1/🧵 Sam Carling MP @samcarling.bsky.social (Labour) has made the excellent point. He asked out the minister could explain that the code of practice is at all consistent with the High Court judgment in GLP v EHRC. The minister cannot answer the question. But I can.

NO LABOUR AT PRIDE NO LABOUR IN GOVERNMENT

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Next year, the UK and the @coe.int will host the #IDAHOTForum2027, Europe’s leading annual LGBTI conference. Ongoing threats to the rights and security of trans, non-binary and intersex people raise serious questions in this context.

The UK government has put a revised Code of Practice before parliament, which, if adopted, will intensify the serious regression of basic human rights that trans people are experiencing across the UK, and can similarly affect intersex people.

that’s great, man. that’s wonderful. thanks (Russell T Davies on his new series in the Guardian)

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

Lololol and they'll only get more expensive.

Not a single gender critical person has given pleasure to a woman in living memory (and the quisling gay men are unfuckable losers)

Just under 5 years ago, The Guardian censored these words of non-binary academic Judith Butler arguing that transphobia is fascism. Butler has quite obviously been proved right. A good day to share this widely.

Not a fan of how my eyes turned out this time, but I think the rest of the look is coming together nicely.

Y'all I'm getting married in THREE WEEKS what the hell.

Solidarity forever Solidarity forever Solidarity forever For the union makes us strong

Generative AI has dug its roots deep into Academia, and it's making the entire teaching and learning landscape more difficult for everyone. From lecture planning, take home study, through to assessment, other people's use of AI is making my job more difficult than it was when I started teaching.

So, SexMatters' latest campaign is literally: - Encourage small claims courts if businesses try to stop you manifesting your GC beliefs - Produce a guide to grifting companies out of money if they stop you: - Misgendering - Ranting about provision - Hate speech* against transgender people

I think people forget the “you can’t change your sex” slogan is a newer line of GC rhetoric with only recent purchase. For nearly a century “sex change” was an accepted term, and while deployed clumsily and poorly, it was also understood as a reality the nuances of which were largely irrelevant.

Juliet Jacques on Labour's Section 28: "Civil disobedience and trans organisation will flush this contemptible code down the toilet of history, and we can push for a full inquiry into how the EHRC became captured by transphobic fanatics and ask how we can safeguard such bodies [...] in future."

I'm one of the signatories to this letter. We note that NHS England's ban on hormone therapy by under-18 was proposed: ● without any clear rationale, ● on the basis of a methodologically-flawed process, ● in the absence of peer review, ● and without plans for monitoring impact or mitigating harm

You're telling me they went all the way to Titan SPECIFICALLY to search for life, and they didn't have any protocols to prevent contamination of the biosphere they expected to find there?

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Fuck anyone saying "if this were happening to any other community" when it comes to anti rights backslides and threats to community events. We are all of us facing escalating hate crimes and all of us have been for a long time.

You got friends who are gender critical do u? U also got friends who think being gay is a sin and gay marriage an abomination or is it just bigotry to Those Other Queers you can tolerate

“In real life you sigh and put up with each other” brother gender criticalism overtly believes i am not who i say i am and am a danger to society if i am allowed To Be RTD does not understand gender criticalism does he

Over 80 clinicians, researchers and academics have signed an open letter raising serious concerns about NHS England’s recent evidence reviews of gender affirming hormone treatment for trans youth. Read the full letter here: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/05...

The big discourse on tiktok right now seems to be: #1 cis women getting upset about trans women saying "fish" #2 cis feminists saying "trans people should have rights, but female born people deserve to have specific rights only for them and not for biological males"

"Well, actually, the Knights Moralis are clearly set up to be the true villains, power can't just be concentrated in a privileged few..." *Redditors make brain cancer, nuclear weapons and testicular torsion spells* "OK, maybe the pact IS a good thing."

It really does feel crazy experiencing climate change through extreme weather and have the gov cheerlead massive ai data centres and want to do away with net zero all together

Just started listening to the new book, "If we tolerate this: How the British establishment made the far right respectable" and it opens by reading out the BNP's list of manifesto promises from 2010. All of them are now mainstream.

Trans. Woman. Two words. "trans woman" shows that this is just a kind of woman, like tall, blonde or green-eyed. "Transwoman" has and will be used to say that we are a separate thing from women. Trans women are a kind of woman, pass it on.

pretty much every single one of the founders except for John Adams were the "candles $3600 someone help me my family is starving" meme, but for brandy and slaves

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

I know that they see lying just as a political strategy to get what they want, but it's still crazy to see them do it so brazenly. I remember when "Baroness" Falkner personally emailed me to say she wasn't coming for trans peoples rights. I don't know what the point in that lie was

As we await GANHRI’s accreditation report, we reveal the EHRC’s preposterous response to previous international criticism. tacc.org.uk/2026/05/25/e...

Sonia Sodha's anti trans activity was actively protected at the guardian for years

They're always on the verge of "defeating" trans ideology and us trans people are always still here the next day regardless of anyone's ideology.

Be ready

Update on this: University is investigating how the invitation happened and it's being reviewed by the internal "Freedom of Speech Working Group", organisers are apparently claiming they were unaware of Sullivan's previous work—which I find incredibly hard to believe.

Basically the only way I'm staying cool in this heat at this point...

Fundamentally, it's never about the specifics of minority group x/y/z - it's about abusers and their behaviour You can never placate an abuser 'enough' to make the abuse stop forever - that lie is all part of the abuse. We're divided between the people who understand this and those who refuse to.

Author of this thinks nobody reads Pratchett any more because most of his readers have blocked her.

With the context of transphobes continually misunderstanding Pratchett, it's deeply funny to me that apparently when Equal Rites got serialised on Woman's Hour back in the day, he got a whole pile of fanmail assuming he must be a woman because *only* a woman could write women like that.

Article from a prominent GC campaigner in The Critic today, decrying the guidance for not going far enough: "The only thing that will reverse the state we are in is to overturn the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and remove “Gender Reassignment” as a protected category in the Equality Act."

Full Statement: prideinstem.org/2026/05/26/s...

everyone is making the EHRC stuff sound complicated but it's actually very easy I will either use the women's room like any other woman or you can kick me out and I'll come back with a hammer and noone can use the women's room at all.

Kuvira was actually a perfect final villain for Korra, because not only does she represent the culmination of her and Aang's failures coming home to roost, she's also a total inversion of the villains of season 1-3, as the only one who doesn't try to physically or spiritually violated Korra.

Remember this... Eire has had gender recognition based on self-ID for over 10 years with no reports of abuse or hatred. The gender critical movement in Eire is minuscule. This is a British problem. A very sick, twisted, British cult problem. It is a disturbing European outlier . This is not normal.

After spending the day at a nostalgia fueled pop punk/emo festival, I am now incredibly intrigued by the fashion history of the black and white check pattern that's so popular amongst alt subcultures. Did it start with Vans? Or did they just pick up on something that was already popular?

"Can I just piss?" Taken at Nottingham Against Transphobia's protest against the EHRC guidance, 22nd February 2026 ft. @againsttransphobia.bsky.social

“Providing” me with a separate gender neutral toilet is not respectful or dignified, it is humiliating, degrading, discriminating and denies my very being. I am a woman and forcing me to pretend i’m not for bigotry’s sake is fucking egregious