Claudia Tyler-Mae

By the way, if you're checking out my profile to see what sort of person I am... this is going to be very confusing for you.

I could really do with spending a sustained period of time not stuck in my own head. Except we can't admit we're not always serious, not always on the purity spiral, not always safe for work. That undermines the anger against the people who took away the space to be silly, weird and... human.

BTW - the reason we're hearing so much from the billionaires right now, the reason they're attacking minorities and making big threats is - they're scared. They're scared that having called us dangerous, we are going to treat them the same way. They wanted us to be scapegoats. Never forget.

This is the start of the official WBH (Week Before Halloween) where I seriously regret not having the funds to have bought a wildly over the top Halloween costume about two months ago. I'll be spending the night indoors as a sexy "woman who really needs to plan ahead".

Apparently hounding people out of existence is perfectly acceptable.

I really want a blonde wolf-cut, but I'm fairly sure it'd just make me look like a roadie for Status-Quo.

If you've spent the week with a background noise of hate, just listen to the crowd applaud at the start and after this song. Love is beautiful.

Ugh. Tired today. I get a tired head with wigs, but I like wigs so I get a tired head. Why can't someone invent hair for heads?

Give me 4 versions of you.

I don't want to wish my life away, but can we just get the midterms over with, have a global financial crash, and return to having to barter sticks for chewing gum already? All this crap is occupying way too much space in my head.

In other bad news, I've found a stash of (very) old photos. There may be scanning in the (near) future.

Bayswater appears to be a 'ground zero' for institutional transphobia.

Statement on NHS England guidance on single-sex spaces from UNISON general secretary Andrea Egan @andreaegangs.bsky.social

OK, let's start the week on a more positive note. This weekend I met a great group of trans people working to make a difference in Cambridge. That's it. That's the post. People exist and hang out without the world exploding. Sometimes that's all we need.

There's an interesting rhetorical trick being done here. "I wasn't being transphobic myself, but I was worried for my mother who might have been." Her mum will have been roughly the same as mine. They lived through the 60s and 70s. They can cope with a lot more than you'd expect.

The biggest mental harm from the recent trans policy changes in the UK is that every single news item online is followed by a mass of wildly ignorant and bigoted comments. And the mainstream media simply allow them unchecked. We're normalising bigotry, and it won't stop with trans people.

He stood before the crowd. "We cannot treat people as objects. This is..." The first bottle flew through the air and smashed against the wall behind him. Another followed. Other objects clearly brought just for the purpose flew freely from the crowd. He knew what to expect. It hurt none the less.

We have a culture of venerating billionaires, and assuming some higher motive for them - whether it's Musk "saving the planet" or Rowling "protecting women". This documentary is important - how many people will pay it real attention?

Here's your regular reminder: Throw out old makeup, particularly eye makeup like liquid eyeliner which should be thrown out after 3 to 6 months to avoid the risk of infection. In general, the rule is the more 'liquid' it is, the sooner you should replace it. #trans #crossdress #drag #makeup

I was a babe. #trans

We urgently need to speak back to the anti-trans EHRC guidance and stand firm for the rights of trans people in the arts. I'm running two in person sessions at Barbican on Oct 22nd, and two online - Nov 10th & 16th - listening, gathering data, creating a joint Call to Action - will you come?

OK we've re-litigated the whole case against the famous fantasist and bigoted author. Those of us who have been forced to pay attention to her tantrums inevitable know the deal and have kept the receipts. So I'm not going to waste more time on her for now. We'll see how this documentary pans out.

Interesting... this reply is visible to me, but checking from another account, it doesn't appear at all.

Well.. that's certainly been a weekend.

Release the Epstein files.

Chat, the tech bros are not OK.

Chatting with friends about work and honestly it's a mess out there. Trans fiction told us the bosses would insist the role was for slightly goth women only, and came with a uniform and a full makeover. Reality says it's a six stage AI interview process for corporate busy work. We need better.

Surely @labour4transrights.bsky.social should be posting this, and chasing @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social for a response? Regardless of the political climate, denying or delaying care to vulnerable minorities is inexcusable. transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/10...