It's that special time of the year where you contemplate getting in the freezer to stay warm overnight...

Your Party has rather quickly gone from: "woo Your Party! The party for YOU!" To "It's Your Party" "No it's Your Party!" "No Yours!!" "MUUUUuuuuuummmmm!"

If half of what has been published in the Times is right it's evil. Think how many times you use a public toilet in a week. Think that any time someone can tell you can't just because of what you look like. Even if you used it yesterday or an hour ago. How do you live? How do you work or socialise?

Thank you, @joshbabarinde.bsky.social for pressing the government on today's appalling leaked EHRC proposals. It is both sickening and predictable that they should leak on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Thank you for committing the @libdems.org.uk to standing up for our rights.

He went to a school where, some years later, students would xhant "we pay your benefits." Out of bus windows as they passed a nearby state secondary school. Honestly I'm really not shocked by this or how he turned out...

Just finished my last AGM as Co-Chair of @pluslibdems.bsky.social. It's been brilliant to work with @lukeallanld.bsky.social and I'm looking forward to handing over to Lucas North who'll be taking over in January.

I'd also like to make it clear that I now consider attempts to question me on my Assigned Sex At Birth to be the equivalent of asking what my genitals look like and will therefore be considering them sexual harassment going forwards.

Following the announcement by the Lib Dems returning officer on quotas in our federal elections I would like to make it clear I spent many hours and more emails trying to point out that this decision went against the expressed will of conference barely a month ago.

If I ever stop reposting this just assume I've been kidnapped...

Nice to see I'm living rent free in someone's head. Hilariously they're frothing at the mouth and basically calling me the head of some trans cabal in the Lib Dems and their 'evidence' is something I wasn't even tangentially involved in 😂😂😂

I am now very very married! Pics are me and my beautiful and exceptionally talented wife who made my shirt and her dress (and the rest of the wedding party shirts) and the wedding cakes (which I decorated and iced)

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand... We're on CSP Black

We, the Liberal Democrats only official women's group, wholeheartedly stand by the amazing Woman that Cllr Chris Northwood is. She is an inspiration to many within the party with her dedication to the party and her constituents. She is a very deserving winner.

Got harassed by a little gang of right wingers outside Lib Dem conference. They really picked on the least intimidatable 3 people. "Are you connected to the Lib Dems?" "Not physically." -- "Where are the 50k jobs for illegals going to come from?" *cackling* "Oh you think that's funny?" "Yes."

Interesting that every time we discuss women's rights at Lib Dem Conference the group that claims to care so deeply about "the rights of women and girls" is completely and utterly absent.

"PLEAS by celebrities to encourage anyone who believes they may have cancer to seek help is fuelling the crisis in the NHS, a coroner has claimed." [Telegraph] Yes, that's why the NHS is in crisis, because people who might need it are trying to use it.

Yesterday the 11-year-old decided to childsplain to me that "ur" is slang for "your." So, I tried to convince her that back when I was a kid, "Ur" referred to the ancient Sumerian city-state. She wasn't SURE I was lying, so I consider it a win.

All our voids are full right now but your scream is important to us. Please hold.

Happy 10th anniversary of "David Cameron Shagged a pig" to all who celebrate...

I think this might be the most Lib Dem/Autistic job ever! hr.breathehr.com/recruitment/...

Some people are really really bad losers... Some people are really really bad feminists...

Great first-time chairing from @charleyhasted.bsky.social at #LDConf - "For those of you who can hear the rattling, we are advised it is an air con issue, not an imminent Final Destination situation" Those aren't mutually exclusive!

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 The #LDConf App is now LIVE! Download now for all your conference attendee needs! - agenda! - fringes! - training! - personal planner! - conference extra/daily the second they are published! Android link below, Apple link in next post

If you have 6 things on your to do list and you do 4 of them is that a good day or a bad day? (Fiancée feels like she didn't do enough today)

Tonight Parliament failed disabled people. 🥀 Labour voted down my amendment to scrap unfair bus pass restrictions. 🌳 The Conservatives whipped their MPs to abstain. 🚌 This isn’t good enough. I won’t stop until disabled people get the fair, accessible transport they deserve.

If you have wondered why trans people (and many others) were so upset by the supreme court ruling earlier this year, this article from Sarah Brown explains it well: www.libdemvoice.org/why-are-uk-t...

Yup.

Made a sort of Thai Chicken and root vegetable soup the other day and I felt it was important to remember I had put peanut butter in. However not writing one very salient word has turned it into a radically different meal 😂😂😂

But genuinely if you are rich enough to consider buying these then you can donate the 40 quid to charity or my honeymoon fund or something!

And today in "rich people have too much money." Silver plated fake mussel shells to eat mussels with. You would have to be the spiders Georg of eating mussels to justify that uni-tasker! www.johnlewis.com/culinary-con...

I *really* wish my phone would stop autocorrecting Pride to prude. Especially as only one of them is a word I actually use regularly...

@pluslibdems.bsky.social had the very real pleasure of working with the Lib Dem Campaign for Racial Equality to represent @libdems.org.uk at #UKBlackPride today! We had a lot of fun :)

The Capital might but the Labour Party that the Mayor of London represents is not just presiding over but gleefully rushing to facilitate our eradication from public life.

Really recommend watching Bookish if you're into period murder mystery with a queer slant. Just finished episode 6 and it's just a really well put together series with some very excellent casting and story-telling.

Wes, Wessy, Sweetie. Just stop. You have no expertise here and it shows. We all know when you say this stuff it's because you have no understanding of conditions you can't see. Being out of work long term is monumentally boring. Being out of work because you can't work is boring and frustrating.

Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police. Thank you, Wes Streeting.

Mary-Ann Stephenson's appointment as replacement Chair of the EHRC is opposed by BOTH the Women and Equalities Select Committee AND the Joint Committee on Human Rights. Will Starmer ignore MPs and further undermine the EHRC's independence by forcing through Bridget Phillipson's transphobic pick?

I want to be clear here. Christine has taken a *lot* of stick from trans people at times. It would have been easy for her to run when she didn't get ally cookies from us just like other MPs have. She didn't. She stayed & kept learning, so this is nothing less than the integrity I'd expect from her.

Reminder that Kent maintained Section 28 until 2010, seven years after it was scrapped. www.kentlive.news/news/kent-ne...

I've heard a mix of views about the new EHRC head from "hopefully she won't be quite as bad" all the way to "she'll be the same but worse". I think it'll be the second one. We'll see The EHRC is corrupt. Labour hates LGBT people

Remember removing media is only 'cancel culture' when the bigots liked the message being sent. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK Government is now the recipient of a Red Flag warning from the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention over its treatment of trans and intersex people. Collect your receipts of the fair weather allies who said they supported us and then slid away when it got hard.

The Supreme Court ruling and the draft EHRC Statutory Code has left trans people in the UK feeling scared and confused. To help you navigate this nightmare, we've created a Know Your Rights resource: transactual.org.uk/know-your-rights #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #TransAlly #LGBTQIA

Today's been an incredible showing. And in the meantime there's still so much you can do. We will link our website below. whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

I’ve worked with @transactualuk.bsky.social to create a template letter to push back on places & orgs that are “complying in advance”, implementing trans-exclusionary policies off the back of the EHRC interim update & the Supreme Court ruling. Find it here: transactual.org.uk/equality-act...

Thanks to @brianpaddick.bsky.social @pippaheylings.bsky.social @timfarron.bsky.social @luketaylorld.bsky.social @munirawilson.bsky.social and all the other Lib Dem Parliamentarians and staff who've taken time to speak with people at the Trans Solidarity Aliiance's lobby today.

Good meeting with @helenhayes.bsky.social today for the Trans Solidarity Alliance's mass lobby event. Thanks for listening and understanding our concerns.

Went to go see Hercules the musical tonight and really enjoyed it- some great new songs and updates as well as call backs to the film. Merch pricing was RIDICULOUS! Nothing for less than 20 quid and to be clear the *only* way I am paying 20 quid for a bloody fridge magnet is if it was made by Zeus.

I mean the only way Art 8 rights don't apply is if the Baroness doesn't think we're human...

Christine Jardine calls her out for not answering the question. She asks if Falkner actually believes she has achieved delivering clarity and accuracy.