The judgement also says that it isn't necessarily lawful either though. There needs to be a circumstance specific test, based on what facilities and options exist, what the employer knows, how the trans person appears, whether there are complaints..

The Sandie Peggie tribunal explicitly states that the supreme court decision does *not* make it illegal for a trans women to be given permission to use female changing rooms. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

Solidarity with Dr Beth Upton today and every day

Is Together Against the Far Right a SWP front?

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”

Really trying to wean off the genocide music app (not easy), sonmy first Bandcamp Friday purchases were: Lido Pimienta - La Belleza Chelsea Carmichael - The River Doesn't Like Strangers Backxwash - Only Dust Remains #BandcampFriday

“Machismo is a plague” Seen in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

You can't separate this from the Atlantic article claiming their are too many students with disabilities. It's a moral panic meant to push out young people with disabilities from access to resources and to reify ableist bigotry. It's exactly what they did to trans people.

There's a lot of unsettling stuff going on here, but I'm somehow drawn to the interviewer's tiny lil ankles

He lives. Again.

Hey Wes, I can save you the trouble. The reason a lot of people are struggling with their mental health in the UK is it fucking sucks here. Aside from usual late-stage capitalism stuff, everything that could be cool about living here has been systematically made worse by people like you, you cunt.

The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media). Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc. I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber) 1/2

Wes Streeting, not content with his murder of trans kids, now takes aim at a whole new vulnerable demographic.

Wes is going to make them move the goalposts so no one meets the criteria for mental health or neurodiversity diagnoses, right? So then there's no more waiting lists and no more medication to source and no treatment to provide and no benefits to pay. And disability charities are WELCOMING this?

It's always "pets considered", isn't it? Never "pets fine" or "pets welcome". As if landlords need to give themselves a way out if a tenant turns up and is like, "Here is my black rhino, Paul. He is large and frequently overzealous but means well. Thank fuck we finally found someone who'll take us!"

Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive: https://goodlaw.social/cpfx

The WI stuff is grim and upsetting but the Girlguiding thing gives me like proper, actual, blood boiling fury. Those are fucking kids! Leave them alone and let them hang with their friends, you cunts.

Two for two! If i was a real disabled person I'd never leave the house and wouldn't need my Free* Luxury** motability car *£2k down-payment and all my ADP isn't free, baby **definitely isn't

Would just like to plug Woodcraft Folk (aka the militant wing of The Coop), where children of all genders will always be welcome and you don't have to promise to serve God and the King woodcraft.org.uk/woodcraft-fo...

I condemn in the strongest possible terms the exclusion of trans girls from Girl Guides. So I want also to spread the word about Woodcraft Folk, who have never waivered in their support & inclusion of trans kids (& were founded in rejection of the patriarchal & imperialistic values of Scouts).

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

Actually crying about this. Its just very cruel.

Ok drugs people, drugs are officially OVER, I cannot respect you any more if you continue to be drugs ppl after this. Drugs are done, finished, spent, dead.

Can any of you coffee nerds explain why fancy coffee places aren't Fair Trade? I feel like this used to be a thing ppl cared about and now it just isn't at all. Maybe it never was?

Pickles is very warm and silky.

Watching The Night Manager many years after it came out, and I cannot imagine what it would feel like to get a dressing down from Olivia Coleman. She's so disappointed in you. She really had thought better of you. You are absolutely devastated.

It's good they removed the two child benefit cap. It is bad to not examine or analyse why they removed the whip from so many MPs for wanting this last year. It is either genuinely dense or thoroughly evil to pretend that never happened and labour has always wanted to remove it.

Watch this it's beautiful

About to watch this week's episode of Shetland whilst grumbling about the lack of Shetlandic knitwear on the show and wondering how the costume dept can actually justify that decision and yes I am very over invested in this extremely important topic

Rachel Reeves announcing the budget

I grew up on Nick Cave but he's definitely on the "should have just quit while he was ahead" pile

one of the better selling motability cars? a mercedes Vito. one of the few WAVs available on the scheme up until this last year. you need a car with a hoist in the boot but more than just you and a partner? (shock horror, you have kids) you get "a merc" but it is one of the most stripped down ever

Here he is, from 2005 www.theguardian.com/world/2005/s...

Always a good day to share this glorious track, in which Trevor Phillips is so brutally destroyed simply by Joshua Idehen's tone of voice youtu.be/6laLzb6NKI0?...

Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour. archive.ph/RlXPj

"Fuck people who try to reshape the folklore and folk culture of Britain into a bullshit narrative that suits their racist ideology!"

Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies. This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.

Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday

A movie that takes place where you're from

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

Je-je-jealous of my mansion? Yeah, the view is fucking gnarly

CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES

Definitely. And deep down they know it… We now have a government and a gender critical cult muttering to themselves, “This is not how it was supposed to go! It was only supposed to target the tr@nnies!” And now they don’t know how to extract themselves without admitting they were wrong all along.

When the Danish PM tells Trump "you can't just annex other countries" do tou think they have any sense of cognitive dissonance at all? (This is not a pitch for Trump annexing Greenland, just to be clear)

He repeated it a few more times before I realised he was trying to say "Coldplay". It was hard for him to get syllables across, owing to the fact that he had to bark all his words. And it didn't change the fact that the band had a terrible name.

Of course, this isn't quite how it played out. "So what are the band called?" I had asked him partway through the set, since I had forgotten. "Roleplay," he said. "That's a terrible name," I said. "No, ROLEPLAY," he said. "Yes, that's what I thought you said."

In 1999 when I was The Guardian's Music Critic a PR phoned & said he had a great band he wanted me to see. So I went. It was dark & I couldn't see the PR's face. When the lights came up I realised The PR was not a man at all, or a PR, but a beagle. I didn't like the band. They were called Coldplay.