Trish Watt
@trishywatt.bsky.social
Professional thrower of noise.
Recovering refret bodger.
Trans woman (woman for short)
Oldish & getting oldisher
Joyfully living a life in awe of and in love with the talented Ms Cooper
A Woke/awake (thanks Dad x)
c/w Sarcasm (thanks Mum x)
She/her
Recovering refret bodger.
Trans woman (woman for short)
Oldish & getting oldisher
Joyfully living a life in awe of and in love with the talented Ms Cooper
A Woke/awake (thanks Dad x)
c/w Sarcasm (thanks Mum x)
She/her
Pinned
Trish Watt
@trishywatt.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Hi I'm Trish and I thought I'd better post so I look somewhat like a human. I didn't say much on the bird site as most of what I wanted to say was said more effectively and succinctly by people way cooler or fiercer than me. So I shared their stuff, mainly, and probably will do so again here (1/6)
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It was never gonna stop with Girl Guides.
Reminder to cancel your licenses and don't fund the bigoted BBC @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social who write garbage like "trans women - biological males who identify as women" and don't comply in advance through cowardice like the WI.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reminder to cancel your licenses and don't fund the bigoted BBC @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social who write garbage like "trans women - biological males who identify as women" and don't comply in advance through cowardice like the WI.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Women's Institute to stop offering trans women membership
The National Federation of Women's Institutes said it made the decision with “sincere regret”.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
It was never gonna stop with Girl Guides.
Reminder to cancel your licenses and don't fund the bigoted BBC @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social who write garbage like "trans women - biological males who identify as women" and don't comply in advance through cowardice like the WI.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reminder to cancel your licenses and don't fund the bigoted BBC @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social who write garbage like "trans women - biological males who identify as women" and don't comply in advance through cowardice like the WI.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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There are better examples that I cannot share because I’m not outing myself or subjecting the targets to further harassment.
However big an organisation you run?
This is a battle you fight or fascism you enable.
However big an organisation you run?
This is a battle you fight or fascism you enable.
When an organisation gets those letters claiming that Transphobia “is the law of the land” you can just reply with the polite version of this meme:
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
There are better examples that I cannot share because I’m not outing myself or subjecting the targets to further harassment.
However big an organisation you run?
This is a battle you fight or fascism you enable.
However big an organisation you run?
This is a battle you fight or fascism you enable.
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Nothing says “we support trans women” like “we aren’t willing to remotely risk a lawsuit, and don’t want to hear any criticism about it.”
December 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Nothing says “we support trans women” like “we aren’t willing to remotely risk a lawsuit, and don’t want to hear any criticism about it.”
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You should read this blog for some (very brief) legal analysis on why women's organisations can and should continue to be inclusive 👇
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive:
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.
goodlaw.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
You should read this blog for some (very brief) legal analysis on why women's organisations can and should continue to be inclusive 👇
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There's not much left of the rule of law if organisations can be financially bullied into not asserting their legal rights. goodlaw.social/sb50
Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.
goodlaw.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
There's not much left of the rule of law if organisations can be financially bullied into not asserting their legal rights. goodlaw.social/sb50
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Every trans person who is on a knife edge. On one side is employment for another day. On the other is whether a random transphobe posts "Ick, gross, trans person" with your picture and employer name, and it goes viral. You will get fired, from pretty much any company, if that happens to you.
When writing this piece, I kept thinking back to this Instagram post I saw from a trans woman the other day. This is what I'm talking about. Watch this:
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Every trans person who is on a knife edge. On one side is employment for another day. On the other is whether a random transphobe posts "Ick, gross, trans person" with your picture and employer name, and it goes viral. You will get fired, from pretty much any company, if that happens to you.
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If your choice is between an existential risk to your organisation, vs being a fascist collaborator, and you make the difficult choice to be a collaborator...
...then you are still a collaborator.
...then you are still a collaborator.
Like, I'm sorry the fascists are giving you difficult choices. But that's what fascists fucking do. The only legit answer is "fuck you make me". The only answer that shows you have actual fucking principles not preferences is "fuck you make me". And that sucks. But here we are.
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
If your choice is between an existential risk to your organisation, vs being a fascist collaborator, and you make the difficult choice to be a collaborator...
...then you are still a collaborator.
...then you are still a collaborator.
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Kishwer Falkner's term as Chair of the EHRC, a term characterized by her willingness to use that vital guardian of the human rights of the vulnerable to wage war on trans people, ends today. THREAD
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Kishwer Falkner's term as Chair of the EHRC, a term characterized by her willingness to use that vital guardian of the human rights of the vulnerable to wage war on trans people, ends today. THREAD
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"The Jewish question"
"Jim Crow"
"The gay agenda"
"Trans issues"
Join the fucking dots, people.
Othering and segregation are BAD. Always.
"Jim Crow"
"The gay agenda"
"Trans issues"
Join the fucking dots, people.
Othering and segregation are BAD. Always.
November 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"The Jewish question"
"Jim Crow"
"The gay agenda"
"Trans issues"
Join the fucking dots, people.
Othering and segregation are BAD. Always.
"Jim Crow"
"The gay agenda"
"Trans issues"
Join the fucking dots, people.
