James
@jspalmer.bsky.social
Northern, gay, lefty millennial 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
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the nominees were
-a campaign to get lifechanging medication for extremely sick children
-a campaign to improve access to justice for victims of rape and sexual assault
-a transphobic hate campaign that managed to convince some judges to make the worst ruling in Supreme Court history*
(*winner)
-a campaign to get lifechanging medication for extremely sick children
-a campaign to improve access to justice for victims of rape and sexual assault
-a transphobic hate campaign that managed to convince some judges to make the worst ruling in Supreme Court history*
(*winner)
For Women Scotland wins Public Campaign or Campaigner of the Year at The Herald Scottish Politician of the Year Awards 2025, in association with ScottishPower
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#politicianawards25
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#politicianawards25
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
the nominees were
-a campaign to get lifechanging medication for extremely sick children
-a campaign to improve access to justice for victims of rape and sexual assault
-a transphobic hate campaign that managed to convince some judges to make the worst ruling in Supreme Court history*
(*winner)
-a campaign to get lifechanging medication for extremely sick children
-a campaign to improve access to justice for victims of rape and sexual assault
-a transphobic hate campaign that managed to convince some judges to make the worst ruling in Supreme Court history*
(*winner)
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1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999 Drafting Instructions - a Freedom of Information request to Government Equalities Office
Please send me copies of the Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999’s Drafting Instructions given to the Parliamentary Counsel. If you can’t locate all versions, send me any one of th...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
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I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”
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🚨 1/ SCOOP We all know Pamela Paul is not a good journalist. But in her (poorly argued) WSJ screed on the alleged "growing divide" in LGBTQ circles abt trans rights, she reports ESPECIALLY badly—including abt Jose Arango & his boyfriend who dumped him.
Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend.
I did.
Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend.
I did.
November 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🚨 1/ SCOOP We all know Pamela Paul is not a good journalist. But in her (poorly argued) WSJ screed on the alleged "growing divide" in LGBTQ circles abt trans rights, she reports ESPECIALLY badly—including abt Jose Arango & his boyfriend who dumped him.
Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend.
I did.
Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend.
I did.
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Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int
Strasbourg 14/10/2025
www.coe.int
October 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
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When Labour in the future say you have to vote for them to stop Reform – remember there are countless reasons that argument is equal parts absurd and offensive.
But 26th August 2025 should stand out for their complete capitulation to the right.
Absolutely shameful.
But 26th August 2025 should stand out for their complete capitulation to the right.
Absolutely shameful.
No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today.
Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.
Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.
August 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
When Labour in the future say you have to vote for them to stop Reform – remember there are countless reasons that argument is equal parts absurd and offensive.
But 26th August 2025 should stand out for their complete capitulation to the right.
Absolutely shameful.
But 26th August 2025 should stand out for their complete capitulation to the right.
Absolutely shameful.
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Straight person who hadn't heard of the Polari Prize until last week: the trans mob have ruined my favourite literary prize
August 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Straight person who hadn't heard of the Polari Prize until last week: the trans mob have ruined my favourite literary prize
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Madonna championed LGBTQ rights when few dared to.
She insisted a gay kiss remain in her concert documentary.
She shared HIV information with a ‘Facts about AIDS’ insert in ‘Like a Prayer’.
There’s a reason why gay men of a certain age (my age) will always have her back.
Happy birthday mother!
She insisted a gay kiss remain in her concert documentary.
She shared HIV information with a ‘Facts about AIDS’ insert in ‘Like a Prayer’.
There’s a reason why gay men of a certain age (my age) will always have her back.
Happy birthday mother!
August 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Madonna championed LGBTQ rights when few dared to.
She insisted a gay kiss remain in her concert documentary.
She shared HIV information with a ‘Facts about AIDS’ insert in ‘Like a Prayer’.
There’s a reason why gay men of a certain age (my age) will always have her back.
Happy birthday mother!
She insisted a gay kiss remain in her concert documentary.
She shared HIV information with a ‘Facts about AIDS’ insert in ‘Like a Prayer’.
There’s a reason why gay men of a certain age (my age) will always have her back.
Happy birthday mother!
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Turning people who happen to work in shops and gyms into the gender police and banning trans men from *any* public toilet? Fuck Labour to hell the fucking bunch of absolute bigoted CUNTS
Source: archive.ph/taXyE
Service providers will be told to ask for birth certificates and interrogate service users to discover their "biological sex".
The guidance also ban trans men from female toilets on the basis that their presence would cause "alarm or distress".
Service providers will be told to ask for birth certificates and interrogate service users to discover their "biological sex".
The guidance also ban trans men from female toilets on the basis that their presence would cause "alarm or distress".
August 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Turning people who happen to work in shops and gyms into the gender police and banning trans men from *any* public toilet? Fuck Labour to hell the fucking bunch of absolute bigoted CUNTS
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Starmer is the kind of guy who’d watch someone choke to death because the polls said Reform voters think the Heimlich manoeuvre sounds both German AND French
July 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Starmer is the kind of guy who’d watch someone choke to death because the polls said Reform voters think the Heimlich manoeuvre sounds both German AND French
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The editor of Holyrood magazine muses whether women need to pass purity tests to be considered ’victims’. No. But you do need to uphold professional standards to be considered a ‘nurse’ and not being a racist bigot is the bare minimum. Mocking flood victims in Pakistan is disgusting. 🔽
July 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The editor of Holyrood magazine muses whether women need to pass purity tests to be considered ’victims’. No. But you do need to uphold professional standards to be considered a ‘nurse’ and not being a racist bigot is the bare minimum. Mocking flood victims in Pakistan is disgusting. 🔽
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Updated: Starmer’s Labour: The most anti-LGBT+ govt since Thatcher. A list of the awful things they've done and said regarding LGBT+ people, especially trans people.
July 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Updated: Starmer’s Labour: The most anti-LGBT+ govt since Thatcher. A list of the awful things they've done and said regarding LGBT+ people, especially trans people.
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And to the many, many, many people who went, "But even a Dem who is bad on trans rights would be better than a Republican!" I want you to talk to some trans people in the UK to ask them how things are going under the current Labour government.
July 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
And to the many, many, many people who went, "But even a Dem who is bad on trans rights would be better than a Republican!" I want you to talk to some trans people in the UK to ask them how things are going under the current Labour government.
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🍎 "My experience is a testament to how, despite hateful and ignorant anti-trans views becoming centred by a select vocal minority at a national level, empathy and solidarity exist all around us."
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/my-life-as-a-transgender-teacher-as-we-enter-a-new-era-of-section-28/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/my-life-as-a-transgender-teacher-as-we-enter-a-new-era-of-section-28/
My life as a transgender teacher as we enter a new era of 'Section 28'
Sasha Greene, a transgender teacher writes under a pseudonym to protect them as they discuss the difficulties of being Trans+ in education in the UK
www.wearequeeraf.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🍎 "My experience is a testament to how, despite hateful and ignorant anti-trans views becoming centred by a select vocal minority at a national level, empathy and solidarity exist all around us."
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/my-life-as-a-transgender-teacher-as-we-enter-a-new-era-of-section-28/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/my-life-as-a-transgender-teacher-as-we-enter-a-new-era-of-section-28/
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Keir Starmer says he won’t listen to @greenparty.org.uk
He’s not listening to refugees, climate scientists, trans people, Disabled people, struggling communities - or the innocent people being murdered with UK funded weapons.
What a dire Prime Minister he was always going to be.
He’s not listening to refugees, climate scientists, trans people, Disabled people, struggling communities - or the innocent people being murdered with UK funded weapons.
What a dire Prime Minister he was always going to be.
July 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Keir Starmer says he won’t listen to @greenparty.org.uk
He’s not listening to refugees, climate scientists, trans people, Disabled people, struggling communities - or the innocent people being murdered with UK funded weapons.
What a dire Prime Minister he was always going to be.
He’s not listening to refugees, climate scientists, trans people, Disabled people, struggling communities - or the innocent people being murdered with UK funded weapons.
What a dire Prime Minister he was always going to be.
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A group of lesbians disrupt a GC hate talk
This bit is just perfection 😘👌
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This bit is just perfection 😘👌
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June 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A group of lesbians disrupt a GC hate talk
This bit is just perfection 😘👌
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
This bit is just perfection 😘👌
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
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This is an image maga is posting to stoke fear of Mamdani. A list of things that sound awesome
June 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
This is an image maga is posting to stoke fear of Mamdani. A list of things that sound awesome
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Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.
June 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.
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Rebecca Paul MP — who at the Women and Equalities Committee last week spoke so much about women's rights (in order to undermine trans people's) — is now speaking in Parliament against the decriminalisation of abortion.
You couldn't make it up. These people are not feminists.
You couldn't make it up. These people are not feminists.
June 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Rebecca Paul MP — who at the Women and Equalities Committee last week spoke so much about women's rights (in order to undermine trans people's) — is now speaking in Parliament against the decriminalisation of abortion.
You couldn't make it up. These people are not feminists.
You couldn't make it up. These people are not feminists.
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There's a whole genre of center left pundit that is like "The Right taking away healthcare, denying science, removing human rights and lying about vulnerable people is a travesty! Can people not see what they are doing?! But also they have a point about trans people"
June 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
There's a whole genre of center left pundit that is like "The Right taking away healthcare, denying science, removing human rights and lying about vulnerable people is a travesty! Can people not see what they are doing?! But also they have a point about trans people"
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Transphobia is no more "acceptable" than any other form of bigotry, and I continue to be absolutely astounded, shocked, and revolted that otherwise "liberal" people think otherwise.
What do they want transgender people to do? Hide away?
Pretend they don't exist?
What do they want transgender people to do? Hide away?
Pretend they don't exist?
April 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Transphobia is no more "acceptable" than any other form of bigotry, and I continue to be absolutely astounded, shocked, and revolted that otherwise "liberal" people think otherwise.
What do they want transgender people to do? Hide away?
Pretend they don't exist?
What do they want transgender people to do? Hide away?
Pretend they don't exist?
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🚨 BREAKING UPDATE:
We’re taking legal action against the UK’s equality watchdog, the EHRC
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...
We’re taking legal action against the UK’s equality watchdog, the EHRC
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...
Liberty launches legal action against EHRC over ‘unlawful’ Code of practice consultation - Liberty
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk
May 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🚨 BREAKING UPDATE:
We’re taking legal action against the UK’s equality watchdog, the EHRC
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...
We’re taking legal action against the UK’s equality watchdog, the EHRC
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...