The recent rulings in the supreme court I think are not just a sign of a roll back of rights but a sign that the legal establishment in the UK is more and more comfortable with simply ignoring international human rights norms and having no expectation of being held responsible for failing them.

Evil. Do not vote Labour.

The Supreme Court is not absolute. The Labour Party can and should be using the supremacy of Parliament to reign in their assault on the rights of minorities

If MPs have signed this (especially the first 6) then they’ve answered the “what are you doing about it?” question. They’re in the room where action is possible and they’re taking it. Support them. On here. In real life. Show them that this matters because abuse from the transphobes will be awful.

1/🧵 The Supreme Court has today overturned Cheshire West and removed important protections for severely disabled people. This case hits all the keywords: guidance, segregation, “never had the right”.

It has overstepped its mandate massively several times now and whilst politicians can legislate to correct this, it shouldn't be happening in the first place

Honestly, am coming round to the abolition of the Supreme Court

'Starmer may have promised that he would “build on the positive legacy” of the last Labour government – but what we actually got was the most significant rollback of LGBT+ rights in recent British history.' www.thenational.scot/politics/261...

Oslo Pride video 🥹 🏳️‍🌈 #Pride #LoveIsLove

And that's done - honestly I was shocked at how positive that was (relatively speaking). Most of the contributions were slamming the guidance. Lib Dems absolutely smashed it, most of the best contributions were from them, they really showed up in force.

No Labour MPs should be welcome at Pride btw unless they have explicitly repudiated the party line on LGBT rights (of which there is only a small handful) No official Labour representation of any kind, from stalls to party reps should be welcome.

‘On how far we’ve come’ yes trans people who were having to go into hospital for chemotherapy or a bad bout of pneumonia didn’t used to have worry about being outed, harassed and humiliated in the process. Now thanks to your party, they do! Nice work x

Joint statement from international LGBTQ+ rights NGOs, including @ilgaeurope.bsky.social and @tgeuorg.bsky.social “How can any trans and intersex person travelling to the UK feel secure that they will be treated with respect and dignity while using services?” tgeu.org/joint-statem...

Happy Pride!

The James Murray stuff is grim and underlines that Labour is an institutionally transphobic party, but also a stupid party of idiots who'd struggle to put a hat on their own heads

Banning trans people from toilets and hospital wards isn’t ’protecting our dignity’. I can’t really express how cruel and hateful this is, that even at our most vulnerable moments in HOSPITAL we have to be in fear of being outed and segregated

Happy Pride Month from Labour! Enjoy a generational rollback of LGBT Rights making us the least LGBT friendly nation in Western Europe! 🌹🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈

The problem with inconsistently applying principles, particularly when you’re the literal government, is that it gives everyone a get out of jail free card. Hypocrisy is potent!

it has come to my attention that busytown is anti pig

The trouble with this argument is - it’s not true and it was discussed in Parliament at the time. ‘Sex’ meant trans people with GRCs and it was always intended to mean that. bsky.app/profile/hear...

fascism cannot be appeased the other side has utterly won this one & they're now moving on to demanding we remove gender reassignment from protected characteristics, demanding sex at birth id cards, demanding anyone who ever expressed a pro trans view be fired, harassing store workers, etc

trans inclusion has been the norm forever, being able to change your sex for virtually all legal purposes happens in 2003, the "backlash" is almost 2 decades later what the anti-trans turn does coincide with is several years of media pressure (& that pressure ramping up even further)

1. in terms of how we got here—the sudden lurch to the right our politics has taken in the last few years— i just don't buy a "pro-trans overconfidence led to a backlash" narrative a "top down anti-trans propaganda push" explanation fits the timeline much better bsky.app/profile/dani...

"we all kind of sigh and put up with each other" sorry I'm not a very live and let live kind of girl but I just wouldn't sigh and put up with friends who, at the very minimum, believe other friends shouldn't have civil rights

the GC worldview relies on a conspiracy theory that the Jews are trying to trick white children into sterilising themselves to enact a replacement by black and arab immigrants, so it's pretty grim to see RTD of all people coddle that

A lot of issues in the UK can be summed up with Westminster being the Unitary Government of England and the Federal Government of Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and the incentives nightmare that comes out of that

Well, this is bad. You can't tell someone's age accurately by just looking at them. We already see issues with facial recognition and discrimination. Age assessments are complex. This is pretty much guaranteed to see more young people incorrectly classed as adults. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mayor Andy Burnham, salt of the earth working class lad and an alumni of CAMBRIDGE

quite a few Eastern European countries have extremely high rates of people going into higher education but because they're Eastern European, British politicians don't see anything worth learning as they become more and more parochial and want to guard their own class indicators

It goes without saying btw but literally in that extract you have an example of Labour taking an unpopular position (abolishing section 28 was opposed by 54% in 2000!) because it was the moral one, and something something about labour being a moral crusade or nothing at all.

Seen this shared a lot and - lol I'm gonna be real - Labour ain't never winning back left-liberals with this kind of attitude The fact that Labour folk think the current UK situation - a bathroom ban facilitated by a Labour govt - is an example of "getting it right" is chilling!

This is a full blown Lavender Scare. Cis queers are also targets in the prosecution of the anti trans agenda.

There is a pervasie idea that right wing people are more fun - see that "Cruel Kids" article from last year and every conceit about woke scolding - and have moved through the edge of certain spaces all I can say is a lot of people think fun=meanness so

"Forty-nine votes were cast against the new rules, whilst only one vote was cast in their favour", yet still they went ahead with the ban. Clearly, women's opinions do not count!

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

They will NEVER be happy archive.is/2026.05.25-2...

'Leftwing' does not have to mean fiscally loose. "More open policies on migration and Europe and a fairer tax system would be economically “left” of the present government. But they would improve the public finances and reduce the deficit." Me in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/7235...

a lot of people really do say ‘twink’ because they’re not allowed to say ‘faggot’ any more

Trans people’s best route to getting our rights back is via the broadest possible coalition. That includes politicians from almost all parties being on board, yes that includes Labour and indeed even the Tories if they ever stop being bonkers. It will include centrist liberals and the socialists

Meet the new toilet monitor, same as the old toilet monitor

the Supreme Court ruling that rewrote the Equality Act triggered a constitutional crisis as unelected peers were able to rewrite legislation, and this 'guidance' is one of the ongoing outcomes of that crisis

It’s time for the people who haven’t said much about trans rights because it’s a bit inconvenient and might cause tension with gender critical colleagues to actually say something btw

That transphobia is a major aspect of the broader transnational reactionary far-right threat is something both trans folks and the reactionaries themselves grasp, it's just a handful of credulous centrists determined to pretend that it's not.

I am actually begging a journalist to do some research and actually put this questions to Phillips because it’s honestly a scandal he gets away with this

A very big fuck you to anyone suggesting trans people Should ask for our own segregated spaces

It would be a good thing if, for this year at least, all the UK’s Pride parades and similar became explicitly anti-Labour protests. There are still enough Labour members (including some MPs) who attend that this could give a real jolt to their sense of their own political identity, I think.

The Labour Party is institutionally transphobic, it is an outright enemy of the UK's LGBT community, and none of us should even consider giving it our vote for a second so long as that remains the case.

The Labour Party is a moral disgrace and so is Bridget Phillipson, and any MP that doesn’t speak out loudly and oppose this is complicit.

This caused corporate America to boycott North Carolina ten years ago