Did you know trans+ people in the UK are facing a bathroom ban, without a vote in Parliament? Learn how you can help stop it... 🧵

The EHRC – the body which is meant to protect our human rights – is proposing guidance which would turn the Equality Act into a bathroom ban. If this becomes law, it would force trans people out of public life. And terrifyingly - this is all happening behind closed doors 🧵

The EHRC's lawyers have conceded its position on single sex toilets is wrong. goodlaw.social/z87e

Please sign. We do not need to make it easy for authoritarianism.

Trans folk and allies concerned about (as everyone ought to be) the "institutional capture" of the EHRC can consider signing this open letter to the Women and Equalities Committee who get to scrutinize the preferred (by HMGov) appointment to EHRC head - who appears to be yet another transphobe.

#gaza #publicinquiry #corbyn

Got a Labour MP? Post them this.

The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work. The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink

An excellent summary of how UK trans rights (and understanding of gender) ended up in their current abysmal state (even though written before the Supreme Court ruling of 16/4 on sex)

This letter from Tony Vaughan KC, the MP for Folkestone, is the clearest articulation I’ve seen on the flaws of the interim update from the EHRC. The section titled ‘Legal Incoherence’ hits the nail on the head.

I am proud to be a signatory to this letter speaking out in support of our trans siblings in the face of the current appalling assault on their rights and safety. If you are a feminist academic or educator please do read, share and consider signing. #transrightsarehumanrights #CisWithTheT

Dear #r4today, Autism is not a "mental health disorder", it is a form of neurodivergence, different thing. Yes autistic individuals do tend to be more likely to be trans or non-binary, that doesn't mean autistic, trans or non-binary individuals have mental health issues, get your reporting sorted.

TRUMP HAS NOW DEPORTED MULTIPLE U.S. CITIZEN CHILDREN WITH CANCER www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Finally those gender definitions I mentioned! I am hopeful they will provide a useful contribution to how we re-construct trans rights by having a philosophical foundation that gender critical folk will find harder to disagree with (or to negatively caricature). rudderandsails.com/2025/04/21/p...

From my latest piece. The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.

Penultimate post on my current sex/gender/trans blog splurge. Sex and gender are imperfectly correlated. I hope you are still on board!

Still on the foundational ideas but getting closer. This post discusses biological sex and recognises the reality of intersex conditions. Sex is not binary, it is bimodal.

Still some way off the promised writing on gender definitions but here's some trans related stuff that is pretty axiomatic, for me at least.

Jolyon Maugham nails the problem leading to this highly flawed Supreme Court ruling

In resonse to the raid on Westminster #Quaker Meeting House, I sent this letter to our MP, with the blessing from my congregation, expressing our concern at the far-reaching consequences of the Public Order Act and the Policing Act. #Unitarians in standing in solidarity with @quaker.org.uk

It is time for me to warm up my very inactive blog. As I promised elsewhere I will be writing about gender definitions etc. in the wake of today's UK Supreme Court ruling but first, for at least some folk reading, there's the need for a small amount of personal context.

Much love and care to all UK transgender and gender non-conforming individuals on a very difficult day. You are not alone. ------------------------------- I will have more to say, not so much on today's UK Supreme Court ruling, but upon underlying definitions and philosophy shortly.

The following Emergency Motion was passed (and is thus now a Resolution) with an overwhelming majority at the Annual Meetings of the UK General Assembly of the Unitarian and Free Christian Churches on Sunday 13th April.

Wow! Incredible stamina. Incredible oration. Hopefully it connects.

Trans Day of Visibility: am typically visible these days. Planning on being more audible too...

Unitarians in solidarity with @quaker.org.uk after the Westminster Quaker meeting house was violently entered by over 20 police officers this week, and arrests made of 6 women holding a peaceful meeting relating to concerns about the climate and Gaza.   www.unitarian.org.uk/2025/03/29/u...

This is absolutely outrageous.

How the media makes all trans people - at least if we make the mildest squeak - into unreasonable "activists" while making anti-trans bigots into folk simply having "reasonable concerns"

No more appeasement of Trump and big tech! Let them do their worst and show everyone who and what they really are! act.38degrees.org.uk/act/tech-gia...

When it all comes down she - a fascist and a bigot - is utterly disgusting herself. Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance embodied for our times...

Disgraceful. And other GPs nearby are refusing new trans patients. I had been thinking of moving to that area... 🙁

This is absolutely shocking if true. A government's treatment of its most vulnerable citizens is a key indicator of its humanity and the strength of its social fabric. Enough is enough

Chairing this should be fun!

Sorry folks but this is increasingly my take (with or without a slice of Kremlin Pie)

1. Reports this week revealed that DHS has rescinded guidance banning surveillance based on someone's gender identity or sexual orientation. We have confirmed those reports. The latest from S. Baum, who goes over steps you can take to protect yourself. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has updated is statement about the ongoing trans genocide in the US and apologised for the previous one.

Clearly I can't personally verify this but it is consistent with Trump's remarkably cosy relationship with Putin.

Keep doing what you do @bylinetimes.bsky.social. You’ve got them worried

I had the honor of speaking with the razor sharp Julia Wong about Enemy Feminisms, & she really gets it. Writers are not always so lucky to receive such care in journalism. Thank you Julia for putting so much thought into this offering which frames EF rightly as an antifascist strategy intervention

Trans people fighting to cling on to our very basic existing human rights are totally outgunned at the moment. I promise you, hand on heart, 99.9% of what you are told about us every day is a lie. We can’t answer back on traditional media platforms, because we are banned.

Recital - admission free but donations to WAND (Sheffield Women's Neurodiversity Network) much appreciated. The previous concert given by Emily and Madge (who is one of our evening organists) was excellent. Please come along and bring a friend!

Louder for the people with their fingers in their ears.

I’m reposting this because it NEEDS UK based trans folk AND ALLIES to consider signing it - please It is the only way we will get that conversation with the DHSC & NHS England