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Like Aura but with a rawrr because I never grew out of my emo phase 🖤 Living on stolen land, sovereignty was never ceded. I'm interested in music, kitchen witchcraft, books (especially fantasy but fairly omnivorous), and human rights. YNWA
In New Zealand, the High Court ruled that a puberty blocker ban violates prohibitions on discrimination on the basis of a medical condition. It stated the ban was "unjustified and disproportionate discrimination." Trans youth can get care again. Subscribe to support our journalism.
New Zealand High Court Rules Puberty Blocker Ban Is “Unjustified Discrimination”
“Decisions about this healthcare are best made by patients and their doctors.”
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it will never stop being funny to me that charlie kirks last words were counting or not counting gang violence like every few months it hits me and its like a fresh new oh my god i cant believe that actually happened
what drives me crazy about all this LLM shit is that the only thing "new" about it is scalability and framing. They're using what is essentially an LLM to identify patterns in 1975's Three Days of the Condor. Automatic processing of large data sets is decades old technology.
I needed to keep quiet about this but this is what I was working on earlier this year. My publication “Harming Children: The Effects of the UK puberty-blocker ban” was evidence used for this! I had to submit a lengthy affidavit via NZ local trans group PATHA. Let’s hope we can overturn more now.
New Zealand High Court rules puberty blocker ban unlawful
QNews LGBTIQA+ News
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This is incredible news! A massive win and relief for trans people in Aoteroa!
Jennifer@jennifilm.nz · yesterdayIt felt like this day would never come but: the attempted ban on the prescription of reversible pubertal suppression to transgender young people in Aotearoa has been declared unlawful and set aside, and recognised as discriminatory. www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...
Hahaha yeeess take that Winston you desiccated weasel skeleton
Jennifer@jennifilm.nz · yesterdayIt felt like this day would never come but: the attempted ban on the prescription of reversible pubertal suppression to transgender young people in Aotearoa has been declared unlawful and set aside, and recognised as discriminatory. www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...
One (1) day after Luxon declared his support for the ban during the Stuff debate, stay losing, loser.
Jennifer@jennifilm.nz · yesterdayIt felt like this day would never come but: the attempted ban on the prescription of reversible pubertal suppression to transgender young people in Aotearoa has been declared unlawful and set aside, and recognised as discriminatory. www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...
I'm absolutely terrified for the future. Living on the edge of disaster like this is so hard. I struggle to do basic tasks because I'm just so scared and upset all the time by what's happening to trans people around the world and looking increasingly likely to happen here.
Danielle Navarro@djnavarro.net · yesterdayI'll add: the legal changes in Australia have not all been for the better. Queensland and NT have both gone backwards in several key respects Also: the reason I am so fearful even in Australia is simply that I have watched in horror at what has happened in the US and the UK. Australia is not immune
The scale of the assault on transgender people is sometimes worth highlighting. Back when I transitioned, the US and the UK were both relatively safe. Genuinely not that different to Australia in terms of trans safety. The dehumanisation of trans people in the last decade has been catastrophic.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last mo.Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
Powell has got to go, and face prosecution for all the harm she's done, along with Phillipson and Stephenson.
Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 2d agoKey findings: this is what @lucympowell.bsky.social is doing to trans children. She is a bully who is deliberately and needlessly harming CHILDREN. She should be removed, she is unfit to be Education Secretary or to work with any children.
“Our drummer went to the jungle to fight the junta” Interview: The Rebel Riot lead singer Kyaw Kyaw talks about his discovery of punk music and experiences of political upheaval in Myanmar https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/18/our-drummer-went-to-the-jungle-to-fight-the-junta/
“Our drummer went to the jungle to fight the junta”
Interview: The Rebel Riot lead singer Kyaw Kyaw talks about his discovery of punk music and experiences of political upheaval in Myanmar
freedompress.org.uk
Having a presenter on the ABC, who maintained a list of left-leaning people and called it “Lobotomised Shitheads”, talking about what has happened to Helen Haines, and wringing her hands about how people can lower the political temperature, is more than I can stomach. #AusPol
Absolute disaster of a policy
NTEU@nteunion.bsky.social · 3d agoSix years ago today, Job-Ready Graduates passed through Parliament. It has left many students paying much more for their education, while the government contributes less - leaving a devastating hole in our funding system. Find out more: betterunis.nteu.au/postcards
"so what they are just going to vote republican" no, they are going to pack their shit and move to somewhere else where their child will be safe. this shit isn't a game, its life and death for years now we have been witnessing an internal trans refugee crisis in the states for this reason
The American Transgender Refugee Crisis
If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.
