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Apr 7

Cis allies, I need you to write to your MP and ask them to vote against snatching human rights away from trans people. Do it today. Here’s my letter. Don’t copy it. Write your own. theyworkforyou.com

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Apr 7

Letter to my MP. Not much hope bc he’s a Tory who voted against same-sex marriage, but perhaps he’ll at least feel bad when he votes to snatch my human rights away. I hope it fucking haunts him tbh.

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Dear [MP’s name redacted],

I am constituent of yours and I am transgender. My existence is becoming increasingly precarious. On 5th April 2023, the EHRC met with members of the LGBTQ community and admitted that their position on the definition of “biological sex” is out of step with equivalent bodies in other countries and that, if their recommendations to—for example—forcing trans people to use the public bathroom for the birth-assigned gender—they would effectively force us out of participation in society. You can see a transcript here: https://jane-67706.medium.com/gender-the-ehrc-explain-a17cd4332b5

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I have worked all my adult lift in education. I am 38. I am good at my job and I care about my students. I am a peripatetic music teacher and I visit in several primary schools each week and teach over 300 children in a mixture of classes of 30, small groups and 1:1. I am out as trans and nonbinary in all my workplaces. I came out at work several years ago with support from my managers and trade union because the Equality Act protects me. Being out not only adds to the plethora of different types of people my students knowingly encounter, learn to tolerate, and have as their role models, but it makes me a better teacher as I am no-longer having to divert part of my attention to hiding who am while I work. I am genuinely afraid that we will come to a point soon where I, and other transgender people, are barred from schools, or forced to go stealth if we can: a new Section 28 (I lived through the first one as a queer child and I still carry the mental scars). So

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and I still carry the mental scars). So much so that I have begun to work a second job in sexual health outreach on a 0 hours contract so that should it become unviable for me to continue working with children, I will at least have some income.

I am afraid for myself and my trans community. What are you going to do to resist the attempts to scapegoat and demonise us? How are you going to resist legislation to force us out of public toilets, out of schools and into the closet? Can I count on you to represent your marginalised constituents and advocate for us, or will you throw me and my trans siblings under the bus? Need I remind you that Brianna Ghey was murdered because of the transphobia whipped up by the media and the Government? Failure to stand with us actively kills us.

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I do hope you find it in your heart to see me as a human, just as you are, and defend my rights. Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

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gale na

@poisonjr

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full time jobs fail to consider my need to completely withdraw from society every 4 months and becom,e an animal

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Jaela

@gillianxmargo

a rainbow shirt in target won’t turn your kids gay but gillian anderson as dana scully will

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kel

@sunbeamednines

a rainbow shirt in target won’t turn your kids gay but vera farmiga in hawkeye will

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This latest batch of 1000 is almost gone. Please consider donating to keep the project running. Libby@thisisbiscuit.com

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Jun 15

Look what's back in stock! Want to cover up transphobic stickering in your area of the UK? We'll send you a batch of these for free with absolutely no strings.

A batch of 1000 #BWithTheT and #LGBWithTheT stickers

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When

reject your event application once, that is unfortunate. When

@theroyalparks

reject your application three years running, that is #biphobia. We want to hold a wholesome picnic for fewer than 130 people. We don't have stalls or equipment.

X626@mastodon.social

@im_so_childish

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Me wondering where the cool bi events are. Oh. We're not allowed them. Gotcha. 😒

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When @theroyalparks reject your event application once, that is unfortunate. When @theroyalparks reject your application three years running, that is #biphobia. We want to hold a wholesome picnic for fewer than 130 people. We don't have stalls or equipment.

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Big “Think the children!!” moral panic vibes going on here. Thanks for reminding me I’m a pariah

@theroyalparks

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Love to be sexualised and declared “not suitable” to exist in a public space because I happen to be bi,

@theroyalparks

😏

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The email strongly implies a gathering of bisexual people is "not suitable". There is no way on God's Green Earth that is not biphobia.

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Municipal Dreams

@MunicipalDreams

Jun 16

When working-class teens were enabled to aspire to a career in the arts (from the Guardian obituary of Glenda Jackson) ...

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Chuck Tingle

@ChuckTingle

Jun 16

trotting side by side we go, and into sleep away we steal, 'what did you learn?' the sandman asks i smile and tell him 'love is real'

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kivan

@KivanBay

Help David support his family, organized by David Reeves

This is a big ask, but David has been trying to raise money to take care of his family and investigate a possible elder abuse case against his grandfather. He's still about $2k away from his goal.

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Hello, my name is David and I am asking for you to help me to help my family. Last Dec… David Reeves needs your support for Help David support his family

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Themperor Kennedy

@kennedytcooper

Share the non-binary lion to make a transphobe cry

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Popuru

@popuru_

last year I watched too much scooby-doo

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Northumbria IWW

@NorthumbriaIWW

THERE IS POWER IN AN OCEAN POWER IN THE SEA POWER IN THE FINS OF THE ORCAS

A good tweet by Lauren McKenzie with a picture of orcas, captioned 'Researchers spot rate sight: orcas in New England waters, along with dozens of other whales, dolphins'

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beautiful island boy

@seafoamghost

gang this has just £797 to go, & the surgery is a week today!! please share/donate if you can, i finally get paid tomorrow so i can donate too!! nobody should have to worry about fundraising whilst recovering from major surgery so anything you can send over would be amazing 🏳️‍⚧️✨

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ambulocetus coded

@gullbones

9 days!!!! 9 days!!!!! ahhhhhhhh!!! gofundme.com/f/sals-top-sur pls donate and RT as possible pals!!

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Darren Chetty is away

@rapclassroom

If you want to understand bullying in schools you shouldn’t just look at how children behave. You need to look at how teachers treat children, how senior leaders treat teachers, and how OFSTED treat headteachers.

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This is some uncanny valley shit.

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TrekCore.com

@TrekCore

.@EXO6Collectible beams Tom Paris in to expand its line of 1:6-scale #StarTrek Voyager figures More details: bit.ly/3Nt2QN8 @robertdmcneill

Miriam Margolyes’ Vogue photos are so joyous and silly. She looks glorious and I love them.

zane

@catgrubs

you know what that means

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[CW homophobia in image] I’d love to talk abt how we’re seeing a rise in gonorrhoea & chlamydia & one of the factors *might* (I said *might* & there are other factors too) be that people on PrEP are ditching condoms, but it’s very nuanced and this bigot’s tirade is not the place

Screenshot tweet reads: “Oh well then, I guess the last 30 years of gay men getting and dying from aids far higher than the rest of the population is irrelevant. Just ignore all the modern STDs: Gonorreah, chlamydia, and who could forget MonkeyPox 🤣(gay men sure have become more sexually responsible).”

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Worm.

Trapper, a black cat lies on a striped rug with his back legs sticking up and his middle twisted so that his front half is on its side. He is looking at the camera.

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GMI Partnership

@GMIPartnership

When was your last #HIVtest Camden? If it's been a while, call to the #OasisSportsCentre for our #HIVtesting service today from 4-7pm (13th June). Drop by for a free test, to chat to us about PrEP, or to pick up some

@doitldn

condom packs!

@CamdenCouncil

@Better_Camden

Hi,

@unamccormack

. You’re following a transphobe btw.

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Screenshots of three tweets from John McKissock:

“If, as the Chinese proverb goes, ‘It is the beginning of wisdom to call things by their proper name’ the world has got very, very dumb all of a sudden.”

I was not assigned anything at birth, and I have been an assignee on a handful of occasions since.”

“The more the world seems to learn about the term ‘gender identity’ the more it seems to forget about the term ‘laughing stock’.”

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Unhinged AO3 tags

@unhingedA03

Automated

the problem is that i dont remember what i wrote and im not going to proofread either

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Mpox Vaccine Pop Up : 13th June Tickets - - OutSavvy

MPox vaccine pop-up clinic in Bethnal Green 3-6pm tomorrow (13th June). You need to book a free ticket via the link. Deadline for the first vax is this Friday, 16th June and for the second it’s the end of July.

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Looking to get your first Mpox vaccine? Waiting on your second shot? The Mpox vaccination programme is coming to an end this summer, and the deadline for getting your first shot will be 16th June....

The MPOX vaccine is also for fsswers of all genders, get jabbed & get your week in order! 💉✨

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The Love Tank

@TheLoveTankCIC

We’ve got a busy week ahead: First, if you’re in or close to East London, there’s a MPOX vaccine pop-up taking place.

Tues 13 June 3-6pm

Pre-booking essential

DM for details

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Of all the people who’ve been crying loudly in national media about how single-grade Ofsted results are harmful to head teachers, *not one* has added “and single-grade exam results for our students”. Not one. Our attitude to our students shows in what we say and it stinks.

We have to ask ourselves that question and reflect honestly. The answer is really very shameful.

Do we, as institutions and those complicit in/with the institutions, see our students as people—real, actual people—or do we see them as numbers, problems to be solved, empty vessels to be moulded into what’s most convenient for the smooth running of the institution?

What it comes down to is:

We expect students to suck up and cope with treatment—denial of toilet breaks, extreme policing of appearance, single-grade judgements that can have ramifications for the rest of their lives, for example—we don’t expect adults working in the same schools to tolerate.

But if we only do it for schools and their senior leadership, while keeping the single-grade judgement for students, then it shines a light on what’s really so very rotten at the core of education:

You want to tear down and rebuild the whole system to make it fairer and more reflective of the individuals involved? Good. I want that too.

Going to re-state my unpopular Ofsted opinion given the discourse in today’s news media: If a single-word judgement is unfair for a school, then a single letter or number judgement (eg, SAT, GCSE, A level, T level, etc exams) is unfair for our students.

Luke Smith

@l_smith9419

Prep tablets in my crystal decanter is HIGH camp.

daily bones

@mccoylovebot

DeForest Kelley passed away 24 years ago today. He's deeply missed. 🤍

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Help Ace and Shi Relocate, organized by Shiloh Sella

So a lot has happened since the start of our little journey to try and escape Florida. I was hospitalized, my mother-in-law died and we had to travel to New York. We did however get to see a couple places we might call home while here. Thank you to all.❤️

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Hi, we are Ace and Shiloh, a married trans couple who currently live in Florida. We were hopin… Shiloh Sella needs your support for Help Ace and Shi Relocate

Greg Owen

@Greg0wen