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If disease is caused by unresolved emotional conflicts is it possible you could raise a child so badly that they spontaneously bring back smallpox?
A horrifying, yet must-read article. That these women remain free to continue profiting from dangerous, even deadly mis- and disinformation on pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum complications is a stain on modern culture.
November 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
If disease is caused by unresolved emotional conflicts is it possible you could raise a child so badly that they spontaneously bring back smallpox?
NHS leaking trial protocols to anti trans writers pre publication
A Substacker named Ben Ryan tweeted that "the long-awaited UK puberty blocker clinical trial protocol is out."
Shortly thereafter he deleted the post. I can't find a public version of the protocol but here's what I was able to salvage from the screenshot + post.
[A THREAD]
Shortly thereafter he deleted the post. I can't find a public version of the protocol but here's what I was able to salvage from the screenshot + post.
[A THREAD]
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
NHS leaking trial protocols to anti trans writers pre publication
If a service doesn't have a gender neutral option and is unable to clearly establish someone's sex at birth are they forced to ban them from both? This guidance has finally noticed that there is no record which clearly establishes someone's sex at birth.
"Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look. The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash" [Times]
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look
The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash
www.thetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If a service doesn't have a gender neutral option and is unable to clearly establish someone's sex at birth are they forced to ban them from both? This guidance has finally noticed that there is no record which clearly establishes someone's sex at birth.
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"As someone working in law, it’s heresy to say this, and it might even kill my chances of a career... But as a trans person, and someone fighting for the rights of my community, I refuse to remain silent. To me it just seems obvious: a heavily prejudiced society produces prejudiced institutions."
It’s no surprise that only 31% of trans people trust a legal system built to enforce prejudice, says Jess O’Thomson.
It’s no surprise that only 31% of trans people trust a legal system built to enforce prejudice, says Jess O’Thomson.
goodlawproject.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"As someone working in law, it’s heresy to say this, and it might even kill my chances of a career... But as a trans person, and someone fighting for the rights of my community, I refuse to remain silent. To me it just seems obvious: a heavily prejudiced society produces prejudiced institutions."
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My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings
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Ok since the worst people in the world are accusing the BBC of pro-trans bias, I guess it's time to talk about how this summer the BBC completely dishonestly edited me to cape for transphobic bullies 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Ok since the worst people in the world are accusing the BBC of pro-trans bias, I guess it's time to talk about how this summer the BBC completely dishonestly edited me to cape for transphobic bullies 🧵
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www.ticketsource.co.uk/arcadia-roll...
Great news: Manchester's 3 roller derby teams are getting together to have a massive fundraiser event for Trans rights. Please get your tickets at this link and come support trans inclusive sport
Great news: Manchester's 3 roller derby teams are getting together to have a massive fundraiser event for Trans rights. Please get your tickets at this link and come support trans inclusive sport
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
www.ticketsource.co.uk/arcadia-roll...
Great news: Manchester's 3 roller derby teams are getting together to have a massive fundraiser event for Trans rights. Please get your tickets at this link and come support trans inclusive sport
Great news: Manchester's 3 roller derby teams are getting together to have a massive fundraiser event for Trans rights. Please get your tickets at this link and come support trans inclusive sport
BBC clearly demonstrating that the complaints process is worthless. You can get a complaint upheld and they will do the exact same thing again just reporting on it. None of the endless circle of submitting complaints will make them stop.
In this piece, admitting the BBC has broken its impartiality rules re. trans people, the BBC further breaks its impartiality rules by changing a quote saying "trans identity" to "trans ideology".
Martine Croxall broke rules over 'pregnant people' facial expression, BBC says
The BBC newsreader was reading out a news bulletin about research on groups most at risk in UK heatwaves.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
BBC clearly demonstrating that the complaints process is worthless. You can get a complaint upheld and they will do the exact same thing again just reporting on it. None of the endless circle of submitting complaints will make them stop.
This appears to skip right from two ships being in the same port straight to two groups of men facing each other in, and one of them already has his dick out? What is the process of arranging this kind of event? Is this just happening in the street?
October 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This appears to skip right from two ships being in the same port straight to two groups of men facing each other in, and one of them already has his dick out? What is the process of arranging this kind of event? Is this just happening in the street?
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it's important to call things what they are
"mass deportations of legal residents for cultural homogeneity" is an ethnic cleansing policy
"mass deportations of legal residents for cultural homogeneity" is an ethnic cleansing policy
October 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
it's important to call things what they are
"mass deportations of legal residents for cultural homogeneity" is an ethnic cleansing policy
"mass deportations of legal residents for cultural homogeneity" is an ethnic cleansing policy
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Melissa, chief operating officer at Loving Me, writes about the dangers of blocking trans survivors of abuse out of safe spaces.
There's a looming crisis for trans and non-binary survivors of domestic abuse
www.bigissue.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Melissa, chief operating officer at Loving Me, writes about the dangers of blocking trans survivors of abuse out of safe spaces.
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We have jointly applied to the Council of Europe formally to seek re-opening of enforcement of the case of Goodwin v UK under rule 9 of the Rules for the supervision of the execution of judgments and of the terms of friendly settlements, in the European Court of Human Rights. T
October 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
We have jointly applied to the Council of Europe formally to seek re-opening of enforcement of the case of Goodwin v UK under rule 9 of the Rules for the supervision of the execution of judgments and of the terms of friendly settlements, in the European Court of Human Rights. T
So I take from this that if I'm treated in any way that is different from cis women while using a women's toilet (like being asked to provide evidence of birth sex or ID) that this is direct gender reassignment discrimination? In the view of the EHRC?
