And Matt Goodwin who DID NOT win

🟥 Red Lines 🟥 "Sexual violence and sexual fear are means by which life, death and living-death are organised to support accumulation" Alison Phipps on The coloniality of sexual violence, based on her forthcoming book reacpol.net/why-red-line...

Kansas has, overnight, invalidated the drivers’ licenses of trans people, a pointless cruelty that upends their lives If Brits think “it won’t happen here” think again! Groups in the U.K. who want the same thing are routinely invited to consult with Labour and normalised in our press!

'For too long, the threat of the far right and reactionary politics has been externalised and exceptionalised. It is time to accept that the current system can indeed accommodate the far right if its survival is threatened by other crises' This is why we need Red Lines reacpol.net/why-red-lines/

anti-abortion groups don't see abortion as a single-issue - they are simultaneously funding & driving anti-trans, anti-LGBTQI, anti-migrant [...] efforts in the UK and transnationally. it isn't just 'what happens in the US', it's also what they've funded in Uganda, Hungary, Mexico, Poland [...] 1/

Fascists did finally get blocked from carrying on their route so they're now headed down into the gay village where they've been redirected by the police (great thinking guys!)

'Blackpilled strikes a balance between reviewing pillars of far-right extremist communities within the “manosphere” and sharing important insights specific to“black pill” ideology.' Diana Wallens reviews Meadhbh Park’s Blackpilled: Masculinity, Media and Incels. reacpol.net/blackpilled/

Hi everyone. As you know, I am our trans rights lead at Good Law Project. I have been working alongside a fantastic team on our challenge since May last year. But whilst what we have achieved is significant - there is still a lot further to go. If you can, please donate and help us keep fighting.

We're also getting questions about what the decision means for service providers whose toilets are also used by employees. The High Court doesn't deal with this - and frankly the law is a terrible mess - but the safest (and frankly the most efficient) thing to do is make all toilets unisex.

An important takeaway – the High Court has made clear that the Code of Practice has gotten the law wrong. It will need to be rejected by the Minister.

Baffled by what this will mean for universities and anywhere else that service users (students) and employees are using the same facilities

This is sure to be a great event. For anyone interested in decolonial studies, feminist thought, democratic theory, psychoanalysis, or (anti-)populism make sure you sign up to this hybrid book launch below!

At the time she nodded along, along with acknowledging our concerns about pro conversion therapy groups lobbying the Cass review process, told us not to believe what the right wing press was saying about things she'd briefed in private. Then the end result was what it was. Deeply deceptive.

We (trans safety network) met with Cass during her research on the Cass review and explained how clearly ridiculous it would be to try and bring haircuts and self expression under the authority of being a "medical intervention". She went away from that meeting and produced this crap anyway.

In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different. www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Calling transfeminist researchers! See our call for abstracts below - deadline 1-15th March (with full papers in August)

🗳️ How young men would vote in #GE2029: 🟢 Grn: 30% (+18) 🔴 Lab: 21% (-19) 🟠 Lib: 17% (+1) 🔵 Con: 12% (+2) ➡️ Ref: 12% (=) Via @YouGov, 14 Dec - 9 Jan (+/- vs GE2024)

I read through hundreds of emails and scoured through years of correspondence and background information to write this 4600 word report. It confirms what we all have been saying about the anti-trans movement from the start. Read it from the top down, I can't even begin to summarize it all properly.

Gf had an appt a while back about a chronic shoulder injury and the GP had printed out her (extremely long) report and diagnosis from the gender clinic and left it prominently on the desk. Not sure if trans broken arm syndrome or whether GP just thought they needed a manual to talk to a trans person

📣Webinar announcement📣 Join us on Zoom (26th February, 12pm GMT) for a conversation in Spanish on 'Art, Memory, and Antifascist Genealogies' with Espe Pons and Jorge Marco.

Misoprostol is used in many aspects of OBGYN care (abortion, miscarriage management, cervical prep) and to treat ulcers. Methotrexate is used to treat ectopic pregnancies and in the management of autoimmune disorders like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriasis.

