Tina Torrontes(she/her)💚🏳️‍⚧️💜🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
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Tina Torrontes(she/her)💚🏳️‍⚧️💜🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
@ttorrontes.bsky.social
British diasporan from Canada, settled in UK. Linguist. Software Engineer. Dance/music enthusiast. Prommer. A woman. Scorned.
@TTorrontes migrating from X/Twitter
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hi, cis folks!

so, when they release the US cass review that makes the cass review look like a trans liberation manifesto, i think you should

• ask who’s making the case against transition

• answer whether they have trans people’s best interest at heart

• listen to actual trans people instead 🧵
NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning.

This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.
Exclusive: Trump White House directs NIH to study ‘regret’ after transgender people transition
After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning.
www.nature.com
April 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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It was a lovely sight to see Sydney University fly the trans flag for Transgender Day of Visibility. At a time when academic institutions are ignoring trans voices and countenancing transphobia because of political and other pressures, small gestures of symbolic support like this feel significant. 🏳️‍⚧️
March 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
"Gene Hackman, his wife, and their dog found dead - police do not suspect foul play."

So the police figure the couple AND THEIR DOG were in a three-way suicide pact?

news.sky.com/story/oscar-...
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Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and wife found dead at Santa Fe home with their dog
Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to a request to do a welfare check on Wednesday around 1.45pm local time and found Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and a dog dead.
news.sky.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Linking LGBTQ+ inclusion to paedophilia is a toxic and dangerous trope.

Please take action to urge Sky to pull their ads from GB News: actionstorm.org/petitions/cu...
January 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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The puberty-blocker ban was not subject to any discussion or debate in the Party at all and especially not with trans members.
January 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Labour is dismantling regulatory protections for consumers and the environment with far greater vigour than the last Government. If you attacked the Tories for doing it why are you biting your tongue now?
January 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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So on the pardon front, we have a day when an outgoing president feels the need to pardon lots of people who haven’t committer crimes, and an incoming president who will likely pardon lots of people who definitely have (Jan 6th insurrectionists).
January 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
They say the third Monday in January - so-called "Blue Monday" - is the "most depressing day of the year".

Not sure if that's always true but it's DEFINITELY true this year.
January 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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I really thought Labour were just playing the game during the election and wouldn’t keep up this shit when they got in. I was wrong.
The sense of hopelessness felt by trans people - battered in the media, shut out of the courts, alienated by our institutions and required daily to justify their very existence - is the ultimate cause of these suicides. But healthcare, and Wes Streeting, is a very big part of it.
December 12, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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In a story sent out to newsrooms around the world, AP calls puberty blockers a 'common approach' to treatment for trans kids and highlights how the UK ban goes against 'standards held by medical groups elsewhere, including the European and World Professional Associations for Transgender Health'
December 12, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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How do you fix a world where Musk can spend $44bn buying and using up Twitter? And even turn a profit after the election result? What is left of the media - or democratic politics - given influence can be bought at this scale?

Is there any alternative answer to super progressive wealth taxes?
December 15, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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🏳️‍⚧️ "No child should have to wait years for the healthcare they need to thrive." - Anne Health co-founder Susie Green.

This moving piece in the Metro highlights the heartbreaking six-year wait trans youth face for gender-affirming care in the UK.

#TransKidsDeserveBetter
https://buff.ly/3ZSYmpc
Trans youth 'languishing' while waiting six years for healthcare
'Trans youth deserve better.'
buff.ly
December 16, 2024 at 10:14 AM