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Lee
@leemartxn.bsky.social
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transsexual cub 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

part-time carer + nufc stadium tour guide

brit, football fan, film and sitcom fan, shitposting fan. support lufc

live in newcastle, UK
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leemartxn.bsky.social
So last night I did my first champions league car parking shift! It was very quiet as it was off-site, but we got to watch all the fireworks displays all night - and now I can say I've worked a champions league match!

#nufc #NewcastleUnited #football #stjamespark #matchday #championsleague
A white transmasc with a shaved head, grey hoodie, and yellow high vis jacket St James's park from the outside. It's night, and the lights in the stadium is on as a game is happening. It is the corner of the stadium with the sir Bobby and Shearer statues
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
leemartxn.bsky.social
I went for the vegan sausage roll with mash potato and onion gravy. An honourable mention also goes to the 'painting' they had of Ant and Dec 😅

#greggs #Newcastle #newcastleupontyne #northeast #northeastengland #northern #north #antanddec
A menu with snacks, sharing boards, puddings, a Sunday carvery, and mains A drinks menu with soft drinks and mixers, draughts, bottled/canned drinks, cocktails, pouring spirits, wines, and hot drinks A vegan sausage roll with mash and onion gravy A baroque style painting of ant and dec
October 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Today, we went to the Golden Flake - the new Gregg's pub in Fenwicks! It was so good - if you can get yourself booked in I definitely recommend it 😅

#greggs #Newcastle #newcastleupontyne #northeast #northeastengland #northern #north
Rows of bar stools and tables, with windows with tied up curtains around the room A sofa with a table and chairs, a cupboard by the wall filled with assorted nic nacs and framed Guinness posters on the wall A bar, with a cabinet full of drinks Rows of bar stools and tables, with a tv playing nufc tv on the wall
October 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Seeing the Mediterranean Sea was honestly amazing, I didn't think I'd ever see a sea that didn't immediately pale in comparison with the North Sea, but I'm glad to say I did! Sitges is also amazing, and incredibly lgbt friendly 😍 🌊⛵️
Rocks going into the blue Mediterranean Sea A white spanish building with blue trims Looking up at a palm tree White spanish buildings with a small bridge/arch that links them. The trims are brown
October 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Back home in Newcastle after my trip to Spain! Spent most of my time in Barcelona, but spent a day at Sitges as well. I really really loved it, and honestly coming back to the UK was hard

#spain #catalonia #Barcelona #sitges
The sagrada familia, on the left corner is the old side The inside of a church, with a stand of golden various coloured candles, in front of a shrine with lights on it The Mediterranean Sea at Villa nova Palm trees, on some grass with the sea in the background
October 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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So safely arrived in Barcelona last night! It's been absolutely lovely so far, even if slightly wet

#barcelona #Spain #catalonia
The house designed by Gaudi in Barcelona Barcelona cathedral (not sagrada familia) Looking up through some walls at a turret A big fountain next to some big stone buildings. The sun is setting
October 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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It's also worth noting that the (European) Commissioner for Human Rights has also written a letter regarding the right to protest in the UK, and the restrictions around that

#uk #politics #ukpolitics #humanrights
Ref: CommHR/MOF/st 117-2025 The Rt Hon Shabana MAHMOOD MP Secretary of State for the Home Department of the United Kingdom Strasbourg, 23 September 2025 Dear Secretary of State, Allow me to begin by offering my best wishes in your new role. The regulation and policing of protests was one of my topics of interest during my recent visit to the United Kingdom (30 June-4 July). I would like to expand on my initial observations in my end-of-visit statement of 8 July. The policing of protests relating to the conflict in Gaza has become ever more prominent since my visit, especially following the proscription of the organisation Palestine Action, which has been criticised by UN experts and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. I observe that large numbers of arrests. have reportedly been made for displaying placards or banners expressing solidarity with the organisation or disagreement with the government's decision to proscribe it. I am aware that 'support' for a proscribed group is an offence under the Terrorism Act 2000. In this regard I recall that domestic legislation designed to counter 'terrorism' or 'violent extremism' must not impose any limitations on fundamental rights and freedoms, including the right to freedom of peaceful assembly, that are not strictly necessary for the protection of national security and the rights and freedoms of others (see, for example, the ODIHR/Venice Commission Guidelines on Peaceful Assembly). I ask the government to take all necessary steps to ensure that the policing of protests conforms to this and related principles of law. I also recall my concern about the legal framework on protests that remains in place more generally, since it raises questions under the European Convention on Human Rights. Changes following the adoption of the Police Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and the Public Order Act 2023 continue to allow authorities to impose excessive limits on freedom of assembly and expression, and risk over-pol…
October 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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The (European) Commissioner for Human Rights has written a letter to UK parliamentarians regarding trans rights in the UK - which say trans inclusion is a human rights issue, and that they need to rewrite the EHRC guidance

