Hey look - the Labour whips have produced a pro-forma letter for their MPs to use when refusing to sign the Early Day Motion against the Government's transphobic and misogynistic bathroom ban. Now they can pretend they have given some thought to the matter! My MP can't even be arsed to do that.

I hate this myth so fucking much because it started after a study specifically to see if brains developed after 18. So they limited the study to age 25. And people decided that meant brains develop only until 25 even though a later study with no age limit showed brains NEVER stop developing.

Very sad to hear of the death of Anthony Head: always loved his work and he was on the side of the angels too. What a lovely, lovely man. www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...

This is a really clear explanation of why everyone should urgently ask their MP to sign the motion against the EHRC's dangerous, transphobic and misogynistic guidance on single sex spaces - currently 75 MPs have done so. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

It's never just one minority. This is sickening stuff.

This is Bodie. His presence indicates the beginning of Pride Month. May his whimsy and steadfastness bring joy and confidence to all. 14/10 the parade starts right behind him 🌈🐾 (IG: hellobodie)

So with some pretty fucking extreme racism in the mainstream now in UK politics im sure nothing untoward will come from the fact the EHRC just opened the door to “being uncomfortable with sharing a space with certain people” being a fine reason to segregate people

If you’re MP wants a way to object to the updated EHRC Code of Practice (now laid in Parliament), please ask them to sign this Early Day motion calling for the Code to be rejected. If this EDM gets enough signatures it could become a fatal prayer motion🙏 edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

‼️ Amnesty's new research exposes the anti-trans movement. They have a plan - first they're coming for trans rights and then for women's rights. We'll only defeat them by coming together.

Hey @unitetheunion.bsky.social - this is how it's done FYI.

There are no “legitimate concerns” about trans people. There aren’t any about women’s safety or fairness in sports or kids being kids or fucking toilets. If there were you’d have heard of them before 2018. I am a cis white woman so you have to listen to me or I’ll cry.

Our fight against the EHRC's transphobic guidance is more important now than ever. We will keep fighting for trans inclusion. The legal battle continues. Can you help us keep up the fight? https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/help-us-appeal-the-high-courts-judgment-on-trans-rights

"This is cruelty, not clarity.'

The findings suggest that Britain’s media landscape has helped manufacture a moral panic. Read 👉 buff.ly/ZLO072r #GCNnews

“This is not a hypothetical. You are less free now. Your security, dignity, and safety is in the hands of nasty, petty, monumentally stupid bigots. They can take it from you at a whim. And that should bother you.” Save this article. Share it, again and again.

You know the greatest way to fight transphobia? Be happy. So if you can't do it for yourself right now. Do it out of spite. Live a full life. Pick up that hobby. Join that group. Go on that adventure. One day you'll wake up and realise it's not even an effort anymore. It's just who you've become.

The important point to remember is NO SHE DOESN'T. What was published yesterday were guidelines for service providers. They impose NO obligations on individuals and are NOT the law. People want you to believe otherwise, to intimidate trans people. But they haven't yet criminalised their existence.

"The vast majority of people will never hear the other side of the story, the factually correct side of the story, the morally decent side of the story. The side of the story that was the overwhelming consensus among politicians and the public a mere 6-7 years previously."

The only way to understand it that I can fathom is that it starts from the premise that it's GCs that are the minority that require protection, and the task of the guidance is therefore to reconcile equality law to allow them to do things that would (prima facie) breach it.

🗨️ "Being trapped isn't necessary just a physical thing. There is a financial entrapment, there is a mental entrapment, there is an emotional entrapment to this. I am absolutely furious about it." swlondoner.shorthandstories.com/it-feels-lik...

First Brexit, then immigration and now this. What, if anything, does Andy Burnham actually disagree with Keir Starmer about?

Beyond hideous, what is being done to trans people on the UK - by the so-called EHRC, the so-called Labour Party and the so-called justice system.

