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‘Rising anti-trans hatred’ in the UK creating ‘hostile environment’, report suggests 99 per cent of trans people say media coverage of issue has harmed their mental health

A new report and survey of trans people reports that 99% of them have had their mental health negatively affected by the barrage of anti trans stories in the UK media. 64% avoided medical care due to discrimination. This is a crisis.

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Kansas invalidated a trans woman's license even though she never changed her gender marker.

It's not about the gender marker. It's about targeting trans people and making their lives unlivable.

You did better than when some complained to IPSO about “child identified as cat” stories. Then IPSO required permission from the alleged child to proceed, despite evidence that no such child existed.

Have you read any Katherine Stewart? She explains that it's still a minority within a minority, and the movement as a whole has conflicting beliefs. She also shows how far the evangelicals have moved away from anything understood as traditional Christian beliefs, becoming a political movement.

Wind power?

Yep, this is where "Christian nationalism" takes you - the whole world needs to suffer for your personal beliefs. It's why they're not worried about any consequences. They firmly believe they're ushering in the end times.

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A new report from TransActual shows that trans people in the UK are being catastrophically failed.

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🗳️"Our First Past the Post voting system was outdated decades ago, [it's] a millstone around the neck of our democratic life."

💬 Our Vice-Chair @lisasmartmp.bsky.social during last night's Second Reading debate of the Representation of the People Bill 👇

Just remember, when calling for Trump to lose the US presidency, this guy is next in line, and it's likely he's even worse!

When energy prices start rising, it will resonate even less.

Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

I suspect this will also be used to look into membership of LGBT+ groups.

My immediate reaction to Saturday's news (after the sadness of many more lives being lost and damaged because of Trump's actions) was the damage the bombing is going to do to the international economy - we're all going to pay for his decisions whether we agree with them or not.

Some UK financial markets morning reaction to the Iran-US-Israel conflict.

Brent crude oil price up around 10% to $80 per barrel... uk.finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EFTMC/

Reform UK’s share of BBC and ITV coverage is ridiculous given their number of MPs & considering opposition parties that polled higher (such as Lib Dems) receive such poor coverage.

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I don't think those are the only two options though.

Agreed. There's a shameful attempt being made by Reform and much of the tabloid press to delegitimise Muslim voting and to undermine trust in elections. We can stand resolutely against that, without ourselves undermining trust in election observers, who are a crucial part of the electoral process.

Cathy Newman @cathynewman BREAKING on @TimesRadio : we’ve unearthed social media posts by a senior officer at the MHRA, the regulator overseeing the puberty blockers trial. 4:49 PM · Feb 27, 2026 · 39.2K Views Relevant View quotes Replying to @cathynewman and @TimesRadio No file chosen Cathy Newman @cathynewman · 1h Posts expressing gender critical views and mocking trans supporters appeared on the X account of Prof Jacob George, MHRA’s chief medical and scientific officer, who was only appointed last month Cathy Newman @cathynewman · 1h His account has now been deleted and the MHRA told us the Prof had been recused from the trial. Stay tuned…

No one will be shocked that overtly anti-trans officials have been appointed to the MHRA puberty blockers trial.

What is shocking is actual journalism being done to uncover them, and that when uncovered they've been removed.

An important step in the right direction.

Watch this space.

This is strong condemnation by the UN of the UK on its direction of travel on trans people's rights.

the thing is, at this point, even if they 180'd today and declared all those policies, why would i trust them

Also "we're bringing the country together and being tolerant by attacking trans people" (paraphrasing) is quite the line.

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

So just as a final word on this by election before polls close:

No matter what the result, Gorton and Denton is supposed to be in a category of safe seat that should essentially render it uncompetitive. The fact that it isn't is a damning indictment of Labour's time in office.

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CW: transphobia.

See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤

This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did.

But it's not just similar. It's *identical*.

In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938.

Paragraph 175 and 183.

The Blob's fanatical devotion to Elizabeth II is tearing this country apart

We're hearing of a tight result in Pratts Bottom...

We are sleepwalking into a totalitarian nightmare disguised as Winnie the Pooh.

Is that us disguised or the nightmare?

Why the looming zebra crossings disaster will finally break the back of Middle England

To paraphrase Monty Python on the Spanish Inquisition "Amongst our kingdomry..."