After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.

At least hate someone for the right reasons, jfc

Happy birthday! Couldn't have happened to a nicer person, your music keeps inspiring so many people I know

Are there not specific exemptions if the video is only shared between the participants in the video and the video was depicting consensual acts?

That's not funny, I was excited to see the spreadsheet :/

The last 24 hours have shown what many have said for a long time.

Britain's role as an accomplice to Trump's America must end.

We must urgently decouple from a rogue US & seek security with allies closer to home. That starts with suspension of the US bombers on British soil.

Selling your soul to cthulhu for [1] succesful transformation. I see how it is 😅😂

Ego death??! That extreme?

I *love* women's sport

And I am forever grateful for the parts of women's sports that love me back

Trans pride flag banner with blood-red painting spelling out "NHS KILLS TRANS KIDS"

Anyways, solidarity with the trans community in India. You all deserve so much better 💔

The new trans bill in India takes away the right to self identify gender identity, delegitimises trans people and strips them of their fundamental rights. It medicalises identity and criminalises community care. It is completely inhumane and unconstitutional.

a bit about the recent anti-trans bill passed in both the houses of Indian parliament:
this bill is an amendment to the 2019 Transgender People (Protection of Rights) Act of 2019 which - though not free of flaws - was a great leap for trans rights in India, and was a result of years of activism.

Wading into the Harry Potter discourse to remind you that India just passed a disastrous bill that removes the right to self identification of gender identity, despite vehement opposition from the trans community.

This is a workers' rights crisis. Outdated workplace regulations are becoming tools of exclusion. Trans+ people are being sent home from their jobs, unsure when, or how, they can return.

We are facing a workers' rights crisis for our community, and we need your help.

Outdated workplace regulations, last updated in the early 90s, are now being interpreted as requiring the exclusion and outing of trans+ people in the workplace.

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A statement on the IOC's decision to reintroduce mandatory sex testing for women. Please share widely. Alt text follows in the following posts.

There was a real reason sex-testing was dropped from the olympics in the first place. And it wasn't due to transgender people...

Now we are back in the dark ages with invasive genetic tests that risk outing cis women as being unknowingly intersex

Although this IOC ban is a ban in professional sports, I am worried about the effect it will have on trans inclusion within governing sports bodies.
Increasingly, bans trans sports bans are having effects all the way down to grassroot sports. For excluded trans people, this is heartbreaking

The reality is, sports as a whole is mainly about getting exercise while binding with other people. The friendships I've made through football have been life-changing. Only a very select few will ever make it pro, but that doesn't stop millions of people enjoying playing sports

If trans women and girls were playing football at the same rate as cisgender women and girls, we would have had upwards of 5000 registered trans players with the FA in the UK. Instead we had ~20.
And it's similar for other sports.
One starts to question what the point of recreational sport even is

I was part of a group of ~20 football players that got banned from playing recreational women's football by the FA last year. Despite already having played for over a year, and despite the FA having assessed that I posed no threat, and had no competitive advantage

I *am* worried about trans athletes too, but less on the professional level, and more on the grassroot/recreational level. Recreational sports participation for transgender women is extremely low － this is true for trans women even before they transition

I am not even all that worried about professional trans athletes with regards to the SRY-gene-based ban from the Olympics. I worry about all the many intersex/DSD women who are caught up in this. Historically, invasive sex tests based on genetics have led to suicides

With today's IOC decision to test based on presence of SRY genes in female athletes, it's worth revisiting this article about the researcher who discovered the SRY gene.

Despite claiming otherwise, this ban in unscientific and intrusive

The focus, as usual, will be on trans athletes here to get buy in from everyone but the real impact will be on all female athletes and will disproportionately fall on intersex athletes. It's going to be a horror show. I expect legal challenges will eventually overturn this but it will take decades.

the quoted article here is a pretty gross example of the institutional anti-trans bias of papers like the Guardian! it uncritically accepts the IOC's "inherent advantage" and "scientific consensus" framing despite the fact that recent meta-analyses have found little to no advantage

Also, we are back to regular #transphobiathursdays scheduling now it seems. Last year, it was practically a new ban every thursday (including the FA ban on trans-inclussion in women's football. Note also the timing right before Trans Day of Visibility

I'm not terribly surprised, yet dumbfounded by this decision to do a universal IOC ban on trans women in women's sports, especially given olympic sports as of late has included sports such as breakdancing 🤦🏻‍♀️

Fair enough

When all is said and done, I still do appreciate the fact that LibDems supports transgender people more than the likes of Labour or the Tories/Reform

It feels like, to LibDems, transphobia is both vitriolic enough that the party is scared to openly support transgender people (including support after the SC ruling), yet not a serious enough issue that the party wants to help change the current deathspiral this country has taken on trans rights