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🏳️‍⚧️...She/Her/They...🏳️‍⚧️ No bigotry. Your 'Reasonable concerns' will not be discussed ! DM's not always monitored.. Science doesn't care what you 'believe....' @Leah__@lgbtqia.space 🐘 #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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Lisa Severn@lisasevern.uk · 18h ago

The BBC charter section 6.4: "...the BBC should accurately and authentically represent and portray the lives of the people of the United Kingdom today, and raise awareness of the different cultures and alternative viewpoints that make up its society"

Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@mxmike.co.uk · 19h ago

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt
Caroline Litman@alicemydaughter.bsky.social · yesterday

Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 2d ago

QueerAF can reveal figures that show 618 people have died while under the care of an NHS gender clinic, at least 21 by suicide. www.wearequeeraf.com/the-deadly-t...

Not In Our Name (NION) Women@nionwomen.bsky.social · 2d ago

On Mental Health Awareness Day, we want to say women are tired. Tired of the hate, the debates and the harm. Today, we send love to each other, and compassion to the whole trans+ community, from the cis women who know you deserve better and so much more. We are stronger together 💜

Illustration of the Earth, smiling and wrapped in a green ribbon with the world’s World Mental Health Day 10 Oct. It’s on a purple background and has the Mental Health Foundation logo above it.
Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 6d ago

10 things Burnham doesn’t want you to talk about; 1. Labour’s support for Gaza genocide 2. Climate change 3. Wealth Taxes 4. Transphobic Section 28 5. Rent controls 6. Man City 7. State Pensions in neighboring countries 8. Water nationalisation 9. Mandelson 10. Labour’s support for Trump’s Iran war

Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@stephaniejane.bsky.social · 6d ago

I wasn’t aware of this, but ‘Not In Our Name’ have a gofundme page.👇 Please consider a donstion, even if it’s just £1, to support the work that is being done to challenge the bigotry against trans people. And please repost and share! www.gofundme.com/f/notinourna...

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Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m hearing that Tesco is saying trans employees must use gender neutral/disabled toilets. This is not legal. Talk to GLP or Translucent if you are in this situation.

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Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 2w ago

If anyone is in touch with any of the local trans inclusive safe spaces orgs around the country can you reach out to them and ask if they would be willing to speak to me over the next day or so please. I have opened my DMs.

GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️@geekonaleash.co.uk · 2w ago

I have written to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to ask some important questions relating to her appearance and comments on The Daily T's Sunday Showdown, where she stated she was "a woman, defined by my biology", and that a women’s refuge should be for those of us who are “biologically women"

