TurntPaige
@turntpaige.bsky.social
Independant researcher and writer (https://turntpaige.substack.com) with a background in critical social psychology and molecular neuroscience. Also a full-time activist & general-purpose nerd. Neurodivergent & transfem.
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A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
September 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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The Supreme Court promised that its decision "would not be disadvantageous to or remove protection from trans people" so we are surprised and disappointed that the Westminster Parliament has surrendered to hate. goodlaw.social/qduz
Parliament surrenders to anti-trans activists on toilet policy
The UK parliament has thrown trans people under the bus on toilets, abandoning its own policy to placate activists who accosted a trans barrister on the parliamentary estate.
goodlaw.social
June 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The Supreme Court promised that its decision "would not be disadvantageous to or remove protection from trans people" so we are surprised and disappointed that the Westminster Parliament has surrendered to hate. goodlaw.social/qduz
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In the world Labour is creating you can be as enthusiastic as you like about genocide but it will be a criminal offence to express support for Palestine Action's attempts to stop it.
Short thread on Yvette Cooper's decision to ban Palestine Action. 🧵
June 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
In the world Labour is creating you can be as enthusiastic as you like about genocide but it will be a criminal offence to express support for Palestine Action's attempts to stop it.
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Amazing 😂
June 19, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Amazing 😂
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1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
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So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
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Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow
Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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There are 7,000+ publications on pressreader dated back to 2017 and spanning the globe. Here's how often those publications mention 'puberty blockers' per year:
2017: 53
2018: 38
2019: 92
2020: 212
2021: 356
2022: 631
2023: 1115
2024: 2287
2017: 53
2018: 38
2019: 92
2020: 212
2021: 356
2022: 631
2023: 1115
2024: 2287
June 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
There are 7,000+ publications on pressreader dated back to 2017 and spanning the globe. Here's how often those publications mention 'puberty blockers' per year:
2017: 53
2018: 38
2019: 92
2020: 212
2021: 356
2022: 631
2023: 1115
2024: 2287
2017: 53
2018: 38
2019: 92
2020: 212
2021: 356
2022: 631
2023: 1115
2024: 2287
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In the two weeks covering the Supreme Court ruling, the Times, Telegraph, Mail and Guardian printed a total of 158 articles about trans people.
One hundred and fifty eight in two weeks from four papers. (English print editions only)
One hundred and fifty eight in two weeks from four papers. (English print editions only)
June 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
In the two weeks covering the Supreme Court ruling, the Times, Telegraph, Mail and Guardian printed a total of 158 articles about trans people.
One hundred and fifty eight in two weeks from four papers. (English print editions only)
One hundred and fifty eight in two weeks from four papers. (English print editions only)
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It's unfathomable much money and effort is being expended to fight against trans rights, the entirety of the religious right, groups like Heritage, ADF, etc, the whole of the Murdoch media empire, entire governments, and just about every billionaire that's losing their minds in a transphobic frenzy.
if the case for trans rights was so weak, we wouldn’t need five hundred op eds and talking heads constantly trying to convince us it was weak! it would just look weak on its own
May 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
It's unfathomable much money and effort is being expended to fight against trans rights, the entirety of the religious right, groups like Heritage, ADF, etc, the whole of the Murdoch media empire, entire governments, and just about every billionaire that's losing their minds in a transphobic frenzy.
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BREAKING
TKDB are setting up camp outside the EHRC Office in London
TKDB are setting up camp outside the EHRC Office in London
May 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
BREAKING
TKDB are setting up camp outside the EHRC Office in London
TKDB are setting up camp outside the EHRC Office in London
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This should terrify everybody - "Shabana Mahmood will consider overhauling medical and legal convention that medical treatment must receive the consent of the individual." [Times]
May 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This should terrify everybody - "Shabana Mahmood will consider overhauling medical and legal convention that medical treatment must receive the consent of the individual." [Times]
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#flushed
UK's right-wing Labour Government continues its crackdown on washroom use affecting trans people, lesbians and non-femme women, but yet little effort on more important things. Violent or sex offenders may be given early release.
