⚧️ Edited by @krheyam.bsky.social and Jon Ward, "New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity" features a diverse collective of researchers sharing their experiences of approaching gender nonconformity from a decolonial perspective. Read now 👉 bit.ly/4qqROJB #OpenAccess #GenderStudies

It begins with chipping off Art 3 (freedom from torture) and Art 8 (right to privacy and family life) for foreign criminals to assist deportation, then it will be extended to all asylum seekers, after that - who knows? It's the thin end of the wedge. Human rights should always belong to all humans.

The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'? Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures: www.historyworkshop....

UK medical establishment consulting with 8 anti-trans groups on medical policy on puberty blockers: Bayswater Support Group, Clinical Advisory Network on Sex & Gender, Genspect, LGB Alliance, Sex Matters, The Integrated Psychology Clinic, Thoughtful Therapists, Transgender Trend

The speed with which Labour came to the, at least implied, defence of Linehan, despite a track record of abuse and threats from him, exemplifies just how embedded the dehumanisation of trans and non-binary individuals has become as government policy. They really don't care who gets hurt.

We encourage our supporters to write to the BBC to complain about the use of a slur against trans women in this article www.bbc.com/news/article... This is directly written in text and is not a quotation.

Honoured to speak to Jake Hall for their fantastic piece here, about something that leaves me frightened and furious.

Fellow freelancers, a boring tax question: do you use any accounting software, and would you recommend it? I currently, & happily, use an Excel spreadsheet - but I see this whole ~making tax digital!~ thing looming, so am reluctantly in the market for recommendations of more complicated things 🙏

It's✨publication day✨! You can order a copy, or get the open access ebook, at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d.... And I've got 5 spare hardback copies to give away to anyone who runs a book-sharing scheme or would struggle to access the ebook - hmu if that's you 🏳️‍⚧️📚

Note also how France 24 refers to ‘trans people and their supporters’. In contrast to ‘trans activists’ when uk media reports. The uk has chewed on the shitty tablet of culture wars for far too long now

It's HERE!!! I'm ridiculously excited to finally be holding NEW AND DECOLONIAL APPROACHES TO GENDER NONCONFORMITY: FORGING A HOME FOR OURSELVES in my hands. You can preorder, or find where to get the OPEN ACCESS ebook, at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d...

We will be at parliament today reporting on the mass lobbying day. And we will try to keep you updated on the events as they unfold.

Today’s bonus Pride episode is about ancient Rome’s short-lived trans Emperor, horny teenage Elagabalus. I’m joined by @krheyam.bsky.social to discuss this teenage wild child’s short, weird reign. episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9m...

"Could I be a single-issue ideologue with no medical expertise? No, it is the doctors who are wrong"

They are literally attempting to re-write history. "You may have had rights in the past, but now we are changing it so you never did"

Barbican Renewal has a consultation which closes tonight which gives more toilets accessible to women and more toilets for everyone as a whole, including building in protections for trans visitors if the EHRC start to police toilets. Could you respond positively? www.barbican.org.uk/barbican-ren...

Also big fan of them using a rainbow gradient cause they know using an actual pride flag would upset their target audience of bigots lmao

Very excited to see the piece I wrote with @krheyam.bsky.social on ‘Gendering Material Objects in Heritage Practice’ now out in The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender’ which stems from our project www.genderingthemuseum.co.uk

As an alumnus of the University of Warwick, I have written to ask for more information on their new trans segregation policy, which was uploaded and then removed from their website. Thanks to @whatthetrans.com and @katymontgomerie.com for raising awareness of this.

Just wanted to shout out NOTCHES, the history of sexuality blog I help to edit, which is feeling a little lonely on Bluesky at the moment! If you'd like to have more history of sexuality (including looooots of queer stuff) pop up on your feed, why not give us a follow? @notchesblog.bsky.social

Letter by Aberdeen Trans Action to @robertgordonuni.bsky.social. It questions why they have changed their policy to reflect the non inclusive usage of the term "biological sex" for their toilets. Please share. We must out places that are excluding trans people.

fml there's another one. This one you can actually affect. Please write to your local branch (see the Reddit post) This is important ♥️

Historians for Trans Rights open letter makes it into @pinknews.bsky.social! I'd be remiss if I didn't point out the essential contributions of @benmechen.bsky.social @krheyam.bsky.social @carolinepennock.bsky.social and @echomikeromeo.bsky.social in drafting it www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/02/h...

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Attendees at the #RDconf last Saturday voted on an emergency motion to show their opposition to the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman. Read the motion below 👇 BMA-wide policy is set at the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in June 2025.

