This is actually an amazing visual explanation for why established parties and governments are so willing to support social media bans for under 16s

In Doppelganger, @naomiaklein.bsky.social shows how white supremacists assume the victimhood of those they oppress, presenting the evils they do as evils done to them. In Britain, where black people are 7 times more likely than white people to die after police restraint, this is what we are seeing.

Shameful

Very proud of @fruitypy.bsky.social writing for the G on the EHRC Code. Getting a trans voice into those pages - supported by another team of trans people - is no joke, and she hits a good tone between educating the masses and articulating our fears. @transsolidarity.bsky.social

🧵 Non-binary people in #Austria can now choose the gender markers ‘inter’, ‘diverse’, ‘open’, no indication and a cancellation of the entry. This follows a Constitutional Court ruling expanding the recognition of non-binary gender markers beyond intersex people. #selfdetermination #TransRights

When we see cruelty or discrimination we so often want to say "thats not who we are". But thats not true. Take a look at this picture by @ellabaron.bsky.social. This is the UK today. This is exactly who we are. 💔

Labour's inability to condemn last years far right riots, and the Home Secretary endorsing the ludicrous flag campaign are probably two of the most shocking moments from a sitting government in my lifetime.

would you accept this if the words were about excluding a black or brown person? If not then you should be writing to your MP and the EHRC today.

I don’t think anything sums up how ridiculous the new EHRC guidance is than the fact it describes those protected by the characteristic of gender reassignment to be those undergoing a process to “reassign their sex”, a thing the exact same part of the document says isn’t legally possible. Nonsense.

This is such a fucked up section Devious in the extreme "I'm sorry but I don't like that person, please segregate them" Is the new and improved 21st Century Labour look In conclusion, this is all bullshit, and should rejected, with prejudice. As should the government that oversaw it

Excellent thread demonstrating how absolutely bonkers the new Code of Practice is. Labour urgently need to legislate to current this (but obviously won’t)

The defining characteristic of this current moment

Politics academics, I'm looking at you. That means you too, gender and politics researchers!

Amnesty International's analysis of how the 'gender critical' hate movement spent millions promoting their prejudices - and furthering the goals of the Christian Right. media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Li...

We’ve been lucky to receive high-profile support since we started our campaign, and we know visibility and vocal allyship matters. It doesn’t come much higher than Sandi Toksvig, who’s done so much for women’s equality and inclusion. Thank you 🙏 notinourname.org.uk

A couple of weeks ago I went to the loo in a pub. While I was there, the staff queried my gender with my partner. I've got a v stereotypically female body- FF boobs and big hips. I'm tallish (5'9"), with short hair, but was v surprised to learn people were feeling uncertain about my gender. 🧵

No-one gives a damn, but this is a testament to our complete moral collapse on this issue.

Cis peeps - look after the trans people in your life today

What does it say about the creeping fascism of contemporary Britain that the country’s imminent “most left wing prime minister for two generations” has to immediately sign off on one of the most extreme and cruel border regimes in Europe?

Solidarity with all trans + people today. And if you're cis like me and have any agency in shaping your institution's policies regarding toilets etc, please exercise it in defence against those who want to take away human rights.

Ha, ha, ha! This is brilliant. Agree with every word, and not only because it has a righteous pop at Reeves. Also underlines key point, in order for there to be a way to be masculine, some boys & men aren't going to cut it, no matter how many ways/types we add. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/07...

I was interviewed for this piece on the concerning level of abuse being directed at councillors

Our breakdown of Wes Streeting’s donors has been doing the rounds online for the last year. Now we’ve updated it – with another £55,000 from OPD Group.

This is great news for academic freedom of speech. The OfS action was designed to stifle what little opportunities and platforms trans people have for any kind of freedom of speech. This always was about the powerful silencing the powerless in the way mainstream media abuses its power to do.

Really helpful recommendations for HE institutions to support trans+ inclusion

🔴 Reform UK’s James Orr on the ‘Great Replacement’ Nigel Farage’s Head of Policy named himself the UK chair of a far-right transnational alliance, in a conversation with the now deceased ‘MAGA’ activist Charlie Kirk. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/27/i...

Important context to the BBC’s shockingly bad journalism on this

There is no greater fraud than this cross Atlantic attempt to silence students who have no power while ensuring people with power can speak without criticism. That's what this is all about. Protecting power and gaslighting us that it is about protecting speech.

Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.

One year on from trans exclusion: Over 100,000 Women Say ‘Not In Our Name’ 🎉 As NION Women’s letter in support of the trans community surpasses 100,000 signatures on this notable day, we look at how far we have come... #NotInOurName #NIONWomen #OneYearLater #WomensRights #TransRights

They've banned trans people from playing pool, darts, chess... Transphobes are gleefully supporting it, obviously, but at what point do people realise that they're just supporting the notion that women suck at everything?

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

The time has come for us, as an organisation, to boycott @pinknews.bsky.social. Despite reservations about the company, we have sometimes worked with queer and trans reporters there to tell stories we thought were important for our community - the same as other outlets. That ends today. Why?

@pinknews.bsky.social is pink washing for the most anti-LGBTQ+ government in the UK since Thatcher by allowing Streeting to gaslight unchallenged. Archive link because PinkNews don’t deserve revenue for this and for being a journalist/reporter free newsroom (whatever that means): archive.ph/bLBcB

I’m shocked

Reform saying horrible far-right things should stop surprising us. This is what far-right politics are and this is what far-right parties believe, even if they pretend not to. What should shock us is that they can be covered in any other way than a threat to democracy and many communities

Predictably, Matt Goodwin's GB News debate was a disaster. He opens with defending the idea "everyone" uses AI tools for research now, and it's entirely legitimate. So the book is undeniably a product of using LLMs on some level. 1/

Afghan women have now been banned from applying to study in British universities by the Labour government www.gov.uk/government/s...

Transphobia ruins everything and everyone. But especially hurts women. It is just another way to control women. Getting to define "the girls" means you get to control "the girls."

One day, maybe? cis women who are silent on trans rights might realise that there is no “feminism” here, that these kinds of measures are invasive and discriminatory tools of control and that requiring all women - and girl - athletes to undergo mandatory sex testing to compete is BEYOND insane

Misogynists using trans women as a stick to beat all women.

Reminder that this is not the US, where the government can be brought to heel by the judiciary. Here the SC can only interpret laws passed by the government, the government itself is not beholden to them and is responsible for passing laws. They absolutely can pass laws to protect trans people.

As a cis woman it is hard to find the words to articulate how I feel about my safety being used as a pretence for this egregious bullying of children

Long and intellectually stimulating day at the University of Birmingham discussing trans discourses, media and policy - thank you so much @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social!

🧵 Today’s judgment by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) says all member states must provide for legal gender recognition procedures. For more information, read the joint statement on our website: tgeu.org/joint-statem...

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

📌 ICYMI — Revealed: Reform UK Matt Goodwin’s Academic Ties to Rebranded Nazi Eugenics Front Reform's Gorton and Denton candidate, who has said that genetics will expose the… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/23/revealed-reform-uk-matt-goodwins-academic-ties-to-rebranded-nazi-eugenics-front/

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

If you want to understand why the BBC's stance on trans rights - only platforming cis people (and only those with a sceptical perspective) - is so outrageous imagine if it only platformed men talking about women's rights (and only those with a sceptical perspective).

I was going to post and ask what services are not simultaneously also workplaces and yet the reality of this is such complete insanity