parents weren't as livid as I expected they'd be. They kinda saw my side in it all and probably would have gone up the school to have words if it were worth the effort.

teachers didn't super hassle me over my uniform from then on tho. Guess they realised they couldn't power trip me & gave up.

she reported me missing even though I told her I was going to isolation. and at some point the head of science dept shows up in all of this (having clearly abandoned her own class at the time to deal with me and my blazer???) and I believe I swore at her a few times so they suspended me lmao.

the point of contention in that specific instance was that I had not asked to take my blazer off. but I remember pointing out the other kids with blazers off who had also not asked but weren't being asked to put it back on.

I left like nah fuck this. catch me in isolation.

I just had to figure that shit out myself and it's remarkable I got a passing grade at all.

everyone else basically had the whole thing fully explained to them step by step. but not me literally because I didn't want to wear my blazer in the summer, so I took it off.

this is the reason I got a less good science GCSE than I could have. teacher & I had a bit of a scuffle over something she obviously didn't care about but her boss was up her ass over for no reason just power trip bs

anyway I got sent to isolation (& suspended) over it & missed course work lesson

also maybe if you've been trying this isolation bullshit for over 20 years and it still isn't working another tactic should be attempted.

I'd sometimes send myself there just because I enjoyed the quiet time lmao. would've been better if I could hang out in my phone with friends tho. curse you 2005

idk maybe we should put transphobic bullies in isolation and instead give trans youth a chance at having a life amongst their peers instead of punishing a trans person for being victimised and isolating them from the rest of the school like they're contagious.

this is reflected in media surrounding Brianna's school life. Teachers describe positive relationships with her - but she didn't have any real friends at the school.

and like... she was there literally for no other reason than being trans. that was it. that was their solution to her being bullied.

as a frequent flyer to my schools isolation I can attest to the fact that you quickly build relationships with teachers there. They're obviously just as bored as you are sitting in a quiet room all day. You aren't allowed to talk to other kids so you spark up a conversation with the teacher.

So now a lot of people in my community are angry at the grieving mum being used by a political party because they're being told by said political party that their shit plan that hurts us is all the grieving mums idea.

Absolutely sickening shit. What a disgusting party.

obviously fucking not.

What happened here is Labour reached out to support her and they had conversations at which point some Labour wanker said "we've got this great initiative and we'd like you to champion it" and Esther obviously said yes because she was told it would help kids like Brianna.

So, given that a lot of trans people are offended that Brianna's transfemicide is being turned into a crusade against phone use, when Brianna had a supportive online community and was murdered offline by her classmates:

Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?

It's not even that we have to state basic facts of our social reality. It's that our ideological opponents already act in ways that clearly illustrate they're perfectly aware.

a handful is not enough.

if you're going to pull this shit, please at least have the credentials to back it up lmao.

yeah no, there is a handful of trans positive stuff in a cursory Google search for her. but like... it's 2025 and illegal for me piss and kids are killing themselves because their healthcare was banned...

I think that's all the controls I'll need for an exploration exo bio wide round trip to sag a* scanning planets and plants along the way :p