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PODCAST β What the Yule?! 2025 β What The Trans!?
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New Podcast Episode: What The Yule 2025
In this Episode:
- A triple featured Losers Corner
- The Girl Guiding and Womens Institute Ban
- Falkners Firing
-And a mystery person joins the recording.
Check it out here:
whatthetrans.com/ep146/
In this Episode:
- A triple featured Losers Corner
- The Girl Guiding and Womens Institute Ban
- Falkners Firing
-And a mystery person joins the recording.
Check it out here:
whatthetrans.com/ep146/
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π£ Callout for footage! π£
Anyone have video of:
π₯ trans+ campaign activities / trans+ people present outside the Scottish Parliament as the GRA Reform Bill was debated (2022)
π₯ Trans+ protests against the UK Section 35 veto
Itβs for this wonderful project:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/a-dance-of...
1/
Anyone have video of:
π₯ trans+ campaign activities / trans+ people present outside the Scottish Parliament as the GRA Reform Bill was debated (2022)
π₯ Trans+ protests against the UK Section 35 veto
Itβs for this wonderful project:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/a-dance-of...
1/
January 10, 2026 at 1:43 PM
π£ Callout for footage! π£
Anyone have video of:
π₯ trans+ campaign activities / trans+ people present outside the Scottish Parliament as the GRA Reform Bill was debated (2022)
π₯ Trans+ protests against the UK Section 35 veto
Itβs for this wonderful project:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/a-dance-of...
1/
Anyone have video of:
π₯ trans+ campaign activities / trans+ people present outside the Scottish Parliament as the GRA Reform Bill was debated (2022)
π₯ Trans+ protests against the UK Section 35 veto
Itβs for this wonderful project:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/a-dance-of...
1/
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Today, we will be starting off 2026 by attending what might be the first protest for trans rights of the year.
GATE (Guiders Against Trans Exclusion)'s Birmingham protest against Girlguiding's ban on trans girls will begin at 12:00 noon.
Come back to the thread closer to the time for updates.
GATE (Guiders Against Trans Exclusion)'s Birmingham protest against Girlguiding's ban on trans girls will begin at 12:00 noon.
Come back to the thread closer to the time for updates.
January 10, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Today, we will be starting off 2026 by attending what might be the first protest for trans rights of the year.
GATE (Guiders Against Trans Exclusion)'s Birmingham protest against Girlguiding's ban on trans girls will begin at 12:00 noon.
Come back to the thread closer to the time for updates.
GATE (Guiders Against Trans Exclusion)'s Birmingham protest against Girlguiding's ban on trans girls will begin at 12:00 noon.
Come back to the thread closer to the time for updates.
The protest has ended, and the protesters are quickly dispersing away from the Council House.
For anyone attending protests today, please stay safe as the weather is suboptimal for getting home quickly.
π IKEA Birmingham (Wednesbury)
For anyone attending protests today, please stay safe as the weather is suboptimal for getting home quickly.
π IKEA Birmingham (Wednesbury)
January 10, 2026 at 1:42 PM
The protest has ended, and the protesters are quickly dispersing away from the Council House.
For anyone attending protests today, please stay safe as the weather is suboptimal for getting home quickly.
π IKEA Birmingham (Wednesbury)
For anyone attending protests today, please stay safe as the weather is suboptimal for getting home quickly.
π IKEA Birmingham (Wednesbury)
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January 10, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Huh, neat!
One final chant
January 10, 2026 at 1:25 PM
One final chant
The protest seems to be wrapping up now, some group pictures are being taken
January 10, 2026 at 1:24 PM
The protest seems to be wrapping up now, some group pictures are being taken
Testimony from a ranger - Talking about how trans girls now have to choose between losing support and telling the truth or vice versa.
January 10, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Testimony from a ranger - Talking about how trans girls now have to choose between losing support and telling the truth or vice versa.
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What would a healthcare system that works for Trans+ people look like in the UK?
With @whatthetrans.com we look at the astounding, centuries-long waiting list for a first appointment for gender affirming care in some areas of the UK.
π§ Catch up here: whatthetrans.com/ep142
With @whatthetrans.com we look at the astounding, centuries-long waiting list for a first appointment for gender affirming care in some areas of the UK.
π§ Catch up here: whatthetrans.com/ep142
January 10, 2026 at 1:00 PM
What would a healthcare system that works for Trans+ people look like in the UK?
With @whatthetrans.com we look at the astounding, centuries-long waiting list for a first appointment for gender affirming care in some areas of the UK.
