the timeline— trans people: fine whatever if you’re going to be so weird about us, let’s talk about it channel 4: we’ve set up a debate where the audience are encouraged to shout PENIS! at Munroe Bergdorf whenever she talks trans people: yeah okay we’re not doing this again

Mitildide 🧌@mitildide.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's pretty commonly acknowledged among trans women that "No debate" was not a campaign but a strategy shared among transfem activists after an infamous debate where the BBC had anti-trans hecklers infiltrated in the audience to harass the transfem speakers.

a lot of people really do say ‘twink’ because they’re not allowed to say ‘faggot’ any more

Sam Whyte@samwhyte.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Don't put in the newspaper that I got mad.

All this because a human rights lawyer doesn‘t want to use the Commons majority he has to correct the Supreme Court with legislate.

Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@stephaniejane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And for those of us with GRCs, we’re between a rock and a hard place: we’re no longer our gender in the EA, but still our gender in the GRA. If I were to marry, I’d be legally female at the ceremony, but when I needed the toilet at the reception, I’d be legally expected to use the men’s.

And for those of us with GRCs, we’re between a rock and a hard place: we’re no longer our gender in the EA, but still our gender in the GRA. If I were to marry, I’d be legally female at the ceremony, but when I needed the toilet at the reception, I’d be legally expected to use the men’s.

Rachel Saunders@rejserin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The UK government's new EHRC guidance essentially means trans people are being forced to don't ask/don't tell. This impacts everyone. rejserin.medium.com/the-uk-gover...

frustrating to have to re-up this again, but this essay has all the necessary facts to counteract today's news: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...

Trans People and Sports: Everything You Need to Know

I have been writing about transgender people and issues for over twenty years now. For most of that time, I never felt the need to pen a…

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Self-harm, but actually it’s just reading the comments on the IOC re-introducing genetic tests for women’s categories

Someone tell Shabana Mahmood that the European court of human rights exists LITERALLY to tell governments when they're exploiting human rights, and this is not, in fact, a case to leave the ECHR, but a case for the government to go "oh shit, we fucked up" As I said she's cartoonishly evil

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕@mimmymum.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The pretzel-shaped logic Labour bigots and the transphobic right-wing media twists itself into… Apparently it’s the fault of Human Rights bodies that the UK might leave the ECHR, because they criticised the UK for its lack of human rights for trans people??? 🤔🤔🤔 👉 archive.ph/gu5Zy

re: all the Bluesky drama, I see a bunch of people claiming “of course there’s no compassion, of course there’s no equality, they’re all tech people”… And like, I’m not saying we’re all good people, but: isn’t this just people with power and capital? Are tech people worse than most C-levels?

there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.

nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir)@nora.zone · 11mo ago

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

“There’s an old Jewish tale about a rabbi who assigns a person who has spread harmful information around their small village to rip open a pillow and let the feathers out. Then, his punishment is to gather back all the feathers. It’s impossible, he complains. The rabbi says that’s the point.”

On Charlie Kirk and How the Media Helped Perpetuate a Trans Boogeyman

The US loves creating a boogeyman for violence that distances itself from that violence.

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When we talk about systemic victimisation this is what we mean.

Molly White@molly.wiki · 11mo ago

> the shooter is trans > ok the bullets were trans > ok the roommate is trans

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

Is there anywhere good to get a corset in the #SFBA, especially as someone with a relatively small waist-to-hip ratio, and as someone who has never bought a corset before?

since Bluesky is chock full of Newsom-stan-bots insisting that "Dems should compromise on trans issues", I will re-up my November essay about why this is not only immoral & unempirical, but BAD POLITICS. Dems WILL LOSE if they do this, here's why (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ...

Should Democrats Throw Trans People Under the Bus?

Here’s Why It Would Be Bad Politics

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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

i think what bothers me most about how "terf island" has been used is that it implies there's some unique essential characteristic of the uk that's allowed trans rights to be rolled back so thoroughly. this can and will happen anywhere we let it

One of the first things you learn about trans competent primary care is how many of us routinely develop PVD, UTIs, and kidney stones from avoiding or not having access to bathrooms. As a fun bonus, the disinfo machine then uses this high prevalence to make mendacious claims about HRT.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12mo ago

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

This is… intriguing. As far as I’m aware, Stripe is still one of the payment processors used by OnlyFans — of course, some of this is volume, but also we don’t know how bespoke OnlyFans’ contract is (what rates are they paying? are they obliged to do cascading payments?).

Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now@benjanun.bsky.social · last yr.

Itch update.

The damning thing here, really, is using AI to select which submissions to pay attention to. (And okay, that may well be just rebranding of old ML stuff, but who knows.) A random sample would be just about defensible. A selected sample is absolutely not.

Alex Parmar-Yee said the EHRC’s claim that it would seriously consider the submissions in just a month is “simply not credible.” “This is an emergency, and we urge people to tell their MP now – this isn’t how we should make decisions about fundamental rights.” www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/31/e...

'Rushed out' EHRC trans toilet guidance could be sent to govt as soon as August

An EHRC representative has claimed its trans toilet guidance could be finished and sent to govt by August, court documents have shown.

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So why does #Dublin Luas’s Cross City Green Line extension run on a loop around via Marlborough St rather than just go down O’Connell St in both directions? With the central division it looks wide enough for trams to turn, albeit not very fast…

Does anyone have recommendations for what to do in Dublin? Here till Saturday, and while I have plans to do a bunch of the normal touristic stuff, I don’t have that much planned.

Do I know any (by birth) British trans person who has acquired a GRC while living abroad, but where there was never any change of legal sex abroad?

The U.K. “online safety” act has had the consequence of censoring LGBT content and forums. This makes trans kids *less* safe. It means we can’t access any information about our community, healthcare or our lives without going through our parents. Together with Labour’s other policy of banning

Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛@shelleybwoke.bsky.social · last yr.

It absolutely guts me that one of the "faces" of the UK censorship act is a trans girl who was murdered for who she was. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

This country is so deeply… cursed. I have incredibly mixed feelings about digital credentials and the slippery slope of “well now it’s easy to require strong guarantees”, but in a country where so many sites now ask for photos of identity documents via unknown third parties, it doesn’t feel so bad…