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A Mere Solicitor

@ameresolicitor.bsky.social

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They / Them Just a lawyer, cross about injustice and the world burning. Typos, terrible jokes, and pointing out the law. Anon as thoughts my own.

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 16d

I’m unfollowing accounts posting Boomer Facebook style “repost if you agree” photos with “inspiring” messages without ALT text especially when they’re AI.

The point of this site is saying things.

Say something cool.

Say something uncool..

Say anything at all…

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 3h

I was not expecting the survival rate.

The outcome?

Prediction confirmed.

Casualty numbers?

Surprised.

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Trans Safety Network @transsafety.network · 7h

Trans Safety Network have written to Healthwatch regarding their concerning recommendations in their trans health report. We fear if this report is not withdrawn, it will lead to significant deterioration in trans people's ability to access NHS care. transsafety.network/posts/danger...

'Dangerous Recommendations': Trans Safety Network write to Healthwatch

Trans Safety Network was shocked by the dangerous recommendations of Healthwatch's recent trans healthcare report. We find it hard to believe that any trans organisations or persons were involved sign...

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 11h

🚨 Hundreds, possibly thousands, of GPs are refusing Trans+ adults their healthcare

We always said the Trans+ Healthcare scandal would get worse

"Given the complexity and unique medical considerations involved in hormone therapy [we're no longer authorising your prescription]" - GP

'I used to pay £200 for trans healthcare - now I pay nearly £2,000'

'I just feel like my GP can, at any given time, ruin my life.'

metro.co.uk

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 8h

Or when they’re embarrassingly bad…

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 8h

One of several moments in this thread where I thought “oh, that? Yep”.

Most of the rest were Government breaches of human rights law rather than relatable thread creep. This is a good explanation of what Labour are doing and why we’re calling them worse than the Tories and well worth reading:

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15h

At this point, okay a number of posts back, I am realising I should have probably written this as a blog post, or possibly a book, but here we are so in for a penny in for a pound, and let's carry on. Thanks for hanging on in there if you have made it this far. 24/

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 11h

The fight against female genital mutilation is being co-opted by anti-trans activists, hindering urgent laws from being passed.

And as the White House and Republicans falsely conflate FGM with gender-affirming care, it’s only getting worse.

New reporting from @jazzmyth.bsky.social and myself

Anti-trans policies aren't preventing genital mutilation — they're disrupting efforts to stop it

The bipartisan movement against female genital mutilation and cutting is being co-opted by anti-trans activists, hindering urgent laws from being passed.

19thnews.org

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 10h

The appeal to disgust in in order to overwhelm empathy and thought is a hallmark of the whole campaign.

Blaming a single person because you don’t like others having human rights is astounding too…

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 13h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 12h

Update: The Information Commissioner's Office has accepted are complaint over the EHRCs blanket refusal of our FOI request.

TACC @tacc.org.uk · Sep 15

Update: the EHRC has completed its internal review and upheld its blanket refusal of our FOI requests under Section 14(1). They admit some requests were “well focussed, purposeful and of public interest,” but still refused them all. 1/

Response letter related to Freedom of Information Act requests. The letter addresses request refusals, resource constraints, and compliance issues. Tone is formal and explanatory.

Text: "Response
I have reviewed our refusal of the requests set out in Annex A of our refusal
notice to determine whether the refusal was appropriate and compliant with
the provisions of the FoIA.
The Commission has disclosed the relevant decision-making document used
to determine our refusal of the requests under a separate FOI request,
reference 12231728, and I have considered the rationale contained within this
document alongside the points raised in your review request as part of my
review.
While I continue to respect your right to request information under the FoIA
and acknowledge that some of your previous requests have been well
focussed, purposeful and attract value on matters of public interest, the
volume, frequency and nature of the requests set out in Annex A of our refusal
notice would place a significant sustained demand on the Commission’s
resources if it were to comply.
We aim to be transparent and helpful in our responses and have endeavoured
to meet our obligations under the FoIA, as evidenced by our continued
compliance with targeted and proportionate requests submitted since our
refusal notice was issued, including the request referenced above (12231728)
and a request concerning workforce diversity and the protected characteristic
of gender reassignment (12045024).
As such, your review request is not upheld, and the Commission maintains its
refusal to comply with the requests set out in Annex A of our refusal notice
under Section 14(1) of the FoIA."

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you because her comments had been really worrying me.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19h

With the EHRC acting like it is. It shows that it is really important to keep trying to get in contact with your MP.

We have seen that this is working.

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 3d

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 15h

Political teams used to playing with a stacked deck get smug and think it’s because they’re personally amazing…

…only to crash an burn without the bias that actually made them a success.

Cameron, Johnson, Starmer…

…EHRC yesterday?

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 16h

Feel like some of the apparent panic from the EHRC would be because they know the only way to push through the trans segregation is by force and not to look into it with due care so the minister seemingly not brute forcing throws their whole scheme off

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 16h

Supporting the transphobic moral panic the ADF funded and nurtured in 🇬🇧 makes you part of this attack on bodily autonomy.

Literally.

You’re part of the problem and have been for years…

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 16h

Right, I have read the three published witness statements closely, and...

...well.

I have spotted some rather interesting points.

I may also have worked out how the CPS thought the evidential test was somehow met at charging stage but not on the eve of prosecution.

Post will be up about 10am.

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 16h

Lucy’s position on trans people has been equivocal.

She’s not actively attacked trans people’s human rights, but I think she could have been a lot clearer.

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Cashman spoke in that Lords debate too and it’s an antidote to some of the toxic transphobia.

Worth looking up.

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 1d

That’s an interesting idea.

I think they’re too smug to care and the international order is falling apart in the face of the rise of fascism.

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 1d

The guidance will be challenged if it’s as transphobic as expected.

The government knows there’s a strong chance they lose domestically and a near certainty they lose at the ECHR.

The “risk of legal challenge” looks like code for “the lawyers told us this is a shitshow”.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

A reminder on International Pronouns Day that I use they/them pronouns :)

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 1d

So this is the noise of a sinking ship?

The new EHRC chair is no less transphobic so the panic is bizarre.

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 1d

“Spiritual Attack” sounds like the cause of death on a Victorian death certificate.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 1d

This took me a solid minute but I agree.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1d

Over 7,000 people have asked Virgin gyms to stop following transphobes, and follow the law.

Will you ask the gyms to stop their changing room and bathroom ban on trans people?

https://action.goodlawproject.org/virgin-active-stop-following-transphobes-follow-the-law

Tell Virgin Active: Stop following transphobes, follow the law

After a legal threat from GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry, Virgin Active turned their back on the trans community and enforced a changing room and bathroom ban on trans people across all their gym...

action.goodlawproject.org

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BooBiscuit 🎃👻 @harpomarxism.bsky.social · 1d

Hey let's try something different today.

Let's start a thread where we shout out a trans person on Bluesky who's inspired you or made a difference in your life.

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