Tomo Bydand ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈(they/he)

He/they. writer, gardener, geek.
bydand means remaining/ready for battle. i am bydand. Black Lives Matter, always. ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈

[Tomo Bydand ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈(they/he) @tombydand]

Need white people in my local supermarket to stop giving me anxiety attacks with their entitlement and casual racism that plays into that entitlement.

[Tomo Bydand ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈(they/he) @tombydand]

New year new me, literally. Hullo I'm tomo now. Also pronouns did a little dance and are now the other way round, they/he.

Happy new year and stuff I guess.

[Damien Haas @DamienHaas]

This month, millions of Americans lost access to food assistance through SNAP (aka food stamps).

For the foreseeable future, my stream tip link will be replaced with a @tiltify campaign for @FeedingAmerica to support food banks.

Incredible first stream, thank to all who joined!

[Tomo Bydand ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈(they/he) @tombydand]

People of the UK steer clear of @iD_Mobile_UK they are the worst of all our companies literally choose any other than them.

[Tomo Bydand ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈(they/he) @tombydand]

@iD_Mobile_UK This is why you are a nightmare to deal with. I just spent an hour and a half trying to communicate with your chatbot and getting nowhere. You are a disgraceful company.

[Tomo Bydand ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈(they/he) @tombydand]

Hi @iD_Mobile_UK quick question, if I left your company two years ago and closed my account why was I sent an email yesterday saying a number had been added to my account. You are honestly a nightmare to deal with.

[Tomo Bydand ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈(they/he) @tombydand]

Reading a collection of scifi short stories that I bought and read a decade ago before I realised I was NonBinary. Uh, every single story so far has had queer representation at the centre of the story. Mostly transgender/genderqueer representation. So oops the signs were there 🤣

[India Willoughby @IndiaWilloughby]

You are a fucking bastard @wesstreeting . This is evil. Completely unacceptable. Sorry for the language - but I am so mad about how you, @bphillipsonMP and the rest of @UKLabour are treating the trans community like dog shit. No dignity or respect for us. We now fear the NHS. @NHSuk @NHSEngland

[Tomo Bydand ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈(they/he) @tombydand]

Not going to be too specific because doxing is yuck. But currently in a small remote part of the coast and one of the homes has the Palestinian flag flying from its flagpole. Makes me smile every time we go past it.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

This is fascism

[Tomo Bydand ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈(they/he) @tombydand]

Survived another trip round the sun, everything remains awful, never the less we trundle on trying to do our best.

[أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAlSharif0]

This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings.

Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would extend my life so I could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (Al-Majdal). But Allah’s will came first, and His decree is final. I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification—so that Allah may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls.

I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed.

I entrust you with my dear son Salah, whom I had wished to support and accompany through life until he grew strong enough to carry my burden and continue the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose blessed prayers brought me to where I am, whose supplications were my fortress and whose light guided my path. I pray that Allah grants her strength and rewards her on my behalf with the best of rewards.

I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah (Bayan), from whom the war separated me for many long days and months. Yet she remained faithful to our bond, steadfast as the trunk of an olive tree that does not bend—patient, trusting in Allah, and carrying the responsibility in my absence with all her strength and faith.

I urge you to stand by them, to be their support after Allah Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles. I testify before Allah that I am content with His decree, certain of meeting Him, and assured that what is with Allah is better and everlasting.

O Allah, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family. Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for me with mercy, for I kept my promise and never changed or betrayed it.

Do not forget Gaza… And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.

Anas Jamal Al-Sharif
06.04.2025

This is what our beloved Anas requested to be published upon his martyrdom.

[Theresa Verity @theresaverity]

Hi @Keir_Starmer. 25 years ago, under a Labour government, I was one of the first hundred or so trans adolescents in the UK treated with GnRH Agonist 'Puberty Blockers' for gender incongruence by the NHS.

This treatment - the one your health secretary @wesstreeting banned last year - gave me an incredible opportunity not just to survive, but to thrive.

