People can make decisions about their own lives, but having a go at people who choose to use the disabled toilets (or explain how to do so) for "giving away our rights" is something I find genuinely abhorrent and I will block anyone I see doing so.

We're complaining to the Charity Commission about Sex Matters describing women who are trans using women's spaces as "deviants". The language is unacceptable (and the statement is wrong in law). We're looking for other examples of it (staff or Trustees) using inflammatory language. Share below?

I've had a lot of people asking about the GRC statutory declaration. The affirmation to live in your acquired gender is almost certainly to be understood as meaning as far as it is lawful and practicable to do so. You don't stop living as a woman if you choose to use the disabled toilets.

A really important thing to remember in this heat wave is that good insulation also helps keep your house *cool*. We are desperately in need of modern infrastructure in our homes, but the government refuses to properly invest in it.

Really concerning to see this kind of rhetoric from practising members of the Bar. If this said "we don't know what proportion of gay men are pedophiles but we know it's some of them" I would hope that people would recognise this for what it is. Sadly they don't when it's about trans people.

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.

Article from a prominent GC campaigner in The Critic today, decrying the guidance for not going far enough: "The only thing that will reverse the state we are in is to overturn the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and remove “Gender Reassignment” as a protected category in the Equality Act."

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Our trans rights lead, Jess O’Thomson, discussed the EHRC’s new code of practice on Sky News. Support our appeal against their transphobic guidance: https://goodlaw.social/3ege

This cartoon by Ella Baron from the Guardian today actually made me well up a little. We will keep fighting. Together.

We have ended up in a situation where highly skilled NHS doctors are telling the Guardian that they feel compelled to flee the country. How does this protect anybody? The government could fix this tomorrow. But, bafflingly, it refuses.

I know people are hurt and scared. But I'm not actually a public punching bag. I promise, today was not an easy day to do my job as it is. Please remember I am part of this community too, and that I care as much as anyone about protecting trans human rights. Look after yourselves.

Feel the need to address this explicitly as it's about my quote. I said the guidance is now clear associations can be trans inclusive (contrary to the previous version). I did not claim the guidance itself is clear. It's not, and as the rest of my quote says, I think it ignores human rights law.

Sorry I keep annoyingly looking away from the camera in this, was in a teeny bit of a rush and not my usual/ideal set up.

The updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations has been laid before Parliament. The guidance tells organisations how they should approach trans inclusion. Here’s what that means.

We've read the new Code of Practice. Here's what you need to know.

The Minister has confirmed that she has laid the new Code of Practice. But the Code itself has not yet been published for members of the public to view. We are watching closely and will have more analysis once we have seen it.

This is why you really shouldn't trust the immediate reporting on, eg, the code, or about legal cases. It is genuinely remarkable the extent to which reporting does not get even the most basic details correct. Please wait for actual analysis from the law and policy experts working in this space.

Unnerving to me that literal MPs do not see why “security vetting gets a veto on whether elected MPs should take their seats” is not a good idea.

The Times coverage of what the Code is likely to contain is embarrassingly wrong. It talks repeatedly about what it will tell employers to do – but, of course, the guidance is only for service providers and associations. This is a question of basic accuracy and understanding. Shameful.

Excellent piece on the continued judicial gutting of the common law. Can't help but note the apparent radical decline in the constitutional role of the judiciary since I was sat in Professor Elliott's lectures less than a decade ago.

Being accused of using AI because I use dashes in my writing. It's not because of AI – I just know how to write.

I maintain the personal views of politicians are an utter irrelevance. I don't really care whether a politician is sincerely, personally transphobic. I care what they do. I would much rather a bigot with good policies than someone who, regardless, allows bad ones they happen to disagree with.

It’s very hard to digest how the explicit antimuslim racism on display in the streets of London on Saturday is passing by with no consequences. Very hard not to feel like we’re regarded as second class citizens and fair game to be sacrificed on the alter of pacifying angry voters. Very hard & scary.

Great to hear the Commissioner for Human Rights explicitly calling out the ongoing attacks on trans and intersex people's human rights. He rightly highlights how extreme anti-human rights positions are being increasingly entertained in mainstream politics. We all have a duty to resist this.

This is why I love my job as a professional exposer of very difficult problems. As you might imagine, it has resulted only in peace and joy for me.

"When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away." - Sara Ahmed, Living A Feminist Life

The gutting of the principle of legality – part of a much wider trend of constitutional regression in the senior courts' case law – continues apace. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

Americans once again fail to understand the concept of irony. They are doing a bit.

Trans+ rights are a mess. Ever wonder how we got here? The historically pivotal court case you need to understand, with @jessothomson.co.uk #IDAHOBIT

I have never cited something I haven't read???

Not to be *that* person, but constitutionally, any change to the electoral system almost certainly does need to be in a manifesto, else the Lords will block it. I do think the proposal should be for STV not SV, though.

I am depression.

Wolf Hall, Jane Eyre, Gatsby

I have for many years been a massive fan of Eurovision. I am continuing my boycott this year due to the participation of Israel.

Marginalised experiences of feminisation/womanhood/gendering are not secondary or fringe interests though. They are key qualifiers that should shape everyone's understanding of the whole. And without taking on board the work of integrating those experiences feminism as a whole will fail.

I have for many years been a massive fan of Eurovision. I am continuing my boycott this year due to the participation of Israel.

Do think we will have to directly grapple with the fact that giving women rights does in fact reduce birth rates, because they can choose not to be broodmares. This is not a bad thing, and it's an adjustment we will have to make.

Anyway. Slot has to go.

PSA I am almost entirely certain that the account @queertruth.bsky.social is some weird transphobe cosplaying as a trans person, posting misogynistic and ableist stuff, and saying stuff like they have "reclaimed" the word "transwoman". Would recommend a block!

"In an extraordinary intervention, the intelligence and security committee (ISC) has criticised the government over its handling of the release of Mandelson-related papers and in effect accused ministers failing to comply with parliament’s will."

The rightwing lobby group Policy Exchange is already under investigation over political bias, but they’re launching a campaign to shift the UK to the right ⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/tobr

💿🐎 Put simply: trans women are not "socialised male" - they are socialised specifically as trans girls and then trans women. There is a very specific form of gendered discipline which occurs (transmisogyny). Is a continuing, lifelong, dialectical process between self-concept and social structures.

I feel this in my bones.

Just a couple days ago this money was supposed to be for his security.

"The UK Supreme Court’s decision in Dillon demonstrates an intense form of regressive judicial activism at work in UK constitutional law." I fear this is right. Our current SC is not simply 'conservative' and failing to develop the law, but actively dismantling parts contrary to its narrow vision.

Pretty huge omission in terms of this letter cataloguing Starmer's failures. I wonder why Streeting wouldn't want to draw attention to Mandelson...

No place for the Mandelson affair in Streeting’s otherwise by-the-numbers diagnosis of Starmer’s failings 👀