Just had to no comment at a nurse when she asked me to state my sex assigned at birth. As ever, doctors are cops.

The danger and harm is that we will continue to live, regardless of what bigots may seek to do about it.

Love how the class-aligned nature of transphobia means that while they compose a tiny share of all people working in their fields, they're always the ones in positions of control. An ideology straight from middle management

Decided I’d stop simply complaining about being so unfit, and start actually running beyond the weekends. 2.6km before my shower isn’t much, but it’s a start.

Keir Starmer is as pathetic as he is consistently relaxed about death.

Love how this makes it clear that they're intentionally compiling a permanent list of individuals affected (i.e., trans people who got gender changes) for an unspecified purpose and basically no one has commented on that

I have a complicated relationship with the fact people always want to talk to me. But I had a few little chats in the community cinema this afternoon and I liked it.

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

This idea that poor Britons are all racist is so offensively stupid. There’s lots my mum did wrong during my childhood, but I always remember sitting in on her textiles classes for Zimbabwean asylum seekers, and how that was her first step from poverty to a professional life in adult education.

My four months living in DC in the winter of 2011-12 are admittedly not the most current or representative sample of US grocery shopping. But the two things I will always remember are that the meat looked weird and the chocolate tasted like vomit.

It's fascinating how all the people who insist it's just a phase also insist on aggressively repressing and crushing that phase rather than just letting it play out.

I just looked up London as ‘indicative place in the South’. It’s still winter enough that they’re getting about ten minutes more daylight than Newcastle each day. By the end of the month we’ll be getting nearly ten minutes per day more. Really crossing over into northern summer daylight this month.

The VC has planned to cut 400 jobs, close the Southend campus, demolish the Essex Pathways (foundation year) department, and decimate other departments like language & linguistics, maths & stats and business. She met us for an all-staff meeting on Thursday. It was... fascinating! Let's fact-check.

As Democracy Volunteers are the source of the claim of "Family Voting" in the Gorton & Denton by election, I got curious about their claims and thanks to @joenoonan.bsky.social I came across this claim about "Family Voting" during the 2020 Irish General Election. A brief 🧵

It is absolutely unspeakable that this is so ordinary for the states that our government chooses to align itself with.

As I’m stood waiting for the toilets, this woman barges behind me and says ‘EXCUSE ME.’ She tugs at a handle. I say ‘I’ve already checked and they’re all busy.’ She smiles and says ‘Oh have you?’ I smile and say ‘Yes I have. That’s why I’m waiting here.’

This is, very straightforwardly, an organisation that promotes child abuse. It also has the ear of Peter Mandelson’s old friend Wes Streeting.

There is a direct link between opposition to Gillick competency and an assumption that families vote as a unit. Both reflect an assumption that the family unit is a site of authoritarian rule. Both say clear things about the speaker’s own families, and the limits placed on the children within them.

The point is not to incarcerate and then forcibly detransition every trans person. Rather, the point is to ensure that the law never protects any of us. To place us firmly beyond the law’s protection, subject to literally arbitrary power.

Worth reading their letter in full, but would particularly like to draw attention to this paragraph, following the High Court decision. Routinely outing trans people at work is not compatible with their human rights.

No one will be shocked that overtly anti-trans officials have been appointed to the MHRA puberty blockers trial. What is shocking is actual journalism being done to uncover them, and that when uncovered they've been removed. An important step in the right direction. Watch this space.

‘This election was not about who would make the best MP. That’s why our candidate was a cop and a bigot.’

If you'd like to come work for us at Good Law Project we are currently recruiting four new roles! (Please do share.) 🧵

And this messaging was the other side of a historic Tory deposit loss

underappreciated but very funny gorton and denton sideplot: the conservatives nominating literal sex matters (uk terf group) trustee charlotte cadden, only for her to get the worst result for the conservatives in by-election history and lose her deposit

Wow.

What's so disturbing about the Kansas drivers license law is that you CAN'T flee -- they're making it impossible to leave for a blue state. The goal is to incarcerate people or make them detransition.

It is, of course, immensely difficult to sit at work with people who have no visible interest in what is happening in the world, especially when what is happening is this.

it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.

The ILGA Rainbow Map is out for 2025 UK is now in 22nd position, another drop from 16th in 2024 (no surprise there) rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

I would suggest that we need more trans people in the UK who are GDPR experts.

I’d hardly say that what I’m doing is creative work, but I assume that at some point I lose my job and therefore my career for having a piss. In unrelated news, I have done/am doing half as much writing in the past twelve months as I had done over the previous thirteen years. There’s just no time.

It does grate a little, to know there are people out there, just ordinary, reasonable voters, who want the world to burn simply because I have the temerity to live. It’s quite a thing, really, to carry the weight of other people’s murderous rage.

"Disrespect for the law is a central tool of the jurist’s commitment to justice and the struggle against tyranny. Jurists should not be censored and made less effective in the name of politeness. To be rude is to be effective."

Keir learned this from Rishi.

Anyone interested in reproductive rights MUST be interested in transgender rights. They are inextricable: a battle for bodily autonomy, a rejection of patriarchal control. An attempt to legislate who can participate in society and who cannot.

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Coming in November from @brisunipress.bsky.social, In the Aftermath of Empire explores the impact of British imperialism on gender and sexuality law in four jurisdictions. Please tell your libraries to pre-order! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/in-the-after...

of course the guardian doesn't mention transphobia bcos they're all deep in it themselves but it's the same thing there 5 years ago the idea of a bathroom ban was considered extremist fringe bigotry stuff now we literally have conversion practices on the nhs, no civil rights, and a new section 28

UKHE has over six times as many people on salaries over £100k compared to the total number of trans people it employs, many of whom are kept on temporary contracts or minimum wage, and most of whom are removed from the workforce before they hit forty.

Of all the things I expected twenty-first century fascism to revive, coverture constituting a legal change of sex for married women was not high on my list.

Congratulations to For Women Scotland and their pals on the closure of many Women's Institutes across the country. Hard work pays off. I'm sure they're very proud of their efforts.

Released today, Monday 23rd February: RSHE 2026: Inclusion or Restriction? A formal report to the Minister for Equalities by Pride in Education @prideineducation.bsky.social static1.squarespace.com/static/639df...

While I support anyone’s right to modify their body as they see fit, this practice as described here does seem quite likely to end in death.

We have five grounds of appeal. Plus our appeal on standing. We have attached our submissions and you can read them in full. But we have summarised a couple of them in this blog. Read to find out more 👇

Tbh I find it extremely difficult to care about any sports at all when in the past four years it has pretty much all said that I and everyone like me can get fucked. Glad you’ve all enjoyed the Winter Olympics, though!

Cass sought out and asked questions of someone dismissed for harassing trans kids in his care instead of talking to actual trans people drew_blinks.gif I shouldn't be surprised, but each and every revelation about the woman shows her to be an utter crank, a dangerous crank

If you thought it couldn’t get more obvious that the Cass Review is, in the words of @goodlawproject.org “conclusion-based evidence”…it can.

1/🧵 Just saw this awful post by a transphobic former teacher, who unintentionally reveals Hilary Cass to be the crank she is.