🚨We need your help. The NHS CYP gender service is consulting on the draft specification. This is, sadly, horrifically being driven by people who aren't trans or experts in the field of gender incongruence and based upon the much-discredited Cass Review 1/ www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...

Given his unjust banning, I am taking up Link's charge and doing Fund Me Fridays in his stead. If you have funding needs, drop them in the thread below. I'll also be grabbing links that I've missed from previous threads and reposting them. Today is a good day to meet some people's needs.

1. New York City Public Schools has announced that it will defy Trump's demands to ban trans students from bathrooms, funding threats be damned. Instead, it has launched a lawsuit against the admin and declared it will not throw trans students under the bus. Subscribe to support our journalism.

They should be grateful it’s not France 1789.

LIAR has been out in the world for one week now! Thank you for all your support and love on the album, which has reached #3 in the UK Independent Charts, #8 on the CD Charts and #11 on the Physical Charts! Such a fantastic accomplishment right on National Album Day!

One of the things I find most disconcerting about the anti trans movement is the relentlessness of the scrutiny towards anyone who speaks up for trans community or for their Cis women supporters once you are on the “Linehan list”

I should add that the judgment is very well written. I felt quite emotional reading the final sections, which contain the findings of fact. This is also the first time that AP, Garçon and Nicot v France has been considered in full by our domestic court, rather than merely mentioned.

New interview! On all the things going wrong and how we got here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYWn...

Don’t forget: Surviving is the floor, not the ceiling. You were meant to thrive, to glow, to find meaning beyond the struggle.

The EHRC has ditched its 'interim update'. But their draft Code of Practice is a bigger threat than ever. Here's what we need to do now 🧵

A must read blog about a landmark decision for gender recognition, just published by the High Court today. Once again, @goodlawproject.bsky.social paid all the costs. goodlaw.social/78iw

EHRC anti-trans campaign loses its momentum - a week of absolute scenes has left the organisation in limbo. Here's what happened, why it happened, and what it all means iandunt.substack.com/p/frightened...

Over 50,000 cis women have signed the @nionwomen.bsky.social open letter rejecting the narrative that trans women are a danger to women. The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence. Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Healthwatch is DHSC funded. It talks to people about their healthcare needs to inform best practise. Its July ‘25 report on improving LGBTQ+ healthcare seemed ok, then I found a disturbing line. Falkner and the EHRC did this. It’s not normal to accept so casually that some people have lesser rights.

One question I want to ask is why @greenparty.org.uk still have a social media account on Twitter! It's nothing but a far-right hell site now. Show some leadership and get off it. greenparty.org.uk

A reminder that the public consultation on proposed changes to the service specification for children and young people's gender services, which launched in August is still open, so there is still time to share your views if you haven’t already. www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...

I have two fun Edinburgh shows coming up - and look, this one is free - tell your pals please

Trauma Post Have had food bugs twice in 5 days this week 🤢 making me feel pretty urgh. On top of that, I've been feeling less than enthusiastic about being trans. I'm not stopping, these are likely just temporary feelings, but they've been unsettling all the same. The long, hard walk of between 😞

Yesterday a friend of mine died following an overdose. She had been in a dark place & I don’t yet know if she meant to take her life, if she did she will be one of 17 who die by suicide each day 💜 I visited Speak Their Name quilt exhibition in Parliament & will work to support suicide prevention

CHAAAAAAALK!

A transphobic pressure group want to ban trans women from Hampstead's women's pond. Help us fight back to keep the pond a safe place. Add your name 👇 goodlaw.social/2j8t

Never underestimate the power of small kindness. To you, it may be a moment. To someone else, it could be the difference between despair and hope. You don’t always see the ripples your actions make, but they move through the world all the same, one small gesture at a time.

This is both so much fun and completely absurd. The Information Commissioner has upheld the confidentiality of the contracts that established the Cass Review. I will be seeking legal advice. I might actually need to crowdfund for legal costs this time. This is so getting out of hand.

