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Jessica Rose
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Trans, She/Her, British (sorry), Fuck Facists and all their cronies
Probably just gonna be lurking
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jessothomson.co.uk
Which views the BBC considers unacceptably political in its presenters is particularly telling, isn't it?
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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gemma.transwrites.world
again: the UK has never once taken action anything like this with regards to any medication at all whatsoever.

It is completely unprecedented for emergency powers to have been used to ban a medication for a specific group or for that to have been extended indefinitely pending (unethical) trials.
natacha.bsky.social Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1d
Streeting has already interfered by careful selection of “researchers” associated with a designated anti-trans hate group to carry out an unethical and pseudoscientific “trial” designed to get the result he wants.
Streeting admits he's 'not comfortable' with allowing puberty blockers trial, but defends following clinicians' advice Q: You are allowing a trial of puberty blockers for children questioning their gender. Some children involved will be as young as 10. Why are you allowing this? Streeting says in her report Hilary Cass uncovered a shocking lack of evidence about the effectiveness of these treatments. As a result, the government stopped the use of puberty blockers, and Streeting says he extended this. But Cass also recommended a trial, he says. He admits he is "not comfortable" about this going ahead. But he says, in allowing it to go ahead, he is following the clinical advice. He says he is uncomfortable about the idea of stopping puberty. But he says other countries use these drugs. There is some evidence that it is better than leaving trans people withot treatment, and all the distress that comes with that. This does not sit comfortably with him, he says. But, as a politician, he does not want to interfer with clinicians who know far more about this topic than he does.
December 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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gemma.transwrites.world
in the clip I've seen he p much just goes "puberty is natural wahhh"

but champ so is cancer. you're not about to start letting that run it's course as health minister are you?
 stevejb.bsky.social @stevejb.bsky.social · 1d
The idea that trans people's distress might be reduced does not sit comfortably with Wes Streeting.
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.

archive.ph/Tmthz
Father's anger at girl's potentially fatal testosterone dose The child, who was 15 at the time, was given the prescription by the private GenderGP clinic after one online counselling session He has lost contact with his daughter - he does not even know what she got in her GCSEs - and now that she is 18, he no longer gets court-ordered medical updates. In the final one he learnt that she was booked in for surgery imminently. Now he drives over with birthday presents but is not allowed in. He remembers the last time he saw her, after she had started taking testosterone. Looking at his photographs, he remembers dropping her home: "When she said goodbye, her smile was the same girly shy smile she had as a little girl. Somewhere in there is my daughter."
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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adequateemily.bsky.social
That’s the goal, the goal is eventually to make being trans in public impossible, to criminalize the science, or to make it impossibly expensive to get HRT even with a prescription as an adult, banning trans people from employment, the true goal is “go in the closet or starve.”
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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gemma.transwrites.world
"we've banned social media accounts for under 16s" - the aus govt

"no you haven't dipshit" - me who knows kids will not give a shit and will do it anyway.
December 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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billielhindle.bsky.social
Received this response from the Minister for School Standards regarding my concerns they’re implementing a trans “section 28.”

She hasn’t answered directly a single point I made, and she even can’t bring herself to use the word “transgender.”

(1/6)
December 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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commandersterling.bsky.social
To be more constructive in my criticism of him:

Keir Starmer’s a cunt.
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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gemma.transwrites.world
the judge who refused the doctor being harassed by a bigot at Fife the right to anonymity throughout these proceedings and ultimately led to her name and photos being published by the press and all of the harassment that has happened since

should still step down

you piece of shit.
December 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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gemma.transwrites.world
but if the press starts doing actual journalism now they'd have to admit everything they've been doing up to this point has just been PR for their chosen bigotries

so now all they do and can ever do is more PR for those same 5 bigots every time a trans related story happens.
December 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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esqueer.net
What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
“A screenshot of a news article from The Times website. The headline reads: ‘Children taking DIY cross-sex hormones before going to gender clinics.’ The subheadline states: ‘Hundreds of young trans people are buying puberty blockers, oestrogen and testosterone without prescription from websites and even recreational drug dealers.’ The page header includes navigation links, a log-in button, and a ‘Start trial’ button.”
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
If you see a doctor, a politician, a scientist, authority figure or your choice raising Concerns about gender-affirming care for kids, trans people in sports, who uses what bathroom

they’re promoting a manufactured controversy invented by white christian nationalists, whether they know it or not
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December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
lorak.bsky.social Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 7d
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
“The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people”
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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sith-art.bsky.social
My “authentic self” IS my chosen identity, to pretend to be what others want me to be is the very DEFINITION of inauthentic, I’m not making some grandiose political statement when expressing my identity, thats like saying I’m making a grandiose political statement every time I inhale Oxygen.
halcyonember.bsky.social Halcyon Ember @halcyonember.bsky.social · 7d
Pretending that the exclusion of trans people isn't a political stance would be hilarious if it wasn't so painful.
December 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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petergeoghegan.bsky.social
🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history

75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men

Is this what democracy looks like?

New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men
Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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katelynburns.com
It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.

This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.

