Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...

After the death of Charlie Kirk Wall Street Journal ran with an unverified law enforcement bulletin and amplified a right-wing narrative. I wrote about what they did wrong and why it matters for @objectivejournos.bsky.social. objectivejournalism.org/2025/09/wall...

Wishing our Jewish siblings Shanah Tovah this Rosh Hashanah

I have an undergraduate degree in social anthropology (from a very long time ago). Everything that the "gender critical" movement (and their centrist apologists) insist as inviolable truth – all of it – was debunked in the very first term of the first year. GCs are fanatical fantasists.

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

NION have now launched a website: notinourname.org.uk 53,171 have signed. Let's get to 100,000

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I think it's worth noting his prevarication He's pandering to his transphobic audience, yes, but he also mentions - twice, unbidden - that being gay himself has vexed him on this matter. He knows, I think, the transphobia he's doing, realizes he's sold his soul, and may end up with nothing for it.

Typical 'just asking questions / reasonable concerns' crap from the same publication that gave Helen Joyce her unearned legitimacy. The 1/5 that didn't retain a stable identity post transition were overwhelmingly kids who ended up enby rather than binary trans or vice versa.

Buried details: the 18% of kids whose identities shifted over the course of the study were overwhelmingly between binary trans and non-binary or vice versa. The number who shifted between binary cis and trans was very low indeed - out of a subset of 254, precisely *one* kid shifted in this way.

I would strongly argue that you will understand what the New York Times has become much better if you understand that they soft launched the new NYT with their trans coverage, and have been building and expanding from there. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

It should be obvious by now that free speech in incredibly unequal societies is not a useful aim Without a level playing field, some voices are far louder and some far easier to shut down Free speech can only be worthwhile if it's accompanied by radical reform of our public space to democratise it

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st... Well done getting this to over 1000 signatures in just a few days. Keep it up!

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My latest, on how concepts like the populist hype and reactionary centrism can help us understand how our media and political system normalises dangerous far right talking points and policies shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

My pet theory is that the transphobes will start losing fast and hard when jokes written *by* trans people about trans experiences break into the zeitgeist. A personal favourite: What do you call a Russian trans guy? Oliver Titsoff

This mechanism is a key part of transphobes' strategy in the UK, too. The FWS ruling didn't make trans segregation mandatory (despite what the EHRC says) but it likely did declare open season on trans inclusive spaces by well funded litigious transphobes. It's lawfare disguised as "clarification"

The "playbook" is the same one the institutionally-transphobic New York Times has used for the past 10 years to demonize and dehumanize trans people and their healthcare. Fuck the New York Times.

If you think there's a giant conspiracy amongst the UK government, the media, and a small group of extremely well-funded genitally-obsessed bigots to harass and dehumanize trans people, that's because there is.

I want a Star Trek series about the Lost Era with practical sets/costumes/make-up and CGI ships in line with the aesthetics of late DS9/Voyager. It should focus on Captain Harriman and up-and-coming Lieutenant Rachel Garret. They do not hook up, but their all-femboy crew does constantly.

For all those people expressing concern about the silencing of Jimmy Kimmel, including the (valid) complaints George Monbiot have about media censorship... you are starting to experience a fraction of what trans people have been getting for the last 10-15 years or so.

Signed. You should, too.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

Y'know, if you want some tips on how to divorce yourself from a beloved childhood media industrial complex that's become irretrievably associated with fascism, you might want to ask a trans person. Just sayin'

The Orville is to televised Trek what Galaxy Quest is to cinema Trek: the imitation that surpassed the original.

There's a chance McBride sold her soul on this so she can get votes to block transphobic amendments in the NDAA or elsewhere, though I doubt it. You, on the other hand, have no excuse for such pathetic supplication, @charlotteclymer.bsky.social.

By the way, apparently one of the key tactics activists used to get the NHS to stop doing conversion therapy on gay men was publicly disrupting meetings of psychiatrists and managers by loudly confronting them with difficult questions. Food for thought.

The Green Party has taken great strides in being a liberatory space for trans people. It must not allow organisations to bully us into having stalls at conference that are against our aims and makes people feel unsafe. So a group of us have created a petition ✍️ you.38degrees.org.uk/p/Greens-Tra...

This. Contemporary adversarial debate culture is just kayfabe. It has more in common with professional wrestling than the symposium.

New blog: Questioning Trans Kids A summary of the questions asked to trans under 18s and families in the new 'PATHWAYS Horizon' study for the new Children's Gender Clinics. growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...

Wonderful signage indicating the gender neutral bathrooms at the university of Helsinki - no-one being excluded, policed, antagonised or upset!

Well this is an exceptionally good history job. Wonders never cease. www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

#TransRights Remember how sports governance bodies are always citing how they follow scientific evidence before deciding on their policies? Well, the case around disc-golf is a prime example of how anti transgender organisations are directly influencing these bodies:

This essay is a tour de force. To trans people, it reads as a grim reminder of the litany of indignities and travesties visited upon us by the UK government. To cis people, I hope, it is a bracing and sobering wake up call to how illiberal the UK and Labour have become. 1/ One additional thought:

the purpose of a cis dem is what (he) does

This is great, and not the first time she's spoken out, but I have to say I've been bitterly disappointed in the silence from basically everyone else in women's football.

I mean, there's a *lot* of competition for that ignominious title: Streeting, Mahmood, Cass (she's in the HoL, after all). Philipson is definitely a true believer, though. Frit and dangerous.

"I didn't think leopards would eat YOUR face," sobs a leading member of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. @alyssaur.bsky.social brings you Wes Streeting lamenting the systems he put in place to restrict trans healthcare.

Wes Streeting’s first act in office was to resist the judicial review of the puberty blockers bans and to commission and publish a so-called independent review on suicide stats by the bigoted “Professor” Louis Appleby, in order to influence the court. I now know with certainty that it was a lie.

THREAD that shows how badly Wes Streeting has got this wrong; There is no “conflict” between cis women’s rights & trans people’s rights. This is a fabrication that Wes Streeting is either dishonest or gullible enough to believe. Empirical evidence Streeting is wrong 1/3 Hasenbush et al (2019)…

To begin with, appoint two trans judges to the English High Court and one to the Court of Session.

Please, share this with any LGBT+ pro-trans lawyers you know. The Bar Standards Board is behind one of the lesser known but most insidious erosions of trans rights lately.

Having had time to think over the past couple of weeks while I've been out of the country, I've come to realise that what's happened already is a complete destruction of trust in government and the courts. /1

WES STREETING CLAIMS TO BE GIVING AN OLIVE BRANCH TO TRANS COMMUNITY, SAYING HE ONLY WANTS TRANS KIDS TO BE SAFE, WHILST SIMULTANEOUSLY CONTINUING TO WORK WITH BAYSWATER, KNOWN PROMOTERS OF CHILD ABUSE.

Happy maths day nerds 💙

Statistically I think this research is mostly showing that this research methodology recommended by Sullivan is lesbophobic/transphobic. There simply aren't that many trans women to have had 14 out of 800 being female identified and assigned male by researcher observation.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have one day where the human rights of LGBTQ ppl were not ‘being debated’. Just FYI this false talking point is a Heritage Fdn/ADF one. The so-called Gender Critical movement seeks the abolition of same-sex marriage, as a next step after trans erasure.

“More than 650 organisations including Ben and Jerry’s, Lush and hundreds of small cafes and pubs have written to the government to warn that the EHRC’s draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’ and would ‘cause significant economic harm’.” https://bit.ly/4guj9Gf

He also thinks trans women aren't women. Just sayin'.