Tanya

Librarian, trainer, knitter, reader, #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticElders All opinions are my own

[Tanya @Tanyabookfiend]

@naomicfisher This seems disingenuous. You chose her as your 1st guest in a time of massive attacks on disabled folk. You didn't q or challenge her negative take. Now you claimed victim hood and are amazed people are hurt and upset. Autistic people are not props for your ego

[justasistertryingtotweet @Igottafigh64510]

This is so needed, especially for this app😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Tanya @Tanyabookfiend]

@tifagirlx I'm glad you're here as a girl :)

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Blaming asylum seekers for homelessness? What about the 720,000 empty homes in England, and the 1,627,450 second homes in England alone.

Blaming asylum seekers for expensive food shops? What about the £3,100,000,000 profit Tesco made last year?

Blaming asylum seekers for expensive energy bills? What about the £438,000,000,000 made by just 20 energy companies in profit?

Blaming immigrants for not getting an NHS appointment? What about the 260,000+ migrant workers keeping the NHS going? And what about the 25% real term cut in NHS funding, think that could do it?

Blaming people on welfare for a lack of money to fund the NHS? What about the £36,000,000,000 tax gap due to avoidance and evasion by the elite?

It's time to realise it's not immigrants, asylum seekers or people on welfare causing you any harm, it's capitalism and the mega rich hoarding all the wealth.

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

Something is shifting in Britain. It is not just LGBTQIA+ people walking away from exclusion. Women are leaving too. Parents and allies are quietly withdrawing support from organisations that shut trans people out. You can feel it like pressure in the air.

In recent months we have seen national institutions make choices that remove trans people from public life. Girlguiding will now only accept those recorded female at birth. The Women’s Institute will remove trans women from membership in 2026. Virgin Active has removed trans women from female changing rooms. Barclays has barred trans women from women’s toilets in branches. Labour has banned trans women from the main floor of the 2026 Women’s Conference meaning no speeches no voting no policy debate. These were decisions made willingly. The law never forced them. The Supreme Court ruling allowed exclusion it did not demand it. Every ban is a choice.

The backlash is nothing like what they expected. Girlguiding volunteers are threatening to leave. WI members are furious and trans men are planning to join as protest. Virgin Active members are cancelling their gym contracts. Barclays customers are closing accounts. Even Labour supporters are stepping back saying this is not the party they believed in. This is not only a queer response. Straight mothers are angry that their daughters are taught exclusion. Teachers are horrified. Human rights workers refuse to look away. People who care about fairness are leaving with their feet and wallets. What is happening now is not chaos. It is consequence.

There is a growing belief that we should stop financially supporting companies that exclude trans people. Why should we pay membership fees to gyms where our sisters cannot change safely. Why should we bank with institutions willing to tell trans women to use the men’s toilets. Why should we sit quietly while communities built on belonging close the door to some of the most vulnerable among us. If they remove us we will remove our money. If they exclude us we exclude them. Boycott is forming not through leadership but through common sense. People are done funding discrimination.

So this is the call. If you use any of these services contact them and complain. If you are a member cancel where you can. If you are a customer move your account. Tell them why. They need to hear it directly from us. Companies respond when it hurts their bottom line. They change when silence becomes refusal. We do not have to protest in the street to be powerful. We can protest with our spending. We can protest by walking away together. Britain is better than exclusion. Our community deserves safety respect and space to exist without being interrogated.

Share this and speak openly. Let organisations know that equality is not optional. It is the minimum. If they ban trans people then we boycott. If they divide us we unite against them. Our money has power. Our community has power. We use it now.

[Tanya @Tanyabookfiend]

@IrishUnity I'm British, and was taught nothing about Ireland in school. It's terrible that we aren't taught about our shameful history of colonialism

[Tanya @Tanyabookfiend]

@FlogMma @_celia_bedelia_ Would it be sexual getting a cold metal object inserted into your urethra, then cranked open by a bored 55 year old male nurse, before he pops a spatula insides and painfully scrapes all around? Done in a small room with your grandad in the waiting room next door

[Jade @JadeEckhaus]

The protests in Falkirk are organised by Nazis

[Tanya @Tanyabookfiend]

@mjfree Billionaires

[Tanya @Tanyabookfiend]

@adamfare1996 I'm sorry things are so tough right now

[Vittoria @vitt2tsnoc]

Love your library. When my violent ex smashed my laptop, stole my money & would stop me finding work, the library was all I had. They helped me write a CV, find a job, a CAREER and leave that twat. Libraries aren’t just books, they’re warmth, freedom and new worlds. #WarmWelcome

[Tanya @Tanyabookfiend]

@dblasphemy @bloodthrstbooks Absolutely, my kids adored this

[Tanya @Tanyabookfiend]

@bloodthrstbooks Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series has all those, plus a fantastically determined girl armed with a frying pan and intelligence

[Tanya @Tanyabookfiend]

@areyoflight Playdate was great, only male heroes, but very funny and lots of action, dads looking after kids while fighting baddies. Also, how about Wednesday? Surprising amount of action, plus gorgeous aesthetics

[Tanya @Tanyabookfiend]

@jonjominns I'm so sorry

[Carla Denyer @carla_denyer]

Today on #TransDayOfRemembrance we remember our trans siblings who have lost their lives to transphobia, hatred & violence…🧵

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

On Trans Day of Remembrance, we mourn those who have lost their lives to transphobic violence, hatred and discrimination.

Trans rights are human rights.

Today, let us commit to building a kinder society where everyone can live in peace, dignity and freedom.

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

If you actually want to reduce #suicide, start by reducing shame. Debt. Sanctions. Food insecurity. Poverty wages. These aren’t “pressures.” They are engineered despair. No amount of awareness ribbons can offset the impact of policymaking built on humiliation.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

If your son treats women like this you have failed as a parent. Our kids are watching .