Just Em 🏳️‍⚧️ [illegal lesbian]

Photograph of a newspaper clipping dated Tuesday, December 22, 1970. The headline reads "45 Britons Change Sex. Taxation Pays For Operations." The article reports that at least 45 British men and women have undergone sex-change operations, many for free under Britain's National Health Service. The service is financed out of general taxation. The average cost of an operation is $720, but some operations could cost $2,400 and more, according to one report. An official of the Albany Trust, a charitable organization which helps sexual deviants, said: "It would be outrageous if such operations were available only to those who could afford to pay for them." The free surgery carried out mostly in London hospitals, is available only to British patients. Transsexual males have their sex organs removed and an artificial vagina created. They are given hormones to develop their breasts. Transsexual females are operated on so that their male sexual characteristics become predominantly evident. One specialist said "Those who have these operations are seriously disturbed people. In addition to those treated on the National Health Service as many again pay for their own treatment." One London hospital alone will carry out a sex-change operation every month during 1971, sources said. Before there is any decision for or against surgery, the patient's background and history are rigorously checked. No one under 22 is treated, or is anyone who is a partner in a working marriage. "They must prove to us that they have lived for a year as an accepted member of the sex of choice," said a surgeon. The official view of the government's Department of Health: "It is for the doctor to decide what treatment is necessary in the interests of his patient."

🧵1/ In 1970, NHS-funded gender surgery had strict gatekeeping: no one under 22, no “working marriage”, a year living as "an accepted member of the sex of choice", and intense background checks. Taxpayer funding was framed as controversial, with some doctors calling patients “seriously disturbed”.

Screenshot of a "The Times" webpage. The headline reads, "Police Scotland bans trans people from single-sex spaces." The article text reads, "Thousands of officers and staff have been instructed to restrict access to single-sex spaces based on biological sex, in line with the Supreme Court ruling." A bullet point reads "NEW".

The times frame this title and byline to make out that thousands of police will be enforcing exclusionary policies.

But the article clearly states this is the staff facilities.

"Police Scotland workplaces must be accessed and used on the basis of a person’s biological sex"

Here's your first look at tomorrow's Sunday National 📰

Bid to boycott Israel picks up momentum

The appalling thing about the “LGB Without the T” gays isn’t just that they abandoned the most unfairly demonized people now when all of our support is so needed but that they still pat themselves on the back for being out-and-proud freedom fighters
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Sorry, no. You’re collaborators 👎🏼

To be honest the whole Labour government is pathetic. Bigger charlatans than the tories and that’s saying something. I am not a conspiracy theorist but it sure looks like our American overlords are really running the show. 🤷‍♀️

Sign the Petition Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

In just eleven weeks the @nionwomen.bsky.social petition organised by cis women who are fed up with transphobia being imposed in their name has obtained 1,000 more signatures than the transphobic one did in six years.

Transphobia is not popular.

Please sign and share…

Just voted in the leadership contest for @greenparty.org.uk … there’s only one sensible choice .. a leader with real connection .. @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Well well well.

Looks like the EHRC going into damage limitation mode and that the Slimes story was essentially wish fulfillment bullsh!t.

As I suspected this morning.

But the damage to our mental health is already done - it even got to me today.

Assume far right press = fake news

What did he do?

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Causeway Pride, who were the first in UK and Ireland to ban politicians from parties that harmed trans kids, are still £250 away from covering costs for their Pride next weekend. Can we help make sure they don't make a loss?

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Have you taken relativity into account? The underground is in a lower gravity field. ;-)

Just a reminder that this is still very much accurate and relevant. Even when the EHRC publish the Code of Practice, which does not change the actual law.

We are a trans-led organisation distributing accessible toilet keys in the UK to help people who dont fit gendered stereotypes to evade harassment and abuse when using gendered facilities following the latest news.

We have seen a massive uptick in applications in the last 48 hours.

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Who got the best trade deal with the US - the EU or UK? The EU and UK both concluded trade agreements with the US almost three months apart setting new tariffs on their imports. According to the Commission, the EU got the better deal.

The EU and UK both concluded trade agreements with the US almost three months apart setting new tariffs on their imports. According to the Commission, the EU got the better deal.

A lot of people are expressing outrage over an alleged apology. But maybe our community should show more caution than simply believing claims from a far-right outlet, the same one that ran stories about kids identifying as cats.

tacc.org.uk/2025/08/07/m...

Today, we’ve formally informed the EHRC that we no longer recognise it as a national human rights institution. This was not a decision taken lightly. But there can be no accountability without action. We urge other organisations to consider their stance and speak out.

I see the first articles in the UK press giving space to the claim that 3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft. Briefly:

It’s a comet that formed billions of years ago, passing through our Solar System.

It’s behaving like a comet.

There is no evidence it’s artificial.

