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Scrap the Bathroom Ban 🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...

Heads up 😅

Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc

📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++

Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

A painting of a Mari Lwyd in the style of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night. The Mari is looking up towards the moon.

This year, I challenged myself to create a "Starry Night" inspired Mari Lwyd for the @skullsandsheets.bsky.social charity auction event! This was a lot of fun ❤️

Coloured pencils, gouache and micron fineliner.

#marilwyd #welsh #wales #welshfolklore #art #traditionalart

Zack Polanski wears a white poppy as he overlooks remembrance ceremony at the cenotaph

If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Natalism and demographic anxieties lie at the core of most modern right wing panics---immigration, replacement conspiracies, transphobic mania, 'male loneliness', women's independence, and so on. Quite glad to see this eugenical ruling-class fixation being highlighted 👀

Speeding past the fact that she was born here... Lawrence is displaying not just massive racism, but also massive ignorance.

Because poppy wearing is a thing across much of the Commonwealth, including british counties like Canada, New Zealand and India.

I note that the excremental Lawrence Fox has been whining about @zarahsultana.bsky.social wearing a poppy.

He would like her to "go home" (neat trick if she can manage it, seeing as she was born in birmingham).

He also objects to her wearing a poppy, seemingly because that is for true brits only.

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

Headline: Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres

If this is what happens when Reform runs a council, just imagine Farage running the country.

Care homes closed and vulnerable people abandoned.

We cannot let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.

It’s been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona.

Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

YouTube video by Auschwitz Memorial / Miejsce Pamięci Auschwitz Video history | Gas chambers and crematoria at Auschwitz II-Birkenau

7 November 1942 | A transport of some 2,000 Jewsish men, women, and children from the ghetto in Ciechanów in the General Government arrived at #Auschwitz.

After the selection, 465 men and 229 women were registered. The remaining group, probably 1,306 people, were murdered in the gas chambers.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024.

Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.

American capitalism is off the rails.

It's really important to note that not only was Watson a racist and misogynist but his contribution to the double helix was listening to a Rosalind Franklin lecture and getting mad because Francis Crick wouldn't invite him to his sex parties.

If you have a James Watson story you'd like to share with me, DM me here or msg me on signal, dsamorod.25

NION Women Rejects Anti-Trans Narrative at Kenwood Ladies Pond Image of women swimming in the wild

🏊‍♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision.

In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019.

Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts.

1/5

Response to Telegraph article The Telegraph newspaper recently published an article claiming that leaders of membership bodies including the UKCP have been “ousted” for raising safeguarding concerns relating to gend…

Please read this letter to the Telegraph editor from @tactt.bsky.social about what looks like UKCP supporting conversion therapy (ie psychological torture) targeting children.

Equal rights for Intersex People Europe goes purple OII Europe and the Council of Europe

Let’s go purple! 💜

The Council of Europe is launching the #EuropeGoesPurple campaign with OII Europe, to promote the adoption of the new Recommendation on Equal Rights for Intersex Persons and raise awareness about intersex people and the challenges they face.

europegoespurple.org

Conservatism: the irrational fear that someone, somewhere might be getting a free ride

Correcting the statement put out today by the EHRC, TACC has published the following statement.

tacc.org.uk/2025/11/07/s...

Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.

Gift article link here, if anyone wants:

bsky.app/profile/news...

Huge Democratic party win across the board, but a lot of European newspapers are just reporting on Mamdami

The hypocrisy of the ICB is shocking. They refuse to allow us a right to reply. They don't turn up for meetings with us. They refuse to speak to us at all. They make decisions on his treatment whilst refusing to even meet him or discuss with us. Where's our right to reply?

“Why should trans people build their lives in a country which continues to demonstrate its hostility? Unless the government takes urgent action, the threat won’t just be to trans people’s human rights, but also to our economy as we make life harder for business, and drive talent away.”

The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots…

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

Gamechanger for more than just obesity First developed to help lower blood sugar levels as a diabetes treatment, it was quickly apparent that Novo Nordisk’s drug semaglutide (the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy jabs) has a dramatic effect on weight. The drug works by mimicking a hormone, GLP-1, which is released in the gut when we eat and acts on receptors around the body, including the brain.

Guardian writers campaigned against puberty-blockers because they were prescribed "off label".

Now the Guardian is celebrating Ozempic, a drug being used off label for obesity.

The difference...?

Puberty-blockers have been used for trans kids for 30+ years, Ozempic for obesity only for 4 years.

We are 5! 🎈

THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org

My fear is the number of GPs who are anti trans (to the point of rejecting shared care) and the number of those without the required expertise.

I've been lucky...my GPs have listened.

How does the trans community at large feel about this?

News in that children are now being prescribed weight loss jabs on the NHS.

@wesstreetingmp.bsky.social

Where are the trials for the use of these experimental drugs in children? How do you know it’s safe?

📢 SHOW US THE EVIDENCE 📢

All so utterly predictable and fucked up.

Here we go again ✍️