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@waslottie.bsky.social

angry transsexual she/her

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Helen Belcher@helenbelcherobe.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is something I now hear regularly from almost all my trans friends. The tension between wanting to stay but not feeling safe. The tension between fleeing or fighting. The “what if where I go becomes just as bad?” It’s utterly shameful that law-abiding people feel they’re being forced out.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 4d ago

Drinking espresso martinis, discussing with my fiancé at what point we need to flee the UK. I don't want to leave my home. My family. My friends. With every passing month, it feels more and more inevitable. We are losing so hard and I can't see how it stops.

Jenny List@jennylist.bsky.social · 4d ago

A lot of UK trans people are worried right now. If that's you and you are eyeing the exit, it is possible. It will require sacrifices, but it can cost less than ypu expect. Take a look at How To Get Out, I hope it will help you.

Jenny List@jennylist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How To Get Out is finally out. It's Trans Rescue's distilled knowledge and advice for trans people and others wishing to escape the UK or USA. This is my first book, and has consumed a lot of my time since last November. I hope people find it of use. Get it here: transrescue.org/how-to-get-out

Cover of the Trans Rescue guide How To Get Out: Practical Information to Help You Survive by Jenny List and Anne Ogborn. The cover features bold typography, flames, and an illustration of Donald Trump holding a U.S. flag.
🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️@waslottie.bsky.social · 5d ago

Yeah the magic faraway tree meant a lot to me as a kid. I noticed the other day they've made a film of it. Guess what? I'm not remotely interested in it. Because I'm in my fifties.

Elliott Gish@elliottgish.bsky.social · 6d ago

"oh but u don't understand it meant so much to me as a kid and-" YOU ARE THIRTY. READ SOMETHING ELSE. "but see im such a hufflepu-" HOGWARTS IS PRETEND. REAL PEOPLE ARE DYING. "but this tim hortons collab is gonna be-" IT'S GONNA BE STUPID AND BAD. IT'S ALL STUPID AND BAD. GROW!!!!!! UP!!!!!!!!

BASH BACK@bashback.bsky.social · 6d ago

Amnesty UK have apologised to JK Rowling for rightfully calling out her anti-rights rhetoric. Shame on them. A human rights organisation should not cave to pressure from billionaires, especially those who wish to make supporting human rights a terrorist offence. xoxo BASH BACK

We are disappointed to see Amnesty withdraw their report on transphobia after legal threats from JK Rowling. This is further proof we cannot rely on 'allies' to fight for US, Our work has been so effective that Rowling has called for us to be proscribed as a terrorist group, but we're still fighting. We’ll only win trans liberation by fighting for it ourselves. Don't wait for 'allies' to step in and save us; take action now!
Andrea James@jokestress.bsky.social · 6d ago

I've spent weeks profiling orgs listed in Amnesty UK's reports. Methodology, definitions, & inclusion criteria should have been explicitly stated. They could've republished a revised version with that included. Instead, they capitulated to anti-rights bigots. www.transgendermap.com/issues/group...

2026 Amnesty International UK anti-rights reports – Transgender Map

transgendermap.com

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 6d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

Tristan Grayford@tristangrayford.scot · 6d ago

In the past few days: - Transphobes have lost two further court cases, extending their streak of majority losses over the past year - Amnesty International UK folded in the face of legal threats anyway

TACC@tacc.org.uk · 5d ago

@amnestyuk.bsky.social We would like to remind you of your 'About us' page: "We believe in world where everyone enjoys their rights freely, is treated fairly, and lives without fear." If you no longer stand by this principle, maybe you should retract that also. www.amnesty.org.uk/about/who-we...

"We believe in world where everyone enjoys their rights freely, is treated fairly, and lives without fear. Since 1961, we’ve defended the human rights that protect us all."
GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️[✊🏳️‍⚧️ I WILL NOT COMPLY]@geekonaleash.co.uk · 5d ago

@amnestyuk.bsky.social are now bending the knee to the anti-rights movement. Congratulations on adding yourselves to your own retracted report. You have opened the door to further SLAPPs from any organisations that do not agree with you. www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️@waslottie.bsky.social · last wk.

This makes the spineless capitulation of amnesty international seem all the more spineless.

Aida@aidap.bsky.social · last wk.

7/ Best guess is they expected a community festival to fold on sight and got a human rights firm instead. And the moment they did not bend over and presented, transphobes shat their pants. Turns out a festival gets to decide who's on its own programme. Who could possibly have seen that coming.

Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · last wk.

