Wibblepot the purple witch

Sometime chocolatier, mother, trans ally, left wing, green. Would like the world to survive with nice people on it. She/her.

[Wibblepot the purple witch @Wibblepot]

@whedonesque I am heartbroken about this news. Such an amazing actor. He will be much missed.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

The Green Party is calling on the Prime Minister and Bridget Phillipson to reject the cruel and confusing EHRC Code of Practice.

Legislative action must be taken to create an equalities framework that protects trans people’s safety, dignity and humanity.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Impractical, intrusive and inhumane - @RachelMillward responds to the ECHR guidance on behalf of Green Party leadership.

[www.TransLucent.Org.UK @TransLucent_Org]

PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE:

Our urgent petition calls on trans people and allies to mobilise against a new draft code that implements a flawed court ruling, which threatens to strip UK trans people of their long-standing rights and social access.

https://t.co/EHcDik0BVm

[Anti-Bullying Alliance #AntiBullyingWeek @ABAonline]

Young people in our Young ABA group shared a powerful insight:

“If you advertise something and know it’s addictive, and you designed it to be addictive, you should mention that on the front page.”

Young people are speaking clearly about online safety in 2026. 🧵

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[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.

[🌻 Go Wild With Annette @writethewrongs2]

Good luck to every Green Party candidate standing for hope and for a better country 💚

[Jack D 🏳️‍🌈 @JackDunc1]

The only party offering a better deal for regular people is the Green Party. The only party challenging Israel is the Green Party. The only party that plans to stand up for working class people, middle class people, and all minorities is the Green Party. Tomorrow, Vote Green.

[Steph Richards: (She/her) - Say NO to hate. @PompeySteph]

For decades, charitable status has represented a public promise: organisations granted tax advantages and trust must use them to advance... NOT undermine human dignity.

Yet today, that promise is being stretched to its breaking point.

Charitable Status Should Not Be a Weapon

The law requires charities to serve the public benefit. Increasingly, however, some organisations exploit charitable structures to advance campaigns that harm specific groups, restrict access to essential services, or promote narratives undermining equality.

This is not the purpose for which the charitable sector was created.

Nor is it what the public believes it is funding.
When advocacy inflicts measurable harm on a minority group, it is not “education.”

When campaigns reduce access to healthcare, they do not serve the “public benefit.”

When rights-based language is used to justify restricting others’ rights, it is not “human rights work.”
These tactics exploit gaps in the law, leveraging the legitimacy and tax benefits conferred by charitable status.

The Regulatory Gap Is Now Impossible to Ignore

The Charity Commission operates under legislation that predates the emergence of highly organised, politically sophisticated advocacy groups. The law was never intended to address organisations whose primary impact is to reduce the well-being or safety of protected groups while presenting their work as neutral “education.”

This is not a question of ideology, but of harm, impact, and public trust.

Parliament Must Step In

If charitable status is to retain its meaning, the law must evolve. This requires:

1: Clearer Standards for Rights‑Based Claims:
Organisations invoking “human rights” frameworks should demonstrate genuine alignment with recognised international standards, not reinterpret those standards to justify restricting others.

2: Impact‑Triggered Reviews:
If a charity’s activities correlate with reduced healthcare access, increased hostility, or diminished safety for protected groups, this should automatically trigger regulatory scrutiny.

3: Stronger Transparency Requirements:
Charitable structures must never be used to channel opaque funding into political advocacy without accountability.

The Sector Deserves Better
Most charities work tirelessly to improve lives. They deserve a regulatory system that safeguards the integrity of their mission - not one that allows “public benefit” to be repurposed as a tool to undermine equality.

Charitable status is, and must remain, a privilege.
It must never be used to legitimise campaigns that diminish others' dignity or safety.

The law must catch up to 21st-century realities.

Public benefit must mean what it says.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

No, you cannot walk 10,000 steps daily, get 8 hours of sleep, cook every night, clean every day, take care of a family, make time for your own hobbies, and still be productive at work every day. This is not just propaganda, it is nonsense. Free yourself from it.

[Adam Conover @adamconover]

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies having to be sold so desperately. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

[Wibblepot the purple witch @Wibblepot]

@TheSims It depends on my mood and what is in season but you can't go wrong with a classic white rose. #TS4Springgiveaway

[Steph Richards: (She/her) - Say NO to hate. @PompeySteph]

TransLucent Resignation Statement: Seeking to take the Labour Party to court.

Some 6+ years ago, I started a personal blog, which led to a group of campaigners, which in turn led to an organisation we now know as TransLucent. It’s been an amazing journey for me as a founder and CEO. Still, in life, things change, and chapters end.

In December 2025, the Labour Party discriminated against me by barring me from a space where I was once welcome - the National Women’s Conference.

The Party claims that this is due to the Supreme Court judgment (FWS v SGM). I believe the Labour Party has been badly misinformed by their lawyers and could have chosen to remain trans inclusive.

A court, perhaps ultimately in Strasbourg, will need to decide.

I know this may be a marathon journey, but it is inconceivable that when the Gender Recognition Act was drafted, exemptions, which included single-sex spaces and female sport, would also mean a trans woman could not attend a conference.

For nearly a year, the Labour government has witnessed the chaos the Supreme Court judgment has caused: likely suicides, certainly suicide attempts, trans people outed at work, trans women and girls expelled from Girlguiding, and volunteers quitting in protest.