Every day, I am thankful for the GIDS clinicians who listened with compassion and foresight and carefully provided me with a roadmap to a future filled with hope.

That road is now closed, permanently, to those following in my footsteps.

When I was referred, I was the same age as Brianna Ghey - the murdered trans girl you exploited in front of a grieving nation as a rhetorical battering ram last year. Remember her? You stood in parliament and chastised Rishi Sunak for making a transphobic joke that dehumanises people like us. I remember your outrage on that poor family's behalf.

Was it all just an empty, cynical ploy? Are you truly so shameless that you'd exploit a murdered child's grieving mother, knowing full well that you intended to not only ban critical life-saving healthcare for people like Brianna and myself, but to engage in a political race to the bottom by effectively exiling us from public life entirely?

A little over a year ago, I begged you not to ban me from NHS single-sex services and accommodations. I begged you not to dehumanise and humiliate me by walking back on longstanding policies of compassion, tolerance and humanity - everything that Labour has represented for as long as I have lived.

I pleaded with you not to ruin my life; to spare me from the abusive mob seeking to destroy everything that your party once had the grace and foresight to give me.

Labour allowed me to be created; they gave me an incredible chance at a future of relative safety and immense joy that I could not have dreamed of at the time. You have destroyed that legacy. You have betrayed me in almost every way you possibly could have done.

Why are you now trying to destroy my life? Why are you now trying to take away everything we have desperately fought for decades to achieve?

I beg you to stop this nightmare before it gets any worse. Your support for this anti-trans crusade is already destroying lives. You are driving an entire marginalised community to the edge of despair - and to what end? What even is the purpose of it all?

Your party is now routinely presenting anti-trans statements that are extreme even by the standards of the far right. These people will never vote for you, no matter how deeply you plumb the depths of hatred.

You have the power to end this nightmare. You have the power to save us. Your failures to do so are tearing your own party apart. Your membership stats are so catastrophic that you even stopped reporting them out of embarrassment.

Your downward spiral has inspired the birth of an astonishingly successful new party created by MP's who have been rightly recoiling in horror against your policies.

You are destroying your own party; your own legacy - and this country's hope for the future - and for what end? So you can make the lives of already marginalised people even harder? So you can crush our spirit just a little bit further? Who are you trying to placate? Why are you letting them wield you like this?

I begged you not to abandon us before. I'm still begging you now.

Please.

Your endorsement of the EHRC's guidance would have forced poor, terrified Brianna to use male facilities; this would have not only forcibly outed, humiliated and dehumanised her every single day for the rest of her life, but it would have forced her into close proximity with violent, murderous transphobes like Eddie Ratcliffe on a regular basis.

These people already abuse and murder us with terrifying regularity. Forcing us to use male facilities will only make it worse - a lifetime of brutal censure for the crime of simply being ourselves.

It is the moral duty of government to protect vulnerable minorities like us from those who seek to harm us. You - a respected and accomplished human rights lawyer - understand this more than most people.

How many more of us have to die?

[Lisa Mullin @SlightPeeve]

"The guidance also ban trans men from female toilets on the basis that their presence would cause "alarm or distress".

Which means trans men are banned from everywhere...

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Stop selling arms to Israel then.

[SpeakOutSister @speakoutsister]

If you're saying that trans people can't have jobs dealing with the public because they're all predatory sex offenders that's the very definition of transphobia.

HTH .

[Tomo Bydand ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈(they/he) @tombydand]

Petite profanity.

[jack @fujohockey]

british actors will really be like “trans rights!” and then work on a project thats made by the world’s most notorious transphobic author who literally funds anti trans legislation in the uk

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Amnesty International: Israel is deliberately starving Gaza

Human Rights Watch: Israel is using starvation as weapon of war

Save the Children: Israel’s siege is starving the people of Gaza

Doctors Without Borders: Israel is destroying conditions of life in Gaza

The Atlantic: