ghost of a fruit

I'm tagging people:

well isn't that just lovely/j (the quiz is so cool tho)

Hipswitch design by @glowbat

aces who feel invalid because they only became ace after trauma

bi/pansexuals who feel invalid because most/all of their romantic interests so far have been a specific gender

enbys who feel invalid because their fashion style is stereotypically masculine or feminine

lesbians/gays who feel invalid because they've had childhood, celebrity, or fictional crushes on the opposite sex

aces who feel invalid because they also suffer from hypersexuality

trans people who feel invalid because they still appreciate some things about their agab

aces who feel invalid because they still get aroused despite not wanting to have sex

lesbians/gays who feel invalid because they were in straight relationships before they were out

trans people who feel invalid because they don't want to go on hormones or get surgery for whatever reason

poly people who feel invalid because they've never been in a polyamorous relationship

genderfluid people who feel invalid because they identify as one gender more than others

trans people who feel invalid because they've enjoyed sex as their agab

aroace people who feel like being on the aroace spectrum invalidates their non-straight identity

non-straight people who feel like being non-straight invalidates their aroace identity

any queer person who feels invalid because they've been "fine living in the closet so far"

any queer person who feels invalid because they change their labels a lot

any queer person who feels invalid because they have a lot of labels

any queer person who feels invalid because they only have a few labels

any queer person who feels invalid because they can't find labels that describe them

any queer person who feels invalid because they don't want to find labels that describe them

any queer person who feels invalid because they've been told they're "too young", "confused", "going through a phase", "wrong", "unnatural", "letting their family down", "satanic", or anything else to suppress their queer identity.

You are valid. You will always be valid. Even if you didn't feel like this until recently, even if you don't always feel like this, your queer identity describes who you are and how you feel right now.

You are loved.

Happy Pride.

Don't give up.

June 5th! EVERY year

What the Code actually does

The Code is the EHRC’s interpretation of the April 2025 Supreme Court ruling in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers. That ruling redefined “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 to mean biological sex. The EHRC was always going to update the Code. The question was how. The answer arrived on 21 May, and the answer is: badly. The Code defines “woman” as “biological woman.” It defines “man” as “biological man.” For the purposes of the Equality Act, sex means sex at birth. End of. That definition then cascades. Single-sex spaces, the Code says, must be operated on the basis of biological sex. Trans people “should be offered” a third or gender-neutral space. Trans women can be excluded from women-only associations. Trans people are excluded from single-sex competitions for the gender they live in. If a women-only service chooses to admit trans women, it may legally cease to qualify as a single-sex service at all. That last bit goes unsaid in most of the coverage. Read it again. A women’s group that has been trans-inclusive for twenty years, run by women who voted democratically to be trans-inclusive, can now lose its legal protection as a single-sex service because of who its members chose to include. A small group of self-styled women’s rights campaigners can threaten a much larger women’s organisation with court action for being too welcoming. That is the policy. It is being sold as protection. It is, in practice, a way of bullying women out of running the kinds of services women have chosen to run. The Code does not stop at toilets and refuges. It limits access to healthcare. To housing. To social care. To gyms, pools, spas. And then, quietly, it rewrites what “lesbian” and “gay” mean in law. Paragraph 2.50 of the Code says, in plain text: “a trans man with a GRC is a woman and a trans woman with a GRC is a man, for the purposes of the Act.” Paragraph 2.92 then defines sexual orientation: “a person’s sexual orientation towards persons of the same sex (the person is a lesbian woman or a gay man).” And paragraph 2.96 closes the back door: “Gender reassignment is a separate protected characteristic and unrelated to sexual orientation.” Stitch those three together and the consequence is unavoidable. A trans woman in a relationship with a cis woman is legally, under this Code, a man in a relationship with a woman. Heterosexual. Not a lesbian couple. Not protected as one. I had to read that twice. It is in the document the government has just laid before Parliament. You can read it yourself on gov.uk.

Taken from: https://biminibabes.substack.com/p/write-the-letter-babes

I don't tend to write posts like this, but this is something that is going to harm me and so many others in the UK.

Please share this link around if you're not from the UK, and if you are - click on it. It'll give you the link to a petition and it will help you send a letter to your MP asking them to vote against this.

Elias art by @herodzn

Jesus art by @jesus-son-of-man

Ahem, tag your moots for Pride Month!! What's your identity, pronouns, preference and types or are you allies, my fellow pride mates?

I am proudly genderfae (she/they), panromantic/fictoromantic and asexual!

I am! Aroace, demigirl (though I basically go by any and all pronouns tbh), trans, Omnisexual and Demisexual!!

PANSEXUAL AND AGENDERED!!!!

I am homosexual and go by he/him pronouns

i’m. Well, I’m a lot, but to boil it down: aroace, praeterromantic, polygender, voidgender, fictionkin, ect.

im ace, grayro, panromantic and non binary!