We're complaining to the Charity Commission about Sex Matters describing women who are trans using women's spaces as "deviants". The language is unacceptable (and the statement is wrong in law). We're looking for other examples of it (staff or Trustees) using inflammatory language. Share below?

So a trans woman gives a bloke a blow job and she goes to jail because he's embarrassed, yet 2 boys committing gang rape get a community order and no jail time. The UK judiciary is truly fucked up. Democracy is dead. The rule of law is dead. Only right wing cis het, white patriarchy remains.

Ten years ago the UK government issued a travel advisory for LGBTQIA+ individuals about risks of going to the US partly because of trans bathroom bans. Now we have those bans in UK. This is what I mean by Labour being worse on trans rights than the previous government.

Same.

Even violence, state or otherwise, will not stop me living my life. I will not change a single thing about how I've been living for over a decade regardless of what some new garbage "guidance" might say. If they made it illegal to breathe I'd still do it. Fuck you

Read my accessible analysis of Goodwin v UK – why it still matters, and what the courts are getting wrong – here:

BREAKING: it appears that the MHRA, in control of the UK puberty blocker trial, appointed a senior officer who had previously mocked supporters of trans rights online. Recusal is not enough here. He and those responsible for appointing him should resign. How can trans people trust them now?

Leave her alone you fucking ghouls. She did nothing wrong.

📢 New peer-reviewed academic response to the Sullivan Review into sex and gender in research and data. @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and @felicitycallard.bsky.social have published a critical response to the Sullivan Review. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

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Weird how they don't have to "clarify" what transgender woman means when they are talking about someone they can't use a slur against

For the record, I was an advisor to Ed Miliband's Labour Party on tax policy, I strongly support a wealth tax, and I am aware of a viable and fully costed proposal to implement one in the UK.

The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people. It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace. New piece: oolong.medium.com/biological-m...

transitioning is the best choice i’ve ever made in my life and the only regret i have with it is that i didn’t do it when i was younger

Kishwer Falkner's term as Chair of the EHRC, a term characterized by her willingness to use that vital guardian of the human rights of the vulnerable to wage war on trans people, ends today. THREAD

1/🧵 Day 2 of 2. Today at 10:30am, High Court in London, Court 1, before Mr Justice Swift, R (Good Law Project, on the application of) v Equality and Human Rights Commission, a rolled-up hearing for judicial review of EHRC’s “interim update”. 
No live reporting, sorry.

1/🧵 Today at 10:30am, High Court in London, Court 1, before Mr Justice Swift, R (Good Law Project, on the application of) v Equality and Human Rights Commission, a rolled-up hearing for judicial review of EHRC’s “interim update” (Day 1 of 2) 
No live reporting, sorry.

⚖️ HEARING UNDERWAY ⚖️ Our challenge to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s interim guidance has begun in the High Court. https://goodlaw.social/gf1s

Missed this the first time round going through Cass. It's gibberish; "A known side-effect that *may* reduce psychological functioning..." If it was "known" then saying it "may" is a self-contradiction. It also includes a reference from only 4 months 12 days before Cass was published... 1/2

Falkner writing a pissy letter to the minister going “its been six months and trannies are still legal what gives“ is quite funny tho

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe. 🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations) 🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved... rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

1/🧵 Is there any information on whether Ciara Watkin plans to appeal the bristling miscarriage of justice that effectively criminalises the sex lives of all trans people in England? Recorder Peter Makepeace KC‘s misogynistic remarks shocks me.

And assuming the BBC's quotes from the judge are accurate, he believes a trans woman who has sex with a straight man is by definition a rapist, as he does not believe it possible for straight men to be attracted to trans women without being deceived (which is rape now, but only for trans people).

Oh do fuck off Wes Streeting. It's not designed to intimidate women, it's designed to protest transphobia. If I protest against racist scum, that's not me 'intimidating men', it's disagreeing with racism. I am sick to fucking death him pretending that transphobe and woman are synonyms.

This is an amazing defence of trans people against one of the country’s worst transphobic bigots by @zackpolanski.bsky.social

I've tracked death by suicide of Trans youth in the UK since 2017. Leia's is the 25 death of Trans youth age 18 & under. - Feb 2017 to November 2020 9 deaths. Following Bell v Tavi (Dec 2020) & removal of access to healthcare - December 2020 to June 2024 16 deaths. Our Government is culpable.

Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers. Share this and speak up for your freedoms.

There are now TWELVE (possibly 13...) peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review. I have listed them all on my blog, now updated with links to all of them. Trying to keep it as up-to-date as possible. For a fuller list, @notrightruth.bsky.social has them all here; ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...

If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...

UK passport holders can live and work in Ireland with no minimum £savings requirement or funding. Note: Healthcare is still free. If you can show proof of living in Ireland for 5 years you can then apply for naturalisation and get an Irish (EU) passport. 👉 www.irishimmigration.ie/how-to-becom...

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

So regularly destroyed is trans stuff that it's an obscure fact that 2 words beginning with trans (transfeminate and transection) were in English dictionaries to describe someone who 'changed sex' from the mid 1600s until well into the 20th century.

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

The “trans people in sport” discourse is flaring up again this morning. It’s the same question: do trans women have a biological advantage? (Notice how they erase trans men entirely.) Here’s my hot take: So what if they do? 🧵 [1/9]

Greta Thunberg and Irish comedian and activist Tadhg Hickey sum it up in 28 seconds

the notion that trans women have an advantage in sports is entirely made up and has no basis in science. it's based on the notion that trans women are cross-dressing cis men what little peer reviewed science that has been done shows that, if anything, trans women have a disadvantage over cis women

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social doesn't have the time for a meeting with pro-trans groups, even when the request is from someone who has actual experience in the field, yet has the time for anti-rights organisations. We are taking notes, and you will be held accountable!

The US far right is gunning for the brilliant and courageous academic @esqueer.net, a woman of colour, for daring to highlight their plan to eradicate trans people. Please show her she has your support, as she has mine.

I work in tech. My professional opinion? Fuck AI.

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

Louder for those at the back. "Gender-critical"...? You are a fascist, no two ways about it now. You align with Putin, Orban, Le Pen, Meloni, Bolsonaro, Braverman, Robinson and Trump. End of.

Wes Streeting’s first act in office was to resist the judicial review of the puberty blockers bans and to commission and publish a so-called independent review on suicide stats by the bigoted “Professor” Louis Appleby, in order to influence the court. I now know with certainty that it was a lie.

This is absolutely shambolic. How does Labour look at these polls and still insist on pandering to Reform voters?

THREAD that shows how badly Wes Streeting has got this wrong; There is no “conflict” between cis women’s rights & trans people’s rights. This is a fabrication that Wes Streeting is either dishonest or gullible enough to believe. Empirical evidence Streeting is wrong 1/3 Hasenbush et al (2019)…

Personally I feel less safe now than I did 10 months ago.

21 years ago today my sister died of Anorexia I love and miss her dearly. The system failed her. It protected the bullies who put a knife to her throat. This is why I fight. The bullies will never win. I will never stop fighting for the vulnerable and voiceless. www.scotsman.com/health/linds...