11 trans people have been murdered in the United Kingdom since 2000. All of them were killed by somebody they knew. In that timeframe, 20 trans people have committed homicide in the UK, including one stranger killing. Its good news that there is no trans genocide, or even any real persecution.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Severely disabled people can now consent to care arrangements, Supreme Court rules The judgement, which was triggered by a case brought by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland, will apply across the UK. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3e2lq58p87o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

Five justices of the UK Supreme Court are to spend a day thinking about beach huts. Peter Stenner owns three near the River Teign beach in Devon. Do his huts come with the right to store his boats during the winter on a nearby corner of the council car park? rozenberg.substack.com/p/beach-huts...

This kind of accusation from trans rights advocates - that publishing arguments and legal analysis they disagree with - is tantamount to trying to erase people, is very 2019 - and part of the reason why their side has lost so comprehensively.

It’s wild to watch Dunt prioritize 15-year-old travel advisories over the actual law. The 'stupidity' here is ignoring that the government who passed the Equality Act specifically wrote in protections for single-sex spaces because biological sex matters.

Well at least Dunt and Lynskey have their next Origin Story sorted. After all, they will pull the same treatment on a man as they did on Rowling, right?

Oh my GOD. The SC judgment mentions SANITARY FACILITIES. Also known as, guess what, TOILETS. That you still have this blind spot more than a year after the judgment is just incredible.

A powerful letter from @janetdaby.bsky.social, who is absolutely right to call this out. Deleting a post, but failing to make amends and not even provide an apology is not good enough. I echo Janet's call for Mayor Shrivastava and Lewisham Greens to address this now and restore trust.

Yes, how dare a wheelchair user not immediately centre a demographic of which he himself is not a member? Remember, it’s trans, trans, trans all the way front, back and centre, otherwise it’s a literal genocide.

www.independent.co.uk/voices/disab... Is it right that hard-won provisions for disabled people can be so blithely co-opted into a nebulous “third space” for those who can’t/won’t use either the Gents or the Ladies? To put it more forcefully, why should my conveniences be inconvenienced?

Superb takedown of Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey’s @originstorypodcast.bsky.social on JK Rowling: unherd.com/2026/05/jk-r...

What about this @sarahowen.org.uk - are you any way concerned about this female who was raped on a male hospital ward? Does it have any bearing on the EHRC guidance you are weeping over on behalf of trans-identified men?

Chair of Women & Equalities Committee with nothing whatsoever to say about women's legal rights to single sex services, provisions & sports when sex matters. All about the men (with trans identities). Disgraceful.

Anything at all to say to women and the same-sex attracted community Sarah? Perhaps about their uncertainty and how they live their lives? Anything at all????

Chair of Women & Equalities Committee with nothing whatsoever to say about women's legal rights to single sex services, provisions & sports when sex matters. All about the men (with trans identities). Disgraceful.

Deep ‘Marie Antoinette as a milkmaid’ vibes here.

Having used male toilets at fooball matches, I understand why women want their own.

To be clear, official guidance issued by statutory authorities MUST reflect the law - whether that’s in single-sex services, housing regulations, traffic and road regulations etc. Eg imagine issuing guidance on speed limits which misrepresented the law and gave an inaccurate speed limit?

Bluesky, the kinder, nicer social media site.

Two blokes who have been on the losing side of all the arguments about women’s rights, decide to explain to each other how awful those uppity successful women are.

A young woman was admitted to hospital for mental health issues, because she claimed to be a man the staff placed her in a male psychiatric ward. She was raped within an hour of arriving. The staff refused to cooperate with police resulting in an innocent man being charged with rape. Link in reply

NHS loses another case as the FayeRCTribunal finds the policy of permitting "trans women" to use female facilities was harassment in relation to sex & GC belief, & its trans equality procedure was harassment in relation to GC belief. Incorrect legal advice from trans advocacy groups was pivotal.

didlaw.com/ls-v-nhse-en... Brilliant result. NHS England employee wins at Leeds ET - indirect sex discrimination and harassment upheld over the policy letting trans colleagues use single-sex facilities by gender identity. No legal right to that under EqA 2010. EHRC guidance still MIA.

Man charged over arson attack at former synagogue www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Freddie Mercury’s genius included deliberate play on gender norms, reflecting his unapologetic approach to fashion and sexuality. This outfit was characterised a repressed 'housewife' and worn in the video of "I Want to Break Free" (1984).

Sure, be annoyed with Starmer, but instead of this personality claptrap, be specific about the policy alternatives you'd prefer to go for. Then we can see whether they make sense. /ends

This is a lie. I send an email every week to appeal my "Intolerance" label and never get a response.

You *can* appeal when trans activists call you a nazi, a fascist, a paedo, when they add you to lists inviting others to harass you, when they tell you to die, to kill yourself, to chug piss ... but you'll get labelled 'intolerant' because @safety.bsky.app doesn't care if it's women getting abuse.

When my Dad was dying from cancer, he moved from one hospital to another and it took *days* for them to access his records. The doctors had to rely on us — none of us clinicians — to know what drugs he was on. Absolutely absurd in this day and age.

Having bounced around academia and politics, the best advice I can give is to never take advice from someone who would never, ever vote for you.

NEW: GM Police have arrested a man in the heart of the Broughton Park Jewish community in Salford. He is alleged to have made threats including to "take knives and cut your throat” & “Jew leave the country, and we’ll make it like the Nazis in the gas chambers.” www.jewishnews.co.uk/man-arrested...

How it started. How it’s going. #cassreview #BMA

Extremely pleased to hear this from Mark Rowley, much needed clarity when a community which has been repeatedly gaslit by senior figures about its own safety

British sports journalists honouring a man who says "we" can afford to lose women's sports to make deviant males feel happy So brave

"A person with same sex orientation as a lesbian must be a female who is sexually oriented towards (or attracted to) females, and lesbians as a group are females who share the characteristic of being sexually oriented to females." - Supreme Court 16th April 2025. Image by LesbianPersistance

‘Lefty’ Pope Leo’s a thorn for new Maga Catholics www.thetimes.com/article/5682...

It may be news to people who live their lives perpetually online, but exchanging a few electronic messages - whether they be DMs, emails, whatever - does not a friendship make.

That claw hammer looks especially “non-violent”.

Or as @jonathanliew.bsky.social @theguardian.com would call it, a “small act of petty symbolism”. Words lead to actions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How were you ‘friends’ when you’ve never met her?

He is truly deranged.

Tremendously depressing read. Also: proper reporting. open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

A man wrongfully served 17 years for rape. Now another man has been convicted www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jonathan Liew currently scouring the world to find a Palestinian cafe in the same postcode as a Bluesky executive.

Grace Campbell (Alistair Campbell's daughter) on her podcast. "Freaks.... Ugly ugly ugly!" (talking about FWS and others celebrating SC victory). That's a lot of internalised misogyny. Utterly toxic.