What's the point of a state watchdog if it simply serves as a government poodle? And why continue with an equalities quango if it ignores marginalised groups while driving open toxic divisions? My @theipaper.com column on the floundering Equality & Human Rights Commission inews.co.uk/opinion/an-a...

I have a visceral and almost physical reaction to hearing this phrase now.

This amazing website has just been brought to my attention! Trans Fitness has the most ENORMOUS list of UK trans social and support organisations, from addiction services to sports clubs, from hairdressers to faith groups.

Thank goodness. For a moment I thought they had forgotten they can legislate. Good job there are no other recent court judgments which might require legislation to fix. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is disgusting

Two governments took The News Agents to secret court for two years via a constitutionally unprecedented superinjunction to stop you from hearing this story. The MoD is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdc6...

Lovely to be at the @rcphysicians.bsky.social Excellence in patient care awards. Delighted our service supporting trans people to continue their gender related care whilst living with cancer has been shortlisted for an award

Do you have a strong editorial and writing background and an excellent understanding of media engagement and press relations? Then we're looking for you! Apply to be our next Head of Content & Editorial 👇 goodlawproject.org/vacancy/head...

The Independent does the right thing...

We're proud to support the Trans Rights Alliance candidates in the LGBT+ Labour elections - at this crucial moment for the trans community, we need strong voices in our Party fighting for our rights. These candidates will do just that 🌹🏳️‍⚧️

My first pride in London!

I have had death threats for my work on trans rights. I have been stalked. I have had people try and have me thrown out of my University. I am by no means alone, and lots of trans-inclusive academics have spoken publicly about the violence and harassment they face. But no mention of that here.

Let me find you a mirror to look into professor Sullivan

Improving palliative and end-of-life care has never been more important. I am thrilled to announce the Impact Centre for Palliative and End-of-Life Care, which will accelerate better care for dying people by closing the gap between evidence and practice. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/half-of...

Only 30% of pall care is NHS funded. Given today's vote, will Keir Starmer at least commit to dramatically increasing palliative care provision so that patients don't "choose" to end their lives because we, society, fail to give them the care that might make life worth living?

I find this utterly abhorrent. If assisted dying is to come into the UK then it must be with the values of care, compassion and empathy, a collective will to make the best of something. Not another vehicle for the capitalism broligarchy to try and make yet more money from vulnerable people

TW: harm to children. My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review. It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban. Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...

there was a new study published *today* in Nature showing that state-level anti-trans laws increase suicide among trans kids up to 72%. when we say that the New York Times (and other rags of equal repute) is killing us, that's because *IT IS LITERALLY KILLING US*

Judgement Day for the EHRC: How the equality watchdog turned into a toxic culture war campaign group iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...

So many congratulations to @doctoroxford.com on your win. A wonderful book and a beautiful person 💙

‘We don’t think the right to privacy (Article 8 ) applies, neither do the supreme court’ Errrr I don’t think the Supreme Court made ANY comment about compliance with the Human Rights Act. This is not a statement of someone who should be involved in ANY kind of equality work

On the @palliativemedj.bsky.social #podcast Victoria Ali @ioelc.bsky.social describes her reseach about nurses' experience when providing care across acts that may be perceived as death hastening. Podcast👇🏾 open.spotify.com/episode/0B9j... Paper 👇🏾 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #hapc

Delighted to be awarded a #NIHR Advanced Fellowship for #PalliativeCare #Research www.sheffield.ac.uk/smph/news/dr... ‪Thanks @nihr.bsky.social‬ & to my mentors @lucyselman.bsky.social @sheilapayne1.bsky.social @flissmurtagh.bsky.social @claregardiner.bsky.social ‪@sheffielduni.bsky.social‬

Croft v Royal Mail 2003 established in law, that has not and cannot be superseded by the Supreme Court ruling, before the GRA existed, that trans people have the right to use gendered facilities once they reach an appropriate point in their transition. Reindorf and co deliberately ignore that.

@pluslibdems.bsky.social could you please ask Christine Jardine to oppose the appointment of yet another openly trans hostile EHRC chair please?

I’m just so tired of this nonsense I’m not even asking for a flag waving ally at this point just someone who isn’t openly hostile would be nice

Mary-Ann Stephenson was very active in feminist politics in Coventry during the 2010s. I can confirm she is extremely transphobic, although she always kept her nastiest comments behind closed doors. This proposed appointment should be resisted in the strongest possible terms.

Tony Blair once again proving that his role in new labour was to provide ‘charisma’ to Gordon Brown’s substance

"You should have AI nurses, AI doctors," says Tony Blair & he could not be more wrong. This is exactly the kind of gushing, uncritical AI hype that has already squandered ££millions of NHS funds on the likes of Babylon (Hancock's fave - soon went bankrupt) &, I kid you not, NHS penguin robots. 1/3

Good to see the BMA standing up for trans and non-binary doctors and patients www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

"If we as individuals and players in health systems, lean into discomfort, & it IS uncomfortable, of being with people we find different to ourselves & put down the pressure to know everything about everyone, we might connect back to our professional & human curiosity?" 👏 @jedjerwood.bsky.social

To mark the 1st day of my 4th year without Alice I have an announcement: I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings. Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️

Jordan Peterson on lasagne

Paid for by ‘ending net zero’ and ‘hotels for asylum seekers’. Stayed with zero challenge from anyone reporting on it. This miserly cruel country is not the one I want to see. That pits children against anyone who is different

Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says

Well goodness. How I wish Lady Hale were still on the court.

**** UK LGBTQ rights crisis update **** United nations involved To join the Trans Exile Network (for those who have left or are leaving the UK due to the crisis) connect with me on linkedin at www.linkedin.com/in/dr-victor... (For trans, NB and Intersex ppl only). www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

The disgraceful EHRC misconduct is now drawing fire from the United Nations. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Correct. 100% endorsement.

Proud to know Jamilla. She is an amazing woman who constantly advocates for minorities to try and improve their care. She articulates may concerns perfectly here (I also lean pro but probably not with this bill) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

🎉 I am thrilled to launch the Dementia Journeys website - a new digital platform sharing powerful stories from carers, & exploring what better end-of-life dementia care looks like based on research from the UCL/KCL EMBED-Care programme 👉 www.dementia-journeys.com #DementiaActionWeek 1/8

This is awful: the whole present UK situation is abusive of everyone's humanity. It will only get more common, especially after the EHRC decision to say it is acceptable to demand proof of sex from anyone, and the Supreme Court decision to apply a visual appearance test to any woman.

Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy. This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.

It is shameful that we as a country have become so obsessed with perceived threats that people who have had cancer are now being challenged for existing. It’s shameful that ANYONE cannot live their life in privacy and peace because of a faux outrage that has been produced.

The level of surveillance and policing demanded by transphobia will always be more disruptive to your life than the rights and demands of trans people ourselves

💥 NEW 💥 Kids Company has won its judicial review against the Charity Commission, with the court finding the regulator’s report was irrational and unfair. This is long-overdue justice for the charity and its founder, Camila Batmanghelidjh. goodlaw.social/vqpw

"The Court's discussion is poorly informed and simplistic... reducing a complex subject to an overly simple one is not what is needed." Supreme Court taking a shoeing from an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Cambridge University. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...