This is almost everything the government is doing.
prismreports.org Prism @prismreports.org · 9d
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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grayfaceghost.bsky.social
Fascist party finds a compromise that is entirely fascist, shock
December 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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gemma.transwrites.world
"today we know it's far more nuanced"

It isn't though. they caved to pressure and chose to save themselves rather than stand in solidarity with us. the narrative hasn't changed and likely won't change irrespective of any further leaks

It sucks what they did. they fucked up and it's bad.
leewilliamdesigns.bsky.social Lee @leewilliamdesigns.bsky.social · 9d
I was reading an interesting post on FB about the GG and WI situation. Essentially both have been secretly fighting legal action from anti trans groups for a little while and they can’t afford to continue, according to the post. Well funded TERFs are forcing their hand.
G Sabini-Roberts • Follow ... 1h • Q I need to drop a post here today to expand on the goings on yesterday. Yes, the decisions by Girlguiding and the Women's Institute are awful, but yesterday, as the dust settled and more information leaked out, a different picture started to form. It's important we all understand that new picture so then the righteous anger we all feel can be directed where it actually needs to go. We now know that both GG and WI have been fighting legal battles behind the scenes from attacks by the small but very well funded and vicious anti-trans lobby for some time. Neither organisation has talked publicly about this. I wonder if, at this point, they can't. In both cases, they have now reached a David Vs Goliath moment whereby if they continued to try and fight those legal battles, they as organisations would cease to exist. They would have to put everything into those fights. Fights that they may even win, eventually, because the law on this is still untested and we are still awaiting the outcome of the initial legal challenges against the EHRC back in April. But it would be a long and very expensive fight. You can't win a fight if the fight itself would take more than you have. Regardless of right or wrong. Both these women's organisations do a lot of essential work providing community and support for thousands of women and girls. They have both, yesterday, been forced to bend to the legal challenges they are facing because to continue would mean they could no longer support anyone. And they are, both, working hard to try and find 'alternative' ways to support trans women and girls as a way to keep doing their work in a way that isn't going to kill them in legal fees to fight a vicious and entirely unnecessary attack. And, like I explained yesterday, actually enforcing their new rulings is all kinds of problematic and they don't know how they will do it yet. The way they have gone about communicating those decisions and managing the fallout could have been done infinitely better, true. There are huge lessons to be learned on all of that. But again, they can only learn those lessons if they can stay alive long enough. So if you're writing to your MP, or going to a protest, or discussing this with others and explaining why this is all happening, it's not the organisations that we should be directing our anger at. Or the majority of it anyway. It's the anti-trans lobby. It's she who must not be named. It's the people who, for some still unknown reason, believe passionately that excluding trans women and girls from women's spaces - where they have happily been an unremarkable part of the community for decades - is more important than keeping organisations that support women alive. They believe cis women are safer alone, isolated, with no support network than they are by sharing a village hall with a trans woman. So what do we do now? We lead with that message. If we withdraw from those spaces we make sure that it is known why so we contribute to the evidence gathering showing that the decision to exclude trans women and girls is not a 'proportionate' means to ensuring all girls get the support they need. Because by going so, the membership leaves in droves, leaders step down, groups close. Excluding trans women and girls means that everyone loses. We need that evidence. I'll pop some stuff in the comments to things you can contribute to as I come across it. We need to spread this message. Because yesterday, 'Girlguiding/WI is bad' was an easy headline. Today we know it's far more nuanced. The more people who understand that the less we get drawn into a fighting each other and can collectively focus on fighting that small, angry but very rich minority who have decided that their hate is the only way forward. And sometimes their actions do a very good job of making the rest of us fight each other before recognising it's them who are the real problem. I'm certain that if those legal challenges were withdrawn, both organisations would revert back to being trans inclusive immediately. So let's work to make that happen.
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
This is only going to get much worse too, because these people don’t only want the minority groups they hate hounded and excluded. They want society to welcome them, praise them and tell them they are correct and beautiful. And that won’t ever happen, because they are repugnant and hateful.
seamas.bsky.social The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 9d
Like MAGA, transphobes have gotten everything they wanted in 2025. And, like MAGA, they've never been more vitriolic toward the institutions they've captured, more disgusted by their wounded victims, more ready to plough forth into realms of cruelty that even they would have balked at a year ago.
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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danacorn.bsky.social
Do not come to us and expect us to understand that you just had to throw us under the bus.

We are not going to smile and nod.

We will spit in your eye.
evanurquhart.bsky.social Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10d
The truth is that there are many good people in good institutions regretfully making the choice to sacrifice trans people because they fear for their own survival and their institution's survival...

...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.
December 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead.

Idk, just spitballing here.
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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theserfstv.bsky.social
Seems like every tech bro at a certain point is just like "yeah we don't have to pretend we care about humanity anymore"
December 4, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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dylanmacri.bsky.social
The fear of someone's life being made moderately easier by accident has prevented us from making a lot of peoples lives livable on purpose.
mtsw.bsky.social mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11d
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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upandoutcomic.bsky.social
bumper stickers reading "i bought this before i knew elon was crazy 🤪" are so obnoxious

it's the most mealymouthed liberal solution to owning a nazimobile: the real issue here is the optics of my using this car cuz i'm one of the good ones ☝️🤓
December 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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2damntrans.bsky.social
"Respectful and understanding" - perhaps they were. I'm not. I don't think any of us should be. I think orgs that do this need to pay a heavy price for doing it. They're afraid of the power transphobes have: and so we must endeavour to build power of our own and to wield it uncompromisingly.
raveltglossmoth.bsky.social Ravel Glossmoth @raveltglossmoth.bsky.social · 10d
This part is *infuriating*. This cis woman heard an 80 year old trans woman say, 'This is the only place I've been respected as a woman IN MY LIFE.'

And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'

Absolutely pathetic.
“They’ve been so respectful and so understanding of the decision, but profoundly sad,” she said. “I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM