My gf has roped a load of churches into getting their members to collect a load of food that can then be distributed to those who need it across Belfast. Many are afraid to leave their houses, even to get food. People have been delivering food to strangers since this started.

This was a particularly revealing moment. Stephenson says that it’s not on service providers to police toilets but Kirkpatrick says that service providers have the obligation to uphold the law - when Sarah Owen presses them on how those things are reconcilable they just flounder.

This is only a problem if you can only conceive of sex as being determined by a single feature or quality There are plenty of different frameworks which define sex in more varied ways which can better provide for the differing needs of everyone

Again, it's just so transparently a straight person's idea of what being gay is. Like sexuality is some kind of mathematical question to be answered, rather than a human emotional characteristic.

context: new head of UK Equality and Human Rights Commission appears to argue in parliament that it's okay to treat trans women abuse survivors like shit, because we already treat cis women abuse survivors like shit, so it's not discrimination 💁‍♀️

A major component of the EHRC expecting “trans people to simply follow The Rules” is that it explicitly positions trans people as illegal transgressors by continuing our lives as we were

Goodwin v UK was *explicitly* about how Goodwin's employer discovering she was trans led to a violation of Article 8. The GRA therefore was created in part to prevent employers outing trans staff. The idea they now *have* to do so for pay gap data, and that isn't a breach despite Goodwin? Nonsense.

Absolute scenes as they have to keep saying with a straight face that “trans people thought they had rights” its just so so openly corrupt and bullshit all the way

Ran into this argument in Karleen Gribble’s work last week and it’s very obviously an attempt to both erase trans people’s economic oppression and use foul play to make the gender pay gap appear to close

What’s incredible is yeah Stephenson there have been no issues with single sex spaces in the past BECAUSE TRANS PEOPLE JUST USED SPACES WITHOUT AN OFFICIAL BODY SAYING GO GET THEM TRANNIES OUT

This is clear harassment of an employee for stating company policy. It is not the job of poorly paid shop floor employees to create policy - and even if it was, doxxing them for a policy you disagree with would still be harassment.

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

imagine going back to 2014 and telling your former self that JK Rowling, in conjunction with the cybernats, under the supervision of the daily mail would turn the equality act into the most draconian anti-trans law in Europe. like actually imagine how insane you would sound

This is 100% media fuelled shite. This is absolutely nothing like the attitude I've seen from disability groups and disabled people, who in my experience have been extremely understanding and supportive of trans advocacy when it comes to access to facilities

the ‘hard won provisions’ are in the same piece of legislation which also contained hard won protections for trans people until the Supreme Court ruled it didn’t, so maybe focus on that

What a disaster - The SNP put having one of their own in the seat ahead of electing the best candidate for the job. So now we have a Presiding Officer who will do nothing as Reform and the Tories try and ensure the Parliament becomes a hostile environment for trans people. Absolutely grim.

British political journos: "Starmer may have been fatally wounded by the Mandelson affair". Also British political journos (breathlessly): "Young Mandelson protege Streeting might be the UK's next PM!"

It is a good and rare thing that Scotland is so open to people who were born outwith its borders. It is a good thing that people are able to be Scottish-by-choice. It's wild to see people throwing away this welcoming culture over Q's selection.

Scotland is a rare country because we don’t deny any aspect of the political franchise to anyone who lives here and that’s genuinely something to be proud of

How am I just hearing Mandy Rhodes, Holyrood Magazine hack, with her long-time trans-hostile output, booster of transphobic lobbyists, starter of anti-trans Twitter dogpiles, and writer of that famed flattering cover story on Steve Bannon...was appointed to the EHRC Scotland Committee 2.5 years ago?

This is the problem. A pitch to voters "turning to Greens and Reform". You have to actually choose between the voters who want what they perceive as a socially liberal socialist environmentalist party and the ones who want fascism. You can't appeal to both, and now they all hate you.

This is interesting (and I personally agree with the conclusion, that ranked voting would be best), but I disagree on one point: I don’t think LibDems are to the right of Labour. I’m not convinced the Tories are far right of Labour rn. Ppl haven’t updated their mental framework to current policies.

Very ugly attacks on Quill Kukla here. Par for the course for Stock, who has previously attacked Quill for being non-binary, having dyed hair, and posting pictures of themselves lifting weights on social media

5. I really like this take down of the transphobic moral panic: It’s all “over-simplified ideas about trans people” all the way down!

