Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️

Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️‍⚧️

@ashleigh.whatthetrans.com

Trans, femme, co-founder of @whatthetrans.com, fighter of MS, wheelchair user, player of TTRPG's, Lego enthusiast, solarpunk, bassist, theremin player and Green. 💚 she/her.

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"For years, trans people have used wards in line with their gender identity, under the NHS’s own guidance – without any harm. The NHS was built on the promise that everyone counts. With this guidance, it has decided that trans people certainly don’t – and some of us will pay for it with our lives."

metro.co.ukThe new NHS guidance for trans people could put lives at riskThe NHS has decided to make it even worse for trans people – by forcing them to use wards based on their ‘biological sex’.

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Grotesquely cruel decision. And utterly dehumanising reporting by the BBC. Trans rights are human rights and access to healthcare should be entirely non negotiable.

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btw NHS England no longer exists as a quango. It has been merged with the DHSC for more than a year now. Don’t let them evade responsibility. Headlines should read Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper order segregation.

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Reem Alsalem, who is both a woman and a Muslim, is prepared to align with Christian Nationalism which abhors everything she is, just because they hate trans women as much as her. GC women will bring about the downfall of everything other women have achieved on women’s rights and body autonomy.

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.”…

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A cyberattack is turning fridges off in French Supermarkets. There is a really easy solution to this, take all these appliances off the internet. Nobody wants these 'features', nobody uses them. Get rid of them, then it is impossible to hack them.

A bang-on-the-money thread from Evan. AI is poisoning our creative environment, our information environment and our literal actual environment, and it has no useful purpose! It's talked young people into suicide and makes it easy to produce CSAM with a few suggestions.

Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social

I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

But if you object to it, if you say no to the murderous plagiarism machine, you're a luddite and can be ignored. How did taking a basic moral stance become an extreme position? Honestly, I'm starting to think the luddites were on to something. If that's what they call us, let's act like it.

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I do have to question how @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social can claim she believes trans people should be treated with “dignity and respect”, seconds before saying she would ban trans women victims experiencing rape or abuse from shelters. It’s just so fucking blatantly dishonest and bigoted.

Oh but it's okay, because “They can use their own facilities." Which facilities would these be, Bridget? Do tell, We're listening. Which facilities, Bridget? Please, tell us all about these facilities that definitely exist all over the country and not just in a few select places?

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It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.

Sven-Erik Volberg@volberg.bsky.social

7-year sentence handed down to Oleg Bessedin for anti-Estonia activities. Work for russian SVR, pay the price. His handler Sergei Nalobin is, among other things, releted to Brexit campaign and arson of the home of British PM K.Starmer. news.err.ee/1610150341/7...

Here's our latest episode, there's a couple of things in it that are a bit time sensitive so I'll put those below. But enjoy the podcast!

NEW EPISODE! Moments of Euphoria In our 165th episode Flint interviews Sapling from @taplingzines.bsky.social about him and his husbands art book and Ashleigh informs about BASHBACK and PondHoppin', plus Losers Corner returns! Listen here> whatthetrans.com/ep165/

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Both of these are fantastic projects by queer creators that we wanted to shine a spotlight on. More details about each of them on their links of course but I was wondering why I'm more limited on funds this month and it's because I've backed both of these already. Support queer creators, folks!

Here's our latest episode, there's a couple of things in it that are a bit time sensitive so I'll put those below. But enjoy the podcast!

NEW EPISODE! Moments of Euphoria In our 165th episode Flint interviews Sapling from @taplingzines.bsky.social about him and his husbands art book and Ashleigh informs about BASHBACK and PondHoppin', plus Losers Corner returns! Listen here> whatthetrans.com/ep165/

Moments of Euphoria is 'an art book of trans joy & love' with a live Kickstarter campaign open til October 1st! It looks like a beautiful salve for in hard times for trans people and I can't wait to see the finished product. If you can back it, please do :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap...

kickstarter.comMoments of Euphoria: An art book of trans joy & loveThis collaborative 50+ page softcover book features illustrations of trans joy, love, and euphoria from all over the world.

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I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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yknow despite it all youve gotta hand it to ed sheeran: against all expectation, he's finally managed to create an entertaining experience

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Good plan, Australia and Canada. Huge sigh, UK. How long do we wait, how much do we lose, how stupid do we have to be?

Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org

Australia and Canada are leading the way - they are choosing closer ties with the EU. The EU is our closest partner. The UK government should put EU membership on the table. It's really a no-brainer.

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There is literally no pressure group small or mad enough that the government won't indulge them if they oppose immigration.

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I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Eye-wateringly stupid defence from Rowling’s team here - ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’ - Really? So that £70,000 towards the bathroom ban was by accident? The JKR Women’s Fund was made by an impersonator? At least have the spine to admit you want us dead

ew.comJ.K. Rowling’s rep responds to Lilly Wachowski’s accusation of ‘funding trans genocide’ (exclusive)J.K. Rowling’s representative responded to Lilly Wachowski accusing the author of ‘funding trans genocide’: ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’

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I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.

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80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.