Nobody deserves to have their car firebombed for putting their head above the parapet and getting stuck in with activism in their communities. The point of democracy is that we can disagree, but we don't settle disagreements with arson or violence, but at the ballot box, or in political chambers.

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

Earlier this evening I visited the ONE Centre in Gateshead to speak to OUT North East and also did some t-shirt making with Gateshead Libraries.

Segregation? Thoughts and prayers. Wonder if this would be the party line taken during the times of the Civil Rights movement.

We are writing to our leadership and elected representatives to express our utmost disappointment following the lack of Green voices during the Parliamentary debate on the Code of Practice, and we will be asking for urgent clarification on why this was the case.

It irks me so much when people try to say Labour are progressive, because they're not. No progressive party would throw trans people to the wolves. I'd say it's impressive how quick they were to do that if I didn't have to deal with the aftermath.

I would suggest that those who support trans inclusion in the WI (presently closed to new trans members) and guides (where trans guides are due to be excluded in September) have an urgent discussion with the relevant organisations.

Ten years ago the UK government issued a travel advisory for LGBTQIA+ individuals about risks of going to the US partly because of trans bathroom bans. Now we have those bans in UK. This is what I mean by Labour being worse on trans rights than the previous government.

Now they have removed us from shared gendered facilities, they now turn their attention to single occupancy facilities. They don't want "safety", they don't have "concerns". They want to see trans people unable to travel far from their home, because that's the only space they can use.

EHRC acknowledges there is no UK document that can prove someone's "biological sex", so in practice people have to ask and hope. Now, the government is requiring employers to base gender pay gap reporting on this shaky data. This is not a win for femimism.

"The Labour government has made a choice, one rooted in the patriarchy, to further police women’s bodies and exclude people who do not conform to arbitrary standards of femininity. We reject their Code of Practice and the colonial, misogynistic, sexist, and transphobic assumptions they employ" 1.

"The Greens should stand aside for Burnham, he will bring Labour back to its progressive roots and stop a Reform government!" Does anyone who said the above to me like to explain this? No takers? Weird. Does anyone else hear a bus?

"Call it out. Tell your friends. Write to your MPs and councillors. There will be protests – join them, we are going to." Our statement on the latest EHRC Code of Practice. lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

I think one of the things that angers me the most about the Code of Practice is the part about sports. It says that it should be based on "biological sex", but also that decisions should be based on evidene. It's a solution looking for a problem, or a conclusion looking for evidence.

I am aware with the EHRC Statutory Code of Practice out, people will be looking to @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk to respond. We are working on our response, and I feel it's important that we get it right and attack every angle that we can!

Are any Labour MPs going to stand up for Iris Duane or Q Manivannan - or are there going to sit on their hands and let their colleagues just engage in transphobic bullying without challenge?!

*laughs in @proton.me*

UK: "So long as it's not a trans teen, we're all fine with it - do whatever you like."

look, do I trust the stripped blairite carcass of the labour party? no. but do I trust the well meaning soft left entrails that remain? no. but do I trust andy burnham? no

being trans is wonderful, being trans in late-stage capitalism in a country run by fascist bigots is not

This International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, we celebrate our recently elected LGBTIQA+ councillors. lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/17/t...

there is obviously a problem of Black and brown trans people murders being ignored but that isn't from trans people, it is from cis society which ignores all transphobic violence. Please let us mourn Juniper in peace without starting 2015 Twitter-era discourse which never has helped anyone.

Aside from which, it's literally the very position that the court rejected.

Today I got to meet the council officers in the Civic Centre and got to understand what they do, so that I can do my best work as a councillor. It was a little difficult as I was a little under the weather, either with hayfever or a cold, but nice to get to meet people!

Yesterday I got IT training and got my councillor IT. It also means I have access now to my councillor email. Over the coming days, I'm going to be reaching out to businesses and charities, and answering any resident queries. We still have some more training to do, so please be patient with us!

The right wing getting mad at a trans woman with whimsy, then auditing her sex life, really hammers home that they must think trans women are women. The sheer fucking audacity.

Every child should be able to play football without worrying about how they look www.wearequeeraf.com/every-child-...

Got home and decompressing after an eventful week. So excited to see what good Cllr Cabral, Cllr Gorman and I can do for the people of Bridges. It's going to be tough being on a Reform-majority council, but I hope that our presence in the council chamber holds power to account.

I won. I am Cllr Melissa Harker, councillor in Bridges, Gateshead. 👀

Standing outside in the sun is surprisingly tiring. Lots of great discussions with voters today and lots of amazing moments I'm sure to cherish regardless of the result today. Let's hope our work pays off, and we turn our small part of Gateshead green.

I now understand what scraping the bottom of a barrel so much it actually creates a hole in said barrel looks like.

Another day, another national newspaper publishing a cartoon with Zack Polanski with a massive hook nose. Another day of silence from mainstream politicians self-proclaimed great antisemitism fighters on the antisemitism faced by Zack. Solidarity with Zack and ALL the victims of antisemitism.

As far as I can tell the Arts Council does not have an X account, although Number 10 Downing Street does.

If you made more noise about Polanski than Farage you're the problem - you. The struggle of Jewish people for safety and dignity is absolutely not helped by them being instrumentalised by our unscrupulous media.

If you don’t see what’s happening here, if you still think there is zero media bias against the Left, and no smear campaign going on against the Greens, you are completely deluded. The man arrested was a Reform voter.😡

I received this today from the postman. I appreciate Royal Mail work hard and do their best to deliver things within expected timescales, but damn. I am having flashbacks to losing my appointment because the post arrived two weeks late again. (This is just the letter to say I am on a waiting list.)

He thinks he's "not intervening in politics"? He's publicly wagging the finger at @zackpolanski.bsky.social while his police force replies all nicey-nice to a Tommy Robinson tweet. This is a classic example of intervention in politics, and during purdah too. Inexcusable.

Won't show teeth at racism. Won't show teeth at homophobia. Wont show teeth at transphobia. Shows teeth at @zackpolanski.bsky.social, who questions whether police should be kicking someone's head repeatedly. Rowley acts like he attacked the officers, and not their actions. Says it all, really.

I care about all human lives - but it seems like others only value some.

Guys my trans kids book is someone’s bedtime story 🥹🥹🥹

Multiple UK universities took down their policies relating to trans inclusion after the OfS's unprecedented fine of Sussex over its wholly anodyne approach to discouraging transphobia. Today is a very good day to demand to know when those policies will be going back up.

It's been appalling seeing the attacks on @greenpartyhan.bsky.social after what she said about MPs in Parliament drinking on the job. The counter-attacks about our stance on legalising drugs are absurd: we'd be similarly appalled by MPs voting while impaired by drugs, too.

BP has more than doubled its profits as a result of the Iran war. Those already struggling with the cost of living are paying the price for Trump's warmongering while oil giants rake in even more cash. Now is the time for a permanent windfall tax and rapid shift to renewables.

The absolute irony of the ADF suing parkrun being called "Alliance Defending Freedom" when their intention is to remove the freedoms of trans people to engage in parkrun in their gender, just because they weren't born that gender.

I’m pleased. (Also, I’m sure there is not-very-legal legal advice that spending £1,080,000 on facility upgrades effectively dismisses any legal challenge.)

Cis people: just nip over to your GP to feel a little perkier by taking some T. Trans people: just spend 5 years on a waiting list, go through a few psychiatric assessments, and if you survive that then you might get a prescription for exactly the same HRT.