Othering and segregation are BAD. Always.
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The BBC editorial standards have completely gone to shit since they decided they weren't trans-hostile enough.
It's a Gender Recognition Certificate - how hard is it to get such a basic fact right, for crying out loud?!!
It's a Gender Recognition Certificate - how hard is it to get such a basic fact right, for crying out loud?!!
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The BBC editorial standards have completely gone to shit since they decided they weren't trans-hostile enough.
It's a Gender Recognition Certificate - how hard is it to get such a basic fact right, for crying out loud?!!
It's a Gender Recognition Certificate - how hard is it to get such a basic fact right, for crying out loud?!!
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Y'all are backing the wrong horse with YP, but not only is it going to lose the bet - it will also kick you in the head and call you a slur.
Vote Green 💚 🗳
Vote Green 💚 🗳
Yorp conference doing its best to shut down anyone daring to call a transphobe a transphobe.
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Y'all are backing the wrong horse with YP, but not only is it going to lose the bet - it will also kick you in the head and call you a slur.
Vote Green 💚 🗳
Vote Green 💚 🗳
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when people are transphobic your party says nothing
when someone points out that transphobia your party says "hey cmon now, leave it out"
when someone points out that transphobia your party says "hey cmon now, leave it out"
Yorp conference doing its best to shut down anyone daring to call a transphobe a transphobe.
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
when people are transphobic your party says nothing
when someone points out that transphobia your party says "hey cmon now, leave it out"
when someone points out that transphobia your party says "hey cmon now, leave it out"
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I think we all need to think about how these changes might be utilised and interpreted by the worst people that could possibly gain power...
Sorry, what now? Personally I tend to think this government suggesting scrapping the right to appeal is potentially an even bigger issue with Lammy's reported proposals than the idiotic idea of getting rid of juries. This would be dangerous territory. #r4today
solicitornews.co.uk/lammy-jury-t...
solicitornews.co.uk/lammy-jury-t...
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I think we all need to think about how these changes might be utilised and interpreted by the worst people that could possibly gain power...
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Here's a thread from Twitter shared with Sophia's permission in which she finally is able to talk about Graham using the police as HIS personal goon squad and getting Sophia arrested at home by EIGHT armed police officers, somewhat putting the standard Heathrow armed cops in perspective.
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Here's a thread from Twitter shared with Sophia's permission in which she finally is able to talk about Graham using the police as HIS personal goon squad and getting Sophia arrested at home by EIGHT armed police officers, somewhat putting the standard Heathrow armed cops in perspective.
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Thousands of people raise legitimate concerns of lack of impartiality/anti-trans bias, nothing taken seriously. A single biased, bigoted individual with money and influence says the BBC isn't right-wing and bigoted enough, the BBC gets grilled by MPs.
Joke country.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
Joke country.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
Senior BBC figures being questioned by MPs after claims of bias in leaked memo - live updates
The committee hearing follows two high-profile resignations at the BBC and a threat of legal action from US President Donald Trump over an edit of his speech.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Thousands of people raise legitimate concerns of lack of impartiality/anti-trans bias, nothing taken seriously. A single biased, bigoted individual with money and influence says the BBC isn't right-wing and bigoted enough, the BBC gets grilled by MPs.
Joke country.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
Joke country.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
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People fleeing climate change are as legitimate refugees as those fleeing war & persecution.
The rich countries are mostly responsible for climate change, so we have a responsibility to take climate refugees.
Their homes will never to be safe to return to.
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
The rich countries are mostly responsible for climate change, so we have a responsibility to take climate refugees.
Their homes will never to be safe to return to.
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
November 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
People fleeing climate change are as legitimate refugees as those fleeing war & persecution.
The rich countries are mostly responsible for climate change, so we have a responsibility to take climate refugees.
Their homes will never to be safe to return to.
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
The rich countries are mostly responsible for climate change, so we have a responsibility to take climate refugees.
Their homes will never to be safe to return to.
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
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Just thinking of this in light of today's disgusting announcements from Labour, which come days after saying that they're going to abandon a bunch of climate change initiatives because they're too hard.
Borders are tightening because states are preparing for the inevitable upsurge in climate refugees since we've collectively decided that we're going to make large swathes of the world uninhabitable over the next few decades.
This btw should be illustrative as to what typically happens to queer people seeking asylum. They just happen to be Nigerian so white queers have never heard of what happens to them--accused of lying about being gay, being deported, etc.
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Just thinking of this in light of today's disgusting announcements from Labour, which come days after saying that they're going to abandon a bunch of climate change initiatives because they're too hard.
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Epstein emails;
- Trump knew Epstein was a nonce & failed to report it
- Trump was alone with an underage girl for hours
- Instead of denying it, the Whitehouse is saying the emails were "cherry-picked" - ie. they are *true*
- Trump has lied about all this for months
- So where is the media..?
- Trump knew Epstein was a nonce & failed to report it
- Trump was alone with an underage girl for hours
- Instead of denying it, the Whitehouse is saying the emails were "cherry-picked" - ie. they are *true*
- Trump has lied about all this for months
- So where is the media..?
