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Cassandra 🌈 #notaphase
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#humanrights are not a zero-sum game, #equality , #equity , and #justice for all.
Through IDIC a better future is still possible. 🖖 (anything/but/it)
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️+♀️+✊🏽+♿️ rights = human rights. Stop erasing intersex & nonbinary folk.
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Correlation =/= cause.
"being frequently stressed, anxious or moody could be linked to a shorter lifespan."
Things that cause people to be frequently stressed, anxious or moody also often cause shorter lifespans. Beware toxic positivity framing because you can't fix poverty with "CBT". #health
Prof Sam Illingworth ‪@samillingworth.com‬ 🧠 Personality and longevity A study of 22,000 adults found that people who describe themselves as active, organised and helpful live longer. Those who feel anxious or moody face higher risks. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #SciComm 🧪 Being organised and active may be predictor of longer life, study finds Researchers find specific self-descriptions predict mortality risks better than broader categories such as extraversion www.theguardian.com September 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
September 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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They always tick multiple boxes of bigotry because it's ultimately all related.
anti trans is far right ideology no matter what packaging it comes in
September 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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maga crying saying "a transgender just told me to go fck myself after i said they should be eradicated, how can they be so hateful?"
September 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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When the SWERF uses the exact same bullplop excuses as the far right to defend sweeping censorship I smell a rat!
(Link to article in alt-text.)
link for text from article: https://www.thegamer.com/steams-adult-content-ban-has-been-plotted-for-a-year/
September 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Those bozos really went full "tread on me".
A snake on a yellow background tied up saying "oh please tread on me".
July 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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continued alt text: The original document's text continued: " to safety, security and freedom from violence, but also disregards their human right to the highest standards of health and goes against their best interests. Children are also not able to provide informed consent for such procedures. In situations in which such procedures have been found to have caused grave and lifelong harm, consent would be meaningless for both adults and children." (This text was quoted from a hate source for the purpose of educational review, see past image chain and alt text for more context.)
July 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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continued alt text: ...It ignores that in the last five years the rise in hostility to trans and nonbinary people has not lessened the rates of violence against women and girls, violence against both groups has risen sharply because they are directly linked. The phrase “consent would be meaningless for both adults and children” betrays the truth that the end result and goal of transphobic reports and legislation is always to deny the rights and agency of those who experience politicised prejudice through fear and othering, especially “adult human females” through use of a “bogeyman”. The original document's text: "There is also a significant co-occurrence of what is known as gender dysphoria or incongruence and autism spectrum disorder diagnoses.47 Research suggests that the odds of being diagnosed with gender or bodily dysphoria are three times higher for children and adolescents with an autism spectrum diagnosis compared with those without, with girls particularly affected.48 They are particularly vulnerable to the socially contagious stereotyped roles as a coping strategy, placing them at risk of erroneously adopting stereotypes as their core identity while experiencing dissociation from their sexed bodies. The long-lasting and harmful consequences of social and medical transitioning of children, including girls, are being increasingly documented. They include: persistence or intensification of psychological distress; persistence of body dissatisfaction; infertility, early onset of the menopause and an increase in the risk of osteoporosis; sexual dysfunction; and loss of the ability to breastfeed in cases of breast mastectomy (to mention a few). That has rightly led several countries, such as Brazil, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to change course and restrict children’s access to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery on sexual and reproductive organs.49 Allowing children access to such procedures not only violates their right t…
July 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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The UN report reviewed through a feminist and intersectional human rights lens:
#feminism #humanrights #lgbt #reproductiverights #mybodymychoice #nothingaboutuswithoutus #disability #autism #neurodivergence #standtogether
A short report on the Feminist and Human Rights repercussions of the “Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, by Reem Alsalem” as evident by the language used in section C. 22 of https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-47-aev.pdf ABLEISM No nuance statements are used here, “they are” is deliberately used instead of the factual distinction, ‘they could be’. It is ableist and discriminatory. This is the assumption and presumption of intellectual incompetence of autistic and other neuro-diverse children and adults. This is an attack to deny their right to body autonomy and access to medical care by dismissal of their ability to consent, and removal of the equal right give or deny their informed consent by the refusal of not only allowing but ensuring they be assessed and treated as individuals on a case by case basis. It erases the voice and rights of those society considers “lesser than” in its offensive belief it knows what is in others “best interests”, as if an ostrich can ever know what it is like to be a fish. SEXISM & NATALISM The measure of harm has been set upon a benchmark of presumed cisgender identity and attributes the worth of those assigned female at birth to their reproductive ability and assumed reproductive goals. This is an act of legislative violence against girls and women by imposing a predetermination of motherhood. It has no sense of self awareness and irony that this document is entirely based upon maintaining the “stereotyped roles” it proclaims to aim to protect children from. HOMOPHOBIA Alsalem’s document is not about protecting women or children, it recycles decades old talking points that paints a rigid and sexist binary of heteronormative gender expressions and behaviours (the “stereotyped roles”) as healthy and protective... Alt text character limit reached, more alt text on the reply image.
July 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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This is just medicalised respectability politics: If you react to someone explaining (from experience) that pathologising people leads to bad "cures" is to defend throwing others under the bus and pull the ladder up behind you your "good" intent means nothing when you do the work of bigots for them.
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June 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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oooh do I have the meme for you!
"the chemicals in the water are making the frogs gay" or something something unhinged rightwinger gonna be rightwing and unhinged, this is a pink floyd meme
June 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Where's all those transphobes screaming "let kids be kids" now huh?
A screen capture of examples of how cisgender people accuse transgender people of being obsessed with gender stereotypes while cisgender normative marketing puts everything "for women" or "for girls" in pink (and usually charges an extra %33 cost on top of it too).
June 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Violence against women and girls is gendered not sexed, full women's liberation cannot happen without acceptance of trans, intersex, and nonbinary people. Sexists hate "gender ideology" which is just code for "feminism" because feminism calls-out how natalist gender roles are policed onto genitalia.
text: a dog asks "did compulsory heterosexuality create the gender binary or did the gender binary create compulsory heterosexuality?" Renowned feminist Judith Butler says: Yes. text: It starts when the doctor says "it's a girl". They dote you with pink, and read you fairytales about prince charming. They define your role, and assign your goal; a heterosexual marriage. They teach you how to pull through pretend tea parties, and push a pretend baby carriage. They tell you the boy who hits you secretly likes you, and as soon you hit puberty they begin to infantilize you; hide your period, shave your pubes, don't talk back, don't walk alone, don't have sex, your place is at home. How backwards is it to be assigned as a girl at @farida.d.author birth? As a girl they teach you how to become a woman, and then when you become a woman they teach you how to stay a girl. -Farida D. text: WHY TRANSPHOBIA HURTS ALL WOMEN It reinforces sexist ideas about what a "real" woman looks like It targets women who don't fit gender norms - trans or not It divides feminist movements and weakens solidarity It puts everyone's bodily autonomy at risk It distracts from real issues like violence, healthcare and rights It often goes hand in hand with racism, ableism and VES homophobia Text: Person 1 says: "We shouldn't assume how someone will live their live just because of their genitals." Person 2 who is a right-wing neck-beard shouts angrily at person 1: "Don't force your gender ideology on children!" Person 2 later creeps on a young kid whose hair is tied in pigtails by saying: "You'll be a pretty woman when you're older! Your future husband will be lucky!"
June 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Every officer has body cam and we live in the age of CCTV and drones, if they "can't" show you who instigated it it's because they don't want to. That's why these same uniformed criminals want to use AI (a deepfake tool) to "help with police investigations" unedited truth only protects the innocent.
ICE says "damn these protesters are too peaceful" *ICE fires projectiles into crowd* ICE says "someone fire something now I gotta get violent!"
June 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Don't make me tap the sign!
The sign: bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.gsu.ed...
Fred from Scooby Doo says "alright bisexual, let's see what your real sexuality is" but he removes the mask and the bisexual is still bisexual but now also annoyed.
June 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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See also: White working class poverty in the UK making people blame immigrants for what was caused by austerity. And white men who blame women+, instead of record level unemployment when job hunting is difficult because being a white man itself doesn't counts as actual experience or qualifications.
A white banker, a white worker, and a black immigrant are sitting at a table with 20 cookies. The banker takes 19 cookies and warns the worker: “Watch out, the immigrant is going to take your cookie away.”
May 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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I would not bother to cede any ground on this. It was a perfectly understandable analogy even to me with my disabilities. The barrier to understanding it isn't the way you wrote it, the barrier is how much the reader is willing to entertain an opposing view for the purpose of critical analysis. I at least analyse before I reject. But to analyse is to risk challenges to bias and then accept the information presented: to change your mind. So people invested in their position won't ever risk even trying to understand. So The reason they do not understand is because they refuse to try. They do not argue in good faith.
May 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Oh what a co-inky-dink I found this again just yesterday:
very tired so here's the abridged but accurate version of the text: most companies doing pride stuff were "fair weather friends" only motivated by money
May 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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"Sorry" it's not a "fun" topic I guess.
(🧵 Receipts because I'm not writing all that again. )
I don't hate ignorant people, bc it's not a moral failing to not know know something yet. Willfully ignorant people complicit in the erosion of my, and others, human rights however...
Cassandra @bianoc.bsky.social . 1d Trans exclusionary radical feminist is an oxymoron. I vote we just call them what they are, sexists. They're not gender critical either, they're genital cultists. 01 ♡ 1 Optimal Cynic @optimalcynic.bsky.social . 8h FART - feminism appropriating radical transphobes 01 Cassandra 2 @bianoc.bsky.social . now No, you don't call poison a "medicine imitating health hazard" and hope people read beyond the first word, or hide its danger in an acronym like "MIHH", you call it poison. Blocked post. Cassandra still bi/pan #notaphase @bianoc.bsky.social .39m DGMW I like humor, but you can't fight hateful lies by hiding greater truth. At their core transphobes believe we're defined by our genitals which they want to conform to the ideology of a strict binary regardless of science to deny us the right to an identity separate from natalism. They're Sexist. 01 Cassandra still bi/pan #notaphase @bianoc.bsky.social .34m That isn't saying they're not transphobic, it's about saying the transphobia is a cover and a tool for their wider societal designs, and our fight for bodily autonomy and other human rights are inextricably linked to eachother. 01 Cassandra still bi/pan #notaphase @bianoc.bsky.social . 12m It's also about recognising how trans people are demonised and used as a wedge issue. Specifically trans rights are the thin end of this wedge and in the spirit of Niemollar's poem people need to wake up fast to what awaits then on the thick end of it if they keep throwing the othered under the bus. 01 Cassandra still bi/pan #notaphase @bianoc.bsky.social Thank you for "coming to my Ted talk" Badum tst! May 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
May 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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UK SC quoted so much legislation from the time of section 28 and before, it sets a dangerous precedent to roll back other LGBTQ+ rights. If they can quote this to attack transgender people, then everyone in the community is in their firing line. @goodlawproject.org #lgbt @matthewhodson.bsky.social
The following was quoted from “For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16” from https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/uksc/2025/16?query=women#start-of-document (accessed 15 May 2025): Corbett v Corbett (otherwise Ashley) [1971] P 83, the High Court declared that a marriage was null and void where both parties were biological males but one had undergone gender reassignment. Ormrod J said that over a very large area, the law is indifferent to sex. In other areas, such as insurance and pension schemes, there was nothing to prevent the parties to a contract from agreeing that the person concerned should be treated as a man or a woman, as the case may be: p 105. But marriage was a relationship between a man and a woman and, in the context of marriage, even if not for other purposes, the person was still a biological male. That conclusion that a person could not change sex was applied in the criminal law in R v Tan [1983] QB 1053. The image highlights the year 1971, and the last two sentences in red, yellow, and orange.
May 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Text from image one of four: The Fire Brigades Union has always stood for equality, dignity, justice and respect – not just for our members but for everyone. We do not believe that the recent Supreme Court judgement has made public spaces safer for anyone – women, trans, non-binary or intersex people. Our Black and minoritized members know well that the law has not always been on the right side of history. Text from image two of four: Our LGBT+ members tell us that after the publication of the interim guidance, there is now little clarity for those using single sex spaces in fire stations and control rooms. A lack of investment in the fire service means workplace facilities are already lacking. The interim guidance is unworkable, unhelpful and will only lead to an increase in discrimination. As a trade union, we stand for collectivism and unity. We reject any attempt to divide working people, especially those rooted in far-right tropes. Text from image three of four: Trans people are not a threat. Gender-based violence and misogyny are. Workers must come together to resist growing state attacks on bodily autonomy for both trans people and women. The FBU will continue to fight for greater rights, protections and freedoms for women and trans, non-binary, intersex, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and Black and minoritized people. We believe that all these fights are interdependent. If you improve society for the most marginalised – everyone benefits. Equality matters. Text from image four of four: We support local campaigning by our members for trans rights. We call on all employers, including all fire and rescue services, to uphold their responsibilities to staff safety and dignity. Steve Wright, general secretary. Ben Selby, assistant general secretary. Fire Brigades Union LGBT+, Fire Brigades Union NWC, Fire Brigades Union B&EMM.
May 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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You need to have words with yourselves.

"We asked Labour’s 59 LGBTQ+ MPs if they think trans women are women – just four replied saying yes" (Pink News)
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/25/l...

Because your voices are a whisper with the same effect as silence.
Text: "The impact of doing nothing Workplace bullying has traditionally been seen as an issue just between the victim and bully – and dealt with accordingly. But bullying often occurs in front of others. Surveys show up to 83% of employees in some organisations report witnessing bullying at work. This is troubling. Witnessing bullying may harm bystanders’ own wellbeing, stimulating fear of how they might be treated in the future. But how bystanders respond can either help or worsen the situation for victims. In our recent study, we asked employees at a large university to answer questions about their experiences of bullying, as a victim or a bystander. We showed bullying victims suffered less damage when they had helpful bystanders who actively intervened. Conversely, victims in groups with bystanders who did nothing experienced greater detriments. " from https://theconversation.com/bullying-why-most-people-do-nothing-when-they-witness-it-and-how-to-take-action-181746
May 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM