This thread...has so much I can relate to. Just...yeah.

Those still engaging with Sex Matters really need to wake up (here’s looking at you, #EHRC) @sarahowen.org.uk

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This is a must-read: Appeasing Sex Matters was never about “clarity”. It was about power. What followed the Supreme Court ruling wasn’t calm or resolution, but escalating demands, wider exclusions, and institutions choosing fear over inclusion. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/what...

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I'm glad Chomsky fell of his pedestal for me yrs ago, but it's still really kinda mindblowing. Reading Necessary Illusions as a teenager was kind of my political awakening. And I think was he always this guy, even then? Archive link - pls don't fund transphobia archive.ph/6t4Kl

Seems it's true, that trans actress Rebecca Root does indeed play a part in the new Harry Potter audio drama series. I cannot for the life of me think why any actor would want to sully themselves by associating with any HP property, but a trans actress is utterly baffling.

Want to boost this a little as I've seen folk talking about how Anas Sarwar wants to remove trans women from women's prisons - because in his actual column he makes clear it isn't just prisons. It's everywhere.

wtf

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GLP are defending a school that’s wants to responsibly protect their trans pupils, and they’re going up against a parent who has employed Paul Conrathe. Please give what you can to the fund to help GLP help this school, even if it’s just a pound. And please repost!!!

No, No I haven't. Except in a professional capacity where I might have had to support ppl who've done bad things as my job. I've never hung out with them. Because hanging out with really bad people would make me a really bad person.

Be such a shame if this picture started doing the rounds again. So don’t repost. Okay?

The figures here also show that 7% of all child suicides were trans children. That compares with trans children making up only 1% of the population. Trans kids are seven times as likely to die by suicide as cis kids and all this government can do is make things worse and cover these figures up.

I see Michael Shermer’s upcoming book is called “Truth” in the immensely pompous tradition of transphobia-addled dingbat literature

And there it is. In exchange for supporting their transphobia, the Christian right are now holding anti trans howlers to their part of the deal. Go after abortion. Trans people told you. Real feminists told you.

Might we tactfully point out that to obsess negatively with trans people when the richest and most powerful men in the world are trying to reverse centuries of humane progress and equality to acquire impunity for rape and murder shows a weird sense of priorities?

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.

Wise thread..

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Face reveal! Wrong answers only

Keir Starmer has defected to Reform UK

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

A world where our health records are used to power state-sponsored surveillance and target vulnerable communities isn’t so far away https://goodlawproject.org/palantir-uses-medical-records-to-target-people-for-ice-in-the-us-will-the-uk-be-next

Reading how the UK Girl Guides has treated a 6 year old child is beyond heartbreaking. This story should be published everywhere except we know the mainstream news would never dare. medium.com/@ParentofaTr...

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Every. Single. One. Of. Them.

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this is just actually evil. an indictment on the entirety of the uk's medical ethics. i wish i could say on this website what these researchers deserve

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

"...and in many cases if you play social media backwards you can hear Satanic messages telling you to kill yourself. It's like how Chucky caused the murder of Jamie Bulger. And drill music causes gang violence. I know. I read it on the internet"

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When I started school in the 1970s my parents had already taught me to read of their own volition. I remember being surprised many of the other kids couldn't read. But they learned. And I daresay many of them went on to get degrees & beyond.

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This is an excellent article.

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'The majority of trans people in the UK now feel under attack by the UK government, government services and the UK legal system.' My latest article: northwestbylines.co.uk/opinion-corn...

Labour Delenda Est Most transphobic party and PM I've experienced, and I was alive for Thatcher "bUt ReFoRm" i don't care lol. You're worse than them, because you are doing this to us NOW, for no reason.

I struggle to understand it, but ok yeah maybe even some trans ppl do feel such an affinity w/Labour it's hard to accept what it's become But supporting *Starmer*...? Rabid transphobe. Racist scum Most hated man in Britain. Most loathed PM *ever* All round total cunt & useless sack of shit Why???

This is from the same clinic. Both guides were last updated in Jan/Feb 2025. The top (and correct) one is aimed at other healthcare professionals, whereas the bottom one with the factual error is aimed at patients.

New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢 This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID. doi.org/10.1080/0958...

If we can’t explain why things are bad, they’re only going to get worse:

Shot, chaser. FOI via @tacc.org.uk

This is an account set up by @natacha.bsky.social to facilitate setting up a new group. I regard the existing EHRC as not independent and consequently not legitimate. So I am looking to recruit members of an independent EHRC who can fulfill its functions with genuine integrity and… 1/4

When the fact that Tories used to attend Stonewall Award ceremonies and other LGBTQIA+ is being used by the BBC as a stick with which to beat them, I think we need to worry.

⚠️ Please, if you are a young Trans+ person, DO NOT engage with any NHS survey I can not stress this strongly enough - there is absolutely no good reason for any young Trans+ person to put themselves in harms way by giving any identifying information to an institutionally transphobic organisation

Chair of EHRC seeking a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss not only ‘mutual priorities’ but also ‘ways to work together going forward’! 🤔 Utterly inappropriate from a supposedly neutral Chair of the EHRC. Interested to see what will @commonswec.parliament.uk have to say?

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