When a politician dithers over questions about trans people that’s when they’ve lost credibility with the trans community. No matter how much ‘dignity and respect’ they might claim trans people deserve, they’ve lost the room. @zackpolanski.bsky.social does not dither.

Wonderful to see Zack Polanski answering this question directly, empathetically and calling out this awful bigot on his obvious transphobia.

1/🧵 As a trans lawyer, I say that @zackpolanski.bsky.social gave the legally and politically perfect answer. “Of course they’re wrong. Their job is to look at what has been legislated for. The legislation is wrong and we should get back to parliamentarians who actually stand by trans people.”

Fairly sure the group involved here also protest outside the homes of migrants and were outside the home of a family friend. MLAs outside Alliance who talked about legitimate concerns when protests happened aren't mentioning that today.

I am beyond angry that the Charity Commission are giving these groups money paid from MY taxes to fund groups that are directly harming my family!

This is heartbreaking. These wait times are criminal.

As an #intersex child, I'd often wait until the break was over before I went to the toilet, and then I'd often sit in the locked cubicle and cry because I was terrified of going back into the classroom where the teacher would single me out for example It was 1979, and I was 9 years old 🧵

genuinely insane we are at point "a person was afraid of someone who caused NO harm, so latter person needs to be segregated" rather than genuinely if YOU are so terrified of others on this level YOU are A PHOBE of some stripe and it is YOU who needs to leave. it IS bigots who need a third space imo

I hope people understand just how horrifying this is as a trans person. You could just be getting in with your life, not doing anything to hurt anyone - and suddenly you find yourself dragged into a horrible legal case where the press is painting your going to the toilet as somehow predatory.

"She said the union has received several reports of “significant, detrimental impacts” on transgender and intersex pupils as a result of a recent UK Supreme Court ruling." It's child abuse! news.stv.tv/politics/tea...

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

They aren't bringing ID cards in to make people's lives easier, they are specifically bringing them in to make certain people's lives harder.

The anti-digital ID petition is heading for a million very soon. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

This is how it begins, with indirect insinuations and fake-humble pleas of uncertainty, as if online conspiracy theories, cranks and grifters carry equal weight to the overwhelming body of scientific evidence and medical expert opinion. Then they get into power and start shredding the health service

This should have been a moment of profound national learning - about the corruption that serves our elite - but the Cabinet Office which ran the VIP Lane sought to close the discussion down and Labour unaccountably let them. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

For the record my trauma was not because I am trans, all this was because I was not allowed support of self expression because I wanted to be seen as a girl. Everyone else around me got to experiment and be encouraged but I wasn't allowed. Being trans is not traumatic, not getting support is.

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance & change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.” Ursula K LeGuin “Your empire will fall. And I will help it along.”

Big US tech company Nvidia saying they're gonna build data centres in the UK and we have to burn more gas to power them? Uh, no. British people shouldn't be paying higher bills and suffering accelerated climate change for your bottom line.

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.

Parts of N. Ireland are being turned into no go areas tonight by paramilitary backed far-right in pre-announced 'shutdown' mobilisations. PSNI are communicating this to migrant & community groups. The stay safe advice? Avoid 'no go' areas. It's not protest, it's paramilitarism aided by the state.

The EHRC admits it holds no information on why it failed to engage with affected communities, no impact assessments, no justifications, and not even meeting minutes. They simply didn’t consider our voices relevant. 2/

So, based on talking to (presumably) gender critical groups like Sex Matters for years, and no trans groups, they decided that the settled legal position they had adhered to for 15 years should be overturned.

We asked the EHRC whether they consulted any trans, intersex or LGBTQ+ groups before intervening in the 2024 Supreme Court case For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers. Their answer? They didn’t. 1/

The new policy from DoE is regressive and harmful. Young people who are trans deserve our care and support. Not to be singled out and othered! Intentionally using the wrong pronouns for a trans person is abusive. This goes beyond failing to safeguard trans youth, it is enabling abuse.

This is what is happening to trans people - don't look away. Starmer et al are to blame for this.