Let's see if this actually does anything 🤞

#trans #transrights ##ukpolitics
Ref: CommHR/MOF/st 134-2025 COUNCIL OF EUROPE COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSAIRE AUX DROITS DE L'HOMME CONSEIL DE L'EUROPE The Lord ALTON of Liverpool Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Ms Sarah OWEN MP Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Strasbourg, 3 October 2025 Dear Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. Dear Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, My mandate is to foster the effective observance of human rights in all member states of the Council of Europe. An important part of my work is to engage in dialogue with governments and parliaments of member states, and to assist them in addressing possible shortcomings in their laws and practices. I am writing to you in relation to the human rights situation of trans people, which was one of the topics of my recent visit to the United Kingdom (30 June to 4 July). During the visit, I also had an exchange with Lord Alton. In my end-of-visit statement of 8 July 2025, I expressed my concern about the current climate for trans people in the UK. I would like to provide you with some further observations, in view of your respective Committees interest in and engagement with this topic. These reflect similar observations shared with the Secretary of State for Education (Minister for Equalities), as well as the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. My observations relate to the need to respect the human rights of trans people, in line with the UK's international human rights obligations, including as regards further steps following the Supreme Court's judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd. v. The Scottish Ministers. This is particularly important as the Supreme Court did not engage with these human rights issues. I understand that an updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations has recently been submitted for consideration by the UK government, as the l… according to their gender identity. This does not in any way diminish their right to be treated with dignity. to be protected from discrimination, and to be able to participate in all areas of everyday life. As I note in my end-of-visit statement, I observe a tendency to see the human rights of different groups as a zero-sum game. This has contributed to narratives which build on prejudice against trans people and portray upholding their human rights as a de facto threat to the rights of others. Such a zero-sum approach risks certain inferences being drawn from the UK Supreme Court judgment that could lead to widespread exclusion of trans people from many public spaces. This, in turn, may severely infringe on their ability to participate fully and equally in society. This is particularly the case, as discussions about how access to services and facilities will have to be regulated following the judgment have tended towards the exclusion of trans people. It would therefore be crucial for all stakeholders to receive clear guidance on how inclusion of trans people can be achieved across all areas, and how exclusion can be minimised to situations in which this would be strictly necessary and proportionate, in line with well-established human rights principles. In reality, tensions between the human rights of different groups in this context are likely to be exceptional in nature, and resolvable through nuanced, reasonable and balanced accommodations. This would also be in line with the approaches taken by various bodies of the Council of Europe (such as the Committee on the Prevention of Torture (CPT) or the Group of Experts on Violence Against Women (GREVIO)), which recognise the particular vulnerability of trans people, and which begin from the position of their inclusion within spaces according to their gender identity with exceptions made on a case-by-case basis as necessary. Another area of concern is that blanket practices or policies on access to gender-segreg…
October 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
leemartxn.bsky.social
Back to my regular public stadium tours now I'm finished with the rooftop tours until next year. I hadn't realised how much I'd adjusted to being up on the roof 😳 😅
A small rainbow appearing over the pitch at St James's park. The sky is blue and the pitch is being watered with the big spray hoses. In the background you can see the corner between the leazes end and the east stand A white transmasc wearing a red t shirt and a green/beige jacket. He has a shaved head and is wearing headphones
October 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Did my final rooftop tour of 2025! I'm scheduled to do regular stadium tomorrow, private tours during the week, and then I'm off to Spain next weekend, which is the last weekend of the rooftop tours.

