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...

are we doing trans linguistics discourse again tho in 2026

Britain’s air conditioner shortage hits home

uk carbon emissions set to jump as the skycopter HD chases the west coast main line several times a week

just as Downing Street are holding a pride party, a major gender critical group have published their victory lap over successfully forcing trans women into men’s prisons some nerve for a prime minister to hold an lgbt+ garden party while allowing and encouraging this

Codified constitution nerds… It’s finally our moment

mad gender politics 2: electric boogaloo

don’t speak Norwegian but got some of this

think i am broadly ok with this britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

The idea that trans women safely flew under the cultural radar until Visibility Discourse is so aggressively ahistorical. You cannot find a mainstream comedy made before 2010 that doesn't have at least one throwaway transphobic joke. In many cases, it's a running gag or a whole cruel plot point.

BREAKING: Andy Burnham announces the new Chancellor will be the last remaining De'Longhi Pinguino Compact PACES72 Classic Compact Portable 8,300 BTU Air Conditioner for sale in the UK, found in a Curry's that everyone in the town had forgotten exists, who he is making Baron of the Cotswalds.

I remember when I had a great many nuanced thoughts on things other than trans policy and politics. sometimes I still do as a treat but it’s extremely difficult to think other big thoughts when you don’t know where you can safely pee ngl

fantastic, love this timeline www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Usually when the government seeks to prohibit or ban something they treat it like a spell. That’s why they often don’t work. But sometimes the government will self-sabotage a ban by having exceptions so wide so as to render the ban ineffective. Like fox hunting, and now like this.

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This means that the LGBTQ+ children and young people we work with @allsortsyouth.bsky.social , in particular the trans and nonbinary children and young people, will continue to be at acute risk of direct harm *now* with consequences that flow far into their futures. Its just not good enough.

I've spent years working towards a ban on conversion practices, hoping to see a bill published. Today, I just feel so profoundly sad. As many others have noted, the draft has a carve out for "healthcare" so broad it makes a mockery of the idea this is a 'ban'. 1/2 www.gov.uk/government/p...

hello, I have gained some new followers i am some kind of lgbtqia+ policy & stratcomms person i mostly shitpost followed by the most niche policy take you’ve ever seen welcome

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Most maternal safety scandals happen because of toxic cultures in midwifery, where it’s almost always women dismissing other women. Shame to see it oversimplified into a gender war

so: conversion therapy is illegal unless you call yourself a therapist, then it’s fine if you do it well

A staggeringly bad draft bill www.gov.uk/government/p...

obsessed with the new snp mp who signed the ehrc code prayer motion as her first ever act in office chic

fairwell thy shit and useless servant

i saw the blue-haired city-dwelling Green-adjacent trans-lovers perform live the other week

for the proper wonks who want to know why a petition cannot trigger a binding vote either on itself or another motion

I don’t want to dunk on individuals here, but it’s worth being clear from a procedural perspective: Petition debates are symbolic and don’t go to a vote, so this would not disapprove the code - unlike a motion tabled by an MP or lead to that motion being given parliamentary time.

The main FWS precedent is going to continue pinging around the courts system with horrific and at times unpredictable results until we legislate. Even at Strasbourg, winning there just tells government to pass laws remedying the breach.

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bone, chucked

Thinking a lot about how we win back our rights in an environment where there is such anti-trans capture that the understandable response of many to anything helpful is largely ‘too late, fuck em’ How do we keep a thread between trans people & the law and politics while under such sustained attack?

It’s a shame they didn’t just say what is clearly true which is “yes the suffragettes would be proscribed now too” instead of contorting themselves into pretzels

🆕 Alongside colleagues, we have written to the Prime Minister setting out the damage he is doing to our community. We have made clear that this is a political choice. The UK must pick another path, and the responsibility here lies with government. Read more: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/06...

Appointments like this (and EHRC chair) need to be taken away from ministers and given to Parliament. The ideological capture is unreal.

This man was the chair of Ofcom until literally weeks ago!

meanwhile on the other place… This tweet, from a *labour* activist is remarkable in two whole different ways: 1. It suggests violence is a reasonable outcome of using the ‘wrong’ space 2. It misunderstands the fact that the EIA’s ‘risk of violence’ referred to here is *if using birth sex spaces*

Good thing nobody has ever done anything bad on the daytime internet

Also, this sign at Vienna pride which, honestly, fair.

LGBT+ people deserve to be able to live freely and safely. I don't believe the EHRC's guidance is helping to make that possible. My statement on why I've signed EDM 240 to stand up for trans people in my constituency and across the UK.

Correct *ducks, runs*

Ultimate political nerd moment: Noticed an error in Hansard 🤓🧐

MPs are getting really frustrated by the EHRC’s endless insistence that this is the only way forwards 132 signatures now calling to reject the guidance, and creating pressure to fix the legal mess 💕

sometimes you have to hand it to fptp for providing bants results

Reading the PSIRF report about WellBN, and god what a mess. Stopping care the report acknowledges has made these young people’s lives better is awful. They have also, quite clearly, been let down by WellBN too. Shockingly thin documentation for care they must have known would be highly scrutinised

BoE bank notes predictions: 1. Transphobe group will sue Bank of England because the optional demographic questions only ask for "gender" and not "sex" and include non binary as an option. 2. Barn Owl will win, we get a newspaper column declaring this shows the end of woke.

i normally post about lgbt+ rights fuckery but as an erstwhile health policy wonk this made me physically sick yesterday www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

having met the british public: nah

Lots of discussion of this piece, it’s mediocre and circular so I struggle to care about the holdouts when there was actually good pro trans writing the other day, BUT It’s also inaccurate in how selective it is with the facts Do feel free to tell them www.theguardian.com/info/complai...