Helen
@helenm40.bsky.social
Cisgender trans inclusive feminist. I have no money. Please don't ask.
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Anti-trans ideology has:
- decemitated the Women’s Institute
- made it less safe for women to access female single-sex spaces
- made it much harder to be a gender non-conforming woman
- Reduced women to their anatomy
- increased female objectification
- reinforced sexist stereotypes
- decemitated the Women’s Institute
- made it less safe for women to access female single-sex spaces
- made it much harder to be a gender non-conforming woman
- Reduced women to their anatomy
- increased female objectification
- reinforced sexist stereotypes
February 20, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Anti-trans ideology has:
- decemitated the Women’s Institute
- made it less safe for women to access female single-sex spaces
- made it much harder to be a gender non-conforming woman
- Reduced women to their anatomy
- increased female objectification
- reinforced sexist stereotypes
- decemitated the Women’s Institute
- made it less safe for women to access female single-sex spaces
- made it much harder to be a gender non-conforming woman
- Reduced women to their anatomy
- increased female objectification
- reinforced sexist stereotypes
Bought some liquid eyeliner the other week. I must have known
This Huck article, from back in May, about the riot grrl revival is really quite good, and worth a read.
Read articles. Eschew video essayists.
www.huckmag.com/article/riot...
Read articles. Eschew video essayists.
www.huckmag.com/article/riot...
Riot grrrl is back. Do we need it more than ever?
Femme punk forever — With renewed interest in the riot grrrl movement, which blends feminist activism with punk music, we spoke to the new wave’s vanguard
www.huckmag.com
February 20, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Bought some liquid eyeliner the other week. I must have known
Also a little surprised at the sheer outrage some people are expressing at the idea that common courtesy can make a difference on the campaign trail.
Ok, it doesn't matter to you. It apparently *does* matter to some potential voters and doesn't cost you anything. Suck it up.
Ok, it doesn't matter to you. It apparently *does* matter to some potential voters and doesn't cost you anything. Suck it up.
February 20, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Also a little surprised at the sheer outrage some people are expressing at the idea that common courtesy can make a difference on the campaign trail.
Ok, it doesn't matter to you. It apparently *does* matter to some potential voters and doesn't cost you anything. Suck it up.
Ok, it doesn't matter to you. It apparently *does* matter to some potential voters and doesn't cost you anything. Suck it up.
Not keen on taking the piss out of a woman who was put off by canvassers not closing a cafe door.
Is that how I pick my candidate? No.
Is forming an opinion of a party based on the behaviour of it's representatives outrageous?
Also no.
Is that how I pick my candidate? No.
Is forming an opinion of a party based on the behaviour of it's representatives outrageous?
Also no.
February 20, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Not keen on taking the piss out of a woman who was put off by canvassers not closing a cafe door.
Is that how I pick my candidate? No.
Is forming an opinion of a party based on the behaviour of it's representatives outrageous?
Also no.
Is that how I pick my candidate? No.
Is forming an opinion of a party based on the behaviour of it's representatives outrageous?
Also no.
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GREEN GAIN
Stoneygate has chosen HOPE. Aasiya Bora is elected with 30% of the vote.
Stoneygate has chosen HOPE. Aasiya Bora is elected with 30% of the vote.
February 20, 2026 at 12:53 AM
GREEN GAIN
Stoneygate has chosen HOPE. Aasiya Bora is elected with 30% of the vote.
Stoneygate has chosen HOPE. Aasiya Bora is elected with 30% of the vote.
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Women's rights destroyed by anti-feminists. So many women have suffered at the hands of anti-trans ideology.
shefnews.co.uk/index.php/20...
shefnews.co.uk/index.php/20...
Seven Hills Women's Institute to close amid fallout from transgender membership ban - ShefNews
Seven Hills Women’s Institute (WI) in Sheffield has announced it will close, becoming one of a growing number of WI groups to shut down following the national decision to restrict membership to biolog...
shefnews.co.uk
February 20, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Women's rights destroyed by anti-feminists. So many women have suffered at the hands of anti-trans ideology.
shefnews.co.uk/index.php/20...
shefnews.co.uk/index.php/20...
One of UK Labour's most insidious policies has been replacing real medicine with talk therapy - which doesn't work and isn't actually available.
Pretending therapy can remotely do anything for a biological medical need is one of the most evil jokes out there right now. Next they’re going to be pretending talk therapy can cure knife wounds. Evil shits.
February 20, 2026 at 7:57 AM
One of UK Labour's most insidious policies has been replacing real medicine with talk therapy - which doesn't work and isn't actually available.
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They don't come with celebrity endorsements because the church is kinda stiff on things like idolatry, not to mention performative worship around lent.
February 20, 2026 at 7:37 AM
They don't come with celebrity endorsements because the church is kinda stiff on things like idolatry, not to mention performative worship around lent.
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Nearly a year into many trans people in the UK being forced to use disabled toilets or asked to work from home pending legal advice and stuff and I haven't seen a single "Izzy's boss told her she has to use a disabled toilet, here's how she feels about it" piece in the papers.
February 19, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Nearly a year into many trans people in the UK being forced to use disabled toilets or asked to work from home pending legal advice and stuff and I haven't seen a single "Izzy's boss told her she has to use a disabled toilet, here's how she feels about it" piece in the papers.
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I have friends being threatened by their workplaces over the use of toilets they've been using for years without problem.
Nearly a year into many trans people in the UK being forced to use disabled toilets or asked to work from home pending legal advice and stuff and I haven't seen a single "Izzy's boss told her she has to use a disabled toilet, here's how she feels about it" piece in the papers.
February 19, 2026 at 11:26 PM
I have friends being threatened by their workplaces over the use of toilets they've been using for years without problem.
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"A woman not only lost her job but suffered a terrifying experience in an environment where she should of been safe. Why? Because a man deemed her too tall to be a woman."
open.substack.com/pub/sophiemo...
open.substack.com/pub/sophiemo...
February 19, 2026 at 6:33 PM
"A woman not only lost her job but suffered a terrifying experience in an environment where she should of been safe. Why? Because a man deemed her too tall to be a woman."
open.substack.com/pub/sophiemo...
open.substack.com/pub/sophiemo...
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The "desistance myth" is made so much more pernicious by the fact that not only was it based on DSM-III-TR which predominately involved false-positive cisgender gay kids, but it was popularized by those who pathologized later-life transition, taxonomizing it as inherently lesser in their criterion.
I wouldn't know about extraordinary, I do not think I personally am, but the bare-naked truth of the matter is, had I not transitioned I very probably would not still be around. I spent literal decades, half my life, trying to be cis. To be "normal". In the end it was a matter of honesty to myself.
Since Cass is again making the rounds for expounding on all the ways we might make fewer trans kids, here’s a piece on how this discourse erases the lives of trans people doing extraordinary specifically because they embraced who they are. Whose rich lives wouldn’t have happened in the closet.
February 19, 2026 at 5:20 PM
The "desistance myth" is made so much more pernicious by the fact that not only was it based on DSM-III-TR which predominately involved false-positive cisgender gay kids, but it was popularized by those who pathologized later-life transition, taxonomizing it as inherently lesser in their criterion.
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Even NOW Sonia can’t help herself…
And then Akua joins in with an “It’ll be alright on the night!” post.
They’re just too far gone.
And then Akua joins in with an “It’ll be alright on the night!” post.
They’re just too far gone.
February 19, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Even NOW Sonia can’t help herself…
And then Akua joins in with an “It’ll be alright on the night!” post.
They’re just too far gone.
And then Akua joins in with an “It’ll be alright on the night!” post.
They’re just too far gone.
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Sodha could be forced to wear a skirt & heels to work (& “smile!”), use a toilet based on her race & support (from lower, sex-based, pay) relatives sacked for being pregnant, gay or old.
But as a victim of her trans rights-stripping agenda, the difference is I will always fight such discrimination.
But as a victim of her trans rights-stripping agenda, the difference is I will always fight such discrimination.
February 19, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Sodha could be forced to wear a skirt & heels to work (& “smile!”), use a toilet based on her race & support (from lower, sex-based, pay) relatives sacked for being pregnant, gay or old.
But as a victim of her trans rights-stripping agenda, the difference is I will always fight such discrimination.
But as a victim of her trans rights-stripping agenda, the difference is I will always fight such discrimination.
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My work was one of the one 19 targetted. It sucked! Luckily I was able to represent our LGBT staff network and get them to reinstate a lot of trans rights that had been lost as a consequence of this. But being targetted sucks. This is the opposite of "equality"
The EHRC are forcing exclusionary policies on organisations. By publishing this today, they clearly do not plan on applying the findings in the case of GLP v EHRC.
www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
February 19, 2026 at 12:34 PM
My work was one of the one 19 targetted. It sucked! Luckily I was able to represent our LGBT staff network and get them to reinstate a lot of trans rights that had been lost as a consequence of this. But being targetted sucks. This is the opposite of "equality"
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This is what I try to help people understand. If you could see the way my daughter smiled and laughed for the FIRST TIME IN YEARS after she came out to us as trans, you would get it.
