Sophie Perry 🌈

🎉 40,000 women have signed - and we’re not stopping here.

We’re united in rejecting discrimination against the trans and non-binary community. We refuse to let our voices be used to divide. This is our moment — and we’re heading for 50,000...and beyond! 🚀💥

📢 Here’s how you can help us get there...

My favourite argument opposing giving the vote to 16 year olds is that they, as an entire demographic, "don't know anything about politics". Girl, there are people in my family in their 40s who don't know who the current prime minister is 😭

Chicks!!!!!!!!!!!! Meet Eegward Cullen and Eggatha Christie 🐣

I just know if Glee was still going Ryan Murphy would do an evil, evil cover of Golden by Huntrix from KPop: Demon Hunters

(Late) nest update:

- Two eggs now 🥚🥚
- Pigeon rescue will not remove it (I guess the very sensible logic being that as a volunteer org it's more important to help injured birds, rather than ones that have made their nests inconveniently close to people?)

Why did I go through months of sessions with my therapist when I could have just waited for Lorde's new album to drop and point to this lyric to explain why I am the way I am

So to follow up: they have been building a nest around the egg but their skills are... questionable

(I have been in touch with the London Wildlife Rescue but they won't come out until a second egg is laid, which apparently pigeons do a couple of days after laying the first – the more you know!)

Hundreds of people turn up to lobby MPs about trans rights: 'This is only the beginning' Hundreds of people showed up at Westminster to lobby their MP in what could be a "record breaking" day of action for trans rights.

An estimated 900!
www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/25/t...

The London rental market has become SO expensive I came home this evening to find a stranger has set up camp on our balcony and even had a BABY

Unbelievable.

Hundreds of people turn up to lobby MPs about trans rights: 'This is only the beginning' Hundreds of people showed up at Westminster to lobby their MP in what could be a "record breaking" day of action for trans rights.

The community showed UP and it was incredible to see!

Thanks to Jude Guaitamacchi from @transsolidarity.bsky.social for speaking with me

🗣 “I feel there is more outrage now. People are recognising what is happening and we’re seeing more solidarity, more people showing up for us."

HUGE turn out of trans folks and allies for the lobby of Parliament led by @transsolidarity.bsky.social

Incredible to see 🏳️‍⚧️

Anyway... not me FREAKING OUT THAT HAYLEY READ *MY* ODE TO GIRLS LIKE GIRLS 😭😭😭😭

Is Hayley Kiyoko's 'Girls Like Girls' the definitive lesbian anthem? Hayley Kiyoko's lesbian anthem "Girls Like Girls" was released ten years ago and remains the most enduringly influential lesbian track.

Wrote a very personal – and very long! – retrospective to mark 10 years of Hayley Kiyoko's Girls Like Girls 👭

"...the synth-pop melodies and catchy, painfully relatable lyrics were audible to my ears only, wrapping around me like a comforting blanket and holding my hand like an old friend."

G-Flip on their brand new era and having a 'cheeky cry' at Mighty Hoopla Non-binary Australian singer-songwriter reflects on entering a brand new era as they release "Big Ol’ Hammer".

Still very normal* that I got to interview the icon that is G Flip 🤯

*I was not normal at all

🗣️ "[I] feel so comfortable in my skin because I feel so non-binary, so they/them. So, now more than ever, with the current climate of the world, visibility is so important.”

✍️ @pinknews.bsky.social

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The chapter is available here! Should just open as a PDF 😊

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YouTube video by Hayley Kiyoko Hayley Kiyoko - Girls Like Girls [Official Music Video]

Hayley Kiyoko's 'Girls Like Girls' came out TEN YEARS AGO on June 24 🤯

I am looking to speak with lesbians/bi/queer women about the impact and legacy of the song (and subsequent book & upcoming film) for a feature for @pinknews.bsky.social 👭👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

📧 sophie.perry@pinknews.co.uk

#journorequest

Signed!

FCA's LGBT staff group won't march at Pride due to company's trans toilet policy The Financial Conduct Authority's LGBTQ+ staff network will not support it at Pride after its changed its single-sex spaces policy.

EXCLUSIVE: The Financial Conduct Authority’s LGBTQ+ staff network is refusing to march under the organisation's banner at Pride after being told the regulator would be designating office single-sex facilities, such as toilets, as based on "biological sex".

Read on @pinknews.bsky.social 👇

Help us reclaim trans narratives! | TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION (Powered by Donorbox) Five years ago, the Trans Journalists Association launched with a simple mission: to promote nuanced, accurate coverage of trans rights and communities in the media, and to support the careers of gend...

@transjournalists.org has been supporting journalists who are trans and gender expansive (including me!) and teaching journalists how to report on our communities for several years now!

you can support them by donating to their birthday fundraiser! 🎂🍰🧁

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I am looking to speak with trans women who are Labour Party members about the decision of the NEC to postpone its women's conference this year following the Supreme Court's judgement on the definition of 'sex', for feature for @pinknews.bsky.social

📧 sophie.perry@pinknews.co.uk

#JournoRequest

Request for info:

If you know of any organisation etc. which has announced publicly that it has changed its policies/practices as a result of the Supreme Court decision or the EHRC update - please comment it below.

Trying to collate some of this.

Trans councillor who quit Labour over anti-trans stance joins the Lib Dems A councillor who quit Labour after saying the party throws "trans people under the bus” has defected to the Lib Dems, PinkNews can reveal.

EXCLUSIVE for @pinknews.bsky.social this morning 🚨

Trans Plymouth City Council councillor Dylan Tippetts, who said Labour is
"throwing trans people under the bus", has joined the Lib Dems.

He is now the sole Lib Dem councillor in the city council.

Read: www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/15/l...

Gender policing does not ‘protect’ butch women and lesbians Gender policing does not protest butch and masc women, it actively punishes them for not conforming to standards of femininity.

"Such slim definitions of what is correct or incorrect womanhood rooted in patriarchal beauty standards are – ironically enough – what feminists have actually spent decades fighting against."

I wrote this last week for @pinknews.bsky.social but forgot to share here...

Gender critical staff network launched at Metropolitan Police A staff network dedicated to gender critical views has launched at the Metropolitan Police, PinkNews can exclusively reveal.

EXCLUSIVE for @pinknews.bsky.social: Gender critical staff network launched at Metropolitan Police

“Our numerous staff networks represent a broad range of perspectives and beliefs and we are legally obliged to support them," a Met spokesperson said.

Read: www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/09/m...

Carla Denyer: EHRC's trans guidance makes all women less safe Interim Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) guidance could become a "bigot’s charter", Carla Denyer write for PinkNews

READ: www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/08/c...

EXCLUSIVE:

Green Party co-leader @carladenyer.bsky.social penned an op-ed for @pinknews.bsky.social on the EHRC's interim trans guidance.

She wrote the implications are "deeply worrying" and it could act as a "bigot’s charter" for "harassment, intimidation and violence against trans people".

Every time you see a story in the media announcing that puberty blockers are banned, it's untrue.

They've just been banned for trans kids.

Cis kids who are in distress because of precocious puberty still get them. Trans kids who in distress, don't.

People, generally, don't know that.

James Acaster on the Great British Bake Off. Caption reads: "Started making it, had a breakdown, bon appetite."

So, I've submitted my PhD application

Wowza Saraya I never knew!!! 😱😱

I'm a lesbian but I am starting to see what the TikTok girlies are saying about Alexander

#TheTraitors