I wrote about what I’d been reading, for the The Guardian. Now: editing’s important. I’m happy to be edited and I welcome it. But isn’t it funny how it’s always the same word that gets edited out? theguardian.com/books/2024/may…

'Silly f**got, Trix are for straights'

Margaret Killjoy 🏴 Its always weird because all the people who are like 'Hamas kills gay people' are also always just the most homophobic people.

From the Stonewall Schools report about Trans kids impacted by Transphobia - 'I was so afraid of going to teh toilets, that for about 4 years of secondary school I never used the school toilets'.'

Cunt

Happy May Day--always loved this story from 1982 about a British trans woman who was fired from her job at the General Electric Company after transitioning. Her fellow trade unionists at ASTMS rallied around her and successfully won her job back. digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/b8515n41k

assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/…
Well this is quite something.

From Assigned Media (Evan Urquhart)

Unsure what this has to do with the protestors currently being arrested, tear-gassed and beaten by police

I’m terrified. I’m wholly terrified.

The government have now moved to remove my from the spaces I’ve been using for years. To report businesses that support me to the state.

What era do we live in? Do you not see creeping authoritarianism. attitude.co.uk/news/kemi-bade…

On the up side it's hard to launch a successful mccarthyite purge on your way out of government.

Are you now or have you ever been a supporter of trans people? Kemi Badenoch wants to know.

LBC, Leading Britain's Conversation, but only if you talk about the right things...

Every trans person I know who dares to be online at the moment is getting wild amounts of abuse and it’s being enabled by the media and politicians. At best they treat us as a “culture war issue” or say we’ve gone too far

No peace for the state kidnappers

A pernicious misrepresentation of the truth. The well documented truth is the very opposite. There is evidence Trans children are suffering from debilitating UTIs due to fear of using bathrooms. Many Trans children aren't in school due to state level Transphobia from the minister

CALL-OUT: we really need more people to support at Eaton House reporting centre, Hounslow.

Numbers are low. Those reporting are at risk.

DM us if you’re en route. We can put you in touch with folks on the ground.

📍Eaton House, 581 Staines Road, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW4 5DL.

On Monday a former NSA employee was sentenced for attempting to sell Top Secret United States documents to the Russian Federation.

His plot was foiled when he tried to sell the documents to an undercover FBI Agent.

He was sentenced to 21 years in prison
justice.gov/opa/pr/former-…

SUPPORT NEEDED: Large police numbers at Eaton House.

Comrades are resisting immigration detention NOW and need support on the ground.

Head over now if you can! 🚨

📍Eaton House, 581 Staines Road, Hounslow, TW4 5DL.

BRING: phone chargers, masks.

4 years on, there are still Zero Trans people working in senior roles in British TV. (BBC, ITV, Sky, C4, Paramount, UKTV). Out of 300,000 roles. ZERO Trans people. (Diamond, The 6th Cut, 2023)