It feels like I am waiting for many things right now. It is not an enjoyable feeling.

I had an informative chat with Not in Our Name in Parliament about their work to support for the Trans+ community. I have signed their pledge. @nionwomen.bsky.social

Since the #Olympics are on, let's repost a classic thread here: a brief history of the practice of "sex verification" in sport. Content warning: This thread will mention anti-intersex discrimination, FGM practices and body shaming.

Something compelled me to make this

Fight for inclusion in education, sign and share this open letter by @prideineducation.bsky.social openletter.earth/the-urgent-n...

Reform banned journalists they dislike from covering their party conference and then Nigel Farage dissembled about it to Congress, so I think we’ve heard quite enough faux free speech bollocks out of them, tbh.

arguably the biggest news of the week that Lisa Nandy is currently doing something related to her brief

Higher education should be about opportunity, not lifelong debt. A generation starting work today is being weighed down for decades by a system that keeps getting worse. #GenerationDebt #Education.

Student came up to ask me a question after the lecture today. I showed them again how we had derived a certain formula and when the penny dropped, they exclaimed "Oh! That's cool!". It's the small things that I love in this job.

I wouldn't have predicted it would be the WI where cis women would call the GCs' bluff to such effect. It sounds as though branches are in effect seceding, rather than shuttering, so there is room for them to rejoin the WI in future, which is good news. In the meantime, kudos to them👏👏👏👏👏

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars”, “Stat Trek”, “Dr Who” or “Transformers”.

I found it surprising that doing your job so abysmally that Labour are polling at historically low levels two years out from the easiest election win you will ever have *isn't* sufficient for someone to lose their job.

Sisters, am I letting the feminist cause down if a man offers to get my luggage down from the train rack and I am secretly delighted?

She appears to have trained her dog so well that it is, in fact, a cat.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Now we take a Taylor expansion of the function... "

Girl Guiding's leadership have behaved particularly poorly.

I've written a blog aimed at cis ppl, on the recent revelations of rising trans suicide rates since NHS England removed gender affirming care for u18s, in particular about my involvement with trying to seek the truth and the trauma the gaslighting by Appleby, Streeting, Cass and the media causes.

This might sound like hyperbole. It is not. They took a decision they were warned would cause trans kids to die. Trans kids died. They covered that up and attacked those trying to expose their cover up. They deserve to go to prison and nobody will ever be held accountable. It is the UK way.

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We are barely getting started on this. We have lots more to come. Forgive me for the strong language but I remain white hot furious about what Streeting did: I believe he washed his hands in the blood of dead trans children with that Review.

I, for one, welcome our new golden snake overlords with their super-duper tails and war on cars.

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If you haven’t yet added your name, you are very welcome here. This is a way to stand with trans+ people, quietly or proudly, but always together. Thank you for helping us reach 80,000. We’re just getting started. ✍️ Sign and share: notinourname.org.uk #NotInOurName #WithTheT #TransAlly

Son has been sitting for last half hour staring blissfully at his new passport,with correct name and gender. It is so easy to create trans joy and so lovely to be around it. Wish it was policy everywhere- more trans joy! (He also got a UCAS offer he's thrilled about, so A Very Good Day) #speirgorm

Incredible. Fund this science. 😂

So full of admiration for the women who stood firm for inclusion through all this:

It makes me quite emotional hearing about all the wonderful people like Beth who are willing to stand up for us despite all the heat and attacks they receive.

we owe cisgender women like beth. they could just discard us. it would be so easy. but they choose to fight for us instead.

This May, I step down from UCU's NEC as Women's Rep (HE) after six years' service (as is mandatory). I can't think of anyone better to hand the baton to as women's reps than @drgillhistory.bsky.social and Poppy Gerrard-Abbott, both of whom have been fab on our Women Members' Standing Committee. /1

In my 15 minutes, I would take the entire defence budget and give it to the Department for Transport and tell them to get building railways again. I would also ban engineers from using 'j' as the square root of -1. The bloody heathens.

Anything by The Smiths. I cannot stand them.

I need to stop posting in my grumpy Wednesday mood 😂

This is how you fucking do it, EHRC. God I hate those goons.

Irrespective of permission, putting a transphobe on the leaflet isn’t exactly confidence-inspiring.

Eugh, this is one of those news days where I am just done with these effing morons everywhere.

It's genuinely baffling that our national human rights body can - again and again - claim a group of people don't have human rights. And nobody in the media or the Government steps in and says something. Does nobody actually do any thinking any more?!

This is an excellent summary and illustrates how this group has gone too far. It is about time the Charity Commission acted.

The comments on this are just an absolute binfire. It's always the same with transphobia - researchers carry out studies that explicitly tests, finding conclusions that your average idiot doesn't want to be true because it crushes their precious worldview. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

I do not understand why Starmer is not throwing McSweeney under the bus at this point. I don't think it would necessarily save him, but not doing it completely does for him.

If any of this was remotely about evidence there would be no 'this'.

File under "We told you so.".

It was such a pleasure to meet with Claire Harvey, Paralympian and Equality activist about the @nionwomen.bsky.social campaign which she founded along with a broad group of women to support and speak up for the trans community. (And Claire even brought the cake!🍰)

'As the regulator for all higher education providers in England, the outcome of the challenge against the OfS will have far-reaching implications for its ability to enforce freedom of speech and academic freedom at universities.' Abolish the OfS, the metastisising cancer of English HE.

Hands off staff pensions! Say no to fire and rehire! ✊

A catalogue of rural fashion called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Tweeds.

U Glasgow has covered Jay Todd's @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & my critical paper on the 'Sullivan Review' rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Many social scientists whom Jay & I talk to are (still) unaware of the Sullivan Review and its potential implications. Our paper aims to change this