Nicola 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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If someone tries to rain on your parade, poke them in the eye with your umbrella.
Trans Rights Are Human Rights
Trans Rights Are Human Rights
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Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?
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November 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Israel kills at least 10 Palestinians across Gaza since dawn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-least-10-palestinians-across-gaza-dawn
Israel kills at least 10 Palestinians across Gaza since dawn
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November 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Israel kills at least 10 Palestinians across Gaza since dawn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-least-10-palestinians-across-gaza-dawn
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I'm an educator and don't claim to be perfect. I have forgotten names, or taken too long to learn them. It's difficult when you meet a large number of new students at the same time. But deliberately changing someone's name because you find it "difficult" is totally unacceptable.
'Teacher refuses to learn my real name so I got revenge'
A woman has blasted her teacher for purposely calling her by the wrong name simply because she 'couldn't be bothered' to learn how to pronounce it correctly - and people say she did the right thing
www.mirror.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I'm an educator and don't claim to be perfect. I have forgotten names, or taken too long to learn them. It's difficult when you meet a large number of new students at the same time. But deliberately changing someone's name because you find it "difficult" is totally unacceptable.
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My son went through several years of having to respond to pointless and deeply traumatic quizzing while at GIDS Tavi - and that was nothing compared to the new protocol.
As a result he has a deep mistrust of any mental health or therapeutic service, and refuses to engage.
This is cruelty, not care
As a result he has a deep mistrust of any mental health or therapeutic service, and refuses to engage.
This is cruelty, not care
Under new NHS puberty blocker trial protocols, trans youth are being subjected to more than 50 assessments, intrusive exams, and over 13 hours of intrusive testing - just to access lifesaving healthcare
It demands young people re-live distress & undergo intimate examinations
#ConversionPractices
It demands young people re-live distress & undergo intimate examinations
#ConversionPractices
Trans Young People Face 50+ Tests and Hours of Intrusive Assessments in the PATHWAYS Puberty…
The publication of the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial protocols reveals how trans young people are required to complete more than fifty…
medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
My son went through several years of having to respond to pointless and deeply traumatic quizzing while at GIDS Tavi - and that was nothing compared to the new protocol.
As a result he has a deep mistrust of any mental health or therapeutic service, and refuses to engage.
This is cruelty, not care
As a result he has a deep mistrust of any mental health or therapeutic service, and refuses to engage.
This is cruelty, not care
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Just assume every redacted name is Trump unless they prove otherwise. At this point, they have no credibility to be afforded the benefit of the doubt. I’ve had it with this crime syndicate.
Perhaps you can offer an example of how U.S. national security can be compromised by revealing the names of Epstein’s participants.
I’ll wait.
I’ll wait.
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Just assume every redacted name is Trump unless they prove otherwise. At this point, they have no credibility to be afforded the benefit of the doubt. I’ve had it with this crime syndicate.
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France has added Musk’s Grok to an ongoing cybercrime investigation after it produced French-language posts echoing Holocaust denial about Auschwitz.
November 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
France has added Musk’s Grok to an ongoing cybercrime investigation after it produced French-language posts echoing Holocaust denial about Auschwitz.
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Listen back here if you missed it www.glitterbeam.co.uk/podcasts/
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Listen back here if you missed it www.glitterbeam.co.uk/podcasts/
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Funny they'd want to do that while not talking about NATHAN GILL at all.
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Funny they'd want to do that while not talking about NATHAN GILL at all.
Further confirmation that Trump's barrel has a basement.
When I say WTF I REALLY mean WHAT THE ACTUAL F IS THIS!?! This president is solid trash. My god
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Further confirmation that Trump's barrel has a basement.
