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pollik.bsky.social
Pollik
@pollik.bsky.social
1.5K followers 1.2K following 13K posts
Brit. Trans. Reluctantly political. Widow. 72yo (2025)

Background - probate/exor (asst manager high street bank), subpostmistress/shop owner, bus driver, independent living, mobile librarian, counsellor.

I block quickly, so don't play games with me.
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davidpaisley.net
Nothing to see here, just @thetimes.com having to apologise for calling an anti-trans group anti-trans.

The British media's complicity in instigating and prolonging moral panics targeting vulnerable minorities will be studied for years to come.
Text in this image says: THE TIMES November 17, 2025 Transgender Trend, an organisation that advocates "an evidence-based social and clinical approach towards children who self-identify as transgender", was described as "an anti-trans organisation" in early editions of Saturday's paper (“Children's programmes ‘promote trans ideology", News, Nov 15). This was an error, introduced in the production process. Screenshot of a Wikipedia article about the group Transgender Trend WIKIPEDIA Q Transgender Trend Article Talk ☆ Not to be confused with Transtrender. Transgender Trend is an anti-trans[2][3][4][5] British pressure group, which describes itself as a group of parents, professionals and academics who are concerned about the number of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria. [6] [7] It was founded in 2015 by Stephanie Davies-Arai.[1]
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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nickreeves.bsky.social
Please repost and share this petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy.

We must do everything in our power to keep the spotlight on Farage's links to Russia and work for Putin. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
pollik.bsky.social
Basically, they have abandoned having a coherent and consistent argument and are working hard on being transphobic for the sake of being transphobe.

If someone were to put these arguments to me, I would likely block them for trolling.

Pure desperation.
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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hleehurley.com
Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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tacc.org.uk
In response to the laughable fiction presented in the letter sent by Sex Matters to BBC Board members, we have sent a rebuttal letter to clarify the real facts, rather than their Orwellian tale.
Letterhead from "Trans Advocacy & Complaints Collective." Addressed to BBC Board Members, dated 20th November 2025, discussing BBC's coverage of transgender issues, advocating for accurate, inclusive reporting, and refuting bias claims. Alt text: "Document from the Trans Advocacy & Complaints Collective discussing a legal judgment. It addresses discrimination protections for transgender individuals, mentions Maya Forstater and the role of courts. Key points include the importance of recognizing social identity, with references to relevant laws and organizations like the Equality and Human Rights Commission, World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and Endocrine Society. The tone is analytical and focused on legal and social implications." The image shows a document with text about trans advocacy, discussing issues around biological sex, gender diversity, and media representation. It includes a logo for the "Trans Advocacy & Complaints Collective" in the upper right corner. Notable keywords are "biological sex," "bimodal," "anti-rights," and "media bias." The tone is informative and critical of how sex and gender are often portrayed in the media, emphasizing inclusivity and the importance of accurate representation.
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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fiercemum.bsky.social
Real questions in the puberty blocker study:

How happy are you with your nose? Would like like to change it by surgery?

How happy are you with your shoulders? Would like to change them by surgery?

How happy are you with your hips? Would like to change them by surgery?

Continued...
November 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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fiercemum.bsky.social
Those same commentators dismissed concern about the Cass Review for 4 years.

Whilst never actually acknowledging they were wrong.

Could folks actually listen to & support those of us waving red flags for once please.
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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bestforbritain.org
Brexit.

Less choice. Less opportunities. More cost.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2050pdzvvzo
Brexit: New models from Vauxhall, Renault, Citroen, Peugeot and Jaguar Land Rover 'may not be sold in NI'
From January new cars registered in Northern Ireland will have to have an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
pollik.bsky.social
Nothing to add to what Mark said
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h
Demented. His polling is heading towards an all-time low.
Donald J. Trump ©® @realDonald Trump I HAVE JUST GOTTEN THE HIGHEST POLL NUMBERS OF MY "POLITICAL CAREER." While my great work on the Economy has not yet been fully appreciated, it will be! Things are really Rockin Stopping WARS and Foreign Relations seems to be a strong suit. Also great, The Border and Stopping Crime. I predict that the Economy, with the already HIGHEST STOCK MARKET, EVER, and prices coming sharply down from the Biden disaster, will soon be at the top of the list. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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nickycdr.bsky.social
The lead, Emily Simonoff also spoke at an Escap Conference in a symposium organised by Segm. So that's 3 we know now. bsky.app/profile/nick...
nickycdr.bsky.social Nicky @nickycdr.bsky.social · 20h
The puberty blocker trial is about to start according to the BBC, led by Dr Emily Simonoff. The same Dr who spoke at a symposium organised by Segm, a group designated an anti trans hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Centre /1
organizers-congress.org/frontend/ind...
C3-Konferenzzeitplan – 21st international Congress of the ESCAP 2025
organizers-congress.org
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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bylines.scot
This isn't a peace deal.

#StandWithUkraine🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
US tells Nato if Zelenskyy does not sign peace deal Ukraine will face worse in future
US army secretary briefs ambassadors at ‘nightmare meeting’ in Kyiv on Friday after talks with Ukrainian leader
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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podsavetheuk.crooked.com
Reform MP Richard Tice is dragging neurodivergent kids into the culture war. Are we surprised?

Catch up with this week’s PSUK now - link in bio.

#PodSaveTheUK #Politics #UK #News #NishKumar
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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goodlawproject.org
Quite why Maya Forstater thinks her views are more important than the sizeable majority who voted to keep the ponds trans inclusive, as they always have been. But she does. She and her gazillionaire backers have a hearing in the High Court next month - and we're fighting back. goodlaw.social/vs0d
We’re standing with trans people against hate at Hampstead women’s pond | Good Law Project
It’s almost crunch time for a legal challenge from an anti-trans pressure group which could see trans people banned from Hampstead women’s pond. We’re not backing down.
goodlaw.social
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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reactiveashley.bsky.social
1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.

* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999 Drafting Instructions - a Freedom of Information request to Government Equalities Office
Please send me copies of the Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999’s Drafting Instructions given to the Parliamentary Counsel. If you can’t locate all versions, send me any one of th...
www.whatdotheyknow.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
pollik.bsky.social
<grin>
stephaniejane.bsky.social Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 18h
Definitely. And deep down they know it…

We now have a government and a gender critical cult muttering to themselves, “This is not how it was supposed to go! It was only supposed to target the tr@nnies!”

And now they don’t know how to extract themselves without admitting they were wrong all along.
LGB ALLIANCE LGB Alliance * @AllianceLGB X.com There is a lot of silly speculation about what the Supreme Court ruling might mean for gender non conforming men and women, particularly concerning the use of toilets. Those of us who don't conform to hair and clothing stereotypes have occasionally been politely 'challenged'. This is nothing new. A smile and quick vocal reassurance is all it takes for people to realize what sex we are. Sex is obvious, unchangeable and not determined by haircuts or make-up. This sudden concern for butch women is touching but a red herring, designed to allow men to have access to women's spaces. 17:42 • 20/11/2025 • 60K Views #IStand With Grover Sonia Sodha @soniasodha • 1d X To gender ideologues now claiming to be concerned about gender-non conforming lesbians being asked if they should be in female loos. That's not what my lesbian friends are concerned about, it's men claiming rights of entry to lesbian spaces because of your homophobic ideology. ıhl 74K Adult female @SusanFemale. 1d S • 1 am a GC lesbian myself and I want to say on the record I am in fact scared of being challenged in a loo. It hasn't happened to me but it's already happened to my bisexual (female) partner. It was horrible. I don't know what the answer is. Feeling sad. Annoyed. Fed up. {7 21 10 ıll 32K 贝 企 Christina Johanna @Ch... 1d O O come on, the moment you open your mouth it will be obvious you're a woman. I sometimes have a short haircut, wear jeans and sweats, no make up. People sometimes call me sir but quickly realise their mistake when they really look or when I say something. 贝 企 8 ıl 3.3K Adult female @SusanFem...• 17h Why are you denying my experience? 26 ıhl 2.6K 企
November 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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sheencr.bsky.social
Kennedy is more unashamed than ever as he admits he directed the disinformation on the MMR vaccine to be posted on the CDC website. He wants to equate fraudulent studies with over 40 peer reviewed studies showing NO link between Autism and the MMR 🧵 #PublicHealth
Robert F Kennedy Jr instructed CDC to change stance on vaccines and autism
US health secretary said he told agency to update website to claim the fact vaccines do not cause autism is not evidence based
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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unicornsrockuk.bsky.social
He's not wrong! We pretty much rank the same as Russia on the @ilgaeurope.bsky.social rankings for LGR. (UK 29th place, Russia 32nd)

"Owen Jones: UK is far more like Putin’s Russia over trans people"

www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
Owen Jones: UK is far more like Vladimir Putin’s Russia over trans people
THE descent of the “United Kingdom” into cruelty and naked bigotry has been swift and steep ...
www.thenational.scot
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Nish Kumar, "I think Shabana Mahmood's plan is insane" #HIGNFY

"All we ever talk about in this country is immigration"

"Meanwhile we have people paying too much on bills, a climate crisis, I think we now have to reframe everything through the prism of immigration"
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
NEW: It’s takes a moment for this to really sink in.

Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.
US 'peace proposal' includes Russianisms prompting questions about authorship of text - analysis Luke Harding in Kyiv Some of the phrases in the US’s “peace proposal” for Ukraine appear to have been originally written in Russian. In several places the language would work in Russian but seems distinctly odd in English.
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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tabathasouthey.bsky.social
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
Puberty Blocker clinical trials to begin
on the NHS

- The trial will involve around 220 children under 16
- Young people will “undergo intensive medical and psychological screening”, including Gillick competency evaluation
- Trial: Group 1 will get PBs straight away vs Group 2, 12 months later
New puberty blockers clinical trial to begin after UK ban - BBC News
Those taking part in the study will be children under 16 who are going through puberty.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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fiercemum.bsky.social
I've written about the gross questions trans children are asked in the non-puberty blocker trial part of the service here

growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...
Questioning trans kids
The UK Government and UK research councils have contributed £10 million pounds to a series of research studies on service users of the newly established Children and Young People’s Gender Services.…
growinguptransgender.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
pollik.bsky.social
I have a bit of a thing about Riot Girls, at the moment.
The Spectator has no taste.

No surprise there, of course.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/riot...
Riot Women sums up everything wrong with the BBC
Picture the scene: five middle-aged male actors playing rockstars are lolling about on sofas in a recording studio. In front of them is an attractive young female producer; the men start making obscen...
www.spectator.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
Dreams of an Ireland once again rich in wild places and life.

We can turn them into reality.
#Rewilding
November 22, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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stephaniejane.bsky.social
Genspect needs to be driven out of every State and country.
From a Genspect article... We all agree that autogynephilia is a paraphilia that can cause dreadful harm to women. How to tackle this issue is where the conflict lies. Some people believe that all AGP men should never be allowed to speak; nor should they be allowed to show their face in public; indeed, according to many, there is no space where AGP men should ever be allowed to exist. Put simply, some people believe that they should either hide themselves for ever more or they should die.
November 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM