Penncat
@pennicat.bsky.social
Shy, disabled, queer, autistic.
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Writer of contemporary m/m/m and lesbian historical novels.
Book related stuff found mostly at @penthewriter.bsky.social
Cornwall dweller.
May actually be the cat in the picture
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Writer of contemporary m/m/m and lesbian historical novels.
Book related stuff found mostly at @penthewriter.bsky.social
Cornwall dweller.
May actually be the cat in the picture
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Penncat
@pennicat.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Chronic conditions
- #hEDS
- #ME/CFS
- #IBD
- #migraine
- #osteoporosis
- #fibromyalgia
- #rectallintussussection
- #depression
- #POTS
Chronic interests
- intersectional feminism
- writing
- football & sport
- Doctor Who
- environment issues
- cats & animals
- politics
#trans & #ActullyAutistic
- #hEDS
- #ME/CFS
- #IBD
- #migraine
- #osteoporosis
- #fibromyalgia
- #rectallintussussection
- #depression
- #POTS
Chronic interests
- intersectional feminism
- writing
- football & sport
- Doctor Who
- environment issues
- cats & animals
- politics
#trans & #ActullyAutistic
Not nearly as bad as many folk on here because I’m not very well known, but certainly I’ve had men tell me that they’d fuck me and then I’d know I was female (I was clearly going to get no choice in this), and the usual suggestion that shouldn’t I just kms since that’s what the trans did.
Like and share this if you've received online threats of violence for being trans, or supporting trans people.
I have.
I have.
Trans ally Georgia Tennant contacts police after receiving death threats online
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/10/georgia-tennant-contacts-police-online-hate-trans-ally/?utm_content=1762785060&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/10/georgia-tennant-contacts-police-online-hate-trans-ally/?utm_content=1762785060&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Not nearly as bad as many folk on here because I’m not very well known, but certainly I’ve had men tell me that they’d fuck me and then I’d know I was female (I was clearly going to get no choice in this), and the usual suggestion that shouldn’t I just kms since that’s what the trans did.
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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!
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Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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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
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
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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!
🧵
Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
🧵
Money for nuclear weapons, money for funding fucking AI…but no money for the climate (about the most important issue in the world, incidentally, especially if you want to slow immigration!), nor for children or disabled people.
That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Money for nuclear weapons, money for funding fucking AI…but no money for the climate (about the most important issue in the world, incidentally, especially if you want to slow immigration!), nor for children or disabled people.
Trump really is the most despicable arsehole though.
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Trump really is the most despicable arsehole though.
I like the way @zackpolanski.bsky.social is never afraid to face skeletons in his closet, and indeed wishes to bring them out and introduce them to you by name (“this one is James, he’s from my hypnotherapist days”).
I like Green policies even more.
I like Green policies even more.
The right can mock my teeth all it wants – it shows the Greens have struck a nerve | Zack Polanski
The right can mock my teeth all it wants – it shows the Greens have struck a nerve | Zack Polanski
As a politician, I expect opposition and debate. But when it centres on personal insults, not policies, something else is going on, says the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I like the way @zackpolanski.bsky.social is never afraid to face skeletons in his closet, and indeed wishes to bring them out and introduce them to you by name (“this one is James, he’s from my hypnotherapist days”).
I like Green policies even more.
I like Green policies even more.
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Brianna Ghey was the target of brutal bullying and assault that cumulated in her violent murder because she was trans. Any 'solution' to her death that isn't focused on the culture of transphobia that made a group of children think her life was worth less is a distraction from this fact.
Phones did not murder Brianna Ghey in cold blood.
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Brianna Ghey was the target of brutal bullying and assault that cumulated in her violent murder because she was trans. Any 'solution' to her death that isn't focused on the culture of transphobia that made a group of children think her life was worth less is a distraction from this fact.
I have just been reminded of the time in the past when my son did something very childish and I turned to shout, “Are you FIVE?” at him but stopped myself when I realised that yes, yes, in fact, he was…
(This brought to you by “of course you have bad takes, you’re twelve”.)
(This brought to you by “of course you have bad takes, you’re twelve”.)
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I have just been reminded of the time in the past when my son did something very childish and I turned to shout, “Are you FIVE?” at him but stopped myself when I realised that yes, yes, in fact, he was…
(This brought to you by “of course you have bad takes, you’re twelve”.)
(This brought to you by “of course you have bad takes, you’re twelve”.)
Spouse showed me an advisory from the US Veterans Fencing Association to its members travelling to the World Championships in Bahrain to “not discuss weapons in the airport…please refer to them as sporting equipment” and I think it’s the best thing that’s come out of his going!
