To all my American trans friends and followers. Get out now. Leave now. It will become either very expensive or impossible to get out later.
Trans woman 🏳️⚧️ Sociologist & Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. All opinions expressed here are my own. 🇵🇸 Link to academic publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy “Thomas Mann: “Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
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To all my American trans friends and followers. Get out now. Leave now. It will become either very expensive or impossible to get out later.
I don't know what I can say to trans Americans to persuade them that they can get out, they can make it without big money, it is possible. Fear of the unknown is greatter than fear of their government. My fear is that balance will only change when it is too late. transrescue.org/post-electio...
I would just want to share TransRescue’s advise to trans Americans: transrescue.org/get-out-now-...
Interview with Baronness Hale by @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social in the Guardian, talking about the way the Supreme Court misjudgment has been misinterpreted. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...
I think centrists having a smug little gloat about whatever is going on with "Your Party" when most of us on the left have found a lot of hope in the Greens is a bit weird when Labour is tanking so very biblically. We get it, guys, it's football to you.
These are fascists or fascist enablers.
Literal sabotage (of teen girls’ well-being). edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
I wonder who is funding this...
It's over for the Tories and Labour. We can't afford to have a new more extreme Turquoise Tory party on over 30% of the vote and every other party on around half that. A centre-left party needs to break from the pack, and I hope, and will do what I can, to make that the Eco-socialist Greens.
Fascism in Canada.
Um. Human Resources departments have rarely been on the side of the employee over the company. Now their trade group is platforming anti-diversity, anti-LGBTQ+ extremists. www.advocate.com/business/rob...
Interview with Dr Sam Hall: Inside Britain’s Trans Health Crisis Including “trans healthcare in the UK, the current waiting lists that leave more than 40,000 people in limbo and the steady creep of legislation and policy that threatens to strip away rights” www.scenemag.co.uk/interview-wi...
Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they have, to fight back. sign.moveon.org/petitions/ki... #USDemocracy
The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.
Former Green Party leader urges government to let MPs debate changes to EHRC guidance https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/16/former-green-party-leader-urges-government-to-let-mps-debate-changes-to-ehrc-guidance/?utm_content=1758228000&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
'EU floats plan to use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine loan, bypassing a Hungary veto. Ukraine would only pay back the reparation loan once it receives compensation from Russia for damage inflicted during the war.' www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Let's go! It's now 74,000. Membership rising fast 🚀 Join.greenparty.org.uk
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This is one of the most important posts of the day.
And that was when everything veered back into the Realm of Stupid, again. www.dailydot.com/viral-politi...
We are so many lines into the poem, long past 'first, they came for'
If you are starting a new party, unless you are a fascist, you need to sort out the potentially most divisive issues first, which means ensuring your party doesn’t welcome transphobes, zionists or “stop-the-boats” bigots.
Obama condemns the White House after Kimmel’s suspension, saying that the Trump admin has taken cancel culture to a "new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies."
An ultra-conservative anti-abortion lawyer has threatened a GP practice in Brighton with legal action, risking further restrictions on healthcare for young trans people: https://goodlaw.social/j05o
Parties that allow transphobia are either far right or end up splitting…
Funny how there's a big hole in this article ignoring: * transphobes joining at senior positions * the continued ignoring of hundreds of trans members demanding Corbyn acknowledge that trans rights be at the forefront, as was originally promised. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
When a Tory is defending a Labour PM, that PM has lost his way and needs to lose his job.
When serious politics meets a performative politician
Louder for those at the back. "Gender-critical"...? You are a fascist, no two ways about it now. You align with Putin, Orban, Le Pen, Meloni, Bolsonaro, Braverman, Robinson and Trump. End of.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Are you comfortable with the worlds most powerful man on earth banning books, militarising the police, damaging women's reproductive rights" Penny Mordaunt: "I don't know Zack, that's not the point..."
I’m sick of seeing smiling techbro CEOs in articles about how they are going to cook the planet or assist war or insist we should be wearing creep glasses in public
Excellent point 👀👇👇👇
Just Quentin Letts in the Mail today saying Keir Starmer could be executed if he doesn't abandon human rights law
I’m beginning to think they lied about liking free speech…
Anti and more anti, I think.
