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We believe that the public has the right to know the consequences of this policy change. So if NHS England won’t publish the full assessment, we will. transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/10...

Paging Andy Fucking Burnham...

Is the pendulum swinging back? Not all the way back, obvs. And the Overton Window has shifted right. But...

Absolutely this. Fascist oppressors always rely on the oppressed giving up. How many transphobes have published performative media propaganda in recent years claiming the GC fight against “transgender ideology” to be “over”…? Never give up. We’re all worth fighting for & we’re still here.

Both of these results today go to show just how antifascists can mobilise. Fascists have an entire apparatus to make their victory feel inevitable. It is not. To crush hope. But hope lives on whilst we keep it alive.

This “journalist” hasn’t tweeted since June, but somehow thought this article - about a TERF in Aus vexatiously complaining about a trans doctor, who already fled the UK to escape transphobic bullying - was vital to share! 😖 Did the media learn nothing from the hounding and death of Jason Arday? 😣

As I say, all consultations are fake. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/b...

I suggest anyone thinking of voting for her ask her, her position on trans people before doing so.

Just listen to this. Then consider these polls: 76% of Jewish Israelis think there are no innocents in Gaza (Aug 2025) 82% support expelling Palestinians from Gaza (May 2025) 47% support killing all inhabitants of conquered enemy cities (May 2025)

notice how andy burnham is unwilling to do *anything* progressive or helpful in this parliament? labour have like 3 years left on the clock and he's unwilling to do anything helpful. instead we're getting more austerity, more bigotry, and more corporate entanglement in our infrastructure.

Canada: “No to Trump” Hungary: “No to Trump” Albania: “No to Trump” Serbia: “No to Trump” Brazil: “No to Trump” Britain: “Yes to Trump.” “Drill for gas. Yessir! Drill for oil. Yessir! Bomb Iran. Yessir! Join the new Gulf war. Yessir! Weapons to Israel. Yessir! Copy MAGA transphobia. Yessir…!”

This is just the same as “How dare the RNLI save migrant lives in the Channel!” But I suspect the WRN would be outraged about the RNLI doing its job too.

Meanwhile the coverage of the Lib Dems, currently with 71 MPs, remains restricted to what stunt Ed Davey has recently done, and when the Lib Dems were polling over 20%, the BBC based their non-coverage on number of MPs.

If you are a trans woman in Brazil, last night’s victory by Lula could make the difference between life and death.

This is big news. Ending the puberty-blocker ban in New Zealand is massive. It puts Cass & the entirety of Labour’s flagship anti-trans policies in doubt. Yet no mainstream media platform has even mentioned it. Indeed most alternative media, like @bylinetimes.bsky.social have failed to mention it.

For OfS read, “Every taxpayer”. Dropping fanatical anti-trans culture warriors into this pitiful governmental organization has resulted in a cost that should have been invested in improving education.

Labour now briefing young people won't get the same minimum wage uplift. Even Starmer didn't break this pledge. Workers rights mean same rights, pay & conditions, same rate for the same job. What does this Labour government have against young people? inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Perspective

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New Zealand’s High Court ruled that restrictions on new prescriptions of puberty blockers for youth with gender dysphoria were unlawful, overturning the government’s policy restricting access for trans youth #NOH8

Andy Burnham’s Labour Party is as rightwing as the MAGA Republicans in Texas when it comes to the treatment of trans kids.

Remember that claims that the so-called Tavistock “scandal” would be followed by 1000 families suing the NHS as a result Actual number in reality: 0

i think "vote dem across the board, but for the 4 very worst dems on trans rights you can leave them blank" is a reasonable position (& a reasonable compromise between vbnmw & fears about dems going full uk labour)

"A new study from political science researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that people who are more sexist are also more likely to support restrictions on trans girls and women participating in women’s sports." www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/peop...

Just weeks after Professor Jason Arday was hounded to his death, Reform UK’s branch in Oxford has invited the racist academic who led the campaign, Nathan Cofnas, to speak. Tell the education secretary to protect students and academics from hate: https://goodlaw.social/u07r

The full weight of the UK establishment - NHS, the Times, Baronesses of the House of Lords, all misrepresenting an actual full blown scandal of acute child harm. My research (with @sandraduffy.bsky.social) captures the real situation, centring patient voice journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

And Lula won anyway #PeoplePower

Another Jason Arday situation is starting to happen in front of our eyes and not even the alternative media is reporting it.

The Burnham government is happy to listen to transphobes galore but will move mountains to avoid listening to any trans people.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Many of you know I maintain a list of 32 Democrats who have embraced anti-trans policy or run ads against us. I am not even asking my readers to abstain from all 32. Some have improved, and some may not meet your line. But I ask my readers to draw a line and refuse to elect the worst among them.

I agree with this strategy of voting for Dems provided that they haven't embraced extreme anti-trans positions. and I definitely agree that Kaptur, Cuellar, & Turek have all crossed that line & I personally wouldn't vote for them

Sad news…. 😢

🚨 Cary Mitchell, Director of Strategy at Best for Britain: 👏 “Our polling shows clear support for the advantages it would bring. That’s only logical when the reciprocal benefits include opening 27 doors onto priceless opportunities for young British people"

If you thought the Conversion Practices Bill is already bad thanks to all the loopholes and allowances it provides, then don’t worry - it’s about to get worse. The Government are hearing “evidence” from anti-trans campaigners Helen Joyce, Dennis Kavanagh and the LGB Alliance this week.

Meanwhile wishy-washy Andy Burnham dithers between being his two main policies of being either… -vague, vacillating and non-committed or -hesitant, timid and indefinitely indecisive

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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