Here is a starter pack of people and organizations working for trans rights in the UK, plus people who regularly post on the topic. The UK press is hopelessly anti-trans, so give these folks a boost: bsky.app/starter-pack...

No one should face exclusion or discrimination because of who they are. The Green Party stands in solidarity with the trans community and will keep fighting for equality that includes everyone.

Any cis women who are disgusted by the Burnham government's transphobic policy of segregation can sign the @nionwomen.bsky.social petition, which is now closing in on 110,000 signatures. notinourname.org.uk

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Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community

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What is notable about pieces like this is they identify trans rights as a faultline, but I don't think I've ever seen a single Scottish political journalist ever acknowledge that for a centre-left party to take the grotesquely anti-trans position Scottish and UK Labour have is completely abnormal.

Inside Scottish Labour's civil war: Indyref2 and trans rights 'ripping' party apart

Scottish Labour's civil war is about more than just who replaces Anas Sarwar as leader. There are fears the party could be left…

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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

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 11h ago

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.

Damaging new guidance from the EHRC will shut out Trans people from daily life simply for existing, and anyone who doesn't conform to narrow ideas of how people should look could face suspicion and confrontation. We are taking a stand against this attack on human rights.

I will never let anyone framing transphobia as "the trans debate." go unchallenged and neither should you. The thing about debates is they start with a question, like "the trans question". Questions tend to demand solutions, usually final ones. We've seen this shit before.

The more you learn about the history of US-Haitian relations and the relevant history of both countries, the more horrifying this becomes.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 19h ago

As the Trump administration strips legal status from hundreds of thousands of Haitians, ICE is targeting them like never before. trib.al/fB0bOaK

We are not angry enough about this You, individually, might be But WE, as a society, are plagued by apathy and Carney & other conservative politicians are taking advantage of that apathy to speed us toward our demise so they can line their pockets

Avi Lewis@avilewis.ca · 20h ago

As I received this news today here in British Columbia, the wildfire smoke blankets the sky, our eyes are burning and our kid is complaining of a sore throat from it. And we’re the lucky ones. 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Anybody at @moderation.bsky.app want to try to explain why they suspended @matthewcort.land, ANOTHER of the most prominent people out here fighting for disabled and marginalized people? Like… are y'all planning to suspend/ban literally every disabled legal scholar/policy worker out here, orrrr…?

ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · 2d ago

anyway, if you're looking for Matthew Cortland, you should sub to their patreon since they're a disabled lawyer evidently getting deplatformed from places.

brb, sharing Grampa Simpson quotes on posts about Uta Frith

Abe Simpson Yelling at Cloud

Alt: Abe Simpson, an old man, yelling at a cloud.

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Well, here's an exciting thing ... I have a new short essay live today on @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's excellent Welcome to Hell World: www.welcometohellworld.com/who-goes-tra...

Who goes transphobe?

by Sandy Ernest Allen It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go transphobe. By now, I think I ...

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I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls. - Terry Pratchett, Jingo

Jingo by @terryandrob.bsky.social It is Pterry in his prime. It's worth your time. It's certainly worth your 99p. (NB: If I don't mention a prie, it will be 99p) www.amazon.co.uk/Jingo-Discwo... www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

Israeli forces issue demolition orders, bulldoze farmland, attack water systems in occupied West Bank Theft and vandalism https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-issue-demolition-orders-bulldoze-farmland-attack-water

Guess what? The sign-up page for the next @aat-transcribes.bsky.social event is ready! Next week, I'm hosting a free workshop on Epistemic Injustice, Oppression & Ignorance for Social Researchers. Come hang out! funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/august-works...

I first heard of Liddle more than twenty years ago, when he was already generally known as a creep and a professional rightwing troll with a sour sense of humour.

Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚@fbpech.bsky.social · yesterday

How on Earth can such an AWFUL man be employed as a prominent journalist for RW/mainstream newspapers! How can the U.K. have come to this? I know Andy’s intray is the stuff of nightmares- but we have to have an equivalent of Levison 2 - or else RW press/BBC will continue to own the narrative.

HMRC🤝ADHD taking 20 years to post an important letter

Just got a letter in a scary brown envelope from the HMRC, telling me that they've calculated how much they should have awarded me and my ex-wife in Tax Credits for the period from April to October of 2006, and that it was the correct amount, so there's no money owed either way. I... Sorry, what?🙃

The new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4

Calling it a bubble is to miss the point. Go to where a community suits you, and where you suit the community. Where you can get what you want. I don’t want fights any more. I want facts, freedom and fun - peppered with interesting information. Is that a bubble? Maybe, but a good one. 4/4

Following Rod Liddle's death I've been thinking again about the often unacknowledged privilege in being able to see the words of a demagogue as just things you disagree with rather than things that threaten people.

the mainstream press praising rod liddle in death are not unaware he was a bigoted pedophile, they like him for it. the people in their in-group, at the top of their hierarchy, getting away with crimes signals that the world is in order. it is a moral good, to them. the bigger the crimes the better

In 2004 we learned that "Richard Barr, a lawyer of Justice, Awareness and Basic Support, who was looking for an expert witness to start a planned class action regarding alleged "vaccine damage". Barr hired Wakefield at £150 per hour, plus expenses, and only then did they recruit the twelve children"

Lancet MMR vaccine-autism report - Wikipedia

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Cameron Holleran@cameronholleran.bsky.social · yesterday

Considering he defended Wakefield's paper as "a perfectly good small case series report" back in 2005, you probably do have to reevaluate Ben's work: www.badscience.net/2005/09/dont...

When I die, if it's mentioned publicly in the news at all, which it might be, because I'm an award-winning writer with a history that you can google who is also trans, the comments of every article will be filled with transphobes saying how "actually HE was A MAN" in the same way that they always...

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

Anyone can be an 'autism expert' now, reports pioneering autist. "The term is effectively meaningless. In the ancient past only a tiny number of people were diagnosed as autism experts, but the field has expanded so much that many so-called experts show barely any sign of it at all, these days."

🔴 NEW: The Scottish Government says the move was needed to tackle the "administrative burden" caused by the growth in AI-assisted objections to energy projects. Critics say it is a way to mute public opposition. Our latest: http://theferret.scot/ai-ban-emailed-objections-energy-projects

Is it mean and shallow to be put off a show about a 40-year-old woman pretending to be 26, by the fact that its showrunner looks like this? share.google/RYZ5FIfpCbiW...

New petition: "Require green rooves and solar panel shelters in all car parks" Deadline 4 February 2027, created by Carol De Storm #NewPetition

New petition: Require green rooves and solar panel shelters in all car parks

Require all car park operators to build green roof and solar panel parking shelters which could reduce the need to use farmland for solar farms and support biodiversity.

petition.parliament.uk