You’re a star - well done

You’re a star!

England fans facing hugely inflated prices to get to New Jersey's MetLife Stadium for World Cup games The cost of getting the train from New York to the venue, where the Three Lions play Panama in their final group game, will be £111 - nearly 12 times the usual fare.

Dear fellow Brits, from this Brit-American:

Please don't come here. It's dangerous. You may be targeted, arrested and unlawfully detained - likely courtesy of ICE - without access to legal representation.

I've told my family to stay away.

Please boycott America. 🇬🇧💙

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Or it’s a ‘power pose’ - beloved by politicians?

Two doors - the ‘male’ entrance is wide and square like a door. The ‘woman’ entrance is a cutout of a very thin long haired woman in heels.

This cartoon by Naked Pastor is SO GOOD. Sums up what I’ve been saying for ages about what happens when you start gatekeeping womanhood (and spoiler alert it’s the opposite of feminism).

And £100s of millions of christo-fascist money from the USA

Same in Leeds

The terfs never turn out in the kind of numbers that trans people and allies can. Terfs are the minority with a voice magnified by money

Sorry more typo than type 🙄

I’d love to see the evolution fence they have to back up their claim that trans women are a threat to cis women. Data. Cold.Hard.Data

Honestly, it should frighten the fuck out of every freedom-loving person that the entire institutional apparatus of a country - media, government, science - can be so easily turned against a tiny minority of innocent people. Because they can do it just as easily to you.

What’s behind the term ‘gender-questioning’? The term ‘gender-questioning’ is the latest way to describe trans children, but it is not correct and should be discontinued

My article in NW Bylines about the Starmer government’s deployment of the misleading term “gender questioning” for trans kids.

Trans kids need help resisting this loaded term. IMO it is being used to open the door to what I characterize as a government policy of “wraparound conversion therapy”

I guess they have so many they wouldn’t worry about a few closing/moving away from the organisation

Do we know how many that is now? Such a shame this has happened - I used to be a member of my local WI but work took me away so much I could no longer attend. I think if I was still there they would support me!

UK to give £380m grant to Tata battery factory in Somerset Investment in plant due to supply batteries to Jaguar Land Rover expected to boost economic growth and secure jobs

Corporate Welfare.

UK Govt to give £380m grant to Tata battery factory in Somerset.

The Govt isn't taking an equity stake in return, won't receive any dividends. It isn't a loan and isn't repayable.

Political parties demonize human recipients of welfare but hand free money to corporations.

But a future government can easily add Gender defined now which will eventually become (assigned at birth)

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

J.K. Rowling Escapes  Insane Asylum LONDON—Urging the public to remain calm as authorities worked to recapture the mentally disturbed individual, city officials confirmed Monday that novelist J.K. Rowling had escaped from a London insan...

Terrified witnesses said this person sprinted into open traffic and jumped onto the hoods of vehicles, screaming, “This highway is for biological females only!” and “You’ll never be a biological woman! You’re a car!”

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Starmer used to say it - and look where that got us :-/

“Three funerals, three transgender people, one week”: An urgent call to protect trans lives “Visibility is not only about celebration, but it is also about what remains invisible. There were no headlines about those three funerals. No national reckoning”

“Three funerals, three transgender people, one week”: An urgent call to protect trans lives

“[Suicide] is not inherent to being trans. It correlates strongly with rejection, discrimination, delayed access to care and sustained hostility.

The risk is not identity. The risk is the environment.”

Do we know how many have now closed?

Anyone fancy starting a branch of the Irish, Belgian Australian, NZ, Canadian or French… Girlguides in every town or city in the UK…?

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️

It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

JFW! Ask a teacher Bridge!

Too much homework,
Constantly revising for tests,
Dull, scripted lessons,
Parents working all hours,
No future; high housing costs, dead-end jobs, cost of university fees, Nowhere to play or meet friends,
Overworked teachers…

Home - Not in our name Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community

Transphobes do not represent the overwhelming majority of women. The @nionwomen.bsky.social petition is to show this. They now need only just over 4,000 more signatures to make it to 100,000.

If you don’t want to be used as an excuse to take away trans people’s human rights, please sign & share

Fabulous article - 100% captures my experience working in many organisations!

UK’s Starmer is the same

His supporter would defend him saying they were 13 year old ‘women’ 🙄🙄😡

When Donald bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, you were cool with that?

When he made fun of a handicapped journalist, you were OK with that?

When he had a mob attack our capital to steal the election, you were OKwith that?

Now gasoline is kinda' expensive, you regret your vote? Really?