Dr Phoenix CS Andrews
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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews
@thatdocphoenix.com
· Nov 13
Hello new followers! I am trans and autistic but wrote a book that is about neither of those things so neither of those communities tend to know about it. It’s called I Heart Politics and it’s a good read, I promise
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All you need to know.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
All you need to know.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
This is a very good piece, but Lewis is still too (understandably) scared to contradict his colleagues on air about the anti-trans stuff
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This is a very good piece, but Lewis is still too (understandably) scared to contradict his colleagues on air about the anti-trans stuff
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Healthcare, social assistance, asylum – being a journalist in Britain is, for the most part, shaping the offical narrative to why people should live in worse conditions and be even more miserable. And if you're really lucky you might get a Press Award at the end of it
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Healthcare, social assistance, asylum – being a journalist in Britain is, for the most part, shaping the offical narrative to why people should live in worse conditions and be even more miserable. And if you're really lucky you might get a Press Award at the end of it
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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.
Similar to the Hinsliff article about GenX radicalisation. Beam. Own eye. Speck in others. No understanding
What's fascinating here is that as she rhymes off the list of gender critical people at Newsnight pursuing an explicitly gender critical agenda, in the context of a discussion of ideological capture at the BBC, she doesn't recognise that she was part of the ideological capture of the BBC by GCs.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Similar to the Hinsliff article about GenX radicalisation. Beam. Own eye. Speck in others. No understanding
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If you’re discussing the rise of a global fascist movement that is now strongly exerting itself domestically and you’re *still* wittering about the speech tyranny of the kids and the baleful influence of Stonewall, then that’s pretty wacky, folks! It looks unserious and self-indulgent at very best!
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
If you’re discussing the rise of a global fascist movement that is now strongly exerting itself domestically and you’re *still* wittering about the speech tyranny of the kids and the baleful influence of Stonewall, then that’s pretty wacky, folks! It looks unserious and self-indulgent at very best!
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A group of powerful national journalists choosing to single out the healthcare of a vulnerable minority for a campaign of intense laser-like scrutiny would, in an humane society, be described as an insane radicalised pogrom.
But on Normal Island, that's a Wednesday.
But on Normal Island, that's a Wednesday.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A group of powerful national journalists choosing to single out the healthcare of a vulnerable minority for a campaign of intense laser-like scrutiny would, in an humane society, be described as an insane radicalised pogrom.
But on Normal Island, that's a Wednesday.
But on Normal Island, that's a Wednesday.
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Imagine the cognitive dissonance of being one of the “centre left” people who thinks the right are wrong about most of their wild BBC criticisms, bar on “trans”
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Imagine the cognitive dissonance of being one of the “centre left” people who thinks the right are wrong about most of their wild BBC criticisms, bar on “trans”
The political editor of the Sunday Telegraph repeating all the right-wing lines about the BBC on Channel 4 News, down to “trans issues”. I’m tired
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The political editor of the Sunday Telegraph repeating all the right-wing lines about the BBC on Channel 4 News, down to “trans issues”. I’m tired
My nemesis on to shit on us again
.... And Helen Lewis is on PM. Day 2 of queer people discovering they've been in control of the BBC this entire time.
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
My nemesis on to shit on us again
Resign
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
Artificial intelligence chatbots could be used to stop prisoners from being mistakenly released from jail, a justice minister told the House of Lords on Monday.
Lord Timpson said HMP Wandsworth had been given the “green light” to use artificial intelligence (AI) after a specialised team was sent in to find “some quick fixes”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Resign
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When Rosie Duffield is in on it I think we can safely say the anti-phone campaign in Brianna's name is actively at odds with tackling transphobia
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
When Rosie Duffield is in on it I think we can safely say the anti-phone campaign in Brianna's name is actively at odds with tackling transphobia
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Today is one of those days where, whether or not you have any opinion on what is going on in the news, isn’t the problem.
Days like today are awful because you know that the trans community who are going to end up picking up the tab. Things are only going to get worse.
I’m so fucking exhausted.
Days like today are awful because you know that the trans community who are going to end up picking up the tab. Things are only going to get worse.
I’m so fucking exhausted.
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Today is one of those days where, whether or not you have any opinion on what is going on in the news, isn’t the problem.
Days like today are awful because you know that the trans community who are going to end up picking up the tab. Things are only going to get worse.
I’m so fucking exhausted.
Days like today are awful because you know that the trans community who are going to end up picking up the tab. Things are only going to get worse.
