"Trans zealots" - it was one trans woman who'd worked without issue for 4 years until this lot came along

Academics - we should be very worried about and acting to avoid this language becoming adopted by funders, universities, our institutions.

The ferocity with which the vile phrase “a biological male who identifies as a woman” is being embedded across multiple media in Britain is horrifying. It shows how quickly support for eliminationist attacks against trans and gender diverse people is being solidified

Newcastle was really feeding us Lambs today

Utterly astonishing yet entirely predictable.

Chair of EHRC seeking a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss not only ‘mutual priorities’ but also ‘ways to work together going forward’! 🤔 Utterly inappropriate from a supposedly neutral Chair of the EHRC. Interested to see what will @commonswec.parliament.uk have to say?

FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"

I find this sickening, tbh. The claim that simply being in the presence of a trans woman creates a “a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment” for cis women could not be more transphobic* if it tried. *Literally: showing discrimination against, aversion to, or fear of, transgender people

It is degrading to cis people to have to share a changing room with trans people. Good to know.

With characteristic intellectual dishonesty, The Times, and Geraldine Scott, having come to us for quote have deliberately omitted most of what we said in response. Compare and contrast. 2/2

We’ve today formally written to multiple public bodies about BBC reporting on transgender people. Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6

Virgin Active decided to restrict changing room access based on 'biological sex'. We're acting for, and financially supporting, a non-binary transmasculine person and a trans woman who are suing it for breaching the Equality Act. We've published the Letter Before Action.

This was an excellent launch event today. I'm hugely grateful for the invite to contribute as a discussant, and to be in such great company among the respondents. Huge thanks to the research team for the report, for organising the event, and for creating such a supportive space.

'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.' Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3

this was a hugely impactful event, centring on the multiple costs of chronic and endemic precarity in UK HE. the full report and some highly practical action plans are here: www.rgs.org/research/hig... #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #HigherEd @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social

There are whole university service departments, employing significant numbers of skilled, professional people, spending their time on bids which fail 60 - 80% of the time, at least...

Costs of applying for grants amount to more than the value of the grants themselves. What excellent value for money for taxpayers!!!! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We need to talk about the applicationification of academia - I’m currently sat writing an application to use a room for free at the university that employs me 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography. Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work. Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change. Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT): www.rgs.org/events/upcom... Read report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...

Reminder that tomorrow (14 Jan) the @statesofprecarity.bsky.social Report Launch and Discussion will be held online, 1:00-2:30PM GMT. Guest speakers: @matildaf.bsky.social, @jaytoddgla.bsky.social, Lekan Adekola, @profgillian.bsky.social. Register here: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

🔉Call for Papers! This September Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & I will be organising a session on "Queering Environmental Justice" at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference @rgsibg.bsky.social ⏰ Abstract deadline: 18 February 2026 🔗 Conference website: www.rgs.org/research/ann...

If the govt bans x, what happens to all the centrists who've found themselves with 'reasonable concerns' about trans people? Do they just go back to forgetting about us because it's not in their face every day?

Really looking forward to speaking at this event. (read - also nervous and anxious)

Really honoured to be invited to be a discussant at this report launch event. Fabulous project, crucial topic, wonderful research team and fellow speakers.

To be celebrating your knighthood while who groups of your staff spent Christmas ‘at risk’ and in fear for their livelihoods is…just a bit sick, isn’t it??

Rosie Duffield and her cohort of bigots are the danger to "gay, vulnerable, neurodivergent kids".

It was already dodgy as hell legally-speaking that the UK banned puberty blockers for all trans kids while still quite rightly prescribing them to cis kids in Tanner 2 at those young ages. Terrible precedent was set to deny minority groups treatment based on characteristics other than capacity

The protocol for the trial tells you what Tanner stage they have to be at (Tanner 2), Rosie and your very left-wing tagged chums. 1) that means they’re already in early puberty and 2) we really do not want to be eroding Gillick and Fraser competence

It's not illegal to use the right toilets and no one should adhere to Mary-Ann Stephenson's headmistressly call to "follow rules" that serve no good purpose, breach the UK's human rights obligations, will be bad for all women, and debase trans dignity. Make her appoint her sodding toilet police.

So, Laura Kuenssberg's introduction to her interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson is just hideous. Let me count the ways. 🧵

When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet. Just want that to sink in, there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Also, which rules? When I got my GRC, I signed a declaration that I feel and am bound by. I shall obey my conscience and the law, not the EHRC's 'rules'.

If the reporting on the Peggie decision tells us anything, it should be that the way news gets reported in this country has little to do with truth, and much more to do with narrative - as well as whose heavily spun press release lands on journos desks first.

"[The Tribunal held that] Mrs Peggie had in some of her remarks impermissibly manifested her gender critical beliefs" So there *is* a floor on this thing. They *can't* just say whatever the hell they like under the banner of protected beliefs. That'll come as a shock to some of them, I'm sure

‘Biological’, presumably as opposed to ‘not biological’, is very very close to ‘human’ as opposed to ‘sub-human’, isn’t it?

Letting trans and non-binary just live our lives in peace and without harassment isn't going to turn everyone either trans or non-binary. This is just like the "gay panic" of the 80's/90's. The ECHR draft guidance was so poor and illiterate they had to delete it. www.thetimes.com/article/3d81...

Fascism through and through.

Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.

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Day 4 of #ResearchAdvent - Hope Recon I will mention this for a few of these prompts but the energy behind the new Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary & Trans Studies gives me hope. Been great seeing the impressive works of resistance from colleagues & students 🏳️‍⚧️ www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...

So the WI will be asking for all their members birth certificates or just demanding trans women out themselves (or else?) or what? This seems completely impractical. I mean and cowardly, obviously.

UK Supreme Court: You're allowed to discriminate against trans people, but you don't have to cis people: "well, our hands are tied"

The article explicitly notes WI had had a trans-inclusive policy *since the 1970s*!

Reports about our complicated legal system, what trustees can and can’t do, are getting my goat. It might not be grown up and sensible but I want big institutions to stand up to bullying. If they lose and girlguiding implodes as a result let’s see the GCs spin that as a win for women and girls.

I would like any of these orgs to display an ounce of the courage that it takes any ordinary trans person to keep showing up in work and civil society every day in the midst of All This.

This. We do not deserve to be abandoned. We deserve the full throated support of people who claim to support us. Not the apologetic shuffle of "sorry, but it's hard!"

Excluding a minoritised group of children from social activities on the basis of threats, hate, and unjust laws is not acceptable. You don't have to accept it.

"Utmost regret and sadness" Is the new “dignity compassion and respect”

Fuck this shit.

It’s also my firm stance that it’s not my job to police people’s disabilities or need for accommodations, and that if you tell me you have a need and/or were sick and/or your dog died, I’m taking you at your word unless I have strong, individualized reasons to suspect otherwise.