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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 15h

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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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 5h

Trans people are not a threat to cis women or anyone or taking away anyone’s human rights.

Mahmoud’s actions reveal that transphobes would rather take away EVERYONE’S human rights, including those of cis women (whose rights to bodily autonomy will be next) than allow basic rights for trans people.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 15h

If Labour doesn't intend to adhere to its human rights obligations anyway, there's little point in us being signatories to the ECHR. Better, more honest, for Mahmood to join Reform in campaigning to leave it.

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 16h

1/ 🚨 Our intro to the Special Section on #FeministForeignPolicy is out! Co-authored w/ @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social ky.social in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social: "The Where, What & Who of Feminist Foreign Policy"
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The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power

www.cambridge.org

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Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 15h

Congratulations!

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 1d

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
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United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 20h

The rights of trans people in the UK - that anti-trans actors are trying to upend - only exist because the EU and European Court of Human Rights demanded them in the 90s and 00s. With Brexit these rights and many others for women and sexual minorities are under threat - we all need to fight back

Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 20h

Stark warning from the Council of Europe today about how the EHRC’s proposed guidance on the Equality Act will conflict with the UK’s international human rights obligations.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

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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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17d

Keir Starmer comments about Reform are no more sincere than Wes Streeting saying trans people should be treated with 'respect and dignity'.

They are words meant for Labour supporters who don't really care about either 'issue' but want some nice things to point to.

Their actions tell you everything

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Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 17d

Exactly. Since the last time Labour tried to introduce ID cards I warmed up to the idea after living in European countries where it is completely normal. But Labour are doing this for authoritarian reasons in the context of a serious assault on migrant and trans rights and it should be opposed

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 17d

I am a citizen of a country with ID cards that also has a form of digital ID used to access government services online… it works really well and is very efficient.

Would I want the scheme being proposed by the UK government?

Hell no!

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Lucrecia Rubio Grundell @lrubiogrundell.bsky.social · 20d

💫📣 #ECPG2026 Call for Papers and Panels is open!! Join our LGBTIQ+, Sexuality, Queer and Trans Studies, Policies and Politics Section 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸: mobilizations, trans/intersex politics, anti-gender movements, links to racism/colonialism, migration, geopolitics & affect/resistance.
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LGBTIQ+, Sexuality, Queer and Trans Studies, Policies and Politics

European Consortium for Political Research

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Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 20d

This was actually their strategy back in the 60s, supporting Race Relations legislation while simultaneously restricting the rights of Commonwealth citizens to live in the UK 🙄

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21d

The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

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Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 21d

Is that why he’s banned gender-affirming care for young people?

Screenshot from the Guardian with the headline ‘Don’t pay any attention to what Trump says about medicine’, Wes Streeting tells Britons’ and a photo of Trump and RFK.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 22d

Anyone who can’t see through the “free speech!” “Cancel culture!” Bullshit now - the whole project has been about amplifying bigotry & shutting up criticism, is utterly complicit - Gervais, Carr & all- the reason they have far right fans is not the quality of jokes but the quality of propaganda

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Verena K. Brändle @verenakbrandle.bsky.social · 23d

My analysis about Elon Musk's "awkward surprise appearance" at a far-right rally in London is out now on @theconversation.com
I'm discussing how all this connects to the politics and economics of social media companies. Yes, it's about money and democracy.

Elon Musk’s speech to far-right rally should have us all thinking about the power social media companies hold over our democracies

The power of social media companies lies in your data.

urldefense.com

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Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 25d

Important analysis from @verenakbrandle.bsky.social on how Musk’s interference in democratic politics has economic incentives

Elon Musk’s speech to far-right rally should have us all thinking about the power social media companies hold over our democracies

The power of social media companies lies in your data.

theconversation.com

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Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 25d

Owwww 😬

Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 25d

My cat might do this if only she could jump up there:D

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27d

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

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Silkabelli (mutazione-piromane Edition) @silkabelli.bsky.social · 28d

Queen

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Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 28d

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trixie mattel is god confirmed

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Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 28d

Except this “material reality” you speak of does not exist, nor is there any one thing that so-called “ordinary women” want - this whole thing is driven by a small minority of very committed anti-trans lobby groups, in alignment with the far right. Most people do not share their views

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Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 29d

The only way this can be done is for random people to police who looks “feminine” enough to access women’s spaces, which is already happening and resulting in harassment of trans and cis folk alike. Why more cis women aren’t up in arms about this is beyond me

Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 29d

The guidance is clearly unworkable as there is no way that any organisation can ensure spaces are only accessible on the basis of sex assigned at birth without engaging in activities which, irrespective of the Supreme Court Decision in For Women Scotland, remain unlawful.

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 29d

The EHRC guidance is unworkable for business.

Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · Sep 15

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham

Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · Sep 15

We invite abstracts applying transfeminism to global politics in a broad sense, with both theoretical and empirical pieces from diverse contexts welcome. Abstracts should be submitted in March 2026, with full papers due August 2026. See link for details! (2/2)
www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Future Issues | Politics and Governance

Politics and Governance is an innovative new offering to the world of online peer-reviewed open access publishing in the Political Sciences.

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