This is why @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is running to be Deputy Leader of the Labour Party👇

3 out of 4 of great offices of State (PM, Chancellor, Home Sec, Foreign Sec) are now held by Women. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

💥 #FiLiA2025 speaker news 💥 Tonia Antoniazzi MP, #feminist, politician, former teacher, former rugby international & advocate for Women & Girls’ sex-based rights & ending the scourge of #MVAWG. Tonia is Chair of the @appg-cse.bsky.social 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #MaleViolence

Most peculiar 🤔 @stokeybookshop.bsky.social seemed distinctly disgusted to make a transaction with me when I went to buy the latest book from bestselling author JK Rowling (AKA Robert Galbraith) Its in stock- much to the apparent shame of the man who served me - but not on display anywhere...

Why the revival of Northern Powerhouse Rail could save HS2 to Manchester (Now FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/northern-p...

MUST READ: Ben Cooper KC's legal analysis on the implications of the FWS judgment, and why duty bearers must act now, not wait for the EHRC guidance sex-matters.org/posts/update...

We spoke to women across the UK with disabilities or caring responsibilities about the Government’s proposed #WelfareReforms Our statement, briefing to MPs and full consultation response can be read here: www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...

‘“Huge swathes” of severely disabled people will be hit by the planned universal credit cuts, contrary to government claims that they will be protected, charities say.’ #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePIP www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"Hospitals & govt departments refusing to implement Supreme Court ruling on definition of a woman must “get on with it” Sir Keir Starmer has said, as public bodies continue to defy the law" Is your MP/employer 'waiting for @EHRC Guidance'? Email them⬇️now www.thetimes.com/article/e243...

We hope Government will also listen to the Women from across the country who have contribed to our response to the DWP consultation. We will be sending this in the next week and are happy to discuss further 📨 #TakingThePIP #DisabilityRebellion

Good to see Keir Starmer @primeministeruk.bsky.social has listened to the MPs who raised the alarm about the impact of the proposed reform. Thank you Meg Hillier MP and all who signed the amendment!🙏 #DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Now at the event by @uclwomenslib.bsky.social & The Lesbian Project: What does the Supreme Court judgment mean for lesbians? with Naomi Cunningham, Julie Bindel & @jophoenix1.bsky.social Several protestors just removed, like all Men's Rights Activists, they came too soon! Now we continue!

So the Tories are voting against (deliberately setting conditions that can't be met). The Bill is on track to be defeated without concessions.

#FiLiA held focus groups in #Manchester, #Swansea #Glasgow and online and we will submit our consultation response next week. It is clear from what Women told us, these reforms could lead to significant harm. #DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare #WelfareReformBill #StopTheCuts

Yesterday, I co-signed an amendment with over 100 of my Labour Party colleagues to stop the welfare reform proposals from becoming law. This is a decision I have not taken lightly, but I believe it is the right one.

‘ #DisabilityCuts will have a “devastating” impact on women’s health & dignity & could breach #EqualityLaw... tightening eligibility for #PIP would mean disabled Women being discriminated against, due to their higher personal care needs compared with men.' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Yesterday we attended the APPG on DV & Abuse, as @womensaid.bsky.social launched their report: Nineteen More Child Homicides, showing there is still a widespread lack of understanding of coercive control & how perps use child contact to manipulate professionals. www.womensaid.org.uk/nineteen-mor...

We will respond fully to the consultation & would welcome the chance to discuss with ministers. Gov't must also carry out comprehensive impact assessments, including doing more to reach marginalised women who are most affected & least often heard. Full story: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We hope Government acts on the call to pause reforms & takes the time to hear from those at the sharp end. #FiLiA has listened to women from around Britain with disabilities or caring responsibilities - it is clear that the reforms could lead to significant harm. #TakingThePIP

We will hear from Iranian Sisters at #FiLiA2025 'Of the 19 women executed for murder, nine had been convicted of killing their husbands in cases involving domestic violence or forced or child marriage...' #WomanLifeFreedom news.un.org/en/story/202...

