Trans people are exhausted.

Non-stop fighting, writing, documenting, archiving, pleading, begging, hiding, crying and more.

Exhausted.

I have been considering similar tbh.

It's really funny how Starmer was billed as the man to defend our precious norms ahead of the 2024 election

I'm truly not sure which is worse. If Keir Starmer was informed and is lying about it or that he is so absent as PM that important decisions are taken for him by officials. At least lying about what he knew, while intolerable, would show there is someone in charge and taking an interest.

All the demeaning ways Home Office expects LGBTQ+ migrants to 'prove' themselves With comments suggesting LGBTQ+ asylum seekers are pretending to be gay, how do you successfully prove your sexuality to the UK Home Office?

In light of the BBC claiming that asylum seekers are falsely claiming to be gay in order to gain asylum, here is an article about the difficulties and humiliations LGBT asylum seekers have experienced trying to prove their identities.

www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

The BBC undercover investigation into false immigration claims is deeply irresponsible journalism. It does not highlight that exploitation by unregulated advisors occurs because legal aid was cut and the system is insane to navigate.

And the likely immediate outcome of the article is to prevent people from Pakistan from obtaining student visas if Jo White, the Labour MP quoted, gets her way.

The headline is also a lie. They found people OFFERING to help people fake being gay to claim asylum in exchange for £1000s. There's no evidence this led to anyone succeeding. One guy says he knows people who've succeeded – which clearly hasn't been verified. You can't hang a headline on that.

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

This "investigation" is straight-up incitement against people seking asylum, especially LGBTQ+ people.

No acknowledgement that LGB asylum claims are LESS LIKELY to succeed than other claims. No acknowlegement that the dodgy lawyers are CLEARLY scamming their clients

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The deadliest acts of mass violence in the UK in recent years have not been declared terror attacks because, like Southport, they don't meet the legal definition of advancing a cause

The impact of that definition ripples from the bottom to the top of Britain's policing and intelligence structures

The image shows a photo of Chris Kenna. One side of his face is black and white and pixellated. The wording on the image says: "Tech entrepreneur Chris Kenna says he built data centres across the UK. We looked, but couldn't find any"

NEW: British tech entrepreneur Chris Kenna says he has built cutting-edge AI data centres across the UK

We can’t find them...

www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

the Soros conspiracy coming from Elon in particular is just embarrassing. you’re worth like 80x what Soros is buddy, if you thought he was buying elections you could snap your fingers and fix it.

Map of Lebanon with multiple red dots

This map from Al Jadeed TV shows where Israel has bombed Lebanon

This is since last night only

This isn't a conflict that would invite nuclear retaliation to the United States; Iran lacks missiles that can reach the territory and thanks to the JCPOA and the late Khamenei's personal opposition to them lacks nuclear warheads. The immediate harm will fall on civilians in a nation of 90 million.

Table showing benefit rates for Limited Capability for Work and Work Related Activity for 2025/26 and 2026/27, with amounts listed for standard and pre 2026 claimants.

Disabled Folks Are Being Pushed Into Poverty🧵

Two tier support for disabled people is now a reality in the UK and it should upset anyone who believes in fairness and equality.

I receive LCWRA because I cannot work. That hasn’t changed. It won’t. 1/9

#DisabilityRights #LCWRA #CostOfLiving

I agree the spec is terrible but this part isn't the problem. It would be worse if the service was allowed to keep patients post-18 without a pending GIC referral. The 0 target makes sense, as does quarterly reporting of referrals without a specific target. That does not mean no referrals.

Come out before you kiss: How Trans+ panic snuck its way into UK law books Trans+ people can be convicted for sexual assault just for not coming out before any form of intimacy, under CPS 'deception as to sex' guidance

“Deception as to sex” has the same impact as a Trans+ Panic clause – and has embedded transphobia into the law

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Section 28 2.0 would be Phillipson, not Streeting.

And the equally baffling following sentence...

At the same time, there is a proposal to stop routinely offering puberty blockers and hormone treatments to under-18s while more evidence is gathered about long-term effects.

This is a sentence that Wes Streeting has genuinely written and I have to ask, is he living in some parallel universe? Completely, totally unmoored from reality.

Text that reads: An amendment to a bill protecting Trans+ rights has removed legal gender recognition for one in five of the world’s Trans+ people, pending assent by India’s president. An amendment to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act of 2019 proposed by MP Virendra Kumar has passed, removing the rights of Trans+ Indians to self-identify. The right was guaranteed by a Supreme Court ruling in 2014. It is a significant rollback and means that protections offered by the act will now be limited to those who have had surgical transitions, introducing invasive medical examinations - BBC

ICYMI: An amendment to a bill meant to protect Trans+ rights has stripped legal gender recognition from one in five of the world’s Trans+ people

Read more: www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...

That could also make sense – I didn't notice the quote was from before the conviction even though the article was after

Have asked editor to amend as I don't want to mislead anyone that an appeal has been lodged. To my knowledge it hasn't.

Trans woman jailed for sex assault after hiding penis during sex acts with man A TRANSGENDER woman has been jailed for sexual assault after concealing male genitalia from a man she was on a date with. Ciara Watkin spent the night with the victim, who was 18 at the time, after…

Just want to be clear I have no new info on this. She announced an intention to appeal after her conviction.

"I am not finished with this – I have a strong case that I have been unfairly prosecuted and I’m prepared to make a legal case for that.”

www.thesun.co.uk/news/3696296...

“A cis teenage girl lying about being on her period to avoid a sex act she’s uncomfortable with would arouse sympathy. When a trans girl does the same, it’s treated as a serious crime.”

An absolutely brilliant piece from @wearequeeraf.com featuring equally brilliant scholarship from @alexsharpe.bsky.social

'Sex by Deception' cases in the UK have a frightening history, but the treatment of trans woman Chiara Watkin is a terrifying new development

Come out before you kiss: How Trans+ panic snuck its way into UK law books Trans+ people can be convicted for sexual assault, just for not coming out before any form of intimacy under CPS 'deception as to sex' guidance

Trans+ people can be convicted for sexual assault in the UK, just for not coming out before any form of intimacy.

@sasha98.bsky.social explores how under CPS 'deception as to sex' guidance, Trans+ panic has made its way onto UK law books 👇

www.wearequeeraf.com/come-out-bef...

Come out before you kiss: How Trans+ panic snuck its way into UK law books Trans+ people can be convicted for sexual assault, just for not coming out before any form of intimacy - guidance, which has grown out of transphobia, and crimes by cisgender women

"A cis teenage girl lying about being on her period to avoid a sex act she’s uncomfortable with would arouse sympathy. When a trans girl does the same, it’s treated as a serious crime."

My latest for @wearequeeraf.com
www.wearequeeraf.com/come-out-bef...

Children ‘incentivised’ to get ADHD and autism diagnoses Eleanor Hayward - Health Editor , Max Kendix - Political Correspondent Children and young adults are “incentivised” to get an ADHD or autism diagnosis and there has been a “medicalisation of distress”, a government inquiry has concluded. The interim report commissioned by Wes Streeting, the health secretary,found there were incentives to seek a diagnosis because it is the “gateway” to unlock access to special adjustments at school and work. There was “credible evidence of increasing psychological distress” behind a rise in mental health diagnoses, it said, but normal difficulties may also “increasingly be interpreted primarily through a medical lens”. Nearly one in ten young adults “self-identify” as autistic and there has been a particular increase in diagnoses among girls when they move to secondary school. The report said common childhood behaviours such as restlessness were being medicalised. “Historical analyses show that behaviours in children once regarded as within the range of normal variation, or even as something to be welcomed in some contexts, are now more often interpreted as requiring intervention or treatment,” it said.

"Children and young adults are “incentivised” to get an ADHD or autism diagnosis and there has been a “medicalisation of distress”, a government inquiry has concluded." [Times front page]

Revealed: the billionaires who really own London Trump's golfing buddy and sanctioned Libyan wealth funds are among the secret overseas owners of 32,000 locations around the capital

Everything from Camden Market to the Admiral Duncan pub and central London Harry Potter stores are owned by shell companies in tax havens.

For years, they hid the identities of their real owners. Today, @andrewkersley.bsky.social pulls back the curtain.

"It is not retroactive and does not apply to any grassroots or recreational sports programs," said the IOC, whose Olympic Charter states that access to play sport is a human right. After an executive board meeting, the International Olympic Committee published a 10-page policy. document which also restricts female athletes such as two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya with medical conditions known as differences in sex development, or DSD The IOC and its president, Kirsty Coventry, have wanted a clear policy instead of continuing to advise sports' governing bodies who previously have drafted their own rules. "At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat," Coventry, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming, said in a statement. "So, it is absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category."

In any case, I think all the stories that are going to frame this as being about trans athletes are, at best, a bit misleading. Trans women already weren't competing at the Olympics, with one exception in 20 years.

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