TRANS EXILE NETWORK and TACC RELEASE OPEN LETTER TO GUIDES Today TEN and TACC have sent an OPEN letter to Girlguiding UK together with releasing a Press release, in the light of the organisation's adoption of contested Gender Critical Ideology. It raises child protection concerns.

TEN sends open letter to Women's Institute over its new Gender Critical Ideology. It mentions Peggie v Fife (eg the findings that Dr Upton was the one harassed, it was correct not to exclude her, that a trans woman poses no more threat to a cis woman than a cis woman does). Attached.

Some comments by myself on the rather unattractive media campaign now being run by Baronrss Faulkner. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Baroness Falkner questions “veracity” of a judge’s judgment. In a possibly unique statement the immediate former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Baroness Falkner is reported by the BBC as having questioned the ‘veracity’ of the Judgment of the Judge in Peggie v Fife and Upton.

Important that Amnesty are also backing this. Well done everyone on this renewed challenge to GANRHI.

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Thanks Philiippa. HSE‘s response confirms that the obligation to “provide facilities” does not require employers to *control access* to the facilities based on birth sex (e.g. discipline employees who use a toilet not matching their birth sex). This is a vital distinction in practice, and in law.

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

The @goodlawproject.bsky.social have launched a letter-writing campaign to get Virgin Active to drop their trans-exclusionary policies, and have set up a super-easy letter writing tool here. action.goodlawproject.org/virgin-activ... Go lend your support! And do share round your networks.🙏🙏🙏

If you have a friend or know someone who is trans, PLEASE don't go around telling people that person is transgender. You are putting them in danger! It's not your place to tell people this. If you truly love them, you will protect them.

It has come to my attention that many of you have been sharing this photo of Streeting and Mandelson widely. Please remember that Wes Streeting does not like it being shared widely. So please do not share it widely and on every possible occasion. We wouldn’t want to upset him would we?

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of some Charlie Kirk highlights

Trans friend of mine, someone I've known for almost forty years, throughout her transition and everything she went through to become who she was all along... ...was assaulted is ASDA yesterday, by a security guard. Told her 'men were not allowed the ladies' loo' and physically dragged her out.

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history. And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

Here's the problem - the right make up a story and the media plaster it everywhere. The left tell a true story and the media ignore it. The right hasn't actually 'hijacked' anything. The right have been given an open door while the left - the majority - are barricaded away.

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Really good “vox pop” coverage here of the Supreme Court fall-out, revealing the total unworkability of EHRC plans and exposing the rank bigotry of those supporting bathroom bans. Featuring @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social & @janefae.bsky.social TW: Helen Joyce www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... From 1.33.30

Something I keep coming back to is that the whole interpretation falls apart once you acknowledge that trans women can breastfeed and therefore should be protected under s17(4). It's the clearest example of the human rights incompatibility of the FWS interpretation (there's no "clash" of rights).

Is there any reason "sex" couldn't have a unified meaning as an umbrella term for a cluster of related things, in the same way that "race" contains the meanings of colour, ethnicity and national origin?