Chris Northwood

That near-50/50 split before 10 years old followed by a PLUNGE in the transfem rate taking it down to just 30% of referrals at 10-19 is... a lot of transfem suffering condensed into one graph, that's for sure

absolutely loved seeing you and others skating along in the march!

This is a really great read and pleased some of my insights ended up in it, and there's a lot of insight here.

One of the most disheartening things about trans advocacy is how little the people who claim to be on our side actually listen to us.

"trans-identifying", "biological sex", and a variety of other GC dogwhistles have become common parlance because people listen to our enemies, but not us.

a meme showing two people pointing at a picture of charli xcx. speech bubbles go: "hey guys" "chmod +xCX" "NOT WHAT IM CALLED"

SORRY

Saturday 2 August is Trans Pride Manchester. Protest march starts at 12pm. Arrive at The Proud Place Sidney Street M1 7HB from 11am.

I will be there with friends and on skates with Rainy City & Arcadia roller derby teams. Skates are optional but be there! 🙂

www.transpridemcr.org/transpride2025

The egg prime directive was never supposed to stop people prompting others to explore their gender, it was just to stop people making defining their own gender someone else's responsibility.

it's @tothatzoey.net if you wanted a follow btw :)

Chris Northwood, a blonde trans woman smiles into the camera stood in front of a progress pride flag. A label with the word woman is stuck to her forehead.

I bought a label printer

OMG this is unreal. (It’s real).

Labour: the SC ruling about trans people is settled, there’s nothing we can do about it, we’ll do whatever the EHRC says.

Also Labour: the SC ruling about fining wealthy finance companies is not settled, we’ll do everything we can to intervene to protect the rich.

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

This is a really important read for all ALDC members

This is very funny, so let me highlight how I understand the subtext: We don’t win with arguments. We win with power.

okay this is annoyingly very disruptive (for my home server project), and apparently Broadcom own Bitnami so I shouldn't be surprised but I didn't know this. need to figure out how to migrate my Postgres databases....

A ramp at the end of the Ashton Canal bridge - a temporary piece of fencing sticks out like a sore thumb

The Ashton Canal Bridge is finally open! But I've been asking the question of why there's this random bit of fencing at the end - apparently this is a temporary measure until the Chips cladding work is complete (and scaffolding removed) then the ramp will be able to be smoothed out into a nicer hump

You *can* change your sex. That is the entire reason that transition care is being demonised, vilified, erased, and outlawed. Because this fact makes cis people uncomfortable.

Deal with your own discomfort without denying biological reality.

“I spent years believing that I’d never be able to transition because there appeared to be an immense chasm separating male from female that seemed nearly impossible to transverse. But it turned out that chasm was entirely in my mind.”

I love this shirt!

I somehow missed Fictionmania but was very familiar with the tropes when we watched Sam (2015) last night.

This is deeply concerning, especially given the issue of transphobic attacks in parks was raised at full council. GMP need to act without prejudice on all potential hate crimes. I'll be raising this within the council.

Well that explains why the report I made to GMP about direct incitement to violence towards trans women was quietly filed away and no further action taken then...

I will be very happily taking advantage of this right that the Lib Dems secured next year

Why is everything just so fucking shit and why does the idea of anything maybe getting better seem so alien. Stealing joy when I can feels very much like the "this is fine" meme.

YouTube video by TransgenderEquality The Gender Recognition Bill Becomes Law in Ireland

Today is the 10th anniversary of Ireland's gender recognition act. Ireland's gender recognition is through self-declaration without the need for permission from a doctor, panel or judge etc. In the past decade nothing bad happened.
youtu.be/1f8OxezAqTk?...

So I decided to do some digging on this and actually contact NHS Blood and Transplant about this.

The results? Unsurprisingly appalling.

🧵

it's good to see movement away from FPTP but SV is still pretty crap - if we're reforming it, why not bring in full ranked voting?

Okay, team, I'm going to need everyone to stop relying on random newspaper reporting or the GC applicant's own victory lap commentary for a solid interpretation of UK anti discrimination law and how it works re gender crit beliefs here. 1/

Labour MP: "Having a gender drop down on the sign up form for the weekly fun run in my local park is totally unfair" when in reality the Parkrun community and organisers just want people to enjoy a nice run. I'll be Parkrunning again this weekend as I regularly do...

I see that a North West Labour MP is using his time in parliament to argue that the Saturday morning fun runs at the local park should start a level of enforcement equivalent to elite level competition...