Maybe the OfS is institutionally captured by Arif Ahmed, Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom, a reactionary that is directing OfS to pursue vendettas against universities that don't withstand legal scrutiny, perhaps?

I am not a lawyer, but it’s my understanding they Sussex also argues the policy statement saying, in effect ‘by the way, don’t use class time to be bigoted against trans people’ was so they wouldn’t be liable for breaking the law, and wasn’t enforced, which is what we’ve been saying from the start

The Gender-Conservative movement managed to push policy proposals worldwide based on the pretense that youth transition is common and easy to access, obscuring the extant reality of obstruction and hostility towards trans patients. They're doing it again because they got away with it.

Had to repost this from @nojusticemtg.bsky.social since this is the second day I'm laughing about it

With enormous regret, SLAB is today advising supporters not to vote for ANY Scottish Labour candidate in this election. There are several pro-trans Labour candidates standing on 7 May, but a vote for them would now sadly be an endorsement of explicit transphobia. #NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow

I may as well keep repeating that the UK is walking briskly down this same path and, unless courts and parliaments act quickly to pull it out of this barrel roll it won't just be be trans people who are hurt.

one of my favorite moments of TNG is when Picard is immediately unable to contain his horse autism

cmon man you're not supposed to just tweet this stuff out

OMFG they think we are the dumbest people who ever lived.

I just can't believe we'd be having a discussion about divisive politics in the same way if Goodwin, an actual blood and soil nationalist who would dispute if those same Muslim voters were English, had won. I can't believe we're having it without evidence that Muslim voters did swing majorly Green!

"Socially conservative muslim voters chose the trans positive left wing woman for the party led by a gay Jewish man because of patriarchal family voting built on a sectarian hatred of Israel" Requires a series of logical leaps so large that it's astonishing it's become embedded logic.

this is so good. they're realising about a decade after everyone else has, mind

Also this is, like, two days after Labour briefcase wanks were criticising Polanski doing a broadcast from a living room they thought looked *too* working class and northern or whatever

Standards matter. Every time a Labour MP - a Minister no less! - is able to say things like this, our standards drop little by little where they matter. Starmer should think about the political culture he wants to model from the top.

Utterly extraordinary that Hilary Cass on the BBC this morning said if some young people had "taken more time" they might not have pursued medical treatments, when her own report last year found that children routinely faced multi-year waiting lists for gender services.

I think the most consistent pattern in legal cases in the past year is a complete refusal by judges to take trans people's human rights seriously. The consequences of being named publicly as a trans person in a high profile case were dismissed for both Dr Upton and Rose Henderson.

This is really sad. I just feel so despairing about this and the fact that this profound failure won't be recognised as such by most politicians.

This level of depravity is monstrous.

The EHRC are seeking legal costs of £300,000 for good law projects failed judicial review where GLPs point that the guidance encouraged things that are illegal was broadly accepted by the courts. We have to fund GLP and through our taxes the bastards resisting GLP's obviously correct point.

The amount of money that is spent on needless cruelty by our government is staggering.

It is darkly amusing, for all its seriousness, that this is maybe the one time Sarwar has been right about anything, and he's been shanked for it so hard that Labour are going to lose in Holyrood even more than they already were.

The thing that's the most egregious about this cover up is that before all this happened, there was evidence from similar policy changes in the United States of rises in suicidality amongst trans youth (and also significant drops in youth LGBT suicide with pro LGBT policies).

This is grim-Labour MPs saying they prefer a Reform win in Gorton & Denton than The Greens: Reform is worse for the country, but the Greens are be worse for their careers. They want Reform to do well so they can use them as a threat to force folk to vote Labour www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

To the diehard Starmerites - when Labour gets absolutely destroyed in May, where they're looking at losing 1,000 or more councillors in a single hit if they perform anything like last year, who will you blame for it? Will it be Andy Burnham, or will you concede the project isn't working?

something I haven’t seen discussed here enough is how a secondary message of this ruling is that trans patients will be discriminated against if they try to use the nhs services in darlington and durham

according to their own website, the *FREE SPEECH* Union got an injunction against BASH BACK to try and stop this data from spreading and being talked about. so please make sure NOT to download this because the FREE SPEECH Union really doesn't want you to talk badly about them.