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

What transphobic “feminists” never understand is when people trivialise fearing being outed as worrying about “gossip” & depict trans identities as hysterical, they draw on the same misogynistic ways of thinking that see (white, cishet) men as the pinnacle of rationality, and women as irrational (1)

I honestly don’t understand how the various parts of this judgement fit together

"Dangerously misrepresented" Today, the High Court ruled that bathroom bans in the UK are not required following last year's Supreme Court decision However, in a ruling which significantly damages Trans+ rights, this conclusion differs in workplaces, where exclusion will be lawful How and why?🧵

Mr Goodwin also appeared to agree with the host’s claim that universities have become hotbeds of “politically correct authoritarianism” because they are full of “childless women”. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Could Matt Goodwin be any more of a cliche? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

New School Guidance announces: Full bathroom ban. Full PE ban. Full school trip accommodation ban. Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/

Media coverage of the far right in the UK: - (euphemism) party accused of saying something deeply racist/misogynistic/transphobic - unmistakably deeply racist/misogynistic/transphobic quote - asks party whether it is - party says of course not, it's free speech and the left is mean Article ends

Scary stuff, and not the only source of oil money influencing UK universities

Calling transfeminist researchers! See our call for abstracts below - deadline 1-15th March (with full papers in August)

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The judgement on the Peggie v Fife Health Board and Dr Beth Upton tribunal case has been announced. Here's what has actually been said... Full Judgement: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u... 🧵 See thread for summary....

The line our disgraceful press NEVER quotes from the For (Some) Women Scotland decision finally gets its day in the sun.

Staggering to watch pretty much every news outlet in the country report that Sandy Peggie has won her tribunal case despite her losing on almost every count, and despite the ruling stating that the Supreme Court FWS judgement does *not* require trans women to be excluded from women's spaces.

It's actually pretty shocking how, until recently, no one with a platform made the point of how ridiculous it is to think that v wealthy ppl would completely upend their lives just cause they'd be made to pay 2% of their vast wealth,which they can't use anyway (as they have more than they can spend)

This is something we have been telling MPs for a long time. The real impact of this CoP is not trans folk, the real impact will be felt on cisgender women.

Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed. But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people. 1/8🧵

I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3

In part 2 of my @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation, I reveal how the 'BBC bias' memo - written by a Trump-aligned lobbyist whose firm was paid up to a million by pro-Trump donor tech giants - was politically biased and reliant on pro-Trump partisan sources bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...

The News Agents has always been problematic but this is beyond the pale

This is essential reading shedding light on what is a far-right attack on the BBC as a public broadcaster

So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC. Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points! 🧵

Equality commission’s guidance after sex ruling is fundamentally unworkable

This is really poor by BBC researchers and producers. Goodwin hasn't been an active academic for a number of years, yet is described as one (thus legitimating his relentless Reform activism and constant bad faith misrepresentation of evidence). 1/?

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇 1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK 2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves 3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

A reminder that the UK’s ban on LGBT people serving in the armed forces was only lifted after a judgment from the European Court of Human Rights. 🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via www.bbcnews.com #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #Article8 #PrivateLife #MeddlingForeignCourt #CreditWhereItsDue

We have formally reported the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), calling for a full investigation and a downgrade or removal of their A-status accreditation. Full submission: tacc.org.uk/2025/10/23/p... 1/2

My take on this: 1. We have a hearing in the High Court 12/13 November. The EHRC has already substantially rolled back on where it was and, I think, is in some trouble. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/398...

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

Trans people are not a threat to cis women or anyone or taking away anyone’s human rights. Mahmoud’s actions reveal that transphobes would rather take away EVERYONE’S human rights, including those of cis women (whose rights to bodily autonomy will be next) than allow basic rights for trans people.