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Epstein emails;
- Trump knew Epstein was a nonce & failed to report it
- Trump was alone with an underage girl for hours
- Instead of denying it, the Whitehouse is saying the emails were "cherry-picked" - ie. they are *true*
- Trump has lied about all this for months
- So where is the media..?
- Trump knew Epstein was a nonce & failed to report it
- Trump was alone with an underage girl for hours
- Instead of denying it, the Whitehouse is saying the emails were "cherry-picked" - ie. they are *true*
- Trump has lied about all this for months
- So where is the media..?
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Yknow thinking more about MPs championing the no phones in schools thing in Brianna Ghey’s name just how arrogant you gotta be as a cis person not to wonder where all the trans people endorsing your project are at named after a girl murdered for being trans
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Yknow thinking more about MPs championing the no phones in schools thing in Brianna Ghey’s name just how arrogant you gotta be as a cis person not to wonder where all the trans people endorsing your project are at named after a girl murdered for being trans
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Please read!
1/🧵 Today at 10:30am, High Court in London, Court 1, before Mr Justice Swift, R (Good Law Project, on the application of) v Equality and Human Rights Commission, a rolled-up hearing for judicial review of EHRC’s “interim update” (Day 1 of 2)
No live reporting, sorry.
No live reporting, sorry.
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Please read!
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Outgoing BBC DG Tim Davie says the corporation needs to "fight for our journalism". It also needs to fight for its independence. The two are linked. Davie, a former Tory councillor candidate, has inadequately fought for reporting that actually scrutinises rather than simply 'reflects' back opinions.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Outgoing BBC DG Tim Davie says the corporation needs to "fight for our journalism". It also needs to fight for its independence. The two are linked. Davie, a former Tory councillor candidate, has inadequately fought for reporting that actually scrutinises rather than simply 'reflects' back opinions.
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People in the UK aren't getting transphobia from weird niche online communities.
They're getting it from the prime minister, the BBC, politicians and the newspapers in every newsagents in the country.
They're getting it from the prime minister, the BBC, politicians and the newspapers in every newsagents in the country.
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
People in the UK aren't getting transphobia from weird niche online communities.
They're getting it from the prime minister, the BBC, politicians and the newspapers in every newsagents in the country.
They're getting it from the prime minister, the BBC, politicians and the newspapers in every newsagents in the country.
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by the by I've said before and I'll say again - I don't agree with the "we need them kids off them screens" values of the boomers. screens are great for a plethora of reasons.
But if you do want kids off screens and making friends offline then you need to address the reasons they've 'retreated'.
But if you do want kids off screens and making friends offline then you need to address the reasons they've 'retreated'.
ps. it is arguable that Brianna would not likely have turned to social media for friendships and transitional support had those things been readily available in her local area.
@charlotte2153.bsky.social you want kids like Brianna off her phone? then give them a better alternative.
@charlotte2153.bsky.social you want kids like Brianna off her phone? then give them a better alternative.
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
by the by I've said before and I'll say again - I don't agree with the "we need them kids off them screens" values of the boomers. screens are great for a plethora of reasons.
But if you do want kids off screens and making friends offline then you need to address the reasons they've 'retreated'.
But if you do want kids off screens and making friends offline then you need to address the reasons they've 'retreated'.
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So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC.
Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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For reference - Here’s the Telegraph article with the Prescott memo complaining about the BBC published in FULL.
Obviously, it’s an archived link which circumvents their paywall - as there’s no way I’m gonna give that transphobic rag any clicks or coin! 😣
👉 archive.ph/mJIsB
Obviously, it’s an archived link which circumvents their paywall - as there’s no way I’m gonna give that transphobic rag any clicks or coin! 😣
👉 archive.ph/mJIsB
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC.
Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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Yep, THIS!
Transphobia overwhelmingly comes from mainstream media. Restricting phone use will have no effect at all on the transphobia coming from the BBC, Guardian, Mail, Murdoch Times, Telegraph, Express, New Statesman, Spectator, GB News, etc.
Transphobia overwhelmingly comes from mainstream media. Restricting phone use will have no effect at all on the transphobia coming from the BBC, Guardian, Mail, Murdoch Times, Telegraph, Express, New Statesman, Spectator, GB News, etc.
Locking phones up in school - the time when children are already LEAST likely to be on them - will do NOTHING to stop bullying, poor mental health, isolation, or radicalisation!
It will also have ZERO impact on the rabid transphobia that’s perpetuated through the mainstream media & politics! 😖
It will also have ZERO impact on the rabid transphobia that’s perpetuated through the mainstream media & politics! 😖
Phones did not murder Brianna Ghey in cold blood.
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Yep, THIS!
Transphobia overwhelmingly comes from mainstream media. Restricting phone use will have no effect at all on the transphobia coming from the BBC, Guardian, Mail, Murdoch Times, Telegraph, Express, New Statesman, Spectator, GB News, etc.
Transphobia overwhelmingly comes from mainstream media. Restricting phone use will have no effect at all on the transphobia coming from the BBC, Guardian, Mail, Murdoch Times, Telegraph, Express, New Statesman, Spectator, GB News, etc.