Rhianna Pratchett 🧙🏻‍♀️

To our trans communities - we see you, we value you and we're proud to have you in our lives. 🏳️‍⚧️

Brilliant statement from the Fire Brigade Union. 👏🏼🏳️‍⚧️

They did, it was called America

Thank you so much for your amazing day one reviews of Life Below! We’re so grateful for the overwhelmingly positive feedback we’ve had about the game. Have you checked out Life Below yet? #indiegame #indiegamedev #steamgame

Story work by me! Loved working with the Megapop team on this.

Trans people make up about 1% of the population yet somehow people talk like they’re hiding under every bed, behind every curtain and are personally responsible for creating all the evil in the world. The obsession is genuinely bizarre.

For all that has been happening, I think Terry said it best: “Evil begins when you begin to treat people like things”.

#HowDoTheyRiseUp #Glorious25thMay #Discworld

You didn't worry about toilets, you didn't obsess over strangers' genitals, you didn't believe in a secret cabal of lefty parents and endocrinologists or a tidal wave of predatory men in dresses with blue hair and certificates until about 7 years-ago when the right told you to!!

The risk of a trans woman being abused or assaulted in the men’s toilet per visit = extremely high. The risk of a woman being abused or assaulted in the women’s toilet per visit = extremely low.

Well, there it is. Vote Green folks.

as a trans man i'm not allowed to use the men's toilet now because it says F on my birth certificate but i'm also not allowed to use the women's toilet because i may cause distress for looking like a man.... WHERE TF DO YOU WANT ME TO PISS????

Lots of examples of lesbians being thrown out of women's toilets, this is just one of them. If Mumsnet are right, Bridget Phillipson is about to give people a legal excuse to do it.

Rhianna Pratchett Dives Deep into the Narrative Design of 'Life Below' techmash.co.uk/2026/05/12/rhi… @techmashcouk #Megapop #underwatercitybuilder #LifeBelow #RhiannaPratchett #biologist #coralreef #wildlife #techmash #ecosystems #ocean #n5dave #gamingnews #gamers #videogames #gaming

Life Below Release Date! • Reef-building city builder, real marine biology, story by Rhianna Pratchett • Hazards Trailer: jellyfish swarms, coral bleaching, oil spills & more • Steam: May 26, 2026 #LifeBelow @KasedoGames @MegapopGames @LifeBelow_Game nanogamingnews.com/2026/04/20/lif…

And just like that, the very wealthiest party in the U.K. backed by foreign billionaires is supported by the very poorest members of society who dislike foreigners. You couldn’t make this shit up.

@silverpebble Just sent you a message on Etsy ❤️

There are still a few of my Victorian ink bottle posy kits designed to improve your mental health in my shop,incl tiniest Edwardian salt glaze jug & very collectible 'jelly’ inks. Each kit includes tiny posy & booklet about the neuroscience of how using it improves mental health: etsy.com/uk/shop/silver…

I'm doing 100k in May, fundraising for Adoption UK. Check out my @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/page/sujoy-roy…

🌊🐠 Rettet das Riff! #LifeBelow erscheint am 26. Mai auf Steam. Erlebt einen City-Builder der besonderen Art, entwickelt mit Meeresbiologen & Rhianna Pratchett. Kämpft gegen Ölteppiche und Korallenbleiche, um den Ozean zu heilen. ✨🐚 #IndieGame technoloki.de/rettung-der-oz…

J.K. Rowling’s Case Against Trans People Falls Apart Under Basic Scrutiny J.K. Rowling’s writing on her site presents itself as cautious, evidence based and protective of women. It is none of those things in any reliable sense. It is a political essay built out of selective fear, anecdote, conflation and repeated framing tricks that turn a small and vulnerable minority into a public threat. Once the central claims are checked against mainstream psychological definitions, clinical guidance and the better available reviews, the structure gives way very quickly. The first problem is basic description. Rowling writes as though trans identity is a fashionable belief system imposed on reality. That is false. Major professional bodies continue to define gender identity as a person’s internal sense of gender and distinguish it from biological traits, expression and sexuality. That does not mean every clinical pathway is simple or that every policy question has one easy answer. It means the existence of trans people is not a fiction created by slogans or websites. It is a recognised human phenomenon described across medicine and psychology for years. Her second move is more political than scientific. She repeatedly folds trans women into a category of male risk and then treats that association as common sense. That is the engine of the piece. It asks readers to accept that recognition itself is dangerous. The trouble is that this is not evidence. It is suspicion dressed up as safeguarding. A rights claim by one group does not become invalid because another group can imagine its misuse. That logic would destroy the basis of civil protection in every direction. She also leans heavily on the idea that affirming trans people means suppressing women or erasing sex. That is another false construction. Recognising gender identity does not abolish sex based medicine, sex based data collection or serious discussion of violence against women. Clinical guidance and professional standards continue to treat sex related health needs as real while also recognising transgender patients as deserving of competent care. The claim that one can only defend women by rejecting trans people is not a medical conclusion. It is an ideological choice. On healthcare her essay suggests that trans identification is being irresponsibly indulged and that medicine has surrendered to fashion. The actual evidence base is more careful than either side’s loudest slogans. For adults, established clinical standards and recent reviews continue to support access to gender affirming care with assessment, informed consent and monitoring. Reviews published in 2024 and 2025 report that gender affirming interventions are associated overall with improved mental health, body satisfaction and quality of life, while also noting that evidence quality varies and further research is needed. That is a long way from the picture of mass delusion that Rowling promotes. For children and adolescents the picture is more contested and the honest position is narrower. The Cass Review in England and later NHS England work show that the evidence for some youth interventions remains limited and that services need stronger assessment, clearer pathways and better long term research. That supports caution and reform. It does not support broad hostility to trans people, nor does it justify using uncertainty in paediatric care as a weapon against trans adults or against social recognition itself. Rowling’s essay repeatedly makes that jump. It is a political jump, not a scientific one. She also gives the reader the impression that transition is commonly regretted and that medicine is running ahead of human reality. The best known systematic reviews do not support that picture. Regret after gender affirming surgery appears low in the published literature, including systematic reviews and more recent follow up work. That does not mean regret never happens or that every clinic gets