Mini-Lecture Series 1/10 Where is the dignity in ostracisation? Opening section from my GendJus talk in Trieste, exploring how the FWS decision reshapes legal recognition - and how language becomes the frontline where trans lives are negotiated. #Law #Gender #TransJustice #FWS #LegalTheory

Before anyone else says that “AI is too big to fail” remember that META changed their name for their last failed product and that they’re making money from scamming people, not the Metaverse:

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

Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Apparently Blue Sky has some sort of filth filter applied by default, so if you're not seeing this post maybe check your settings.

Shocked, shocked I tell you* to find out that the Met is institutionally racist *Could not be less shocked if I tried. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“That is what makes it so morally bewildering to me that these culture war clowns are supposed to be a bastion of women’s rights. While they try to strip the dignity from a marginalised minority, frontline women’s services are on the verge of collapse.” 👉 archive.ph/ivFo2

Fascinating that you’ve tagged in violence against women charities when among the things that have been forced to age gate or shut down as a result of the #OnlineSafetyAct are reddit support groups for sexual assault survivors. Also… Brits don’t tend to say ‘parking lot’, who made this video?

New Philosophy Tube drops on YouTube tomorrow Or, you can see it on Nebula now FOR FREE using my link because Nebula are doing free trials! Check it out! go.nebula.tv/philosophytube

The media won't tell you this but the majority of women who use the Hampstead women's pond ate fully supportive of trans inclusion and have voted that way. So why are the transphobes trying to overturn their democratic decision in the courts? From @nionwomen.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation. The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent. More to come: www.lawdork.com

They've changed it back again now, but changing a quote is a huge red flag. The BBC are repeatedly demonstrating that there are ideologues directly interfering with the meaning of stories they report relating to trans people, and this should be a far bigger deal than it is

Well this has blown up. The vast majority of the comments on SM posts and online articles are hideous, uninformed bigotry (and almost certainly not from the cycling community). But some of the award nominees are declining to be included, and they’re speaking out. I don’t think this is over…

In this piece, admitting the BBC has broken its impartiality rules re. trans people, the BBC further breaks its impartiality rules by changing a quote saying "trans identity" to "trans ideology".

A court in Brussels recently ruled that fairness in sports includes being fair to trans women. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

But I *want* to get better, and it pisses me off a great deal that people like that exist, because it means people will be scared to tell me when I fuck up.

the minutes of the October meeting between WellBN and SussexICB are chilling. Andrew Dodson from the Sussex side just openly saying patients will be “deprescribed,” that they’ll have no choice and won’t be allowed to talk to the team taking their healthcare away

We have been tracking people’s experiences with gendered spaces and our new report looks at the impact of the 2025 EHRC interim update on access to, and experiences within, gendered spaces in the UK.

The whole "OMG a prisoner has been mistakenly released" thing is such shit. No one gave a toss till it was an asylum seeker released.Last year, 262 prisoners - five a week - were released from prisons/courts before they should have been. Zero front-page reporting. www.theguardian.com/society/2...

The Sky report on X is interesting but not surprising. It starts to put data behind the obvious bias on Twitter post Elon. One telling thing is what they class as “extreme”. On the left? Right? Jokes Hate fueled racist conspiracy

Not your lawyer. Not even a lawyer in that country. Still think “Say nothing you might regret later” is a golden rule. If in doubt? Stick to the first two words…

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.

I've never been able to figure out what an RLE for nonbinary people would be

Labour sending a begging email for ex-members to come back even though they went "there's the door" and I walked through it and the door was bright green btw.

An FOI we've received shows the Supreme Court worked closely with The Times on Lord Hodge’s September interview. Court communications later described the reaction as “overwhelmingly positive”. 1/ drive.google.com/file/d/1fK6l... drive.google.com/file/d/1wdqe...

Do ask any Labour MPs or centrist commentators congratulating Mamdani what they can possibly learn from some of his policies. Like these for instance.

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.

I see the 2021 scandal around Kate Clanchy's book "Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me" is back in the news as Clanchy receives an apology from the publisher of that book. Here's a reminder of the racism, Islamophobia, anti-LGBT comments, and fat shaming from the book.

YouGov polling reveals that over a quarter of trans people are likely to leave the UK. Maybe this is Labour's plan? goodlaw.social/prwv

Wow, look what the Forstater case has unlocked… The racist is found to be unlawfully stopped by the police because of his protected characteristics of political belief. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall. bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...

Tommy Robinson / Stephen Yaxley-Lennon using the same argument as Maya Forstater? How closely intertwined are transphobia and the far right going to get?

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This quiz is amazing in showing how close current transphobia is to being 30 year old reheated homophobia:

On its 75th anniversary, here's a reminder: The ECHR defends your rights to speak out, to live freely, to be treated fairly. When politicians attack it, they’re attacking us. We need to fight back https://goodlawproject.org/nigel-farage-is-wrong-about-the-european-convention-on-human-rights/

"I hope when Lady Falkner’s successor starts in post next month that she will take a far more balanced and consensual approach." Tactfully not mentioning that her committee made a strong public recommendation AGAINST the gender-critical individual the govt has installed as Falkner's successor.

Serwotka, in the Morning Star, tells us #YourParty do "class politics, not identity politics". Which explains their open transphobia. It also means they don't understand either class politics OR identity politics. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stak...

I sometimes have chats with NHS managers about how to “restore trust” and it’s amazing how poorly they react to the suggestion that people who harm patients should lose their jobs.

I see The Times is now just straightforwardly lying about what the Supreme Court ruled. Pathetic and desperate because trans people's human rights aren't being stripped away quickly enough for them. www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...

Yikes:

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Claire Coutinho voted in June to continue to prosecute and imprison women for having abortions.

Hate those clickbaity articles that are like “12 minutes to an amazing ass!” And it’s always just exercise, and never a google maps location.

This, following Trump, is a spectacular propaganda coup for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social:

Graham Lineham once went to Guilty Feminist records to support his wife… …if you were in any doubt about how transphobia is used for radicalisation and how far the hate movement has already gone:

⚠️ Absolutely ESSENTIAL listening from the @theguiltyfeminist.bsky.social talking about how the Christian right are using “rage baiting” about trans people to drive a wedge between women’s solidarity as part of their anti-gender movement! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

it would have been my mum’s 85th birthday today.

Good news.