In 2016, the FCO issued travel warnings to LGBT people after US states proposed “bathroom bans”, it was seen as so obviously extreme. www.theguardian.com/world/2016/a...

The damage he’s done will take a lifetime to undo, but good riddance. May he never know peace.

GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.

Wes Streeting is an extremist. This is like the Home Secretary meeting with the BNP, Britain First, Patriotic Alternative, Eugenicists for a White Christ, and whatever else “to discuss citizenship issues” He should be nowhere near power.

Wes Streeting just gave your address, your ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, if you are cis or trans, if you've ever had an abortion, an addiction, are disabled in anyway and a million other pieces of info about you, to a far right tech company the UK government has no control over.

In 2015 the UK was the highest ranked on ILGA-Europe’s Rainbow Map of LGBT+ rights, with 86%. This year we got 43.9% - 21 places lower. Almost all of that devastating reversal is because of what's happened to trans rights. And it's still getting worse. I have no words.

This is exactly what the BMA analysis of Cass criticized. The puberty-blocker ban is not supported by any evidence or research, even the biased pseudoscience of Cass. The transphobes promoted into powerful positions in the DHSC are getting more extreme and their fanatical hatred is showing through.

The Scottish Tories dedicated themselves more to transphobia than anyone. They've been wrecked in Scotland, losing nearly two thirds of their seats. The Scottish Greens and LibDems stood in solidarity with trans people and doubled their seats. No major news outlet will comment on this dynamic.

The words "I take responsibility" are not some magical incantation. Uttering them is not actually taking responsibility. "Taking responsibility" for Starmer must mean standing down, and letting someone else try to rescue something from the historic opportunity he was given in 2024 and has wasted.

This thread sums it up for me. Labour had the power and the mandate to change the direction of this country, and chose instead to continue and extend the worst of the Tories' racist, ableist, transphobic policies, apparently out of abject fear that they would lose in 2029. Well they will now.

I'm honoured to get the Amnesty Award, but honestly this was a group effort. Thanks to the crew, fact-checkers, lawyers, journalists, and the team at Nebula who helped bring this scandal to light. And thanks to @jessothomson.co.uk for collecting the award on my behalf! Here’s my acceptance speech:

Sorry to labour the point but the BMJ aren't the BMA and the BMJ have put imho a transphobic spin on things. Here's the actual highlights from the critique: bsky.app/profile/alex...

"Once immigration is fixed" is a very revealing phrase. It shows what a lot of Labour MPs (and the government) think of us. We are a problem to be solved, not members of the community like everyone else. And our lives must be made harder to satisfy some mythical Red Wall voters.

A bit of joy this morning. Really hope they're right. And that losing is all it takes for them to fuck off.

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

It is good ☺️ ❤️ (Reposting w/ alt text)

Done.

Don't just bitch on Social Media, actually make a complaint to them

This. Every time you see a "successful" trans person, know we are just one transphobe away from losing everything. This is one reason why it is important for allies to actually ally when we're not around -- transphobes should know their views aren't acceptable to anyone.

Bending the knee and offering fealty to bullies in a desperate attempt to avoid being attacked, is NOT advocacy. What is the point of @stonewalluk.bsky.social if it is more interested in keeping itself alive than actually supporting those it’s meant to help? 🤷🏼‍♀️

This is so absurd. You cannot be the head of a LGBTQ org and praise Rowling like this. She's a vile cess pit of bigotry.

Even Labour activists are counselling against voting Labour in next month's elections. Labour's Scottish manifesto is a complete capitulation to the anti-trans lobby.

Looks like they’ve banned trans women from playing darts now of all things. Comes to something too when BBC Sport are quoting Sex Matters, and the DRA has commissioned noted transphobe Emma Hilton to helm a report for them. It’s a stitch-up, and it’s disgusting.

Any day is a good day to follow "the internet’s gay Catholic aunt", but this epic thread on the Pentagon threatening the Pope (yes, really...) is pure gold.