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Laurie May

@lauriemay.bsky.social

GSRD Psychotherapist Liveaboard narrowboater they/them

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WOW, supporters of the trans inclusive party are the people most likely to think much more needs to be done to reach gender equality.

Shock horror 😲, Almost like trans rights and women's rights are not actually in conflict but mutually supportive of each other ... Colour me shocked n all that.

08.03.2026 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes start to have benefits cut in UK after accepting compensation Exclusive: Campaigners urge Keir Starmer to back β€˜Philomena’s Law’ to protect payments for up to 13,000 survivors living in Britain

Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes start to have benefits cut in UK after accepting compensation | Ireland | The Guardian share.google/UhKBh9lyp9Uy...

08.03.2026 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

That looks like a desk where useful things happen

06.03.2026 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

26.02.2026 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

'gordon'

26.02.2026 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0
A very simple diagram showing radar, a chaff cloud, a confused missile and an airplane. The confused missile is aiking for the chaff cloud and not the airplane.

A very simple diagram showing radar, a chaff cloud, a confused missile and an airplane. The confused missile is aiking for the chaff cloud and not the airplane.

THE CHAFF PROJECT

Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!

How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.

Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

26.04.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 965    πŸ” 490    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 69
Images of multiple organisations that have signed our open letter.

Images of multiple organisations that have signed our open letter.

The list of organisations continues to grow larger.

When a community deems a term offensive, this constitutes a slur.

We are calling on all organisations to sign our open letter. Please get in touch via DM or our website.

Individuals can also sign via this link:
tacc.org.uk/biological-s...

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17.02.2026 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Some good news for a change

19.02.2026 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

BBC celebrating having helped harass a woman out of her job.

15.02.2026 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 578    πŸ” 123    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 4

Key point

13.02.2026 11:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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High Court rules on lawfulness of the EHRC’s interim guidance High Court decides services may lawfully allow trans women to use women’s facilities – but the fight for trans rights continues

This is our news read out:

"Service providers may lawfully allow trans women to use women’s facilities without being forced to open them to cis men" and "the EHRC’s exclusionary draft Code of Practice does not accurately reflect the law and the Minister will have to send it back to be rewritten."

13.02.2026 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 196    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 6

Enough now

Let’s be absolutely clear:

Any politician found in possession of indecent images of children is a child sex abuser

Any politician who chooses to maintain a relationship with a known abuser is, at a very minimum, enabling child abuse

Any politician rewarding these people is complicit

11.02.2026 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

That's fair - it's not at all obvious these days that it used to be way more accessible and generally popular

11.02.2026 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A little harsh on opera πŸ˜…

11.02.2026 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tim Allan, who just quit as Starmer's director of comms, was on the board of the trans-eliminationist hate group "Sex Matters", whose director of advocacy Helen Joyce urged transphobes to get through to "decision makers" so that the "numbers" of trans people could be "reduced." That's what they did.

09.02.2026 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 709    πŸ” 286    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2
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New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

07.02.2026 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2286    πŸ” 922    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 93

Heartbreaking and completely preventable

Those responsible must be held to account

07.02.2026 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thread:

05.02.2026 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for that earworm

05.02.2026 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What a way to make a living

05.02.2026 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Paid less for being trans, a woman and a trans woman This LGBTQ+ Equal Pay Day, The 19th focuses on the wage gap for trans women, who make 60 cents for every $1 earned by the average American worker.

Since the transphobic dog whistle/air horn of "trans people are an affluent white demographic" is doing the rounds again, remember that it is an absolute crock of shit and you should call it out accordingly. Here's some info on the transgender pay gap in the US:

05.02.2026 08:54 β€” πŸ‘ 365    πŸ” 145    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4
Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'

Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'

πŸ“£ Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

03.02.2026 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 390    πŸ” 195    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 20

Sort it out, folks

03.02.2026 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Esse House UK

Are you aghast at the treatment of trans people? Wish there was something you could do? Could you afford to lose Β£24/year?

Donate a recurring Β£2/month donation to @essehouse.bsky.social, and help the UK community help itself.

www.essehouse.co.uk/donate

01.02.2026 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 8

The only trans people mentioned in the epstein files are victims.

Hundreds of known anti-trans people are in them, though, either rubbing shoulders with the rape-cult, an active part of the clique, or trying to gain access.

Are you getting it yet?

02.02.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1458    πŸ” 526    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 5
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

27.01.2026 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 12013    πŸ” 5906    πŸ’¬ 237    πŸ“Œ 345

A decade of trans advocacy has taught me people believe lies because they want to, not because they don't know they are lies. They believe trans people will regret our transition because they want us to regret our transition. They believe we are a "social contagion" because that is how they see us

23.01.2026 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2370    πŸ” 540    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 22

So called "conversion therapy" is a grotesque distortion of the role of a therapist and is rightly categorised as a form of torture. It cannot be allowed to continue

23.01.2026 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is important

23.01.2026 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Panopticon was an idea for a *prison*

Not that that makes it okay but this makes the blood run cold

20.01.2026 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0