The News Letter is viciously anti-trans. As we often point out, that means they are also anti-women. Here is their front page story from yesterday
Required reading.
This essay is a tour de force. To trans people, it reads as a grim reminder of the litany of indignities and travesties visited upon us by the UK government. To cis people, I hope, it is a bracing and sobering wake up call to how illiberal the UK and Labour have become. 1/ One additional thought:
If you don't know what's going on with anti-trans stuff in the UK, read this. If you're similarly disgusted with the way anti-trans people have gotten away with demonising and assaulting an innocent minority, send this to your friends, family and MP to demand change. They won't stop with us.
It’s when they urge us to enter into a “dialogue” with these people that gets me. “Compromise”.
"Foreign-born UK residents are much more likely to be of working age than the UK-born — and thus less of a fiscal burden. They tend to be healthier than the UK-born, and are much more likely to have a university degree. 75% have lived in the UK for more than 5 years and 90% speak good English."
OK so what present did Trump give Starmer…? A swastika…? An Iron Cross…? A copy of Mein Kampf…?
Is that the author Rowling has been quoting recently…?
Starmer banks on US investment in the UK. From companies like Blackstone and Palantir...? No thank you.
Zack is literally the only politician that still gives a bit of hope for this country. No other so-called ally does advocacy like he does, all other speak in platitudes and vague statements.
I gave a speech to the Stop Trump demo in London yesterday. The loudest cheer I got was when I said this; “Transphobia is now central to fascism. It is not peripheral, it is front and centre, it is a core component of fascism. If you are transphobic you are a fascist.”
From Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free" I first read it in November and I'm rereading it now. It crushing feeling the exact same things as this academic did. It's the same process.
"do not obey in advance" is the first lesson in timothy snyder's important work, 'on tyranny' (see them all: timothysnyder.org/resources/ )
British politics really needs to wake up to what is happening in America given we have imported a huge amount of its culture war politics. Maybe there are some clues about what would be on the cards here under a Reform government?
LGBTQ really gets don’t bother you then?
It's easy to scoff at Trump designating as a "terrorist organization" something that's not an *organization* at all. I have different view. When you declare an idea rather than an organization to be terrorism, you can declare *anyone* a terrorist. And that is what he will do. This is horrifying.
Check in on your trans friends, yes, but also step up your tangible support for queer orgs. We need allies more than ever. They are coming for us because they think we are the easy battle and if y'all make it easy to target us then everyone else is next
Starmer: “free speech is for threatening trans people, not embarrassing nonces.”
I have already produced quality peer-reviewed and empirically saturated research that conclusively demonstrates that the puberty-blocker ban is harming trans kids. This is all he needs to read. It is all there.
Projected onto Windsor Castle for Trump’s arrival 👍
Benedict Cumberbatch reading Palestinian poetry
They're openly saying they want to sacrifice LGBTQ people and the planet to appease fascists. This is not only a losing strategy, this is morally repugnant. Every single one of these people should be ashamed, but we know they won't because they are amoral sociopaths.
THIS IS THE CROWD THAT HAS KEPT TRUMP OUT OF LONDON
This government, this "Labour government" has ignored, repeatedly, protections for people who have been trafficked and faced modern slavery. We don't need to further weaken protections, we need a damn government which protects those who need it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Truly exceptional article from @polphilpod.bsky.social on the political meanings and impacts of Labour's transphobia and how it strengthens fascism worldwide: www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat... Even if you're not a capital-L Liberal, this is very much worth your time
No, you shouldn't "forget rent" — it's way too high. But also, New Yorkers should be able to see a World Cup match without shelling out thousands of dollars. Sign the petition ➡️ zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed ⚽️
If thousands of businesses across the UK don't comply with EHRC new code of conduct on single-sex spaces it will be deemed unworkable, forcing Parliament to intervene. Lets make that happen. Do not comply. I repeat do not comply. Do nothing and carry on as usual.
this.
I don't fully understand how Tim Allen became a trustee of Sex Matters when Portland, the company he founded, was doing PR for Russia and Qatar, two of the most misogynist regimes on the planet. Wasn't there, I dunno, a conflict of interests?
