Today's no-nuance hot take is: pushy, aggressive sales tactics exist in the same continuum as rapey pickup artist strategies.

At this point the only reason to call it the Labour Party is it lasts too long, hurts like hell, and people keep popping in and out to check on your genitals.

Looking critically at autism research: ‘We have to get away from us-and-them thinking’ Autism research is at times saturated with implicit values, norms and possible prejudices. Researchers should be more aware of this, says development psychologist Carolien Rieffe. She advocates Critic...

#INSAR2026 relevant: Autism researchers need to be aware of their assumptions about autistic people as "them," & "talking about autistic people as a group that is somewhere else, means excluding autistic individuals from the public space." By Carolien Rife:

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...

Can confirm that if you don’t bring your own #INSAR2026 lanyard you *will* find yourself wearing an Autism Science Foundation-branded one, sigh. ASF is an openly cure-focused, anti- #neurodiversity org. More info on why ASF works against autistic interests:

thinkingautismguide.com/useful-autis...

For an added hell layer, have medical misogyny utterly ruin your life while being transmasculine. End up unable to talk about it without others acting like your identity is now invalid, and end up unsure for years if you're even trans because you find it hard to differentiate from your rampant PTSD

A specific form of hell I really don't recommend is having your life ruined by medical misogyny from a female practitioner. The general consensus of "only male medics are misogynistic" leaves us completely fucking isolated, even though it's clearly nonsense and not how systemic abuse works

don't look at the peer-reviewed studies that compare cisgender women to transgender women and come to the conclusion that transgender women have no advantage

don't look at those studies

look at these studies that compare women and men bcos as i, a science denier, keep saying: trans women are men

As i always say: its a man’s rights movement in drag

Let's call this policy what this is.

It's socialism. It's Leftism. And it's curing actual ills. Righting institutional wrongs.

It's not coming from someone who is infallible, or someone who is always correct.

It's coming from someone who promised to help and is trying to keep those promises.

"Raymond Frogner, the NCTR's head of archives, said the NCTR has received just 96 IAP files from the 38,000 survivors who took part."

Most people don't even know that their records are at risk.

We're gonna accidentally end up legitimising "cross sex hormone" discourse by acting like it's incongruous for a woman to take testosterone. It's a totally normal thing for any adult to have. Gynaecological healthcare is crap enough without muddying the waters like this.

Am aware that cis people and the way they gatekeep HRT suck royally BUT it is not inherently queer to take testosterone for menopause. Healthy ovaries produce a higher volume of T than E. A cis woman who wants to maintain her health can absolutely end up taking it. HRT for all means for all.

"there is no more authoritative source on what autism is than the perspectives of autistic people"

Here's my belated response to Professor Dame Uta Frith's TES interview in which, among other things, the concept of masking is described as having "no scientific basis"

medium.com/@suefletcher...

Referring to LGBT+ people as "mentally ill" or "abnormal" is not "a discussion."
It's not "an opinion."
It's not "free speech."
It's not "debate."

It's hatemongering, with the clear and obvious intent to mark a minority out for subjugation, torture and violence.

Praising JK Rowling when asked a question on trans rights is akin to praising Anita Bryant when asked a question gay rights. No money to Stonewall. No Stonewall at Pride. They are already experiencing a funding crisis, and this chairwoman appointment should be their last. Traitors.

Up and down the country, Labour are a right wing party

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.

The graves of multiple children have been defaced.

One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

"All current forecasts predict we need about 60% more shame before the species goons itself out of existence" is a fucking WILD sentence because no part of it makes any sense.

What predictions? Who is making them?
How does one quantify shame?
What the fuck does "goons itself out of existence" mean?

A lot of people really are intolerant of 'religious beliefs' like the natural superiority of men, homosexuality being an abomination, and so on.

It's not because they're religious, though, and we'd probably tolerate people holding those beliefs if they didn't insist on pushing them on other people!

the labour party are quite literally pro-rape.

your party actively wants women like me to get raped as punishment for daring to exist in public.

She's very angry and defiant... Against trans people, for some reason

Former Labour politician, fwiw.

Here's an article:
bsky.app/profile/tran...

A lot of people here wasting their breath on those who think their voice is worthless. Just seen a woman trying to bothsides whether or not Jordan Peterson is an idiot. Look, sweetie, he fucking hates you either way. Why mollycoddle him?

#VotingWhileTrans (UK)
3rd attempt to register in 12yrs

2014 - they were unable to verify my identity, despite providing my SSN + every name/address I've ever had

2024 - I discover *at the polling station* that I am nowhere on the electoral register

2026 - this time, I have a confirmation no. >

There's been a lot of "what is a woman?" noise but almost zero "I dare you to define 'female', a word you bandy about with zero thought" noise.

kermit the frog holds a cup of lipton tea ALT: kermit the frog holds a cup of lipton tea

Seeing queer people yaaas girl-ing the Pope and it’s like “I thought we were one of the main groups to experience religious trauma but ok.”

I wish Europe would stand up to Trump the way it's standing up to Kanye West

I don't think anything more usefully summarises the UK than seeing the "left wing" government kick the fuck out of one of the few genuinely successful export sectors of the last ten years because racist pensioners who will never vote for them don't like foreigners.

The UK is now further to the right than Italy, the country which invented fascism and has never bothered denouncing it

People love the police that much they ask them for permission to protest...