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Here is a letter you should sign, led by intersex campaigners openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. I am intersex – and did not find out until I was 26! Intersex people are also impacted by the decision in FWS, but this is much less talked about. Intersex people continue to be subjected to non-consensual medical interventions. Intersex rights are human rights.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

The news from Brazil and Serbia are great and show that you don't defeat the far right by copying it or trying to appeal to their supporters You do it by being uncompromising, showing the danger they pose and offering something different to the many crises people suffer from

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Trans people knew EXACTLY what Burnham would be like, even before he won his by-election. But, of course, we were told by ‘allies’ that it was far more important that he won, because Reform would do much worse to us if they got in. The thing is, we can’t see the difference.

Key findings: this is what @lucympowell.bsky.social is doing to trans children. She is a bully who is deliberately and needlessly harming CHILDREN. She should be removed, she is unfit to be Education Secretary or to work with any children.

I think anyone who sees the slogan “protect the dolls” as offensive admits to being someone who wants trans people dead and should be treated accordingly.

Today, this week, always: Fight this hate with the power you have, whatever that is. Fight loudly. Work quietly. Do it without credit. Who the fuck cares if it’s helping people? There are a lot of us. We have power when we work together. That’s what they’re afraid of.

This case is hard. The system has shown that it’s broken. Demonstrating that the U.K. has breached its human rights obligations could be the bigger win: bsky.app/profile/jess...

I’m a solicitor. I’m doing what I can to stop this and protect people. I’ve not asked for public help because I don’t need it (yet). My law, my expertise? Isn’t grand cases. Others do have those targets. Read their arguments and support them when they make sense to you. I do.

The more, varied, legal attacks on this transphobic, hate the better. Especially where they don’t use community resources (which are precious). If you think you have an argument? Check it. Get advice. Use it. If you don’t? Support those that do.

Particularly worthy of attention because she specifies it was a mixed emergency ward, so there is no claim to be made that it's about protecting women's facilities. It's not even a claim that trans people are their birth sex. It is, instead a demand that trans people not be in hospital AT ALL.

No one seems to care, but these were the UK's submissions about hospital use in I v UK in *2002*. I get that the UKSC is big on reading ECtHR jurisprudence as narrowly as possible, but it really does strain credulity to think there is no Art 8 violation .

If Labour keep all the terrible stuff that the Tories did & improve nothing (which is the case, for instance they have done nothing to even begin rolling back austerity), whilst making other things worse, then yes Labour are worse; its not just about what they initiate but what they choose to keep.

Tonia’s take is quite amazing in just how blatant it is. The logic is literally “we will be bigoted to you so you should be kept away from me cause my bigotry is normal and actually its quite unpleasant for me to have to feel my bigotry by your presence”

what's wild about this is there's no "women's spaces" pretence—she's objecting to a trans person being in a non-gendered emergency room & when called on it confirms that's what she meant

Just want to remind everyone that Tonia asked wacky 5G conspiracy questions in the House.

It would IMO be better if the Labour Party - the best, most liberal, nicest government we will ever be permitted to have - was not determinedly on the same page as actual Donald Trump, telling members of the public to fuck off.

It would IMO be better if MPs had not utterly deranged their own brains on Twitter dot com, wildly radicalising themselves and each other.

for all her bleating to the contrary rowling obviously does care about her reputation. that's what this propaganda film from the bbc is really about. if you listen to terfs they are *always* complaining about how ppl don't like them. it's their biggest peeve. they want to be bigoted *and* liked.

Prominent ‘gender critical’ transphobe in UN called out for “proximity to US conservative groups [ADF]”… “Reem Alsalem, has taken views that regressively depart from UN human rights doctrine, displaying how an ideologically skewed mandate can undermine the consensus of UN human rights bodies.”…

'jk rowling is just protecting women and girls from trannies' is functionally no different from 'tommy robinson is just protecting women and girls from immigrants' it presupposes that trans ppl, or immigrants, are inherent dangers to women and girls and neither demographic actually is it's bigotry

Seems worth reminding people that the BBC very much have form for this: www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Yet again, Labour showing itself to be the single most racist and hostile anti-asylum government in living memory. It can take decades, if ever, for refugees to be safe returning to countries they fled, and that's when those countries are stable which Syria is not www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Not for the first time, I’d ask: what does it mean, if the press keep running campaigns claiming that country’s most horrific racists and bigots are the Green Party, the Labour left, Amnesty International, Stonewall, the police (I know) and Gary Lineker? Look around you. Does that feel right?

Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.

Just a reminder - the previous government forced trans & gender-questioning youth who are under 18 to go through the CAMHS service (with equally long waiting lists) before being referred onto youth gender clinics - effectively hiding the numbers of trans+ kids waiting for CAMHS (and any deaths)!

The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK

As an objective observer, it’s clear that Zack has transformed the Greens from a party that sheepishly sits on the sidelines offering practically nothing, to one that ignites national debates and influences government. The Greens would be mad to change leader, stark raving mad.

If the Greens has lost Holborn & St Pancras by one vote, the media would have called it a “crushing defeat”. The media is not neutral in its reporting, it is consistently and deliberately trying to destroy the Green Party because we are a threat to their power.

The thing is, the press really will get rid of Polanski eventually, just by all screaming in unison until everyone gets sick of it and just wants the hate and bullshit to end. They are exercising their veto and they know they only need to stick at it until it finally works.