My father was quite transphobic, and was not convinced I was really trans at first. He thought it was a new manifestation of mental illness. But as time went on and he saw how much happier I was he's been completely convinced, and he's growing less skeptical abt other trans ppl over time.
February 19, 2026 at 2:47 PM
This is what I try to help people understand. If you could see the way my daughter smiled and laughed for the FIRST TIME IN YEARS after she came out to us as trans, you would get it.
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“Will anyone in the Epstein files be held accountable?” What you have to understand is that while sexual violence is technically illegal and frowned upon in the abstract, in practice it is accepted, ubiquitous, de rigeur, and a primary vehicle for male bonding.
February 19, 2026 at 2:07 PM
“Will anyone in the Epstein files be held accountable?” What you have to understand is that while sexual violence is technically illegal and frowned upon in the abstract, in practice it is accepted, ubiquitous, de rigeur, and a primary vehicle for male bonding.
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The First Minister said that trans people are valued in Scotland, that he understands the anguish and hurt created by the Supreme Court ruling. Why then is his govt using the very same words from that judgment in law when it doesn’t need to? Ask them: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/howwillthisb...
February 18, 2026 at 2:16 PM
The First Minister said that trans people are valued in Scotland, that he understands the anguish and hurt created by the Supreme Court ruling. Why then is his govt using the very same words from that judgment in law when it doesn’t need to? Ask them: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/howwillthisb...
"Yes, it would be wrong to tell a child, just because they’re GNC, that they need to transition. But nobody is doing that. It’s just a lie."
Dear Philosophers, You Can Trust the Feminist Consensus: Gender-Critical Radical Feminism is Bogus
Dear philosophers, Every few weeks now it seems like the philosophy blogosphere has a big argument about trans rights. You are, perhaps, unsure what to think. You think of yourself, maybe, as a fem…
majesticequality.wordpress.com
February 19, 2026 at 10:50 AM
"Yes, it would be wrong to tell a child, just because they’re GNC, that they need to transition. But nobody is doing that. It’s just a lie."
If we lose the Equality Act, I will hold every single TERF personally responsible.
February 19, 2026 at 10:22 AM
If we lose the Equality Act, I will hold every single TERF personally responsible.
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"Schools cannot meaningfully include trans pupils and protect them from discrimination while they continue to be barred from basic amenities like toilets and PE facilities," @genderedintelligence.co.uk
February 19, 2026 at 10:02 AM
"Schools cannot meaningfully include trans pupils and protect them from discrimination while they continue to be barred from basic amenities like toilets and PE facilities," @genderedintelligence.co.uk
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And we're meant to have faith in this system that lets the super rich order kids like takeaways and cant even bring itself to arrest a single one of them, all the while as we're told migrants or trans people are why we can't afford to live in peace.
The entire thing is fucking insane.
The entire thing is fucking insane.
February 19, 2026 at 9:38 AM
And we're meant to have faith in this system that lets the super rich order kids like takeaways and cant even bring itself to arrest a single one of them, all the while as we're told migrants or trans people are why we can't afford to live in peace.
The entire thing is fucking insane.
The entire thing is fucking insane.
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…extreme right-wing money & mainstream/oligarch media support was lavished on organised transphobia in the form of well- but opaquely-funded “women’s concerns”/faux-“feminist” transphobic hate groups to campaign to strip trans people of our human rights.
Everyone like Sodha is to blame for this.
Everyone like Sodha is to blame for this.
February 19, 2026 at 9:17 AM
…extreme right-wing money & mainstream/oligarch media support was lavished on organised transphobia in the form of well- but opaquely-funded “women’s concerns”/faux-“feminist” transphobic hate groups to campaign to strip trans people of our human rights.
Everyone like Sodha is to blame for this.
Everyone like Sodha is to blame for this.
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More than almost anyone else Sodha’s faux-reasonable anti-trans diatribes in the Guardian - claiming *concern* about women’s rights - contributed to undermining the Equality Act.
If Reform gets in cis women will lose every gain they fought for since the 1960s, thanks to “journalists” like her.
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If Reform gets in cis women will lose every gain they fought for since the 1960s, thanks to “journalists” like her.
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February 19, 2026 at 9:17 AM
More than almost anyone else Sodha’s faux-reasonable anti-trans diatribes in the Guardian - claiming *concern* about women’s rights - contributed to undermining the Equality Act.
If Reform gets in cis women will lose every gain they fought for since the 1960s, thanks to “journalists” like her.
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If Reform gets in cis women will lose every gain they fought for since the 1960s, thanks to “journalists” like her.
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