Claudia Tyler-Mae
@claudiatmuk.bsky.social
Sparkling somewhere on the trans-spectrum. Supportive, but cynical. Prone to hyper-fixation, impractical adventures and spending years hiding under the duvet. Only interested in people who get it, not people who want it.
Why is everything "social contagion"?? Could it be these people have zero actual medical or scientific qualifications, but feel obliged to wade in to other people's lives?
Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 2w agoWhy are non-medically-qualified rightwing busybodies talking about things they know nothing about?
The saddest thing about this whole EHRC farce is that it's forcing people to deminish their existence into the smallest, least offensive, blandest package just to ask for tolerance. "Don't pick on me, I'm an obedient conforming citizen. I try to look as much like Karen from accounts as possible."
Given the pent-up feelings about the EHRC's bathroom disaster, I can guarantee one trans person is going to have a confrontation in the toilet today, and the bigots and scolds will be on it like flies on dung - "See! This is what we're fighting against!" Look after yourselves out there.
Where are the gushing words of support from the "majority of women" who wanted this?
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 2w agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
Trans woman saying "I don't like being called transgender, I'm not one of those weekenders or straight men who wear panties". Hmmm... okay then, you seem to me to be as intolerant as the people you hate, just you've drawn the line in a different place.
Statement from Feile an Phobail on today's High Court decision regarding NIWRN event cancellation.
Rowling, Upskirting, and Article 8: No Effective Remedy, and That Is a Human Rights Violation medium.com/@notashley/r...
Rowling, Upskirting, and Article 8: No Effective Remedy, and That Is a Human Rights Violation
The case of Minasyan tells us what the state must do to protect LGBT+ folks, especially for equality activists.
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When I was 13 we had to burn a load of trash, including a newspaper that had an article featuring a full page picture of the most stunning punk woman. I stood downwind of the fire breathing in the smoke, hoping some magic would make me wake up looking like her. You know - normal teenage boy stuff.
I did everything they asked, played nicely, played their games. - Fought for a GP referral to GIC - Waited 16 months for a GIC appointment - Answered the invasive questions - Took their homeopathic doses of HRT - Saved the NHS money by having private SRS - Took statutory declarations 1/8
Oh, they're happy to let you get to the information, so long as you pass through the gift shop on the way there. And the duty free shop. And the other gift shop. And the toll booth. And the pre-crime unit. And the public survey. And the charity store. And... what was it you were thinking of again?
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w agoThe goal is to satisfy the *emotions* behind every information need without providing real information.
Will probably delete this but... does anyone else find their gender stuff becomes much more intense when their partner or someone in their household is at a particular point in their cycle?
Overwhelmed with the sense that the internet has become a way for the discontent to let off steam just enough that they don't actually start to influence anything or threaten the status quo. Oh, and that dropping stones into the pond to try to make waves is an utterly thankless task. Happy Monday!
This sounds like the coolest thing. Can we do this, but for trans folk overthrowing our corporate overlords?
Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · 3w agoOMGGGG -- I'm not applying for this (because my body is a sad sugarcube dissolving in a cup of tea, among other reasons) but if you can apply you should apply and if you get in you SHOULD GO www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...
"Enthusiastically parroting and trying to import Trumpian-style moral panic is as far removed from feminism as you can possibly get."
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 3w ago"What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority" great piece from Allison Morris in the Belfast Telegraph. Please support Allison as she will no doubt be targeted now. Archive link below. archive.ph/oQ2Cs
An estimated 150,000 people marched through central London on Saturday for London Trans+ Pride, with organizers calling it the world's largest Trans+ Pride event #NOH8
Claudia Winkleman. She'd laugh at the funny bits.
Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · 3w agoYou know it’s Claudia Black
Does anyone else think "<Movie> Ending Explained" videos are a complete waste of oxygen?
I keep thinking a sequel to Weird Science would be interesting if done right. Lisa would find modern kids attitudes both endearing and perplexing. She'd think ChatGPT was a pocket calculator. She'd despair how some of the nerds had turned out. And she'd definitely turn one of them into a girl.
At the start of the week I came up with a really neat story idea for doing gender stuff without the usual tropes and wish fulfilment bits.... ... and after one of *those* weeks, I can't remember what it was. It would have been amazing, honest.
Hey there baby transes. "We all start somewhere" implies you have to go on a journey. Sometimes you just have to figure out where you already are. Next March I will have been "figuring it out" for thirty years. Yeah, I have bad wardrobe decisions older than you are.
It's not the sort of look that gets the most likes, but this outfit possibly saved my life. I had been so lost...
It's as though someone made being stupid a national sport.
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 4w agoThe anti-trans group LGB Alliance posted this to Twitter, and I find it genuinely funny. Once you read the methodology section on their survey, it's clear that this survey only tells you that people who already support this group... agree with the group.
I'm seeing this, and all I can think is "How can I get my hair to look like that?"
lumpenpoledancer@daturabombs333.bsky.social · 4w ago
Nearly everyone I know is hanging on to a job, or out of work. Not thriving. Not building a career. Not optimistic. Not building new things. Not excited about projects. Not hoping for a promotion. Hanging on. We could be changing the world, but we're forced into survival mode.
People keep focussing on dramatic rearranging of the deckchairs - electoral reform, devolution, blah blah blah - instead of addressing the fact that our politicians and media are deeply committed to keeping the policies that are screwing us all over. Deckchairs will not change the Titanic.