Making cool stuff from star wars is the one thing tech guys should be encouraged in doing Today the vibro blade, tomorrow the lightsaber

Landlord trying to assert that they own your nudes because they were taken in your own home that you rent from them. They also claim to own work you do from home for your boss (including as a team), any creative project you have input in, your ao3 erotica and your child's drawings

I think fundamentally, the ability to care about the rights of a small and vulnerable minority (of whom you might know no members) is an important sign of whether you are committed to human rights out of principle, or out of mere convenience.

So much of opposition to "self ID" is people imagining a deeply repressive situation for trans people, like not being able to change documents without a diagnosis, or not being able to "call yourself a man/woman" without official permission, and then crying that "self ID" will take this away.

The first time I went in after I grew a beard the receptionist made me verbally confirm that the info on my records about genitals, sex assigned at birth and gender was correct. In a public reception area. Then when I got in to the appointment the nurse asked me if I had any testicular pain.

Supreme court judge here basically saying that yes he knows this wasn't what parliament meant, but the supreme court can decide that it's what the law says, even if it has to torture phrases like "physiological or other characteristics of sex" to do it

There’s a real generational divide between Labour MPs leaking to the Guardian and Labour MPs leaking to the Huffington Post

If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares. www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...

Strong argument for completely removing sex marker from the records identification process. It's something you share with 50% of the population. If you share the same name, you probably have the same sex marker! Postcode/DOB are much more useful. All this does is cause issues for trans people

Feeling exhausted and beaten down by the overwhelming number of ways things are getting worse for trans people in this country

Oh okay it's okay to call for mass executions of minority groups on TV now? What would the regulator actually regulate? Do they have to be reading out names of targets live on air before ofcom will intervene?

Need a trans screaming circle. Need to go to a park with a bunch other trans people and just scream until I feel less despair and terror

The sexual harassment, degradation and discriminatory bans trans people trying to follow service provider rules are facing is a clear human rights issue. Being forced to strip in front of men, interrogated about her body and genitals is nothing near equal treatment or basic access to society

Here is the draft of Part 2 of my discussion of sex and gender in the EA 2010, covering the error in the EHRC'S interpretation. As usual comments and corrections welcome. open.substack.com/pub/robmulli...

People can have protected views about lots of things, like which marriages are and aren't real according to their religion. However persistently calling someone miss because you believe their marriage is invalid is harassment. This remains true if the person in question is not legally married

I love getting cyber security training with spinny autoplay video above every single video

This is a compelling analysis of serious legal and factual errors with the fws judgement More easy read summary here www.europeanlawmonitor.org/images/stori...

a specific skill I've developed over the past ~20 years is crafting responses to emails sent to me, but intended for that other Naomi Wolf

To be a trans woman in Britain is to live in a fucking Panopticon where the guards are every bigoted middle class wank with a Twitter account.

The supreme court also expects us to accept that when parliament thought they were passing discrimination protections, they were passing a special permission to discriminate against trans people (and only trans people) for excluding us from birth sex services on the basis of appearance.

Visit the Titanic on the submarine that falls apart, it's perfectly safe

We are a transphobic shit hole island but it is not illegal for a trans person to speak to a minor in public, a shop assistant asking if you need any help while trans is not committing a crime. Even a really transphobic cop is going to struggle to match that to any kind of charge.

Who knows if this is the actual mum from the M&S incident but, either way, here’s Joanna Cherry saying it’s disgraceful that the POLICE didn’t intervene in the matter.

It is wild when you just stop for a minute and think that if this had been a male employee who had asked the girl and her mum if they needed help, we would know nothing about it. These people are not afraid of men and they prove that time and time again.

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Every TERF is like 'birds and bees, it's easy, folks' and (almost) every scientist actually working on questions of sex is like 'oof guys, what can I tell you, I have been working on this question for 52 years, and frankly, I know less and less every year' theconversation.com/world-athlet...

