The only problem with people working illegally in the UK is that them working is deemed illegal

There is, btw, absolutely no evidence of large scale fraud wrt PIP. It's already so unnecessarily difficult to get that I know multiple people with actual trauma in relation to the assessment process.

The far right turnout today is much smaller than the number of people who came to protest at London Trans Pride this year, but the far right will of course get infinitely more press coverage.

The adultifying & sexualisation of children because they are Trans is deeply disturbing & harmful. This article is talking about discriminating against 12 and 13 year old girls simply because they are Trans.

As a gauge of how tired I am, I just searched 'trans' in my email and was surprised when that did not in fact immediately locate my transpennine express booking confirmation given the rest of my inbox.

I am exhausted to levels of my being that I didn't know existed at this point.

I talk a lot about ways the PhD and my life are inseparable but unexpectedly working from a hospital wait room after my partner got offered a cancellation slot for a test with an hours notice but the number to call back didn't work! And no one picked up when transferred from the switchboard!

You tick a box that says "male" the app will assume you don't have breasts. You tick the box that says "female" it will assume you don't have testicles. Many trans women, of course, have both.

I do not think that a good health triage system would ignore that some of us are trans. I think it's important that the question gets asked in a way that is sensitive enough that trans people won't just immediately reject it, avoid healthcare, or cover up trans status.

Commissioning an organisation who already thinks this about their tool to review whether their tool works is certainly a choice.

Studying systemic harms that affect you is weird. I can stand there and tell you many details about the rock, I can thoroughly analyse the hard place - I can even tell you what machinery would get folk free. But ultimately I am still stuck between a rock and hard place without any tools.

This is what British “gender criticals” want too. No NHS gender care, at all. No ability to change gender markers. Access to HRT, even privately, criminalised. “Dignity and respect” as they segregate, dehumanise and criminalise.

A new report from TransActual shows that trans and cisgender people face job loss, violence, vigilantism and wholesale exclusion following the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC guidance. Read the report at: tinyurl.com/trans-segreg... #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #EqualityAct #EHRC #TransRights

[CN: transphobia, transmisogyny, sexual harassment] Unworkable rules and impossible situations are the point. They want to make our lives unliveable. transactual.org.uk/impacts-of-t...

As someone on my third financially unadvantageous degree, I am once again asking politicians to consider there might be something valuable going on in universities that isn't just making money

Autistic students takes university to OIA independent body to complain they punished them for sounding like a AI.... And wins. Take note #Universities. The checkers are bias. ⬇️

Reading studies on women's health that speak to both patients and professionals is wild because you read 20 pages of women explaining that they are worried about engaging with doctors because they think they will judge and belittle them followed by 20 pages of doctors doing exactly that.

"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others"

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

Is is surprising that gender nonconforming women are being negatively affected by the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act? No Is it surprising that we are trying to talk about this while brushing over the impact on and targeting of trans women? Sadly also no.

Cos it's not being talked about to point out our shared struggles and interests (which are very real) but to go "See, this is hurting *real* women too!" without ever challenging the assumption that this would be an okay thing to do to trans women if you had perfect tranny-dar.

I'm not against raising the negative downstream effects of transmisogyny on other GNC women as a point for solidarity, but it's just very noticeable when you write an article about women being hassled in public toilets for their appearance without quoting a single trans woman.

"Transmisogyny hurts men, transmisogyny hurts cis women" It'd be nice if it were considered bad enough that it hurts trans women tbh.

Slept for three hours last night - things are going great here.

We should remember that when asked about Protocol 12 of the EHRC (general prohibition on discrimation) as candidate to lead the UKs equality and human rights regulator(!!!) her response was "I'm not across the full details of Protocol 12"

If the government really want to make people's mental health better, they could start by making things less shit.

One of the challenges of coming to public health from disability studies is having a very different ethical position to the discipline at large. One of the little mottos among my professional friendship group is Less Health, More Care. I think the world would be a better place if we embraced that

Sometimes studying public health is just uncovering new horrors that we decide to do to women and trans people in the name of healthcare and wondering if I'm living on a different planet to people suggesting/implementing these policies.

transsafety.network/posts/my-par... @sasha98.bsky.social and Valeria Rocca spoke to several children of Bayswater members who highlighted the harm the group do to young trans people and the gateway into broader far-right politics that they provide. Content warning: discusses conversion abuse

This is rough reading but very worthwhile reading

Buried at the bottom of this: they decided to implement this change before all their buildings have unisex provision. So in other words some trans staff and students will have to go outside* in order to use a toilet according to this policy. *and into another building

It is important to be impartial on whether people should have rights - Britain in 2025

God it all feels very hopeless today

I think there's something really sinister in how trans people are increasingly portrayed as a belief group/pseudo-religon rather than a group with shared material conditions. I'm sure someone has written about this but I can't place who right now

...depressed and bullied gay kids that it was okay to be gay. In the same way sections 69-72 of the new DoE guidance make clear that children shouldn't be encouraged to question their gender or to believe that gender identity exists, meaning that trans kids will find teachers can't support them.

If your hot take is that the department of education guidance "doesn't ban" teaching kids they can be trans like section 28 banned teaching kids about gay and lesbian people, you need to be reminded that S28 only banned "promotion" of homosexuality, but the effect was that no-one could say to ...

Labour's new Section 28. We will fight and win as we did once before. But never let them forget what they have done.

I was in Court with Good Law Project today. This is such an important case, and we couldn't do it without your support.

A much needed fight on a human right that is well established (internationally). We can't do in-practice compulsory sterilisation by the back door. The GRC Panel exert, quite frankly, bizarre ideas about what it means to 'live as a man' or 'live as a woman'.

The patterns in who responded to the survey for the Sullivan review pt.2 (and how) are interesting, and perhaps tell us interesting things about how the survey method did or didn't work. Wondering about putting some thoughts into a blog post...

Oh this is funny from Spiked. Tell me you don't know mining history without telling me you don't know mining history.

also just on a very basic level, the research described here has literally nothing to do with 'biological sex' and everything to do with social constructions of gender? the literal point of the paper was that it was the domestic treatment of girls vs. boys that led to girls having worse symptoms?

Mary-Ann Stevenson, candidate to be chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission not being aware of the full details of protocol 12 of ECHR is honestly baffling

Thirteen year old, freshly out me couldn't've conceptualised that I would one day be contemplating 'legal sexual orientation'. Sixteen to eighteen year old me couldn't've conceptualised that debating people's sexual orientation would have moved from tumblr to the courts and EHRC consultation.

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- If you need quiet space at any point during the protest, Liverpool Central Library on William Brown Street (L3 8EW) is 500m from the station and will be open - This is a busy city centre location, feel free to bring ear defenders, noise cancelling headphones or any other accessibility devices

Access info: - There are steps at the front of the station with level access routes to the right hand side and a lift from pavement level at the front - There are multiple accessible toilets inside Lime Street Station

Join Merseyside DPAC and Merseyside Crips Against Cuts in a protest against the government's planned cuts to disability benefits that will push more disabled people into poverty ⏰ Tuesday 1st of July, 4pm 📍 at the front of Lime Street Station L3 5QB

Hearing secondhand accounts from staffers saying this is the largest mass lobby they have seen in parliament

"Normally such lobbies take place in the central lobby between the Commons and Lords, but due to the size of Wednesday’s event it was moved to Westminster Hall, with desks set up for people to say which MP they wanted to see, and a PA system for parliamentary staff to announce MPs’ arrivals."