Jack (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@jackiebaldry.bsky.social
British immigrant in France, middle-aged, questioning gender, m2f, wtf
probably wrong about everything. she/her
probably wrong about everything. she/her
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Well this is weird. The other week I told my therapist I felt like I was coming to the end of my therapy but instead it looks like I've simply unlocked a whole new level.
I've spent my adult life thinking I was an unhappy gay man when in fact I've been an unhappy trans-woman.
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I've spent my adult life thinking I was an unhappy gay man when in fact I've been an unhappy trans-woman.
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Women (rightly) complain that men mansplain to them but men do it to each just as much and the face palms are just as funny.
After Pope Leo XIV urged legislators to make sure immigrants' "spiritual rights" are being respected, House Speaker Mike Johnson responded by giving him a Bible lesson.
Mike Johnson Ripped After Trying To School Pope Leo On The Bible After He Criticized Trump's Immigration Crackdown
www.comicsands.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Women (rightly) complain that men mansplain to them but men do it to each just as much and the face palms are just as funny.
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Known as “The Stranger’s Case,” this monologue is inspired by a real speech delivered in 1517 by Thomas More, then the under-sheriff of London, who was trying to calm a riotous anti-immigrant mob incensed by the presence of foreign workers. The riots went down in history as Evil May Day.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Known as “The Stranger’s Case,” this monologue is inspired by a real speech delivered in 1517 by Thomas More, then the under-sheriff of London, who was trying to calm a riotous anti-immigrant mob incensed by the presence of foreign workers. The riots went down in history as Evil May Day.
Lot's of work to be done but I don't hate this photo.
February 5, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Lot's of work to be done but I don't hate this photo.
Got hit by a duck this morning. No, really. I have 4. They can fly about 20-30m at head height but not with much control. This one launched itself from the chicken coup and crashed straight into me. Fortunately they're quite soft.
February 5, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Got hit by a duck this morning. No, really. I have 4. They can fly about 20-30m at head height but not with much control. This one launched itself from the chicken coup and crashed straight into me. Fortunately they're quite soft.
It's a month now since a thought popped into my head saying, very clearly, "I'm a woman". It blew me away. After 45 years I finally understood.
Now I wear fake boobs and make-up around the house every day. I wear nail varnish when I go out. It all feels so normal. When you know, you really know.
Now I wear fake boobs and make-up around the house every day. I wear nail varnish when I go out. It all feels so normal. When you know, you really know.
February 5, 2026 at 7:57 AM
It's a month now since a thought popped into my head saying, very clearly, "I'm a woman". It blew me away. After 45 years I finally understood.
Now I wear fake boobs and make-up around the house every day. I wear nail varnish when I go out. It all feels so normal. When you know, you really know.
Now I wear fake boobs and make-up around the house every day. I wear nail varnish when I go out. It all feels so normal. When you know, you really know.
💯 agree with @lily-is.online that societies should work for the majority of the people, not the richest few. I'd love to see her chatting to @graceblakeley.substack.com about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqJ6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqJ6...
I don't care about the economy (and neither should you)
YouTube video by AdditionaLily Alexandre
www.youtube.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM
💯 agree with @lily-is.online that societies should work for the majority of the people, not the richest few. I'd love to see her chatting to @graceblakeley.substack.com about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqJ6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqJ6...
Haven't seen this circulating as much here as I've seen over on Twitter and Threads, but just an FYI that the "girls FTW" email is FAKE. It's not in the files. There's no time or date stamp. Someone just made it as a (really dumb and harmful) joke. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
February 2, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Did my therapy session with bra, fake boobs, nail varnish and lipstick. It was the first time I've worn all this in front of somebody else. It felt very comfortable and I had a great session. Small steps.
January 28, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Did my therapy session with bra, fake boobs, nail varnish and lipstick. It was the first time I've worn all this in front of somebody else. It felt very comfortable and I had a great session. Small steps.
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January 23, 2026 at 7:34 PM
I've been very much stuck in my head lately but went out and did my chores wearing nail varnish yesterday. I'm not sure where my transition (if that's what's going on) will land but it feels like a step forward.
January 24, 2026 at 6:53 AM
I've been very much stuck in my head lately but went out and did my chores wearing nail varnish yesterday. I'm not sure where my transition (if that's what's going on) will land but it feels like a step forward.
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Increasingly the US is Mordor and the UK is Isengard.
Is everything named after something from LotR evil?
Wow.
Anduril’s planned autonomous weapons factory in rural Ohio is projected to destroy/reroute wetlands and waterways - so the Ohio EPA went ahead and approved a “lowering of water quality” for the area.
In order to protect “economic considerations”
sciotovalleyguardian.com/2026/01/16/o...
Anduril’s planned autonomous weapons factory in rural Ohio is projected to destroy/reroute wetlands and waterways - so the Ohio EPA went ahead and approved a “lowering of water quality” for the area.