Welcoming 'innovators' and particularly 'disrupters' would be quite the adjustment for Whitehall. My experience anyway 🤷‍♀️

Why can’t women just be kind and tolerant? Why are they so against biological men in their bogs?

Today marks the 11th official observance of the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. Today and every day we stand in solidarity with survivors, and those supporting them, to say #EndRapeInWar

“It is clear that taking no action at the moment is not a lawful option for the Scottish government.” We will go to court again if ministers do not act. Read more in @thetimes ⤵️ www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

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The Scottish Government needs to obey the law. Women's rights matter. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I hope the Politicians who are supporting organisations which go into primary schools and encourage children to falsify their material reality and embrace delusions about gender are utterly utterly ashamed of themselves.

Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

Today is a day for confirming one iron rule of politics. Horrible people are also horrible to each other.

The entire internet right now.

'While gender identity campaigners claim autonomy and choice as progressive, even socialist, values, I see their emphasis on the individual’s right to self-definition as congruent with consumer capitalism'. 👏👏👏 @susannajrustin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

They call us names like they it's going to stop us 😅😅 www.wildwomynworkshop.com

In this week's newsletter, I wrote about Blue Labour. open.substack.com/pub/softleft...

A recent IPPR report has highlighted that children with poor mental health are two-thirds more likely to have reduced ability to work as adults. Improving the wellbeing of children is the core goal of our work with nurtureuk. Learn about our support: principleconsulting.org.uk/case-study/nurtureuk

Clear advice and guidance from Sex Matters, as ever.

31 May 1935 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Marianne Nunes Vas, was born in Amsterdam. In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

It's #Friday #newsletter time! 🔗 mailchi.mp/filia/martin... #FiLiA2025 speakers @maryamaldossari.bsky.social, Héma Sibi, Laura Lecuona & @martinanav.bsky.social joining online, #UnitedAgainstAusterity at #June7Demo, mtg with @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social #DisabilityBenefits focus groups & more!

What are your memories of the cultural programming of gender roles in your childhood: boys as chaotic, in charge and free, girls as controlled, passive and ornamental? Or were these social norms intentionally disrupted? BOOK NOW-CENTRAL BRIGHTON-FREE CRECHE www.tickettailor.com/events/siste...

"It is dystopian that women are facing criminal investigations for seeking medical care at the most desperate moments of their lives. This has got to end. That’s why I tabled NC1 - it’s time for Parliament to support this change" 👇 www.stylist.co.uk/news/politic...

According to Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) 49% of children living in lone-parent (lone-mother) families are in poverty. 41% of all single mothers receive no child support from absent fathers. Take action #FixTheCMS brightonsisters.wordpress.com/action-ten-r...

Crystal-clear. Perhaps the Corporation of London will read and inwardly digest it (or not, obvs).

Providing single sex services with confidence: a template for clear guidance sex-matters.org/posts/update...

"It's disgraceful how almost every politician, & almost every other regulator, & almost every organisational leader, have left Kishwer to take the heat on this. All that "we're waiting for EHRC guidance and btw Kishwer is biased" is BS. It's an attempt to evade responsibility." x.com/HJoyceGender...

Unions and bosses are flouting trans ruling www.thetimes.com/article/0b93...

Please write to your MP. Otherwise they only receive emails against the ruling.

Our second in-Woman focus group on the proposed #DisabilityBenefits cuts took place in #Swansea today and more Women were able to share their lived experiences of #disability. We want to hear their views and make the gov't listen to Women's expert opinions. #ListenToWomen

TAKE ACTION: Email your MP! Calling all sex-realist women and men! Bank holiday weekend action. Use this tool to write to your MP and tell them how much you appreciate the Supreme Court's clarity and want them to support local organisations to start following it. sex-matters.org/take-action/...