this is the end result of people constantly talking about how trans rights was a "distraction"

It's a sign of the desperate state of trans people in the UK are in that we respond to the Levy Review with even a modicum of relief. I'm just glad that it hasn't been published along with a fanfare from the seven trumpets of the apocalypse. After Cass I don't think I was the only person afraid.

It feels like Levy could have been a lot worse, but this is deeply concerning. It is fundamentally talking about trans identities in terms of cause, a mode of thinking that leads directly to prevention and/or cure.

Far from letting down your audience, Robin, you have remained true to the very values that made them listen in the first place. Thank you for being a voice of reason and compassion in a world that undervalues or punishes those qualities. I'm sorry it has cost you, but you are appreciated.

When you next talk to your MP about trans rights and the EHRC’s role in obliterating them, mention that the EHRC took no minutes of a crucial meeting with LGBTQ+ stakeholders. It does rather concisely emphasise the point that the EHRC were pivoted to become an anti-rights organisation.

When the self-proclaimed champions of free speech become drivers of censorship. This is the real #cancelculture on women, queer people, people of colour, workers and human rights activists. That’s why @socialistsanddemocrats.eu call for an inquiry committee on #BigTech in the European Parliament.

Transphobia is an elite project. This is never more clear than when you observe the alliance of billionaires, media bosses and front-bench politicians, who collude to preach it ever more desperately to a public that still, mostly, just doesn’t care.

Mini thread on the ET decision in Peggie Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law. 🧵👇

Today’s judgment in the Sandie Peggie case says exactly what we have been saying – For Women Scotland does not require a trans bathroom ban:

It's my pleasure to announce the Longlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction in the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards! This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷 Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.

All of this is fascism. And not early stage either. This is the embedding of the Right Wing Daily Mail press consensus as the absolutely unshakable common sense of the UK state. Made possible because the "left wing" party has abdicated any kind of moral position on it.

The transgender experience in the UK right now is basically just waking up to discover what else you've been banned from.

you fight transmisogyny by *fighting transmisogyny*, not by playing games with cis people’s colouring-book comprehension of sex and gender

As I posted earlier, this campaign is similar to panic about "boys in girls' sports" and, as commenters pointed out, "welfare queens"—and refugees! And DEI! Conservatives try to use outlier scenarios to stoke resentment and suspicion about any system that extends benefits to marginalized people.

It feels worth mentioning that Graham Linehan’s harassment literally continued in the courtroom, as he repeatedly misgendered Sophia, and referred to her as “Tarquin”, a fictional deadname he made up for her as part of his harassment campaign. The judge was complicit in this harassment happening.

Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies. This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.

Could there be anything to learn here for the Labour party? No, surely not, they're doing fine, nothing to see here. Their continued descent into fascism and electoral suicide will surely pay off any day now.

He's forcing thousands of young Trans+people to be cisgender and through the trauma of a puberty they don't want, ripping away from them their right to be safe, and denying them the opportunity to thrive and be happy But yeah, sure, Streeting's the victim Labour is full of absolute monsters

the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.

Just as the union was about to get recognised, Rockstar fired almost every employee involved in it without explanation. I'm sure we have a phrase for this kind of behaviour. And this wasn't in the US, land of poor employment rights, this was the UK.

you know we used to have to do at least a little work to prove the connection between racism and transphobia

British teenager goes to school and puts their phone in their lockable phone pouch. "Can't be having you get radicalized", says the phone pouch handler. The teacher in math class proceeds to go on a legally protected 90 minute rant about "biological males" on women's hiking trails

How many children died as a result of her actions…?

"As someone working in law, it’s heresy to say this, and it might even kill my chances of a career... But as a trans person, and someone fighting for the rights of my community, I refuse to remain silent. To me it just seems obvious: a heavily prejudiced society produces prejudiced institutions."

To paraphrase a German saying: if 9 good people and one transphobe sit down at a table, and no one says anything to challenge them, there are 10 transphobes at that table. Except he wasn't just hosting a dinner party, he was in charge and actively responsible for the hate speech on his watch.

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

“What do you mean, the proposed rules would create a third sex, something we explicitly agreed not to do under human rights laws? What do you mean, implementing these rules would cost businesses huge amounts of money and open them up to legal action? Shit. Uh... Lengthy impact assessment, anyone?”

💥WIN: Victory in landmark case on gender recognition Am so proud to have worked on this case, and to work for an org which fights for - and successfully defends - trans rights. "A huge victory for trans people’s human rights in this country, at a moment where things have felt particularly dark."

This is the most perfect example I've ever seen of the extremely common tendency for British people to fantasize that whatever they're doing to minorities is reliably much more decent than whatever America is doing to those same minorities.

"What we have been through is only a small, small part of what Palestinians have experienced. On the walls of our prison cells, we saw bullet holes with bloodstains and messages carved into the walls by Palestinian prisoners who had been there before us."

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

I have actually never seen a politician say anything even remotely like this. Whatever the follow-through, or not, even the fact he said this is really, really something

- informed consent in primary care - bulldoze every gender clinic - hold inquiries into the abuses that went on there - apologies + damages to patients denied care - bosh ✊ If someone wants to transition, at any age and for any reason, that’s their business.

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years. This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

They also say transphobia is awful while treating trans people like criminals. Almost like Starmer is a lying piece of shit.

Last night, Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla, illegally seizing ships and those onboard. I've written to the Foreign Secretary, urging the government to condemn this attack and speak up for the safety and immediate release of the 13 British citizens detained.

On the Gaza flotilla live stream, one by one, boats are intercepted by IDF & blasted with water cannons until comms are jammed & the feed for each boat goes down. Israel is illegally kidnapping civilians on international waters, & they're preventing the world from witnessing.

🚨 UPDATE 🚨 The news is in, and it’s good 🚫 GWD, the anti-trans lobby group led by four disgraced expelled members, has been denied a platform at Autumn Conference They tried to strong-arm the party with legal threats in order to spread their transphobic agenda But the party stood firm 1.

Every example Starmer gave of Britain not being broken is people having to step up where the Government has failed. It should be considered shameful that people have been driven to this point.

This is some Trump level bullshit.

as a matter of urgency, this labour government must be removed from office

I'm sure there was something about "the air of England [being] too pure" or the like, but apparently we've moved beyond the peroquial abolitionist morality of the 1700s. This is supposed to be the centre left government, how damn mask off can they get?

What centrists are offering across the Western world is the opportunity for the right to consolidate their gains as hegemonic. They’re offering managerial competence in service to reactionary aims.

I note here that the police raided Nicola Sturgeon’s house live on national television because they thought her husband had spent party donations on a camper van

It seems to me that what Morgan has very obviously done here is considerably worse than the stuff that had coppers storming through Nicola Sturgeon’s front door and digging up her back garden live on national television, and everyone is saying it’s old news and there’s nothing much to see.

“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights. sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

Has now passed a million signatures.

Again, you *have to* have a Tesco card or your shopping costs even more than the already crazy prices! Do you see how all the arguments against objections amount to tiny gilded class saying “we already treat you like cattle, so it’s stupid for you object to us fucking you in new and exciting ways”.