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Desi
âŠâŠâŠ Ace of Diamonds âŠâŠâŠ
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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 donât 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?Â
Come anyway! You can request a same-day appointment with your MP through a process called greencarding. They will come and see you if theyâre already in Parliament. Even if they donât, theyâre 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 canât provide trans-inclusive, single-sex services, or they risk being sued for discrimination.
e.g. domestic violence support for women including trans women, menâs rugby group including trans men (12.68).
Trans people will have nowhere safe to pee.
If youâre a trans man, businesses can't allow you to pee in the men's, and you can also be ejected from womenâs bathrooms if youâre perceived as a man. Vice versa for trans women. EHRC suggests a âthird spaceâ bathroom, which is discriminatory and unworkable for most businesses. (13.130-133)
Sports organisations must exclude trans people from single-sex competitions (13.73).Â
A womenâs 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 âlesbianâ, and therefore no longer have legal protections if theyâre 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.
there a lot of details of american macroculture that have caused what I'd describe as a reality fracturing mental reset when I learned about them. one was learning that children do literally swear their allegiance to the american flag every morning before school and that's not a quaint comedic exaggeration left over from the 1950s like rabbit ears on a TV. one was learning that Americans have to pay for ambulance transportation. one was learning that Americans are taught the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tough brave necessities that made the world safer and not horrific war crimes on a footing with the nazi holocaust.
and one was learning that the cultural cachet of veggietales is completely unironic and a lot of you watched the parables of God from the bible and his son jesus christ the cgi vegetable for real real and thought it was good, no goofing, not a bit
most pathetic useless unreflective oblivious not even enjoying the fruits of their rapacious solipsism people on earth. at least do everyone the courtesy of shutting the fuck up.
If you're an American and this has you feeling defensive, here's a good video to watch while you consider why you feel the impulse to defend the nuclear bombing of two civilian targets.
You were probably taught in high school that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed to *save* lives. You have probably learned a lot since high school, it's time to learn some more.
there a lot of details of american macroculture that have caused what I'd describe as a reality fracturing mental reset when I learned about them. one was learning that children do literally swear their allegiance to the american flag every morning before school and that's not a quaint comedic exaggeration left over from the 1950s like rabbit ears on a TV. one was learning that Americans have to pay for ambulance transportation. one was learning that Americans are taught the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tough brave necessities that made the world safer and not horrific war crimes on a footing with the nazi holocaust.
and one was learning that the cultural cachet of veggietales is completely unironic and a lot of you watched the parables of God from the bible and his son jesus christ the cgi vegetable for real real and thought it was good, no goofing, not a bit
most pathetic useless unreflective oblivious not even enjoying the fruits of their rapacious solipsism people on earth. at least do everyone the courtesy of shutting the fuck up.
If you're an American and this has you feeling defensive, here's a good video to watch while you consider why you feel the impulse to defend the nuclear bombing of two civilian targets.
You were probably taught in high school that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed to *save* lives. You have probably learned a lot since high school, it's time to learn some more.
I think a lot of writers might benefit from giving themselves permission to get weird with format.
Use second person, drop classic rising action and climax format, write backwards, just sit in a moment, tell all you want and refuse to show, make an entire book thatâs just one run on sentence, reject tropes, use all tropes, cliche yourself to death, produce something thatâs completely gibberish. Break all the rules of marketability. Become ungovernable.
Itâs the middle of the night and I should be sleeping but listen. Listen. Just get weird with it. Open your soul up a little bit. Like actually donât worry about it being palatable. Iâm serious. Get weirder. Get weirder right now. Iâm demanding that you get weirder right now. Itâs not your responsibility to make your reader feel good. Itâs your job to make art, goddamnit. Make art. Make weird art. Open up your third eye and eat an entire cheesecake.
I used to be obsessed with writing The Perfect Novel. I followed every rule, every convention, every step. I worried over word choices and deleted and rewrote sentences until they were perfect.
And then I made a throwaway joke about a character in a story (who was a writer) and a book she had written.
And then NaNo was coming and I didn't have a plot in mind.
And then that line jumped out at me.
And I said I couldn't do that, because it wouldn't work.
And then I decided to try it anyway.
And that is how I ended up writing roughly 30,000 words of a book titled The Questions of My Life, which was about the 2000 US Presidential election (and would have eventually also covered 9/11 if I had continued it) from the perspective of a fourteen-year-old boy in the form of his diary written entirely in haiku.
Genuinely. Get weird with it. Write something nobody in their right mind would ever want to read. It's fun, it's cathartic, it's free, and it primes your brain to realize that you're Allowed To Write That Thing You Want, Actually, because a universe that would allow something like that to exist isn't going to protest whatever else you came up with.
it's very frustrating seeing otherwise well-structured posts about media literacy and critical thinking bookended with statements about "nowadays", "nobody has literacy anymore", "this generation is so anti-intellectual", and the like, unquestioningly falling into better past fallacies.
Do we really think the 80s and its Satanic Panic were better at critical thinking? what about the 40s? the Victorian era? societies have always had problems with critical thinking and literacy, because most societies have dealt with propaganda, corrupt leadership, difficulty providing education (due to poverty or discrimination or other issues), and/or people who resist critical thinking (due to privilege or circumstance or what have you). we can criticize media trends without pulling a "well back in the GOOD OLD DAYS" about it.
don't go into the humanities because they're unprofitable and don't go into stem cuz its getting torn apart right now and don't go into buisness because it's competetive and speculative and don't go into education because it pays like shit. Just lay on thr ground. Just lay on the ground.
I think a lot of you aren't going to like hearing this but if you're treating Simons prosthetic arm in Bloodymary AUs like a fix-all then I do believe you're ableist, even if its unintentional. I'm not even an amputee but the fact that I've seen SEVERAL drawings of him with it in bed and in situations where it'd be uncomfortable as fuck tells me a lot of you guys apparently know nothing about how uncomfortable prosthetics are.
I find this happens with disabled characters a lot, where people give them a "fix all" so that way they don't have to draw the character being disabled, and I especially notice this with amputee characters. Either that, or you guys just give Simon his arm back. Even in an AU, it's an important part of his story and character. A lot of you need to stop acting like a prosthetic is a magic fix and a perfect "new arm" just because you don't want to deal with navigating how that'd impact a characters life.
Rewatching iron lung again (shock horror) and Iâm thinking about if there was a Bloodymary AU where Grace is a scientist for the COI, he would 100% try and help Simon and talk to him through the speaker.
Can you imagine? Simon yelling at him out of anger and then apologising and Grace saying âitâs ok, I once told a man he was a staggering waste of carbon once.â And thatâs what makes Simon laugh because Simon has caught a glimpse of Grace before he was put in the sub and he canât imagine the man who he saw spinning in his chair to say that. Thatâs what makes it so funny to him.
âAre you- are you laughing?â
âYes- I canât imagine you saying that to anyone.â
âWell I did so it seems we both have egg on our face.â
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