Trans rights are human rights.

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Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

Navi Pillay: ‘To do nothing is not neutrality. It is complicity. The prevention of genocide is not a matter of discretion of states. It is a legal and moral obligation, and it admits no delay. The law requires action. Our common humanity demands it.’ gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

ICYMI We launched our Migrant Sex Workers and Housing Research last month. It outlines how current laws encode discrimination against sx workers in law and the racism migrant sex workers face. www.ireland-live.ie/news/ireland...

I won a prize 🥳 Well, Deserted Wives did 😍 📖 Thank you to The Society of Legal Scholars for a lovely evening and wonderful recognition. I am very grateful (as the cheesy grin shows!) Deserted Wives currently has 30% off: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deserted-... #19thC #WomensHistory #sls2025

So many emotions sharing this, but here is the 1st paper from the study I did with Dr Jo Garstang, Dr Nikki Speed & Jon Holmes, published in BMJl (Paediatrics). It centres on what families want & need from professionals after their child's sudden, unexplained death pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40850909/

It turns out that sex work IS work when police want to deport migrants. Brothel workers were arrested and deported for working without a visa in England. www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-...

Saw this on FB and it feels so pertinent

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

I mean more like months/years if you do participatory work. And it counts for nothing if you don't get the money 😡😡

If government wants to hear about “efficiency”: as all of us have to buy out time to do any research, since unis overload other work & often don’t even notionally cover research, we’re ALL made to apply to those things. So we’re all spending weeks writing apps rather than doing actual research.

UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

As others have noted, promotion often depends on getting grants, but so does permanency and the transition from precarity and, increasingly, surviving compulsory redundancy.

something I keep thinking about and which I can't make up my mind on is: were swathes of the right, centre-right and, in some cases, the centre, full of racists hiding their beliefs for decades, or are these people all incredibly suggestible? neither answer is good!

Associate Professor Helen Rutherford has co-written a book on Newcastle Prison. There will be a book launch on Thursday 21 August at 6:30pm at Newcastle City Library. You can book your place at the launch here - www.tiny.cc/newcastlepri...

Starmer really is a moral vacuum. Utterly devoid of any principles. Palestinians either deserve statehood, or they don’t. Whether Israel continues to murder them by starvation or not is totally irrelevant to their claim on statehood

Exciting news - Prof. Sarah Kingston, Dr Nicola Harding and I are organising a special issue for @areajournal.bsky.social titled "The Geographies of Fraud and Financial Crime". Please see attached for details and share with anyone who might be interested!

It wasn’t long ago that media used to say lesbians in bathrooms or changing rooms sexualised “innocent” straight women and made them uncomfortable. Such fears were weaponised politically to vilify lesbian women as sexual predators. Now we see the same comments recycled about trans women. It’s gross.

Maybe we should start listening to the people who said that this kind of thing was going to happen? Maybe they're the ones actually speaking common sense?

27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws. Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide. This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.

I’m becoming a terrible old bore about generative AI, I know. But it’s doing my head in seeing the normalisation of this dishonest and dangerous technology.

What awful news. So sorry

Finally redownloaded this app after a couple of months. What have I missed?!

I have been. I have lived on friends sofas and hid when landlords came to collect the rent. I've done without electricity and gas because I couldn't put money in the meter. As far as I can say, it didn't turn me into a hateful, bigoted, individual who has turned what they do into demonising others.

I would go further and say that *not considering the justice implications* of your work makes it *less* rigorous. Indeed centering your work on justice is a more rigorous. That said, I also have criticisms of how academic "rigor" is defined and weaponized within academia.

Dear legal community: we are at the moment 19 signatures short of reaching 200 signatures to the letter on behalf of the legal community in light of For Women Scotland & the EHRC interpretation of it. If you know anyone who would sign but hasn't yet - nudge them, please!

The Telegraph thinks we earn "£70k plus" in "the provinces". (The nationally bargained pay spine for that role tops out at about £63k and starts ten k lower).

11°C in Gateshead and we've already seen multiple men walking around with their tops off 🤢🤢

grew up with the media depiction where they rip out a guy’s still-beating heart and eat monkey brains and we still managed to win all the spelling bees m, I think the white boys can survive the message of “don’t be a rapist”

Exactly! There are also an awful lot of very clever people in the UK who are at risk of redundancy in academia at the moment so, from a UK perspective, that's more pressing

This is why mooting 'ditching net-zero' as the solution to Labour's woes is so silly. It's a policy that is popular with their core voters, critical to progressive voters they need to woo back, and Reform voters are sceptical but it's way down their priority list.

hey, uh, quick reminder that transphobia affecting cis people shouldn't be the main reason you speak out about transphobia transphobia affecting trans people is

Bored of seeing law profs trying to defend this decisions as an act of neutral legal interpretation when the judges are there making up definitions as to who counts as a lesbian!

The biggest supporters of trans people are lesbian and bisexual women. The media’s framing of trans rights as a threat to women is as disingenuous as it is deplorable. After all, the political attacks against abortion and women’s rights come from the same governments opposing trans existence.

Reporting sexual violence isn’t a neutral act. For sex workers, it can mean arrest, child welfare investigations, public outing, or immigration consequences. It can mean being coerced into becoming an informant. There’s literally no one to report to who doesn’t hold power over you.

it has never been more crucial for cis lesbians to be loud in support of our trans family. this is a chilling escalation of longtime tactics; attempts at a “feminist” case for transphobia ALWAYS include a disingenuous “nooooo won’t someone think of the poor lil lesbians 🥺🥺🥺” and it is such bullshit

Just standing in my kitchen staring at the stupidest thing I’ve ever read in my fucking life

Listen to sex workers. They know the dangers involved in their work and are best equipped to tell us what they need. If you’ve never done sex work, your opinion on this is forfeit.

Today’s protest in London against the Supreme Court ruling was staggering in size. Huge respect to those who made this happen in just a matter of days. Imagine the size of the crowd Sex Matters would have mustered to protest, if the ruling had been different. Take heart. The tide will turn.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

The only way states can enforce sex policing in public spaces (like toilets) is by incentivising misogynistic, transphobic social surveillance. People will scrutinise, question, intrude on cis and trans women who do not conform to certain gender aesthetics. This is happening now. And it’s chilling.

If you don't like our trans inclusive stance, don't visit. It's not like you've been visiting anyway, keep that up.

The Vagina Museum is trans inclusive. We always have been and we always will be. As long as there's a Vagina Museum, we cannot be bullied or bought to change our stance on this.

I want to add something here. She also routinely claims that lesbian and gay people support her and her crusade against trans rights. We do not. And her lying about what we believe to attack other members of our community is abusive to the LGBTQA+ community.

We're delighted to be hosting SLSA 2027 in Northumbria. The Law and Society group can't wait to showcase the amazing socio-legal research happening at Northumbria

So happy that Lynsey is our new CEO. And thank you to Raven who has given everything to the charity for so long. Her legacy is astounding.