The problem is @jonsopel1.bsky.social thinks it's a Draconian overreach to prevent British residents and citizens from celebrating the benefits of punching trans women in the genitals. That's all it comes down to.
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The problem is @jonsopel1.bsky.social thinks it's a Draconian overreach to prevent British residents and citizens from celebrating the benefits of punching trans women in the genitals. That's all it comes down to.
It's not okay but I think it's unfortunately quite normal - at least I think it's how a disturbing number of ppl are if given permission. This is that time when you find out what you'd do if it was happening here. We're seeing who ppl really are.
Sitting on a train. Some people are very loudly discussing how to remove basic human rights from groups of people. This past fortnight has felt very very mask-off.
I think the only explanation is it's not just a strategy, it's based on beliefs. Only genuinely subscribed to ideology could make them so blind to the scale of the precipice the Labour Party is being driven over.
Thought I recognised it. He's a particularly unpleasant Youtuber who goes round wearing that board provoking people to film their reactions & put it on youtube.
The EHRC is trying to change the law, banning trans people from public, without even a government debate on it Please write to your MP to make sure this doesn't happen Here's a great template by Trans Actual docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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"why are we worrying about incitement to violence if it's only violence against tr*nnies?"
I'm genuinely disturbed. I'm living in a country that is passionate about defending the 'free speech' of those who would incite violence against minorities, but equally passionate about arresting people for calling a genocide a genocide.
This is just a mob. And it's what Labour are encouraging.
It's those famous transgender bot farms funded by...George Soros maybe? & operating out of...wherever. It's the all powerflul influence of the trans agenda at work. We run the police and everything. Just ask Graham Linehan.
The 'agenda' saying he's not pro trans rights consists of actual trans ppl who've been living through the country's turn towards transphobia & have become finely attuned to bullshit from politricians. Corbyn is big on 'be kind' rhetoric, silent on actual issues affecting us. He's full of shit.
In 2017 Kier Starmer, Wes Streeting & J K fucking Rowling all professed to support trans rights. Back then being pro-LGBTQ+ was still fashionable. Ppl always carp on about stuff he's said in the past b/c he's said exactly fuck all about our right of recognition being removed.
idk how you listen to radio 4. I refuse to listen to it. Haven't heard it for years. I won't consume any BBC news output aside from sometimes seeing articles posted on here.
The Standard has a strange (for UK media) habit of being surprisingly good about trans stuff. It would probably be illuminating to know why.
I think if you look at his career, everything he's done has been worse than the thing he did before. Irvine welsh is exactly like that too (I think - idk if he's still getting worse or plateaued) - maybe it's a transphobe thing. You get old, run out of ideas & become a bigot.
c/ The last TV 'comedy' he made was count arthur strong. Which is absolute shite & indicates his days of being remotely innovative or funny were already over before he became a transphobe.
Don't read this bullshit. You're encouraging the Guardian's trade in transphobia by giving them clicks. You're funding hate. It's a bit like buying J K Rowling merch. He's unhinged. You already know that. Read something worth reading.
One thing nobody seems to have said about the "armed" thing is that...armed police at airports are routine. Do people think they remove their arms every time they arrest somebody in case that person gets upset?
We encourage our supporters to write to the BBC to complain about the use of a slur against trans women in this article www.bbc.com/news/article... This is directly written in text and is not a quotation.
That would be a clear snub.
The slightest word would have made all the post election coverage be 'immediate spit in green leadership' blah blah. Polanski is as supportive as any UK politician gets. He's not afraid to be vocal about it. I can't see how he's thrown us under the bus.
I think Mothin is basically a transphobe but that post was very vague (he's always very careful in his language) & I think there's no way Polanski could turn on his just elected co-deputy straight after the election unless he'd done something completely outrageous.
She can't answer the question because the situation is nonsensical. It's pathetic.
If Labour appear in a trans friendly space, make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch them in the balls.
Oh ok thx for the clarification.
Yes I'd also like to know as I'm not aware of this.
I'm not referring to LFTR here btw, they've worked hard & got nowhere. But labour are currently a far right party. They just are. What I don't get is how the overall membership are just going along with it. It's like they're in denial about the stark fact they're in Reform 2.0.
