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Transphobic beliefs are not worthy of respect in a democratic society. The fact the courts say they are simply creates a problem of power and of force, but does not change the basic fact that transphobia is a gateway to Nazism.

Great idea! Say, what happened the last time an insurgent leftwing anti-corporate pro-Palestine candidate propelled by a mass movement of youth enthusiasm tried to right the Labour ship? Everyone in Labour was cool with that, right?

MINI LECTURE SERIES 3/10 Here I consider the scope of the Supreme Court’s decision, effectively stating that in some (rare) circumstances, trans people may be excluded if justified, but are not automatically excluded. #humanrights #womensrights #transrights #nonbinarybarrister #law #lecture

Not Darlington, but this is the men's where I work, two toilets and a shower and two of the doors have fallen off, not fixed for months. But obviously the issue is trans people using changing rooms and not the fact that the NHS lacks resources for basic maintenance

Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering

The Guarditerf producing quality investigative journalism like this only serves to expose the way it reports so much trans-related stuff superficially without looking behind the euphemistic government press releases and transphobic Contrived Authority output. They do it by choice. archive.is/qYKcv

We have to talk more how transphobia has taken strong root among well-to-do journalists & politicians when in both the UK & US, the evidence is that voters do not share it. The demographics of transphobia are people least likely to suffer prejudice in their lives. Richer, maler, whiter, straighter.

Kudos to the cis women here standing up for trans rights. Shame on @cyclinguk.bsky.social for capitulating to transphobic bigots and their deceitful lawfare.

🏊‍♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision. In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019. Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts. 1/5

💬 The City of London consultation on the ponds is open until 25 November. It’s important that women who support inclusion take part. Read our new piece to learn more and find out how you can have your say: 🔗 notinourname.org.uk/nion-women-rejects-anti-trans-narrative-at-kenwood-ladies-pond/ 4/5

The complaints were about her altering an actual quote live on air because she didn't agree with it because of her ideology, but say it was her face if that makes you feel better www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fun fact: The ECU actually used the phrase “trans identity”, not “trans ideology”, and, in editing that quote, this BBC article about a presenter expressing anti-trans views breaching editorial guidelines has itself breached editorial guidelines. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When the NHS talk about the “risks” of puberty blockers for trans teens, they don’t mean side effects, they mean the “risk” child will stay trans. Being trans is the fail state to them, and they would rather children be dead. We know PB are safe because we give them to cis children and some adults.

This is a good idea. It removes X’s perceived USP that that is where the news happens without removing yourself from the eyes of audiences you may wish to persuade. I’m not on X any longer. But I can understand the argument to stay in a limited capacity. But Helen is right. Bluesky first approach.

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Like many political movements, anti-trans panic of the 2010s-2020s was propelled in part by faddishness. Briefly, it became fashionable to 'just ask questions' or go further into conspiracies. Like all fashions, this one also fades. One can hope it does so à la disco: with a sharp sudden crash.

Lol, no. There's no P&R character that fits Mamdani. That show, its ethos, and its era, ignored leftist viewpoints or else collapsed them into flaccid centrist platitudes. 30 Rock had Kenneth lead a page strike. Meh. But omg ... Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Mamdani is Lillian!!!

This applies very much to the UK

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

5 Nov 2025 -- In stunning rebuke to Trump and to Reps still running on anti-trans social panic, Dems nearly ran the table last night, winning up & down ballot in VA & NJ, the NYC Mayoral race, in CA on redistricting measure, & keeping PA Supreme Court majority. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Everybody can thank Maya Forstater and her gang of bigots for this, bankrolled by you know who.

Interesting that the judge notes that it is a "political belief" Robinson holds and then proceeds to call it a "protected characteristic". Even though political beliefs are not in fact protected characteristics under the Equality Act – only philosophical ones are. Somewhat gives the game away.

We are seeing this continual collapse of all political beliefs short of the Article 17 criteria (an incredibly high bar - ie basically holocaust denial) into protection under philosophical belief and the consequences are utterly bizarre. The law in this area is a complete mess.

