"It is an important function of the courts to protect minorities, in particular small and perhaps unpopular minorities, since their interests may sometimes be... even deliberately violated by the majority." Court of Appeal: discussing the structurally disadvantaged class of private school pupils.

This week, @amnestyuk.bsky.social's Gender Justice Director Chiara Capraro shared how her team mapped 65 anti-rights groups in the UK. From funding streams to the crossovers with the US, find out what this means for human rights by searching 'Stage Talks with Bellingcat': rss.com/podcasts/bel...

I’ve seen drafts of this guidance several times before, but I’ve only just come across it in its published leaflet form.

Here it is, my big #EastEnders catch-up thread for people who only see it when they go home for Christmas with the family. Allow me to get you all caught up on the goings-on in Albert Square in its most explosive week of the year! KEEP THIS BY YOUR SIDE AT ALL TIMES.

“In terms of public perception of the act, I think most Irish people don’t care. They’re happy to let trans people get on with it.” Ireland has allowed people to self-declare their gender for 10 years and the sky did not fall. People just got on living their lives. 🇮🇪🏳️‍⚧️

Half of Transgender, Gender Diverse Youth Report Suicidal Thoughts “In a study of 131,429 TGD individuals ages 25 and younger, 48.8% experienced suicidal ideation and 26.2% reported a suicide attempt”

🧵 1/? Going through the recording: 6:00 Cass: "there was a fair amount of noise [...] about the fact that I wasn't an expert in this field, but that was a deliberate selection that NHS England made because people who were working in the field were so polarised*" * read: support trans rights

Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report on the Draft Gender Recognition Bill in Nov 2003. In Paragraph 31 they expressed concern courts might fail to recognise the effect of a GRC particularly for e.g. the Sex Discrimination Act. 🧵 publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200203/...

At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.” Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.

Alice Sullivan tells universities to suppress pro-trans research to protect GC staff. However, HER OWN DATA shows pro-trans research is already more suppressed. When I told the BBC this, they edited out any reference to the data. They have now corrected the record. www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedb...

New Zealand's libertarian/ populist/ right wing coalition Government is trying to follow Wesley Streeting's lead in banning puberty blockers. This is what the New Zealand High Court has just decided (www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...).

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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

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...

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