Of the 7 indicators determining biological sex that are listed in para 5 of Bellinger v. Bellinger, I lack 2, 4 of them are those of a woman and 1 of them is unknown (but likely that of a man). My biological sex is far more woman than man. publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200203/...

GDwarble@gdwarble.bsky.social · 13h ago

I've increasingly seen the terms "Biological [male/female]" used to talk about trans people, even by people trying to be supportive, and I wanted to get my thoughts down about that. The tl;dr is that the terms are slurs and factually wrong, and pushing back when you see them is appreciated.

"You know what is in Room 101, Winston. Everyone knows what is in Room 101. It is a person using a toilet labelled with the sex to which they were not assigned at birth."

Off to see Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma! Decided to dress up for it.

i heard if we get to 100 #MathCoffeeSelfie they will ship us a free decoder ring!

For fucking years, people of every marginalization have yelled that a person is never just one kind of bigot. And now the Cofnas support letter, signed by notorious transphobes and sexual predators and eugenicists, proving their point once again. You'd think at some point people would listen.

Kira's very clear that tummy rubs before bed are essential. Pic credit: my partner, Alex. (I'd fallen asleep whilst watching tv: Alex woke me up an hour or two later to get into pyjamas, clean teeth etc and go to bed properly.)

Thesis: There is no cause so obviously vile and stupid that we can't find ~200 academics to sign a letter of support, provided we frame it as an "academic freedom" or "anti-censorship" campaign.

Saw a cis straight reviewer of Camp Miasma say he liked the movie but claimed Jane was being too “self-indlugent” and needs to make other things that are just their personal experience and I’m like… is this a critism you would apply to Christopher Nolan?

New earrings (bought at the local alternative witchy shop yesterday -- Ouroboros in Witney). Yes the top of my soda is used to store blankets and other random items.

Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.

Very much looking forward to seeing this WIP!!

Leslie Ewing-Burgesse@leslieis.cool · 2d ago

HELLO EDINBURGH! I'm not there this year, but actually I am here, just for a few days. AND I'M DOING A WORK-IN-PROGRESS TOMORROW! It's of my new show INLESLIEGATION, which has been bringing me incredible joy since I started work on it a few months ago. 1:10 p.m., Supercube Cowgate! Please come!

This is SO beautiful. I wept. Happy weep. The combination of the exquisite poetry AND the sublime reading itself... Oh my god. I really am just a PUDDLE right now. This woman should spend all of her time reading her partner's work aloud. Fuck, now it's a problem. I can't STOP. Happy, but still.

Dr Tacey "dumb blonde" O'Neil@densitypoint.bsky.social · 3w ago

An audiovisual version of my partner's poem. (And a voice update.) bsky.app/profile/dens...

These marathons were one of his defining achievements. And the British media pretended there was no evidence they happened. That it was just something he 'claimed' to have done... Now try and tell me their hounding was about "getting to the truth" RIP Jason 😢 26/26

A reminder: eugenics does not belong in academia — it belongs in the trash. It’s pretty basic.

Once more for the weekend long read crowd

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 3d ago

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UK Quakers commit to continued, explicit trans inclusion. "...toilet facilities labelled with a 'female' sign remain available to cisgender women, trans women, and others for whom those facilities best align with their lived experience."

Quakers reaffirm commitment to trans inclusion in the wake of EHRC Code of Practice

Quakers in Britain has refreshed and reaffirmed its commitment to providing trans-inclusive facilities across its buildings.

quaker.org.uk

I need to shift 60 last tickets for my Fringe show to break even. I’m a Scottish folksinger, performing self-penned, trad ballads and translations in Scots My shows are 21 and 23. Any support/reposts would go a long way. ❤️ 🎟️ Tickets → bit.ly/fringeif

It will soon be the 5th anniversary of when the Guardian censored these words by Prof Judith Butler. @networkgender.bsky.social will be commemorating it with an event near the Guardian HQ. More soon.

my 16yo got their gcse results today and did well enough to study their chosen subjects for a-level (maths, physics, chemistry) at their secondary school's 6th form they were particularly delighted when i told them that they'd done better than me when i did the equivalent exams 40 years ago!

One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.

okay so just checking in on the UK media. learning lots. being trans isn’t real. ADHD isn’t real. being disabled isn’t real. but what is real is Harry Potter

exactly this: simply by existing, i am an 'activist' and not to be heard

Aidan Comerford@aidancomerford.bsky.social · 5d ago

They do this in the media as well, a trans person is called an "activist", by dint of existing and saying "please don't treat me cruelly," whereas "gender critical" people, who are in every sense of the word extremists, get gentler words, like "feminist" or "women's rights campaigner" etc.

*Will Self* speaking blistering truth to power and taking names was not on my bingo card, but 2026 is wild like that. Let that man cook.

Patrick Ness@patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is bracing, remarkable reading by Will Self about Jason Arday, naming names in blistering terms, including several prominent TERFs who joined the kicking of Arday. May Kathleen Stock and Sarah Ditum and everyone else involved never live this down.

For those who want to know just what a difference diagnosis and treatment of ADHD makes when you're an adult, should read this thread (his description of the effects of lisdexamfetamine closely match my own experiences)

Andrew MacKellar@hansoliton.bsky.social · 5d ago

I have ADHD. I'm also a physicist. I got the ADHD diagnosis about a year and a half ago, after really struggling with work for a few years. I didn't know about it when I was in school, or when I started a physics undergrad as a mature student, or through my PhD. I have thoughts:

The Law of Unintended Consequences (2025), Section 7, sub-section (4)(d). I laughed and laughed.

They're taking delight in their hypocrisy and cruelty

Baby octopus@mancalled.horse · 5d ago

The Labour government publishing this just two weeks after bringing in a nationwide toilet ban for trans people and two weeks before their trans section 28 comes into effect in English schools was certainly a fucking choice petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

A video about a 30 years ago you had to monitor your spark plugs and now they last 100k miles...with a lot of people in the comments unironically giving 30 year old advice on oil changes. Synthetic oil is different! You can go 10k miles! We are in the future --the bad one with cars but still.

this video is not about spark plugs

YouTube video by Angela Collier

youtu.be

Jason Arday and the radicalisation of the British media part 1

Have you been questioned or stopped while using a gendered space? Let us know using our Report-A-Loo tool transactual.org.uk/equality-act...

There seems to be a concerted effort right now to undermine the diagnosis/concept of ADHD and/or autism. It’s probably been going on for awhile, but I’ve really seen it take hold lately, and it’s really concerning. A lot of parallel to the undermining of gender identity and trans healthcare, too.