This section by the awesome @ludovicparsons.bsky.social in QAF sums up in a nutshell the nature of the entire campaign against trans people by the rightwing media establishment. These “journalists” are also the ones claiming that - somehow - trans people are silencing transphobes.

The newly published EHRC Code of Practice leaves trans people in the UK today with less rights than they had prior to last year’s Supreme Court ruling. Read our full statement here: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/05...

Wes Streeting says in this piece the 'honest truth' is he and Labour don't know what's behind rising demand for mental-health services. embarrassing for anyone to admit in a national paper that they can't join those dots, but especially so when you are literally the health secretary.

"Western feminism mobilises when violence can be framed as Islamic oppression or backward tradition, but retreats when the violence is produced by Western-backed power." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

I designed the graphics for this important story by @mccoolingtons.bsky.social and @ludovicparsons.bsky.social. Take care when reading, topic is upsetting.

if they can't manage an early start and long day without frequently getting pissed at work they'd be fired from a 'normal job'

Why is this report not all over UK media? Because UK media has been not just complicit but an active participant in creating the conditions for trans people where suicide seems the only way.

Alongside this story we're proud to support the launch of Trans Lives, a new UK memorial for Trans+ people “Our community knows too many trans people are falling through the gaps and being actively harmed by UK healthcare and society” @lucybrisbane.bsky.social www.translives.co.uk/about

"The loss of every single one of those young lives is an appalling tragedy" - @jolyon.goodlawproject.org Our new investigation with @goodlawproject.org shows Trans people are dying of suicide more than the general UK population 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/trans-people...

Content warning: trans suicide, self-harm and death Trans people are dying of suicide more than the general UK population our new investigation with @wearequeeraf.com shows ⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/p8ha

Trans people are dying of suicide more than the general UK population. New investigation by me and @mccoolingtons.bsky.social, co-published by @wearequeeraf.com and @goodlawproject.org www.wearequeeraf.com/trans-people...

A great analysis of the legal status-quo for Trans+ people's employment rights in the UK www.wearequeeraf.com/workplace-ri... by @ludovicparsons.bsky.social

In 1996, a trans woman won a crucial legal right for Trans+ people in the workplace. What went wrong? @ludovicparsons.bsky.social traces the history in the final edition of Milestones 🏳️‍⚧️ www.wearequeeraf.com/workplace-ri...

In 1996, an unlikely Cornish case won a crucial legal right for Trans+ people in the workplace. Tomorrow, @ludovicparsons.bsky.social traces how we got those protections and what’s happening to them now. Join 10k readers following Milestones 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/milestones/?...

Brief history of UK media transphobia and how it relates to contemporary coverage of 'gender critical' legal cases. for @wearequeeraf.com www.wearequeeraf.com/how-the-uk-m...

what vague meaningless waffle. has Starmer's speechwriter secretly defected to the Greens?

“The gender clinic system is structurally flawed, working not for Trans+ people’s health and wellbeing but against Trans+ existence itself.” The views of cis people determine whether trans folk can access medical transition. We need a health system to better support trans people’s bodily autonomy.

“The clinics and the diagnosis don’t have to exist.” Take the time out to get into this hugely informative and prescient long read from @ludovicparsons.bsky.social about the history of our healthcare. Our healthcare doesn’t have to and shouldn’t be this way.

This is absolutely fascinating. It taught me so much about the history of medical gender transition and why it is still so controlled. Long, but utterly brilliant. Please read. www.wearequeeraf.com/a-brief-hist...

This is very good, describing very bad things.

Given the news about adult Trans+ healthcare reviews, and the removal of care for under 18s, this excellent piece of journalism by @ludovicparsons.bsky.social - is incredibly timely To fight back, we all need to better understand the system that was built to gatekeep, not help Trans+ people 👇

timely for this to be out this week: a longread from me about the history of trans healthcare in the UK i.e. why we are in the mess we are in featuring some historical enemies – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, John Randell – and an amazing line about gender doctors from @notrightruth.bsky.social

Important journalism by @sasha98.bsky.social, one of very few news outlets actually capturing the severity of the threat to trans children in the draft school guidance.

Worth noting that this risk of outing was one of the features that won Goodwin v UK in the European court of human rights. It's treatment institutionally that can cause outing that resulted in the UK losing against Christine Goodwin and being forced to implement the gender recognition act.

the powerful trans lobby is trying to raise just £8k to fund more trans+ investigative journalism at @wearequeeraf.com. you can donate to help us do that here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/queeraf2026

get an accessible, straightforward explainer of today's High Court ruling against the Good Law Project's challenge to the EHRC interim guidance on single-sex spaces – direct to your inbox tomorrow morning. sign up here: www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

We heard last week from @ludovicparsons.bsky.social at the After Section 28 conference on the importance of journalism that both supports and employs LGBTQ+ people and their allies. QueerAF are a shining example, and they could reach a wider audience with a little more support

It's worth noting that this was also a pretext to open up new services designed and run by people who push an unproven pseudoscientific "Gender Exploratory Therapy" model that has been likened to conversion therapy by international experts.

when i started working as a journalist in 2014, there were trans reporters in multiple national newsrooms. almost all have left. the high output of anti-trans articles & the near absence of articles by trans journalists are two sides of the same coin: institutional transphobia in the UK media.

for 3 years in a row i've vowed to start writing on Substack, and this year i've actually gone and done it... whoever said third time's a charm was evidently onto something this first piece weaves together boats, climate change & the loss of a beloved cat ludovicparsons.substack.com/p/the-great-...

Important new data uncovered by @ludovicparsons.bsky.social & @wearequeeraf.com 107 of 647 children who died by suicide in England were LGBTQ+ in 2019-2025. 46 of those were trans - this is disproportionate I spoke to Ludovic about how action needs to be taken⬇️ www.wearequeeraf.com/one-in-six-c...

Sex Matters lose twice: its judicial review is refused AND public opinion about trans swimmers is firmly against the 'gender critical' position 90% of 38,000 people oppose requiring trans swimmers to use separate changing rooms or swim in separate sessions news.cityoflondon.gov.uk/consultation...

🆕 Reports say, Equality watchdog the EHRC's code of practice is being "adapted" to: 👉 Lessen its impact on business 👉 Balance single-sex spaces with lives of Trans+ people This comes ahead of a critical ruling about the watchdog's actions, under it's previous chair. This is what we know 🧵

The Levy Review into adult gender services - commissioned following the Cass Review - is now out. We have a rapid response TLDR by @vic-parsons.bsky.social out this afternoon. Plus a larger, analytical look this weekend in the QueerAF newsletter. 👉 Join 9700+ readers: wearequeeraf.com/subscribe

This isn't a criticism of the hunger strikers: it's a reflection of genuine fear that unless Labour has plans to add a 'Cat and Mouse Act' amendment to its Crime and Policing Bill, ministers are likely to let people die. We have to raise public awareness for the demand that the state blinks first.

@wearequeeraf.com will keep prioritising stories mainstream titles won’t even consider. Support our accountability journalism, which helps you understand why the news is happening - so you know how to fight back 🤝

One of the most significant hunger strikes in four decades is happening right now in UK prisons - and it was begun by queer activists 🧵

"Gender clinics create the bottlenecks for treatment" @vic-parsons.bsky.social examines what it would take to fix the transgender healthcare crisis in the UK, and clear the 48,000 people waitlist 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

The national picture shows waiting times for gender identity clinics that far exceed the NHS's recommended maximum of 18 weeks. But drilling down into the data from our investigation, 'The Gender Clinic Files' reveals huge disparities across the UK 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

We have heard that the Green Party has passed a motion at conference calling for desegregation of trans healthcare and to end the practice of GICs and to move it to primary care. And you can definitely see why they voted for it here: www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Let's be clear: this is the result of deliberate political choices to make accessing trans healthcare substantially impossible. It's what Streeting and his ilk want.

lots more to come this month in this new investigative series The Gender Clinic Files from @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com – look out for the first podcast featuring @clairestranstalks.bsky.social diving deep into the data on Monday. Claire has done immense work on this 👏🏻

🆕️🚨 After painstaking research, dozens of FOIs and months of analysis we release the Gender Clinic Files which reveal waiting times for every GIC in the country. They lay bare, how far off the mark the Health Secretary's estimation of the average wait is 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

This Saturday after painstaking research and FOIs by @clairestranstalks.bsky.social with @whatthetrans.com, we'll publish 'The Gender Clinic Files' in our newsletter: A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare Sign up 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

me for Attitude Magazine breaking down where UK political parties stand on LGBTQ+ rights www.attitude.co.uk/main-stories...

7/ Analysis - @vic-parsons.bsky.social Some Pride organisers contacted by QueerAF had a ‘not to worry’ approach to the new policing bill – because Pride events are not a site of ‘criminal activity', so police won’t be able to use the powers at Pride. But recent history tells a different story.

"Pride started as a queer uprising against police brutality – our elders surely would have taken this expansion of police powers seriously and fought back. Why aren’t we?" - @vic-parsons.bsky.social www.wearequeeraf.com/new-police-p...