From the Independent today.
UK's right-wing Labour Government continues its crackdown on washroom use affecting trans people, lesbians and non-femme women, but yet little effort on more important things. Violent or sex offenders may be given early release.
From the Independent today.
May 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
#flushed
UK's right-wing Labour Government continues its crackdown on washroom use affecting trans people, lesbians and non-femme women, but yet little effort on more important things. Violent or sex offenders may be given early release.
From the Independent today.
UK's right-wing Labour Government continues its crackdown on washroom use affecting trans people, lesbians and non-femme women, but yet little effort on more important things. Violent or sex offenders may be given early release.
From the Independent today.
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Boycott those Parliamentary petitions if you need to boycott something. Don't boycott this consultation.
I really, strongly believe that boycotting the consultation is a bad idea. They have to see us fighting back. The public needs to see us fighting back. We need to see us fighting back! Especially when we know that the recent backlash against the EHRC HAS had a positive effect
I'm not saying we definitely shouldn't, but if we boycott the consultation, every subsequent legal challenge will be weaker.
Yes they will likely ignore our responses. But that's a fact we might want to be able to bring up in Court, to international human rights bodies, and to the Government.
Yes they will likely ignore our responses. But that's a fact we might want to be able to bring up in Court, to international human rights bodies, and to the Government.
May 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Boycott those Parliamentary petitions if you need to boycott something. Don't boycott this consultation.
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This is going to be an absolute car crash, the Supreme Court verdict looks more absurd by the day
www.thetimes.com/article/86fb...
www.thetimes.com/article/86fb...
May 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is going to be an absolute car crash, the Supreme Court verdict looks more absurd by the day
www.thetimes.com/article/86fb...
www.thetimes.com/article/86fb...
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BREAKING: I’m told from my sources that Labour NEC has indeed voted to class trans women as men - and ban the women from all women’s groups and lists associated with Labour. Absolutely grotesque. Trans Apartheid.
May 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
BREAKING: I’m told from my sources that Labour NEC has indeed voted to class trans women as men - and ban the women from all women’s groups and lists associated with Labour. Absolutely grotesque. Trans Apartheid.
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I'm watching the Parliamentary debate about the self-ID e-petition and my JAW IS ON THE FLOOR.
The MPs speaking are hitting ALL the key pro-trans talking points:
- transphobic bias in EHRC
- nightmare of SC ruling
- toilet bans are awful
- must hear trans voices
- IGLA rainbow map
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The MPs speaking are hitting ALL the key pro-trans talking points:
- transphobic bias in EHRC
- nightmare of SC ruling
- toilet bans are awful
- must hear trans voices
- IGLA rainbow map
1/
May 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I'm watching the Parliamentary debate about the self-ID e-petition and my JAW IS ON THE FLOOR.
The MPs speaking are hitting ALL the key pro-trans talking points:
- transphobic bias in EHRC
- nightmare of SC ruling
- toilet bans are awful
- must hear trans voices
- IGLA rainbow map
1/
The MPs speaking are hitting ALL the key pro-trans talking points:
- transphobic bias in EHRC
- nightmare of SC ruling
- toilet bans are awful
- must hear trans voices
- IGLA rainbow map
1/
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When you are ensuring Gary Lineker is removed for calling for compassion while Sharron Davies and Martina Navratilova are still employed while lying about trans people regularly, you are broken beyond repair.
May 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
When you are ensuring Gary Lineker is removed for calling for compassion while Sharron Davies and Martina Navratilova are still employed while lying about trans people regularly, you are broken beyond repair.
I just wrote another of my weekly letters to the PM. This week I told him that I plan to undermine his efforts to forge closer relations with the EU by writing to the European Commission, which I will be doing shortly.
Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/turntpai...
Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/turntpai...
