@franamery.bsky.social
I research topics that make everyone feel very comfortable like periods, transphobia and abortion co-convenor @reacpolrn.bsky.social (she/her)
Oh thank you Jess, I am very interested to know that!
11.12.2025 13:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I hope critical menstruation scholars are paying attention to these cases. The field has been slow to realise the extent to which narratives about menstruation are being used for reactionary purposes (I will get around to writing an article about it next year, maybe...)
11.12.2025 13:50 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If the answer to that last question is no, maybe we have to accept that this isn't really about 'biology'.
11.12.2025 13:48 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's a point that's been repeated to death by menstruation scholars that cis woman doesn't equal menstruation. I didn't have a period for 12 years when I was on desogestrel! Some cis women don't ever get one! Should we ban them from women's changing rooms as well?
11.12.2025 13:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0![(from the Guardian) And where does that leave women like Kelly or Peggie who don’t want to use a trans-inclusive facility? “The menstruation issue really hasn’t been adequately addressed,” says Ludwig. On the night of the confrontation between Peggie and her trans colleague Beth Upton, the nurse explained in evidence that she had a heavy period and went to change her clothes, fearing she had bled through her scrubs.
“The different female and male experience of undressing and toileting goes to the heart of why we have separate female and male changing rooms and toilets in the first place. To understand what constitutes harassment, what privacy and dignity mean in practice, you have to understand why women might not want to get undressed in front of [biological] males they don’t know.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t2ifzdkcb257d3m27xupchdo/bafkreig6zv2grjtqesr3jxkxqpbz2pjqachmxp2nylnhn5mj5vs7opnpfa@jpeg)
(from the Guardian) And where does that leave women like Kelly or Peggie who don’t want to use a trans-inclusive facility? “The menstruation issue really hasn’t been adequately addressed,” says Ludwig. On the night of the confrontation between Peggie and her trans colleague Beth Upton, the nurse explained in evidence that she had a heavy period and went to change her clothes, fearing she had bled through her scrubs. “The different female and male experience of undressing and toileting goes to the heart of why we have separate female and male changing rooms and toilets in the first place. To understand what constitutes harassment, what privacy and dignity mean in practice, you have to understand why women might not want to get undressed in front of [biological] males they don’t know.”
I hadn't realised menstruation also came up in the Peggie case. I would love these people to answer, why is it inherently more degrading for a trans woman to see one's menstrual blood than a cis woman? Bonus points if they can do it without saying 'biological male'.
11.12.2025 13:45 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0when andrew tate and nick fuentes say "gay" they mean "effeminate and unmanly." it's effeminate and unmanly to treat your sexual property (wife, children) like a person, but NOT effeminate to have a thing for femboys like fuentes does. hope this helps
10.12.2025 17:10 — 👍 788 🔁 194 💬 5 📌 0A few months ago, I asked whether Starmer's Labour was far right
It was a bit provocative back then and I didn't expect they would actually dig so low
Today, I doubt it will surprise anyone who is paying attention and not conveniently ignoring what is obvious
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An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
09.12.2025 21:09 — 👍 1653 🔁 577 💬 31 📌 227
Me, in The Guardian today:
"This is a moment that requires bravery in standing up for what is right. Organisations that value trans people should know not just that the law is on their side – but so, also, are many people who will step up to defend them if they have the courage to take a stand."
Mini thread on the ET decision in Peggie
Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law.
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'El componente de género de la política reaccionaria no es solo una represalia contra los valores progresistas, sino que es fundamental para construir la visión neoliberal y neocolonial de la extrema derecha internacional.'
Entrevista con Natalia Marsicovetere
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Abstract for the article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-025-00779-4
🚨new article🚨
"Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today
Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive
🧵Thread🧵
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The man who cherry-picked data to help fuel a gendered social-media panic (see; the fixation on “vulnerable young girls”) is now using the same move to peddle conservative essentialist gender roles under the guise of “just following the data.” Surprising!
03.12.2025 17:47 — 👍 39 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0Contact us if you have been affected by the policy changes of Girl Guiding or the Women's Institute. This could be as an individual, or because you lead a local Brownie group who don't want this policy change. We want to help protect trans inclusion.
goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
Yes where else could men possibly receive this scorching insight
03.12.2025 18:07 — 👍 1922 🔁 175 💬 158 📌 132
📣New interview📣
'Terms like “detransitioner,” like “transitioner,” reduce people to the act of transitioning and frame transitioning as an extremist act or impulsive decision'
@katfuller.bsky.social discusses transphobic moral panics on the far right.
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
30.11.2025 09:57 — 👍 3277 🔁 1226 💬 334 📌 334For the many (arseholes), not the few (trans people)
29.11.2025 13:56 — 👍 98 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 0With the Observer yesterday in its Glinner interview describing Derrick Jensen as 'an environmentalist who has been ostracised for his views on trans issues', this is worth a read to know what Jensen and DGR are actually about.
28.11.2025 07:34 — 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0To be absolutely clear on this, one of our volunteers received a letter from a cabinet minister acknowledging the contents of the Discord leaks, including comments talking about serious abuse. The government knows exactly who they are including in these consultations.
24.11.2025 12:25 — 👍 240 🔁 98 💬 1 📌 3
Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views
24.11.2025 12:19 — 👍 606 🔁 234 💬 14 📌 16Real questions in the puberty blocker study:
How happy are you with your nose? Would like like to change it by surgery?
How happy are you with your shoulders? Would like to change them by surgery?
How happy are you with your hips? Would like to change them by surgery?
Continued...
The “Pathways” trial is, IMO on more than one level, a thoroughly unethical piece of “research” to be carrying out on children, especially children who are part of a marginalised minority.
22.11.2025 12:58 — 👍 594 🔁 228 💬 20 📌 52They're using Utrecht to see if there's an improvement in "gender distress"
Utrecht scale due to how it is rated only shows an "improvement" if the kid stops being trans because it asks questions like "I feel bad when people address me as my assigned sex"
LETS BRLT GREAB!
19.11.2025 19:53 — 👍 168 🔁 30 💬 12 📌 9
Quote from article on minors accessing porn states that Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube are the top sites minors access porn.
Remember this when you see scare headlines about the high rate of minors seeing “porn” online: They’re either not seeing it on porn sites or what they’re seeing isn’t actually porn.
It turns out minors not necessarily know what “porn” even is.
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/no...
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Countering the trend towards fascism can take many shapes and forms but it cannot take the form of a blind faith support in the status quo and mainstream elite as has been argued for too long
Some thoughts @reacpolrn.bsky.social on the latest developments in the UK
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A handful of fascist streamers blocked by hundreds of counter protestors
"There are many many more of us than you!"
A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again.
We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention
Seeing a lot of people I frankly thought better of misunderstanding this. It means case by case re. the service provider not the individuals using the service. This is how the Equality Act has worked for years - with providers having to justify exclusion as proportionate.
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