liberalcurrents.com
🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️⚧️@katrafiy.bsky.social · 5d agodo you really expect the loving parents of a trans kid to vote for a politician who promises to take their child's healthcare away? you'd be absurd to say yes we have friends, family spouses. when you come for us they aren't going to throw us away, that's what they'll do to you
NHS killed 27 year old trans women due to not having a single room bed for her despite her pleading to be placed on a male ward for treatment. Read share, write to your MP and donate. www.translegalclinic.com/justice-for-...
Justice For Joelle | Trans Legal Clinic
translegalclinic.com
This is so tragic and horrible and evil. No words could be enough. Please, read this story of the institutional murder of a bright young trans woman and if able, donate to the legal fight to tackle the systemic transphobia that killed her.
TACC@tacc.org.uk · 4d agoNHS killed 27 year old trans women due to not having a single room bed for her despite her pleading to be placed on a male ward for treatment. Read share, write to your MP and donate. www.translegalclinic.com/justice-for-...
My thing with the whole “we have to stay and convince/debate the right wing” people is they consider my very existence to be a provocation of some sort.
An autistic woman plagued by horrifying nightmares says the most frightening image of all is of the people she knows finding out what fanfiction she reads.
Autistic woman plagued by nightmares of people reading her AO3 history
An autistic woman plagued by horrifying nightmares says the most frightening image of all is of the people she knows finding out what fanfiction she reads. Ima Onwugbenu, 23, has recently been…
thedailytism.com
it seems to shock the New Zealand government that Peter Jackson, Taika Waititi, and the Conchords etc all emerged from the same city in the same span, which coincidentally is when Wellington rent was dirt-cheap and there were heaps of empty industrial buildings around
violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social · 5d agoPeople don't realize how necessary cheap rent is to the arts.
"For years, trans people have used wards in line with their gender identity, under the NHS’s own guidance – without any harm. The NHS was built on the promise that everyone counts. With this guidance, it has decided that trans people certainly don’t – and some of us will pay for it with our lives."
The new NHS guidance for trans people could put lives at risk
The NHS has decided to make it even worse for trans people – by forcing them to use wards based on their ‘biological sex’.
metro.co.uk
A wonderful statement of solidarity from our Dutch and Belgian comrades <3 Danke je wel! xoxo BASH BACK
Trans Zorg Nu@transzorgnu.bsky.social · 6d agoPaint Ain't Terror: A Statement in Solidarity with BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social
@commissionerhr.coe.int Next year you are letting the UK host the European IDAHOT+ Forum. What would your advice be to visiting trans attendees, should they require a hospital stay? Seeing as the event was awarded to a known segregationist state, you must have a plan to mitigate this risk? Right?
Trans women no longer to be placed on female-only wards under new NHS England guidance
Rules mean single-sex wards, toilets and changing rooms will now be used by people based on their biological sex
theguardian.com
Also I’m not gonna let the linguistic point go: the BBC, the courts, and now the NHS all refer to trans people using slurs as a matter of official policy. That’s where Britain is at now.
The Aus Gov has the means to tackle poverty. They can fix welfare payments, target full employment and better fund social housing. These steps would go a long way to reducing poverty for the 3.7 million living below the poverty line. It’s all about priorities. #antipovertyweek
“It is not just history that haunts. It is that in these institution, elite, white, British institutions, we become the ghosts, Black and brown people, reminders of what they refuse to recognise let alone to give up.” Thinking with Jason Arday, Sara Ahmed exposes the racism of/in higher education.
British Racism
In an earlier post, Stories of Institutional Violence, I shared that I hoped to write some posts in honour of Professor Jason Arday’s life and legacy.
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