I really need people to stop saying X is happening to trans people to distract from Y/hurt some other group. They are attacking trans people because they want to attack trans people. They are hurting trans people because they want to hurt trans people. Thank you.

“I don’t feel safe at the moment” www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/a-dance-of... please support the Crowdfunder if you can, thanks to the incredible donations so far the rough cut process has started today and the team are hard at work. #adanceofidentity #trans #transisbeatiful

I wrote something that explains what is happening in Northern Ireland - Hilary Cass to be unleashed on Northern Ireland trans healthcare www.patreon.com/posts/hilary...

I would be happy if I never heard the name Graham Linehan again, but I do feel the need to comment, because the nature of a lot of the abuse trans people receive is straight up sexual harassment, but is not recognized as such because the victim is trans. What Glinner is doing is sexual harassment.

Casey's thread is excellent, and speaks to a much wider point I've been hesitant to articulate recently: That trans people are expected to quietly endure as non-issues things that would be considered deeply traumatic for cis people. Not just the sexual harassment or assault, but everyday things...

JK Rowling is threatening to sue our founder Jo Maugham unless we back down. We look forward to seeing them in court.

To clarify the situation. The former NI Health Minister commissioned a review of gender services. That involved trans people and their families and concluded in April after almost 6 years. They made recommendations, which were going to be implemented, and asked for funding, which was allocated 1/

Of course he's asking Cass - he wants the same biased review England got. He is more than willing to continually harm trans kids in NI based on his own biased and bigoted beliefs! He could look to any of the other European countries. He could keep us in line with Ireland. But no, he wants Cass.

This is a fascinating story: SEGM commissioned systematic reviews on gender affirming care, claimed they showed care should be banned, so the authors have released this statement saying their research is being misused and that it is unconscionable to ban gender affirming care:

If you want to know quite how awful and dangerous Linehan and his followers are, just take a look at the replies to this thread - story after story of people who have been threatened, harassed and sometimes doxxed. The fact the mainstream media is treating him as some kind of martyr is disgusting.

He was sendimg janey godly abuse while she was in end of life palliative care ffs The man is an absolute monster

Despite how news outlet may try to portray it, Graham Linehan is in court today for *assaulting a child* The fact they are trans, an activist or anything else is totally irrelevant.

I had not realised that Linehan, a 57 year old, heavy set, cis man who really should know better, is accused of attacking a 17 year old trans activist - a 17 year old, an actual teenager! A 57 year old man should never, ever, go after a teenager. #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6807050

Moskowitz: Do you think the Epstein list should come out? Farage: I have no opinion on it. Raskin: It’s been reported that he’s called for it to be released Moskowitz: I have it here. Do you agree with yourself?

A reminder: if a trans person existing in a space with you causes you discomfort or anxiety, you should not harass or exclude them. You should speak to a decent therapist instead. Just saying.

So fucking easy it is to get media traction for being transphobic. Unemployed Irish comedy writer gets a profile in the Guardian for his transphobia. Queer media does "here's JKR's response to former directors disavowal of her politics" while trans people who do anything fight for space on the page

Also calls Reform 'far right' which is something you rarely hear in the UK, certainly not from the main politicians, despite being 100% true.

"Just protecting women and girls"

Questions to the Equalities Minister today about trans people. 🧵 of relevant clips… 1. Generic statement on diggly and raspberries.

🏳️‍⚧️ Beyond the headline ✨ #TransCourage #TransJoy ✨ "I'm not just here to perform, I'm here to make sure the next generation doesn't feel invisible I didn't have someone like me growing up. Now I get to be that person for others" - Samsara via @itsmylondon.bsky.social

When I originally broke my leg (severe complex multiple bones fractured, leg turned into a floppy hot dog everything smashed), I just broke down crying when the paramedics started trying to ask me about my sex registered at birth.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

The Quakers are doing exactly what all public services are legally allowed to do even if the EHRC wants to pretend they're not: say gender-based toilets are inclusive and for anyone bothered by that as a matter of belief, there are stand-alone cubicles that they are very free to use. 1/