The Women’s Institute has excluded trans women who had been members for decades, resulting in multiple branches closing, leaving many elderly s!s women without the companionship they cherished.

This is madness, and the Labour government could and should have intervened - neither Girlguiding nor the WI wanted to exclude - this gender-critical “lawfare” has to be stopped.

I never imagined that I would be the one embarking on this epic journey to help overturn the FWS judgment, and I know the right-wing media will target me relentlessly with lies and misinformation - something I have faced several times before.

As I begin my legal case, it is clear that I can no longer remain the public face of TransLucent, which is not involved in my personal dispute.

I have served the Labour Party loyally in various Women’s positions in the past. As a post op trans woman with a Gender Recognition Certificate and as an award-winning feminist, I am truly disgusted, but while I feel desperately let down, it is my intention to remain an active member of my CLP.

I am pleased to confirm that Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE (who co-founded Press for Change) and Dr Debora Diamond, both eminently qualified, will take my place at TransLucent. I know they will do a superb job.

My immediate resignation will not affect the tireless advocacy work the organisation has undertaken -TransLucent will continue to fight for the dignity, respect, human rights and healthcare that trans people so richly deserve.

I have had months to prepare for this, as my dispute with the Labour Party has been ongoing since December. Although I am leaving my position at TransLucent, I will continue being involved in the cause of human rights and intersectional feminism.

Finally, please support my Crowdjustice Campaign to help fund my legal case against the Labour Party. Initially, I need £25k, followed by a further £45k as soon as possible.

All donations go directly to my solicitor - should you prefer by using the slider, you dont need to leave a tip to Crowdjustice.

Please donate and share this post.

Thank you.

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[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Read this thread. Every word.

And then read it again, because you will not believe it can be true.

But it is. Every word.

@DavidLammy and @sarahsackman want to remove the right to jury trial in cases involving *death*.

Homicide cases.

[India Willoughby @IndiaWilloughby]

This doctor explains transgender and gender dysphoria perfectly 👇👇👇

[Thomas Willett @ThomasWillett9]

It’s outrageous that when it comes to trans people, those in power choose to listen to unqualified lobbyists instead of medical professionals & trans people themselves. There should be an investigation into these lobby groups that continue to exceed their remits & cause real harm

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Well, they did.

@UKLabour MPs placed unthinking tribalism ahead of evidence and principle.

They fell for the untruths and misdirections, the cynical emotive rhetoric and the lazy, cowardly refusal of the government to debate on the facts.

We deserve better politicians.

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

When Politics Starts Governing Other People’s Bodies

There is something deeply wrong with a country when the bodies of a small minority become a public battleground for people who will never have to live in them. That is where the UK now is on transgender healthcare. A growing number of politicians, campaigners and commentators have helped turn trans people’s medical treatment into a culture war object, and the NHS is increasingly acting inside that pressure rather than above it. The result is a system where public opinion and political anxiety are shaping access to care that has been used in endocrinology and gender medicine for decades.

The new NHS England review of adult transgender healthcare is a clear example. On paper, it is described as an evidence review of masculinising and feminising hormone therapy for adults. In reality, it is part of a much larger restructuring that began after the Bell case, intensified through the Cass Review, and has now expanded from youth services into adult care. NHS England has already said the findings from these reviews will feed into later consultation on gender service policy. That means this is not just an administrative exercise about waiting times. It is a reconsideration of the evidence base behind adult hormone treatment itself.

That should concern anyone who thinks healthcare should be led by medicine rather than moral panic. The treatments under review are not new. International clinical standards, including the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards of Care Version 8, describe gender-affirming hormone therapy as part of established care pathways intended to improve psychological wellbeing, physical health and quality of life for transgender people. The aim of care is not ideological affirmation. It is relief of distress and improved health outcomes.

At the same time, the NHS’s own adult gender service review by Dr David Levy found a system already in serious trouble. Waiting times are extreme, service provision is fragmented, and outcome data are inconsistently collected. In some parts of England, waits for a first appointment have stretched for years, with reporting around the Levy review indicating waits that can approach a decade or more. This is not a functioning service being calmly refined. It is a broken one being subjected to another wave of scrutiny while patients continue to wait.

The second angle is the human cost. When care is delayed, narrowed or turned into a public controversy, the people living through that do not disappear. They remain in distress while their treatment becomes a talking point. That has already been visible in the youth system. Good Law Project published Freedom of Information data from the NHS-funded National Child Mortality Database showing 46 recorded suicides of trans children under 18 in England between 2019 and 2025, including 22 in 2021 to 2022. The dataset itself warns that recent years are likely an underestimate because not all child death reviews are complete. Those figures do not prove a single cause for each death. Suicide is always more complex than that. But they do show a devastating level of loss unfolding in the same period that trans healthcare was being restricted, destabilised and politicised.

That is why the language of “neutral evidence gathering” rings hollow for many families and trans people. In youth care, routine puberty blocker access was removed and placed behind a research pathway. Then even that pathway became unstable. NHS England has also now said there is not enough evidence to support routine provision of masculinising and feminising hormones for children and young people going forward through the NHS children and young people’s gender service. Whatever words officials choose, the practical reality is a shrinking route to care.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

These aircraft should not be allowed to land on British Soil.

Over 1000 civilians dead already after illegal war started by the US and Israel - and all this with no vote in the UK parliament about our role.

[YoungMinds @YoungMindsUK]

This can't go on.