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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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To the non-Brits: yes, his name really is “Mike Gapes.”
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she/her. 🏴🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇹🇼
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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To the non-Brits: yes, his name really is “Mike Gapes.”
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OnlyCans
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i challenge debbie to a one on one male socialised violence sometime. she can choose the car park. in minecraft. i guess.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Same story with Mike Gapes btw, who shared the same historical revisionist Twitter thread that JK Rowling later did. It was by Malcolm Clark, who even made the utterly despicable claim that trans people actually *benefitted* from Nazism. As with Duffield, he faced no consequences for this.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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*broke party rules but faced no consequences.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Being an absolute pain in the arse for politicians and the media and a transphobic medical establishment is good praxis. Direct action gets the goods; being a massive pain in the arse gets the goods.
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Sarah Brown
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I was there when he attended the LGBT+ Lib Dem fringe in Liverpool, 2010, and said that he didn’t support same sex marriage, after wed just passed the motion that led to it becoming coalition policy. It was me who leaked what he said to Pink News.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Omg, Summerskill. The guy who couldn’t even bring himself to support equal marriage. Stonewall were so crap back then.
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Sarah Brown
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This was very much my strategy when I was directly involved in trans activism in the UK. I was one of the organisers behind the Stonewall Awards protest in 2008, which I think contributed massively to eventually bringing Stonewall on side and ousting Ben Summerskill.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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You should also check out their website, where you can get involved: transkidsdeservebetter.org
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Naturally, they didn’t get much media attention outside of the LGBT press, even though every fucking tweet JKR posts gets an article written about it. But you can help spread the word. Tell your friends:
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Being an absolute pain in the arse for politicians and the media and a transphobic medical establishment is good praxis. Direct action gets the goods; being a massive pain in the arse gets the goods.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Trans youth are under constant attack but they’re fighting back. They have no support from billionaires or the media or politicians but they’re fighting back. And it’s on us as millennial and older trans people to have their back. No lie I feel like they put me to shame.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Anyway fuck him. Party politics as a means to achieving gains for trans people appears to be over, for the time being. But I’m not despairing - those young trans people who protested at NHS England were really inspiring. Immensely proud of them.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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I guess I should have known back in 2020 when he refused to sign those trans pledges. He was only my second-preference vote, but I’ll cop to being overly optimistic about his intentions.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Ngl the fact that Starmer followed up that offer of a meeting with Rowling (so that he could offer her “assurances”) by saying that we “shouldn’t have the right” to use women’s toilets was fucking crushing. I never had particularly high hopes for the guy, but that was a punch to the gut.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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“Make it up” to the woman who broke party rules by ‘liking’ tweets that denied that trans people were targeted by the Nazis. Oh well, Starmer already wants to meet with JK Rowling, who explicitly denied Nazi crimes. Normal stuff.
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Keri Warbis
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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He’s the YouTuber who ran for London mayor. One of my favourite moments in an otherwise underwhelming election.
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Anatoly Cherdanko
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Fuck, with all the mad shit she’s said over the past four and a half years I’d actually forgotten about the “cultural marxism” stuff.
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drow zelensky
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she also has used actual nazi dogwhistles in parliament, both talking about things that resemble great replacement theory and "cultural marxism"
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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I watched an interview with her a while back and I know that this is kind of a cliche, but it really was giving The Handmaid’s Tale.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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She’s certainly very concerned about “the birth rate” - and we all know she means “the white birth rate.”
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Cates was, without exaggeration, an actual nazi
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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No, Labour will rely upon Britain’s broken and archaic and anti-democratic political institutions for as long as it benefits them, just as they’ve pretty much always done when in government.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Thank fuck Cates lost her seat though. She’d be sticking crosses in people’s faces and chanting “the power of Christ compels you”, trying to exorcise any last remnants of “moderate” Cameronism.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Thank fuck Cates lost her seat though. She’d be sticking crosses in people’s faces and chanting “the power of Christ compels you”, trying to exorcise any last remnants of “moderate” Cameronism.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Although the Tories are so fucking batshit rn that it’s hard to see how anyone to the left of Mussolini could become leader. So, high probability that a sociopath would win regardless of any relatively moderate candidates. Reform’s success also pretty much ensures a fascistic sociopath leader.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Low-key disappointed that Grant Shapps lost his seat because while he’s still a Tory I feel like he would have avoided the “culture war” bs it he’d managed to become leader. Now we’ll almost certainly be stuck with a sociopath like Braverman or Badenoch or Jendrick.
