Anti-Ukrainian rhetoric cooled on Polish social media in July. But hate-crime reports against Ukrainians rose over 30%. The internet calmed down. Poland's streets didn't. euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/07/p...

Reminder that the deadline for this is on Sunday - if you haven't heard from Sandyford then please get in touch.

Scottish Trans@scottishtrans.bsky.social · last wk.

If you joined the Sandyford adult gender service waiting list before August 2024 but haven't heard from them, you have until this Sunday 9th to get in touch or be removed from their waiting list. For more information see our website: www.scottishtrans.org/sandyford-ad...

🦅❤️‍🩹 Ukrainian soldiers rescued a Red Book-listed kite in Sumy Oblast after the bird became covered in tar or varnish and lost the ability to fly. The injured bird is now recovering under specialists’ care at a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center 📷: UAnimals

🚨 BREAKING: The EHRC Code is being challenged in court just hours after coming into force 🧵 What we know so far 👇 📩 Get a detailed explainer with analysis, in our Saturday newsletter. Join 10K readers: wearequeeraf.com/subscribe

CforCD💙💛 A coordinated disinformation campaign using AI technologies has been detected in the Polish segment of social media, aimed at undermining support for Ukraine and discrediting allies. Polish fact-checking platforms DemagogPL and Konkret24 have drawn attention to this operation

Photo by Mark Richards 📸 I hugged a lovely fellow trans woman after a bigot verbally abused her and others at Saturday's trans rights demo in Inverness.

Thanks to the lovely people who invited me and my cameras into their lives over the weekend. As always I’m blown away by just how resilient trans people are after hearing so many stories from them. If you want to be in Our Voice the film check out the website Ourvoice.film for more information.

Botswana warns Russia trafficking its citizens into Ukraine war at 'alarming rate'. #news #uazmi #war #ukraine #russia "These individuals are often promised employment opportunities, only to discover upon arrival that they are being forced into active combat," Botswana's Inte...

Botswana warns Russia trafficking its citizens into Ukraine war at 'alarming rate'.

"These individuals are often promised employment opportunities, only to discover upon arrival that they are being forced into active combat," Botswana's Inte...

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30000 plus abusive and threatening messages Heather and I have been subjected to this week. Most of them transphobic in nature.

⚡️Update: Zelensky holds talks with Fedorov, Syrskyi, promises decisions on army to come. "I spoke at length with Mykhailo Fedorov today. I also spoke with Oleksandr Syrskyi today. Decisions regarding the army will be worked out."

'Changes are definitely coming' — Ukrainians take to streets for 3rd consecutive day of protests over military leadership crisis

Protesters took to the streets again on July 18 with two demands: reinstate ousted Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, and fire Commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi.

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Used a female bathroom. Shock horror. OMG!! 🙀 A lovely cis woman bought myself and a group of other trans people a solidarity bottle of champagne. Best part was they were a stranger who loved our earlier trans rights demo. Said they were scared of being challenged in bathrooms.

As a trans person do you feel voiceless as a community? If so here is your chance. I’m still looking for more people to interview for my documentary film. It’s being screened in Parliament when finished. For information and to express an interest check out the website Ourvoice.film

No cis women were harmed in the taking of this piss..

I spent most of my life afraid to transition because of transphobes. No way I am going to stay silent in the face of oppression now. That's why I agreed to be interviewed by @transatlanticalison.com for her documentary "Our Voice".

It's not just a segregation of physical spaces. It's segregation of rights, priveledge and protections. A white cis het with an axe to grind gets state protection. A trans + person says anything not agreed with by the priveledge and they are punished. Dark times indeed.

Been following developments around trans rights (lack of) in the UK a while. However, it wasn’t until today (thanks @jessothomson.co.uk ), that I heard the fears around trans people outed by being forced to use ‘third spaces’ were dismissed during the court case as “workplace gossip”. WTAF?!!

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 6mo ago

🗣️ Jolyon Maugham @goodlawproject.org said it is “deeply troubling” to “wave away as ‘workplace gossip’ evidence of what it means to be outed in an increasingly transphobic and violent society.” "I urge the judiciary to listen harder to what trans people say about what their lives have become."

Andy Burnham has said he wont introduce a wealth tax because he "doesn't want to be seen as having a grudge against a group" Seriously, fuck this fucking guy

Heather will get her kidney removed very soon from now. Consultation was a sucess! I'm overwhelmed with joy and sadness at what we've been put through the past 3 years.

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

It's also available here. Please share and spread this report. Trans folks in the UK can't for fear of lawsuits by gender critical groups. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...

This is the report Gender Criticals don't want you to see and they want to censor with legal threats. It also proves how anti feminist the gender critical movement is since a good portion of the report documents anti abortion groups tied to far right Christian fundamentalists.

Here's the list of anti rights groups in the UK as documented by Amnesty International.

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'

Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".

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Dear LGB gays They're coming for you now This is how it started with us I dont want to say i told you so but...

Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · last mo.

I've seen the Gender Critical now ask "What rights don't gay people have?" This may sound like a genuine question but it's not. It's asked to undermine the struggle that a minority faces. For example. What rights don't trans people have? Asked to undermime those who call out attacks on

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Belgium considers becoming latest EU country to recognise Palestinian statehood

Agreement by Hamas to relinquish control of Gaza could meet Belgium's key condition for recognising a Palestinian state

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