Together, we can stop Sex Matters spreading hate about trans people. We just need to force the Charity Commission and the government to confront the facts. Email them now👇 https://action.goodlawproject.org/sex-matters-complaint?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=SexMattersCC&utm_medium=social_media

Stop Sex Matters spreading transphobic hate

The anti-trans pressure group Sex Matters are running a campaign of hate, spewing abuse online and in the media – and putting trans people in danger. Sex Matters say they work to “protect everybody’s ...

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Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last wk.

"What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority" great piece from Allison Morris in the Belfast Telegraph. Please support Allison as she will no doubt be targeted now. Archive link below. archive.ph/oQ2Cs

What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority Belfast Telegraph27 Jul 2026ALLISON MORRIS I’ve thought long and hard about commenting on the controversy over the cancellation of the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) event at Féile an Phobail — not because I don’t have an opinion, but because it is a debate that attracts the most toxic elements. WRN NI was not a group I was familiar with beforehand, so I did some research. No speakers were listed in the Féile programme for the planned event, which in itself is odd as there are for almost every other of the 90-plus debates and discussions. The group has since announced who its speakers were to be in a series of online posts. My research took me down quite the rabbit hole — a who’s who of the anti-trans movement not just on this island but Europe-wide. I don’t pretend to understand their motivation. In fact, I remain baffled as to why in one of the most dangerous places for women to live in Europe, the group — which has spoken out about femicide before — is obsessing about a small minority instead of the actual dangers we face from domestic violence and femicide. I have worked for decades covering violence against women and girls in all the distressing forms that takes. I know the names of every woman and child murdered in Northern Ireland in the last 10 years without even having to look them up. Not a single one was caused by a trans woman — I checked the list twice just to be sure. None of them were murdered in a public toilet either, which having looked at the online posts of WRN and their many affiliates, is apparently the most dangerous place on earth for women, with trans predators lurking in every cubicle. Apart from the absurdity of much of the group’s argument regarding the perceived dangers of trans women, the claim that women are being silenced by Féile is the most disingenuous of them all.
Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈@mintopia.net · last wk.

I did everything they asked, played nicely, played their games. - Fought for a GP referral to GIC - Waited 16 months for a GIC appointment - Answered the invasive questions - Took their homeopathic doses of HRT - Saved the NHS money by having private SRS - Took statutory declarations 1/8

🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️@waslottie.bsky.social · last wk.

There's an increasingly predictable theme of people who act to do the most harm to trans people getting richly rewarded for doing so.

Kieran🏳️‍🌈@diptripping.eurosky.social · last wk.

More rotten transphobia from Labour. Appoint the woman (Bridget Phillipson) to party chair who’s about to ruin the lives of a generation of trans children as well as the segregation of trans adults: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news...

GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️[✊🏳️‍⚧️ I WILL NOT COMPLY]@geekonaleash.co.uk · last wk.

This will cause deaths of trans people. 📣📣 TO ALL TRANS ORGS 📣📣 If you have the money to do so or are capable of funding you best be looking into filling legal action, because sitting around writing reports, meeting MPs, or attending their parties is not enough, people are dying.

GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️[✊🏳️‍⚧️ I WILL NOT COMPLY]@geekonaleash.co.uk · last wk.

"Sex at birth (observed)" is now a mandatory data item in the NHS core information standard (v2.0.1). It also appears (if I am reading this correctly) that gender identity and pronouns have been removed. The NHS are transphobic as fuck!!! standards.nhs.uk/published-st...

"Summary - Information model changes in this release | Location | Data item | Update | Detail | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Person demographics | Gender Sex | Removal of data item(s) | Data items removed following consultation. | | Person demographics | Sex at birth (observed) Administrative gender Gender identity Additional information about gender identity Pronouns | Addition of data item(s) | Sex at birth (observed) is a mandatory data item. Administrative gender is a required, read-only legacy data item for England only to represent the data held on the Personal Demographics Service (PDS). All other new data items are required in the core information standard. Back to the"
Tristan Grayford@tristangrayford.scot · 2w ago

UK journalism *created* transphobia as a font of far-right hatred almost entirely unaided. They sowed the sparks and fanned the flames to create the inferno. To now back off because they feel their own safety is at risk from the fire? I'm genuinely furious at the moral bankruptcy involved.

Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · 2w ago

This is grim and a direct consequence of decades on mainstreaming of far-right politics and euphemisation of the threat they pose Calling it "rightwing" here is exactly what has gone wrong for example 1/ www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Journalists are self-censoring their reporting on rightwing protests, Donald Trump’s administration and trans issues because of growing concerns about their personal safety, with newsrooms accused of “normalising” the risks they face.