Great thread, but I take issue with 'incidental'. Transphobia didn't make Trump win, but it did help his campaign. Not because it was incidental but because it was *fashionable*. It was the fad of the moment propelled in part by fairweather friends abandoning us. Mercifully, the moment is passing.

The headline about Spanberger's blowout victory in VA--along with the Dems romping in the House of Delegates--is that transphobia really doesn't work as an electoral secret weapon. And this fact needs to set in, despite the dearest wishes of the most ossified members of the commentariat.

Extra box for UK libs: "I didn't want to lose my invitation to all those fancy dinner parties" 🥺

When progressive government (read: a Green/Lib Dem coalition) finally returns to Westminster, a priority must be to revise relevant laws so that demonstrably bigoted views - racism/'race realism', transphobia/'gender critical'/'sex realism' - are treated as the hate speech they are.

If we can do it there, we can do it anywhere!

Exquisite and exceptionally important work. A must read. Well done!

In this interview, McBride tritely flatters herself with the observation that politics involves doing hard things, e.g. her not fighting the Congressional bathroom ban. This elides the fact that the *actually* hard thing to do would have been to fight the ban. She took the easy way out.

Supreme Court flaws. I have been, and remain, very critical of the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers. I have at least 15 fundamental criticisms of the judgment.

This is a nifty tool for learning more about the consistently hateful British media & its regurgitations.

As I wrote in the Historians for Trans Rights open letter: "Years of hostility [against trans people] ... ominously recall the darkest moments of oppression of queer and trans people in the UK." Superb work by the anonymous ally who created this. haveigotphobiaforyou.com

The Cass Scandal is killing people.

An extraordinary riposte from @racheltaylormp.bsky.social to the transphobia of the EHRC. Labour will spend decades atoning for how it utterly betrayed LGBT+ people, not least because Ms Taylor shows here how *very easy* it is to defend us when you bother to try. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Further, @racheltaylormp.bsky.social really deserves credit for sticking her head above the parapet. As a cis woman on the W&E committee from the Starmer intake, her voice means a great deal. Broader party issues notwithstanding (see below), this is what an ally does!

However all this shows is Labour *possibly* stopping short of full Trump/Reform style trans exterminatory policy. They still passed a trans Section 28 in schools, authorized trans humiliation in court/prison, and made the NHS for trans kids a state mandated conversion practice; barely better for 18+

An extraordinary riposte from @racheltaylormp.bsky.social to the transphobia of the EHRC. Labour will spend decades atoning for how it utterly betrayed LGBT+ people, not least because Ms Taylor shows here how *very easy* it is to defend us when you bother to try. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Good news.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the biggest threat to academic freedom is the marketisation of higher education. The accusation here could not be more serious: that Hallam traded research on human rights violations in China, for access to the Chinese student market. t.co/j2rTxAfIw6

I for sure would sit down like face-to-face with any of the prominent anti-trans commentators for a public debate like at the 92 St Y or whatever. At this point, if Ezra Klein or whoever else wants a debate partner: I'm so game. You are a clown.

Indeed. Not one of the academic freedom dilletants moaning about their hobby horses (invariably anti-Palestinian racism and transphobia) have mentioned this story, or possibly were even aware of it: Actual official censorship leading to suppressed research.

A thorough and intellectually robust exploration of the epistemology and sociology underlying the Trans Panic in Britain. Every ally of trans rights should read this and try to internalize it. Doing so will make your arguments against transphobes far more convincing.

I will not stand for this Grand Nagus Zek erasure!

I’ve looked into where Lib Dems are coming from with their bizarre messaging about publishing the EHRC Code ASAP and I’ve done a kind of briefing statement in response. This might be helpful to get the message across to the Lib Dems about what is actually needed right now. Feel free to use & share!

🚨 1/ SCOOP We all know Pamela Paul is not a good journalist. But in her (poorly argued) WSJ screed on the alleged "growing divide" in LGBTQ circles abt trans rights, she reports ESPECIALLY badly—including abt Jose Arango & his boyfriend who dumped him. Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend. I did.

The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots… www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

Somehow, this follows from that article about trans puppygirl culture I posted yesterday.