Speaking to a friend last night and her concern for her trans son's welfare was so upsetting to hear. He's just not leaving the house. If you have or work in a pub or bar, please can you make it clear to customers that you run a safe space? People are scared and your support isn't taken as a given.

And for those of us with GRCs, we’re between a rock and a hard place: we’re no longer our gender in the EA, but still our gender in the GRA. If I were to marry, I’d be legally female at the ceremony, but when I needed the toilet at the reception, I’d be legally expected to use the men’s.

Small point on this subject: because Scotland doesn't have coroner's inquests, Scotland will never know about suicides of trans people, and so there will be, conveniently for govt/media/society, no lessons to learn. Obviously one is too many. But we'll never know either way.

When people start talking about bathroom laws, it turns to politics very quickly. The former nurse in me immediately starts thinking about UTIs (which can lead to worse infections) and bladder damage. Just read Sandy's Cosmo piece. He confirmed my fears for my trans siblings. 1/

@mayor.nyc.gov: “I have thought often of the "Margeret Thatcher quote: ‘the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.’ If anything, my friends, it seems that you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess."

It’s also inexplicable that so many intelligent people can bemoan the fall of liberal democracy but say these people have a point even if some of them are radicalised to extremes, or claim that “both sides are as bad as each other” when one has no power and the other runs the world

It’s so illogical to me that there are grown adults with proper jobs who quite happily square their belief that charities and human rights experts and so on can be right about everything apart from trans rights and that fascists and dictators can be wrong about everything apart from trans rights

the anti-trans bathroom ban is very bad—it's also a sign uk democracy is failing my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

Today, I examine how the boundaries of the Nation are co-constituted by race, disability, and sexuality, but also---notably---gender and control over reproduction. And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake. Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...

Khanna: "This is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877. One-third of African American seats are threatened. We are not speaking up strongly enough against a court that's rolling back civil rights"

The Mayor of Hackney @zoegarbett.bsky.social showing up 💕🏳️‍⚧️

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

Ten years ago the UK government issued a travel advisory for LGBTQIA+ individuals about risks of going to the US partly because of trans bathroom bans. Now we have those bans in UK. This is what I mean by Labour being worse on trans rights than the previous government.

Today’s the anniversary of the passing into law of Section 28 in 1988, the first homophobic legislation in a century. Politicians and media said it was our own fault, told us to shut up and give up. We didn’t. Dont you dare give up now on trans people.

Trans women can't compete in women's sports because they have a natural advantage but also I'm going to back the Doping Games bsky.app/profile/ugly...

The NY Times apparently thinks fairness in journalism means having no values at all. Trump assaults one of the key factors in America's rise to global leadership — immigration — and the best the Times can do is call it a “risky pivot.”

It’s a damning reflection of the UK's slide away from being a world leader on LGBTQIA+ rights." From 1st to 22nd in just ten years, UK drops again in ranking of LGBTQIA+ rights ⬇️

Dome Depot

The president posts an image of Iran as a US state

“Uncle Sam Wants You” “Be All You Can Be” “This We’ll Defend”

Can confirm he had clothes on in court this week

Anyway here's a self published article by a wheelchair using trans man on the guidance. A perspective the press are rather slower to include jamierhale.substack.com/p/ehrc-trans...

The Independent are already asking cisgender wheelchair users to explain why trans people should have no access to toilet facilities rather than asking anyone who is trans and disabled about how it affects them

This is a perfect example of the trans panic. 55 people voted, 5 abstained, 49 supported trans people and ONE person wanted trans women banned. And it is the one person who gets the positive coverage.

I can't believe how many politicians are saying "let's ban trans people from public life, but in a way that is respectful". Are you fucking thick? Who is this for?

🔎 NEW The UK’s human rights watchdog appoints barrister Alasdair Henderson as chair of its Scottish committee, despite links to groups opposing women’s and LGBTQ+ rights: https://goodlaw.social/7wpv

This was nearly three weeks ago but the Cuba play seems more and more likely very soon

I can name an ass, does that count?

This is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA). There is no complicated math: they ask you to subtract a single digit number from a 2-digit number less than 100, and do it 5 times in a row. You can see an example below. Either he's lying, he thinks it's hard, or he forgot the question.

6/ They now say the mere act of trans-inclusion is inherently discriminatory. They have not given a reason, but this position echoes some of the most problematic recent judgments from employment tribunals.

First Brexit, then immigration and now this. What, if anything, does Andy Burnham actually disagree with Keir Starmer about?

I did a quick back-of an envelope calculation. Between 2019 and 2024 LGB Alliance, FiLiA, and Sex Matters have spent around £10 per trans person in the UK. £3.6m vs 200k-500k trans people.

The likelihood of another US-Israel bombing campaign against Iran or a US military action against Cuba just went up.

Trump and Gabbard claim she's leaving due to her husband's health, but Reuters reports "the ​White House ‌forced her to ⁠resign"

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

He doesn't mean they're doing better now. He just means we stopped helping them.

The BBC calls this a "culture war" and their only use of the word "racist" is to quote Elon Musk claiming casting a Black woman makes Christopher Nolan an "anti-white racist". Why must we pander to the hurt feelings of rich white men?

The suggestion everyone loves Trump but is afraid to say so is part of the continuing effort to erase the agency of people there. On brand for America, past and present.

Lmaoooo working across the aisle with people who say REPARATIONS FOR WHITE PEOPLE

By contrast, I just want to say I put a printout of my full response to the EHRC consultation last summer to my Labour MP, Johanna Baxter, warning of all the dangers to trans people and the wider LGBTQ+ community. I followed up twice since then by email. Silence. Blanked.

With the updated EHRC code of practice, the Government is still leaving trans people with a real fear of being excluded from essential services and public spaces. My statement in full: greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

This wave of hatred and division is destroying legal protections for everyone. Either we stand up for universal rights or accept that we all lose.

📢 EMERGENCY TRANS DEMO 📢 11 AM - 23 May 2026 Parliament Square, London TRANS RIGHTS ARE UNDER ATTACK! TRANS INCLUSION ISN'T DISCRIMINATION BRING YOUR BANNERS AND FLAGS ✊🏳️‍⚧️

Just so damning of the US that we make our country so unsafe for people and exacerbate the insecurity of their home countries too www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

it's an appropriate time to remind people of this comic by Adam Ellis. (@adamtots.bsky.social)

New UK legal system just dropped for women: guilty until proven innocent (by approved bodies FWS, SM, JKR, etc)

Q: How does anyone evidentially prove they’re not trans if they’re challenged outside a toilet? A: You can’t.

Wrote a letter to my MP, it’s probably not the most coherent thing in the world but I couldn’t not say anything.

6. The fight on this is: A) legal because the code doesn’t meet Human Rights baselines B) practical because being inclusive is still lawful C) by ignoring the code’s attempts to change culture D) on the ground by lawful protest