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Ethel Weapon
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Exhilarated absurdist. Against nature. Music fiend. Physical media appreciator. Trans and trapped in England. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · Jul 29
A litany of pathetic, disgraceful, and vindictive actions from institutionally queer-hostile Labour UK
agc1985.bsky.social AGC @agc1985.bsky.social · Jul 16
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.
Labour: Ditched its longstanding pledge to demedicalise gender recognition for trans people before the 2024 election • And then abandoned even plans for watered-down reform • Made the Tories’ temporary ban on puberty blockers for trans children indefinite • Endorsed the flawed and discredited Cass Review • Refused to pass legislation to protect trans people’s gender recognition following the recent Supreme Court ruling • Introduced a new Section 28 for trans people • Banned trans women from standing for internal Women’s Officer posts • Oversaw the UK dropping to its lowest ever place in the ILGA-Europe rankings of LGBT+ rights in European countries • Has adopted covertly transphobic language (‘sex-based rights’, ‘transmen’, ‘transwomen’) in internal documentation • Took no action against Rosie Duffield even after years of vile social media posts targeting trans (and bi) people – including sharing a post denying Nazi persecution of trans people • Re-elected Duffield Women’s PLP Chair on International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 2021 • Suspended the whip from Stonewall founder Michael Cashman for (rightly) criticising Duffield • Reappointed a ‘gender-critical’ bigot, Baroness Falkner, as Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission • Then tried to appoint ANOTHER ‘gender-critical’ figure, Mary-Ann Stephenson, as Falkner’s successor! • Suspended Lloyd Russell-Moyle, a gay MP and one of the most vocal pro-trans parliamentarians, on bogus charges shortly before the last election • Oversaw the introduction of new CPS guidelines that put trans people at risk of prosecution if they do not disclose their gender identity before having sex • Multiple Labour MPs attempted to dilute a motion at the Council of Europe condemning anti-LGBT+ hatred • Labour MPs abstained on backing trans rights in Scotland • Unlike other European countries, has not issued updated travel warnings for trans travellers to the US • Hosts anti-trans groups at its conferences Health Secretary Wes Streeting: Responded to the (flawed, discredited) Cass Review by saying he’d been wrong to say trans women are women • Banned the use of puberty blockers, against international best practice and evidence, and severely restricted gender healthcare for trans children • Supports segregation of trans patients in hospitals • Has expressed sympathy for conversion therapy groups • Implemented a ban on young trans people being able to obtain hormone therapy outside the NHS • Has overseen guidance directing GPs not to monitor trans people’s blood values – putting them at harm if they are forced to self-medicate due to NHS failings • Wrote in The Sun to share the lie that the NHS no longer uses the term ‘women’ • Shared the false claim that the practice history of doctors who transition to a new legal gender would not be disclosed to patients • Shared false claims that terms such as ‘breastfeeding’ are being ‘erased’ • Invited transphobic groups to produce NHS exclusion guidelines • Has overseen a rise in GPs refusing hormone prescriptions to trans people, which can have serious mental and physical health consequences • Responded to the recent Supreme Court ruling by calling on those who’d previously recognised trans people’s lived gender identities to reconsider • Was named What the Trans ‘Villain of the Year’ in 2024 • Issued an apology to Duffield for how she had been treated, ignoring her years of vitriol against trans people on social media STARMER’S LABOUR: THE MOST ANTI-LGBT+ GOVT SINCE THATCHER Prime Minister Keir Starmer: Responded to the recent Supreme Court ruling by declaring that trans women are not women • Attended a deeply homophobic church to deliver his Easter message • Then did it AGAIN two years later! • Supports the exclusion of trans women from sports • Refused to meet with trans Labour members to discuss concerns about institutional transphobia in the party • Left Marsha de Cordova in post as Shadow Equalities Secretary even after she shared overtly transphobic content on social media • Staged a fake meeting with LGBT+ community members (in reality all Labour staffers/councillors) for a publicity stunt • In 2023, expressed ‘concerns’ about the Gender Recognition Reform Bill in Scotland that was supported by his Scottish Labour colleagues • Believes trans children should require parental permission to socially transition Education Secretary and ‘Equalities’ Minister Bridget Phillipson: Responded to the recent Supreme Court ruling by immediately declaring trans people should use toilets according to ‘biological sex’ • Supports the removal of anti-transphobia policies at universities • Supports trans schoolchildren being outed to their parents • Welcomed the fine imposed on the University of Sussex due to students using their free speech to protest campus transphobia • Erased the word ‘trans’ from the new schools guidance • Prohibited schools from promoting ‘gender identity’ and ‘social transition’ – Section 28 all over again • Requires schools to misrepresent the law about ‘biological sex’ and gender recognition STARMER’S LABOUR: THE MOST ANTI-LGBT+ GOVT SINCE THATCHER Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood: During protests against LGBT-inclusive RSE in schools, argued that pupils’ ‘religious background’ and ‘age appropriateness’ should be considered • Agrees with J. K. Rowling’s views on ‘biological sex’ • Claimed it is ‘absolutely unacceptable’ to criticise the recent Supreme Court ruling • Home Secretary Yvette Cooper: Passed guidelines that would allocate trans women to male prisons – threatening their safety and dignity • Responded to a demonstration for trans rights by condemning washable chalk graffiti on a statue • Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy: Deleted all her past tweets supportive of trans people when the government switched to an explicitly anti-trans position • Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar: During the NHS Fife tribunal case, backed the ‘gender-critical’ nurse accused of harassing trans doctor Beth Upton • U-turned on previous support for gender recognition reform in Scotland • Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens: Shared content from gender-critical group Woman’s Place UK • Parliamentary Under-Secretary Feryal Clark: Described LGBT+ affirming education as ‘nonsense’ on social media • Parliamentary Under-Secretary Jess Phillips: Shared a conspiracy theory on social media alleging that the murderer of Phoenix Netts was a trans woman • Tonia Antoniazzi MP: Accused Welsh government of being ‘dictated to’ by Stonewall and having an ‘ideological culture’ • Jonathan Hinder MP: Supports exclusion of trans women from (non-competitive, mixed-sex) Parkruns
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thatdocphoenix.com
Nobody even told her off for self-citation in her journalism and being wildly unethical about the topic e.g. transsafety.network/posts/bbc-qu...

