Shot, chaser. FOI via @tacc.org.uk

this is a rollicking great read it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material. You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system. It’s a feature. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

Christ this made me cry

“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome

Really hated functional pockets

Are the telegraph really splashing on something that happened and was reported over a month ago? Yesterday’s news tomorrow

Our initial summary of the Levy review 👇

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You need to read this

Wonder what changed in 7 months!

The Record was also one of the papers slapped down for their shameful splash on a scientist gored by a stag. I was tasked with finding an expert to say it was because the animal could tell the real gender and attacked accordingly. Nobody would say that. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

Pleased to say Trans Britain is now back in stock at Amazon, although my new publisher seems to still be struggling to get the Kindle edition back up. Having a publisher go bust certainly makes a lot of work to repair. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trans-Britain-Christine-Burns/dp/1783528443

Given that the age restricted sale of alcohol is actually very rigorously policed through ID checks based on appearance - what’s the challenge 25 equivalent for gender policing? Challenge 1.5 (metres tall)?

Is there really no low to which GCs won’t stoop? This is horrifying and I hope book throwing happens

Re gender segregating the scouts to own the transes

It was only 12 years ago that the coroner at Lucy Meadows' inquest blamed the media for playing a part in her death, hounding her for daring to be a trans woman who was also a teacher. Making trans lives unliveable - making us unhirable - is recent history. www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/...

Honestly not sure I even want them on our side at this point. Is it better to have doomed opposition or doomed allyship? 😭

Grim

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incredible quote lol

This is not true, journalists addressing judges over media applications for information / over reporting restrictions / etc is quite commonplace. Not saying this is all sunshine and daisies, far from it, but this process is routine

when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

UK’s human rights watchdog accused of ‘bullying’ government over trans single-sex spaces guidance https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/17/ehrc-trans-single-sex-code-of-practice-supreme-court/?utm_content=1760706040&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

It’s not normal civil service behaviour to take public pot shots at ministers like this. The EHRC’s given up pretending it’s not an anti-trans activist group

224 years!

NEW: This is a story I worked really hard on. I spoke to four American trans people about why they're claiming asylum in Canada or the Netherlands. It's an eye-opening window into just how unsafe people now feel here — and what drove them to that point. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Govt have total control over what happens next. They can require the EHRC produce a code that is compliant with the Human Rights Act and the public sector equality duty. They also have a range of legislative options open. If they choose not to act, they are responsible for every bit of harm.

The Supreme Court judgement says 'trans people's rights should not be affected'. The Government will *try to say 'responsibility for codes of practice lies with the EHRC'. In the meantime, the draft code continues to mandate an unprecedented regime of trans+ exclusion and segregation.

As EHRC leaks a final draft Code of Practice to the Equality Act to the Times then delivers it to govt and attempts to wash its hands of the impact on trans people, its important to recognise and call out the shell game we're in. EHRC will say 'we're just following the Supreme Court judgement' 1/3

Rather than signal boosting this bruised thumb of a human, I'll share Sarah Ahmed: Whenever people keep being given a platform to say they have no platform, or whenever people speak ... about being silenced, you not only have a performative contradiction; you are witnessing a mechanism of power"

I think it's really worth shouting out that the first 2 people to withdraw were black debut authors (Mae Diansangu followed by Jason Okundaye). They both had some of the most to lose by doing so before others did, and yet they did anyway. I'm grateful to all who withdrew, but to them especially.

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What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest

Look, it's very simple, 15 years ago, the UK passed legislation that meant you had to carry your birth certificate to use a toilet. This was to prevent trans people from using them, unless they have their cert modified by a GRC, in which case the Toilet Bouncer becomes a character in a logic puzzle

The EHRC is not changing course on their bathroom ban. They don’t care what the consultation said. So what happens now? 🧵 archive.ph/inGpF

It is a horrible day in Britain and you are a lovely trans person

At this point I just assume that the point of this is to ensure someone gets badly hurt or worse, because there really is no way to dress this shit up as Very Real Concerns.

This is a blisteringly good piece of writing

The EHRC say they are still on track to rush through 50,000+ consultation responses and finalise their proposed code by the end of August. After that, it looks like we won’t get to see it until it’s been approved by the government and on track to become statutory 😬😬

🚨 Important 🚨 The EHRC *did not* say that the guidance is being sent in December. They said that they would send it to the Minister by the end of August. I have checked both my own notes, my colleague's transcript, and Tribunal Tweets. I'm not sure of the source of the December claim.

The trans rights stitch-up: How the government plans to silence parliamentary debate on the most far-reaching restriction of minority rights in our lifetime open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to conclude that the ceaseless bullying and mockery of witnesses in this tribunal by the press, politicians and lobby groups has scared witnesses who may otherwise have come forward from doing so. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Horrifying

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