Escalating anti-LGBT+ hate and the terrorism it inspires

[The Mighty Mollusk]

The goblins were also pretty bad.

 

[Corvus]

Yeah no. There were signs before she went full on TERF that she was a racist bitch.

Ironbite-seriously Cho Chang?

A lot of those readers were too young to pick up on that sort of stuff. As such, I'm not going to lambaste those sorts of fans if they've caught on in the years since.

 

[NovaSaber]

I think anyone old enough to understand the books is old enough get a bad vibe from the SPEW subplot, though.

 

[Paladin]

Really should've taken it as a bigger red flag when the first actual fight the kids have in Book 1 is against a giant hideous creature forcing its way into the girls' bathroom.

 

[Corvus]

It's a couple of years old, but it's definitely germane to the conversation.

‘Hellraiser’ writer Clive Barker on the publishing industry’s homophobia and J.K. Rowling

“I feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,” Barker continued. “And certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world – Ms Rowling. Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems unnecessary and unfair.”

 

[Anonymous X]

NHS to be pursued if policies on single-sex wards don’t change, warns watchdog

The NHS’s current guidance means trans people are accommodated according to their presentation, but Wednesday’s ruling now means wards must accommodate patients based on their biological sex

www.independent.co.uk

One day after the verdict, and trans rights to healthcare are already under institutional attack.

 

[KidTDragon]

It's wild how much mileage they're still getting out of that "we're doing it to protect women" bullshit.

 

[Anonymous X]

Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says

Bridget Phillipson was responding to questions following the Supreme Court's gender ruling.

www.bbc.co.uk

Florida-style toilet bans are here.

Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the legal definition of a woman should be based on biological sex.

www.bbc.co.uk

Starmer again demonstrating how he’s the most socially conservative British prime minister since Thatcher.

Horrified how the Labour Party has gone from being the party that significantly expanded rights of LGBTQ people under Blair’s prime ministership, to now being more anti-LGBTQ than the previous few Tory governments.

 

[NovaSaber]

HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth

In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

www.motherjones.com

There is no bottom.

 

[KidTDragon]

Cruelty, point, you know.

 

[Dekafox]

Jess👾 (@[email protected])

Content warning: US anti-trans kids report

infosec.exchange

From a skim, it looks like the tl;dr of this new trans kids HHS "study" is:

• WPATH Standards of Care is woke propaganda
• Don't let trans kids get medical treatment
• We should make trans kids get conversion therapy instead

Katelyn Burns (@katelynburns.com)

the HHS report on gender dysphoria in youth is out. i'll be taking a closer look and will likely have deeper analysis out early next week but a cursory look shows 12 new york times citations in this report justifying banning puberty blockers. https://opa.hhs.gov/gender-dysphoria-report

bsky.app

Gender Dysphoria Report

Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices is a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

opa.hhs.gov

 

[Patch]

Evan Urquhart (@evanurquhart.bsky.social)

I would really love it if mainstream journalists would seriously consider the possibility that RFK Jr.'s politicized HHS under Trump is as accurate about gender-affirming medicine as it is on autism or vaccination.

bsky.app

 

[Anonymous X]

UK Pride groups suspend involvement of political parties

The move comes after the Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of "woman".

www.bbc.co.uk

Pride events in the UK are banning political parties from attending, which is a good show of solidarity towards trans people, given there’s no parties left in this country which aren’t transphobic.

 

[Tuxedo Prime]

Pride events in the UK are banning political parties from attending, which is a good show of solidarity towards trans people, given there’s no parties left in this country which aren’t transphobic.

Just for a bit of outside perspective, I quickly perused the Count Binface Party platform from 2024. It is silent on anything to do with gender or sexuality, though it does have this to say about bathrooms:

The hand dryer in the gents’ urinals at the Crown & Treaty, Uxbridge to be moved to a more sensible position.

Granted that Count Binface does a bit better running for Mayor of London than as a national party, but it is a point of information. So hopefully he doesn't get shut out of putting in an appearance, because to be honest, if an LLC can run candidates for elections then what even is a "comedy campaign" over there?