My partner (who works in mental health) is on a kick about how bad the images in 'easy read' versions of documents often are, and sent me the following example (ironically from a guide to how to produce easy read documents):

was epstein uniquely responsible for evil or is he just the one obscenely wealthy person whose emails we're getting to read

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

Between April 2019 and March 2025, 107 of the 647 children who died by suicide in England were LGBTQ+. Forty-six of these children were trans – seven per cent of all children who died by suicide. www.wearequeeraf.com/one-in-six-c...

Many UK academic philosophers need to confront the fact that they helped this trend, especially with their uncritical support for right-wing anti-trans philosophers that couched their political mission in ‘we need to have difficult discussions’, ‘I’m being censored for my ideas’ and ‘free speech’

If you want some background on Matthew Goodwin, I wrote a couple of years ago about his kind of grifter, their reactionary bad faith politics and how they are in service of the powerful and enabled by the mainstream elite jacobin.com/2023/05/righ...

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Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Does women’s health need sex-specific algorithms? In a paper just out in Big Data & Society (bigdatasoc.bsky.social) we at the GenderSci Lab warn against the growing use of so-called “pink” and “blue” algorithms, arguing that they risk embedding biological sex essentialist assumptions into medicine.

New on our blog - we've republished a personal message from @queer-red.bsky.social to 'Sandra Davies', the #spycops officer who infiltrated the women's liberation movement, asking her to have the integrity & courage to come forward. campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2026/01/27/h...

🚨 50% of Labour voters (17pts) have walked away. Where did they go? 🔴Lab ->🟢Grn: 6.2pts [ 36% ] 🔴Lab ->🟠Lib: 4.2pts [ 24% ] 🔴Lab ->➡️Ref: 3.5pts [ 20% ] 🔴Lab ->🔵Con: 1.4pts [ 8% ] 70%+ of defecting Labour voters have moved *left*. Via @YouGov, 14 Dec-9 Jan

For those who can’t/don’t want to see the video: The scumbag ICE agents assault an observer and push them to the ground and spray them, the man they murdered helps that person up and attempts to help them away from ICE at which point the agents attack them, spraying them both

This slaps

You know you want to 👀 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/beyond-pro-l...

This, but also it feels like the Netherlands having four times as many people diagnosed as the UK ought to raise some eyebrows, because I'm pretty sure that windmills and stroopwaffles don't cause ADHD, so perhaps we're just underdiagnosing horribly, catastrophically, appallingly, eh?

Small numbers make any increase appear large in percentage terms. A useful quirk for moral panic framing.

The 8% of children, 3% of adults thing is wild to state uncritically, given that ADHD is a chronic condition i.e. does not get better over time, does not go away. If 8% of children have it, then so do 8% of adults. Can confirm that my ADHD didn’t magically disappear when I turned 18.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Guardian headline: 'use of ADHD meds has more than tripled!! 😱😭🚨' Article details: barely anyone who might need the meds has access to them 🤷🏻‍♀️

Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.

Something more people should know is that Money's research didn't *result* in intersex children being coercively surgically 'corrected'. This was already happening and 'gender' (as pioneered by Money) only provided new justifications for it on the wake of assumptions about binary sex collapsing.

New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢 This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID. doi.org/10.1080/0958...

I would like to once again emphasise that the ET entirely exonerated (and indeed went out of its way to say it was doing so) the trans woman who has been so publicly monstered in this case.

The effective conclusion of the ET is that trans people have to use third spaces. I think based on very poor legal analysis and uncritical adoption of "gender critical" talking points. But as I say, not binding, and all the relevant issues hopefully to be decided shortly by the High Court.

Last week I had a new article published, comparing trans adolescent and family experiences in different UK healthcare services. 1/4 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There is a lot in this interview. Quoting to amplify specifically that at the end they report the ICE agents saying, “Have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch.” ICE agents appear now to approve of the killing of Renee Good as an act of terrorism committed by them collectively

Caught a cryptid

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed. everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.