Idk if i'll be able to finish this before the end of the month because every attempt at the digital linework & colouring is absolutely awful but!!! I did draw a revenge sketch for artfight for @theflutteringfinch featuring their Draw Steel characters!
Transphobia is about to be signed into law in the UK. We can fight this.
I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.
Last year we broke the record for an LGBT+ mass lobby of Parliament. Will you help us break it again? Join us on 25th June 2026 to demand be
The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.
Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.
A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:
Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.
Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240.
Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns
Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.
I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.
It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:
Worried about what to say?
Bring your personal worries about transphobia being signed into law, and trans friends being excluded from public spaces. You are a living person who deserves dignity. Remind your MP of that. You will also get guidance and brochures from Trans Solidarity Alliance that outlines our demands. This is mine from last year.
Money issues?
Trans Solidarity Alliance provides a travel bursary that you can sign up for via the link.
Got a refusal or no response from your MP?
Come anyway! You can request a same-day appointment with your MP through a process called greencarding. They will come and see you if they’re already in Parliament. Even if they don’t, they’re made acutely aware of your cause because you showed up in person. This is my greencard from last year.
Here is the EHRC Code of Practice in full. It's a tough read, but some highlights are:
Organisations can’t provide trans-inclusive, single-sex services, or they risk being sued for discrimination.
e.g. domestic violence support for women including trans women, men’s rugby group including trans men (12.68).
Trans people will have nowhere safe to pee.
If you’re a trans man, businesses can't allow you to pee in the men's, and you can also be ejected from women’s bathrooms if you’re perceived as a man. Vice versa for trans women. EHRC suggests a ‘third space’ bathroom, which is discriminatory and unworkable for most businesses. (13.130-133)
Sports organisations must exclude trans people from single-sex competitions (13.73).
A women’s only sports competition must exclude trans women because of their biological advantage or face potential lawsuits (13.74), but a trans man who has undergone testosterone treatment can also be excluded based on fairness rules (13.81).
Trans women are stripped of the legal definition of ‘lesbian’, and therefore no longer have legal protections if they’re discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. (2.50, 2.92).
Here is the Good Law Project's better explanation of the EHRC Code.
I have also made a PDF printout of QR codes for the government petition, email your MP tool, and mass lobby link to pass around your communities. DM me and I'll send it to you.
Waiting 2 months and no response from tumblr support
@tumblr @support @staff
I have been waiting ~TWO MONTHS since raising a support ticket and still not received any response. You are preventing me from using communication features on tumblr including asks, chat, and replies and have not told me why.
I sent a support request on 12 February. I provided the blog name and it was sent from the associated email address, explained the problem, provided screenshots, and I've heard NOTHING back. I replied to the automated email at the start of March for a follow-up, again providing information, and nothing.
I submitted a second request on 15 March just in case the first got lost somewhere and there's still NOTHING.
I am incapable of sending/receiving messages, replying to posts (including on my own blog!), or accessing my inbox. Other users are also incapable of contacting me. This doesn't seem to be a result of being blocked, because it is applying to everyone, including those I definitely know have NOT blocked me. This affects my primary blog AND several secondary blogs linked to it -- yet not all of them. If I try to open a chat with another user it simply displays an error message. Same if I try to comment on a post, or reply to a comment on a post, INCLUDING MY OWN POSTS.
I have tried logging in and out, clearing my browser cookies/cache, etc. I do not have this problem on my other primary blog. There is NO evidence that my blog has been marked as mature, and as far as I can tell NO evidence of violation of TOS etc. There aren't even any flagged posts! If I somehow did go against TOS I NEVER RECEIVED INFORMATION about it
WHY have you not even answered my support requests? Are you even looking at them? Also, for some reason, you are describing my support request as an "appeal". Appeal for what? I mean, I guess it's an appeal for you, tumblr, to fix a bug(?), but what do you mean? This implies that YOU made a decision to prevent me from using messaging features. I'd like to know WHY. You've not given any reason for it. You are constantly changing (breaking) features of the site and have now made it more unusable for me. You want me to stick around and view ads/pay for premium? Why would I do that if I CANNOT INTERACT WITH POSTS?
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Can folks please like/rb this so I know at least folks can see my posts?
oh okay so I guess at some point someone on staff saw this post and now I have access to my private messages again. no idea if replies work but will go try that in a second.
and yet I still have not received an email about this. No-one ever replied to my support requests. Not even asking explicitly for an apology, just a RESPONSE to say they fixed whatever the fuck was wrong. And they won't even give that
SO. Looks like Tumblr shadow banned me IMMEDIATELY after I made a post sharing a link to the UK public consultation. A completely neutral post. Just letting folks know that it's still there to fill in and what it's about. And now IMMEDIATELY, ONCE AGAIN, I can't send PMs, access asks, ANYTHING.
Why?
Have I breached Terms of Service in any way shape or form? Please do let me know.
We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential ag
A few hours left for folks in the UK to fill this in. Please let the government know your feelings on the Online Safety Act as it stands, plans to blanket-ban social media, VPNs, the rise of AI, and how this all relates to data privacy (and how the government want you to give them and socmed sites all the data without guarantee of its security)
this messed up vintage cat sewing pattern has tormented me since i saw it & like some other folks have done in that post - i tried my hand at tweaking the pattern to resemble the illustration (and my personal tastes) a little more. i've ended up with this, which i have only tested at a small scale and not this final version exactly (where i have done such things as further widening the cheeks and finalizing the leg shapes.) i bestow it upon you nice folks now 👐
go forth and make weird little beanbag kittens! pls show me if you do!
My first attempt! I made the pattern a bit smaller as I wanted it to be able to fit in a pocket, but then (accidentally but perhaps unavoidably) sewed it with a wider seam allowance than the resized pattern indicated, so the face is proportionally a bit too big and I lost some detail in the ear shape. I'm pleased with it though! It was fun to make something and to do some handsewing.
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