Maybe an accurate dating app profile will suffice, though presumably TERFs want "biological sex" stated Actually maybe sex matters are going after dating apps? Maybe that's what this is all about?

In a joint statement, Scottish Trans, Trans+ Solidarity Alliance and TransActual claimed the legal framework is "fundamentally broken" but the huge backlash driven against the Code of Practice "opens up a vital sliver of hope for a better future in UK law." www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Is this worse than section 28 for young trans people? It's definetly not better than it. Instead of silence, lack of representation and feelings of isolation, young trans people today face active state imposed hostility.

1/🧵 The EHRC Code of Practice recommends but does not require that businesses segregate trans folks. My advice to businesses is to ignore the EHRC and do business as usual, to be unapologetically trans-inclusive, and, whenever someone demands exclusion, to direct them to single-occupancy facilities.

The Sex Matters vs DPP case on CPS guidelines has concluded with judgement being reserved, so we find out at a later date As best I can understand - IANAL - SM are trying to remove any possibility of a defence using what they term the "belief of gender identity" regardless of hrt, surgery, GRC etc

In the UK, you can be arrested, charged, prosecuted and convicted if you do not disclose that you are trans before sex but a cis man doesn't have to declare if he has an STI.

As far as I can tell, the UK is the only country in the world to have a comprehensive nationwide bathroom ban for trans people

Dear Labour party @labouruk.bsky.social I still, all these years later, hate Thatcher and the Tories for section 28 and the opportunities they stole from me Today, as you introduce actual segregation of people like me, be sure that I will hold you in the same visceral contempt I will not comply.

I live in stealth and I'm generally unnoticed. I have no safety, no boundaries, or control over my body. Interacting with the NHS/police would instantly place me in danger of physical or sexual abuse. Because of this, I plan to leave the UK. Men, by default, have driven me out of my own country

Could someone who understands politics better than me please explain how EDMs and letters help when the outcome is the same? I had 0.00001% expectation that the EDM would be selected and 0% hope that it would win. I don't know. It all feels like a waste of emotional energy...

I feel like the trans experience just now is "yes, we've heard your views and we can see how upset you are, but we're going to ignore you and do it anyway"

Everyone, everywhere around the world: If you do business with the UK, you're supporting the dehumanisation and societal segregation of trans people. You're supporting an apartheid regime. Stop it now and tell them why. Please.

I had a realisation recently (and it's making me want to cry just typing it). I'm deliberately holding on to the pain and unhappiness I'm feeling about this all, because I never want it to feel normal. I don't want to accept that the 12 years I lived my life as myself with basic rights is over.

Phillipson will implement this regardless. But at least she cannot claim she did not know. After the war, many Germans claimed that they were ignorant of the crimes perpetrated by the Nazi regime, a claim associated with the phrase: "Davon haben wir nichts gewusst" ("We knew nothing about that").

Please take care of your nearest goth on this difficult day 💜

He doesn't half go on. I'd like to suggest the BBC are being used for this party political broadcast but who knows Oooh "communist country" on my twat bingo

I've Facebook commented on a newspaper post about the imminent EHRC code acceptance Awaiting the GC replies like

Do gender critical folks have brainstorming meetings where they think up humiliations for trans people and then try and work out how to make it legal? Possible rhetorical question 🤔

I suppose it's good that the word "segregation" is appearing in mainstream media; I've low expectations of anyone caring though

This is amazing; 40 women’s organizations standing in support of trans people’s human rights against this government’s targeting of trans people against the EHRC transphobic code. Trans people and cis women’s rights are not in opposition.

So I *think* what they're up to here - we'll see from the legal arguments I guess - is that if trans people don't declare their "biological" sex then any sexual activity should be considered non-consensual Will "btw I'm trans" count? Or must we go full BBC News? CW: TERF shite - archive.ph/DcM3k

HELP! I need to get contact with @theodinson.bsky.social we speak every weekend on call and its been 3 weeks now, I know they have been in sweeden but lives in germany, Im really worried! And iv exhausted all means short of police, They have never gone this quite on me before

Other half has come in from fettling the car all grubby and smelling of oil. Apparently she got penetrating oil on her face Reader let me tell you that this is not unattractive 😊

Saturday morning dilation after a long gap

Cis people: this is what it’s like. The stash of emergency medication resonates so strongly. Although oestrogen is not a restricted substance here, to get reserves requires imaginative thinking, let’s say.

Just a reminder that the Glasgow launch of Queerphoria is 7pm tonight at Category Is books. It's going to be excellent, it's free and you should go. www.outsavvy.com/event/36955/...

this is absolutely terrifying… and id like to point out that @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social’s policies are more extremist than what the trump admin is doing. labour are just using middle-class polite speak and staying away from words like ‘eliminate’ but they have the exact same aim: eradication.

Yesterday, Public Health Scotland published waiting times data for gender identity clinics in Scotland. The data shows that someone joining the list today would expect to wait 163 years for a first appointment. We can't keep waiting. Find out more: www.scottishtrans.org/healthcare/c...

Were you banned from toilets & changing rooms and kicked out of your sports club?

ScotCast hosting Wings is the most embarrassing thing any BBC journalist has done in Scotland in years. And I don't mean that with any hyperbole. It stains the entire concept of their profession.

Glasgow Pride Safety concerns A detransitioner gender critical man who wants ALL gender affirming care stopped for everyone is going to be there and trying to cause trouble This is him Michael Kerr Please keep away from him

And HMRC have completely messed up my tax code and I've been deducted an extra thousand effing pounds in tax and the normal help line won't touch me because of the GRC super secret bollocks and I really, really don't need this

Got the sads today. Too much news and worry about the coming cis crackdown on us

SFPD attacked again for a second night in a row. bsky.app/profile/prid...

Caption competition starring @divinegoth.bsky.social

Cass has this tendency to be both a massive transphobe, then counter with something that vaguely supports trans people. What a lot of people don’t understand is, doctors often aren’t that bright. It’s an assumption, that because you need good grades for med school we’re all geniuses. We’re not.

It's the fucking Compton Riot all over again. ACAB.

Just had to update the firmware in a light bulb and we can't drive our car for an hour because that's updating itself and I just had a conversation with a box the size of a fag packet The future is weird

While I read the UK license on conversion therapy, Spain national assembly literally yesterday voted to make an attempt at conversion therapy a criminal offense with jail time. It was already a banned practice, now it's flat out criminal, and if you wonder if it's worded well, read the pedo's panic

Just got hit with a run of younger folk's selfies looking gorgeous & got briefly jealous because I didn't have the self confidence to come out when I should've I need to remember that I eventually made it & I'm still here to tell the tale 2nd best time is now if you're reading this from the closet

It's notable that @divinegoth.bsky.social is always home on time when it's pizza night #suspicious 🤔

Worth reading the speech that Zoe Harding made 💜

I have lost 10 contact lenses. Not 5 pairs, but 10 for my right eye, which I think is an exceptional achievement Anyone got any links for pirate style eye patches?

Been out tonight to the community cinema except it was so hot the projector kept freezing and the wee man had to keep getting up (he was watching the movie too) and running to the back to cool it down and reboot it Absolutely glorious experience 😂

I'm glad we're doing something right, at least

I'm prepared to concede that, even in Scotland, it's a wee bit toasty today

That the Conversion Practices bill needs such a wide carve out for the delivery of NHS services should be a massive red flag that something has gone terribly wrong at the NHS Labour should have fixed the NHS not fixed the CP bill

Hello everybody and welcome to kink safety week! I hope you have been having fun and have been learning a lot. Today I would like to take the podium and discuss something very important: vetting your playmates.

I've spent years working towards a ban on conversion practices, hoping to see a bill published. Today, I just feel so profoundly sad. As many others have noted, the draft has a carve out for "healthcare" so broad it makes a mockery of the idea this is a 'ban'. 1/2 www.gov.uk/government/p...

So they are going to write the "social contagion"-nonsense into law, if it remains from the draft, in a conversion therapy ban of all things. I mean that's exactly the banal evil Nazi bureaucrat garbage that you'd expect from Labour but it's still shocking in it's bloodcurdling brazenness...