Her Name Is Alice: A new 2025 memoir exploring grief, love and the transgender experience, from the mother of Alice Litman Her Name Is Alice: A new 2025 memoir exploring grief, love and the transgender experience, from the mother of Alice Litman eBook : Litman, Caroline: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Would there be an appetite for me to start a crowdfunder to get my memoir ‘Her Name Is Alice’ in front of MPs as soon as possible, to help fight the EHRC?

All the feedback I’ve had from cis readers without trans family is they:

a-didn’t know how bad things were
b-feel more kindly to trans people

This kind of thing is no longer an exception or aberration.

This is quintessentially Labour.

Things like this will cost them votes which they will never get back.

3.2 In discussion the following points were noted: a) The EHRC’s duty to act, and act quickly, to provide guidance on the practical implications of the law. b) Taking steps to counter mis- and dis-information relating to the law in this area was necessary and required, including as part of the duty to foster good relations in the Public Sector Equality Duty, and under the powers of sections 13.1a and 8.1a, b, d and f of the Equality Act 2006. c) A full public consultation exercise had recently been conducted on the draft Code of Practice. d) EHRC had undertaken extensive stakeholder engagement on the definition of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act over recent years, including ahead of and after providing advice to the Minister for Women and Equalities on 3 April 2023. e) The Supreme Court had made the legal position clear, and so the EHRC’s obligation is to help people understand the practical implications of the judgment. An updated Code of Practice should be an important, but not the only, mechanism for discharging this obligation. f) Public consultation on the changes to the Code should be undertaken, but that consultation should be proportionate, taking account of the fact that the body of the text has already been consulted on, the changes, while material, are confined to a few areas and the range of interested stakeholders is likely to be narrower than for the overall, main consultation held between 2 October 2024 and 3 January 2025 on the Code. g) The public consultation timeline is to allow the updated Code to be issued to Duty Bearers and stakeholders as soon as possible and practicable following the Supreme Court decision. h) This further consultation should not delay progress unduly, given the obvious need for clear guidance in the public domain, so the consultation period might be relatively short. i) Stakeholders should be advised of the consultation period in advance to be prepared to submit responses.

3.3 The Board agreed to: a) Review and amend the draft Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations (“the Code”) as a priority in response to FWS, with the intention of submitting it to the Secretary of State to be laid in Parliament before the summer recess. b) Conduct a further two-week consultation on the updated areas of the Code, focussing on the practical implications of the judgment and including draft examples. c) Reconstitute the remitted Commissioners who previously worked on the Code. d) Issue a statement the next day (Friday 25 April) to provide accurate information on the law and advise there would be a further two-week consultation on the Code in mid-May on specific updated sections. e) Share the updated draft Code with the Scotland and Wales Committees for advice in parallel, as it affects people in Scotland and Wales. f) Update other EHRC guidance to ensure legal accuracy, including on single sex spaces, employment and schools, but the Code is to take immediate priority.

How the EHRC
*thought* updating the Code of Practice would go👇

This shows how completely ignorant & blinkered they were on how people would really feel about the exclusionary, segregationist policies they are trying to bring in.

NB: their “extensive engagement” was primarily with Sex Matters.

The image is a series of stacked area charts titled "Arguments for Leaving the EcHR by Outlet". The y-axis is labeled "articles" and ranges from 0 to 40. The x-axis is labeled "Published on Week" and ranges from 2023-03 to 2025-09. There are six charts, each representing a different argument: "Constitutional/Legal", "Democratic Sovereignty", "Electoral Reform Threat", "Gender/Trans Rights", "Geopolitical Strategy", "Immigration Control", "Public Order/Security", and "Reform Fatigue". Each chart shows the number of articles published on each argument by different news outlets, with a color-coded legend indicating the outlet: BBC, Daily Mail, Express, Guardian, Spectator, Sunday Mirror, The Independent, The Sun, and The Telegraph.

Pre-release media analysis:
From Q1 2023 to now, UK outlets have published nearly a thousand (906) articles arguing to leave the ECHR.

Makes me cry to see the morals of the Australian parliament compared to the fictitious dignity and respect the UK Labour Party hold. We wanted a leader of good standing and just got more of what we got rid of. ✊🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

my aunt and uncle are desperate for this kind of policy, i’ve been talking about this kind of thing with my parents for ages, i cannot put into words how exciting this is

David Lammy contradicted as UK 'shares Gaza spy plane data with Israel'

The UK Government is continuing to send spy flights over Gaza and share intelligence it gathers with Israel – despite David Lammy's claims to the contrary

Oh I see, sorry not with it today. Yes we have reached out but the other orgs work in a far more traditional way to ours, so we're currently waiting. xx

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

but enable anti-trans rights for the past 5 years and it is now obvious they will carry-on for another 5 if not 10 years.

There’s no point by speaking with them we give the current incarnation legitimacy. Currently they hold all the power. While we speak to them in honestly they Gaslight us in return. Enough is enough trying to play nice has gotten us nowhere. If anything this organisation has done nothing