We launched our new report in the Houses of Parliament last week. Report author Dr Jack López presented the report to MPs. Read the report here: transactual.org.uk/gendered-spa... #ScrapTheBathroomBan #EHRC #TransRights

"Laura fears all will be lost if ICB Sussex forces her child off the medication. If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life." northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

✈️ NEW ✈️ A large proportion of UK trans people are looking to emigrate within the next 10 years, with almost 40% of younger people considering a move abroad, according to a new YouGov poll: https://goodlaw.social/t2h8

At #UKCGE EDI conference. Just been hearing about Black PhD Collective which looks like a great resource for Black PGRs. @ougradsch.bsky.social www.blackphdcollective.com

👻 This Halloween, while the media is intent on whipping up fear of a tiny group of trans+ people trying to live their lives - we're saying 'Not in our name!' If you agree and want to see the focus move back on to the real challenges all women face, sign our letter here: notinourname.org.uk

Brilliant, brilliant letter in The National from the parent of a trans teenager. www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

An inciteful article. www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...

The EHRC has sent a new draft Code of Practice which would lead to the exclusion of trans people from public life. The decision now is up to this government, will they sign a trans bathroom ban in secret? Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-ba... #ScrapTheBathroomBan

Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social

MPs are rightly concerned about the economic impact of the EHRC's Code of Practice. Businesses up and down the country have made clear that it's unworkable. It's time for the Minister to send it back 🚮 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Gender Clinic Files: Two-thirds of adults waiting for transgender healthcare in UK are under 25 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clinic-files-two-thirds-of-adults-waiting-for-transgender-healthcare-in-uk-are-under-25/

Unprecedented, potentially unlawful retrograde proposals made by @solentuniversity.bsky.social If you have a vested interest in HE, this concerns you. We must stand together to resist these outrageous proposals. #HE #TPS #LGPS #Pension #post-92 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.

It's crazy that both the supposedly moderate right leaning AND the supposedly left wing major parties in the UK are both more right wing than the BNP was on immigration.

1/🧵 I am viewing a never-before-seen file on “gender reassignment” or trans inclusion policy at the National Archives, Kew. The Supreme Court should start sweating. A bagful of receipts!

Starmer and the Met Chief Constable interfered in this case. That's a major red flag and public scandal, abuse of public office, and a collapse of the rule of law. When transphobes from Graham Linehan to JK Rowling and others are effectively granted immunity that's a problem.

🚨We need your help. The NHS CYP gender service is consulting on the draft specification. This is, sadly, horrifically being driven by people who aren't trans or experts in the field of gender incongruence and based upon the much-discredited Cass Review 1/ www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...

We have written this handy guide to help you fill out the consultation. Please respond to the consultation. The younger generations are relying on us to stand up for them in this fight. The deadline is 2 Nov 2025. /2 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

ANNOUNCEMENT This evening, 14/10/25 the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network have taken the next step in the struggle to restore the human rights, dignity & safety of UK trans people.

Our Judicial Review of the EHRC: we've published our formal written case - together with that of the EHRC and Bridget Phillipson - and they are very much worth a read. goodlaw.social/7gs4

The EHRC code must be scrapped. Our Head of Policy, Jess O'Thomson, says that in light of this significant intervention, the Code of Practice cannot be laid as drafted. The Minister must reject it. Exclusion of trans people from services for their lived gender must be the exception, not the rule.

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe. 🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations) 🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved... rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights has written to the UK highlighting concerns around threats to freedom of assembly because of increasing restrictions on protest, and the threat to the human rights of trans people resulting from the UK Supreme Court judgment in April.

Thinking of doing a PhD at @openuniversity.bsky.social? The Faculty of Wellbeing Education and Language Studies is having a virtual open day on 16th October. Details ⬇️🧵

This is important. The Government is introducing a new "Section 28 2.0" for trans kids and is listening to anti-trans groups, including representative of a group whose members actively support and encourage torturing children (through conversion therapy) to try and make them cis.

October is #BlackHistoryMonth 🖤💜 We asked our Committee to share books that inspire them to keep learning about Black history & reflecting on how we can amplify Black voices, challenge inequities & dismantle barriers. Here are their recommendations- Let us know what’s on your reading list ⬇️

This is spot on from @zackpolanski.bsky.social, who is himself Jewish and comes from Manchester. Shabana Mahmoud is being deeply dishonest, disingenuous and dangerous by conflating protests against genocide with this antisemitic attack. It is not antisemitic to protest against the horror in Gaza.

This Saturday after painstaking research and FOIs by @clairestranstalks.bsky.social with @whatthetrans.com, we'll publish 'The Gender Clinic Files' in our newsletter: A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare Sign up 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

The UK 'just protecting children' "Teachers say trans pupils 'limiting food and drink' to avoid school toilets" news.stv.tv/politics/tea...

Appalling news on Yom Kippur. Thinking of everyone affected and all Jewish communities.

I'm hearing that FCO phonelines have been closed. Please email [email protected] *now* with your concerns for the flotilla, mentioning the 13 British nationals on board. Live: Gaza aid flotilla says military has boarded vessels | Reuters share.google/0yOnmXRAYT2a...

Live: Gaza aid flotilla says military has boarded vessels | Reuters share.google/0yOnmXRAYT2a...

BREAKING: Israel Begins Intercepting 44-Ship Global Sumud Flotilla: zeteo.com/p/global-sum...

We're starting a new 'ArtsLab' (research network) in trans studies at Glasgow! It's very exciting and I hope that in time we can become a real centre for research in this field. Find out more - including details of our upcoming launch event - on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

If you have swum in the Hampstead Heath bathing ponds please respond to this consultation on changing their current #trans-inclusive policy. hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

Lucy Powell has warned that Labour should not wave through a devastating trans bathroom ban 👇 Ripping up trans rights would be a disaster for Labour, for business, for women, and for the wider LGBT+ community. It's wrong. Labour needs to stop aping Trump and Farage, and protect our human rights.

#UK #TransRights An FOI has just confirmed what all of us have feared: for the Youth gender services, since July 2024, not a single patient has been referred to commence HRT. And 22 have been moved from youth to adult services , also without treatment. This is scandalous.

This! This petition was at over half a million when I signed it last night, and growing by about a thousand a minute.

New essay: REJECT TRANS DOOM-POSTING. It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment. It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.

Seriously how hard is it to say “This is an outrageous attack on our friends and neighbours who are in this country legally and have followed all the rules to get settled status, who are valued members of our communities, get to fuck frog-face”?

Update: the EHRC has completed its internal review and upheld its blanket refusal of our FOI requests under Section 14(1). They admit some requests were “well focussed, purposeful and of public interest,” but still refused them all. 1/

It's RESEARCH week here on #PhDYr1 ! Have a designated landing spot for research ideas. Could be a digital note in Google Keep or similar, a tabbed page in your Everything Notebook/bullet journal, or any other thing you won't lose and can easily get to.

A safety manual for academics visiting America. Petra Boynton looks at what advice UK universities should give US-bound researchers and students. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

We’ve uncovered through FOI that Sex Matters were in direct contact with ONS this year. They attended a Government Statistical Service harmonisation event in April/May 2025 and followed up with their own recommendations on data. www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/tran...

Researchers at Oxford University are recruiting caregivers of LGBT+ youth for a study on stigma & family relationships. It is an online survey that takes 20-30 minutes, and all answers are anonymised. Please visit : psychiatryoxford.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #TransResearch #LGBTQResearch

My governing body, the British Psychological Society (@bpsofficial.bsky.social) is also highly critical of the EHRC Code of Practice. Thank you, BPS, for making this public statement. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

🚨 The UN is considering downgrading Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). 👉 If the downgrade happens, the UK would no longer have a fully recognised national human rights institution at the UN. Who’s watching the watchdog? 👀 #humanrights #ehrc #law

"Welcoming a potential war criminal to Downing Street is another demonstration of how Keir Starmer and the Labour government are implicated in the ongoing genocide in Gaza." @zackpolanski.bsky.social calls for the arrest of the Israeli President ahead of Herzog's visit with Labour ministers.

Burnt out by the grind of academia? You’re not imagining your work conditions. This free webinar helps you see what else is possible Especially relevant for professors, postdocs, and other PhDs exploring new paths. Watch the free webinar now. #AcademicSky