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'This is an issue for everyone' – cyclists urged to join solidarity rides with trans community after exclusion from Cycling UK list Three rides will take place in Bristol, Edinburgh and London on 14 December

'This is an issue for everyone' – cyclists urged to join solidarity rides with trans community after exclusion from Cycling UK list

Three rides will take place in Bristol, Edinburgh and London on 14 December 👏🏻💕🚲

www.cyclingweekly.com/news/this-is...

Long Covid and related post viral conditions impact 3-5% of the adult population. There are 7.7-8m young people aged 16-25 in the UK, so that alone would help explain at least 300k of those NEETs

Schools were never closed. I know, I was at work every day. And social spacea of all kinds were closed temporarily (Eat out to help.out?!l) And you're ignoring the mass-disabling effect of covid, which is literally still endemic & continuing to disable people, inc young people

Then there's the education sytem itself, and the massive uptick in EBSA, burnout & related conditions. Years-long waiting lists for mental health support - CAHMS is all but broken in many areas, meaning delayed & worsening MH into early adulthood

I mean, we did fuck all to protect kids from Covid, pretending they had some super special immunity and now hundreds of thousands of them have Long Covid or other covid-related longterm health issues

Again: fascists have to practice. They can't just come out and say they want to do the Holocaust right out the gate. They have to *practice* - by picking off vulnerable minorities, in order to build a permissive atmosphere where they can go after bigger targets.

Have you SEEN the stuff the Home Office is doing? Did you sleep through the Hostile environment?

You know what? I've had five friends literally leave the country due to hateful Government policy in the last few years.

Five.

Two under the Tories. Three held out until Starmer got power... then things got even worse so they left too.

Why should I see Reform as different in kind?

Why should someone whose seen both Labour and the Tories adopt the rhetoric and policies of Reform and the rest of the far-right consider the three of them different in kind?

You and Starmer do because that rhetoric, those policies, don't touch you. That's it. That's the entire problem.

A lot of sage nodding of heads by middle aged men in response to this concluding I have Starmer wrong and he's correct.

You have the same problem he does! You're immune to the suffering he's inflicted, willingly carried on from the Tories, so don't understand why the targets now viscerally hate him

Boris Johnson's slurs are one thing. Keir Starmer overseeing the introduction of a new Section 28 in schools for trans and non-binary people, supporting segregation and backing Wes Streeting as he drives kids to suicide after stripping them of their healthcare is on a whole other level.

Holy fuck the arsehole brigade are outdoing themselves in the replies. Absolutely zero recognition of the huge numbers being crushed & abused by the Starmer govt, by past Tory govts. They only care that Reform will hurt people like *them*, the normies, fuck those already oppressed, dead & dying

Liberty, a health service, the rule of law & democracy are not currently enjoyed by several minoritised groups under *this* Labour government, and past Tory govts. What you mean is, a Reform govt will be ALSO impact people whose relative (& absolute) privilege has protected them thus far

pete_wharmby_books & ••• HADLEY FREEMAN Wes Streeting must stand up to the ADHD activists I can help with the minister's review: some people are just confused by life Hadley Freeman pete_wharmby_books Ah, as expected the right wing press (and Freeman's pipeline from the Guardian op-Ed pages to the Times is worth looking into) is now piling on, suggesting that these scary ADHD activists are just trying to ruin things for everyone. Not, like, try to improve people's self esteem and sense of what is going on. 2025 is so horrifyingly, predictably *boring*

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

He means cis white young people who aren’t disabled obviously

Half of Labour’s policies are just “work or die“ and the other half are “just die“ cause you don’t deserve to be part of our society

Obviously.

The Christian Legal Centre has been doing it for decades, and now we've got the ADF and Vance's crowd, and they're coming for LGBT+ people, for women, for children and for neurodivergent people.

(did the guardian not even notice who was pushing them towards transphobia?!)

FUUUUUUUCCCKKK these bastards, so, so much

She's only annpyed because Falkner is being too obviously, cartoonishly evil in public. Phillipson is trying to eradicate trans people quietly under the guise of "reasonable concerns" and Falkner exposes her

No shit. You could have listened to all the trans people telling you this for years

I mean how many more times and in how many ways will Keir Starmer tell a huge part of his former voter base to fuck off

Not just let, but have actively and enthusiastically continued.

Bridget Phillipson overriding the objections of select committees to ensure that the new EHRC head is also an anti-trans bigot… a real signal that they are committed to doing the maximum damage possible.

It couldn't be more obvious what happened with the EHRC. Liz Truss stacked it with open bigots like Falkner for the purpose of producing transphobic guidance. It started under the Tories and Labour has let it continue.

Kishwer Falkner, the former EHRC chair, is on Sky saying the Labour government is anti-women, citing not just trans issues but also grooming gangs and what she calls pandering to Islam and racial sensitivities. She's not exactly dispelling the idea she was a political actor when she led the EHRC.

Public bodies are crammed with cranks and wingnuts because politics is rammed with cranks and wingnuts, and this isn’t seen as remarkable and disgraceful because sadly the press is also full to bursting with cranks and wingnuts.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Farage hissed "gas them" at Jewish children and this is the best time to call the party with a Jewish leader scary and dangerous, is it then Keir

This is beyond revolting. I fucking hate them so much.

remember folks:

it's not segregation when @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social does it

it's not conversion torture when wes streeting does it

it's not racism when shabana mahmood does it

it's not eugenics when pat macfadden does it

it's not far right when labour do it. it's just grown ups in the room