Dr Karl Rutlidge 🏳️⚧️😎💚
@krutlidge.bsky.social
Recovering mathematician. Theology PhD student. Proud trans man. Husband. Stepdad. Methodist minister. Lover of books, science, cider and photography (he/him).
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Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
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What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
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Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
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What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
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Agreed. The Weasal would be even worse than Starmer, and that is saying something!
If Streeting replaces Starmer that would be the absolute end of Labour and would absolutely wreck the country. #r4today
November 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Agreed. The Weasal would be even worse than Starmer, and that is saying something!
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Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
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This is an old article about Starmer from 2020 but if you pick through it you can see he was throwing off red flags back then, and that's without a deeper look at him or what we know today from Paul Holden's book 'The Fraud'.
www.buzzfeed.com/emilyashton/...
www.buzzfeed.com/emilyashton/...
Keir Starmer Is Not Who You Think He Is
The human rights activist who became a top prosecutor. Political to the core but not a natural politician. It's not clear what kind of Labour leader Keir Starmer will be.
www.buzzfeed.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This is an old article about Starmer from 2020 but if you pick through it you can see he was throwing off red flags back then, and that's without a deeper look at him or what we know today from Paul Holden's book 'The Fraud'.
www.buzzfeed.com/emilyashton/...
www.buzzfeed.com/emilyashton/...
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The existence of trans people is not an "ideology", BBC. It is a reality and one which Parliament has recognized.
(Entirely typical of the BBC that, confronted by a populist right attack, they will show willing by dumping on trans people. Weak with the strong, strong with the weak, as always.)
(Entirely typical of the BBC that, confronted by a populist right attack, they will show willing by dumping on trans people. Weak with the strong, strong with the weak, as always.)
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The existence of trans people is not an "ideology", BBC. It is a reality and one which Parliament has recognized.
(Entirely typical of the BBC that, confronted by a populist right attack, they will show willing by dumping on trans people. Weak with the strong, strong with the weak, as always.)
(Entirely typical of the BBC that, confronted by a populist right attack, they will show willing by dumping on trans people. Weak with the strong, strong with the weak, as always.)
BBC News' report on the Darlington nurses just now was utterly disgraceful.
Misgendering the trans person throughout, presenting it entirely from the complainants' perspective and including no trans voices, using transphobic tropes and making the trans woman out to be a pervert. Impartial, my arse!
Misgendering the trans person throughout, presenting it entirely from the complainants' perspective and including no trans voices, using transphobic tropes and making the trans woman out to be a pervert. Impartial, my arse!
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
BBC News' report on the Darlington nurses just now was utterly disgraceful.
Misgendering the trans person throughout, presenting it entirely from the complainants' perspective and including no trans voices, using transphobic tropes and making the trans woman out to be a pervert. Impartial, my arse!
Misgendering the trans person throughout, presenting it entirely from the complainants' perspective and including no trans voices, using transphobic tropes and making the trans woman out to be a pervert. Impartial, my arse!
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I can say with confidence, having not even watched the BBC, that no trans person has been on this week. There are two reasons I can do this:
1. The BBC never has any trans people on to discuss trans people or our rights or anything.
2. If a trans person was on, we'd have heard about it very loudly.
1. The BBC never has any trans people on to discuss trans people or our rights or anything.
2. If a trans person was on, we'd have heard about it very loudly.
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I can say with confidence, having not even watched the BBC, that no trans person has been on this week. There are two reasons I can do this:
1. The BBC never has any trans people on to discuss trans people or our rights or anything.
2. If a trans person was on, we'd have heard about it very loudly.
1. The BBC never has any trans people on to discuss trans people or our rights or anything.
2. If a trans person was on, we'd have heard about it very loudly.
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I came across a clip from yesterday from LBC of John Sopel and Emily Maitlis talking to Shelagh Fogarty about what's happening at the BBC and they all conceded the complainant DID have a point about the BBC's pro-trans bias and it was just three people being transphobic for a couple of minutes.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I came across a clip from yesterday from LBC of John Sopel and Emily Maitlis talking to Shelagh Fogarty about what's happening at the BBC and they all conceded the complainant DID have a point about the BBC's pro-trans bias and it was just three people being transphobic for a couple of minutes.
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Was having a conversation recently about these people and how they have to believe they are right. They truly believe history will laud. They couldn't do what they do if they believed anything else.
I came across a clip from yesterday from LBC of John Sopel and Emily Maitlis talking to Shelagh Fogarty about what's happening at the BBC and they all conceded the complainant DID have a point about the BBC's pro-trans bias and it was just three people being transphobic for a couple of minutes.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Was having a conversation recently about these people and how they have to believe they are right. They truly believe history will laud. They couldn't do what they do if they believed anything else.
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The News Agents is a great case study of centrism because they actively describe how the sausage is made and yet none of their audience say 'Wait - what the fuck do you mean you ran a story because some Labour spad told you to?'
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The News Agents is a great case study of centrism because they actively describe how the sausage is made and yet none of their audience say 'Wait - what the fuck do you mean you ran a story because some Labour spad told you to?'
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Obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobic ex-BBC journalist Cath Leng, goes running to obsessive transphobic ex-DM journalist, Sanchez Manning, now working at obsessive trans-hostile newspaper, The Times, to get her soft-focus closeup and ‘woe is me, I woz silenced’ propaganda piece! 🙄😣
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobic ex-BBC journalist Cath Leng, goes running to obsessive transphobic ex-DM journalist, Sanchez Manning, now working at obsessive trans-hostile newspaper, The Times, to get her soft-focus closeup and ‘woe is me, I woz silenced’ propaganda piece! 🙄😣
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Revealing division in my timeline between (1) my insider friends who have lived privileged lives who are very keen that we defend the BBC and think it's important it survives and (2) my outsider friends who feel (at best) ambivalent about the BBC's survival.
November 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Revealing division in my timeline between (1) my insider friends who have lived privileged lives who are very keen that we defend the BBC and think it's important it survives and (2) my outsider friends who feel (at best) ambivalent about the BBC's survival.
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Have taken this down. I was thinking only of the UK where he'd lose. No one in full possession of their senses makes predictions about what a US court might do.
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Have taken this down. I was thinking only of the UK where he'd lose. No one in full possession of their senses makes predictions about what a US court might do.
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How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
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How many children died as a result of her actions…?
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
How many children died as a result of her actions…?
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There is a concerted, sustained attack against disabled people by the media and government. Both here in the UK and elsewhere.
However, there is no recourse for their blatant misinformation and disinformation.
There are no consequences.
They can lie, then lie some more, and get away with it all.
However, there is no recourse for their blatant misinformation and disinformation.
There are no consequences.
They can lie, then lie some more, and get away with it all.
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 AM
There is a concerted, sustained attack against disabled people by the media and government. Both here in the UK and elsewhere.
However, there is no recourse for their blatant misinformation and disinformation.
There are no consequences.
They can lie, then lie some more, and get away with it all.
However, there is no recourse for their blatant misinformation and disinformation.
There are no consequences.
They can lie, then lie some more, and get away with it all.
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this is *exactly* what has happened in the uk.
transphobia is an elite/establishment bigotry and the majority of voters are indifferent at worst and supportive at best.
transphobia is an elite/establishment bigotry and the majority of voters are indifferent at worst and supportive at best.
I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!
the harris campaign said the “they/them” ad didn’t sway the election.
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
November 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
this is *exactly* what has happened in the uk.
transphobia is an elite/establishment bigotry and the majority of voters are indifferent at worst and supportive at best.
transphobia is an elite/establishment bigotry and the majority of voters are indifferent at worst and supportive at best.
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Mumsnet’s take on the BBC stuff. Deranged
![Tim Davies [sic] Resigns - Can Gender
Critical Movement take some credit?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vvaxu5dkaojgdamc3x77kjh4/bafkreico7vqcxaskfykg4jfin7mcbc65ikyw6o2q3b4mevppbjgw2pjyju@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Mumsnet’s take on the BBC stuff. Deranged
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Being normal about trans people is biased in monstrous uk
Love that anything that doesnt call me slurs or advocates for me to be pushed out of society as unwanted scum now counts as unduly biased
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Being normal about trans people is biased in monstrous uk
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Its decision to leave the Tory appointees in post at the BBC is one of so many Labour have made that I can't begin to understand. Any guesses?
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Its decision to leave the Tory appointees in post at the BBC is one of so many Labour have made that I can't begin to understand. Any guesses?
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This would be a more convincing argument if Keir Starmer had not himself made a whole series of promises which he then declared completely undeliverable as soon as he became leader www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister
Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This would be a more convincing argument if Keir Starmer had not himself made a whole series of promises which he then declared completely undeliverable as soon as he became leader www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Lawyers bang on, po-faced, about preserving public confidence in the law until our ears bleed with it but Wilhoit nailed the truth: 'there are in-groups, whom the law protects but does not bind and out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.'
Pretty horrid, this stuff, and sympathy with those he went after, but none of it is an actual incitement to violence, is it? Would anything have happened if Barton's targets had been immigrants, or Muslims, or trans people? www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Joey Barton found guilty of sending offensive posts on social media
Former footballer guilty over posts directed at football pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko, and broadcaster Jeremy Vine
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Lawyers bang on, po-faced, about preserving public confidence in the law until our ears bleed with it but Wilhoit nailed the truth: 'there are in-groups, whom the law protects but does not bind and out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.'
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What a morning to be on Ridge & Frost to celebrate Zohran Mamdani's win!
Improving people's lives. Focusing on inequality and empowering communities.
This is how you do it.
Improving people's lives. Focusing on inequality and empowering communities.
This is how you do it.
November 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
What a morning to be on Ridge & Frost to celebrate Zohran Mamdani's win!
Improving people's lives. Focusing on inequality and empowering communities.
This is how you do it.
Improving people's lives. Focusing on inequality and empowering communities.
This is how you do it.