The Nerdy Queer

@thenerdyqueer.com

Two queer nerds making Gear for the Gay & Geeky from a spare bedroom in Merseyside and shipping it around the world!

If you're in the UK, especially if you're Cisgender, today is a good day to start wearing a Trans Pin. That bastard EHRC guidance comes into effect today, and we need to know who our friends are.

A collection of trans and nonbinary pins

This sucks, and I hate that we have to do it. But we're unable to ship to the EU until we figure this shit out. Yell at your MPs and MEPs, they're killing small businesses around the world with this PPWR stuff.

Due to the new EU regulations (PPWR) coming into effect on the 12th of August, we are unable to continue to ship to the EU, including ireland.

we’re a two person team, and we simply can’t afford the time or money this new regulation requires to be compliant. each EU member state has separate regulations, which would cost us hundreds of pounds a year across all the bloc.

This sucks, I know. but Until regulations change to make exceptions for “microbusinesses” like us, this is the only route we have. we can still ship to the rest of the world, and we’re popping up at markets, prides & conventions as much as we can!

if you hate this as much as i do, write to your mp/mep/whoever will listen! this is killing small business inside and outside the eu!

Right. We're a UK based shop. Is PPWR about to fuck us in regards to shipping to the EU? I cannot find any easy to parse info about this. Can we just...not send stuff to Europe anymore without paying €2500 a year?

So yesterday's stall was the best stall we've ever done. And it's not even close. We made the most sales, talked to so many amazing people, generally had a wonderful time and got to eat amazing cookies? 10/10 thank you Derby

It's time again! Cis allies: if you can, please consider being chaff for us. Toilet hobbycops think like 10% of people are trans, and to overturn our segregation we need respectable cis people causing trouble on our behalf. Please wear a trans flag pin. Get in good trouble, as John Lewis put it.

Weird Alex@jackalpants.bsky.social · last yr.

THE CHAFF PROJECT Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great! How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public. Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

A very simple diagram showing radar, a chaff cloud, a confused missile and an airplane. The confused missile is aiking for the chaff cloud and not the airplane.

THE CHAFF PROJECT Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great! How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public. Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

A very simple diagram showing radar, a chaff cloud, a confused missile and an airplane. The confused missile is aiking for the chaff cloud and not the airplane.

The EHRC code has become law and I'm actively pissed so in leiu of this we're raising money for LGBTQIA+ Switchboard and we're going to be streaming until we reach the goal of 10K. BOOST THIS STREAM LIKE CRAZY WE CAN HIT THE GOAL. www.twitch.tv/lottsoflottie

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Hi, I'm Lottiescanlines! You can call me either Lottie or Skitty! Both work!I'm a transwoman who streams, I do a bunch of different content from the worst mascot horror cashgrab slop to some genuinely...

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If you're in the UK, especially if you're Cisgender, today is a good day to start wearing a Trans Pin. That bastard EHRC guidance comes into effect today, and we need to know who our friends are.

A collection of trans and nonbinary pins

REMEMBER The guidance coming into effect today doesn't dictate what you're allowed to do as an individual. It for service providers and business owners. Do not cower in fear, do not reduce yourself, do not isolate, that is one of the intended effects.

Photo taken at a protest, he background is tall old buildings of a city centre, a lightskined hand is holding a sign with a trans flag painted on it that says "fuck your "respect and clarity""