The leadership have been take over by extreme reactionary social conservatives. They genuinely believe this stuff. The real mystery - and tragedy - is the way rank & file labour have all fallen into line. Looking at the UK (and US) today is like a case study in how easily fascism takes root.
This is extremely ironic coming from a newspaper with a long track record of whipping up prejudice against trans people. You'd think they'd be pleased about it.
Until or unless we hear concrete position statements - like the SC judgement & PB ban should be overturned, EHRC reformed etc - - any amount of rhetoric about "dignity", "kindness" & whatever can mean whatever you want it to mean.
Adnan Hussain would doubtless say he agrees w/what Corbyn says here. He would say he is opposed to abuse & discrimination of trans ppl. While saying we should be segregated in 'third spaces' to 'protect women'.
That's a nice sentiment. But what does he actually mean? By now I've heard ppl actively removing our rights calling for us to be treated w/ "dignity & respect" so often, this kind of rhetoric means nothing unless it's based on policies. E.g. Will they seek to reverse the SC judgement?
This does seem increasingly clear. But it has a long way to go before being as venomously transphobic as Labour.
idk, I don't think it will. Corbyn retains a lot of popularity. I think there are a lot of 'traditional' left wingers who want a 'traditional' socialist party. Those types are often very socially reactionary.
YP is really shaping up to be a 'left transphobe' party packed with insincere guff about "kindness", "dignity & respect" & all that vacuous bullshit while being fine w/every transphobic policy currently being inflicted on us. Transphobes are already in key positions before the party has got going.
Show me where he's voiced support for trans ppl regarding actual specific issues affecting us, certainly within the last year. I haven't seen it. Bearing in mind a couple of yrs ago Starmer & Streeting were saying supportive stuff. He jettisoned us for political convenience.
In the past. He put out one post of generic 'be kind' bullshit in response to the biggest domestic human rights rollback in living memory. He's said not one word condemning that rollback. Or the EHRC guidance. Or about trans kids' healthcare being banned. Or Labour's trans specific S28.
If somebody you've just literally shared a stage with, somebody appointed company secretary of your embryonic party is spouting bigotry, the onus is kinda on you to comment. His deafening silence tells us all we need to know. As has his ongoing silence on our rights being removed.
Given Your Party seems to have transphobia baked into it from the outset, at least there's one party left I can vote for, so good news indeed.
From what he's said he seems to understand we have a common enemy, & understand we need to work together while being fundamentally cis supremacist in outlook. He strikes me as one of those ppl who thinks we're a belief you can politely disagree about.
"We need to not listen to the greens with their namby-pamby support of human rights, and continue to idolise the bold, fascist future envisioned by Reform. Labour must remain committed to putting Farage into number 10. That must remain our sole focus".
There's a disturbing trend - Corbyn applies here too - of ppl positioning themselves as 'allies' for simply not wanting ppl yelling "tr*nny!" at us & attacking us in the streets. Politely removing our rights is fine, if done w/ "dignity & respect". So basically labour's position.
He has a track record of saying he supports us while refusing to back our actual rights. He specialises in Labour style empty "dignity & respect" comments. Not saying for a second that qualifies as transphobia, more I think his 'support' is around not liking us being openly abused.
And a happy "Tossing out the TERFS" day to you as well! While It's a shame to see Mothin Ali show support for MPs advocating for segregation after voting closes, it's notable that pretty much all candidates who had outright transphobic positions lost.
He's careful w/his language, but we've all heard this shit a million times before haven't we.
This is him actively trying to come across as supportive. Note how he totally dodges saying if he things trans women are women. Note how he - quite subtly - offers the 'your existence is a belief ppl might politely disagree over framing'. www.instagram.com/p/DMvb-tUBDXI/
I knew some shit would find its way into the trifle.
He's full of the same kind of "dignity & respect" bullshit Labour are. The blunt fact is he does not support our rights, he just doesn't think we should be verbally abused & physically attacked.
Green Party elect Zack Polanski as their new leader by a fucking landslide
And before you say Corbyn, he's not our ally. In response to the SC judgement rolling our rights back over 20yrs he put out 1 post w/the same kind of 'be kind' bullshit we hear from labour. He's said *not one word* about our basic right of recognition being removed. The guy's a hypocritical wanker.
I do get where you're coming from, but we're sick of having to constantly try to justify our existence & beg for it to be tolerated while we watch our rights being actively stripped away. Zarah S is the only MP in YP who's an ally. It's not worth our time.
What the fuck. What does he 'get' exactly? What possible problem could somebody have with their daughter walking past a hotel that happens to be housing some foreign nationals unless they're a fucking racist? Never thought I'd live to see an openly far right Labour PM.
The that would not help trans ppl. Just take a look at this. Asked if trans women are women, he just avoids the question & talks about everyone respecting each other in a general way b/c we have common enemies. His position doesn't seem to me very far from Hussain's www.instagram.com/reel/DMvb-tU...
...If ppl don't understand that already, they're not going to.
It seems increasingly clear to me the only organising that's now worth doing is organising ourselves to look after each other until or unless such a time arises cis supremacism falls out of fashion. One thing I'm not doing is wasting my time trying to convince ppl I deserve rights too...
Your Party - new darlings of the left - managing to be significantly more reactionary social conservative than Theresa May in 2017 What a fucking joke.
"It's a different kind of party. Unless you're trans. In which case it's the exact same kind of party where you're regarded as inherently subhuman, your human rights eternally contingent in a way your cis overlords would never accept applied to themselves."
I'm sick to death of being expected to grovel to cis people. "Please sir, show mercy, just be a little less bigoted, I'll be good, of course I'll vote for you kind sir". Fuck that. If Your Party needs trans ppl to beg for our human rights to be taken srsly, it isn't worth shit to begin with.
I'm sick of hearing about how we just have to sit there & listen to people being openly transphobic. If you have people openly spewing transphobia, then don't expect trans people to want to have anything to do with you.
It's just going to be a load of cis people 'debating' whether e should be allowed any rights or not. Again. Fuck that. You start as you mean to go on. They're starting with open bigotry being seen as perfectly acceptable. How's that different to Labour, Tories or Reform?
Thing is, if you do unsubscribe you can't even let them know it's because of transphobia.
* Offer only applies to cis people. Your Party should not be construed as being in any way your political home if you are trans.
Judith Butler is, as they normally are, right on the money with this. The first few sentences hit particularly hard.
Only if we don't agree to be segregated. For that is the path to sanity. Apparently.
Openly supporting trans toilet bans. Honestly fuck this party, they're starting out absolutely no different to Labour. It's notable Corbyn has been extremely chummy with him while issuing no statement contradicting him.
Please don't react to this outrage clickbait by clicking the link. Anyone who kills animals for fun is sick in the head & that's all there is to it.
Absolutely no point wasting time on scum like you.
Here's one that definitely needs adding bsky.app/profile/save...
Without a stable gender binary patriarchy becomes impossible. Helen Joyce once said 'trans activists' want to "break absolutely everything". And she's kinda right. Trans ppl do break everything. That needs to be broken. And we can't have that.
Mine never replies either. I keep writing though. At least once a month. And trying to meet him. Hounding our MPs relentlessly is one thing we can all keep doing that doesn't overall take that much time.
Write to him, attend his surgeries, hold the wanker to account.
Your party but not *your* party.
We need to make a fuss & never stop making a fuss. We need them to realise we will *never* shut up go away like the transphobes say we will. Getting to see my MP is like trying to get an audience w/the pope. But I keep asking & have written to him at least 7 times since April. And I won't stop.
It would help if Labour didn't openly stand for transphobia, racism & collusion with genocide. Why the fuck would anybody to the left of Hitler vote Labour after a year of Starmer? That's the real question. It's a vile, disgusting party of bigotry.
Listen David I've spent all summer outside hotels getting physically attacked and called a "faggot" and worse by the people you're talking about trying to win over, so if I was an Etonian, Oxford-educated barrister and "socialist" I'd maybe sit this out and leave it to the people at the sharp end.
Yeah same here (well in one specific area). There's a stretch of road on the way to work I'll now forever think of as being Fascist Alley.
Once you start thinking you have to tolerate & accept fascism as mainstream opinion, you're capitulating to it. These ppl won't stop. They will only get more & more extreme. That includes mainstream politicians. Look at how they're now actively persecuting trans ppl & that's seen as just normal.
