🙌 Over 1000 of you have told your MPs to keep the ADF away from inclusive spaces like parkruns. Let's keep going, we have reached more than half of all MPs - but we still need your help. Will you take a moment to act now? protectparkrun.uk

Sussex University overturns £585,000 fine as high court rejects free speech breach claim

Our new report with @disabledstudentsuk.bsky.social is out! Drawing on the lived experiences of disabled doctoral students, it sets out a clear roadmap for improving the experiences of disabled PGRs across the UK HE sector 1/6 research.open.ac.uk/news/report-...

We need you help this petition needs your signature ✍️ let’s show the government we’re still here and we’re not going to lay down and roll over while they and the media attack us 💚 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

It's Trans Day Of Visibility. It's getting more & more dangerous to be visibly trans, & more & more important for allies to be visible too. Trans people are such a tiny minority group, which makes it easy to target them. But it's much harder to do that if they are surrounded by supporters.

And thus Ich wake yn the daweninge And Ich steppe out syde And Ich take a depe breathe and koude ful wel flye And Ich screame wyth al puissance of my lunges What ys goinge on? And Ich saye hey ey ey yey hey ey yey Ich saye hey: WHAT YS GOINGE ON?

It's anti-trans discrimination. Plain and simple.

@nionwomen.bsky.social have bust through 95,000 signatures! 🎉🎉 Now let’s get this to 96,000. If you are disgusted at what the Girl Guides have done to young trans girls, or how the Women’s Institute are turning their back on their inclusion of trans women, then you need to sign notinourname.org.uk

Excellent analysis by @joannelockwood.bsky.social of Girlguiding's recent disappointing decision to exclude trans girls and women. joannelockwood.substack.com/p/did-girlgu...

“Frameworks permitting routine exclusion or discretionary verification of sex based on appearance or stereotypes would raise serious concerns under international human rights law…” UN experts remind the UK that it must avoid gender policing and ensure trans folk can live with safety and dignity. 🏳️‍⚧️

The latest episode of Philosophy Tube is about conversion therapy, why it’s still legal in the UK, and the ways the British government is implicated in it making it NHS policy. Proud to expose this stuff ✊ youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

UK: Workplace Regulations 1992: the truth about toilet cubicles and privacy tacc.org.uk/2026/03/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Putting together an analysis of all the anti trans laws over the last few years and there's never been anything like this in US history. The total number of state laws passed in 5 years (300+) approaches the total number of Jim Crow laws (400+) passed over a 100 years.

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

1/🧵 Why this is a nice wee amendment for a backbencher to advance trans rights… This can be included as a rider in most bills. It only has a declaratory effect but clearly states Parliament’s view. It also gives Whitehall and devolved administrations the widest possible power to amend the law.

“She’s the exception, I am the rule.” Such articulate cutting through of the nonsense around puberty blockers and eg Keira Bell’s detransitioning from Stephanie Lynnette on GMB this morning. It is also a refreshing relief to see a trans person actually being allowed to speak for once!

If you've watched how NHS England - stuffed, as Kemi Badenoch explicitly told us, with her handpicked transphobes - does trans* healthcare you can't be surprised by this from @erininthemorning.com. But still, it's an important service to see her lay it all out.

Trans rights are human rights. Thank you, Wembley. 🏳️‍⚧️

Great article, well worth the long read.

Policy-based evidence-making again. www.linkedin.com/posts/erin-r...

📢MP email template: Only trans-affirming legislation can fix the chaos created after the April 2025 Supreme Court ruling. Conflicting tribunal decisions, confusing EHRC guidance, and real harm for trans people and workplaces. Use this template to contact your MP. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

⚠️ PUBLIC HEALTH WARNING: We believe NHS England and DHSC policy on transgender healthcare shows signs of ideological capture by the gender critical movement. Current decisions risk serious harm to trans people and undermine evidence-based care. tacc.org.uk/2026/03/10/p...

And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.

Please submit a response and share to support trans children and @www.helenwebberley.com docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Question to hive mind: Does anyone have access to any information about which people/clinicians were part of i) this NHS England Specialised Commissioning group: www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation... ii) This “Policy Working Group” www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/cl... see screenshots 👇

Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people. This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists. The study underpinning this played one particular trick. Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5

Important thread providing more of the detail than I could be motivated to add. The '10 studies' do not merit detailed analysis of everything they get wrong - & thread is just the tip of the iceberg in what they get wrong, but a useful starting point nevertheless.

In order to justify removing the healthcare from trans youth in the UK, 96.9% of studies into trans healthcare treatment were excluded, and no studies on non-binary people included at all.

1/🧵 I am reviewing NHS England’s “evidence” papers supporting their ban of GHAT for 16- and 17-year-olds. It’s hard not to see this as a deliberate and malicious attempt to manipulate the evidence base. Most notably, the scope is restricted to monotherapy or GnRH analogues.

One of the excluded systematic reviews is the York systematic reviews commissioned as part of the Cass Review itself. NHS England excluded from its evidence review a systematic review produced for the very process this evidence review is supposed to implement. It's a joke.

Earlier today I found in the national archives undisputable evidence showing that the Supreme Court were wrong in their interpretation. The explanatory memorandum is clear about a GRC effectively meaning that someone is of the sex they acquired. And the explanatory note linked in it further provides

The story has been picked up by mainstream press. Great work by @transactualuk.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Researchers at the University of East Anglia are recruiting Trans+ adults for an online study exploring access to gender affirming care and quality of life. Participate here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac. If you have any questions, please contact: [email protected] #TransResearch #ResearchSurvey

I've written about the benefits of childhood affirmation, here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"In a UK survey of over 4,000 trans people, TransActual found that 99% say media coverage has harmed their mental health, 99% have heard politicians express transphobic views, and many have been refused non-transition healthcare simply for being trans." transactual.org.uk/trans-lives-...

"The survey reveals that a staggering “one in four trans people report being made homeless in their lifetime”. This is much higher than the UK National average for young people made homeless which is around one in sixty." sophie-molly-reports.beehiiv.com/p/one-in-fou...

We have filed supplemental evidence to GANHRI on the EHRC. Raising concerns about health impacts, lack of EIAs, no trans stakeholder engagement and opaque AI use in the 50k+ consultation. A rights regulator should not be a risk to the people it exists to protect. tacc.org.uk/2026/03/02/e...

Well the world feels particularly stupid, cruel and bellicose this morning, doesn't it...

Useful article here giving a thoughtful approach to supporting students with public speaking, tempered by excellent commentary from Maggie Abrahart about the importance of flexibility and reasonable adjustments for severely anxious students.

I really enjoyed talking about how temporality and bodily autonomy intersect for disabled PGRs at this seminar organised by the Reproduction, Sexualities & Sexual Health Research Group (RSSH) and the OU Trans Staff Network. 🧵 bit.ly/4bet41u

⚠️We've extended the deadline for abstracts for #POWES2026! ⏳New deadline- 13th March ℹ️ Full details here- tinyurl.com/powes2026 🏃‍♀️‍➡️Go go go!

CALL FOR PAPERS- Special Issue of BPS journal POWER on Feminism in Asia. Details in images/alt text below. Please repost and share with your networks!

A reminder about our Masculinities in Focus: Opportunities and Challenges for Change event taking place on 4th March! Details below- please repost! www.bps.org.uk/event/mascul...

Is it just me who bristles at the term 'learnings from...'? It feels like a plural without a singular. I don't feel like you can say 'a learning'. I guess 'lessons from...'/ 'a lesson from' feels a bit too didactic and 'learnings' feels a bit more active but... I really don't like it.

On February 6th Lucy Powell, Labours deputy leader, wrote to Zack Polanski accusing him & the Greens of sharing "misleading election material & claims on social media" & told him "its time to stop the bogus bar charts" Labour on social media last night & the poll they're referring to⬇️

New article out today, reporting findings from our study on supervisors' experiences of supporting disabled doctoral students. It's a companion piece to our previous work on student experiences (link in thread). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢Abstract submissions are now OPEN for #powes2026 ⚖️The conference theme this year is 'Feminist Connection and Social Justice' ⏰Submission deadline: 27 February 2026 ℹ️More info: tinyurl.com/powes2026

Call for book chapters: abstracts by 16th March 2026 Rethinking queer ageing: The significance of geo-temporal contexts. Edited by Linn Sandberg, Rebeka Põldsam and Rebecca L. Jones (me!) Academic understandings of LGBTQ+ ageing are dominated by Anglo-American contexts, which means that [...]

I gave a quote to a Metro news article: "This new government guidance will cause extreme harm to trans children of all ages. Study after study have shown that trans children need policies that are the exact opposite of what this Government is enforcing... 1/

The best headline I have seen on this in a major paper: metro.co.uk/2026/02/13/t...