Until 2026, rooftops ❤️

#nufc #NewcastleUnited #football #TourGuide #StJamesPark #NewcastleUponTyne
A white transmasc wearing a hard hat that reads 'rooftop tours'. He is also wearing an orange high vis and a green rain jacket Plastic panes in a Cantilever roof, with white metal beams St James's park, taken from the roof of the Milburn stand/leazes stand corner. The stadium is empty. There a heat/light lamps on the pitch
October 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
leemartxn.bsky.social
As of today, I've officially been a private carer for men with mental health issues for 6 whole years. SIX YEARS. I never thought I'd be in this job for as long as I have.

One day, I'll be free on this industry and everything that comes with it - and that day cannot come soon enough #carer #carers
A white transmasc wearing a burgundy hoodie
October 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
leemartxn.bsky.social
7.5 years on T today 🎊 feeling incredibly grateful and lucky to have gotten this far

#ftm #ftmtrans #transftm #trans #testosterone
A white transmasc wearing a grey hoodie with the hood up
October 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
leemartxn.bsky.social
Had a pretty last minute car park shift, followed by a trip to Tynemouth 🥰

#tynemouth #coast #northeast #northeastengland
The white water and foam coming off the North sea. You can see Heather and longsands grass and trees overlooking the water Part of the ruins of tynemouth priory Some of the ruins of tynemouth priory in the distance, taken thru a stone archway. To the right is a wall from a wwII bunker. A white transmasc wearing a black beanie, black hoodie, green shirt, and luminous high vis jacket
October 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Geordies are hardy folk! Yellow wind warning today, yet still managed to push ahead with 1 of our 3 rooftop tours today. The rest had to be cancelled bc it was simply too much/unsafe, but the fact one happened is incredible - and an hour I'll not be forgetting any time soon

#nufc #NewcastleUnited
A white transmasc wearing a white hard hat that says 'rooftop tours', a green jacket, and an orange high vis. He is stood on the roof of st james park
October 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
leemartxn.bsky.social
Birthday weekend officially wrapped up - bring on 29 💐🎂
Two plates of food and some orange juice on a table. One plate has french toast with fruit and yoghurt, and the other has pancakes with pecans and bacon A white hand holding a small cardboard coffee cup that reads 'L&CO specialist espresso' A restaurant window overlooking the North sea and king Edwards bay A plate with French toast, cinnamon, and maple syrup
September 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
leemartxn.bsky.social
Also found the graffiti I specifically shaved my head for

#leeds #skinhead #graffiti
A white trans masc with a shaved head,grey hoodie, and yellow scalf stood in front of a wooden fence with graffiti that reads 'oi skinhead' A white trans masc with a shaved head,grey hoodie, and yellow scalf stood in front of a wooden fence with graffiti that reads 'oi skinhead'
September 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Back at Leeds station after spending my 29th birthday at Elland Road watching Leeds United 💛💙🤍

#Leeds #LeedsUnited #LUFC #EllandRoad #ALAW
A photo of Leeds United vs Bournemouth in progress. It was taken from behind the goal in the kop/Don Revie end. The stadium is sold out, and the Bournemouth goalie is in goal A photo of Leeds United vs Bournemouth in progress. It was taken from behind the goal in the kop/Don Revie end. The stadium is sold out, and the Leeds goalie is in goal A photo of Leeds United vs Bournemouth in progress. It was taken from behind the goal in the kop/Don Revie end. The stadium is sold out, and the Leeds goalie is in goal A photo of the Leeds vs Bournemouth starting XI coming out of the tunnel at a sold out Elland Road
September 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Survived my 4th car park marshal shift ✔️ I'm sore and tired, and in desperate need of a bath, but I lived. Genuinely proud of the fact I've been able to push myself with work this year 😊
A white transmasc wearing a black hoodie with the hood up, and a yellow high viz The same transmasc in a black hoodie and high vis, but with the hood down
September 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Off to Bradford for the weekend with my parents 🚄
A cardboard coffee cup with pictures of people in front of the angel of the North
September 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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It's been a comparatively quiet week for me, which is SUCH a relief. I was struggling to cope towards the end of the summer, so this is a much better pace of life for me 💐