As a trans person who's endured years of transphobia being totally mainstream while hearing ppl say we have to listen to transphobes & engage w/them politely on their level I can state w/100% confidence you're incredibly naive. Just b/c fascism is now mainstream, it doesn't stop being fascism.
My medical record says I'm female. A mismatch is far more likely if I say I'm male. It's another ludicrous aspect of this system.
This is I what I don't understand - presumably by November the interim guidance will no longer be relevant?
Having been personally assured by the NI Justice Minister that this would not happen, it is hard to escape the conclusion that she either lied to us or is so naive she believed, yet again, what she was told by proven liars.
I've heard anecdotally that if you misgender yourself to 111 but have changed over your record it can cause issues locating your medical record (mismatched sex) which is potentially very dangerous, particularly if requiring urgent care. Idk if this is an established issue tho.
I would answer that question as "female" ( unless perhaps it was directly medically relevant). They'll never change it if we cooperate with transphobic framings. Only if they realise we won't play along.
"2.8 million trans people are expendable. They should sacrifice themselves for cis ppl's benefit". If anyone here has a fascist mindset, it's very clearly you.
What this is really about is you thinking a Trump govt isn't in *your* interest so you think trans ppl should take one for the team & have a Democrat shitting all over them just for your benefit.
And why in God's name would an "AI bot" be calling out transphobia? who produces these AI bots of yours? Is this The Trans Agenda? Idiot.
He is on video saying he now doubts ADULTS should transition - not until they're over 25 (they all start with kids & the age just keeps going up. He wants to ban us from sports, which is again how they all start - it's premised on an outright denial of who we are. Fuck that transphobic wanker.
Here in the UK, Labour politicians talk about treating us with "dignity & respect" at the exact time their rolling our rights back decades. It's the policies that count. And Newsom advocates transphobic ones.
Gavin Newsom wants to take away trans ppl 's medical care & civil rights. That's why we don't like him. A very, very evil person doesn't stop a somewhat less evil person from nevertheless being evil. Don't support any evil. It only gets you evil. Aim for good. Hope that helps.
If we had a serious govt - & serious politicians, not like Jess Phillips - we'd be hearing "The Tories fucked this shit royally by starving our vital services of cash. We're turning that around right now! By making millionaires pay like 1p more tax on every pound. We've got this!"
But hang on - increase in domestic homicides? Abuse victims being let down? Wasn't domestic abuse services as well as mental health, drug & alcohol etc etc etc services being starved of funding under successive govts - no siree. This questionnaire is wrong. That's the culprit!
Idk what other questions workers are supposed to ask, particularly as abuse victims might only have a short window in which to talk to someone. Have they threatened to kill you? Is there physical violence? Is it getting worse? - seems sensible to me. steps2wellbeing.co.uk/_document/co...
She is. Mind you, tbf she does hit the nail on the head here w/o meaning to. Services are stretched to breaking point. All the questionnaires in the world won't make services be able to respond promptly & effectively when they've no fucking money.
This is kind of a weird non story Phillips has fed into - as the article touches on nobody should be assssing risk as a tickbox exercise. Such tools prompt questions being asked which workers should then use to further explore issues & then use professional judgement make decisions.
1/ Fair enough you added trans pride after ppl pointed it out. No evident concern about the biggest domestic human rights rollback in living memory 2/ If you were our friend you'd be speaking out against our rights being removed, healthcare being attacked & us being continually demonised.
This is fantastic work! Ofc the govt will effectively throw this in the bin. But it's there. It's documented. Researchers will be able to look back & see what they ignored. Feel kinda proud my response is in there somewhere.
Another facet of two tier Britain is completely ignoring the biggest human rights rollback in living memory, that being enacted against trans ppl. Ignoring 100,000 ppl marching in London for trans ppl. You're a participant in what you claim to be against.
For George, some people's human rights are more invisible than others He doesn't realise that if you regard some ppls rights as unimportant & expendable, you're laying the groundwork for the kind of society he purports to be against.
And 100,000 people marching for Trans rights doesn’t even make the post… …so I might be holding the bouquets and noting who “counts” is political *all* the way down: