"In a UK survey of over 4,000 trans people, TransActual found that 99% say media coverage has harmed their mental health, 99% have heard politicians express transphobic views, and many have been refused non-transition healthcare simply for being trans." transactual.org.uk/trans-lives-...

She seems fine. I’m glad Labour is fighting this from something closer to the Greens than Reform. She’s still a Labour candidate. People still have lost their trust in Labour. I can’t see why anyone should choose this candidate in Gorton over Hannah Spencer 💚

Labour took votes for granted. They've blown it. Green Party want to lower bills, protect our NHS and rebuild our public services. Vote Green - and stop Reform. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Epstein Files ought to comprise the easiest political case against the billionaire class ever conceived. Any politician who supports policies favouring the ultra-wealthy should never be able to escape this association.

btw i have no idea why ministers are telling starmer to fire streeting but i agree with them. he should never have been given a cabinet position to begin with. he shouldn't be a frontline politician at all.

This is absolutely hilarious. He has abandoned his principles but his voters haven't ... so they're abandoning HIM.

🚨 NEW | Starmer set to lose seat to Greens 🟢 GRN: 32% (+22) 🔴 LAB: 26% (-23) ➡️ REF: 18% (+12) 🔵 CON: 7% (=) 🟠 LD: 5% (=) 🟥 YRP: 2% (-17)* MRP estimate via @ElectCalculus, 1-8 Dec

Decided to write to all the London attractions In a Friend/Member of and ask for assurances they won't treat trans visitors unfavourably in future. Natural History Museum are first to respond

If your employer is struggling to work out how to respond to the awful Supreme Court decision this FAQs document reflects advice we've had from a team including a leading KC. goodlawproject.org/resource/tra...

"So to ensure that everyone feels respected and supported during their visit, we provide gender-neutral, accessible toilets across the Gardens" I'm nonbinary, and I have never felt less respected and supported than when you use gender neutral toilets to segregate binary trans people.

🏳️‍⚧️ "They will not win because, for all these reasons and more, they cannot win. Ultimately, even if everyone else wants to let them, we will not." https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-did-this-supreme-court-ruling-happen-a-brief-history-of-how-great-britain-became-terf-island/

Separate is never equal.

This reads like more evidence that the interim EHRC guidance was drawn up by Kishwer Falkner and cronies, without input from neutral expert staffers. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Now THIS is how you do a response statement.

For cis allies; something you can do to support trans people… A list of suggestions from @annehealthcare.bsky.social

I'm suing the EHRC. “Akua Reindorf KC, was overheard in the Supreme Court building plotting with activists from other hate groups about the next steps to take once the judgment was delivered. This is one of the factual grounds for the challenge.” open.substack.com/pub/ashleeee...

From 3 years ago ...

The Government hasn't forced a longer consultation period on the EHRC to avoid a pre-determined outcome. It's forced a longer consultation period on the EHRC the better to shield Labour politically from the pre-determined outcome.

Very pleased to say, we've at last managed to get up some practical guidance on what the For (Some) Women Scotland decision means. Tl;dr it's absolutely *not* what the bigots in Government or the bigots leading the misnamed EHRC are telling you. goodlaw.social/1c68df

1. The organization TGEU (Transgender Europe) has just released their annual transgender rights map. “For the first time in its 13-year history, setbacks in human rights of trans people now clearly outweigh progress" The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

This is worth noting; the EHRC has form. It has previously produced “guidance” that, like their current“interim” hogwash, was ignored by everyone.

Another day, another needing to say "The young men who buy into Andrew Tate's bullshit are not victims but perpetrators of the rape culture he sells them". I think there's an argument to be made that they are often victims of some kind of fraud/con artistry/grift. But not victims of the misogyny.

I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe. She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today. RIP Elisa.