The "Together for Palestine" movement has released a video featuring Billie Eilish, Cillian Murphy, Joaquin Phoenix, and other celebrities calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, and has announced a fundraising concert to be held tonight at London's Wembley Stadium #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide
Bluesky is now bigger than Tokyo
She's quoting Hitler *again*
JFC!
1. Anti-trans rhetoric heated up yesterday on the far-right, with two congresspeople and major Republican figures calling for the institutionalization of trans people. Both Reps Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson made such calls. Musk, Loomer, and Walsh echoed them. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Fuxake! This transphobe has been in the job a week and is already sounding desperate. Utterly vile
And now he is director of communications at Number 10 and Russia is involved in a war with our ally Ukraine, a war which started in 2012. I'm not a spook of any kind, but isn't that a bit dodgy? His former clients regularly threatening to nuke us into oblivion?
With her intend to enforce an active anti-trans campaigner as Chair of the EHRC over the objections of parliamentary committees and approval of EHRC guidance which would be the largest roll-back of trans rights in a generation: Phillipson is personally the greatest threat to trans people in politics
“Words are not violence” - proceeds to quote Hitler’s words
i hope nobody still accepts the bullshit "to appeal to more voters" framing. rich people are spending money to push the politics they favor, it has absolutely nothing to do with electability
Bluesky ate it I think: tinyurl.com/trans-segregation-in-practice
A new report from TransActual shows that trans and cisgender people face job loss, violence, vigilantism and wholesale exclusion following the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC guidance. Read the report at: tinyurl.com/trans-segreg... #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #EqualityAct #EHRC #TransRights
lol new clown car just rolled up
Seema Syeda of @ukstoptrump.bsky.social at the Stop Trump demonstration in London today. #StopTrump #FreePalestine
Outrageous bollocks from a pathetically thin skinned Government which is willing to humiliate Britain on the international stage to brown nose one of the most dangerous men the world has ever known. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11
My published, peer-reviewed research detailing how his puberty-blocker ban is harming children. If he wants trans kids to be safe, he needs to end this ban immediately. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It makes me so furious no journalist who has access to Streeting can be bothered to ask him why he is taking advice from groups who advocate child abuse. It took years after this was discovered to get published bc no UK media wanted to cover this story. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...
Because I've seen some prominent cis allies saying that they hope Streeting's most recent words are a good sign: this is the entire point - he's always got some reasonable sounding words to placate cis people as he continues to meet with transphobic bigots and enact brutally transphobic policies.
If it is now being called a "code", I'd be very interested in when/where/by whom that decision was made, cos that's some shift in framing
The EHRC "guidance" (or is it now a "code" it seems to change its name quicker than "Gender-criticals") is SUPPOSED to be about how to implement the law IN PRACTICE. Sounds like she has spent the summer in the long grass with the fairies, pixies and leprechauns.
Yes, I now have a keyboard covered in Caffè Nero oat milk Napoletano.
It’s all going tits up…
(Chokes on a mouthful of Costa) Can you find us a link?
Reminder: The Trump election campaign spent $215,000,000 on anti-trans adverts alone. More than anything else. Transphobia (or “gender-critical beliefs” as transphobes call it) is CORE to fascism. Transphobia is FRONT & CENTRE of fascism, not adjacent or an add-on. All transphobes are fascists.
Is there a legal mechanism by which we can force this?
UK free speech update; Officially Free speech is; - Speech supporting the government - Speech supporting the extreme right - Racism, transphobia, homophobia, xenophobia etc Free speech is not; - Speech opposing the government, the extreme right, racism, transphobia, homophobia, xenophobia etc…
The “free speech absolutist” brings SLAPPs to the US…
What's happening to Media Matters is such obvious bullshit. Musk's lawsuits against them are entirely frivolous, but he knows he can use his wealth to drown them in legal fees. It's disgusting.
The U.K. ‘gender critical’ movement seem to be largely driven by GC lawyers -who have all become fat on the crowdfund/FSU grift. It allows mundane lawyers to stay busy. What a racket.
UK "Free Speech" latest: Four members of @ledbydonkeys.org were arrested for this.
Trans and gender diverse people face multiple barriers accessing UK sexual health services www.aidsmap.com/news/sep-202...