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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 1h

www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

EHRC urges government to ensure accurate statutory guidance on Equality Act is available | EHRC

Published: 15 October 2025

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@katie_pinns @katie-pinns.bsky.social · 20h

Militancy Isn’t Fabulous: When Queer Activism Turns Violent

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Militancy Isn’t Fabulous: When Queer Activism Turns Violent

On 19 June 2025, Eugene Weekly ran a cover story titled ‘Armed and Fabulous,’ featuring Eve Weston—a self-described queer activist—posing with an AR-15 style rifle.

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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 1h

Do you consider women to have human rights? And why do men get special human privileges to subvert women’s rights?

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Alexander Horne @legalmusings.bsky.social · 10h

I agree with Joshua that this intervention is by the Human Rights Commissioner is spectacularly badly timed.

At a moment where two of the four largest political parties in the UK are advocating an exit from the Convention system, his criticisms seem tin eared.

Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 12h

The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner has intervened in a series of criminal prosecutions currently before the courts of England and Wales.

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Policing protest prosecutions

Council of Europe human rights commissioner seeks to lay down the law

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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 3h

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Statement in response to Council of Europe Commissioner’s letter on UK ruling - Athena Forum

The Commissioner’s remarks risk undermining women’s rights and judicial independence in the UK.

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 6h

Human rights, by their very nature, apply to all humans. Special dispensations made only to a specific group are not human rights. They are privileges.

How on earth did this pillock manage to become 'Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner' without understanding this?

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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 10h

Translation:
The mastermind behind the 'Yogyakarta Principles' which have no international human rights treaty recognition, is still attempting to erase women's & girls human rights which have explicit & established treaty recognition. On the basis of sex. Not gender identity.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

European Council commissioner voices concerns following April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman Transgender people risk being excluded from many public spaces as a result of the recent UK supreme court judgment and must be protected from discrimination, a human rights expert has said. Michael O’Flaherty, the European Council commissioner for human rights, said he had concerns about the climate for transgender people in the UK following April’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Continue reading...

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K.Flynnx (St.) @kflynny369.bsky.social · 5h

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Is an ECHR showdown on women's rights and trans rights inevitable?

The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner, Dr Michael O’Flaherty, has written to the Women and Equalities Select Committee and the Joint Committee on Human Rights to raise concerns about the i...

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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 6h

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Is an ECHR showdown on women's rights and trans rights inevitable?

The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner, Dr Michael O’Flattery, has written to the Women and Equalities Select Committee and the Joint Committee on Human Rights to raise concerns about the i...

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Gudule Martens @gudulemartens.bsky.social · 10h

Dennis is on point again in one of his eloquent rants. He points to the gay rights movements advocating for conversion therapy 2.0.
It's true.
The biggest gay rights organisation in my country told a man who sought help for his unease about his homosexuality to go in transition.

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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 22h

www.theargus.co.uk/news/2552356...
Nice to see some of the media is interested in what actually happens at FILIA.

A Brighton conference for women will be inspirational

This week we have seen the conclusion of party conference season, says Andy Winter

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

"Anger is a natural response to injustice ..." but we'll not condemn violence against women who met to find solidarity and to challenge their own injustice.

Women's experience of injustice is because of our sex, since time immemorial. Bash Back and Trans Pride are misogynists.

Piss off.

Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social · 5d

Statement from Trans Pride Brighton.

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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 2d

Shameful. Putting your ambition before safeguarding children and women.

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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 2d

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shameful

Bridget Phillipson ‘delaying trans guidance to help deputy leader bid’

Bridget Phillipson, the equalities minister, is accused of pushing back publication of a code on single-sex spaces until after the Labour election ends

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Marianne (Scotland) @mariannemc.bsky.social · 2d

The FiLiA 2025 conference was targeted by violent trans activists and misogynists.

Here are the Lib Dems allowing the party’s TRA’s to support violence against women, again. 👇

LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 5d

We thought the Brighton Centre looked much better when the @libdems.org.uk had our conference there a year ago.

A picture of a huge crowd of Lib Dems, including Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP and various MPs, standing outside the Brighton Centre, which has a huge Liberal Democrats decal on the main windows, all holding an enormous Trans Pride flag in the sunshine, at their Autumn Conference in 2024.

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Helen O'Hara @helenlohara.bsky.social · 3d

RIP to Diane Keaton. Not only a woman who made extraordinary films but someone who always seemed to be exactly herself, and to be enjoying the experience very much.