they just silence them.
#StopSLAPPs #AcademicFreedom
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📚 O’Dowd’s piece was a professional critique - the kind of contribution journals exist to foster.
Moreover, it was taken down immediately after O’Malley complained...
👀 Yet instead of moving on, O’Malley pressed ahead with legal threats, demanding damages and costs.
Moreover, it was taken down immediately after O’Malley complained...
👀 Yet instead of moving on, O’Malley pressed ahead with legal threats, demanding damages and costs.
October 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
📚 O’Dowd’s piece was a professional critique - the kind of contribution journals exist to foster.
Moreover, it was taken down immediately after O’Malley complained...
👀 Yet instead of moving on, O’Malley pressed ahead with legal threats, demanding damages and costs.
Moreover, it was taken down immediately after O’Malley complained...
👀 Yet instead of moving on, O’Malley pressed ahead with legal threats, demanding damages and costs.
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✋ It’s a SLAPP!
🤔 Why debate when you can silence with a lawsuit?
Stella O’Malley and her organisation Genspect are doing just this in threatening to sue fellow psychotherapist Leonie O’Dowd over an article in the Irish Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy.
👉 www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...
🤔 Why debate when you can silence with a lawsuit?
Stella O’Malley and her organisation Genspect are doing just this in threatening to sue fellow psychotherapist Leonie O’Dowd over an article in the Irish Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy.
👉 www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...
October 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
✋ It’s a SLAPP!
🤔 Why debate when you can silence with a lawsuit?
Stella O’Malley and her organisation Genspect are doing just this in threatening to sue fellow psychotherapist Leonie O’Dowd over an article in the Irish Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy.
👉 www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...
🤔 Why debate when you can silence with a lawsuit?
Stella O’Malley and her organisation Genspect are doing just this in threatening to sue fellow psychotherapist Leonie O’Dowd over an article in the Irish Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy.
👉 www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...
'Huge waiting times for trans healthcare in the NHS, in children’s & adult services, are by design. Better political & institutional decisions in Spain have removed this waiting list, delivering far better outcomes at a fraction of the cost'
growinguptransgender.com/2025/10/12/t...
growinguptransgender.com/2025/10/12/t...
Trans health waiting lists are a political choice
I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…
growinguptransgender.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
'Huge waiting times for trans healthcare in the NHS, in children’s & adult services, are by design. Better political & institutional decisions in Spain have removed this waiting list, delivering far better outcomes at a fraction of the cost'
growinguptransgender.com/2025/10/12/t...
growinguptransgender.com/2025/10/12/t...
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The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳
It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!
It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!
Trans health waiting lists are a political choice
I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…
growinguptransgender.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳
It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!
It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!
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‘I deserve to heal’: freed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah on his prison ordeal and next steps
‘I deserve to heal’: freed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah on his prison ordeal and next steps
The campaigner, who spent more than a decade in an Egyptian ‘vortex of incarceration’, wants to join his son in the UK while he reflects on the fight for freedom
The British-Egyptian human rights activist and writer, released from more than a decade in continuous detention in Cairo, has said he wants to come to the UK to be with his autistic 14-year-old son.
Alaa Abd el-Fattah said he feared his mother might have died on hunger strike during the 12 years he spent in what he described as a “vortex of incarceration”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
‘I deserve to heal’: freed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah on his prison ordeal and next steps
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3 women die w/n 9 days in September because of poor conditions and lack of medical care
Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi: “Detaining sick prisoners in the prisons of the Islamic Republic is a clear example of torture, and killing them by denying their right to medical care is an act of crime"
#Iran
Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi: “Detaining sick prisoners in the prisons of the Islamic Republic is a clear example of torture, and killing them by denying their right to medical care is an act of crime"
#Iran
Women Are Dying in #Iran ’s Qarchak Prison
(h/t Center for Human Rights in Iran)
#IranHumanRights #WomanLifeFreedom
eaworldview.com/2025/10/iran...
(h/t Center for Human Rights in Iran)
#IranHumanRights #WomanLifeFreedom
eaworldview.com/2025/10/iran...
Women Are Dying in Iran's Qarchak Prison - EA WorldView
Women detainees are dying in Iran's Qarchak Prison, notorious for its poor conditions and lack of medical care, with 3 perishing in 9 days.
eaworldview.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
3 women die w/n 9 days in September because of poor conditions and lack of medical care
Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi: “Detaining sick prisoners in the prisons of the Islamic Republic is a clear example of torture, and killing them by denying their right to medical care is an act of crime"
#Iran
Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi: “Detaining sick prisoners in the prisons of the Islamic Republic is a clear example of torture, and killing them by denying their right to medical care is an act of crime"
#Iran
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Great article in today’s Irish Times about @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social and today’s @global-run.bsky.social. Look out for a wave of joy and positivity and solidarity in parks around the country (and the world) today.
