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What does anti-abortion and white supremacy have in common? Podcast Episode · Media Storm · 16/10/2025 · 49m

How can ‘gender critical’ transphobes NOT see that they are part of the anti-gender movement?

A movement trying to strip people of bodily autonomy - disproportionately targeting people who AREN’T part of the white, patriarchal, misogynistic, Christian right.

They’re either puppets or complicit!

The truth is, you’ll never really know how far your kindness travels.

Something you said in passing might still be echoing in someone’s mind.

A small act that felt routine to you might have meant everything to them.

Don’t underestimate the ways you may have made a difference in someone’s life.

Letter sent to JCHR and WEC from The Trans Exile Network and the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective 1/2

**** Trans Exile Network press releaset 24 October 2025 ****
UK and Ireland: 24 October 2025
The Trans Exile Network and the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective write to the Women and Equalities Network in relation to re-opening Human Rights enforcement and seeking questioning of minister

Gender-affirming hormone therapy changes the heart - Medical Republic New research finds an unexpected shift in heart biomarker to the affirmed gender, challenging long-held assumptions.

"New research finds an unexpected shift in heart biomarker to the affirmed gender, challenging long-held assumptions." www.medicalrepublic.com.au/g...

Hormone Therapy For Trans Women Shifts Dozens Of Proteins To Align With Their Gender Identity The protein changes observed in a group of trans women after gender-affirming hormone treatment were similar to what is seen in cis women receiving HRT in menopause.

Bodies are so cool.

Thanks for posting this. What with the recent study showing Cardiac Troponin I Levels in trans folk on HRT align with their lived gender, this all points to why recording only “birth sex” in medical records is actually potentially extremely harmful and a really stupid idea. 🤷‍♀️

A close-up, angled shot of a pink paper file cover from the UK "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH," resting on a light wood-grain surface. The "SUBJECT" is handwritten in large blue capital letters: "GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT".

1/🧵 I am viewing a never-before-seen file on “gender reassignment” or trans inclusion policy at the National Archives, Kew. The Supreme Court should start sweating. A bagful of receipts!

GRAMMAR LESSON TIME!

When referring to people, "Trans" is an adjective, short for 'transgender' or 'transsexual.' It is not a prefix, therefore it does not attach to the word it is modifying.

"Trans people"
"Trans woman"
"Trans man"

You wouldn't type "cispeople," so don't do it for trans people.

Wow!

'Dangerous Recommendations': Trans Safety Network write to Healthwatch Trans Safety Network was shocked by the dangerous recommendations of Healthwatch's recent trans healthcare report. We find it hard to believe that any trans organisations or persons were involved sign...

Trans Safety Network have written to Healthwatch regarding their concerning recommendations in their trans health report. We fear if this report is not withdrawn, it will lead to significant deterioration in trans people's ability to access NHS care. transsafety.network/posts/danger...

They don’t get access to this investment money without something in return.

… & money. Apparently you couldn’t move at Labour’s party conference for corporate lobbyists. Starmer thinks AI is important for growth so he’s sucking up. With the nose of every US tech Co CEO a very Trump’s arse shade of brown, Labour & far-right US money is well within 6 degrees of separation!

Luckily, I know already that Zack is the real deal. Saves me having to listen to that transphobic idiot Goodall flapping his gob shelf. 😇

If you stopped to think a mo, it’s govt rhetoric that’s making real ‘free speech’ impossible. Whether it’s attacks on benefits claimants, disabled people, immigrants, trans people, you’re enacting right wing policies that emboldens attacks on marginalised communities. Surely you can see that?

And the good news, since AI can’t feel, it won’t enjoy itself…

Perhaps, the madder it makes them the better? People then can see just how unhinged right-wing-captured TERFs really are. It’s true their bubble-think leads them to believe they’re on the button, but truth is they’re getting further and further out of step with most normal people.

🚨We need your help. The NHS CYP gender service is consulting on the draft specification. This is, sadly, horrifically being driven by people who aren't trans or experts in the field of gender incongruence and based upon the much-discredited Cass Review 1/

www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...

Has anyone reported Ludford to the House of Lords Appointments Commission?

Fighting Britain's Bathroom Ban with Jolyon Maugham The UK's lurch into a radically opressive anti-trans regime

I talked to @polphilpod.bsky.social about the terrifying trajectory of British politics - and how trans people are the canary in the coalmine of fascism. www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/trans-uk

“What is a table?”, asked the artist.

Thank you Jo! x

‘Thank you’ hardly touches the surface of the gratitude we all feel for your tireless work these last 6 months. But still, thank you!

Every single piece of research demonstrates that this is dangerously medically wrong. We’ve never had any reason to believe otherwise, medicine has always known this.

In terms even the NHS can understand: people at highest risk of breast cancer all have one thing in common and it isn’t a uterus.

October is Menopause Awareness Month - here are some of the events and opportunities I'm running for singers, speakers, teachers and other voice users on Menopausal Voice Change. More info and contact via www.kathleencronie.com

#menopause #voice #singing #menopauseawarenessmonth #menopausal #choir

Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights. While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

Details below. Please share.

Peter York's Culture Wars House Party: Jolyon Maugham, Good Law Project Founder, on Fighting Power and the Decay in Public Life Jolyon Maugham KC, founder of the Good Law Project, is one of the UK’s most prominent—and provocative—legal campaigners. Jolyon reveals how, as a high-flying tax barrister, “I knew where th...

I don't do many podcasts any more but this, with ‪@peteryork.bsky.social, was a lot of fun covering the decay in British public life, the fight for dignity for trans people, the need for a wealth tax. podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

Creators, be less tasteful and more indulgent.

But haven’t you heard, we’ve infiltrated all aspects of life, all areas of governance. We trans folk control everything, from the price of milk to the direction of gravity. The poor anti-gender movements are powerless to stop us. That’s why we are having it so easy! 😶