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I’d give it a week btw before he drops any pretence of wanting to reform (let alone abolish) the House of Lords.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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So Starmer has already booted Emily Thornberry and appointed an unelected (soon-to-be) peer to the role of Attorney General. Remember when Sunak did that with the Foreign Secretary and everyone hated it? Oh well. Great start, eh.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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My Bill’s no angel, never said he was, but he knows what a woman is.
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I like how she refers to "My Bill" like he's her incorrigible fella, burly but none too bright, who's got a heart of gold but is always having run-ins with the law.
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She’s just so gormless, man. She has a comical lack of gorm.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Is it normal to capitalise “Bill” in this way, when you’re not using the full name of the bill? Idk, but the fact that it’s Truss just makes it very funny to me idk.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Btw the way she capitalised “Bill” here makes it sound like she’s hired a heavy called Bill who’s going to go and shake down pharmacists for puberty blockers, and impose cisnormative notions about gender/sex on people by threatening them with a pool cue.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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They may or may not make legal moves against us, or refuse to protect us. But there are things that we can do. Labour conference is in Liverpool this year, from 22 to 25 September. Looks nice. Be a shame if a bunch of angry trannies turned up and ruined the vibe.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Labour failed to provide assurances on the latter. Starmer in fact explicitly said that I “shouldn’t have the right” to use women’s spaces, which is essential to my safety and just, like, my ability to *live* in society. That was step 0, and they fucked it.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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It must be nice, btw, being the unmarked norm. When you can just worry about politics having an impact on normal things like public transport and the NHS, and not have to worry about whether your healthcare or your right to exist in public space might be removed.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Do remain vigilant, however. It is far from outside the realm of possibility that Labour will try to introduce a similar law.
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Liz Truss going full goose stepping neo nazi in public is an excellent indicator of how the Tories are going to react to this rout
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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“I will not give up on getting this Bill onto the Statute Book.” That was Liz Truss, folks. She lost to a lettuce. She lost to some ferrets. She lost one of the safest Tory seats in the country.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Like, she seems to sincerely believe that she would have been a great PM over a five year period lmao.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Although on the funnier side Truss tried to argue that the policies that sent the economy into free-fall were good, actually. But she was undermined the Bank of England and the rest of the economic establishment, see.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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They did it over video link. Basically she just sat there looking gormless and droned on about “the decline of the west”, “gender ideology”, etc. Literal fascist talking points that are now just normal I guess.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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They did it over video link. Basically she just sat there looking gormless and droned on about “the decline of the west”, “gender ideology”, etc. Literal fascist talking points that are now just normal I guess.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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I don’t know why, really, Reform even exists when the Tories are like this. The Tories are a far-right party. But I repeat myself.
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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Anyway I skipped through large sections of this video so I’m pretty sure there’s a lot that I missed. But you can see that none of this is *at all* subtle. This was posted on 3 June, only a few days after Truss made her appearance. Liz Truss went on an openly fascist podcast and nothing happened.
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Near the end they get to Marks and Spencer’s having an “LGBT” sandwich and one of the hosts slyly asks “who owns Marks and Spencers again? Never mind, you shouldn’t notice.” “Noticing” is new coded language, ICYMI. There’s a look of understanding among the hosts (M&S was co-founded by a Jewish guy).
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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They speak out in favour of Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative (the party of ex-prominent BNP member Mark Collett). Melia was jailed for “putting up stickers that are factually true”, apparently. Those stickers were in fact *very explicitly* antisemitic, neo-Nazi and generally racist in nature. See:
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