Ash Paley

I got my passport with my new name and correct gender marker last week

They are now referring to her entirely by her surname bar the first mention, something the BBC style guide notes is reserved for convicted criminals?

It is BBC policy not to refer to the accused by surname alone - until a guilty verdict is returned. This is true even of people, like sportsmen and women, who would normally be referred to by surname only.

Transgender, or trans, is an umbrella term for a person whose gender identity differs from their sex recorded at birth. A person born male who lives as a female, would typically be described as a “transgender woman” and would take the pronoun “she”. And vice versa. We generally use the term and pronoun preferred by the person in question, unless there are editorial reasons not to do so. If that’s unknown – apply that which fits with the way the person lives publicly. If

Also obviously violating this (already awful!) part of style guide

honorifics: Mr, Mrs etc should be used, except for convicted criminals - and also journalists, sports people, authors, actors, artists, musicians and entertainers in their professional capacity (eg: Throughout the interview, Paxman refused to be sidetracked. But: The burglars entered Mr Paxman's house.) Court reports, in the UK and abroad, should give defendants an honorific unless and until they are convicted. In choosing between Miss, Mrs and Ms, try to find out what the person herself uses, and stick to that. Avoid foreign honorifics (eg: Herr, Madame or Signora).

Which is reserved for convicted criminals or celebrities, Sophia is neither.

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UK and Irish media all degendering a trans woman and framing her as a "trans activist" in their reporting of Graham Linehan being found guilty of criminal damage. Come on, gang. You can at least try to hide your institutional bigotry.

Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.

One wonders what *would*.

The BBC said ‘teenage trans woman’
No she was a child

I don't actually care whether Farage is personally racist. I care whether he continues to promote racist ideas and policies. Which he does. What he truly believes in his heart is an irrelevance to me.

The paperback of Medieval Twitter has landed omfg

Not quite a stocking stuffer price, but much much more affordable than before, thankfully

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#MedievalSky 🗃️ @archumanities.bsky.social

Raising everyone’s income is the ONLY way to fight poverty, dickwads.

Fashion forward dog chickens

Remember. We know these drugs are safe. There is no need to do any of this.

Trying to treat science and medicine as an apolitical zone which somehow exists outside of wider societal norms is an incredibly harmful trend. But at this point it's not just embarrassing for the clueless people promoting such a narrative, it's actively dangerous for the rest of us.

Cis people, did you have to show your genitals to a doctor before you got hormones?

Cause I did.

Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?

Trans Young People Face 50+ Tests and Hours of Intrusive Assessments in the PATHWAYS Puberty… The publication of the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial protocols reveals how trans young people are required to complete more than fifty…

Under new NHS puberty blocker trial protocols, trans youth are being subjected to more than 50 assessments, intrusive exams, and over 13 hours of intrusive testing - just to access lifesaving healthcare

It demands young people re-live distress & undergo intimate examinations

#ConversionPractices

As it should be

No they are quotes. That doesn't make them true. The "science" in the Cass review has been pulled apart by serious institutions.

THAT'S a fact.

Funny that the Guardian doesn't tell you that, isn't it.

The trans community’s trust in the NHS’ new puberty blocker trial is low and I can’t help but wonder whether they could have prevented that by involving ANY trans people in its design or operation, and maybe not involving several people who have attended conferences of anti-LGBTQ hate groups

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Just as a friendly reminder!

Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence. The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.

Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence.

The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.

Today on #TransDayOfRemembrance we remember our trans siblings who have lost their lives to transphobia, hatred & violence…🧵

Photo montage of Alice. In the garden in her blue puffer jacket and pink bobble hat. Out on a walk with me in the same outfit. We’re standing side by side leaning into each other for the photo. As an infant with her Dad. Alice is beaming into the camera, at me, and Peter is looking at her in his arms beaming at her. Alice in her charity shop flying jacket that she wore all the time, drinking a gin and tonic from a large goblet glass.One of the last photos we have of her. Alice posing for a photo for her school year book. In cute rose tinted sunglasses, her baggy pink sweatshirt and the dark green dungarees she pinched off me.

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance.

Sending love and solidarity to all trans+ people and those who have lost a trans+ loved one through violence or state oppression and neglect.

And a special thought for those who will have taken their lives without ever disclosing their trans identity.

It's hard to think it's a coincidence that this stuff has been leaked to The Times on the eve of Trans Day of Remembrance. Grim.

Fortunately, the leaks are fairly desperate stuff. Yet another quite transparent attempt to bully a government minister into laying a transphobic code of practice.

Apparently, originally it meant easy to handle or ready at hand

Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out - BBC News Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.

A cycling influencer nominated for a list of top 100 women cyclists said she has declined the honour due to the decision not to include trans women.

Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