Amazing article on how the language of activists discussing trans healthcare can inadvertently be used to harm trans youth's rights. Would definitely recommend giving it a read!
www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-ju...
@mimihansford.bsky.social
PinkNews News Reporter, journo graduate. Views my own. She/her. Got a story? Email me: amelia.hansford@pinknews.co.uk
Amazing article on how the language of activists discussing trans healthcare can inadvertently be used to harm trans youth's rights. Would definitely recommend giving it a read!
www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-ju...
Helpful news writing tip: It's actually completely okay to call something bullshit when it is, in fact, complete bullshit.
24.09.2025 14:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Taking this advice as a chance to share the amazing game a dear friend of mine developed, Toward Dawn!
It's a fantasy RPG inspired by Welsh mythology, featuring loads of interesting characters and places to explore. Would very much recommend giving it a go ♥️
store.steampowered.com/app/3140160/...
I really like this mentality, definitely going to keep that in mind whenever I have a kneejerk reaction to some awful news!
17.09.2025 09:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yeah you make a good point. Noted and deleting.
17.09.2025 09:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Like, this is just straight-up bad writing.
17.09.2025 09:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It really needs to be emphasised how insane it is that a 57-year-old man who thinks breaking an 18-year-old's phone is a public interest issue threatened to physically assault an entire demographic of people, and now free speech laws might be changed in his favour.
10.09.2025 15:29 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0All Linehan going behind bars will do is motivate him to write another shitty book
04.09.2025 13:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A second Graham Linehan has hit the Court
04.09.2025 12:26 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dude thinks it's within the public's interest that he harass an 18-year-old and smash their phone.
04.09.2025 12:18 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0She wasn't even a year old when his infamous transphobic IT Crowd episode aired. He's been publicly transphobic before she knew how to walk.
04.09.2025 12:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He is so far beyond help it'd be sad if he weren't a vile coward
04.09.2025 12:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Also Graham Linehan calling himself a journalist come ON
04.09.2025 12:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's public interest to threaten to shove a phone up someone's arse, apparently.
04.09.2025 12:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Worth noting that the trans girl whom Graham Linehan is accused of harassing would have been an infant when his infamously transphobic IT Crowd episode aired.
04.09.2025 11:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0AI MODELS ARE NOT ALIVE. THEY ARE NO MORE ALIVE THAN THAT NPC YOU ROBBED IN GTA V
26.08.2025 08:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the problem, as i see it, is not that censoring erotic content is a slippery slope to censoring LGBTQ+ culture. it's that censoring erotic content IS censoring LGBTQ+ culture.
23.08.2025 18:44 — 👍 1647 🔁 515 💬 5 📌 13He was just correct about everything, sorry folks
22.08.2025 15:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Imo David Lynch being pro-trans should be enough to convince anyone that transphobia is morally repugnant
22.08.2025 15:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1TERFs will use this to lobby for laws forcing trans people to disclose their gender identity on dates, Labour will cave, and it's going to cause the already massive trans hate crime stats to skyrocket, calling it now.
22.08.2025 14:45 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I'm honestly preparing for Labour to bring back forced sterilisation as a GRC requirement
22.08.2025 14:41 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0If another Democrat acts like you can't simultaneously care about marginalised people's rights and the economy, I may go insane.
22.08.2025 10:04 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Trump's presidency is such a trainwreck, he's downplaying slavery to avoid speaking about his paedophile best friend, who may have had evidence suggesting he's also a paedophile.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/22/d...
John Boyne's column on the Polari Prize cancellation reads like he thinks people were mad over his opinions on Citizen Kane, not that he effectively compared an entire demographic of people to fictional rapists.
20.08.2025 15:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What are you talking about? We haven't written about Mamdani since July and it's all been positive coverage?
18.08.2025 17:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Twitter really is one of the only places where you can express slight annoyance at a customer service interaction, and people respond telling you to mutilate yourself
15.08.2025 16:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's infuriating how Cass and others like her talk about kids as if they're utterly incapable of understanding their own feelings.
15.08.2025 08:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Link for people as this is worst ux @hleehurley.com ever did :P
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ulster/tgn...