New date for the parliamentary mass lobby - for reference it was posponed due to the heatwave in June making the original date unsafe for obvious health/wellbeing reasons. If you have an MP who you feel would engage, please do reach out to them for an invitation on the 9th. See the link for details.

TACC@tacc.org.uk · 4h ago

www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...

Slotherhouse remains a masterpiece.

I mean, Zack condemned it at the press conference this morning.

Ashleigh Talbot ⛧🏳️‍⚧️@ashleigh.whatthetrans.com · 9h ago

Anything you'd like to mention, @greenparty.org.uk? Because today is a day that trans people need to hear we actually do have some allies.

🚨We have written to all MP's expressing our anger at the government. Our rights WILL be restored. Our voices WILL be heard. We will continue to fight 🏳️‍⚧️✊

We aren't backed by billionaires. We can only defend trans rights with your help. Please give your support.

Fight back against the code of practice

The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us

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🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇

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The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back

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"The Equality Act always discriminated against trans people, we just read it wrong for fifteen years" is right up there with the standards of jurisprudence we're coming to expect from the Anglosphere these days.

If your local venue has @askforclive.bsky.social notices it's worth emailing them and asking if they know about the Pee in Peace campaign to provide free packs to help trans+ customers feel safer: www.goodnightoutcampaign.org/peeinpeace/

Ex-PM Starmer said, in response to Raise the Colours terrorising people, ‘I am supporter of flags’, ‘I’m very encouraging of flags. I think they’re patriotic and I think they’re a great symbol of our nation’ and his family had ‘got St George’s flag in our flat’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Cllr Dr Alex Powell@apowelllaw.bsky.social · yesterday

The campaign of harassment and intimidation Raise the Colours have undertaken against council staff, contractors, and members of the public as reported by the Clarion today is shocking if not surprising. Excellent reporting. oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...

From @greenparty.org.uk

Mabel Pines > Zoe Williams

I would never go on holiday to France and come back with a pig. But I’ll admit I was tempted | Zoe Williams

The animal was no bigger than a pug and, when you scratched it, lay on its side and snorted with joy, writes Zoe Williams. Who could ask for more?

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Obviously, @andyburnham.bsky.social is a deeply underwhelming, transphobic, Islamophobic and xenophobic New Labour type whose ever step pumps out notes from the yesteryear dirge of Wonderwall. But this is stupid. Nobody hates London. We hate politicians giving it most of the money, not London.

Does Andy Burnham really hate London? He wouldn’t be the only one | Zoe Williams

Both left and right have it in for Britain’s capital. But is London a stabby wasteland, a den of faceless bureaucrats, or just a mess of overprivileged wokerati, asks Zoe Williams

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Lego Batman is so, so good. They have terrorist penguins! The Joker is funny! Catwoman says, "Meow meow meow!" when typing! Now Batman is singing and kicking ass! "WHO DOES THE SICKEST BACKFLIPS! *BATMAN*!"

My typing and spelling is terrible tonight. Urgh. I give up.

Rod Liddle got the full Fox News sex pest treatment? Well, as I've been told to only be silent or speak well of dead racists, transphobes, Islamphobes and those with noncy tendencies they spouted in print, I can only say:

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d ago

All kinds of interesting learnings, today. The editor tried to get rid of him for being a nasty piece of work and Rupert Murdoch personally intervened to protect him.

You knoe what, Batman: The Caped Crusader pissed me off so much, I'm going to have to watch Lego Batman again. "BECAUSE I'M THE BEST OF THEM ALL! *BATMAN*!"

Dear Batman: The Caped Crusader season 2 staff, why did you think your season finalè should be disaffected German Joker doing lectures about anchors whilst a version of The Sadness plays out with no Batman but many Ultimate Hulks, before plane contrails save the day? But duller than that sounds?

Body horror and cannibalism. That's how you know Batman: The Caped Crusader is a very serious show presenting a very serious Joker. This show is so dumb. It's like if Paul Dini and Bruce Timm hated the entire Batman rogues' gallery.

Batman: The Caped Crusader writer: "What if, instead of a demented clown lunatic who is incredibly funny and seriously homicidal, providing a jarring counterpoint to the dour Gotham crime families, we just make him Baron Zemo?" Producers: "Yes. Our Prime cartoon needs to be so serious." 🤦‍♀️

Watching Batman: The Caped Crusader. This new version of The Joker is, so far, FUUUUUUUUUUUCKING BOOOOOOOOOOOORING! He's the clown prince of crime by way of Jack Dee playing a teenage Nazi so far. Less joking, more disiniterested. "No, Bats, I expect you to *whatever*. This is... [sigh]."

Apparently, Rod Liddle is dead.

Practical (not specifically legal) advice on using the toilet if you are trans in the UK

"So, who have we got to do the speech at this Children's Charity Gala?" "Jessica Fletcher. But she hasn't shown up." "Any murders in Cabot Cove?" "I think there was one on the news. There seems to be one on the news every week!" "And...?" "And that's why we don't hire Jessica Fletcher."

Please share with all women (yes it affects cis women too) and trans + people. goodweeplace.com

On Valentines Day this year, women across the UK sent us messages of love, hope and belonging to share with the trans+ community. We post them again now, because we want trans+ people to know that in these difficult times you are seen, valued and never alone. 💗 #WithTheT

“Anti-gender and anti-rights narratives ultimately undermine the rights of everyone, but their focus on so-called traditional norms around sex, gender and expression is particularly destructive of the rights of trans people” - European Commissioner for Human Rights, 2024. www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

Human rights of trans people: increased visibility and legal recognition contrast with lived experience of discrimination, violence

Strasbourg 14/03/2024

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Love has never needed permission from labels 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 My emptiness of gender lets me see that clearly. Anxiety tightens around transgender lives right now. Why must their chosen bonds still pass through someone else’s gate? Why is the soul they claim treated as a request instead of a right?

yes, the environment got destroyed. but for a beautiful moment in time we summarised so many emails.

Manchester turned out to say Trans Rights are Human Rights