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Under new NHS puberty blocker trial protocols, trans youth are being subjected to more than 50 assessments, intrusive exams, and over 13 hours of intrusive testing - just to access lifesaving healthcare
It demands young people re-live distress & undergo intimate examinations
#ConversionPractices
It demands young people re-live distress & undergo intimate examinations
#ConversionPractices
Trans Young People Face 50+ Tests and Hours of Intrusive Assessments in the PATHWAYS Puberty…
The publication of the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial protocols reveals how trans young people are required to complete more than fifty…
medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Under new NHS puberty blocker trial protocols, trans youth are being subjected to more than 50 assessments, intrusive exams, and over 13 hours of intrusive testing - just to access lifesaving healthcare
It demands young people re-live distress & undergo intimate examinations
#ConversionPractices
It demands young people re-live distress & undergo intimate examinations
#ConversionPractices
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Quite why Maya Forstater thinks her views are more important than the sizeable majority who voted to keep the ponds trans inclusive, as they always have been. But she does. She and her gazillionaire backers have a hearing in the High Court next month - and we're fighting back. goodlaw.social/vs0d
We’re standing with trans people against hate at Hampstead women’s pond | Good Law Project
It’s almost crunch time for a legal challenge from an anti-trans pressure group which could see trans people banned from Hampstead women’s pond. We’re not backing down.
goodlaw.social
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Quite why Maya Forstater thinks her views are more important than the sizeable majority who voted to keep the ponds trans inclusive, as they always have been. But she does. She and her gazillionaire backers have a hearing in the High Court next month - and we're fighting back. goodlaw.social/vs0d
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From FOI's to 36 local authorities, @translucent.org.uk found only TWO complaints:
1️⃣ Bradford: A complaint about the *policy*
2️⃣ Sheffield: Where the complainant *perceived* the person was trans (they could have been a butch lesbian or GNC cis woman!)
⚠️ There are 11K+ public bathrooms in the UK!
1️⃣ Bradford: A complaint about the *policy*
2️⃣ Sheffield: Where the complainant *perceived* the person was trans (they could have been a butch lesbian or GNC cis woman!)
⚠️ There are 11K+ public bathrooms in the UK!
How Many Complaints About Trans Women Using Toilets? - TransLucent
Data from local authorities representing over 16.5 million people reveals that complaints about trans women using toilets are virtually non-existent
translucent.org.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
From FOI's to 36 local authorities, @translucent.org.uk found only TWO complaints:
1️⃣ Bradford: A complaint about the *policy*
2️⃣ Sheffield: Where the complainant *perceived* the person was trans (they could have been a butch lesbian or GNC cis woman!)
⚠️ There are 11K+ public bathrooms in the UK!
1️⃣ Bradford: A complaint about the *policy*
2️⃣ Sheffield: Where the complainant *perceived* the person was trans (they could have been a butch lesbian or GNC cis woman!)
⚠️ There are 11K+ public bathrooms in the UK!
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A former acquaintance of mine - also an Old Etonian - who had never expressed a political sentiment in the ten years I'd known him said much those same words to me ca 2001.
He viewed it as "something to do" because he didn't really have to work like the rest of us.
He viewed it as "something to do" because he didn't really have to work like the rest of us.
I'll never forget the line from Cameron where he ( reportedly ) said he wanted to be PM because he thought he'd be
"quite good at it"
Quite how we prevent this unwarranted entitlement is beyond me.
"quite good at it"
Quite how we prevent this unwarranted entitlement is beyond me.
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
A former acquaintance of mine - also an Old Etonian - who had never expressed a political sentiment in the ten years I'd known him said much those same words to me ca 2001.
He viewed it as "something to do" because he didn't really have to work like the rest of us.
He viewed it as "something to do" because he didn't really have to work like the rest of us.
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Wow. @marina-purkiss.bsky.social asked Grok if Musk had ever tweeted that Trump was in the Epstein files. It said he had not and that any screenshots were ‘fake’.
open.spotify.com/episode/6CC9...
@thetrawl.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/6CC9...
@thetrawl.bsky.social
Part 1 - Epstein & Trump: You’ve Got Mail (Unfortunately)
open.spotify.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Wow. @marina-purkiss.bsky.social asked Grok if Musk had ever tweeted that Trump was in the Epstein files. It said he had not and that any screenshots were ‘fake’.
open.spotify.com/episode/6CC9...
@thetrawl.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/6CC9...
@thetrawl.bsky.social
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Me: being trans is not classed as a mental illness. Stop using mental health as a way to demonise people. Do you do the same with bipolar and depression?
Some absolute muppet: it was only declassified by WHO in 2019.
Me: … so it’s not classed as a mental illness. Thanks for confirming I’m correct
Some absolute muppet: it was only declassified by WHO in 2019.
Me: … so it’s not classed as a mental illness. Thanks for confirming I’m correct
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Me: being trans is not classed as a mental illness. Stop using mental health as a way to demonise people. Do you do the same with bipolar and depression?
