🗓️ Save the date: 9th September. Join us in Parliament, we have to fix the law. Read more: www.transsolidarityalliance.com/post/ehrc-co...

This is actually CRAZY work - we are more anti trans than several countries including the US, which are arguably not even liberal democracies

🧵Aug: the Code of Practice comes into force. Sept: safeguarding and RHSE guidance in English schools. The net result will be pervasive segregation of trans children and young people that cuts across every part of their lives outside of the home. So: I'm asking you to donate to LGBTQ+ youthwork now⬇️

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

Not getting the whole 'Politician consistently voted against abortions and LGBTQ issues but they were *lovely* to their gay friends, of whom they had many' thing.

Tonight @allsortsyouth.bsky.social is running a 💫magical💫 prom for LGBTQ+ young people. Its the prom they deserve. 📣 We are a small community charity, so please consider donating or fundraising for us so we can keep building queer joy allsortsyouth.enthuse.com/profile

I am hoping with every fibre of my being, that the good people pf Clapton do the right thing and vote Binface!

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🧵Yesterday government published a new version of KSCIE - its safeguarding guidance for English schools and colleges. In broad terms, it is trying to make every school and college adopt the practices of the most unsupportive schools (the schools supportive parents avoid!) tinyurl.com/43rmtczm

Sometimes you’re going to lose in the short term, but - with the EHRC code due to pass on Thursday - I don’t think anyone can say we lost quietly 164 MPs praying against government policy is huge, especially for a motion led by a backbencher, and the labour rebellion is dozens and dozens and dozens

In the press and online, trans children are increasingly treated as a "controversial issue" while facing a wave of policy attacks. What can we do to support them? From @nancymk.bsky.social ✍️

Timeline clense: snoozing

The NHS was founded 78 years ago today. It was built after the devastation of the Second World War when the country was bankrupt - but when the people demanded a society built on fairness and dignity for all. Today, we must defend the right to healthcare and rebuild our social security system.

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

This literally makes me want to cry. Im not safe on the roads b/cars treat mobility scooters like shit. Im legally not allowed in bike and bus lanes. And pavements where I live are already like an obstacle course. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Of all the idiotic and irresponsible ideas this government has come up with this must take the cake. A self selecting group of people massively undertrained and under prepared to evaluate what are often nuanced and complex situations for asylum appeals. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

🧵New report from the @childrenscomm.bsky.social shines a bright light on a broken care pathway for children and young people experiencing gender dysphoria. Most get nothing. Only 15% get referred on to the Gender Service, and only 15% assessed / treated for co-occurring mental health need.

Not to labour a point, but this is not a "new scheme", or a "Canada style scheme". It's an existing scheme which has been around for years that Labour are just tweaking, and is designed to take responsibility for supporting people seeking safety away from the state. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is absolutely damning.

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...

We’ve had quite a few abusive and angry emails about this decision. Just to explain it a bit further, this decision was a delicate balance. We knew many people would want to go whatever we said - and would struggle to get refunds on booked travel - when the weather warning was still Amber. …

Important mass lobby update: With a red weather warning in place for the day, it will not go ahead. We are reaching out to participants with further detail and actions, but please do not travel. We are arranging a future date and will update ❤️ www.transsolidarityalliance.com/post/weather...

European “centrists” have promised / threatened us for 30 years that more deportations will appease people to their right. Didn’t work for Obama (massively increased deportations). Didn’t work in Europe. Celebrating, promoting deportations tells people far right are correct.

Happy fathers day to my Dad. I feel so grateful to have known you, and miss you so much ❤️

Literally there are conversion therapy manuals that start with isolating your child from all potential sources of safeguarding and supportive information and cutting them off from unmonitored internet access so they can find the number for ChildLine while you're not watching is right up there.

As a parent (12 yo and 14 yo) my mind is *boggled by this propsed approach to online safety. If I want to turn an app off on my kids phone ... I can. If I want a phone curfew .. I set one (there is one). I can set per app time limits. AND I CAN CANCEL THE DAMN CONTRACT.

My piece for @liberalcurrents.com on how it's political rhetoric and policies stoking division in communities which has led to recent riots, not migrants. Pushing harsher immigration policies, and further undermining people's rights, only fuels the far right. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-violence...

Generative AI *systemically* and *fundamentally* will always tend towards using fossil fuels, for the same reasons Bitcoin miners always have: desperation, impatience, greed and irrationality.

It seems obvious but needs saying that most of Labour's core vote is fundamentally opposed to the far right. Failing to fight back against it rioting on Britain's streets will leave many of those supporters wondering what the point of having a Labour government is.

Musk is pursuing a war against multiracial democracy. Its defenders would be wise to understand that

My maybe not so hot take is that all the blue circles here are still here because they care much more about civil engagement and outreach to people who probably follow active neonazi Catturd than they do about building something different to this.

This mode of white male identity politics often gets conflated with class politics. It happens because signifiers of working-class identity are inherently ambiguous, and underspecified populist discursive categories like "the people" and the "establishment" strategically enable this conflation.

As with a lot of the coverage this week, the media just have a markedly worse attitude towards race than the British public and that disconnect has only gotten worse.

Impractical, intrusive and inhumane - @rachelmillward.bsky.social responds to the ECHR guidance on behalf of Green Party leadership.

On Friday, I wrote and produced QueerAF's newsletter 📰 I examined new Department for Education data on homophobic and transphobic school suspensions in the context of the updated RHSE guidance coming into force in September. Read & subscribe to @wearequeeraf.com 👇

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.

📣Amplify queer joy this pride season! Brighton Queer Prom 2026 is a free event for 16-21 year olds in Sussex, and will be truly 💫MAGICAL💫. Please share with LGBTQ+ young people you know and share for reach (next post for eventbrite). I don't want a single LGBTQ+ young person to miss out!

I notice the Guardian is celebrating the start of Pride season by publishing ... this. (she says, tapping the now *very* worn sign that says "I'm a lesbian, feminist, r*pe survivor AND believe passionately in trans inclusion") www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Great piece by @tabouchadi.bsky.social. There’s a large pool of progressive voters (economically left and socially liberal) in many democracies that the mainstream centre-left are abandoning. Greens and other progressive parties can capture these voters. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My wonderful friend and @transsolidarity.bsky.social colleague Alex talking about the lived reality of trans+ people in the shadow of the new Equality Act CoP www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I don’t think enough cis women appreciate how much all of this noise around ‘bathroom bans’ will affect us. (I also think it’s notable that after a chat between me, a cis woman and Steph, a trans woman, a correspondent text in to ask ‘why wasn’t there a woman in the conversation, for balance?’)

EHRC has provided so much clarity that legal sex varies based on location, employment status in that location, and activity being conducted in that location. Often multiple legal sexes at once!

the anti-trans bathroom ban is very bad—it's also a sign uk democracy is failing my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

Today’s the anniversary of the passing into law of Section 28 in 1988, the first homophobic legislation in a century. Politicians and media said it was our own fault, told us to shut up and give up. We didn’t. Dont you dare give up now on trans people.

When we see cruelty or discrimination we so often want to say "thats not who we are". But thats not true. Take a look at this picture by @ellabaron.bsky.social. This is the UK today. This is exactly who we are. 💔

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

🚨 Last year, 900 of you joined us in Parliament to see your MP. We broke the record for the largest LGBTQ+ mass lobby in British political history. Since then, things have got worse - and the law must change. It's time to break the record again: www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...

What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing.