It's worth reiterating that puberty blockers were already a compromise with transphobic rhetoric. While there may well be trans kids who benefit from longer to think about their identity and therefore are grateful for blockers, the vast majority would far rather just have HRT.

As others had said, if there were these legions of "victims" that they claim, then they would be in the news constantly. They aren't because they largely don't exist. The whole "scandal" was concocted by institutional transphobia, and GC lawfare.

Our commentary piece on “Misuse of evidence in sex and gender policy” is out! We call for greater integrity and transparency in evidence use, and for meaningful inclusion of trans people’s experiences and expertise in policymaking utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

Friday afternoon is a tough crowd so I'm boosting now - here's me, toning down the anger somewhat but still getting my point very much across.

Pride is a protest. And there's a lot to protest. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.independent.co.uk/voices/pride...

The EHRC repeatedly suggested the UN Independent Expert had misunderstood its position. The newly released correspondence tells a more complicated story, showing that after reviewing the Commission's objections, he reaffirmed his conclusions instead of retracting them. tacc.org.uk/2026/07/03/h...

If I'm honest I'm not keen on slogans that include "hope". It's so non-committal and vague. For my own personal political motivations, I think they are best summed up by quoting Winstanley. "This world should be made a common treasury for all" Environmentalism and social justice are inseparable.

Under the (UK) Sexual Offences Act 2003, it states in order to commit rape the perpetrator must have a penis. Therefore trans women who have had bottom surgery are under UK law incapable of committing rape. They are however statistically more likely to be victims of sexual assault.

Images like this are equal parts shocking and heart breaking. This planet is being ransacked by a minority for personal greed. There is something seriously wrong with people who can look at the devastation wrought by climate change and shrug.

How anyone can claim the EHRC is behaving as anything other than an anti-trans lobby group now is beyond me.. It's also so utterly delusional. They clearly want to eradicate trans people, and believe their own lies about social contagion etc. But it's impossible. Trans people have always existed

"The London Assembly has raised serious concerns about the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s revised Code of Practice, warning it is discriminatory, contradictory and unworkable." www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...

The impossible bind for a lot of trans people. Either dress down, fulfill the expected gender roles, and have a better chance of getting care. But then get accused of reinforcing gender stereotypes by the very people who support such gatekeeping to care.

A bold but necessary proposal. From now on all job adverts should have to abide by the rules of the BBC Radio 4 game show "Just a Minute". They can be no longer than one minute long to read. And must avoid hesitation, repetition, or deviation

“The law remains the law” Which law, is it the Dignity, Respect and Phrenology Act 2010?

As both an adopted person and the bereaved mother of Alice, a trans young person who died by suicide, with a prevention of future deaths report that says my daughter’s mental health deteriorated due to delays in access to gender affirming care, this apology leaves me fuming.

This here is the entire crux of the issue. We had sensible regulations requiring years of testosterone suppression and hormone therapy to play in women's sports. This had not been a problem for nearly twenty years, including at the olympics. Then the right made it one by straight up lying about it.

This must be remembered: ALL Labour’s transphobic measures, from harming/killing children by withdrawing healthcare & introducing state-sponsored conversion therapy to an attempted national toilet ban worse than anything from Trump/MAGA were imposed without a single vote in parliament.

Andy Burnham discussing plans to attack migrants, and trans people, to defeat the far right by giving them everything they want. I mean it didn't work for Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Starmer, or any country it has been tried. But this time will be different right? youtu.be/Po4adxJxqZk?...

It would be shocking if it weren't so obvious. But then what can you expect from a group of people that call getting fewer votes "bringing Labour back from the brink". No plan, no idea. Just bad assumptions, arrogance, and group think.

This was always the likely outcome of Sara's ideology. The sort of regressive, anti-migrant, pro-Russia, Transphobic rhetoric she espouses is incompatible with the Left. Mixing red and brown, invariably produces more brown.

The chair of the EHRC, our national human rights institution, centring arguments around polling and political popularity on a human rights issue seems… Not good www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Labour claims its transphobia is about “protecting women”, which is of course a lie; literally ALL the evidence shows that trans people are not a danger to cis women. Yet how many of these 230,000 people Labour is going to kill as a consequence of its NHS “deal” with Trump are going to be women…?

Funny given the Guardian have happily played their part laying the groundwork for this by supporting the idea that the ECHR shouldn't apply to trans people. The ECHR should apply to all or it's meaningless. "Narrowing it's purview" is just a fancy way of saying eroding it.

I almost prefer the brazen openness of the bigots in the US. I simply cannot listen to Bridget Philipson say "trans exclusion is good for trans people", or Labour politicians in general pretending this was done for some common good. You're all transphobic bigots like Trump, own it.

The Guardian cheered on Starmer and Trump's greed and bigotry when they were attacking healthcare for trans women and girls. Look at the Guardian panic when the corruption impacts them too!!

There's a special place in Hell for the person who created the "sex and gender are different things!" talking point. I've hated it for as long as I've heard it. It's trash.

A story of institutional failure.

Nice article about one of our fantastic councillors.

The Supreme Court’s Trans Athlete Ruling Is a Threat to Gender Equality Justice Brett Kavanaugh is “not only creating a bad precedent for trans people, he’s significantly lowering the protection all women get.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Access to nature and wildlife is so important. Both for mental health, and I believe so as to really instil in people why our natural environment is so in need of protection. To borrow a phrase, nature should be a common treasury for all. But will that comes ths responsibility to take care of it.

This is such an important point.

Why does this not surprise me?

This is really important reading. The Bayswater Support Group are often touted as protecting children, when in reality, like all anti-trans organisations, they are just hate groups. What these people are doing is child abuse, in the name of a bigoted ideology espoused some truly awful parents.

My god, they aren't targeting trans people just to get at other people. They are targeting trans people to target trans people. And they are targeting other people. We don't just exist as a warning for the rest of you, fuck me.

The UKSC ruling that stripped trans people of legal rights STINKS of corruption. A religious judge and a rotten EHRC loaded with terfs usurping Parliament. Baroness Hale says the outcome would have been different if she had sat at the FWS appeal. @goodlawproject.org @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social

As someone who has spent quite a bit of my life studying the Second World War, including at University level. The more I learn the more baffled I am at the sheer ineptitude of Nazi Germany. It's almost as though each level deeper you go exposes new incompetence.

National reviews of healthcare for trans children have been conducted by Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Japan, Holland and the state of Utah. None of them have concluded that gender-affirming healthcare should be banned. Cass is a total outlier.

The transphobic hate on TalkTV is dangerous, misinformed, and completely breaches the broadcasting code. But Ofcom has done nothing. So we’re taking Ofcom to court to force them to do their job. Back the legal challenge here: https://goodlaw.social/0r9k

Reducing traffic reduces crime: see new study from Leeds. www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

This is deeply concerning. Kangaroo courts, which will of course be dominated by the worst most biased people. The UK is increasingly an undemocratic, anti-human rights, rogue state.

Two of the MPs taking part (Steve Race and Lillian Jones) have not signed EDM 240, despite not holding any ministerial positions, so free to do so.

•Red tape undermining trade with EU; •poor trade deals enabling cheap Australian imports; •decreasing & poorly devised (Gove) subsidies for uk farmers.. Brexit is destroying British farms & making home grown food an expensive luxury. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

PSA From the EHRC transphobic “guidance”.

Just perfect

There's no ostensible motive of "protecting women's spaces" here. There's no real connection at all, except that both involve hostility to people being trans. Because that's all it's about, everything else is disingenuously back-formed to justify the prejudice.

Just as we knew it would, the London-wide Ulez has delivered cleaner air across the capital, saving lives and improving the health of millions of Londoners. Its success is a testament to the many campaigners who pushed for the Mayor to act so that Londoners can trust the air they breathe. 🧵 1/3

The history of the EHRC is one of being retooled for each new "culture war." www.theguardian.com/society/2021...

TUC LGBT+ Conference 2026 saw Emergency Motion 1 on the EHRC code of practice passed and chosen by conference to be the motion to go to TUC Congress 2026. Importantly it calls for law change. As a @ucu.org.uk delegate powerfully said: 'No more protecting the dolls. Empower us'. [1/n]

One of the groups most likely to be made homeless is young trans people. In most cases this is because their parents are transphobic bigots.

Civil servants can't attend pride, nurses can't wear a Palestine badge, but Hillary Cass can speak at Jordan Peterson's conference 👍