@grahamclifford.bsky.social
#SpeirGorm
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
@grahamclifford.bsky.social
#SpeirGorm
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Global Solidarity Run calls on governments to show ‘decency’ to people forced to migrate
More than 15,000 people across 100 countries to take part in Irish-led global event on Saturday
www.irishtimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Great article in today’s Irish Times about @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social and today’s @global-run.bsky.social. Look out for a wave of joy and positivity and solidarity in parks around the country (and the world) today.
@grahamclifford.bsky.social
#SpeirGorm
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
@grahamclifford.bsky.social
#SpeirGorm
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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New TKDB protest for the 1st Nov
October 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
New TKDB protest for the 1st Nov
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SEEN Police UK state the drop in number of hate crimes against trans people is fraud, as GMP are taken to Judicial Review after a secret policy of refusing to deal with ANY reports of hate crimes against trans people is obtained.
How far does this go? This ‘data’ is shit
www.gov.uk/government/s...
How far does this go? This ‘data’ is shit
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2025
www.gov.uk
October 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
SEEN Police UK state the drop in number of hate crimes against trans people is fraud, as GMP are taken to Judicial Review after a secret policy of refusing to deal with ANY reports of hate crimes against trans people is obtained.
How far does this go? This ‘data’ is shit
www.gov.uk/government/s...
How far does this go? This ‘data’ is shit
www.gov.uk/government/s...
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AGP, defined as "sexual arousal felt by a male at the thought of himself as a woman" barely made it into DSM-V, as a specifier to "transvestic disorder," not a standalone diagnosis. It has no relevance to a diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria, but is routinely used by Genspect & others to sexualise...
October 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
AGP, defined as "sexual arousal felt by a male at the thought of himself as a woman" barely made it into DSM-V, as a specifier to "transvestic disorder," not a standalone diagnosis. It has no relevance to a diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria, but is routinely used by Genspect & others to sexualise...
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"By filing these claims, O’Malley and Genspect are attempting to chill public debate on matters of significant societal and medical importance."
October 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
"By filing these claims, O’Malley and Genspect are attempting to chill public debate on matters of significant societal and medical importance."
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Stella O'Malley (7 years experience of well-funded anti-trans rhetoric) & Genspect (4 years of well-funded anti-trans advocacy) have taken legal action against 70-year-old Leonie O'Dowd (40+ years experience of counselling & supporting trans people) to shut her up. www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...
It’s a SLAPP: Stella O’Malley Targets Psychotherapist and Rights Advocate Leonie O’Dowd – CASE
www.the-case.eu
October 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Stella O'Malley (7 years experience of well-funded anti-trans rhetoric) & Genspect (4 years of well-funded anti-trans advocacy) have taken legal action against 70-year-old Leonie O'Dowd (40+ years experience of counselling & supporting trans people) to shut her up. www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...
When asked who she met in Yarmouk, Catherine Connolly deflects into a twee story about swapping rosary beads with a Palestinian there.
Is this who she swapped with? The commander of the @Butchers of Yarmouk', her guide when visiting the site of the massacre of Palestinians?
Is this who she swapped with? The commander of the @Butchers of Yarmouk', her guide when visiting the site of the massacre of Palestinians?
Catherine Connolly says she met 'Palestinians' in Yarmouk. She 'can't remember' their names
We know
Her guide in Yarmouk was Saed Abd Al-Aal, commander of the Free Palestine Movement, the 'Butchers of Yarmouk', where the FPM operated as enforcers for Assad thru massacres & rape.
We know
Her guide in Yarmouk was Saed Abd Al-Aal, commander of the Free Palestine Movement, the 'Butchers of Yarmouk', where the FPM operated as enforcers for Assad thru massacres & rape.
Dear
@catherinegalway.bsky.social
You have spoken a lot in your campaign about your honesty and your dislike of hypocrisy. You have also claimed to support the Palestinian people. We, the Irish Syria Solidarity Movement, have questions.
telegra.ph/Open-Letter-...
@catherinegalway.bsky.social
You have spoken a lot in your campaign about your honesty and your dislike of hypocrisy. You have also claimed to support the Palestinian people. We, the Irish Syria Solidarity Movement, have questions.
telegra.ph/Open-Letter-...
October 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
When asked who she met in Yarmouk, Catherine Connolly deflects into a twee story about swapping rosary beads with a Palestinian there.
Is this who she swapped with? The commander of the @Butchers of Yarmouk', her guide when visiting the site of the massacre of Palestinians?
Is this who she swapped with? The commander of the @Butchers of Yarmouk', her guide when visiting the site of the massacre of Palestinians?