"... When asked whether you would have allowed a trans woman fleeing domestic abuse into the women’s refuge you once managed, you answered: “No.” You said that alternative provision could be made, and that a women’s refuge should be for those of us who are “biologically women”. That deserves considerably more scrutiny than another political soundbite. You have chosen to justify your position by appealing to biology, so I would like you to explain what you mean by that claim in biological terms, rather than simply referring back to the law, the Supreme Court or the EHRC. What, biologically, is a woman? The scientific picture is considerably more complicated than the neat binary your statement suggests. Sex-related biology involves multiple characteristics, including chromosomes, gonads, reproductive anatomy, hormones and secondary sex characteristics. These characteristics do not always align in the stereotypical way, which is why medicine recognises differences of sex development. Contemporary scientific literature describes sex-related biology as involving multiple interacting characteristics rather than one single biological test that can infallibly sort every human being into one of two boxes. You already know this. Biologists, doctors and other experts sent you an open letter specifically explaining these issues. They warned that reducing human sex biology to an immutable binary is an oversimplification and that policy built upon that oversimplification can cause real harm. That does not mean biological sex is meaningless. It obviously is not. Female and male reproductive biology are real and medically important. But acknowledging that doesn't require pretending every human body is a perfectly standard biological specimen. So let us get away from slogans. You say that you are a woman “defined by my biology”. You say that I am not. What, precisely, is the biological distinction you are making?""...And how would you establish it? Would you take my blood? Sequence my chromosomes? Examine my gonads? Inspect my anatomy? Measure my hormones? Demand medical records? Because the moment “biologically a woman” has to become a real-world test rather than a political phrase, the simplicity disappears. And nowhere is that more obvious than in the refuge you once managed. Imagine a woman arriving at the door after fleeing an abusive partner. She is terrified. She has no passport, no birth certificate and no medical records. She may have left everything behind to get herself and her children somewhere safe. You have said the refuge should be for women who are “biologically women”. So how does the refuge establish that? Does she need to prove her chromosomes before being allowed through the door? Does somebody examine her body? Does she have to produce evidence of her reproductive anatomy? Or does a member of staff simply look at her and decide whether she appears sufficiently female? Because the last option is not biology. It is gender policing. And then comes the question you cannot escape: how would you identify a trans woman without simply assuming that she is trans? You cannot see somebody's chromosomes. You cannot see their gonads. You cannot see their hormone levels. You cannot see their developmental history. If your answer is appearance, you have created a system in which women can be challenged because they are too masculine, too tall, too muscular, too deep-voiced, too gender-nonconforming or do not conform to somebody else's idea of what a woman is supposed to look like. That is not a minor administrative problem. It is the policing of women's bodies, dressed up as biological certainty. And feminism should recognise that for what it is....""...Sex and gender are related, but they're not interchangeable concepts. Sex encompasses biological characteristics and processes; gender also encompasses the social and personal dimensions through which human beings understand and live their gender. The scientific literature itself recognises that these concepts interact in complex ways rather than functioning as two completely separate boxes. ...You have experience running a women's refuge. You know what a woman arriving at that door needs. She does not need a politician's abstract definition of womanhood. She needs safety. So I am asking you, as Minister for Women and Equalities, to answer some very straightforward questions. What biological characteristics make you a woman and make me not one? How would you establish that distinction in practice? How does your definition account for women with differences of sex development? What happens to women whose chromosomes do not fit the stereotypical XX model? What happens to women who cannot produce eggs, who have no ovaries, who have undergone hysterectomy or who have otherwise experienced changes to their reproductive anatomy? And most importantly: How does a frightened woman fleeing domestic abuse prove that she is “biologically a woman” without being subjected to exactly the kind of bodily scrutiny and gender policing that feminists have spent generations challenging? If your answer is that she does not have to prove it, then why should a trans woman? If your answer is documentation, what happens to the woman who has none? If your answer is appearance, whose idea of female appearance are you using? And if there is no practical biological test, then perhaps “biology” is not quite the straightforward answer you have presented it as. Women fleeing violence need refuge workers asking whether they are safe, not whether they can pass an ideological biology exam.....""...You have chosen to draw a line between yourself and me by saying that you are a woman defined by biology and that women like me are not. I am therefore asking you to explain where that line actually is. Not in a court judgment. Not in an EHRC document. Not in a political slogan. In biology. Because if you cannot define the biological test, and cannot explain how it could be applied fairly to women standing at the door of a refuge, then “biologically a woman” is not the clear, objective safeguard you claim it is. It is simply a phrase being used to decide which women are allowed through the door. And when the woman on the other side of that door is fleeing an abuser, that is not an abstract debate. That is somebody's life. Yours sincerely, A woman who apparently needs a biology exam to prove it,'
Daniel Lismore@daniellismore.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bigoted fascist Bridget Phillipson says she wouldn’t allow a trans woman into a women’s refuge. www.attitude.co.uk/news/bridget...

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 2w ago

Labour is dishonest when is uses the slogan “hope”, which, tellingly, it nicked from the Green Party, while touting a policy to make pensioners even poorer than they are already. The irony of having the slogan “Hope again” alongside headlines about Labour’s policy of making pensioners poorer…

HOPE AGAIN UK POLITICS Minister refuses to rule out scrapping state pension triple lock ahead of Burnham speech • Burnham's deputy refuses to say if he will scrap triple lock - live
Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 2w ago

As Andy Burnham decides to make pensioners poorer instead of taxing the mega-rich or rejoining the EU, a reminder of how the UK compares with the rest of Western Europe on pensions.

Luxembourg: £2436 Switzerland: £2400 Norway: £2164 Denmark: £1822 Holland: £1403 Italy: Men £1437, Women £1056 Belgium: £1401 Malta: £1400 - £1600 Spain: £1341 France: £1296 Germany: £1281 Sweden: £1226 Austria: £1121 (min) Ireland: £1115 (min) UK: £1045
Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@stephaniejane.bsky.social · 2w ago

The NION Campaign has now reached 113,000. That’s 113,000 cis women who stand with trans people and say “No!” to bigotry and discrimination. If you find what the UK has done to trans people’s rights and healthcare appalling, and you haven’t signed their letter yet, please do.👇 notinourname.org.uk

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

On the day the NION campaign hits 112,000 signatures, they’ll be standing with us at the Mass Lobby. 🏳️‍⚧️❤️ If you agree with them, and stand with trans people, but haven’t signed their letter yet, please put your name to the sterling work NION are doing at: Notinourname.org.uk Then tell your friends