We’ve today formally written to multiple public bodies about BBC reporting on transgender people. Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6

Trans rights are WOMEN’S rights! When they come for trans rights, women’s rights are diminished also! We need to remember how powerful unity is. “Inclusive, intersectional feminism is a threat to the powerful; that’s why it’s worth spending so much to try to destroy it” @jennykermode.bsky.social

Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.

This is Trans Mission. A Solidarity Concert for one night only, raising vital funds for Good Law Project and Not a Phase 💓 Get your tickets here 👉 https://www.transmissionlive.uk/

Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.

“Levy fails to tackle the most fundamental problems with the gender clinic system: gatekeeping, pathologisation, and dehumanisation, which all harm patients while also wasting clinical time and resources.” Transition care should be based on informed consent. We need to end transphobic gatekeeping.

Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there. Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.

Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language

Trans Secret Santa UK delivered a record-breaking 900 gift packages to trans and gender diverse youth over the weekend.

Levy Review: A scathing audit of NHS Trans+ healthcare that isn’t radical enough to fix the problems 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/levy-review-...

QueerAF asked me what I thought about the Levy Review.

Third Sector Against Transphobia has launched an open letter in support of trans people and requesting improved guidance and support from the Charity Commission for charities attacked by ‘gender critical’ transphobes ‘lawfare’ Sign here 👉 www.thirdsectoragainsttransphobia.org

As well as discrimination in general healthcare, years long waiting lists for gender-affirming healthcare are ruining trans people’s lives. We urgently need increased funding for gender-affirming healthcare, improved training for GPs, and to co-produce services with trans patients.

You can see the same "seething, obsessive hatred" in the UK Transphobic lobbyists attempting to remove all healthcare. They weren't satisfied with the closure of youth gender services, they want Trans people out of every aspect of public life.

“Dr. Laura Marshal Mattthews has quickly become a vital ally to our community, stepping in to protect our children by taking on prescribing responsibilities and bravely standing her ground against the ICB [NHS Sussex].” northwestbylines.co.uk/news/equalit...

Trans Safety Network are concerned to see that NHS England have committed to expanding the role of the National Research Oversight Board for Children and Young People’s Gender Services to cover audit and research for adult patients too.

In light of the Levy Review potentially giving transphobes oversight of medical research on trans healthcare, Trans Safety Network recommend English trans people OPT OUT of their healthcare data being used in research. Information on how to do this can be found in the quoted post and thread.

A lot has happened recently with the EHRC's bathroom ban. We've updated our MP email template with @transactualuk.bsky.social. Give your political representatives the gift of democratic engagement this Christmas 🎁 actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

Reminder that the new head of the EHRC, Mary-Anne Stephenson, donated to Bailey's crowdfunder. In any just society, this should lead to humiliation, apology and resignation.

A compelling read in the Scotsman today from Vic at Scottish Trans. We really are in a mess. It's important that trans people are provided clarity amidst the many rulings, (lack of) guidance and media narrative which have muddied the waters. (link below)

“Recent decisions have shown that people and organisations can be inclusive and the Court of Appeal has said that pro-trans beliefs are protected. This pattern should give organisations the confidence to stand up to anti-trans bullies.” https://goodlaw.social/p01y

The BMA has published an updated policy position on the rights of transgender and non-binary people in healthcare settings. www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...

Just in case there was any doubt about Mary-Ann Stephenson being both biased (so unqualified to Chair the EHRC) and out of her depth here she hangs her hat on the hideous guidance drawn up by her predecessor - without waiting for the results of the High Court challenge which may find it unlawful.

One of the best photos I've taken. It was in the middle of London trans pride, and someone set off this fantastic smoke bomb that just made the colours in this photo look absolutely perfect.

I cannot see the slightest justification for allowing anti-trans hate group ‘Sex matters’ to comment on this story. If you agree with me, a complaint to the BBC only takes a few moments. www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

Ew: "Biopsychosocial & complexity assessment should lead to a holistic, individualised formulation for each patient. This formulation should include an understanding of how gender dysphoria has arisen; complexity assessment should not simply be confined to the identification of additional conditions

Okay I found it, buried deep: the RIS is in this document, pg33 of the PDF www.health.govt.nz/system/files...

Alice Sullivan tells universities to suppress pro-trans research to protect GC staff. However, HER OWN DATA shows pro-trans research is already more suppressed. When I told the BBC this, they edited out any reference to the data. They have now corrected the record. www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedb...

At its heart, it maintains & reinforces a system built on clinical control of and power over trans communities. There is no effort to improve accountability. No recognition of institutional transphobia. No recognition of clinical violence. Trans community voices are not centred in service design

They are manipulating (crappy) diagnoses to keep everyone defined under mental illness. In Levy 'Gender Incongruence', the less pathologising WHO diagnosis is equated to 'being trans', while 'Gender Dysphoria' the DSM psychiatric disorder is defined as being distressed enough to need medical care.

What the consistent approach to Multi-disciplinary teams and comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment will look like. I've written here about how these terms are used to enable harmful practice in children's services growinguptransgender.com/2025/12/06/r...

It is a sign of how fundamentally abused and traumatised trans communities are in the UK that many folks are responding to Levy with relief and cautious welcome. It could have been a lot worse. But it fundamentally fails to deliver meaningful improvements to trans healthcare. 1/4

@mcbride.house.gov is right. It’s hard enough being a kid — and politicians don’t need to make it harder. Thank you, Congresswoman, for speaking out against the cruel Republican attacks on health care for trans youth.

Also pissed off at Steeting going off on "biological sex is immutable for screening and healthcare" in parliament, if ignoring that we very much should be treated according to our current anatomy and hormones, and that treating us as our birth assigned sex will cause serious healthcare failures.

I have taken some leave to have a break and visit my friends and comrades attending LGBT+ Conference in Edinburgh. Whilst I am here I attended the Trans Day of Remembrance vigil at Edinburgh Uni. 1/2 🧵

Andrea being absolutely solid on trans people, calling the SC ruling on the day it was published and all round a good egg. So fucking happy to see this.

It seems that the terfs are outnumbering TKDB. If you're around London and available, please come down and support them if you can.

Reversible pubertal suppression is prescribed as standard for cis kids before the age of 8 in girls or 9 in boys. It is only when prescribed for trans adolescents that anti trans politicians have a problem. This is because they are driven by prejudice & ideology not evidence based medicine.

Trans Kids Deserve Better are outside DHSC protesting the puberty blocker ban

BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:

Fun fact, Kenwood Ladies' Pond and its actual members voted to allow trans women to use that space Sex Matters, who don't use that space, took issue with that. Nothing says feminism by telling women you know what they want more than they do

I spoke to Novara about the campaign by anti-trans groups to pretend the law now requires a bathroom ban novaramedia.com/2025/12/16/a...

Absolutely thrilled that @mimmymum.bsky.social managed a shout-out for @nionwomen.bsky.social at the live recording of the incredible @theguiltyfeminist.bsky.social podcast. If that doesn’t persuade you to sign our letter, I don’t know what will! Find us here: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

The Guardian is not an impartial source, and not a charity. You should not be giving your money to them. Give money to literally any random trans person instead. www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrud...

So much of the commentary on the FWS judgment has been driven by reflexive responses to the outcome, but there are so many gaps and leaps in its reasoning that it will spawn litigation for years to come - @aoifemod.bsky.social and I flag some failings in judge craft: nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...

Thank you to every single person who supported Trans Secret Santa UK ⛄ We have broken our previous records, sending festive gifts to the nearly 900 young trans+ people who signed up for 2025 🎁 It's been a horrible year, and it's a privilege to bring some joy 🎄 www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-secret...

Pleased to be interviewed for this much needed piece on the rising transphobia in higher education. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s... (Archive link: archive.is/oYqXS)

We will be reporting on this protest today. This protest has been organised by Norwich Trans Pride following a recent ban on trans women joining the Women's Institute and Girlguiding.

Mary-Ann Stephenson assumes - either from ignorance or malice - that trans people have no legal rights as trans. That is deeply troubling from someone holding her role - although hardly surprising given her history. Awful - and hopelessly out of her depth (just as two Select Committees concluded).