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A reminder - especially for all the far-right aligned snoopers here:
The anti-trans hate-group ‘Sex Matters’ and especially Maya Forstater- have been lobbying the government for mandatory Digital-ID
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
The anti-trans hate-group ‘Sex Matters’ and especially Maya Forstater- have been lobbying the government for mandatory Digital-ID
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
Huge numbers of far-right aligned ‘Gender Critical’ accounts losing their shit over what looks like the imposition of mandatory digital-Id
They can thank Sex Matters for greasing the tracks of this - just to ‘beat the trans’es
The mugs were played, just like separatist LGB are being played.
They can thank Sex Matters for greasing the tracks of this - just to ‘beat the trans’es
The mugs were played, just like separatist LGB are being played.
September 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
A reminder - especially for all the far-right aligned snoopers here:
The anti-trans hate-group ‘Sex Matters’ and especially Maya Forstater- have been lobbying the government for mandatory Digital-ID
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
The anti-trans hate-group ‘Sex Matters’ and especially Maya Forstater- have been lobbying the government for mandatory Digital-ID
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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Dear Immigrant. When you’ve finished your night shift at A&E, please spend a couple of hours picking litter in the park or we’ll kick you out. Yours, the Labour Party
September 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Dear Immigrant. When you’ve finished your night shift at A&E, please spend a couple of hours picking litter in the park or we’ll kick you out. Yours, the Labour Party
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This is Genspect trying to pathologize trans people as inherently violent and prone to terrorism and mass murder by virtue of their identity.
This is an absolutely heinous proposal.
This is an absolutely heinous proposal.
![Alt text: Screenshot of a section titled "Importance" with white text on a black background. The text explains that extreme overvalued beliefs are seen as a major motivator behind terrorist attacks, assassinations, and mass shootings. It describes how forensic psychiatrists and psychologists often encounter patients with bizarre beliefs during threat assessments or forensic examinations, but these beliefs do not meet DSM-5-TR criteria for psychiatric disorders and cannot be fully explained by terms like delusion or obsession. The passage notes that unclear definitions of psychiatric terms complicate matters, leading media and psychiatrists to mislabel acts of terrorism or violence as being driven by delusions or paranoia. Instead, such individuals are said to possess extreme overvalued beliefs, which they act upon as a defense of those beliefs. The section concludes by stressing the importance of creating clear definitions of psychiatric terms, like "extreme overvalued beliefs," to avoid misattributing acts of violence or terrorism to mental illness. Hyperlinked words include “threat assessment,” “insanity defense,” “delusion,” and “obsession.” Citations [1], [2], [3] appear in the text.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sefgphqp2xqwh2hawaixykwz/bafkreiawen4maptny25sfnceotkgtuscceiruebplw37tmfchxaxdv662u@jpeg)
September 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This is Genspect trying to pathologize trans people as inherently violent and prone to terrorism and mass murder by virtue of their identity.
This is an absolutely heinous proposal.
This is an absolutely heinous proposal.
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Anti-trans hate group Genspect is formally calling for trans people to be repathologized. This is most certainly to set the stage for mandated conversion therapy and potentially forced institutionalization.
archive.ph/yA2Wh
archive.ph/yA2Wh
September 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Anti-trans hate group Genspect is formally calling for trans people to be repathologized. This is most certainly to set the stage for mandated conversion therapy and potentially forced institutionalization.
archive.ph/yA2Wh
archive.ph/yA2Wh
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We join @pressfreedom.bsky.social in condemning Israel’s killing of 31 Yemeni journalists and media workers, the deadliest attack on the press in 16 years. Journalists are civilians and must be protected under international law. We call for accountability and end to impunity. @penmena.bsky.social
Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital is the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded by CPJ, following the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines. Read more: cpj.org?p=522184
Israel’s killing of 31 Yemeni journalists marks deadliest global attack in 16 years - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., September 19, 2025—Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which killed 31 journalists and media support workers on September 10, signal that it...
cpj.org
September 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
We join @pressfreedom.bsky.social in condemning Israel’s killing of 31 Yemeni journalists and media workers, the deadliest attack on the press in 16 years. Journalists are civilians and must be protected under international law. We call for accountability and end to impunity. @penmena.bsky.social
A Community Sponsorship Group in Dublin are raising funds to meet rent & living costs of an Afghan family, incl a child & 2 women,who will soon arrive in Ireland
They will be granted visas bec of very severe risk to their lives bec of their former human rights work
www.gofundme.com/manage/help-...
They will be granted visas bec of very severe risk to their lives bec of their former human rights work
www.gofundme.com/manage/help-...
www.gofundme.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
A Community Sponsorship Group in Dublin are raising funds to meet rent & living costs of an Afghan family, incl a child & 2 women,who will soon arrive in Ireland
They will be granted visas bec of very severe risk to their lives bec of their former human rights work
www.gofundme.com/manage/help-...
They will be granted visas bec of very severe risk to their lives bec of their former human rights work
www.gofundme.com/manage/help-...