Mrs Shaun Palmer (she/her)
shaunpalmicro.bsky.social
Mrs Shaun Palmer (she/her)
@shaunpalmicro.bsky.social
Wife, Parent, Software Engineer
Chippenham, Wiltshire
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“Make a Promise, Keep a Promise”: that was the resounding message outside Girlguiding HQ today as hundreds of current and ex members, leaders, parents and allies turned out in joyful force to oppose the organisation’s ban on trans girls participation.
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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In order to "protect women" Texas made it so that women have to go through armed guards with an ID check. They literally created a potty police.
December 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The hero who disarmed one of the terrorists in Sydney turned out to be 43-year-old Ahmed al-Ahmed — a fruit shop owner and father of two.

He was shot twice and is currently in hospital. He is scheduled to undergo surgery.

He had no experience with weapons of any kind.
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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In the transcript, HB is Helen Belcher who does what I have been waiting for for months.

She challenges the expression "biological male/female". The responses (ie silences) are very telling.

tacc.org.uk/2025/12/12/t...
December 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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This is the #poem I read at end of my resignation - it will be in the follow up collection to Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth , most likely called Let The Quiet Ones Rise

flapjackpress.co.uk/shop/ice-cre...
December 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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14 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- 100s current and ex members, leaders, & parents turn out protest at Girlguiding HQ in England over its new ban of trans girls. The group had previously announced itself “proudly trans inclusive.”
Hundreds gather outside Girlguiding HQ to demand trans ban is reversed: 'Adults debate, children bleed'
Hundreds of current and ex members, leaders, parents and allies turned out in joyful force to oppose Girlguiding's ban on trans girls.
www.thepinknews.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Bridget Phillipson knew her history, was told by MPs not to appoint her, insisted on appointing her, and in her first interview the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has ignored super clear and explicit human rights law that trans people are not a third sex. What a disgrace.
December 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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"If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist"

The majority of the scientific community agrees on gender affirming care and yet she refuses to listen so she can wage a war on queer children
December 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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I was concerned that Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson might try and be smarter about transphobia than her predecessors and leave trans people in a shit place than was harder to rectify because it wasn’t so obvious.

Today dispelled those worries.

Labour have appointed a second raving bigot to run the EHRC.
December 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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If you have a bank account in your country or use U.S. technology, as most of us do, this will 100% affect you and your loved ones now and well into the foreseeable future. And this is why #Digitalsovereignty should be a goal for every democratic government if they are serious about freedom.
"‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock Intl Criminal Court judge out of daily life. Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards or access everyday services (Uber, Alexa, Ticketmaster...) in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary." www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.

Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Streeting is asking for a “consensus” with another cis politician but not with trans people.

A bit like a “consensus” about women’s bodily autonomy in the Vatican, or about LGB rights in the Westboro Baptist Church.

To call it a “consensus” at all is very revealing and demonstrates…

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December 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Absolute arsehole. I work in a London school as a teacher where 40 to 50% of the students are Muslim. What happens at Christmas? The classes decorate their rooms, organise secret santas, exchange Christmas cards with all participating. It is very much seen as a community festival for all.
C of E responds to Tommy Robinson’s carols event with ‘Christmas is for all’ message
Release of 43-second video comes as senior church figures speak out against dangers of Christian nationalism
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Having to resign from a BBC science show after 16 years and 33 seasons, for not being a transphobe is where we are as a country.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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They say never meet your heroes but I know Robin so I know sometimes you should.
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Please take the time this weekend to make a complaint to the BBC.
This is getting intolerable.
December 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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This is from the Irish Labour Party, the SDLP and Irish Labour Women. A full-throated condemnation of UK Labour’s ban on trans women at its women’s conference.

“In the current climate, the trans community is the canary in the mine for the growing wave of anti-LGBTQIAP+ rhetoric.”
December 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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You thought the patriarchy was going to stop with trans people? Really? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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1/🧵 I am releasing my witness statement as part of my information tribunal case against Wes Streeting and the Department of Health and Social Care.

Content warning: suicide

drive.google.com/file/d/1na2i...
Witness statement of E A Lee_Redacted.pdf
drive.google.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Since a homophobic attack on his niece, his party has introduced multiple anti-LGBTQIA+ policies and the UK has fallen steeply in human rights rankings

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/keir-starmer-shocked-his-anti-lgbtqia-rhetoric-is-creating-anti-lgbtqia-sentiment/
Starmer "furious" at homophobic attack on his family, as if his party has nothing to do with it
Since a homophobic attack on his niece, his party has introduced multiple anti-LGBTQIA+ policies and the UK has fallen steeply in human rights rankings
www.wearequeeraf.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.

archive.ph/Tmthz
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM