Jess O'Thomson
@jessothomson.co.uk
Legal researcher, writer, journalist | Trans Rights Lead @ Good Law Project | PhD student @ University of Leeds
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So. 2025 has been the most significant year of my life so far. And it's not even particularly close.
Trans rights came under attack this year in the UK. I have been trying my best to help fight back.
I've been a little busy. Here's a thread of some of what I have been up to 🧵
Trans rights came under attack this year in the UK. I have been trying my best to help fight back.
I've been a little busy. Here's a thread of some of what I have been up to 🧵
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I'm providing an update on my complaint to the police about the horrific conduct of Sex Matters' 'good friend' Richard Dunstan.
Richard Dunstan: Update
In December we reported that a complaint had been made to the police in respect of Mr Richard Dunstan, a “good friend” of the Sex Matters hate group.
goodlaw.social
January 26, 2026 at 5:57 PM
I'm providing an update on my complaint to the police about the horrific conduct of Sex Matters' 'good friend' Richard Dunstan.
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Half a day, and we've already sold out? Thank you all so much!
Please keep an eye on this account and
@goodlawproject.bsky.social
- we'll be sharing further details about in-person decorating workshops and the march this summer, and the more support we get, the greater the chance we can expand!
Please keep an eye on this account and
@goodlawproject.bsky.social
- we'll be sharing further details about in-person decorating workshops and the march this summer, and the more support we get, the greater the chance we can expand!
January 26, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Half a day, and we've already sold out? Thank you all so much!
Please keep an eye on this account and
@goodlawproject.bsky.social
- we'll be sharing further details about in-person decorating workshops and the march this summer, and the more support we get, the greater the chance we can expand!
Please keep an eye on this account and
@goodlawproject.bsky.social
- we'll be sharing further details about in-person decorating workshops and the march this summer, and the more support we get, the greater the chance we can expand!
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Just in case anyone here knows of (or is!) a cis ally with money to support us: your can make a donation here to keep the project free for trans people (and, potentially, expand): goodlawproject.org/trans-unity-...
Help us keep the quilt free | Good Law Project
Are you an ally who wants to support the project? Trans and enthusiastic but no time to make a patch? Help keep this free for trans people by donating here.
goodlawproject.org
January 26, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Just in case anyone here knows of (or is!) a cis ally with money to support us: your can make a donation here to keep the project free for trans people (and, potentially, expand): goodlawproject.org/trans-unity-...
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Kate Nash, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Sugababes, Olly Alexander and many more will stand shoulder to shoulder with the trans community at Wembley’s OVO Arena on March 11.
Will you join them?
https://www.transmissionlive.uk/
Will you join them?
https://www.transmissionlive.uk/
Trans Mission - Wednesday 11th March
Mighty Hoopla and Olly Alexander team up for a Trans Mission: an all-star solidarity concert for the trans community at OVO Arena Wembley
www.transmissionlive.uk
January 26, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Kate Nash, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Sugababes, Olly Alexander and many more will stand shoulder to shoulder with the trans community at Wembley’s OVO Arena on March 11.
Will you join them?
https://www.transmissionlive.uk/
Will you join them?
https://www.transmissionlive.uk/
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This is an absolutely wonderful project, and I am so delighted that we are doing it. It is vital that we invest in love, solidarity, and creativity. Moments like these are such an important part of how we fight back.
We've just launched the Trans Unity Quilt Project, a campaign by and for trans people across the UK to bring joy and hope by making a quilt that will stretch over 50m long
🎨 Make your own patch 👇
goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...
🎨 Make your own patch 👇
goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...
January 26, 2026 at 12:50 PM
This is an absolutely wonderful project, and I am so delighted that we are doing it. It is vital that we invest in love, solidarity, and creativity. Moments like these are such an important part of how we fight back.
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More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...
January 26, 2026 at 1:12 PM
More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...
This is an absolutely wonderful project, and I am so delighted that we are doing it. It is vital that we invest in love, solidarity, and creativity. Moments like these are such an important part of how we fight back.
We've just launched the Trans Unity Quilt Project, a campaign by and for trans people across the UK to bring joy and hope by making a quilt that will stretch over 50m long
🎨 Make your own patch 👇
goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...
🎨 Make your own patch 👇
goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...
January 26, 2026 at 12:50 PM
This is an absolutely wonderful project, and I am so delighted that we are doing it. It is vital that we invest in love, solidarity, and creativity. Moments like these are such an important part of how we fight back.
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As GLP's Quilter in Chief, I'm so excited to see what we receive over the spring. This project has been a labour of love, but that's the whole point of a quilt really.
We've just launched the Trans Unity Quilt Project, a campaign by and for trans people across the UK to bring joy and hope by making a quilt that will stretch over 50m long
🎨 Make your own patch 👇
goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...
🎨 Make your own patch 👇
goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...
January 26, 2026 at 12:46 PM
As GLP's Quilter in Chief, I'm so excited to see what we receive over the spring. This project has been a labour of love, but that's the whole point of a quilt really.
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Our campaign is live with @goodlawproject.bsky.social !
Please help us spread the word - and follow the link below to order your patch to become a part of our community quilt, by and for trans people and our allies throughout the UK.
This is how we fight back: in solidarity, creativity, and care.
Please help us spread the word - and follow the link below to order your patch to become a part of our community quilt, by and for trans people and our allies throughout the UK.
This is how we fight back: in solidarity, creativity, and care.
We've just launched the Trans Unity Quilt Project, a campaign by and for trans people across the UK to bring joy and hope by making a quilt that will stretch over 50m long
🎨 Make your own patch 👇
goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...
🎨 Make your own patch 👇
goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...
January 26, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Our campaign is live with @goodlawproject.bsky.social !
Please help us spread the word - and follow the link below to order your patch to become a part of our community quilt, by and for trans people and our allies throughout the UK.
This is how we fight back: in solidarity, creativity, and care.
Please help us spread the word - and follow the link below to order your patch to become a part of our community quilt, by and for trans people and our allies throughout the UK.
This is how we fight back: in solidarity, creativity, and care.
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
We've just launched the Trans Unity Quilt Project, a campaign by and for trans people across the UK to bring joy and hope by making a quilt that will stretch over 50m long
🎨 Make your own patch 👇
goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...
🎨 Make your own patch 👇
goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...
January 26, 2026 at 12:31 PM
We've just launched the Trans Unity Quilt Project, a campaign by and for trans people across the UK to bring joy and hope by making a quilt that will stretch over 50m long
🎨 Make your own patch 👇
goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...
🎨 Make your own patch 👇
goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...
It's Manichean when you say bad things are bad, actually.
January 26, 2026 at 11:56 AM
It's Manichean when you say bad things are bad, actually.
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What's the outcome that terrifies Labour most in the Gorton by-election?
Reform winning?
Nope. It's the Greens they're most worried about.
They'd prefer Reform to win, rather than the Greens.
Reform winning?
Nope. It's the Greens they're most worried about.
They'd prefer Reform to win, rather than the Greens.
January 26, 2026 at 9:46 AM
What's the outcome that terrifies Labour most in the Gorton by-election?
Reform winning?
Nope. It's the Greens they're most worried about.
They'd prefer Reform to win, rather than the Greens.
Reform winning?
Nope. It's the Greens they're most worried about.
They'd prefer Reform to win, rather than the Greens.
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Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance
January 25, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance
lol
January 25, 2026 at 12:44 PM
lol
Well this makes the govt look very strong, doesn't it...
NEW: Andy Burnham *blocked* from standing in the Gorton and Denton byelection. Of nine voting members on NEC group was 8-1 against him.
January 25, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Well this makes the govt look very strong, doesn't it...
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There's an anti-trans protest in manchester and it has:
* Local Fascists who are usually at the anti-asylum hotel protests
* "radical feminists"
* A guy with an huge cross
* A guy who keeps getting in trouble locally for shouting "Christ is king Fk Islam!"
* LGB Alliance and Women's Rights Network.
* Local Fascists who are usually at the anti-asylum hotel protests
* "radical feminists"
* A guy with an huge cross
* A guy who keeps getting in trouble locally for shouting "Christ is king Fk Islam!"
* LGB Alliance and Women's Rights Network.
January 24, 2026 at 2:27 PM
There's an anti-trans protest in manchester and it has:
* Local Fascists who are usually at the anti-asylum hotel protests
* "radical feminists"
* A guy with an huge cross
* A guy who keeps getting in trouble locally for shouting "Christ is king Fk Islam!"
* LGB Alliance and Women's Rights Network.
* Local Fascists who are usually at the anti-asylum hotel protests
* "radical feminists"
* A guy with an huge cross
* A guy who keeps getting in trouble locally for shouting "Christ is king Fk Islam!"