Or supplying a photo for this piece/her LSE profile that has gone so many rounds with AI filters, her own family ask if it’s Sabrina Carpenter aged up
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
lousadzak.bsky.social
At long last, we have created Hitler's DNA Sample from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create Hitler's DNA Sample
One of the "boys" from "The Boys From Brazil"
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
lousadzak.bsky.social
To be in the “Rowling camp” should be a cause for complete ostracism

wegotthiscovered.com/celebrities/...
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
lousadzak.bsky.social
Amazing how cis insecurity about gender is such a powerful driving force towards fascism
stephaniejane.bsky.social Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 2d
Maurice Glasman, founder of Blue Labour, on Newsnight, when talking about the government:

“I don’t want it to be a progressive force, we’ve got to be a strong patriotic force”

When asked what he meant by ‘progressive’:

“It’s a way of looking at the world, where men are women..”

Now we know…
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
lousadzak.bsky.social
The “sane people” who want to live in Helen Joyce’s “sane world” in which trans people have been eradicated…

Repellent creatures
zackpolanski.bsky.social Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d
Why won't someone think about the poor billionaires????

And the newspapers they own!

Join.greenparty.org.uk
Zack Polanski has shown why no sane person will be voting Green
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
“The most dramatic rollback of human rights for trans people in a generation will be covered by a mainstream corporate press that has purged queer journalists from its ranks in a stunningly transparent series of politicized moves over the past month.”
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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jokestress.bsky.social
I profiled Sara Morrison, former "inclusion" director at Belfast Film Fesitval who spoke at Kellie-Jay Keen's anti-trans Let Women Speak rally in 2023. Morrison was partly funded by J.K. Rowling in a lawsuit against the film fest (underway) & joined Genspect. www.transgendermap.com/issues/acade...
Sara Morrison vs. transgender people – Transgender Map
www.transgendermap.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
lousadzak.bsky.social
“007” is not a rigid designator, ffs

“00” merely signifies “licensed to kill”, and “7” is the number of people he is allowed to kill before having to get the license renewed
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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dadtrans.bsky.social
Some of us remember when Maitlis said that primary age school kids are having gender confirmation surgery. The BBC anti Trans bias goes back nearly a decade #BBCTransphobia
Tweet by emily maitlis on Twitter Jan 11, 2017. "should primary school age children be allowed to decide if they're ready for gender reassignment surgery? #newsnight"
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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hleehurley.com
How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?

Zero.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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vintageobscura.net
Buzz Clifford -- I See, I Am [U.S., Country Slash Classic Rock Epic With String Arrangement] (1969) After 4+ Years & Countless Hours Diggin' Out Songs For You Guys I'm Finally Hitting That Elusive 1000th Post Milestone Marker
https://redd.it/7jrv32
https://youtu.be/8Wv9Jafua5k
Buzz Clifford -- I See, I Am [U.S., Country Slash Classic Rock Epic With String Arrangement] (1969) After 4+ Years & Countless Hours Diggin' Out Songs For You Guys I'm Finally Hitting That Elusive 1000th Post Milestone Marker. Luv Ya VO, Thanks For Listening!!!
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November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
lousadzak.bsky.social
“Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile”
nojusticemtg.bsky.social NJ @nojusticemtg.bsky.social · 4d
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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moif-velocita.bsky.social
Imagine being so evil that you openly brag about helping shut down the only healthcare for transgender children

#TERFisland #UK #EmilyMaitlis #Transphobia #TERF
nojusticemtg.bsky.social NJ @nojusticemtg.bsky.social · 4d
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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hrc.org
BREAKING: Love is (still) love.
Against a backdrop of the Supreme Court with HRC flags waving, yellow and white text reads, "Love Wins Again." HRC Red "Marriage Equality" Logo.
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
lousadzak.bsky.social
Oh so it’s a “science-based review” that’s gonna be used to justify excluding trans people from society. How novel.

