A careful, and compelling analysis, of how the Equality Act operates post the awful Supreme Court decision, from the woman who guided the Act through Parliament. www.linkedin.com/pulse/does-e...

So much bad stuff is happening. The Cass Review feels like it got lost in the noise. Yet this incredibly biased £3m project continues to warp discourse around trans healthcare. I've therefore updated my megapost with 6 new major critiques from clinicians, researchers, and a child abuse survivor.

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...

Some good news from the employment tribunal, but it does make me wonder why is Royal Mail so bad at trans rights? www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-postal...

The Cass review into children's gender services in the UK continues to be terrible. A new report from Australia led by the fantastic Dr. Julia Moore - and featuring me - looks into the issues in detail. My new piece. gidmk.substack.com/p/the-cass-r...

Let’s talk about the Draft Gender Recognition Bill and the report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights. They were concerned that a court might fail to interpret the bill correctly because it talked about a change of gender, not sex (report below). 1/6 publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200203/...

“The Cass Review's contradictions are striking. It acknowledged some trans young people benefit from [blockers], but its recommendations have made this currently inaccessible to all. It found no evidence psychological treatments improve gender dysphoria, yet recommended expanding their provision.”

“They made them carry ID cards to state where they’re from As if by being born they had done something wrong” - What if Punk Never Happened by The King Blues, 2008

Free speech in the US. Now a university has banned all mention of trans people and is encouraging abusive misgendering. conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

The Law Commission just gave parliament a gift. Will it even be opened? thespinoff.co.nz/society/09-0...

We welcome the Opinion of the Advocate General in CJEU saying that EU Member States must allow legal gender recognition! Read the full joint statement on our website: https://www.ilga-europe.org/news/joint-statement-landmark-cjeu-opinion-demands-legal-gender-recognition-across-eu/

So Streeting is claiming that Starmer wants to focus on "streets not tweets" and implying that incitement to violence isn't serious. What, I wonder, did Starmer say about Lucy Connolly, also charged (and jailed) for incitement to violence in a tweet? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There's been a big fight over gender-affirming care after Gordon Guyatt and his team at McMaster released a statement contradicting their former funders' public policy. I wrote about the whole thing, and what "evidence-based medicine" really means. gidmk.substack.com/p/a-fight-ov...

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Was the UK Supreme Court judgment in FWS wrongly decided, in light of the historical EU law context? Detailed analysis, by @clairebradley.bsky.social - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-de...

#NHS CYP Gender Dysphoria Research and Oversight Review Boaard has been very busy. And none of it is good. First, these are the multi-disciplinary team that will treat the under www.jla.nihr.ac.uk/priority-set... That's depressing enough on its own. But it gets way worse.

This also undermines a conversion therapy ban. If gender identity does not exist what’s being converted? That so many countries have banned conversion therapy shows how backward UK Labour is on LGBTQ+ issues. There must indeed be something so fundamental for attempting to change it to be so harmful.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=25Sp... An incredibly powerful poem by the fantastic @fionaswriting.bsky.social

There is one paragraph I want to highlight, not only because the highlighted part made me laugh but because it neatly highlights the issues caused by how the FWS ruling interacts with NI's equality laws & the frameworks & treaties underpinning them, & the inability of legislatures to rectify it.

“The organisation’s true agenda is, I believe, best described as ‘eliminationist’: seeking [to]… make transitioning so difficult, dangerous or pointless as to functionally eliminate trans people from public life and society.” Very powerful and well-written piece. Please do read. 👇

People always think I'm being ungenerous or misstating their views, but this is very explicitly what the "gender-critical" crowd says: Their *best case* against gender affirming care for kids is that the research says it works, but the research doesn't count. (this is from the Cass report)

Trans coverage (online) by UK outlet, past 365 days: The Telegraph – 879 The Guardian – 672 The Sun – 572 Sunday Mirror – 554 The Independent – 273 BBC – 237 Daily Record – 251 Express – 410 The Spectator – 180 Daily Star – 128 4156 in total That’s more than 11 articles a day, every single day.