* LGB Alliance and Women's Rights Network.
Rape survivor here. Giving more power to the State to incarcerate people without proper safeguards and due process is not the solution to sexual violence.
“The hell of being raped is made worse by the hell of going through delays in the system”.
Great respect for Natalie Fleet and I once made this argument, too, against jury trials in rape cases. But of course the problems the 'justice' system poses for rape victims go far beyond this.
Great respect for Natalie Fleet and I once made this argument, too, against jury trials in rape cases. But of course the problems the 'justice' system poses for rape victims go far beyond this.
Labour MP who was groomed asks colleagues to back judge-only trials
Exclusive: Natalie Fleet says power balance is with criminals not victims as delays make ‘hell of being raped’ worse
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Rape survivor here. Giving more power to the State to incarcerate people without proper safeguards and due process is not the solution to sexual violence.
The Cure have the best love songs and it's not even close
January 23, 2026 at 10:28 PM
The Cure have the best love songs and it's not even close
These proposals are appalling
NEW: Planned welfare reform could see big benefit cuts for disabled people who can't work, Citizens Advice has warned
The government wants to replace long-term ESA disability benefits with a new, much more time-limited benefit called Unemployment Insurance (UI) www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
The government wants to replace long-term ESA disability benefits with a new, much more time-limited benefit called Unemployment Insurance (UI) www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Disabled people could face benefit cuts – even if they cannot work
Long-term claimants of employment and support allowance could be moved over to a new, time-limited disability benefit – equating to cuts.
www.bigissue.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:36 PM
These proposals are appalling
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URGENT
Help us stop Sex Matters 👇
Help us stop Sex Matters 👇
URGENT 🚨 We have just one week to stop Sex Matters infiltrating a vote to ban conversion therapy.
We must stop them. Use our tool and tell the MPs to stand up for what's right ✊
https://goodlaw.social/945cd5
We must stop them. Use our tool and tell the MPs to stand up for what's right ✊
https://goodlaw.social/945cd5
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January 23, 2026 at 3:17 PM
URGENT
Help us stop Sex Matters 👇
Help us stop Sex Matters 👇
URGENT
Help us stop Sex Matters 👇
Help us stop Sex Matters 👇
URGENT 🚨 We have just one week to stop Sex Matters infiltrating a vote to ban conversion therapy.
We must stop them. Use our tool and tell the MPs to stand up for what's right ✊
https://goodlaw.social/945cd5
We must stop them. Use our tool and tell the MPs to stand up for what's right ✊
https://goodlaw.social/945cd5
goodlaw.social
goodlaw.social
January 23, 2026 at 3:17 PM
URGENT
Help us stop Sex Matters 👇
Help us stop Sex Matters 👇
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NEW
Why the Hillsborough law campaigners are right to be resolute
The attempts to water down the duty of candour should be resisted
Me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Why the Hillsborough law campaigners are right to be resolute
The attempts to water down the duty of candour should be resisted
Me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
January 23, 2026 at 12:40 PM
NEW
Why the Hillsborough law campaigners are right to be resolute
The attempts to water down the duty of candour should be resisted
Me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Why the Hillsborough law campaigners are right to be resolute
The attempts to water down the duty of candour should be resisted
Me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Wow. This is really powerful.
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Wow. This is really powerful.
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Worcestershire County Council’s Reform minority administration is the latest group attempting to use last year’s Supreme Court judgment to exclude trans people.
But it wouldn’t be lawful. We’re ready to fight back:
https://goodlaw.social/gmxz
But it wouldn’t be lawful. We’re ready to fight back:
https://goodlaw.social/gmxz
Reform’s new transphobic ban in Worcestershire | Good Law Project
The Reform Council in Worcestershire is trying to ban trans people from accessing services. We’re fighting back
goodlaw.social
January 22, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Worcestershire County Council’s Reform minority administration is the latest group attempting to use last year’s Supreme Court judgment to exclude trans people.
But it wouldn’t be lawful. We’re ready to fight back:
https://goodlaw.social/gmxz
But it wouldn’t be lawful. We’re ready to fight back:
https://goodlaw.social/gmxz
I just sneezed and I think I have pulled a muscle in my chest. Is this me getting old?
January 22, 2026 at 1:12 PM
I just sneezed and I think I have pulled a muscle in my chest. Is this me getting old?