JKR explicitly said she considers anything Potter-related, even fan-made, endorsement of her politics. And every time you engage with this franchise, you signal to the industry that there's still money in it and they should keep pumping out content from full-cast audiobooks to book box partnerships.

JUST. LET. PEOPLE. PEE.

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 13h ago

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

There has been one editor in the country i know of who has been interested in stories about the reality for young trans kids who play sports post Hecox and BPJ. People used to beg me for stories I had all over the country. I don’t have time to pitch every outlet on earth. Silence is telling.

Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 12h ago

It’s true, in the past I would have had multiple editors in my inbox asking me to write about the Cunningham stuff. I haven’t gotten a single assignment request. Trans writers used to be tokenized to write about these things but now that the topic is “mainstream,” those bylines go elsewhere.

I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · yesterday

I hate sounding like a conspiracy person but there’s a reason that this Sophie Cunningham thing is on like day 7 of discourse and how there’s absolutely very little trans staff writers driving the news coverage of it.

Cis people who think it "better" to 'just ignore' fascism as it rises, you *are* the problem.

The EHRC guidance does not apply to workplaces, and trans people are not criminalised for using any toilet in the UK. But the whole point of this - as with Section 28 back in the 1980s - is to intimidate people. Don't give into that fear.

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 18h ago

Just a reminder that: - this isn't for workplaces and if your work is trying to implement it scare them over discrimination claims - the onus is on the service provider, not the service user to comply - the code *itself* says enforcement of toilet facilities is unworkable and low priority

Big shout out to all the people who were mad at me for not wanting them to vote labour cause they were “certain labour will be better on trans rights than the tories“, they couldn’t have done it (segregation) without you

If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.

When they said “there will be no toilet police” they were always just saying so we need You 🫵 to be a toilet vigilante and sniff out the gender deviants

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20h ago

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.

Anyway i will just continue using the women’s toilet cause I am a woman and over my dead body will you deny who i am

EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.

Anti-trans activists lost twice in one day, after the High Court rejected a challenge to police guidance. @jessothomson.co.uk argues that the ruling raises important questions for trans human rights: https://goodlaw.social/0kp3

High Court rules strip searches don’t have to be based on ‘biological sex’ | Good Law Project

Anti-trans activists lost twice in one day, after the High Court rejected a challenge to police guidance – Jess O’Thomson argues that the ruling raises important questions for trans human rights

goodlaw.social

it’s already illegal in scotland, they just don’t bother to enforce it, because (repeat after me) police are at liberty to choose which laws they enforce

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · yesterday

www.thenational.scot/news/2641894... This is great and all, but the police already ignore it when Nazis turn up with Combat 18 flags and combat 18 has been banned since they went on a bombing spree in Muslim Jewish and Gay areas in London.

Superdrug has become the first UK high street retailer to offer DoxyPEP (doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis) through Superdrug Online Doctor. www.attitude.co.uk/news/superdr...

Superdrug becomes first UK high street retailer to offer DoxyPEP

Superdrug has become the first high street retailer to offer DoxyPEP (doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis) through Superdrug Online Doctor.

attitude.co.uk

And here you can see Cliff on their wheel and Hepworth scuttling about

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is Cliff she’s the biggest one and my special baby girl

Combing through Facebook this morning, looking at the early origins of the anti-trans athletes campaign here in WA state. Found an AI-filtered image used to drastically masculinize the appearance of the trans girl athlete… perhaps the origin of the “young girls competing against grown men” line.

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds

The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.

theconversation.com

I’ve been writing a counter narrative of shutdowns that has me revisiting media from that time. And let me tell you, the only other option was everybody die. So yeah.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d ago

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

Hank Green should not use LLMs in his work. Working scientists have specific use cases for LLMs, but science communicators like Hank and I do not. They add more vulnerability than value in our field. I laid out some history and background to walk you through the reasons why.

“why did you become a journalist”

Bits@bitshammer.bsky.social · 7d ago

Yes, this is 100% about censorship in general, and the current anti-sexual weirdness that’s going on. But a paragraph near the end of the article is especially telling… ASMR is primarily created by women. Women doing anything will always be perceived by some as inherently sexual (excerpt in comms)

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

the expectation that we also have to coddle people’s feelings who are aiding and abetting the harm we are experiencing is a dynamic i recognize from abusive relationships, btw. i am not saying that doing this is abuse, but there is a resonance

since this has now happened several times this week i feel the need to say that cis people trying to “well, actually” me (or any other trans person) on the fascist dissolution of our rights and the engines thereof just isn’t going to go well. if you feel challenged by something i said, sit with it

"They’re cultivating their own individual personas, while together giving off 'StudBudz of women’s baseball' vibes (what would you call a white, baseball-playing version of the WNBA fan favorites? 'Butch Buddies?' 'Masc Mateys?' Let’s keep workshopping it)."

Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 6d ago

In the meantime, here is a profile I wrote of WPBL & USWNT players Ashton Lansdell & Denae Benites. You can have it in hard copy in the sports issue of Autostraddle, out now:

This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.

Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...

we’ve reached the point in the Sophie Cunningham discourse where cis people are arguing with other cis people about what some other cis person actually meant by her transphobic comments and let’s give her the benefit of the doubt and meanwhile trans people are over here dying but like carry on

Stripe wants to charge you for the fraud prevention they used to provide for free. They just sent customers an email saying they're about to charge 0.05 per transaction unless you opt out. What does this mean and what should you do?

Apparently, the answer to "Have we learned anything from the Heritage Foundation immediately pivoting to attacking the very concept of women's sports after their successful push to discriminate against trans women athletes?" is "Hahahaha, FUCK no".

Trans people's medical care is under threat, and increasing numbers of trans people are responding by stockpiling the medications they need. Veronica Esposito (@veraeikon.bsky.social) spoke with trans people about medication insecurity and how they're coping. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

What is Driving Trans People to Stockpile their Medications? - Assigned Media

Many trans people are stockpiling their hormones for emergencies, but this goes further back than the election of Trump.

assignedmedia.org

god the struggle of cis people who can’t give up a daily word game and a children’s book series. no trans person can imagine this immense burden. the poor, poor, poor little treasures.

may@maysuser.name · 6d ago

the real victims of the new york times' targeted campaign against trans people are cis people who like to play wordle