October 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
So I take from this that if I'm treated in any way that is different from cis women while using a women's toilet (like being asked to provide evidence of birth sex or ID) that this is direct gender reassignment discrimination? In the view of the EHRC?
Excellent critiques of fws by legal people, feeling genuinely hearted to see so many different people willing to put their name to critiques of the ruling
journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
Vol. 14 No. 2 (2025)
| feminists@law
journals.kent.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Excellent critiques of fws by legal people, feeling genuinely hearted to see so many different people willing to put their name to critiques of the ruling
journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
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hahaha “there is something quite surprising, and quite jarring, about the way in which this judicial language seeks to diminish the significance of a legal document”
journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
View of 'For Women Scotland' [2025] UKSC 16, [2025] 2 WLR 879: ‘Paper certificates’, Gender Recognition Certificates and other legal documents
journals.kent.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
hahaha “there is something quite surprising, and quite jarring, about the way in which this judicial language seeks to diminish the significance of a legal document”
journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
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I think what people replying to this are missing is that Dean Street is home to both a gender clinic and a sexual health clinic. I've been to both many times over the years, they're a vital lifeline for many people.
This is intimidation of staff and patients.
This is intimidation of staff and patients.
October 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I think what people replying to this are missing is that Dean Street is home to both a gender clinic and a sexual health clinic. I've been to both many times over the years, they're a vital lifeline for many people.
This is intimidation of staff and patients.
This is intimidation of staff and patients.
Kelly Vs Santa?
Do any other employers have a "naughty list"?
Do any other employers have a "naughty list"?
October 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Kelly Vs Santa?
Do any other employers have a "naughty list"?
Do any other employers have a "naughty list"?
Making cool stuff from star wars is the one thing tech guys should be encouraged in doing
Today the vibro blade, tomorrow the lightsaber
Today the vibro blade, tomorrow the lightsaber
oh goodie now the tech guys are disrupting knives
(as a person with small hands who cooks using regular sharp knives, that handle, which requires you to hold down a button while cutting, looks huge and unwieldy as hell)
www.geekwire.com/2025/slice-o...
(as a person with small hands who cooks using regular sharp knives, that handle, which requires you to hold down a button while cutting, looks huge and unwieldy as hell)
www.geekwire.com/2025/slice-o...
Slice of startup life: Seattle kitchen tech wizard creates ultrasonic knife for more effortless cuts
It's taken more than 2.5 million years to get from the earliest sharpened-stone version of a knife to what Scott Heimendinger believes is a modern kitchen marvel.
www.geekwire.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Making cool stuff from star wars is the one thing tech guys should be encouraged in doing
Today the vibro blade, tomorrow the lightsaber
Today the vibro blade, tomorrow the lightsaber
Landlord trying to assert that they own your nudes because they were taken in your own home that you rent from them. They also claim to own work you do from home for your boss (including as a team), any creative project you have input in, your ao3 erotica and your child's drawings
An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:
September 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Landlord trying to assert that they own your nudes because they were taken in your own home that you rent from them. They also claim to own work you do from home for your boss (including as a team), any creative project you have input in, your ao3 erotica and your child's drawings
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I think fundamentally, the ability to care about the rights of a small and vulnerable minority (of whom you might know no members) is an important sign of whether you are committed to human rights out of principle, or out of mere convenience.
Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey
September 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I think fundamentally, the ability to care about the rights of a small and vulnerable minority (of whom you might know no members) is an important sign of whether you are committed to human rights out of principle, or out of mere convenience.
So much of opposition to "self ID" is people imagining a deeply repressive situation for trans people, like not being able to change documents without a diagnosis, or not being able to "call yourself a man/woman" without official permission, and then crying that "self ID" will take this away.
September 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
So much of opposition to "self ID" is people imagining a deeply repressive situation for trans people, like not being able to change documents without a diagnosis, or not being able to "call yourself a man/woman" without official permission, and then crying that "self ID" will take this away.
The first time I went in after I grew a beard the receptionist made me verbally confirm that the info on my records about genitals, sex assigned at birth and gender was correct. In a public reception area. Then when I got in to the appointment the nurse asked me if I had any testicular pain.
Trans and gender diverse people face multiple barriers accessing UK sexual health services
www.aidsmap.com/news/sep-202...
www.aidsmap.com/news/sep-202...
Trans and gender diverse people face multiple barriers accessing UK sexual health services
Trans and gender diverse people often expect poor treatment at UK sexual health clinics and actively look for signs of inclusivity before accessing services, according to recent qualitative research. ...
www.aidsmap.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
The first time I went in after I grew a beard the receptionist made me verbally confirm that the info on my records about genitals, sex assigned at birth and gender was correct. In a public reception area. Then when I got in to the appointment the nurse asked me if I had any testicular pain.
Supreme court judge here basically saying that yes he knows this wasn't what parliament meant, but the supreme court can decide that it's what the law says, even if it has to torture phrases like "physiological or other characteristics of sex" to do it
September 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Supreme court judge here basically saying that yes he knows this wasn't what parliament meant, but the supreme court can decide that it's what the law says, even if it has to torture phrases like "physiological or other characteristics of sex" to do it
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There’s a real generational divide between Labour MPs leaking to the Guardian and Labour MPs leaking to the Huffington Post
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
There’s a real generational divide between Labour MPs leaking to the Guardian and Labour MPs leaking to the Huffington Post
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If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.
www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...
www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...
We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk
If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.
www.jezebel.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.
www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...
www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...