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Spouse showed me an advisory from the US Veterans Fencing Association to its members travelling to the World Championships in Bahrain to “not discuss weapons in the airport…please refer to them as sporting equipment” and I think it’s the best thing that’s come out of his going!
It’s obscene enough that people are bankrupted for needing healthcare in the US. Without these subsidies, people will die. People I care about - people like me - will struggle to survive because people in government are too selfish to fight for them.
I’m not American and I’m angry.
I’m not American and I’m angry.
If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored.
That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
It’s obscene enough that people are bankrupted for needing healthcare in the US. Without these subsidies, people will die. People I care about - people like me - will struggle to survive because people in government are too selfish to fight for them.
I’m not American and I’m angry.
I’m not American and I’m angry.
I need to get up and feed the cats but it involves getting up, which is problematic.
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I need to get up and feed the cats but it involves getting up, which is problematic.
If the pro-trans people are the same as the anti-slavery etc people…I’m happy with staying on this side of the “contentious subjects,” thanks!
Does she really think this makes anti-trans GCs look in the right?!
Does she really think this makes anti-trans GCs look in the right?!
"On contentious subjects such as slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine, eminent academics claim there has been a rewriting of history."
What exactly is contentious about slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine?
What exactly is contentious about slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine?
Suzanne Moore, who would rather be locked up than pay her BBC licence fee because the BBC is too nice to trans people for her liking.
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If the pro-trans people are the same as the anti-slavery etc people…I’m happy with staying on this side of the “contentious subjects,” thanks!
Does she really think this makes anti-trans GCs look in the right?!
Does she really think this makes anti-trans GCs look in the right?!
What the actual…
(Yes, it is at Walmart online, I checked)
(Yes, it is at Walmart online, I checked)
November 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
What the actual…
(Yes, it is at Walmart online, I checked)
(Yes, it is at Walmart online, I checked)
She’s too good for Labour.
I imagine @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social will be getting the usual abuse for speaking out - solidarity with her and all those fighting against hate manipulated by the wealthy right gleefully creating a distracting wedge issue
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
She’s too good for Labour.
I’ve read about this before, but it’s outrageous, nonetheless, the way it was hidden.
Obviously pay for the original content and don’t use this free archive link.
archive.ph/4UqX9
Obviously pay for the original content and don’t use this free archive link.
archive.ph/4UqX9
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I’ve read about this before, but it’s outrageous, nonetheless, the way it was hidden.
Obviously pay for the original content and don’t use this free archive link.
archive.ph/4UqX9
Obviously pay for the original content and don’t use this free archive link.
archive.ph/4UqX9
Ha, this is excellent. (Not that the churches refused to help, but the attention her project got.)
A TikToker did a social experiment where she called churches to get help to buy formula to feed her baby.
Every church repeatedly declined to help.
TikTok now can’t stop talking about the experiment.
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Every church repeatedly declined to help.
TikTok now can’t stop talking about the experiment.
/
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Ha, this is excellent. (Not that the churches refused to help, but the attention her project got.)
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I made a random compliment generator today because I wanted to make something nice :)
Compliments 💖
You deserve to hear this
dr.eamer.dev
November 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I made a random compliment generator today because I wanted to make something nice :)
This is far too easy to believe. I’m fortunate that wheelchair users have never been considered to have a gender so I don’t face issues, but it’s fucking ridiculous that something which is provenly unproblematic and has never been an issue before is now suffering from this marvellous “clarity“.
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](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2dxbxnaywyhxdhuiiafrmy34/bafkreidejcnvaog3bhbxzgwcjjezztytalgxswj5nglv66zovq63le7oba@jpeg)
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This is far too easy to believe. I’m fortunate that wheelchair users have never been considered to have a gender so I don’t face issues, but it’s fucking ridiculous that something which is provenly unproblematic and has never been an issue before is now suffering from this marvellous “clarity“.
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Good folk doing the right thing being treated like extremists.
#climate
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
#climate
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Jailed UK climate protesters facing conditions reserved for extremists on release
Exclusive: Just Stop Oil activist was banned from attending gatherings, including meeting a friend in a cafe, without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Good folk doing the right thing being treated like extremists.
#climate
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
#climate
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
What the fuck? The 80s is, like, modern times. Idk, I am shocked by this when I probably ought not to be.
I was on both of my parents’ passports for the longest time as a kid, rather than having my own, I remember that.