I’m so fucking exhausted.
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Personally I think BBC, especially news, is mismanaged. It's reporting on certain areas, obviously I tend to focus most on immigration, but others as well, is incredibly shoddy. It has huge issues. Not being right wing enough isn't one of them. This feels like an attack to undermine press freedom.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Personally I think BBC, especially news, is mismanaged. It's reporting on certain areas, obviously I tend to focus most on immigration, but others as well, is incredibly shoddy. It has huge issues. Not being right wing enough isn't one of them. This feels like an attack to undermine press freedom.
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Just to get this straight in my head, we've gone from "BBC badly edited a piece about Trump, but was accurate overall", to the "BBC isn't transphobic enough and is all woke", and we're still arguing, regardless of the myriad of issues with the BBC, whether there's a genuine right wing attack on it?
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Just to get this straight in my head, we've gone from "BBC badly edited a piece about Trump, but was accurate overall", to the "BBC isn't transphobic enough and is all woke", and we're still arguing, regardless of the myriad of issues with the BBC, whether there's a genuine right wing attack on it?
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Men like this are transphobes because they are, deep down, misogynists. They simply believe they are better than women at everything, and in trans women they have found a group it is alright to descriminate against. This man believes cis women are his physical inferiors, and needs you to know that.
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Men like this are transphobes because they are, deep down, misogynists. They simply believe they are better than women at everything, and in trans women they have found a group it is alright to descriminate against. This man believes cis women are his physical inferiors, and needs you to know that.
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...but in general so much of the 'should Labour pivot to the left to win back the Greens?' chat inside and outside the government ignores that 'the Labour 2024, Green 2025 voter is basically the Labour voter that has done worst out of the government's policies and the broader economic backdrop'.
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
...but in general so much of the 'should Labour pivot to the left to win back the Greens?' chat inside and outside the government ignores that 'the Labour 2024, Green 2025 voter is basically the Labour voter that has done worst out of the government's policies and the broader economic backdrop'.
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This is what kills me. If Esther Ghey wants to talk about the dangers of kids being online too much, she can talk about radicalization, about bigotry, about the dehumanizing ideas of trans people Brianna's killers were exposed to.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
putting her phone in a pouch would have made her killers less transphobic and violent?
Phones did not murder Brianna Ghey in cold blood.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This is what kills me. If Esther Ghey wants to talk about the dangers of kids being online too much, she can talk about radicalization, about bigotry, about the dehumanizing ideas of trans people Brianna's killers were exposed to.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
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If the lads had been upfront all along and just said that the likes of Sonia are vicious whackjobs and crackpots - and they absolutely are - then we might not be in this mess now.
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If the lads had been upfront all along and just said that the likes of Sonia are vicious whackjobs and crackpots - and they absolutely are - then we might not be in this mess now.
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It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.
Transphobia is a pipeline to the far right. An example:
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
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 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.
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She uses the word "impartiality" here, but what Sonia Sodha wants from the BBC Director General isn't impartiality at all.
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
She uses the word "impartiality" here, but what Sonia Sodha wants from the BBC Director General isn't impartiality at all.
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The key is to raise taxes enough to actually be able to do something with it, beyond placating the OBR and bond markets
Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
If Labour want a fairer society, they must argue for it
Labour must make the political argument: taxes are the critical downpayment we all pay to live in a fairer society.
It now seems all but certain that direct taxes will rise in the forthcoming Budget...
renewal.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The key is to raise taxes enough to actually be able to do something with it, beyond placating the OBR and bond markets
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Those “trans issues” which Alan Rusbridger doesn’t object to?
• Drag race:
Nothing particularly to do with trans people, just queer culture existing.
• Stories about pride:
Ditto.
• Occational stories about trans people existing.
• Regular transphobia and conspiracy theories about trans people.
• Drag race:
Nothing particularly to do with trans people, just queer culture existing.
• Stories about pride:
Ditto.
• Occational stories about trans people existing.
• Regular transphobia and conspiracy theories about trans people.
Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Those “trans issues” which Alan Rusbridger doesn’t object to?
• Drag race:
Nothing particularly to do with trans people, just queer culture existing.
• Stories about pride:
Ditto.
• Occational stories about trans people existing.
• Regular transphobia and conspiracy theories about trans people.
• Drag race:
Nothing particularly to do with trans people, just queer culture existing.
• Stories about pride:
Ditto.
• Occational stories about trans people existing.
• Regular transphobia and conspiracy theories about trans people.