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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 13h

Our Judicial Review of the EHRC: we've published our formal written case - together with that of the EHRC and Bridget Phillipson - and they are very much worth a read. goodlaw.social/7gs4

An update in our judicial review of the EHRC’s interim guidance | Good Law Project

We’re publishing key documents in our legal challenge against the interim guidance issued by the EHRC in the wake of the For Women Scotland decision.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 10h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine Labour being the ones to leave the ECHR just because they decided (and it was a decision) to embrace GC ideology lol

I hope every one of them that doesn't jump over to the Greens loses their seats.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 19h

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 9h

Labour is the enemy. The ECHR is doing what it's meant to do.

Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 13h

Fuck off!!!!

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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 15h

🟢 Here's why you should join the Green Party 👇

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 9h

Plus they count as "the left" to idiots, so steal our go at the helm!!

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 9h

true story

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 5d

Significant blow today for Stella O'Malley & her anti-trans advocacy organisation Genspect, as their spurious defamation action against Irish therapist, Leonie O'Dowd, is added to "The Gallery of Shame" by CASE (Campaign Against SLAPPs in Europe.) www.the-case.eu/gallery-of-s...

Gallery of Shame – CASE

www.the-case.eu

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 16h

If the review says anything other than "we are not providing any care for the vast majority of adult trans people", I might actually lose my mind.

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 16h

NHS England will soon be publishing its review of adult gender services. Trans Healthcare Coalition have created a breakdown of what the review is about, what outcomes we’d like to see, and more.

Find the full breakdown here: tinyurl.com/LevyExplaine...

#transhealthcare #NHS #LevyReview

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Carrie plays guitaaargh 👻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 19h

Going to get my NHS HRT renewal today. To do that I'll walk past my GP surgery, get on a train to glasgow, walk through the city centre, meet a pharmacist, get a train back, walk past my GP again, wait for the prescription to come by post, then take it to the pharmacy next to my GP.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Yes, the perpetually dishonest Times is at it again. Today's leader column states "The Supreme Court ruling has made the law abundantly clear" and yet even the Times has no idea what it is. 👇🏻

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 18d

The Times 12 September: the Supreme Court case "had nothing to do with how or where single-sex spaces should be created."

The Times 26 September: "Trans women are still being held in women's prisons despite the Supreme Court ruling that access to single-sex spaces should be based on biology."

🤔

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

'Gender Critical' transphobic hate group 'SEEN In Journalism' - run by ex-BBC journalists Cath Leng and Jo-Anne Pugh - claim they're "restoring accuracy and impartiality to media coverage of sex and gender"

So why are they using their X account to create a pile-on of a young trans journalist?

Screenshot of X bio

Header: Be accurate. Be Fair.

SEEN in Journalism

@JournalismSEEN
A network for journalists and content-makers across platforms who seek to restore accuracy and impartiality to media coverage of sex and gender

THIS IS A 'GENDER CRITICAL' TRANSPHOBIC HATE ACCOUNT

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 1d

ADF was basically behind the Keira Bell case and trans reporters were trying to note similarities between that case and how the group uses lawfare in the U.S. to attack trans rights.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 1d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 1d

If I shared this as a shitpost version of what Trump said at the Netanyahu celebration people would chuckle and say "you've done it again, Sooz" but it's just what he literally said.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

2. “…Bibi would call me so many times—“Can you get me this weapon? That weapon? That weapon?” Some of them I never even heard of. But we’d get them there, wouldn’t we? And they are the best. They are the best…and you obviously used them very well.”

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 1d

I listened to the whole thing. Like, it's a speech, by the president, during a major historical event, that's going to be studied in times to come. I was entranced, like I'd wandered into some weird play.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 1d

😂

LGBT+ Lib Dems replied, Paul Kohler, we were literally saying it looked better before it was vandalised. Demanding that minority groups spell out what should go without saying, and constantly clarify what we do say, is ill-judged and illiberal.

Paul Kohler replied, Please spare me the sophistry!

LGBT + Lib Dems replied, And please spare us your deliberate misconstrual. We're always very happy to talk to our MPs and our door is always open to you. Very disappointing that you chose to do this publicly - it calls your intentions into question.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 1d

Not the guy who compared the "'We're being pressured into sex by some trans women" article to some work that was done to uncover the Jimmy Savile scandal?

John McManus @ & & @JohnMeM1
How two BBC journalists fought to get the voices of abused women and girls
heard within the corporation:

Quoted tweet:
theguardian.com
How two BBC journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jim...
The long read: Listening to the women who alleged abuse, and fighting
to get their stories heard, helped change the treatment of victims by th

Follow up tweet by John McManus:
@JohnMcM1
This is a sobering read about the BBC and - but
those who've criticised the excellent current piece
about lesbians pressured into sex on the grounds of “it
never happens” or “it’s only their testimony” should do
some self-reflection.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 1d

This is how I imagine JK Rowling when she posts.

JK Rowling says "ha ha.. h-heh. I won! I won!" She sits alone in the dark, bathed in the late of her computer screen. We pull back to see her in a large dark empty room. She continues "I won." Seeing the full scope of her cavernous workplace, she appears small and alone. She says, once again, "I won..."

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, our Community, not our post code community :)

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Esse House UK @essehouse.bsky.social · 3d

We're entirely funded by our volunteers, supporters, and kind one-off donors.

In the last 6 months, that has enabled us to provide emergency safehouse accommodation for trans people escaping abuse. It has given us the ability to provide a one-to-one support service for homeless trans people...

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Esse House UK @essehouse.bsky.social · 1d

We are an organisation dedicated to the social inclusion of the UK trans community, based near Glasgow in Scotland. To attend any of our events, you just have to be a verifiable member of the community, and be able to fund your own travel.

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Esse House

essehouse.co.uk

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 1d

Certain Labour MPs are worried that backing Phillipson would make them unpopular with their LGBTQ constituents.

I just want to reassure those MPs.

Being in the Labour Party makes you unpopular with your LGBTQ constituents.

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 1d

"How are the Greens doing?"

Well, I absolutely hate the environment and can't wait to see the world burn, alongside everyone on it, but I joined the party because, holy heck, Zack is the only one speaking sense at the moment.

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