And if you’re wondering who Labour is listening to? “Reeves boasted she hatched plan to rip down our nature protections over a “smoked salmon & scrambled eggs breakfast” with corporate lobbyists”. While Starmer’s resolve to kick down planning rules are result of his “conversations with leading CEOs”

This is impressive - solidarity with those women who performed the citizens arrest www.citizensarrestnetwork.org/press/2025/1...

With the EHRC acting like it is. It shows that it is really important to keep trying to get in contact with your MP. We have seen that this is working.

1/🧵 The EHRC asked the minister to revoke the current Code of Practice. This position is inconsistent with the misinformation spread by some of its commissioners. They advised service providers not to follow the Code, but instead to rely on their interim guidance, which has since been withdrawn.

Seems many UK trans people are losing their NHS prescriptions - including when requested by the official NHS GICs! metro.co.uk/2025/10/16/i...

"Jordan and her mum met with her GP, but during the consultation, the doctor referred to her as a ‘guy’ and shrugged off her situation as ‘political’." Sorry, this GP needs reporting and even naming and shaming.

Please don't stop sharing the ID card petition. The 3 million signatures milestone is within reach. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Please read my column today in conjunction with Aditya's. The government pretends to be delivering housing to those who need it, but is in fact just appeasing the big corporations. Then it blames nature protections, and rips those down at their behest as well. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1/🧵 I should note that from the beginning, I knew the EHRC would withdraw their “interim update” guidance. My aim was to make it untenable for them to defend the position that segregation of trans people is mandatory. And I think that strategy has been successful. That doesn’t mean we can stop.

Absolutely! The EHRC is really floundering right now, and Bridget Phillipson (so we hear) is getting increasingly annoyed at them. What better time than now to write (using our easy-peasy tool) and pressure Phillipson to reject the EHRC’s segregationist Code 🤗📝🤗 actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

My Europe and UK tour starts next week in Hamburg! Who am I seeing there? ☀️ Get your tickets at the link in my bio!

“I’ve spent six months talking to trans people who are afraid to go out because of the climate of fear the EHRC’s interim guidance created,” Maugham said. “Some are suicidal – and I am aware of people who have sought to take their own lives." goodlaw.social/9j3v

Tuesday: Shabana Mahmood attacks an international human rights body for pointing out the UK is likely breaching its legal obligations to trans people. Wednesday: five months after publishing transphobic legal guidance the EHRC, a month before it has to defend it in court, takes it down.

"‘The UK Supreme Court judgment could lead to widespread exclusion of trans people from many public spaces. This, in turn, may severely infringe on their ability to participate fully and equally in society.’" metro.co.uk/2025/10/15/a...

At least Newsom keeps reminding us that he has no consistent values, in case some of us forget. Love his social media trolling of Trump - more Dems need to do that kind of thing - but I hate his poorly conceived strategy of triangulation. Nobody's looking for a leader who's "a little" transphobic.

Statutory or not, it still is not the law: A statutory code of practice is not a law itself, but it is a form of guidance issued by a statutory body.

I am at Books on the Hill in St Albans at 7pm tonight for a poetry show

List of Labour MPs who are openly transphobic nowadays and who to vote for to unseat them. 1) Tonia Antoniazzi Transphobic for years. Open GC. Behind the "Women's Dec" for Labour Constituency: Gower Maj: 11567 Suggested vote: Plaid Cymru

To all the trans elders and late bloomers: Thank you for proving that living truthfully is timeless.

My name is Erin. My pronouns are she/her.

This is the key point everyone should remember. If rights don't apply to everyone, they apply to no-one. Rather, they are privileges granted to you by the beneficence of authority and can be withdrawn at any point.

To give human rights only to those tyranny likes is to destroy their very purpose.

ANNOUNCEMENT This evening, 14/10/25 the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network have taken the next step in the struggle to restore the human rights, dignity & safety of UK trans people.

If Labour doesn't intend to adhere to its human rights obligations anyway, there's little point in us being signatories to the ECHR. Better, more honest, for Mahmood to join Reform in campaigning to leave it.

I'm at Matrix Arts Centre near Oxford on Sunday November 30th at 4pm, talking films and music, silent movies and piano improv. See you there!! www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.