"Another morning, another absolutely bananas conversation about trans people, without any trans people involved... I want to see the discussion recentred so that priority is given to things that matter – the life-and-death business of a health service – not lost in some vindictive land of riddles"

Statement on the EHRC ‘guidance’. The EHRC ‘guidance’ put out at 10pm last night is a bigoted attempt to segregate trans people in public spaces. It is almost certainly unlawful. transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/04...

The ignorance of cis lawmakers knows no bounds. As a trans man who's been on T for six years, my body is very much biologically male, to the point that assessing my medical tests as female would be dangerous to my health.

'Perceived to be' seems to rely on 'passing' to the cis observer in question, though. (para 251)

I am mashing my temples in sheer frustration because a ruling that is obsessed with legalizing discrimination against trans women on the basis of our "birth sex" also explicitly carves in recognition of the sociality of sexing, almost surely to make "perceived sex" something to be challenged.

I'm on holiday, but I need to put my trainer hat on for a moment and say this: If you're an organisation trying to work out what today's ruling on the Equality Act means for you, what you need to change, etc. - please hang fire, think it through.

"Sex alone cannot explain the differences: gender plays a major role in understanding why people smoke or drink alcohol, or what stops a person from visiting their doctor or dropping out of treatment." A clear intervention from @femupheave.bsky.social & @kentbuse.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3jhchus2

A real privilege to talk with @herberthistory.bsky.social about trans history, colonialism, and how we navigate a political climate that's determined to deny all history of gender nonconformity. Thanks for having me Jason - hope folks enjoy the conversation as much as I did 🏳️‍⚧️

Since Kathleen Stock, OBE, is in the news again because of the freeze peach row around Sussex Uni, it seems a good time to flag up this comprehensive analysis of her faux-academic transphobia by @christa.bsky.social: Seriously, take the time to read it. There are receipts and everything.

massively depressing that the big scandal is that the shithead guy from the atlantic got texted accidentally and not the part where they're raining more death on yemen

If you are trans, live in England, and think you might want to change your gender marker on the NHS, contact your GP to sort it **asap**. The UK government is cracking down on trans people and we have seen exactly how this plays out in the US. The form for your GP is here:

Let's say I'm a trans woman who has just found a suspicious lump on her breast. Does answering "male" to this question make it more or less likely that I will receive relevant advice?

Look at that beautiful cover! I'm really pleased to have a chapter in this upcoming volume (Bloomsbury, 10 Jul 2025) edited by Kit Heyam (@krheyam.bsky.social) and Jon Ward. My chapter cover the history of recognition-based trans activism in the UK since the 70s. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d...

Had a brilliant chat with Pamela Katz from the 'A World Without Gender' substack earlier this week - video up now 👇 open.substack.com/pub/worldwit...

This petition is about to hit 10k petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Worth signing, but be ready for the government to write some science denial bs and say "Cass" 15x

Chuffed to be quoted in this piece about my first love, Edward II - can't wait to see the RSC production next month 🎭🏳️‍🌈 www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

What a glorious crowd we had @royalarmouries.bsky.social today! 🏳️‍🌈 Thanks so much to Bent Collective, @carmineclaire.bsky.social, Cat Stiles & @katievernon.bsky.social for bringing your amazing queer history knowledge and fun (and moves!)

Absolutely buzzing for this collection to be in the world soon! It's both all the things Jon & I needed to say about doing decolonial work on gender nonconformity right now, & a snapshot of some of the people who are doing that work most brilliantly. I'm so excited & so honoured to have all of them.

Trans people were on the front lines at Stonewall. Don't let Trump, Musk, or a bunch of Vichy gays and TERFs tell you otherwise. My latest for Slate on what happened to the Stonewall monument website, why autocrats always destroy history, and where it can lead slate.com/news-and-pol...

I'm really excited to be co-authoring a couple of chapters in the forthcoming Handbook of Trans Cinema! The CfP deadline has been extended as there's quite a few subjects they're still hoping to find authors for - see call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/07/..., and please share 🏳️‍⚧️🎞️

Once upon a time, we complained that "ethnic cleansing" was too sterile a euphemism to describe the forced removal and often violent expulsion of a racial or religious minority from a region. And now the press can't even bring itself to use *that* term.

This is a good thread but I wanted to highlight this part because it can't be overstated just how much all of this is one fight. Trans rights for bodily autonomy are the same fight as access to abortion, which is the same fight against racism. "Until we are all free, we are none of us free."