My GP is refusing to prescribe me topical estrogen for vaginal atrophy despite FOUR different letters from specialists saying he should do this. He's convinced himself that because I'm trans there might be some kind of safety risk that is not present in cis women and has no plausible mechanism.

The left has lots to say about loneliness and alienation, which imo is the underlying issue. Young people are struggling with socialising and having places to fuck for systematic reasons that are not really helped by self help advice.

I'm fully pro water bladder in the bedroom, convenient, means you can go for longer without stopping, no risk of mixing up the lube water bottle and the water water bottle. If you don't like your innovative husband who treats topping like an endurance sport the gays will take him off your hands

Gotta love Supreme Court Rulings that give clarity to everything and require 2/3rds of a year (so far) to write guidance to explain.

The UK government was secretly advised that Palestine Action is “highly unlikely” to advocate for violence while officials struggled to produce evidence the group posed a national security threat, it can be revealed. www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...

Cis people will really just fuck up basic admin tasks and then other cis people will see this and instead of insisting the first group of cis people do their jobs correctly will blame trans people and remove their ability to change adminastrative gender for our "safety"

“if your country is considering some manifestly insane policy- I mean, something really really "mega-scale bonkers"- there is a greater than even chance that Britain will have done it already, with extra administrative zeal. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-age...

Thank you @mintopia.net for sharing her story with me. Thank you @katymontgomerie.com for making me aware of her ordeal. My latest article published on @northwestbylines.co.uk northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

📢Oscar Davies @nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social co-authors significant commentary for Discrimination Law Association on Convention rights incompatibility of Supreme Court For Women Scotland Judgment 🔽Read on here: tinyurl.com/3zwzuwu3

It wouldn't be that hard to have an "I'm trans" button with some detailed questions about what bits you currently have and whether you're on hormones and triages you based on the answers. But the NHS is ideologically attached to insisting trans people are medically indistinguishable from birth sex.

A ban would actually be less of a problem, safety wise. What they're doing is allowing trans people to donate blood, but insisting on using inappropriate reference ranges (for trans people on hormones) to determine if someone is able to donate without making them anaemic.

The NHS is endangering trans people by refusing to acknowledge that hormones change blood production rates. Treating trans people on hormones as our birth assignment for the purposes of blood donation is medically incorrect and poses health risks.

Pleasantly surprised to see decent reporting on this from bylines

The thing she's suggesting is a "methodological problem" is that studies looking at whether dysphoria makes kids so depressed they kill themselves didn't control for depression. Despite that being essentially the thing they're trying to measure!

My read of the intimidation of Robin Moira White at a toilet facility in parliament by "gender critical" campaigners is that is is a deliberate attempt to create a chilling effect for trans people participating in the democratic process - to intimidate LGBT people out of the room.

Right for women changing nappies on their own, left for when your baby has produced a poo explosion so bad you need two people to fix it

I came home today to a letter saying I have a positive smear test and need to go to my local women's hospital for tests to see if it's cancer. Since the FWS ruling I've decided it's not safe for me to tell my employer I'm trans. I can't show I need time off for appointments without outing myself.

The EHRC chief commissioner has a basic mission: To champion equality and human rights and to foster good relations between protected characteristics. Hiring a TERF indicates that the Labour government fear being held accountable for transphobia.

This is just a GC talking point, not a response the supreme court ruling. The supreme court did NOT rule that trans woman are a "threat to women's safety". It is contrary to human rights to consider entire demographic groups dangerous to others and restrict their rights on that basis.

Labour are proposing postponing/cancelling the women's conference because of trans people, and also banning trans women ("transwomen"according to this paper) from all women shortlists and women's conference

I think the plane is being received in exchange for conducting government business on the world's most bugged plane

A plea. Please stop calling it interim guidance. It's not guidance, and the EHRC don't call it that. It's an "interim update". They only say that the guidance remains forthcoming. This is genuinely driving me potty (more than I usually am).

Finally someone with some power taking a strong stance against this