My fourth letter to the PM
“Dear Prime Minister,
open.substack.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I just wrote another of my weekly letters to the PM. This week I told him that I plan to undermine his efforts to forge closer relations with the EU by writing to the European Commission, which I will be doing shortly.
Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/turntpai...
Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/turntpai...
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"Can you work for the BBC and outwardly express opinions?" asks Radio 4 Today whose presenter Justin Webb routinely uses his platform on Radio 4 Today to express his negative views about trans people.
May 19, 2025 at 6:22 AM
"Can you work for the BBC and outwardly express opinions?" asks Radio 4 Today whose presenter Justin Webb routinely uses his platform on Radio 4 Today to express his negative views about trans people.
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Labour 'just protecting women'
"Police have been issued guidance on how to search women’s homes for abortion drugs and check their phones for menstrual cycle tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss"
"...police could bypass legal requirements for a court order to obtain medical records..."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
"...police could bypass legal requirements for a court order to obtain medical records..."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer
New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs
observer.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Labour 'just protecting women'
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There are a whole bunch of protests happening this weekend. You can find them here:
whatthetrans.com/compilation-...
We need to keep organising protests all over the country. It's scaring the shit out of the anti trans MPs in parliament.
whatthetrans.com/compilation-...
We need to keep organising protests all over the country. It's scaring the shit out of the anti trans MPs in parliament.
Compilation of Protests and Actions Against the Supreme Court – What The Trans!?
whatthetrans.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
There are a whole bunch of protests happening this weekend. You can find them here:
whatthetrans.com/compilation-...
We need to keep organising protests all over the country. It's scaring the shit out of the anti trans MPs in parliament.
whatthetrans.com/compilation-...
We need to keep organising protests all over the country. It's scaring the shit out of the anti trans MPs in parliament.
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There is a very tight deadline for them to get it published!
Let's make sure we flood it so much they miss it!
Let's make sure we flood it so much they miss it!
The EHRC are really going to try and rush this through
Remember when they forced us to have 3 whole consultations on the GRA Reform because the result kept supporting reforming it?
We are going to have to be so intense about this. Completely flooding it and also fighting against them rushing it
Remember when they forced us to have 3 whole consultations on the GRA Reform because the result kept supporting reforming it?
We are going to have to be so intense about this. Completely flooding it and also fighting against them rushing it
Update on this:
The consultation will now “aim to launch 19 May and close on 30 June 2025”
So it’s now six weeks instead of two.
This Pride Month let’s make our campaigning centred around contributing to this consultation.
The consultation will now “aim to launch 19 May and close on 30 June 2025”
So it’s now six weeks instead of two.
This Pride Month let’s make our campaigning centred around contributing to this consultation.
May 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
There is a very tight deadline for them to get it published!
Let's make sure we flood it so much they miss it!
Let's make sure we flood it so much they miss it!
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How to upset your average Daily Mail/Daily Telegraph/Times journalist/reader...
"If it weren't for immigrants, you would be speaking Welsh"
"If it weren't for immigrants, you would be speaking Welsh"
a welsh flag with a red dragon and the number 9
ALT: a welsh flag with a red dragon and the number 9
media.tenor.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
How to upset your average Daily Mail/Daily Telegraph/Times journalist/reader...
"If it weren't for immigrants, you would be speaking Welsh"
"If it weren't for immigrants, you would be speaking Welsh"
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And yet, for some reason, Labour, the Lib Dems, Alliance and Sinn Fein are angry at the queer community for being banned from Pride...
OMG the ILGA map has been released and this is how the UK looks under their Legal Gender Recognition section.
They awarded us 6.57% WTF.
rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/categories/l...
They awarded us 6.57% WTF.
rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/categories/l...
May 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
And yet, for some reason, Labour, the Lib Dems, Alliance and Sinn Fein are angry at the queer community for being banned from Pride...
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I hear Labour are furious about the Pride ban. Good morning everybody!
May 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I hear Labour are furious about the Pride ban. Good morning everybody!