Until now, the consensus on X has been that it is a necessary evil for anyone in politics. But I know my presence on X no longer benefits my role or the people I seek to serve. So I have left, for good. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

LGBTQ+ people are some of the strongest I know. They aren't 'snowflakes' for asking to be treated with dignity in public life. This LGBT+ history month, I asked for a timeline on: ➡A full trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban ➡making anti-LGBT hate crime an aggravated offence ➡Reforming the GRA

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

Me too. Early on when you don’t know where to turn for support. But most parents do enough research and have their children’s best interests at heart to see through this eventually. It’s just the transphobic ones who stay to listen further. And Wes Streeting 😡

🚨 Revealed: Wes Streeting met with and expressed sympathy for pro-conversion therapy parents group Bayswater Earlier this year, an investigation exposed how the parents in the group conduct abuse towards their children. This is what we've uncovered 🧵👇

An important thread ⬇️ If I’d found Bayswater, I could have been easily drawn in, by its carefully crafted language, which affirms parental desires over those of the child, whilst claiming to have the children’s interests at heart. It’s a support group for transphobic parents. Nothing more. 1/2

The political conditions to erase trans people did not just appear. Social anxieties about transition, fears about “trans predators,” and hostilities towards gender fluidity cultivated a climate that degrades trans life. Transphobia dressed up as “legitimate concern” led us to such violent politics.

A reminder: LGBT folks aren’t an “ideology” or “agenda.” We’re people. Some of us are talented. Some of us are nice. Some of us are weird. Some of us are annoying. Some of us do bad things. But we all deserve to thrive in a society that doesn’t force us to justify our existence or debate our rights.

Five years in prison for nonviolent protest: it’s plain wrong, and Keir Starmer knows it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nazi salutes thrown at an antiabortion event supports my statement of the very obvious fact that the antiabortion movement is a fascist movement uk.news.yahoo.com/wing-catholi...

I urge the UK Labour Govt to remember the foundations of solidarity against all oppression, as epitomised by all the LGBT people who supported the miners in the 1980s. Trans people need that solidarity now. Lift the block on gender recognition reform! www.thenational.scot...

Today marks the start of LGBT+ History Month. LGBTQIA+ rights were won through decades of activism, solidarity & struggle. We must remember this & continue to stand in solidarity with community members. Human rights are non-negotiable. We must not let those who seek to divide & marginalise succeed!

A trusted source tells me the Labour government is quietly working with a handful of handpicked LGB organisations on a so-called "conversion therapy" ban Labour has already shown it’s willing to throw Trans+ people under the bus, and this bill will likely do the same for *all* LGBTIQA+ folk 1/

GP's are getting away with saying they can't prescribe HRT to trans patients because they're not suitably trained. This is blatant discrimination. On the other hand, Cass/Streeting get away with ensuring that trans kids get no medication and neither are trained in that field. Get the picture??

To the “reasonable concerns” wankers who think we should concede to transphobes on sports because it’s “too complicated”, this is what sports bans lead to.

"This government remains steadfast in its dedication to protecting and listening to LGBT+ people. The Secretary of State has taken steps to build bridges with the LGBT+ community and stakeholders " Bollocks is it, and Bollocks has he

Uk government is fully committed to killing trans people. Please keep sharing this petition! 🏳️‍⚧️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

We deny trans people the healthcare they need to transition, and then punish them for not transitioning. If that sounds like the deliberate persecution of a minority it's because it is a deliberate persecution of a minority.

So concerned about women in sport and an entirely made up threat to women in sport that they’ve decided to inspect the genitals of all women in sport

This is going to deter thousands of women and girls from taking part in sport. Far, far in excess of the number of trans women it will affect.

the role of TERFs is to launder transmisogyny with a veneer of progressivism, to provide an easily defensible bailey against trans liberationary arguments. it is not a mass position and 99% of the people using these arguments don't believe them

🎵 Trans+ figures like Wendy Carlos not only defined the genre but were also instrumental in developing the modern synthesizer. Without her, we wouldn't have electronic music like we do today www.wearequeeraf.com/im-so-gratef...

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