Wibblepot the purple witch

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Wibblepot the purple witch

Wibblepot the purple witch

@Wibblepot

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

Barlby, North Yorks, UK Katılım Şubat 2009
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Steph Richards: (She/her) - Say NO to hate.
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. crowdjustice.com/case/justice-f…
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The Secret Barrister 🦋
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.
Joanna Hardy-Susskind@Joanna__Hardy

Hello, there 👋 Have you heard David Lammy MP and Sarah Sackman MP talking about people stealing bottles of whisky and swiping mobile telephones as examples of people who should not get jury trials? Well. I’d like to tell you a story. 🪡 🧵

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India Willoughby
India Willoughby@IndiaWilloughby·
This doctor explains transgender and gender dysphoria perfectly 👇👇👇
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Thomas Willett
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
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The Secret Barrister 🦋
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.
The Secret Barrister 🦋@BarristerSecret

Today @DavidLammy could enter the history books. He could usurp Chris Grayling as the most catastrophic Justice Secretary of the century, devastating trial by jury based on feels, with no evidence that this will fix the problems in criminal justice. Will Labour MPs enable him?

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Daniel Lismore
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.
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YoungMinds
YoungMinds@YoungMindsUK·
This can't go on.
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Harry Eccles
Harry Eccles@Heccles94·
Britain does not have an immigration problem. Britain has a racism problem. RT if you agree.
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nyara
nyara@nyaraVT·
Trans women are real women Trans women are biological women There is no definition of a “real” or “biological woman” that includes ALL cís women and excludes ALL trans women
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The Green Party
The Green Party@TheGreenParty·
Draw the line. Join the Green Party today ⤵️
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Wibblepot the purple witch@Wibblepot·
@GovPurple Make the most of training and support offered. No question is stupid. Sometimes a simple question is a good reminder for other governors and stimulate discussion that could lead to positive changes.
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PurpleGov@GovPurple·
What would be your best advice for a new governor? I am developing some slides for a board.
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Richard Murphy
Richard Murphy@RichardJMurphy·
# What is hard left about caring? # I have noticed that The Spectator and other further-right publications have described the new political party that Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana, and others might create as being 'hard left'. What is hard left about wanting people who have disabilities or who are unable to work to have the money that they require to meet their needs? What is hard left about hating the idea of children living in poverty? What is hard left about wanting people to have the chance to live in their own homes, providing security for them and their families, without being impoverished as a result? What is hard left about the desire that all people have enough income to make ends meet? What is hard left about wanting public services that work, because they are properly funded and the people who work in them are treated with the respect that they deserve? What is hard left about caring about climate change, and the future of our children and life on this planet? What is hard left about wanting peace? What is hard left about caring for others, whoever they are? What is hard left about wanting for others what you might desire for yourself? What is hard left about believing in democracy? What is hard left about understanding that markets fail, since they very obviously do, and that as a result, we need the state to underpin and regulate them to make sure that they are fair? What is hard left about thinking that everyone should have an equal voice in our society? What is hard left about wanting that society be fair? What is hard left about believing in the state when it is very obvious that we are going to have one? What, in summary, is hard left about caring? Someone from The Spectator, or other right-wing papers, needs to answer these questions, because what they are doing is promoting the opposite. Why would you do that? What would motivate you? And how do you think that good outcomes might result? As far as I can see, there is nothing hard left at all about any of the above things. In fact, what they represent are the Christian values and those of other faiths that the right wing of politics claims to be dedicated to. So, what is so wrong with these ideas when a politician actually espouses them? And why is it that the right-wing makes it so easy to spot the difference between the things that they say and the actions that they take? Why is it, as a consequence, that their politics is so laden with hypocrisy? And why is it, as a result, that they are so terrified of people who want to walk their talk, and respect the world and those in it, that they feel they must describe them as hard left? I wish I knew, but I don’t, because their mindset is, as far as I can see, beyond the reasonable comprehension of any caring human being. And I put the emphasis on the word 'caring'.
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LGBwiththeT
LGBwiththeT@LGBwiththeT·
UK LAW: "Where a full GRC is issued, the person's gender becomes for all purposes the acquired gender (so that, if the acquired gender is the male gender, the person's sex becomes that of a man and, if it is the female gender, the person's sex becomes that of a woman)."
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Larry & Paul
Larry & Paul@larryandpaul·
⚠️ Whatever you do, please don’t share this #BrokenNews with @elonmusk. Actually, fairly certain we’ve been shadowbanned already, so maybe it won’t matter.
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The Green Party
The Green Party@TheGreenParty·
By noon today FTSE100 bosses will have made more money than the average worker will all year. Income inequality is grossly out of control. Now is the time to tax the super-rich and bring in a 10:1 pay ratio.
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Cllr Nick Hartley - Green Party
Thoughtful thread from @ZackPolanski 👇 I’m proud to be part of @TheGreenParty. It’s not because my colleagues are “nice”, it’s because they are compassionate, dedicated and want to improve lives. Yes we could all communicate better at times, but we’ll keep acting on our values
Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski

I was pointed in the direction of this interview with @lewis_goodall - it's very indicative of what's going wrong with politics. Of course this isnt one person or podcasts fault but it's very revealing of why we get the politics we've got. 🧵/10 youtu.be/1Gy2sTZY6Ds?si…

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