Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Can you imagine how much the media wouldn't shut the fuck up about it if it was a trans person threatening to stab a HP fan?
🏳️⚧️ HRT since: 23/8/24 🏳️⚧️ Pro wrestler debut: 19/12/15 Trans girl living on TERF Island 😭 but at least I have video games and cookies to keep me sane The lettuce and tomato in the LGBTQ Walking headache of @marilynstars.bsky.social
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view profile on Bluesky Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Can you imagine how much the media wouldn't shut the fuck up about it if it was a trans person threatening to stab a HP fan?
Helen 🏳️⚧️✊🏻💕 (@mimmymum.bsky.social) reposted
While ‘gender critical’ transphobes go around claiming trans people are a threat to kids, a known TERF stood by as a man threatened trans protesters with a knife and encouraged him outside a performance of ‘The Cursed Child.’
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
So off topic but that skirt is fucking gorgeous
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
This was said in regards to JK Rowling's transphobia No, she's a hateful, bigoted cunt who's throwing her money around to attack one of the most marginalised groups on the planet Sometimes it is, fuck JK Rowling
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
She's personally funding the removal of my rights Yes, sometimes it fucking is
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Fuck Warwick Davis
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
No Rahm, the enemy is very much Donald Trump
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Awww, BlueSky lefties are hurting Nate's feelings by saying trans people deserve rights and bombing kids in Gaza is bad
Marty Davies (@smartypantsmarty.com) reposted
You can go back as far as the Magna Carta if you wish. in UK law, there has never been an explicit statutory restriction on toilet use for Trans+ people, in public or private spaces. What is being proposed would not be a rollback. It would be a new era of exclusion. One we have not seen before.
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
The fact that you don't understand the snowball effect with things like this is wild Also trans women have NO biological advantage, so why would you want to limit them anyway?
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
This is just re-posing a dead horse and saying it'll bring it back to life
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
All fascists do this when they want to distract from the shit job they're doing actually running the country He seems to think he can pick up Reform votes. He sees their rise in the polls to be indicative of where Britain is
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
You can transition in your 30s. It's pretty awesome.
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Actual fascist shit Let's split up families but also complain its just "fighting age men coming here"
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
I know its the Daily Mail but this is ridiculous levels of bullshit and editoralising No wonder the racist protesters feel so emboldened with shit like this forced down their throats So irresponsible and fucking dangerous
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Look we want Your Party to be a party we can support We really do We've been thrown under the bus by every other British party as have many other groups but we won't vote for a party that's running a leopard who's actively saying he wants to eat our face Until Adnan is gone they're the same ol shit
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Your Party stans need to understand one thing We WANT this party to be something we can support. We want that so fucking bad. Labour, the Tories, Reform, Lib Dems and even the Greens until there's a clear out aren't safe for us We want to support Your Party THEY are making it impossible to rn
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
And yet here's a top ranking member of the party saying the most vile, transphobic shit in the last 3 days, the 29th August he posted that and then went on to get a spotlight conference with Corbyn himself with no mention of what he said
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Not until Adnan Hussein is expelled from the party for the transphobic crap he said literally just yesterday
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Racist protesters who have been attacking migrants, trying to burn down hotels and breaking into hotels to attack them? Yeah let's legitimise how they feel, that won't make the problem worse THEY WILL NEVER VOTE FOR YOU STARMER YOU FUCKING DUMBASS You're legitimising fascism
Lee Hurley (@hleehurley.com) reposted
You either believe all people deserve the same rights or you don't. There is no in-between, no 'half pregnant' here. If you think trans people need to advocate for their rights or else it's their own fault people donj't stand up for them, you do not believe all people deserve the same rights.
