We have joined @transsolidarity.bsky.social and over 140 other LGBTQ+ and feminist organisations to demand political action to protect trans rights. Will you join us? Read the full letter and write your own at transsolidarityalliance.com/protectinclusion

I have no idea, I just really wanted see this flag in my timeline.

Excellent thread on the history of trans healthcare in the US (and applicable to the UK, I suspect)

UK mainstream media censors news about the significant increase in suicides of trans kids following the introduction of restrictions on puberty blockers in Dec 2020. Interesting given that they are all responsible for causing these deaths.

My blog on the implications of the rise in suicides of trans children following the initial, partial puberty-blocker ban on the 1/12/2020. Many people are culpable for these deaths, including journalists & NHS management, and, unless Wes Streeting ends the Puberty-blocker ban now so will he.

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

The general secretary of NASUWT (major trade union for teachers) wants the revisions to the RSHE guidance to be withdrawn and has signed the @prideineducation.bsky.social open letter.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I read part of this in the final edit stage and can confirm it is a compelling and incisive read. Buy this book!

This is going to be an excellent event for anyone interested in American Studies and/or sustainability. Sign up today!

A collection of Islamic festivals called Maslov's Hierarchy of Eids.

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

1. British Queer History 2. US Special Topics: Voting Rights 3. The History of Architecture (actually an architecture course) 4. The History of Montréal 5. Urban Transportation Geography

Today, and every day, the Green Party stands with LGBTIQA+ people 💚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Tu me manques, Montréal

UNISON members, branches and regions will be mobilising to build the united march against the far-right in London on 28 March ✊ See you there: together.org.uk

At the risk of compounding the pain, I've always found Catherine O'Hara's eulogy for her former SCTV castmate John Candy to be one of the most moving speeches I've ever heard. Here's hoping someone can do for her what she did for Candy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKHK...

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

People keep talking about “the trans debate”. But exactly is up for debate? Interested to hear your thoughts below. #transrights #transdebate #media #government #humanrights

COUNCIL OF EUROPE BANS CONVERSION THERAPY 🍾 The Council of Europe has just voted to ban conversion practices for sexuality and gender identity. Anti trans groups tried to stop it. They failed. #TransRights #ConversionTherapyBan #HumanRights #NonBinaryBarrister #LGBTQRights Europe Progress

The Council of Europe votes by 2/3 majority to accept the resolution banning conversion practices, brought by UK MP @kateosbornemp.bsky.social. #SexMatters and #AthenaForum tried their best to derail this resolution, but failed. Huge well done to everybody involved 🙌🙌🙌

I also welcome any direct connections people may have to podcasts who need a guest, or organizations who need a speaker (it's about that time to start planning for Trans Day of Visibility!) If you have questions or ideas, DM me or email me at jey (at) beyondxandy (dot) org @beyondxandy.bsky.social

The failure of the puppet EHRC to operate intersectionality (here at the intersection of sex/gender and age) is why things like this have gone under the radar for so long… The harm caused by an inept, ineffective and puppet EHRC is not restricted to its more obvious campaign against trans people.

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86% in favour of trans-inclusive changing rooms and swimming ponds. 38000 responses. On their best day, the transphobes are outnumbered 6:1. Never forget that.

Predictably, Labour's framing Gorton & Denton as "Us or Reform". It's a clever way to get people to not think about what elections are for. Yes, we must beat Reform. But ask yourself: What do you *want* to beat Reform? Labour's Reform-lite tribute act? Or an actual *progressive* Green alternative?

Over 8,000 emails sent and we have 24 hours left to stop Sex Matters sabotaging the vote for the conversion therapy ban 🔥 Email your MP right now 📩 https://goodlaw.social/945cd5

Anyway, good news! Open-ended lectureship in early medieval history at KCL. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

Re-upping this article in the Guardian Oz, about my research into the extreme harm being caused by Wes Streeting's puberty-blocker ban. UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia. Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.

Amazing stuff! #UCU members, please vote for @markpendleton.bsky.social and @suzitoole.bsky.social for the joint HE and FE VP roles, and the other amazing candidates on the slate. We can do this!

See also 😡 hyphenonline.com/2026/01/26/t...

When articulated at length, the anti-trans argument against PBs really reveals its bigoted roots. The entire schtick rests on the conspiracy theory logic that trans kids who get PBs are, basically, seduced into taking hormones. It's just warmed-over 'they're converting your kids' homophobia.

🚨 6 DAYS LEFT 🚨 We have just one week to stop Sex Matters infiltrating a vote to ban conversion therapy. Over 5,000 have taken action. Will you join them? https://action.goodlawproject.org/stop-sex-matters-infiltrating-the-council-of-europe

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As any trans person could have told you for 5+ years now, the BBC's ability to contort perception through deceptive framing, exclusion of counternarratives, and Orwellian euphemism knows no bounds. Perhaps in future Mr Katwala, among others, will call out BBC transphobia with the same verve.

It would disproportionately affect LGBTQIA+ young people, who rely more heavily on the platforms to connect with other queer people www.wearequeeraf.com/social-media...

URGENT 🚨 We have just one week to stop Sex Matters infiltrating a vote to ban conversion therapy. We must stop them. Use our tool and tell the MPs to stand up for what's right ✊ https://goodlaw.social/945cd5

For your entertainment and your meeting with a local MP: The Labour MP trans rights bingo! If you can win a full line, be sure to celebrate with your MP to let them know they're paying the ultimate lip service!!

Important counter-propaganda work to be done here. Click, sign, and share widely! action.goodlawproject.org/stop-sex-mat...

Who are the cool, up-and-coming early career trans women and transfem non-binary people doing scholarship in women's and gender studies - particularly outside North America? I'd love to hear about their work!

This thread fully explains why all the people who've been tracing anti trans movements for years are kinda insane now. It's been big. It's been widespread. It has not been subtle. And no one fucking listened to us. Possibly the most successful conservative retrenchment since WWII.

A lot has happened recently on the EHRC’s proposed bathroom ban but they're still trying to exclude trans people from public life. The EHRC aren’t changing course, and we have to keep the pressure up. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-ba... #ScraptheBathroomBan #EHRC #TransRights

Updated for 2026: Labour's shameful LGBT+ record under Starmer. The most anti-LGBT+ government since Thatcher.

Hello! Obligatory pinned post to say that I'm a freelance journalist and you can find my portfolio at marieleconte.com and my newsletter at youngvulgarian.substack.com, and you can contact me on [email protected]. Always looking for fun/interesting work so do get in touch!

Also, while I don't wish to imply anything at all about the author, the first line of the article immediately made me think of this 🤭:

Shocking to read, both for the grim portrait it paints about the experience of trans people in the UK, but for the mere fact of it being published by a UK news outlet in the first place (one with a history of platforming transphobes, as it happens). Superb work from @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

There's a terrific MA or Ph.D. thesis to be written comparing the tactics, strategy, and ideology of 1970s US Christian conservative pivot to abortion after segregation was lost, and the 2010s/2020s pivot to transphobia after equal marriage was won.

The history of the rise of rightwing authoritarianism in the United States since 2000 can be told in four letters: W. Q Z X