Not only that, but I've realised that my hair is thinning/receding - which is bringing a surprising amount of euphoria

#trans
A white transmasc wearing a black hoodie stood in front of a tower block. He has a shaved head A white transmasc with a shaved head, sat at a table with a bowl of curry with dumplings and peas. He has tattoos on his arms and is wearing a blue top A white transmasc lying in bed wearing a green oversized top. He has buzzed hair
September 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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I think I take for granted the amount of historical buildings/sites and ruins we get in the UK. It's so cool that we get this sort of thing, yet it's considered to just be a very inconsequential feature of my local park

#newcastle #newcastleupontyne #UK
A white hand holding a white cardboard coffee cup. In the background is the ruins of a windmill A white hand holding a cardboard coffee cup with a rabbit on. In the background is the ruins of a windmill
September 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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If anyone is interested - the official Carabao Cup replica is now up in the tours department reception 😀

#nufc #NewcastleUnited #football #stjamespark #carabaocup
A small replica of the carabao cup, with black and white ribbons, sat in a trophy cabinet
September 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Still bloody and sore - but officially now have a bear pride paw on me 🐻🏳️‍⚧️

#gay #cub #bear #gaycub #gaybear #tattoo #blackwork #blackworktattoo
A fully black bear paw tattoo on a hairy thigh. There is also a beatles tattoo above the knee, and black addidas shorts pulled up A black bear paw tattoo on a thigh with clingfilm round it, with blood around the tattoo
September 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Spent today up on St James's roof. I'm tired, a bit damp, and glad to be home 😅

I'm knackered now, but I'm going to be so grateful I made myself do all this when I'm older looking back

#nufc ##NewcastleUnited #football #stjamespark
The east stand and part of the gallowgate end of st James's park. The stadium is completely empty A white transmasc wearing a white hard hat with a 'roof top tours' sticker on it, a green poloneck, an orange high vis, and a couple of lanyards. He's stood on the Cantilever roof of St James's Park An empty st james park. It is taken from the rooftop corner of the Milburn and leazes stand and is looking down onto the pitch, east stand, and some of the gallowgate
September 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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The full statement from the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Provention about the treatment of the trans and intersex communities in the UK. It was released on 05/09/2025