Surely this will be totally unquestionable rock solid stuff and not at all a bolus of sloppy pseudoscience aggregated from “gender critical” sources. Surely.
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
lousadzak.bsky.social
TIL the term “sibling” was only introduced to modern English in 1903
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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saranadosfiction.com
And again. One of Murdoch's mates having the *opinion* that the BBC isn't transphobic enough (ah ha ha ha to make a hollow laughing) is treated as far more worth listening to than any of our complaints.
saranadosfiction.com Finn McLellan @saranadosfiction.com · 8d
Someday, I'd like an MP to stand up in parliament and ask why the *opinions* of a small subset of cisgender people matter more to this government than the safety, health, and dignity of every transgender person in the country.
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC.

Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!

🧵
mimmymum.bsky.social Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 5d
For reference - Here’s the Telegraph article with the Prescott memo complaining about the BBC published in FULL.

Obviously, it’s an archived link which circumvents their paywall - as there’s no way I’m gonna give that transphobic rag any clicks or coin! 😣

👉 archive.ph/mJIsB
The Torygraph Revealed: The devastating memo that plunged the BBC into crisis Document exposes string of incidents that suggest serious bias in corporation's reporting
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
lousadzak.bsky.social
So looks like Green Party Women are promoting, for their book club, Lionel "transgenderism is a social mania" Shriver's new novel which is about a social mania. Pretty gross huh?

What were they selling before that? A solid brick of transphobic bigot self-glorification. Fucking awful.
Green Party Women #ForWomenAndPlanet @greenpartywomen.... • 15d GPW Bookclub Tues 28 October 19.00 The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht What's it about? Why did it become controversial? Have you read it? Come & listen either way & make your own mind up Members & friends welcome • Link here to register usO6web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #RaisingWomensVoices Green Party Women Book Club The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht WRITTEN BY Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn 7pm Tuesday 28th October NOU
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
lousadzak.bsky.social
So all the conspiracist anti-trans faves: the concept of gender identity is contested”, centering detransitioners and vexatious legal claimants, removing trans voices, anti trans healthcare, and on and on. The full bug-eyed manifesto.
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
lousadzak.bsky.social
Nice try at distracting us from your xenomorph smuggling racket
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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transactualuk.bsky.social
We have been tracking people’s experiences with gendered spaces and our new report looks at the impact of the 2025 EHRC interim update on access to, and experiences within, gendered spaces in the UK.
Image shows a row of toilet stalls with blue doors. Text reads: " I went to use the women's toilets as I was on my period and there were no gender neutral ones. A middle aged male security guard ran in after me…he started banging on the [cubicle] door, trying to open it as he shouted "sir, sir you can't be in here”... hearing the pitch of my voice was enough for him to drop it and leave. But I sat in the toilet feeling scared, vulnerable and dirty for a good few minutes." -a non-binary person tinyurl.com/ReportALoo Image shows a sign hanging from the ceiling that says 'WC' and has male and female toilet symbols. Text reads: “ A few months ago in a local LGBTQ+ owned bar, I went into the men's toilets and another guy looked at me and then yelled "You’re in the wrong toilet" in my face at close range.” -a transmasc person tinyurl.com/ReportALoo Image shows multicoloured soft play mats and apparatus. Text reads: "I was supervising my 5 year old disabled son, who was in the establishment’s soft play area. My son soiled himself and so I stood to take him to the facilities. However, when I made to head to the bathroom a woman who I assume to be in a senior role quickly came towards us and blocked my progress, pointing at the men’s toilets and advising me that “The gentlemen’s are there.” -a disabled, trans woman (who had been making her way to the accessible toilet) tinyurl.com/ReportALoo Image shows 3 toilet signs one accessible, one women's and baby changing and one men's. Text reads: "I was stopped going into a bathroom by another tourist who stated that “these are the women’s toilets”. I stated that I am a woman and therefore using the ‘correct’ toilet for my gender. This is the most recent example of me being harassed going into a toilet in the past year. Which has gone from never to 6 incidents now." -a cis, butch dyke tinyurl.com/ReportALoo
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
lousadzak.bsky.social
Harry Hill from TV Burp instigating a fight
November 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
lousadzak.bsky.social
Some interesting work being produced by the Gender Critical Research Network 🔬
reactiveashley.bsky.social Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 6d
4/ The lawyer pointed out that the report doesn’t even mention trans people or refer to the “opposite sex”, it’s simply about undressing in general. And just ended the cross examination there.
November 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
lousadzak.bsky.social
Gonna see Electric Six tomorrow to top off my birthday week!
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM