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The Tories get a lot of shit for section 28 and deservedly so but right now it's probably worth remembering that Labour didn't do anything about it till Blair's second term when it became clear it would be a popular move.
Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed.
But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people.
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But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The Tories get a lot of shit for section 28 and deservedly so but right now it's probably worth remembering that Labour didn't do anything about it till Blair's second term when it became clear it would be a popular move.
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Well, well, well.
Would you look who it is warning of "doom" if you don't invest in the world's most dangerous financial bubble ever.
Would you look who it is warning of "doom" if you don't invest in the world's most dangerous financial bubble ever.
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Well, well, well.
Would you look who it is warning of "doom" if you don't invest in the world's most dangerous financial bubble ever.
Would you look who it is warning of "doom" if you don't invest in the world's most dangerous financial bubble ever.
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My Universal Credit guy told me to start sending in AI job applications to companies as it seems to work better for people and I've decided I might [redacted] instead
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
My Universal Credit guy told me to start sending in AI job applications to companies as it seems to work better for people and I've decided I might [redacted] instead
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Tag yourself in this 1800s list of supernatural entities of the British isles
October 10, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Tag yourself in this 1800s list of supernatural entities of the British isles
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sadly the people who engage in this kind of behavior are not very sympathetic to the human impact and just start moaning and groaning the moment you argue that maybe part of transmisogyny is demanding inhumanity from a human.
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
sadly the people who engage in this kind of behavior are not very sympathetic to the human impact and just start moaning and groaning the moment you argue that maybe part of transmisogyny is demanding inhumanity from a human.
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is a story of maladaptive perfectionism. not that my work is perfect but rather constantly pressuring myself to "get it perfect" and then being rewarded for "getting it perfect" by not being harassed. that behavior is then reinforced b/c if i make a mistake or write something bad i get harassed
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
is a story of maladaptive perfectionism. not that my work is perfect but rather constantly pressuring myself to "get it perfect" and then being rewarded for "getting it perfect" by not being harassed. that behavior is then reinforced b/c if i make a mistake or write something bad i get harassed
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i think there is this demand for perfect when you are a transgender woman who is a public figure and esp if you are a journalist, you just have to be perfect. like you cannot get it wrong or make a mistake or mess up. you really are judged so severely and immediately written off. a lot of my career
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
i think there is this demand for perfect when you are a transgender woman who is a public figure and esp if you are a journalist, you just have to be perfect. like you cannot get it wrong or make a mistake or mess up. you really are judged so severely and immediately written off. a lot of my career
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same dynamics play out over and over again like clockwork. i always feel like everyone has a strong opinion of me, love or hate. and if a piece or two was ill-received there's always a conspiracy, a sinister plot, a sin, a confession of evil, or something to be "fixed" or excised abt me. common
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
same dynamics play out over and over again like clockwork. i always feel like everyone has a strong opinion of me, love or hate. and if a piece or two was ill-received there's always a conspiracy, a sinister plot, a sin, a confession of evil, or something to be "fixed" or excised abt me. common
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whereas in the years after (and esp when i became more outspoken about sexuality) people tended to have very strong opinions about me, and usually those opinions were impossible to separate from opinions about my gender identity (esp b/c of my work)
10 years of that and i do really see those
10 years of that and i do really see those
November 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
whereas in the years after (and esp when i became more outspoken about sexuality) people tended to have very strong opinions about me, and usually those opinions were impossible to separate from opinions about my gender identity (esp b/c of my work)
10 years of that and i do really see those
10 years of that and i do really see those
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one thing i think about a lot is what it was like being a writer before i came out as a trans girl (2012 to 2015) vs afterward
the first three years revealed a lot to me. even when people hated or disliked my work there was a civility limiter. less character assassinations or grifting accusations
the first three years revealed a lot to me. even when people hated or disliked my work there was a civility limiter. less character assassinations or grifting accusations
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
one thing i think about a lot is what it was like being a writer before i came out as a trans girl (2012 to 2015) vs afterward
the first three years revealed a lot to me. even when people hated or disliked my work there was a civility limiter. less character assassinations or grifting accusations
the first three years revealed a lot to me. even when people hated or disliked my work there was a civility limiter. less character assassinations or grifting accusations
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I've said it before, but being a trans woman in the public eye seems like being an ant beneath a magnifying glass - waiting for them to find the right angle to burn you to dust.
i think there is this demand for perfect when you are a transgender woman who is a public figure and esp if you are a journalist, you just have to be perfect. like you cannot get it wrong or make a mistake or mess up. you really are judged so severely and immediately written off. a lot of my career
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I've said it before, but being a trans woman in the public eye seems like being an ant beneath a magnifying glass - waiting for them to find the right angle to burn you to dust.
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I stress over what I can contribute to liberation struggles now I'm as ill as I am and I have concluded my most important role is as a warning to others.
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I stress over what I can contribute to liberation struggles now I'm as ill as I am and I have concluded my most important role is as a warning to others.
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fuck @peoplemag.bsky.social for deadnaming her and refusing to refer to her with pronouns, fuck cis people for trying to erase us in death! they are extending the violence of her murderer!
Black trans women are paid dust by cis people and trans people. 21 is too young for a trans girl to die. It's not fucking fair. But per the course, Girlalala will be lost in a sea of stories of trans women of color who aren't as loved or as protected as we should be.
May she rest in peace.
May she rest in peace.
TikTok Star Girlalala Dies at 21 as Boyfriend Is Arrested on First-Degree Murder Charge
The creator, who had hundreds of thousands of followers, worked as a hairstylist in Pompano Beach, Fla.
ca.news.yahoo.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
fuck @peoplemag.bsky.social for deadnaming her and refusing to refer to her with pronouns, fuck cis people for trying to erase us in death! they are extending the violence of her murderer!
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having a crush on here is so dumb, ughh ur posts are so good and mysterious do you want to be in love with some stupid idiot 2000 miles away
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
having a crush on here is so dumb, ughh ur posts are so good and mysterious do you want to be in love with some stupid idiot 2000 miles away
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Ultimately it’s through public control of the housing stock and government control of a significant portion of supply because afaict rents and prices (in effect a financialised rent to the banking industry) climb to meet what the market will bear and cartelised producers limit supply at that point
“route to affordable housing globally isn’t through lower nominal prices, it’s higher incomes”
“where incomes catch up with prices, you should see home-ownership notch higher”
..another economist ignoring reality that higher wages drive up higher property prices www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
“where incomes catch up with prices, you should see home-ownership notch higher”
..another economist ignoring reality that higher wages drive up higher property prices www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
David W Higgins: To solve the housing crisis, the Government needs to address the ‘milestone recession’
The Government’s new housing plan is out. It’s the latest of many. Have you lost count? It’s easy to be cynical about a crisis that has persisted for a decade.
www.independent.ie
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Ultimately it’s through public control of the housing stock and government control of a significant portion of supply because afaict rents and prices (in effect a financialised rent to the banking industry) climb to meet what the market will bear and cartelised producers limit supply at that point
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This is how John Crace was writing about Keir Starmer in July of 2025 – four months ago.
(The UK still hasn’t recognised a Palestinian state, by the way.)
(The UK still hasn’t recognised a Palestinian state, by the way.)
November 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
This is how John Crace was writing about Keir Starmer in July of 2025 – four months ago.
(The UK still hasn’t recognised a Palestinian state, by the way.)
(The UK still hasn’t recognised a Palestinian state, by the way.)
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I wrote this in March 24 about Labour's flag-shagging in the lead-up to the election. At the time, people were saying it's absurd for a party to be "ashamed" of the country's flag. With hindsight, can we say that Labour's flag-shagging was a healthy patriotism or did it foreshadow... something else?
You are not the country
Political parties’ dressing up in national colours and symbols may look harmless, but it paves the way to anti-politics and quasi-fascism.
medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I wrote this in March 24 about Labour's flag-shagging in the lead-up to the election. At the time, people were saying it's absurd for a party to be "ashamed" of the country's flag. With hindsight, can we say that Labour's flag-shagging was a healthy patriotism or did it foreshadow... something else?
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We're an undeniable border violation. We exist and we show that the border between male and female is both permeable and not simply a hierarchy. So we have to be dealt with the way border problems are - extreme violence or a complex series of exceptions.
I think you cannot understand anything until you realise the scale of cis society's obsession with transfeminity and the lengths it goes to not only to quarantine and punish it, but construct social rituals to navigate its presence in everyday cis life.
November 19, 2025 at 7:18 AM
We're an undeniable border violation. We exist and we show that the border between male and female is both permeable and not simply a hierarchy. So we have to be dealt with the way border problems are - extreme violence or a complex series of exceptions.
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this extremely superior super intelligent techbro wouldn't pass GCSE physics
November 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
this extremely superior super intelligent techbro wouldn't pass GCSE physics
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*stares hard in liberal arts education* if I know more about science than you, techbro, we are all in trouble
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
*stares hard in liberal arts education* if I know more about science than you, techbro, we are all in trouble
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The alliance between "gender-critical" feminists and the fascist religious right is not just something that came about due to its political expedience: they share some very fundamental assumptions about human beings.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The alliance between "gender-critical" feminists and the fascist religious right is not just something that came about due to its political expedience: they share some very fundamental assumptions about human beings.
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Any variation in gender/sex is described by these people (Wright, Hilton etc.) are examples of things "going awry", pathological, and it follows from their normative interpretation of biology that homosexuality is something pathological, something "gone awry" in a person's development.
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Any variation in gender/sex is described by these people (Wright, Hilton etc.) are examples of things "going awry", pathological, and it follows from their normative interpretation of biology that homosexuality is something pathological, something "gone awry" in a person's development.
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Indeed. It's one step removed from the classic "the parts aren't designed to fit", "biological" normative case against gay people.
Also, these people claim not to be homophobes (even that it is we who are the homophobes), but this argument about what sexual cells and organs are supposed to do could equally be used to right off being gay as a perversion rather than just a fact...
November 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Indeed. It's one step removed from the classic "the parts aren't designed to fit", "biological" normative case against gay people.
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when you hate trans people so much you'll wreck your own reputation as a biologist and atheist just to spite the transes.
Jerry Coyne stating that bodies are "designed" in Skeptical Inquirer
(screenshot from medium.com/@kim-hipwell...)
(screenshot from medium.com/@kim-hipwell...)
November 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
when you hate trans people so much you'll wreck your own reputation as a biologist and atheist just to spite the transes.