Just another regular day on this broken island when a well-known UK trans-exclusionary academic gets blanket media coverage to share her experience of being 'cancelled' by a university. Without the creation of controversy, trans-exclusionary data activism would cease to exist.

come on, lads; we need to up our game.

Queer double bill at Toppings Edinburgh 📚

We ran a book club earlier this year, discussing "Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action" by @kevinguyan.bsky.social. We're keen to run another book club next year. Please reply to this if you're interested, or have any book suggestions. rainbowr.org/book-club.html

Very interesting developments but sadly still no data on asexuality! 📊 The "other" category increased from 0.7% in 2019 to 1.1% in 2024 though. 📈

Christmas has come early for those interested in sexual orientation data! 🎅📊 The Office for National Statistics has just released new sexual orientation data from the 2024 Annual Population Survey – and the story is one where the proportion of queer people in the UK continues to grow! 🧵

Time to register for our January seminar at @qpapinfo.bsky.social with @kevinguyan.bsky.social presenting on the Rainbow Trap. You don't want to miss this one!

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...

Fantastic! Thanks Miles - delighted to hear you enjoyed reading Rainbow Trap! 🌈

No matter how tough you say times are, there’s always enough money in the banana stand to pay an external consultant to scope ‘academic efficiency opportunities’ www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...

So glad that @kevinguyan.bsky.social joined us in @uompols.bsky.social this week! Really appreciate his work complicating how and why we collect queer data. Grateful that he also took some time for cuppa with a group of staff and students in a very festive Christie's Bistro!

Such an inspiring, powerful event! Huge thanks: @naz-andalibi.bsky.social @haimson.bsky.social for their brilliant talks & sharing insights with me in the panel chat, @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social for putting it all together, & to everyone who attended!

Just a few tickets left for tomorrow's GENDER AND THE MACHINE event! 🔥 Join us to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI. 🗓️ 20 Nov 2025 📍 Edinburgh 👋 All welcome With @haimson.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

What a lovely talk by Dr Kevin Guyan (@kevinguyan.bsky.social) earlier today as part of the Political Technologies seminar series at UCC! More about Dr Guyan’s work here: kevinguyan.com @oliverjdavis.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social

Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM! How are you celebrating it? #LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM

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🧵

okay but the second any trans person gets a survey like that we're not going to be answering like that and can't be forced to. so it sorta seems like it's a waste of time, regardless?

📌 Next stop on the Rainbow Trap book tour: MANCHESTER! Keen to connect with others in Manchester interested in LGBTQ data! 📅 Tues 25 Nov 2025 | 1.30pm – 3.00pm 📍 University of Manchester 👋 All welcome www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rainbow-tr... #LGBTQ #data #queer #gender #sexuality #Manchester

Feel welcome to attend the online seminar by our next Political Technologies cluster speaker, Dr Kevin Guyan, and that on Tuesday 18/11 from 4-5PM. For more details, see the poster below! @oliverjdavis.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social

God forbid you accidentally include a few trans women in your disaggregated data; let's make sure everyone who participates in climate activities must disclose intimate information! An absurd distraction that only hinders urgent progress for women and girls.

It's not new but it recently hit me again, that one big thing transphobes are, is wreckers. They're wrecking progressive movements. I'm reading Judith Butler's "Who's Afraid Of Gender" right now and it's really good on this

Thereby once again imposing narrow conceptions of sex that are not those espoused by many communities across the world.

Even in conversations about saving the planet from catastrophic destruction, regressive anti-trans voices are trying to derail things by demanding climate agencies collect data about 'biological sex' rather than gender 📊🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Heading to Edinburgh next week for this exciting event on 🤖🏳️‍⚧️Gender and the Machine🧟‍♀️🧑‍💻, where @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I will be talking about our research! Thanks to @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @kevinguyan.bsky.social for organizing! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

Time and time again we see the idea of 'data accuracy' being used to justify changes to sex and gender data practices 🔢 These changes have the likely effect of erasing the lives and experiences of trans, non-binary and/or gender non-conforming people from existing in data.

Police Scotland is giving evidence today at the Scottish Parliament on the recording of sex and gender in data 📊 Although plans are not yet confirmed, it feels like a big pivot to a biology-first approach to data 👇 www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/citi...

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Sex in the medical machine: How algorithms can entrench bioessentialism in precision medicine” by K. Ichikawa, M. Boulicault, A. Thinius, M. DiMarco, A. Murchland, B. Maldonado, A. Higgins, and S. Richardson. 🔓: lnkd.in/dwivCrXH #sex #gender #precisionmedicine

📢 GENDER AND THE MACHINE Join us in Edinburgh on 20 Nov to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI. 🗓️ Thurs 20 Nov 2025 📍 Edinburgh 👋 All welcome Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and... #data #AI #tech #emotion #trans #LGBTQ #queer

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Excellent thread, highlighting some of my complaints with a 'numerical diversity' approach to DEI work. Counting the number of people from a minoritised background (e.g. in TV adverts, company boards, universities) is a flawed method that creates opportunities for the misuse of diversity data 🔢

✨📣 Excited to announce our upcoming event GENDER AND THE MACHINE! Join us on Nov 20th for an afternoon exploring gender, marginalisation and emotion in tech - talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus panel discussion and networking reception ⬇️ sign up shorturl.at/QlMfx

Important. @transactualuk.bsky.social have released a new report about the harm caused by the Supreme Court misjudgement & the EHRC's interpretation of it. It shows how the ruling & interpretation is also harming cis women. Those it was supposed to "protect". transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

🌈 rainbowR meet-up today: Wed Oct 29th, 4:30pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 - ask questions about R 🙋 - tell us about an R package you like 📦 - show us something R-related you’ve done 💻 Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups - NEW LINK AND TIME FOR WINTER SERIES

Am renewing my UK passport and - for the first time - noticed you can submit documentation to have an academic title added to the Observations page (e.g. Dr, Prof). What are the reasons someone might choose to add a title? I imagine it invites more questions/risks when crossing borders?

Queer Lives and the Politics of Categories: Join us for a critical exploration of the politics of data & categories, & the implications for LGBTQIA+ communities in research & practice worldwide with Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social. 5 November 2025 | 20:00 AEDT Register: bit.ly/499OXyH

Our CfP information for LavLang32 is now live: 📅 6 January 2026 - Abstract submission open ⏱️28 March 2026 - Abstract submission deadline 📣 8 May 2026 - Notification of decisions lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk

Thanks Emma - delighted you enjoyed the book! ✨

Really fantastic talk yesterday at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social by @kevinguyan.bsky.social on his latest book Rainbow Trap. I am now spending the rest of the week untangling all my thoughts on Queer data. Truly fascinating!

A big THANK YOU to everyone who joined for the Belfast launch of Rainbow Trap! A packed room + lots of great conversations. @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburypol.bsky.social #RainbowTrap #boxbreakers #LGBTQ #data #queerdata #research #policy #tech #books #newbooks

New book review: Travis Campbell reviews "Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action", by Kevin Guyan. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This week in Belfast + London ⬇️ #RainbowTrap #LGBTQ #books kevinguyan.com/events/

BELFAST LAUNCH! 🚀 Join me on 21 Oct to explore ideas from my new book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion. Ulster University | 6pm | All welcome ✨ @gailneill.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburypol.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rainbow-tr...

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues. 1/2 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

Doing a few online events with universities in the US and Canada this month, including this talk today at 3pm EDT👇

Read my two letters to the #UK: 1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly. 2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches 👇#HumanRights www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

In today’s episode of #FixTheForms, meet the Box Breakers from @kevinguyan.bsky.social If you have ever found the answer options of a form are all wrong for you, you too are a Box Breaker. Pro tip for why people lie of forms: “Wrong answers only” - very common.

🌈 It’s been fascinating to see which ideas from Rainbow Trap *stick* with readers – and the idea of box breakers has been one of those sticky ideas! So... who are box breakers? 🧵

Again and again, Zack Polanski is cutting through by challenging purposefully misleading and derogatory framing. Morgan's default when challenged has always been to splutter, mock and deny. He has no defence against those who won't be intimidated or deflected.

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

London friends! I'm sharing ideas from Rainbow Trap at Queer@King's @kingsartshums.bsky.social on 23 OCTOBER and it would be great to see you there! ✨ 🗓️ Thurs 23 October 🕕 18:30-20:00 🌍 Strand campus, London 👋 All welcome www.kcl.ac.uk/events/rainb...