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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 29m

Ta!

Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 30m

If we’re running a letter writing campaign, why don’t we tell MPs that the EHRC is asking for their approval or rejection?

Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 31m

4/ The next battle is likely to take place in Parliament, and we need to ensure the draft Code is rejected. We should start spreading the message and tell MPs that the EHRC is pushing for a vote. I mean they just released a video acknowledging that our sovereign Parliament has the final say. 🤭

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 31m

4/ The next battle is likely to take place in Parliament, and we need to ensure the draft Code is rejected. We should start spreading the message and tell MPs that the EHRC is pushing for a vote. I mean they just released a video acknowledging that our sovereign Parliament has the final say. 🤭

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 42m

3/ The harm caused via the EHRC has been vast, yet there appears to be no prospect of compensation. Those responsible for this reckless conduct remain in legal practice as barristers; one has even been promoted from entry-level lecturer to professor. We should hold them accountable, shouldn’t we?

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 42m

2/ I think most public law lawyers understand that it’s difficult to find a solid “anchor” to challenge the underlying legal position in court. That said, I also believe we’ve already gained most of the benefit from legal threats, as they have clearly influenced the EHRC’s institutional behaviour.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 42m

1/🧵 I should note that from the beginning, I knew the EHRC would withdraw their “interim update” guidance.

My aim was to make it untenable for them to defend the position that segregation of trans people is mandatory. And I think that strategy has been successful.

That doesn’t mean we can stop.

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

Rationality is a good thing.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6h

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 2h

1.5 years after I made the Cass Review freedom of information requests, I still don’t know whether it was an individual, a business, a body corporate, a corporate sole, an inquiry, or the Crown.

Perhaps I should just call it, in accounting terms, a going concern.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 2h

There isn’t a strict rule here. It’s at the court’s practically unbridled discretion whether the case can go forward. And, because this case is so special, it depends on whether the judge thinks it’s an interesting intellectual challenge.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 2h

So I’m suing NHS England instead, I have notified their legal team that a judicial review against the Cass Review’s <can’t publish at this stage> maybe underway.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 2h

The most cynical move I have seen from a national human rights institution!

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 2h

Oh no, there goes my concurrent action against the EHRC.

Ash likes to take bad people to court in person. But Ash can’t sue the EHRC… and now Ash feels empty. 😞

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 3h

The EHRC has finally, five months after producing its wildly transphobic and, we believe, unlawful Interim Guidance now taken it down. Our judicial review challenge to that Interim Guidance will be heard in less than one month.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 2h

lol drummer here 👋

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 2h

No editor, just raw code. Making a 3D world like this feels straight-up biblical. Am I reenacting Genesis?

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 2h

Added the sun!

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 5h

ps, I wrote vice* president for comical effect. He is formally the deputy president.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 5h

That said I have doubt the Committee of Ministers would be able to come to a consensus tho.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 5h

I just read McCloud’s summary of their case and I like it.

bsky.app/profile/huma...

Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 21h

ANNOUNCEMENT
This evening, 14/10/25 the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network have taken the next step in the struggle to restore the human rights, dignity & safety of UK trans people.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 5h

This is an extremely good point.

Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 21h

This submission details how the case has exposed the UK's non-compliance with the judgment made in the European Court of Human rights case of Goodwin v. UK (2002). This non-compliance did not begin in April 2025. The Supreme Court has made clear

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 6h

www.reddit.com/r/transgende...

From the transgenderUK community on Reddit: Trans orchids in Tesco

Explore this post and more from the transgenderUK community

www.reddit.com

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 6h

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 7h

A former member of the world’s most sovereign Parliament glorifies the broken constitution of another country. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 4d

New Zealand doesn’t have a First Amendment — we have Parliamentary sovereignty and NZBORA. Our Parliament banned conversion therapy because it harms people. If Stephen Franks wants US-style “freedom” to abuse LGBTQIA+ kids, he can move there.

Absolutely, this dude utterly sucks!

Many will know a parent who may be doomed to this desperate state - with no way out. Even if they’ve only permitted or aided their innocent child’s groomers without authorising surgery or drugs, some will be haunted. Can they undo the harm? Could they have prevented it?

My firm is trying to help a number of parents who are doing all they can while they can to protect their deluded children.
It is an outrage that the Parliamentarians who passed the conversion therapy ban, despite its direct conflict with freedom of speech, are tolerating the prevarication of Minister Doocey over dangerous ‘gender-affirming’ hormone ‘therapy’ for children

The US Supreme Court is likely to invalidate conversion therapy bans shortly, as contrary to the First Amendment (freedom of speech).

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 7h

Zack Polanski improved my body image 😜

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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 7h

I agree, but make no mistake. Laura Kuenssberg carries more weight than Piers Morgan... not a sentence you could apply in any other context, that.

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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 8h

Laura Kuenssberg is gunna try to proper hatchet-job him. You're gunna see her spend almost the entire interview being intellectually dishonest in an attempt to paint Polanski as a weirdo dreamer.

www.thenational.scot/news/2554271...

BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview

ZACK Polanski will be interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg after the BBC received complaints from the public for the lack of coverage of the Green Party…

www.thenational.scot

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