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
This I'm not even expecting full advocacy from people I just want to be allowed to live my life in peace without literally the world's most powerful institutions coming after me 🤨
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
There's more to it than that and Doc has linked some insanely good studies that show the exact process but 1 year on HRT (which i just passed) makes trans women indistinguishable biologically from cis women, and the same for trans men to cis men Its pro-science to be pro-trans
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Fantastic write-up by @impossiblephd.bsky.social and something Adnan Hussein, any of the bigots and yes even a lot of allies should learn WE ARE BIOLOGICALLY FEMALE TL;DR Hormones induce methylation changes in the blood which changes your DNA from one setting to the other and thus, female
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
True but given how many Your Party supporters have told us to suck it up, I doubt that will happen
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
We are biologically women, that's what hormones do. You cannot argue that we're not without being anti-trans because it is an anti-trans position to begin with
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Comes down to him having the correct opinion on Gaza, I feel. Corbyn is foreign policy first, and always has been. I feel like right now being correct on Gaza will see him welcome you in
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
He's wrong on how we're different though, hormones CHANGE our biology and bring our biology in line with cis women, we are very much biologically women Also trans-women is wrong, the - removes women as a noun and stops us being considered women This is TERF shit
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
The same day he posted this, he did a big rally with Jeremy Corbyn Now tell me we're overreacting for not supporting "Your Party" given its behaviour
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Starmer's new director of communications literally is on the board for Sex Matters Its so obvious they're stocking the government with TERFs, its wild that people can't see the corruption going on
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Possibly - of course, thats still incredibly evil
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Its not overselling it to call it THE best game of the decade so far
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
God that game is so good
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Who measures anything with the mean income? The disparity with the poor and the rich raises that
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
There's more too, this is only a snippet. Unsurprisingly there's a whole section in Article 8 about protections for trans people Its no wonder why she picked Article 8 specifically Here's the full document www.equalityhumanrights.com/human-rights...).
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh I will ignore it
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
People naively think the system is infallible and that there are checks in place to stop any abuse of power Not realising that the system is designed to work how those in power want it to work
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
We need to fucking ban the word ally
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Lib logic "Its bad when Reform do it, its good when Labour do it" Normal people are able to agree its bad when anyone does it
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
I really hope you're right. All I see is libs defending him and it makes me worry. I do hope he's not the nominee
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Libs on here are now asking if the removal of our human rights protections is as bad as losing the next election I called it. They called Farage out for the EXACT behaviour Labour are saying they want to do, which they're now defending This is a Reform idea. This is literally what Reform said
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
www.equalityhumanrights.com/human-rights.... There's more to it, and shocker - there's a whole section in it about trans people and how it gives us the right to exist
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
The thing is, article 8 is part of the ECHR. Europe has the final say on it and they would not agree to amend Article 8 to remove our protections The UK would have to pull out of the ECHR entirely which I fully believe is their plan, and they'll blame us for it to try and turn public opinion
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Its human rights violations bad. Its genocide bad. Fuck off pretending my community dying isn't that bad
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
The removal of Article 8 would literally remove our right to autonomy. To decide how we identify, how we dress, who has the right to touch our bodies. Without this, the government could arrest people for dressing in a way they deem bad, they could tell LGBTQ people they don't exist Yes its bad
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Then you've got Gavin Newsom saying trans women have a "biological advantage in sports" despite admitting he hasn't read the science... he's been saying it for 8 months now, how long does he need to read the science on it?
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah I don't argue with these people anymore, well.. I try not to. It works because the politicians and the media refuse to pushback and they run with it. How many papers now refer to as "biological males" despite every medical org agreeing that our biology matches our gender identity after hormones
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
TERFs admit they are second wave feminists and their arguments about trans women are the exact same shit, from the same perspective as anti-lesbian second wave feminists of the 20th century The argument once was lesbians aren't women so shouldn't be in single-sex spaces. Its all the same shit
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Same with the phrase "autogynephile" I've had TERFs laugh at the notion that its pseudo-science but it is by every metric Put forward by one man in 1992 and laughed out of academic circles for inventing results and subjects, it was never accepted as a real condition anywhere in science or medicine
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
True. They'll have you believe "rapid onset gender dysphoria" is a real clinical phrase that's been researched in papers but in reality it was created by one woman who isn't a researcher and has no scientific background polling her friends for their opinions about why they think we exist
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
The truth is, they don't care. The think all science is paid off, they're all "trans rights activists" They literally are the anti-vaxxers of the "gendered world"
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Long story short - TERFs barely paid attention in biology class and think they know everything about it
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
I always bring up people with Turner Syndrome - can be born without a uterus, womb or vagina And Persistent mullinary duct syndrome - male born people can be born with a uterus There's no definition of "woman" that excludes us and includes all cis women while excluding all cis men
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
If you say "I am an ally, I support trans women but they're not women and will never be" you're a transphobe who doesn't want to own it Also, side point, no one gets to decide they're an ally. Its something the community you're supporting says you are, its not something you self-identify as
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Don't get it twisted, this is a transphobic person If you don't believe trans women are women, it doesn't matter how you dress it up, you are a transphobe and no sweetie, its not "because science" Medical science changed my biology down to the DNA Stop using science to justify transphobia
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Corbyn has always been foreign affairs first If you have his views on foreign affairs, you're welcome
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Its so much worse than just that Article 8 gives us autonomy of identification, how we dress, who touches our bodies and they want to remove that? 100% this is in line with their plans with the EHRC to strip trans people of our personhood
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
This is absolutely another anti-trans ploy from them Article 8 specifically gives us autonomy to identify and dress how we want. Without it the government could literally say trans people don't exist, can't dress how we want. It would even strip us of our right to say who touches our bodies. Vile
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
And make no mistake, this is another anti-trans thing Article 8 being stripped could literally mean the government removes our autonomy to identify how we want, how we dress, who touches our bodies
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
I currently have no expectations from Labour and yet they STILL find ways to disappoint me Any time Reform say something, Labour instantly jump on it to say they're doing it They're so desperate for the racist vote
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Let me nerd out about Balatro because i just learned a fact an its cool IRL gros michel bananas went extinct and lead to us having modern cavendish bananas In Balatro there are 2 jokers called gros michel and cavendish and cavendish only unlocks when you've had gros michel and its gone extinct
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
At this point you couldn't pay me to get my trans healthcare from the NHS This is so common now, GPs refusing to fulfil prescriptions prescribed by NHS run GICs We're not safe under the NHS I'll keep sourcing my own healthcare from trans run, safe sources thank you
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Is there anything more symbolic than a middle aged white man billionaire CEO just taking something that's not his from someone smaller than him with no remorse? Fuck this guy
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Its giving this energy "I don't agree with his me killing policy but I do agree with his trans killing policy"
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
I think the biggest difference between me now and me pre-HRT is - I'm no longer scared of the future. The future terrified me. Now, I'm excited for the future because it means I'll be closer to the real me than I am now
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Genuinely repulsive shit
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey, fuck off
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
I have in my head I've been on HRT for a year now and my mind keeps going "ah, a year ago 32" 😂
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Sorry I meant 33. I have to keep reminding myself I'm 34 even though I'm closer to my 35th birthday than my 34th now 😂
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Started on hormones at 32 and I've genuinely never experienced this level of happiness and inner peace 😊
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
And without even acknowledging that we exist - there isn't one mention of Labour's transgressions on us they only mention their disability cuts and anti-migrant rhetoric they're saying that we need to work with Labour Fuck you, whoever wrote this
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Without a single mention of trans people at all in this article, the Byline Times are begging Green and Your Party supporters to work with Labour No, fuck no, fuck that. Labour are part of the nationalist right This article is insanely privileged, Labour represent an existential threat to me!
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
I assume Labour aren't included in this because they are not progressive, they've become part of the nationalist right
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll admit, the rise in gay men who are LGB and want to throw us under the bus is notable and should be discussed But we also need to remember 60% of gay men do support us. Yes this is much lower than any of the other sections of the community but its still a majority. Straight men its 32%
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
She could literally improve the lives of women, by lobbying parliament to get stricter laws on stalking, SA and get that conviction rate over 3% as well as personally fund studies on women's health issues that are notoriously underfunded. She genuinely could have been a women's rights hero
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
JK Rowling's "views" are that people like me should be scrubbed from public life... Our "views" are that we should be allowed to live in peace like anyone else Tell us again how this is a battle of "opinions"
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Just that one phrase, I just knew, and I was right, that this guy was just mad the YouTube host said "black face is not ok"
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Racists are so fucking boring and predictable now Someone comments on a video of "16 things WWE wants you to forget about Triple H" and says "can you stop being so riotous." The video had a TON of things that could be about. so how did I know he was mad that black face isn't acceptable anymore?
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not too familiar with the name but I have seen him in the same orbits as Pakman
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Good luck, its a ride 😊
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
No spoilers if you haven't seen this but I haven't been able to bring myself to watch this again since I first saw it
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
There is a saying about a broken clock and to be fair Trump's regime is a different kind of bad.
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
And if I can just add, David Pakman's name coming up is the least surprising. I've never trusted him
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
"Go get that bag my Liberal babes" is quite honestly an infuriating comment I saw "Its bad when right wingers do it, its good when liberals do it" might as well be the Liberal motto Like how Labour supporters (rightly) shit talk Reform while cheering on Labour's transphobia and deportations
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Of course Libs are saying they don't care about this because "Republicans do it too" Yeah and its BAD! Maybe its a bad thing to let money'd interests determine narrative This is like, progressivism 101 Just goes to show you scratch a Liberal and find a fascist They're all the fucking same
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
I've not seen the list of names but I already know this is the least surprising name
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah. Like, the worst comment I got was "because of my religion, its not something I could choose for myself, not that I want to but I hope you're happy" That's the worst comment I got and its quite nice 😅
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Starmer and Farage are both responsible for this, as well as GB News, Telegraph and any station that gives Reform any TV time
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
We've had to say a lot of stuff we thought was fucking obvious, Like yes its ok to punch nazis
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
We'll still get asked why we're so hesitant to support them without a statement on trans rights
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Also when they say MPs (plural) they mean just Adnan Hussein
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Zarah is literally also a practicing Muslim Not that I'd expect a zio-freak to use their brain and consider that one before puking up that repulsively racist theory
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
This Laura zio-prick does realise Zarah is also Muslim, right? Adnan is a prick because he is a transphobe, he's not a transphobe because he's a Muslim I live in Birmingham, trust me, I know a fair few Muslims and its not them who gave me shit for coming out, they were all Christian and one atheist
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
If you won't believe us that Trump and Starmer's attacks on trans people is right out of Hitler's playbook and is always one of the first steps of fascism, maybe you'll believe it from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust They might know a thing or two about it
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
On the same day I saw a Labour voter saying Labour aren't right wing, I saw a post from Labour bragging about how deportations of migrants is up so many percent under them Sorry, you were saying something about Labour not being right wing?
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
That's a new one. I just had someone tell me being trans is a mental disorder because he found a definition of 'transvestite' fr9m 1910 that says so 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe not but he'd be guaranteed 3.5 more years as president
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social) reply parent
Quite a few gender non-conforming people in the running for other top positions too, so fingers crossed all of them get voted in
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Second this I really hope @zackpolanski.bsky.social wins Trans people are politically homeless in the UK and there's a ton of work within the Greens to make it a safe place for us,but it can be done and I hope Zack's ready to do what has to be done Transphobia isn't an "opinion" its bigotry
Erika (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ (@erikasgarden.bsky.social)
Loads of people are getting excited about Trump potentially being on his way out and quite honestly, I don't care if he is. We'll just be trading one fascist for another one as JD Vance would become President Focus on pushing the Democrats to do something for 2026 and 2028 after it