I was on both of my parents’ passports for the longest time as a kid, rather than having my own, I remember that.
According to this graphic, the UK was very late compared to our European neighbours in having discriminatory passport rules for women (still needing husband's permission to get a passport 1981).
ourworldindata.org/grapher/wome...
ourworldindata.org/grapher/wome...
Women can apply for a passport in the same way as men
An interactive visualization from Our World in Data.
ourworldindata.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
What the fuck? The 80s is, like, modern times. Idk, I am shocked by this when I probably ought not to be.
I was on both of my parents’ passports for the longest time as a kid, rather than having my own, I remember that.
I was on both of my parents’ passports for the longest time as a kid, rather than having my own, I remember that.
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7 Nov 2025 -- Vowing to “reclaim Hampstead Heath from the TERFs” following public consultation on women's access to the famed London pond & legal threats from TERF groups, The Dyke Project collective announces "a morning of trans joy and community celebration" for Nov 8. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Upcoming trans-joy-filled community event aims to reclaim Hampstead Heath ponds
A morning of trans joy and community celebration will take place to, as organisers put it, "reclaim Hampstead Heath from the TERFs".
www.thepinknews.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
7 Nov 2025 -- Vowing to “reclaim Hampstead Heath from the TERFs” following public consultation on women's access to the famed London pond & legal threats from TERF groups, The Dyke Project collective announces "a morning of trans joy and community celebration" for Nov 8. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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UNPLUG THE DAMN THING.
This technology should NOT exist. Nobody wants it. It makes no lives better. They pocked trillions and all they have to show for it is a death machine. Unplug it. Today.
This technology should NOT exist. Nobody wants it. It makes no lives better. They pocked trillions and all they have to show for it is a death machine. Unplug it. Today.
This is fucking bone-chilling
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
UNPLUG THE DAMN THING.
This technology should NOT exist. Nobody wants it. It makes no lives better. They pocked trillions and all they have to show for it is a death machine. Unplug it. Today.
This technology should NOT exist. Nobody wants it. It makes no lives better. They pocked trillions and all they have to show for it is a death machine. Unplug it. Today.
Hurrah for some positive news about decent people
Another amazing article worth a read and share!
metro.co.uk/2025/11/07/c...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/07/c...
Cyclists have just proven that including trans women isn’t hard
Cycling UK have gravely misjudged the people they claimed to represent.
metro.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Hurrah for some positive news about decent people
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Thank you for all the kind words and support. Can I please ask a favour? Can you spread this story as far and wide as you can. Share it with people you know, forward it to your MP's, anyone in the public eye that might be supportive. This is unbelievably horrific, and no one knows about it..
My son is on blockers legally from before the ban and we did everything they told us to do and now we are being threatened with social services if we don't allow them to "safely withdraw" medication. They admit that the impact will be "stark" for our kids but they are going to do it anyway.
"Laura fears all will be lost if ICB Sussex forces her child off the medication.
If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Thank you for all the kind words and support. Can I please ask a favour? Can you spread this story as far and wide as you can. Share it with people you know, forward it to your MP's, anyone in the public eye that might be supportive. This is unbelievably horrific, and no one knows about it..
This is utterly horrific. It’s not even keeping to the law, but they don’t care when they can batter trans people (trans *children*).
I read someone’s story who quoted this saying they’d had this experience and it’s the bleakest stuff you can read. These are real people, not ”an ideology” ffs.
I read someone’s story who quoted this saying they’d had this experience and it’s the bleakest stuff you can read. These are real people, not ”an ideology” ffs.
"Laura fears all will be lost if ICB Sussex forces her child off the medication.
If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
NHS threatens GP practice over trans care
A GP practice in Brighton and Hove is currently under investigation for legally providing gender affirming care to trans teens
northwestbylines.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
This is utterly horrific. It’s not even keeping to the law, but they don’t care when they can batter trans people (trans *children*).
I read someone’s story who quoted this saying they’d had this experience and it’s the bleakest stuff you can read. These are real people, not ”an ideology” ffs.
I read someone’s story who quoted this saying they’d had this experience and it’s the bleakest stuff you can read. These are real people, not ”an ideology” ffs.
Oh gods, this is disgusting.
On BBC news this morning this was framed as "disabled people are going to cause a recession" and talking about how to make disabled people get jobs.
There was no mention of how the govt has restricted covid vaccinations so most of us have to pay £100 if we want one.
There was no mention of how the govt has restricted covid vaccinations so most of us have to pay £100 if we want one.
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Oh gods, this is disgusting.