🚨 NEW: 27 Members of Parliament have signed a motion to reject the EHRC Code of Practice edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... Ask yours to join them: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

Omg if you love the Sims you NEED paralives. It's like the Sims, but better in every way

Good showing for the Lib Dems in today's EHRC debate. I count 8 of our MPs raising how fundamentally exclusionary and unworkable this guidance is. 👇 hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026...

Josh Babarinde Lib Dem MP - slams practice, calls out inclusive Lib Dem women. Very strong statements - Lib Dems have really turned it out today!

Today is the start of Pride Month We're proud to celebrate the progress made in LGBTQ+ equality and the achievements of LGBTQ+ people. Liberal Democrats will keep fighting for the rights of the entire LGBTQ+ community in the

For people to be humiliated because of who they are is not acceptable. We must make sure the law treats everyone equally. My latest column - www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

This is very good on the logical preposterousness of the trans bathroom ban. It simply cannot have been the intention of the Equality Act or the governments which administered it. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

Thank you to @eddavey.libdems.org.uk and @mariecgoldman.bsky.social for sending this letter about the draft EHRC Code of Practice. We fully agree that it needs to be withdrawn, and that women's rights and trans rights are not in conflict. 🧡🏳️‍⚧️ We're re-sharing the letter, with Alt-text. 👇

It's a real shame that the Lib Dems didn't respond more vigorously earlier, and it's cost us a lot of trust from the rightly furious trans community, but it's a joy to see we're finally where we should have been in the first place. Odd feeling: am I a little bit proud to be a Lib Dem member today?

Ed Davey and I have written to the Minister for Women & Equalities, asking her to withdraw the EHRC Code of Practice. The Government have repeatedly assured trans people that they have protection from discrimination, yet this guidance does the opposite, breaking decades of precedent.

Lib Dems call for EHRC guidance to be withdrawn due to the impact it has on trans people, and for how unacceptable the idea of bathroom police are 👇

The new EHRC Code of Practice is not fit for purpose. It does not provide clear guidance or do enough to protect everyone from discrimination, and it is not compatible with longstanding British values. @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk and @MarieCGoldman.bsky.social have written to Bridget Phillipson. ⬇️

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More than 60% of Australian kids are still using social media despite the ban. Because prohibition rarely works. We know this. mollyrosefoundation.org/more-than-60...

it’s really weird that the line is “you never had those rights” when the EHRC has an official YouTube channel with videos from 7 years ago explaining that we did youtu.be/HHzBoQJgHoc

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

I know the EHCR guidance is a huge blow for trans and non binary folk & they will be worried and scared. I will be looking at how I can raise my concerns about their impact and ensure the rights and dignity of Trans and Non binary people are protected and will make a further statement shortly.

Don't forget Palantir!

Right, using special section D is not some privilege. It means I am unable to use online HMRC services and have to call up every time. That's not preferential treatment, it's required for data protection. www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consum...

Great to be out in Holcombe campaigning again tonight!

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

Do people understand yet that this was never about reasonable concerns. That no compromise would ever be enough for them. They want to be able to actively discriminate against us. They want us not to exist.

If you're not scared of the possibility of a Reform UK government, you should be.

Honestly these men want us to be feminine and then complain when we do it. Every month I like to get my acrylic nails, my hybrid lashes and my abortion. What will they moan about next? Perfume? FFS.

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Lib Dems on top? STOP THE COUNT

"We aren't purging this minority from society hard enough, we need to make it legal to sack them from their job for being trans too."

If you’ve signed one of these, you’ll know it’s a legal declaration “to live in that gender until death”. Making a false Statutory Declaration is a criminal offence, leading to prosecution, conviction, fines & imprisonment. I know which gender I am & which facilities I’ll be using until death.

And yet people will deny that global warming is real and the threat it poses. I despair for my future as a young person if we don't urgently take climate action and reverse this trend.

This from @indiawilloughby.bsky.social really does show how bonkers the UKSC and EHRC ruling are. Those on the Gender Critical side need to admit the UKSC ruling was a reinterpretation, not settling law that people already assumed to be the case.

You could just not have banned us from the separate gender spaces in the first place.

God of their canvass returns look this poor they're gonna get annihilated

Imagine celebrating trans people being banned from bathrooms when boys have a free pass to rape girls safe in the knowledge that there will be no consequences?

Devon ice cream is just better lol

We did it, lads. We banned trans people from toilets. Now to sit back and watch house prices come down and vegetables stop rotting on supermarket shelves and we'll all come together and feast on Cadbury's Creme Eggs as big as your head, m'boy, And we'll watch Morecambe and Wise, who did NOT die

This is not equality. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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EHRC Code: 1. The point of the Equality Act was to prevent discrimination. So if you were discriminated against, you had (in most cases) a route to make a complaint, the law to back you up and a route to make inequality expensive enough that most companies complied (to some extent).

I’m not saying this to be dismissive of the impact of tHe gUiDaNcE on trans people but this is a win for the religious and far right. They know they can steal hard won rights now. So unless you’re a cishet white man, you’re up next, it’s just a matter of time (and we should still care when it’s

This is unworkable and a huge step backwards for human rights. I will be calling on the Government to urgently rethink this before it's too late.

I am very concerned that not only does this guidance not appear to do this, but that it actively creates a situation where anyone could be challenged about accessing facilities based simply on how well someone else believes they visually conform to gender stereotypes.

The Liberal Democrats have been clear from the start that the final guidance must be inclusive, workable and provide clarity to business and providers, trans, non-binary people and women so that no one is left exposed to legal risk, or worried about whether they can safely access public facilities.

The Government has finally published the revised draft Code of Practice from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. I will be studying it very carefully to understand its practical applications and implications.

A great statement by the @libdems.org.uk Women and Equalities spokesperson on the EHRC guidance 👇

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The EHRC's Code of Practice has been approved by the Minister of State and laid before Parliament. We hear and share the community's shock and alarm at the proposals. A statement from us: 👇

If true, and i think it is, then the EHRC and government are intentionally placing the UK in breach of settled European law, to which the UK is still subject, and has undermined the entire legal gender recognition system. So Labour's line about getting closer to the EU is immediately challengeable

🚨 EHRC guidance update: Polite exclusion is still exclusion. This CoP is about as unfair and unworkable as before, with only small tweaks. Clearly many service providers will just go gender neutral to avoid the headache, but this risks pushing trans people yet further out of public life.

There we have it - you have to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces (so maybe avoid having them if you can). A bathroom ban from people who recognise that they’re doing a bathroom ban, and feel guilty about it. Shameful. www.gov.uk/government/p...