Some absolute muppet: it was only declassified by WHO in 2019.
Me: … so it’s not classed as a mental illness. Thanks for confirming I’m correct
Some absolute muppet: it was only declassified by WHO in 2019.
Me: … so it’s not classed as a mental illness. Thanks for confirming I’m correct
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UK media: every time you quote Sex Matters on anything related to trans people, it’s the equivalent of quoting the Flat Earth Society on anything related to space or air travel.
They’re unqualified cranks.
They’re unqualified cranks.
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
UK media: every time you quote Sex Matters on anything related to trans people, it’s the equivalent of quoting the Flat Earth Society on anything related to space or air travel.
They’re unqualified cranks.
They’re unqualified cranks.
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I think what this weekend needs is some Queer Fabulousness. Join me from 10am on @glitterbeamuk.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I think what this weekend needs is some Queer Fabulousness. Join me from 10am on @glitterbeamuk.bsky.social
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One of the biggest blights on Labour, the ultra-Conservative Maurice Glasman, says Labour will be forced to leave the ECHR soon because judges are “a bunch of arrogant, unaccountable, useless people who protect Albanian drug dealers from getting deported.” (via New Statesman)
November 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
One of the biggest blights on Labour, the ultra-Conservative Maurice Glasman, says Labour will be forced to leave the ECHR soon because judges are “a bunch of arrogant, unaccountable, useless people who protect Albanian drug dealers from getting deported.” (via New Statesman)
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This is chapter and verse for how and why the Supreme Court judgement is bad law. Not just because of the EA or the GRA or basic human decency or the ECHR or Goodwin Vs UK, but because of law laid down in the late 90s.
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...
www.whatdotheyknow.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This is chapter and verse for how and why the Supreme Court judgement is bad law. Not just because of the EA or the GRA or basic human decency or the ECHR or Goodwin Vs UK, but because of law laid down in the late 90s.
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The American Christian right has infiltrated the UK. We are on the road to Gilead...
Of 65 anti-rights groups in the UK, including anti-abortion orgs, ‘conversion therapy’ promoters, UK branches of powerful US-based orgs, and ultra-conservative Christian groups, 32 spent £106m between 2019-2023! 😬
Of 65 anti-rights groups in the UK, including anti-abortion orgs, ‘conversion therapy’ promoters, UK branches of powerful US-based orgs, and ultra-conservative Christian groups, 32 spent £106m between 2019-2023! 😬
The American Christian right has infiltrated the UK. We are on the road to Gilead, but it's not too late to change course
Ten years ago I started the Guilty Feminist podcast and the movement felt alive. Since then, I’ve watched in horror as Trump's America rolls back women's, gay and trans rights. Seeing the same strateg...
www.thenerve.news
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The American Christian right has infiltrated the UK. We are on the road to Gilead...
Of 65 anti-rights groups in the UK, including anti-abortion orgs, ‘conversion therapy’ promoters, UK branches of powerful US-based orgs, and ultra-conservative Christian groups, 32 spent £106m between 2019-2023! 😬
Of 65 anti-rights groups in the UK, including anti-abortion orgs, ‘conversion therapy’ promoters, UK branches of powerful US-based orgs, and ultra-conservative Christian groups, 32 spent £106m between 2019-2023! 😬
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Trouble at the BBC. Hopefully all this will lead to the end of political appointees.
BBC board member resigns and criticises 'governance issues' at top of corporation
Shumeet Banerji leaves his position on the BBC board.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Trouble at the BBC. Hopefully all this will lead to the end of political appointees.
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Imagine, if you can, a parent whose love was not up to the task of saving their child from the environment Wes Streeting has created for young trans people. Imagine the effect on that bereaved parent of a coroner who saw that tragedy as a stage on which to perform their own prejudice.
The tendency of Coroners to ignore guidance from the Chief Coroner, the reality of trans existence, and the wishes of bereaved parents, and express their own views in the death certificate, is both contemptible and unlawful.
We have a legal team ready to go; we will challenge it in the High Court.
We have a legal team ready to go; we will challenge it in the High Court.
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Imagine, if you can, a parent whose love was not up to the task of saving their child from the environment Wes Streeting has created for young trans people. Imagine the effect on that bereaved parent of a coroner who saw that tragedy as a stage on which to perform their own prejudice.