More trans boys play boys sports than trans girls play girls sports. In English rugby for example out of 39 trans rugby players 35 were trans boys and men playing men’s and boys rugby and only 4 trans girls played in the female category.

So I'm trans and on a female ward in Wes Streeting's NHS and I'm being disallowed from going to the toilet any way other than via bed pan which means that I have the option of direct nursing assistance with my lower body and risk being shifted to a...

Trans people were lied to?? Using services based on “self ID” (the gender role in which they present) regardless of GRC is right there in the EHRC’s 2011 Code of Practice. It’s in the EHRC’s own 2022 guidance. The Labour Gov recognised this too a matter of months ago. This is horrific gaslighting.

🧵 Recently, a poll was carried out in the UK to see what respondents thought of the Supreme Court case about trans ppl. The findings of that court have been challenged by a number of experts & are likely to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights [1]

Presumably the quotes from people/groups opposed to gay adoption were excised from this so no talk of “pretended families” or an “injustice to the child” in this BBC story about a BBC drama during Pride Month last year. That bigotry was all saved up to spend this year. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

2018: Number of times Kathleen Stock, Maya Forstater, Helen Joyce, Fiona McAnena or Sex Matters were mentioned in the papers? Once, and it was Forstater taking about a non-trans subject. 2019: 143 2020: 228 2021: 324 2022: 557 2023: 631 2024: 796

Today we released a major @pewresearch.org survey of LGBTQ adults looking at: ▶️ Views of social acceptance for LGBTQ people ▶️ Personal experiences with acceptance, discrimination ▶️ Experiences with coming out ▶️ Identity ▶️ Community, friends and LGBTQ spaces Read on for findings from each section.

The Utah Report shows exactly what the people commissioning it didn’t want to see, that gender affirming care works. This article brought to you by @evanurquhart.bsky.social

5 years ago today, my life was irrevocably altered 🧵

Trans Athletes: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) youtu.be/flSS1tjoxf0

1/🧵 Many new archive finds. The UK considered in 2002 to use a remedial order under the Human Rights Act to bring the law into compliance with Goodwin & “I”. The government opted for primary legislation because of the “complex knock-on effect”.

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

‘Trans women have never felt a threat’: I spoke to women’s refuges & rape crisis centres about how they manage inclusion *and* exclusion day to day www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

If you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne. The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews. Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.

🏳️‍⚧️ TGEU statement: The UK Supreme Court ruling is a devastating blow to trans rights. By narrowly defining 'woman', it erases legal gender recognition, fueling exclusion and violence. Read our full statement: tgeu.org/while-the-uk... #TransRights

From barrister @crash-w.bsky.social. Powerful critique of the Supreme Court's work... ‘The Court’s comments about single-sex spaces appear to place trans people in a worse position than they were even prior to the passage of the Gender Recognition Act 2004’. www.translegalproject.org/post/for-wom...

I wasn't going to speak about this. But I changed my mind. This week I've been managing personal harassment on X. And I don't even use the platform. This harassment was then amplified by the Daily Mail. Let's talk about it... /1 🧵

www.instagram.com/reel/DH7y3GK... Max Sumner 17 Jason Pulman 15 Danny France 17 Charlie Millers 17 Nex Benedict 16 Vigil Rhone 15 Corei Hall 14 Jayden Lowe 18 young transgender people who died by suicide reported in the press; many more go unreported.

Fantastic that our national parliament got to be a forum for queerphobic hatred today, because with everything going on in the country and world, of course we need to constantly kick a tiny minority. Absolutely obsessed with being hateful. You people really are disgraceful. I despise you utterly.

I have one year of data regarding articles on trans people in the Mail, Times, Telegraph and Guardian/Observer. In 365 days, they have printed a combined 1,075 articles, nearly all attacks. A more detailed post will be up on the Trans Agenda later this week, so be sure to subscribe hleehurley.com

🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?” This was their response:

New Gist: Trans rights are Data rights An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act. (Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin) www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...

The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or gender." /1