π§ Catch up here: whatthetrans.com/ep142
With @whatthetrans.com we look at the astounding, centuries-long waiting list for a first appointment for gender affirming care in some areas of the UK.
π§ Catch up here: whatthetrans.com/ep142
Another testimony, this time discussing how this ban goes directly against Girlguiding's values on kindness.
January 10, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Another testimony, this time discussing how this ban goes directly against Girlguiding's values on kindness.
A random man has started agitating protesters and allies in Victoria Square.
January 10, 2026 at 12:59 PM
A random man has started agitating protesters and allies in Victoria Square.
Quite a large turnout
January 10, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Quite a large turnout
Another testimony, this time from a cisgender woman. She is horrified at the prospect of girls in Girlguiding being subject to potentially invasive bodily checks as a result of this policy.
January 10, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Another testimony, this time from a cisgender woman. She is horrified at the prospect of girls in Girlguiding being subject to potentially invasive bodily checks as a result of this policy.
Protest placards printed off by GATE
January 10, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Protest placards printed off by GATE
Another testimony - Describing how unit meetings now feel empty and different after the exclusion of trans girls from Girlguiding.
January 10, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Another testimony - Describing how unit meetings now feel empty and different after the exclusion of trans girls from Girlguiding.
More protest chants standing up for the inclusion of trans girls in Girlguiding.
January 10, 2026 at 12:26 PM
More protest chants standing up for the inclusion of trans girls in Girlguiding.
The last bit of the testimony from the father.
January 10, 2026 at 12:20 PM
The last bit of the testimony from the father.
One of the protest leads is reading out an upsetting testimony from a father of a trans girl who was formerly part of Girlguiding until the ban.
January 10, 2026 at 12:15 PM
One of the protest leads is reading out an upsetting testimony from a father of a trans girl who was formerly part of Girlguiding until the ban.
The protest has started with some chants.
January 10, 2026 at 12:09 PM
The protest has started with some chants.
Some placards held by protesters today.
January 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Some placards held by protesters today.
One of the protesters has turned up in an impressive cape full of badges from Girlguiding, Brownies, Rainbows etc. with some dating back several decades from when his mother was a girl guide.
January 10, 2026 at 11:51 AM
One of the protesters has turned up in an impressive cape full of badges from Girlguiding, Brownies, Rainbows etc. with some dating back several decades from when his mother was a girl guide.
The protest is starting to gather at Birmingham's Council House - it is on the other side of Town Hall Tram Stop to the original meetup location to avoid the snow.
January 10, 2026 at 11:40 AM
The protest is starting to gather at Birmingham's Council House - it is on the other side of Town Hall Tram Stop to the original meetup location to avoid the snow.
Today, we will be starting off 2026 by attending what might be the first protest for trans rights of the year.
GATE (Guiders Against Trans Exclusion)'s Birmingham protest against Girlguiding's ban on trans girls will begin at 12:00 noon.
Come back to the thread closer to the time for updates.
GATE (Guiders Against Trans Exclusion)'s Birmingham protest against Girlguiding's ban on trans girls will begin at 12:00 noon.
Come back to the thread closer to the time for updates.
January 10, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Today, we will be starting off 2026 by attending what might be the first protest for trans rights of the year.
GATE (Guiders Against Trans Exclusion)'s Birmingham protest against Girlguiding's ban on trans girls will begin at 12:00 noon.
Come back to the thread closer to the time for updates.
GATE (Guiders Against Trans Exclusion)'s Birmingham protest against Girlguiding's ban on trans girls will begin at 12:00 noon.
Come back to the thread closer to the time for updates.
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Gonna ask for anyone with potential info: William DeFoor, the person accused of damaging JD Vance's Ohio home, is being written up in right wing media as wanting to be referred to as "Julia" and is trans, which I can find zero info on. His lawyer even referred to him as "he" during arraignment.
January 9, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Gonna ask for anyone with potential info: William DeFoor, the person accused of damaging JD Vance's Ohio home, is being written up in right wing media as wanting to be referred to as "Julia" and is trans, which I can find zero info on. His lawyer even referred to him as "he" during arraignment.
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Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing Iβve ever experiencedβ.
βThe worst thing Iβve ever experiencedβ β comparing experiences of affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare provision for trans adolescents in the UK
Within trans youth healthcare two fundamentally different models of care persist, with a significant difference between affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare services. To date there has been l...
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January 8, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing Iβve ever experiencedβ.
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