No one should feel obliged to do this, but the upcoming anti-trans LGBA Lobby event gives LGBT+ folks a rare chance to confront their transphobic and/or homophobic MP face to face - particularly those MPs who've repeatedly refused to listen to LGBT+ survivors of conversion abuse practices

Daniel Lismore@daniellismore.bsky.social · 1h ago

Hate group LGB Alliance are organising a parliamentary lobby against the conversion practises bill on 1st September. lgballiance.org.uk/conversion-p... these people hate all LGBTQIA+ people.

Reminder that the guidance also excludes trans men from women's bathrooms if they pass too well.

Ricardo Autobahn@ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 7h ago

Today is the day that *any* man who wants to go in the women's toilets just has to claim to be a trans man and everybody's got JK Rowling to thank.

anorexia is literally how my wife died and how I became disabled. It is not unreasonable to say someone who looks like my wife did 3 weeks before death from heart failure at 23 is at risk

nuclear family hater@androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 17h ago

not to be pop culture brained but it is kind of crazy how libfem shit is being weaponized against ppl who are like holy shit Ariana Grande is about to die. fellas is it anti-woman to express concern about the health of a woman and the high mortality rates of eating disorders

There's something diminishing about living in a world where men's abuse is so ubiquitous and unimpeded, and still women are chided for not thinking enough of men's woes, men's harms, men's feelings. We're constantly asked why we don't tolerate our endless violation with more dignity.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h ago

It's demoralizing living in a nonstop Abuse-a-thon: we've had to learn the sordid details of so many men's abhorrent behavior; I mean this summer has been Graham Platner, Andrew Tate, Jared Leto, Max Miller, plus the horrific L.A. rape-murder of the child by the rapper, to name a few lowlights.

We have higher rates of kidney and bladder problems compared to the general population, and historically rather than address this, medicine has chosen to either ignore it or blame our healthcare. Nope, turns out marginalization just destroys bodies. Quelle surprise.

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 3h ago

Here's my Cosmo piece about how segregated bathrooms have impacted my own health www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a6...

Me trying to understand trans community inside jokes:

Blathers spitting hot fire:

ACWW Blathers on 'Wretched Males' Quote

Alt: ACWW Blathers saying: then again, i suppose the males are quite wretched enough on their own right.

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Brookie Shields 🏳️‍⚧️@j3zz-g.bsky.social · 5h ago

Catching bugs with a net, collecting flowers, decorating my flat with furniture found outside, make friends with random animals... I'm actually living the dream!

Catching bugs with a net, collecting flowers, decorating my flat with furniture found outside, make friends with random animals... I'm actually living the dream!

Villager Smash Bros: Animal Crossing Characters

Alt: Villagers from animal crossing cheering

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It remains illegal to discriminate against trans people or anyone you think might be trans. Inter alia, we retain the human rights to privacy.

Often I wonder why I didn't come out in public as a teen; everyone was calling me a shim & a girl, I didn't feel save outside or at home anyway & I knew puberty didn't let me hold it in anymore. But it was still too much, I was at breaking point, slit bike tires every week. It would've been overkill

You know, at the time it was taken to be a commentary on Soviet Russia and totalitarianism more generally, but 1984 really was a quintessentially English novel, wasn’t it? I can’t stop thinking about that these days. For some reason…

We're several days into Rod Liddle being dead, yet his extensive back catalogue leads to continuous reminders as to just how nasty he was.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

This Rod Liddle? Credit for image and alt text: @snig.bsky.social

when you are part of the bri’ish upper class and try to not come off as classist:

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 9h ago

What’s amazing about the Telegraph crew is how thin their pretence of believing in ‘free speech’ really is.

Britain, where the national equality body is a boobyhatch jam-packed with wingnut cranks who fervently believe their job is creating weapons for police to hammer minorities that the press hates and wants to harm.

This might be a bit niche, but it’s very annoying hearing of organisations saying “well it’s the law to segregate trans people so hands are tied” when most of them respond to accessibility law with “eh who’s gonna catch us?”

Far too often I'm sadly not surprised by the behavior of certain allies since I've known these people all my life. They pretend to be on your side until they either have to have your back or you make something they consider "a red line" (& that can be something really innocuous)* & suddenly they...

"Oneword-jerker" - A person who writes trans woman or trans man in one word.

Dass LAMBDA die Finanzierung gestrichen wurde, wissen wir. Die Regierung scheißt wie eh und je auf queere Menschen. Davon betroffen auch LAMBDA space. Ein queeres Jugendzentrum, aber online. Für all die, die keins in der Nähe haben. Keins besuchen können. Werde Pat*in: lambdaspace.de/patenschaft/

I think this is closely related to the middle-class fixation of becoming like their oppressors to defeat oppression. Feminists need to become more like men, gays need to be more heterosexual, racial minorities need to be more white. You can't turn everyone into an oppressor & then oppression is...

Brookie Shields 🏳️‍⚧️@j3zz-g.bsky.social · 9h ago

I believe Willhelm Reich's ideas that the masses fear & adore their true oppressors & instead will gladly massacre the minority scapegoats provided instead taking the problem by the roots. Afterwards they will wipe the blood from their faces & hands & pretend again one ought to be polite & civilised

This is what they expected and wanted to happen: that members of the public, shown the cops would take their side if they kicked off and went mental at anyone they suspected of being a transgender, would then start going apeshit en masse and enforce their wacko ideas for them.

Cis ppl. can insist as much as they want that they can discuss & debate* us out of existence. We know what it will take murdering trans people until the end of times** to end us. * & ignoring how much this is "Questions" & "Solutions" Nazi dogwhistles. ** Ignoring climate change will make it soon.

I have seen talking head ass "allies" and liberals essentially getting a pretty mild critique from a trans woman and going absolutely fucking nuclear, having mobs of "allies" mass reporting, going to fucking national publications to mob us off the internet. How is that different from MAGA shit?

David Ellison may think we are stupid, but we know who he is. We know what he has done to CBS. We know what he wants to do to CNN. Support independent media.

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

In addition, speaking as one of the olds, one of the things that's largely been forgotten over time is that hippiedom was a very *white* movement. There were a lot people who would go on and on about "the coming race war" in my California childhood, and they were all hippies.

Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱@quincunctial.bsky.social · 2d ago

The original failure of analysis is that people thought hippies were progressive liberals. The entire point of hippydom was self-indulgence to the disregard of everyone else. Hippies were reactionaries: “back to the land, recover the ancient ways, be self-sufficient.” American Wandervogel.

Bumping this again because Diana is being charged and could end up in jail over this bullshit

Sarah Clarke - Not your doll@damselindystopia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is for a couple of friends of mine, I personally witnessed some of the events described. Both women are in a pretty shit situation as a result of this bullshit and could really do with some help. www.gofundme.com/f/help-diana...

part of why i spend a lot less time arguing with transmisogynists online nowadays is because I realized that trans women have been screaming these exact same points for decades to a community that only loves us when we're dead

🚨Hunger Strike Happening "Noah" Amber Smith, a trans woman locked in Mens Central Jail, has not been receiving her T blockers. She's been on hunger strike for two days. While on the phone, the nurses denied her meds agin. She informed the cops shes on hunger strike. They made her hang up the ph-