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The Urgent Need to Revise the RSHE 2026 Guidance and Centre Trans, Non-Binary, Intersex, Asexual and Gender Non-Conforming Voices

Have you signed our open letter yet?

We're calling on the Department for Education to revice harmful guidance on RSHE.

Over 700 people have signed, but we still need your voice:

openletter.earth/the-urgent-n...

Understanding the Design of the Disability Pride Flag Here's what you should know about the flag's symbolism and origin.

Disability Pride Month is here! Here is a surprisingly insightful article from…Good Housekeeping? On the origin, history, and meaning of our Pride flag.

www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a438769...

It’s Disability Pride Month.

Many people can’t understand why we would be proud of our disabilities because ableism is everywhere.

This month we celebrate disabled lives and push back on ableism & eugenics.

We are not less than

We are not expendable

We will keep fighting

The next time I see something about defining a woman, I'm going to end up deciding I'm non-binary, because not one definition has resonated with me.

Seen a big decline in my ability to support myself recently. Researching posture support cushions and aids, and reminded once again that being disabled is SO EXPENSIVE.
Just to sit on the sofa, is going to cost me minimum £50. If I got some options, it's way more.
But it's that or bed.

There’s been a lot going on in relation to trans people’s healthcare in the UK. We’ll give more of a run down next week but we want to make sure people understand what’s going on.

Read full thread.

Today, I am grateful for my garden, and a chair to recline in the shade on, and a husband who set up the chair and does the gardening I am not able to do any more.

I wonder how often we feel guilty about our failure to progress in our lives as Christians, when what we need to do is to let ourselves be fed - in prayer, in worship, in reading the Scriptures or books that might help us, or giving ourselves time to be silent before God? 2/2

Alt Text: A screenshot of The Guardian website displaying a news article headline. The headline reads: “Downing Street considers U-turn on cuts to benefits for disabled people.” The subheading states: “Controversial plans to cut personal independence payments (PIP) may be shelved after a tense cabinet meeting and backlash from Labour MPs.” The article is credited to Toby Helm, Political Editor, and James Tapper and is dated Saturday, 15 March 2025, 19:30 GMT. Above the article, there is a photograph of a man in glasses, wearing a light blue shirt, smiling while standing in front of a modern office setting with people in the background. The Guardian website navigation bar is visible at the top, showing categories like News, Opinion, Sport, Culture, and Lifestyle.

New ‘Downing Street considers U-turn on cuts to benefits for disabled people’. Come on @uklabour.bsky.social: U-turn on not only the PIP freeze but the discriminatory suggested change to PIP criteria and disability elements of Universal Credit. We can and *want* to co-design better with you.

The DWP lists the PIP fraud rate at 0%.

The amount of PIP going unclaimed by people who could claim it is about £1billion.

Why do you Tories always have to lie?

Also, a wealth tax like Spain has would raise tens of billions a year but the gov despise taxing the rich like they should.

Batman towering over you, snapping the wooden stock of a shotgun in half with his bare hands as he says "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it." The shotgun is labeled - fragmented where it has been snapped in half - "AI (even if you're making fun of it)"

Happy Ides of March! Today may we remember that dictators, emperors and tyrants of all kinds are mortal :)

#Labour
Government looking at cutting access to work support, making it harder to claim PIP, NHS reforms will make it more difficult to access treatment. By doing all of this disabled people will be even further away from employment. Cutting these many won’t be able to continue in the job they have

When someone becomes disabled or chronically ill, people will twist themselves into knots finding a way to blame them. They need to find fault so they don’t have to face the randomness of life.

The truth is, anyone can become disabled at any time.

Good health is not a guarantee.

Add your name 📢 Cuts to disability benefits would be catastrophic

campaigns.scope.org.uk/page/165719/...

Both "Am I sick enough for this?" And "Am I really this sick?"

I only wanted to get a simple manual chair, like a hospital style one.

But we've settled on a more adjustable, more supportive chair. It can recline, lift the foot rests, and comes with a head support option.

This seemed to up the a list feeling - but also some imposter syndrome?

The internalised ableism reared its head again, leaving me feeling very ambivalent.

I want the freedom this will give me.

But it still feels like an admission of failure of some kind.

Bought my first wheelchair today.

I've been hiring them for occasions like trips away, so I can extend my days out. But the last two months I've found myself not going to regular activities and struggling to leave the house at all.

So it seemed the time had come to use one more often.

NHS Right to Choose Changes NHS England is looking to make a change that will fundamentally alter your right to Right to Choose. They're consulting now and we need you to protest to try to stop it. If they're allowed to make the...

NHS RIGHT TO CHOOSE IS CHANGING.

NHS England is about to make getting an ADHD Assessment and support even harder.

NHS England is in consultation about changes that will mean the end of Right to Choose as we know it.

Find out more from ADHD UK

adhduk.co.uk/nhs-right-to...

Noticing that comments seem to be hidden on FB posts on progressive pages I follow - I have to select 'all comments' to see them

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

We’re Witnessing the Fall of Public Health… and Your Best Tool is a Mask Measles in Texas, bird flu in Louisiana, tuberculosis in Kansas and Covid everywhere. Public health has been dying a slow death for years, we can’t count on it anymore. What can we count on? A mask!

We’re still in a global pandemic. The threat of Covid has not passed.

We’re seeing an increase in bird flu, measles, TB & more.

Public health has been dying a slow & painful death for years. We are on our own.

The good news? Masks work for more than just Covid! My complete guide to respirators 👇🏼

Disabled people are the experts in our bodies. We know what we can and can’t handle, and often understand our conditions better than most healthcare workers.

Respect our autonomy & don’t force us to put our baseline at risk. Let us be partners in our care.

Trans people are fucking amazing. Don’t you forget it.

"You may disagree with an evangelical Christian on trans rights, but share the same views on foreign aid."

Counterpoint:

"We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist." - Robert Jones, Jr.

ME, whether acquired after COVID or not, is about watching - with perfect discipline and minimal emotion - your life drift away in slow motion.

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How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar As immigration has increased, GDP has surged and unemployment has fallen to lowest level since 2008

In contrast to the UK, Spain’s socialist government has embraced immigration and that has resulted in a very high economic growth rate.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...