In order to protect “economic considerations”
sciotovalleyguardian.com/2026/01/16/o...
January 17, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Increasingly the US is Mordor and the UK is Isengard.
When I left the UK I had no idea I was trans but now it feels really prescient. Life for trans folk in the UK just gets worse and worse every day. Hugs x.
"Virgin Active’s decision to abandon trans people is a shocking failure for a company that claims to be a proud supporter of LGBTQ+ rights. It’s time to hold them to account."
Virgin Active decided to restrict changing room access based on 'biological sex'. We're acting for, and financially supporting, a non-binary transmasculine person and a trans woman who are suing it for breaching the Equality Act.
We've published the Letter Before Action.
We've published the Letter Before Action.
January 15, 2026 at 7:13 PM
When I left the UK I had no idea I was trans but now it feels really prescient. Life for trans folk in the UK just gets worse and worse every day. Hugs x.
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Focus your anger on the one percent who are actually fucking up your lives.
March 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Focus your anger on the one percent who are actually fucking up your lives.
Where I am in my transition (not far): Took off my nail varnish to go buy a bottle of wine (time for a new colour anyway) but now I've drunk the wine and - by the way I have dyspraxia - there's no way I can apply a new colour without some disaster occurring.
January 15, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Where I am in my transition (not far): Took off my nail varnish to go buy a bottle of wine (time for a new colour anyway) but now I've drunk the wine and - by the way I have dyspraxia - there's no way I can apply a new colour without some disaster occurring.
Gutted that I missed the sweet spot between trans people not existing at all up to some time around the the mid 00s and being a political football after 2015ish.
No idea where I got this long ago, but I'm sharing it over here.
January 15, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Gutted that I missed the sweet spot between trans people not existing at all up to some time around the the mid 00s and being a political football after 2015ish.
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Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power.
And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.
And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.
NEW
The UK constitution is even more vulnerable than the US constitution
In the face of an illiberal radical assault, what has happened politically in America could easily happen in the UK
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
The UK constitution is even more vulnerable than the US constitution
In the face of an illiberal radical assault, what has happened politically in America could easily happen in the UK
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
January 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power.
And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.
And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.
Not that dysmorphic about my body (though I really want boobs for some reason) but jeeesus I'd like to get on a testosterone blocker. The sooner it's out of my life the better.
January 15, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Not that dysmorphic about my body (though I really want boobs for some reason) but jeeesus I'd like to get on a testosterone blocker. The sooner it's out of my life the better.
I was also rubbish at being gay. Even though I moved to Brighton and came out in my early 20s and subsequently lived there for the best part of 30 years I never felt like I fitted into the gay scene. I never felt like I was a proper gay man. Now I know I wasn't.
January 13, 2026 at 10:10 AM
I was also rubbish at being gay. Even though I moved to Brighton and came out in my early 20s and subsequently lived there for the best part of 30 years I never felt like I fitted into the gay scene. I never felt like I was a proper gay man. Now I know I wasn't.
When I hit adolescence I realised that I was sexually attracted to the other boys around me. I simply could not comprehend how I could be gay. The trauma from this literally destroyed me. I developed Hashimoto's - an autoimmune disease that normally affects women!
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January 13, 2026 at 10:08 AM
When I hit adolescence I realised that I was sexually attracted to the other boys around me. I simply could not comprehend how I could be gay. The trauma from this literally destroyed me. I developed Hashimoto's - an autoimmune disease that normally affects women!
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I've tried being every kind of boy. I was a particularly rubbish straight boy. One girlfriend said that having sex with me was like having sex with her best friend. That makes a lot more sense now.
January 13, 2026 at 10:01 AM
I've tried being every kind of boy. I was a particularly rubbish straight boy. One girlfriend said that having sex with me was like having sex with her best friend. That makes a lot more sense now.
Veering wildly between "you must be fucking kidding" and "I want boobs".
January 13, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Veering wildly between "you must be fucking kidding" and "I want boobs".
A really important point (to me) I came across in a YouTube video was that perhaps, quite early on, it's possible to come to the conclusion that the knowledge that you are trans isn't safe to know. It therefore gets buried until your psyche decides otherwise. That's where I am now.
January 12, 2026 at 8:28 PM
A really important point (to me) I came across in a YouTube video was that perhaps, quite early on, it's possible to come to the conclusion that the knowledge that you are trans isn't safe to know. It therefore gets buried until your psyche decides otherwise. That's where I am now.
Transphobia has been making me sick to my stomach for years. I used to think it was because it was a reflection of the homophobia I experienced when I was growing up but now I'm beginning to understand that it was touching something deeper and hidden.
January 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Transphobia has been making me sick to my stomach for years. I used to think it was because it was a reflection of the homophobia I experienced when I was growing up but now I'm beginning to understand that it was touching something deeper and hidden.
Now I know why I've always preferred straight rom-coms to musicals.
January 12, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Now I know why I've always preferred straight rom-coms to musicals.