#trans #intersex #UK #politics #ukpolitics
Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention Statement on the UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission: Violation of the Paris Principles and erosion of protections for transgender and intersex people Released on 5 September 2025 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention & Human Security calls on the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) to withdraw accreditation from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in Great Britain due to violations of the Paris Principles and the erosion of protections for transgender and intersex people. The EHRC is Britain's independent equality and human rights regulator. It currently has an "A status" accreditation as a National Human Rights Institution (NHRI), bestowed by GANHRI, which is co-funded by the United Nations and European Union. To maintain accreditation as an NHRI, an organisation needs to follow the Paris Principles. The Lemkin Institute believes that the EHRC has violated the Paris Principles, particularly in actions targeting the rights and protections for transgender and intersex people. The most recent example of such actions is the appointment of Dr. Mary-Ann Stephenson as the new EHRC Chair, contrary to the advice of the two committees involved in the appointment: the Women and Equalities and Joint Human Rights Committees. While the EHRC is supposed to be a neutral and non-partisan public body, in the past few years it has behaved as a lobby group for erasing the rights of intersex and trans people on the basis of gender critical views. This has been explicitly confirmed by the leader of the UK's Official Opposition, Kemi Badenoch, who posted on X (formerly Twitter): "having gender-critical men and women in the UK government, holding the positions that mattered most in Equalities and Health [...] It was when the ministers changed that everything changed." One example of this takeover Badenoch shamelessly boasted about is the appointment of Baroness Falkner of Margravine under th… In 2022, the EHRC wrote to the Scottish Government recommending a delay to the reform of the Gender Recognition Act-a reversal from its prior support for such reforms. This dramatic shift was not precipitated by the appearance of any new substantive evidence. It was quite partisan in nature. That same year, the EHRC issued a statement calling for a "more careful approach" to conversion therapy legislation that would specifically exclude transgender people from protections. Such an approach contradicted overwhelming evidence from both the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Psychiatrists and signalled a departure from Evidence Based Policy Making. Additionally, the EHRC published interim guidance encouraging single-sex service providers to exclude transgender people, significantly misrepresenting the legal thresholds of such exclusion as a 'proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. It also intervened in the case For Women Scotland v. Scottish Ministers, arguing for a definition of sex that would exclude transgender people from their acquired legal sex as represented by their Gender Recognition Certificate. Rather than presenting a legal position, this argument is clearly based on an ideological stance on transgender people, which goes against the EHRC's statutory obligation to equally protect all citizens. These actions did not go unnoticed; GANHRI's reports on the EHRC acknowledged concerns by the civil society groups in the UK around human rights issues facing LGBTI people and migrants and asylum seekers in particular, recommending the EHRC address these issues in an 'independent, effective, public and transparent manner." In 2023, Baroness Falkner faced an investigation into her conduct due to multiple allegations of bullying, harassment, and discrimination from staff at the EHRC, but this was dropped when Minister Kemi Badenoch ordered a procedural review of the investigation. The BBC framed this closure as the end to a "witch-hunt" aga… wrong in law or a breach of human rights. Translucent, a UK-based transgender advocacy organisation, has also begun legal action against the EHRC in light of this interim guidance. This interim guidance has been challenged, but it has already caused irreversible damage. It has led to many organisations changing policies to exclude all transgender people from the gendered spaces of their lived gender and, in some cases, from the spaces of their sex assigned at birth as well. The guidance dictates that anyone who is not binarily "male" or "female" is excluded from single sex spaces, ranging from public toilets to groups such as a single-gender choir. Again, intersex people are left ignored; for example, it is not clear how guidance would apply to an intersex woman who was recorded initially as male at birth and had her birth certificate amended to female. When asked if intersex people had been considered in this guidance, Baroness Falkner responded that intersex people had not been considered as they are not included in the Equality Act (2010). Meanwhile, EHRC Commissioner Akua Reindorf KC stated in a personal capacity that trans people have been lied to about what rights they had and that there needed to be a period of correction, as other people also have rights. This goes against the EHRC's own 2022 guidance that stated in Sch. 2, Paragraph 28: "If a service provider provides single or separate sex services for women and men, or provides services differently to women and men, they should treat transsexual people according to the gender in which they present." Though the harm this guidance has caused the transgender and intersex community in the United Kingdom cannot be understated, the EHRC's 'consultation' on the guidance provided no opportunity to give feedback on this harm. The original consultation was scheduled for two weeks and, upon challenge, was extended to six weeks. However, it remained significantly shorter than the usual timeframe of 12 weeks and was… Cuts have endorsed this criticism, calling on the government to replace the EHRC and noting additional problems of the EHRC's actions towards ethnic minorities and disabled people. The Lemkin Institute amplifies the voices of these organisations and calls on the GANHRI to urgently review the status of the EHRC as a human rights body, noting that GANHRI's instruction of engagement with transgender groups to remain compliant with the Paris Principles has not only been explicitly disregarded but actively worked against, with the EHRC prioritising anti-transgender activist groups time and again, and more recently refusing Freedom of Information requests from individuals and groups concerned with transgender intersex rights. We reiterate the words of our recent Red Flag Alert: there is a transparent attempt to eradicate transgender and intersex people from British life. This is a clear example of the 9th Pattern of Genocide: Denial and/or Prevention of Identity. The EHRC has undergone an institutional takeover and has been captured by transphobic and interphobic people and agendas. As of the 5th of September the finalised EHRC guidance has been given to the Government. there is no guarantee the guidance will be given time for debate in parliament before going into effect. If this is the case, the EHRC will have succeeded in undemocratically stripping transgender and intersex people in the United Kingdom of fundamental human rights and dignity. The continued accreditation of EHRC as a human rights body, despite being a key player in this attempt of identity erasure, is a disgrace. GANHRI is allowing the EHRC to claim they are fully compliant with the Paris Principles whilst the voice of transgender and intersex people in Britain as well as other minority groups are left ignored. If GANHRI does not take action against the EHRC, it risks its credibility on the international stage and will be complicit in the genocide towards transgender and intersex people. The Lemkin In…
September 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM