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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 3h

Absolutely! The EHRC is really floundering right now, and Bridget Phillipson (so we hear) is getting increasingly annoyed at them.

What better time than now to write (using our easy-peasy tool) and pressure Phillipson to reject the EHRC’s segregationist Code 🤗📝🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 3h

A new study shows what we know: Journalism is failing on trans rights coverage.

70% of stories about Trump’s executive orders affecting trans people didn’t quote trans people.

They’re talking ABOUT trans people not with them.

Story / study here: www.transjournalists.org/tja-bmsg-exe...

Graph that shows that trans people and their representatives were quoted infrequently: 70% of articles did not feature even a single trans person.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 4h

The funniest part of all the billionaires are building bunker stories is the part where they’re sure the class hierarchy will survive the apocalypse.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 6h

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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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 4h

Nothing will improve when Falkner steps down, by the way. Her anointed successor Mary-Ann Stephenson is perhaps even worse, if what I've heard about her comments re: trans people in private are anything to go by. The EHRC will continue in its mission of using the state to make trans lives unliveable

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 5h

The EHRC at this point is just an extension of the trans-eliminationist ("gender critical") movement. Just another "GC" group. But the Council of Europe's intervention clearly has them panicked and now they're scrambling to get their Labour lackeys to implement this despicable Code of Practice.

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 6h

The EHRC has written to the Minister for Women and Equalities, demanding that she rushes through their dreadful draft Code of Practice.

This is a bizarre intervention from a supposedly impartial public body.

Equalities watchdog urges UK ministers to ‘act with speed’ on trans guidance

EHRC writes to Bridget Phillipson over implementation of code on single-sex public spaces after supreme court ruling

www.theguardian.com

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 4h

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion

After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 3h

This coming down is good.

It was transphobic nonsense which put trans people into a liminal third category which is a breach of international law…

…as the new statutory guidance almost certainly does too. So we fight that too.

This is a stepping stone towards a more equal future:

Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 6h

The EHRC has just taken down their transphobic interim guidance 👀

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/our-work/uk-supreme-court-ruling-meaning-sex-equality-act-our-work

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 5h

Tuesday: Shabana Mahmood attacks an international human rights body for pointing out the UK is likely breaching its legal obligations to trans people.

Wednesday: five months after publishing transphobic legal guidance the EHRC, a month before it has to defend it in court, takes it down.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 6h

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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Jughead J'onzz @jugheadjonzz.bsky.social · 4h

I've been mocking netflix's Wednesday as "Tim Burton's Monster High". Having now seen the two Nickelodeon Monster High live action movies, I can see I have done Monster High - a meditation on post-2016 LGBTQIA+ politics - a grave disservice.

Wednesday is a vapid, straight-washed Monster High.

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Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 8h

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

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Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Jughead J'onzz @jugheadjonzz.bsky.social · 5h

You might as well fine them eleventy-squillion, two hundred and bleventeen pounds and frippty pee. Because they're not going to pay any fine.

They're not based in Milton Keynes, or anywhere in the UK. The UK Gov can't enforce any fine - only shout bigger and bigger numbers in a bid to sound tough.

Emily Darlington MP @emily4mk.bsky.social · 10h

The Online Safety Act in action. To all platforms: If you don’t remove illegal content or protect children from harmful material, you’ll get fined! @ofcom.bsky.social
#onlinesafety #4chan #ukpolitics #uklabour #miltonkeynes

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 6h

Yesterday, the Council of Europe criticised the EHRC for failing to protect trans people.

So today, Kishwer Falkner and the EHRC doubled down, pressuring the government to fast-track new trans-exclusionary legal guidance! 😬😳

🔗 news.communication.equalityhumanrights.com/2A33D7DE5117...

Update on Code of practice for services, public functions and associations
Wednesday 15 October 2025
We have written to the Minister for Women and Equalities, asking that they revoke the 2011 code of practice for services, public functions and associations and lay our updated version of the code as soon as possible so that it has legal status.
Read the letter to Minster and further details about today's announcement
Tomorrow, Thursday 16 October, marks six months since the Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers and six weeks since the draft code was sent to the minister.
The submitted code is an accurate reflection of the law and takes into account consultations that heard from over 50,000 organisations, legal professionals and individuals across England, Scotland and Wales.
The UK government is responsible for the process that will result in the updated code becoming statutory. The new Code will be the expert guide to how duty bearers can make sure that they follow the law. It will supersede the previous code.
You can read more about what will happen next, and the work that we have already done, on our website.
Read about our work on the meaning of sex in the Equality Act

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 11h

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 9h

Looking back at this and seeing a Labour government choosing option 3 in the most petulant manner possible…

…because this Labour government is determined to be worse than Thatcher for LGBTQIA+ people.

A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 1d

He’s flagging that 🇬🇧 is in breach of it’s obligations with the result being:

1. They change the approach

2. They lose when this gets to the ECHR

3. The 🇬🇧 leaves the international human rights body we imposed on Europe to stop the rise of fascism happening again.

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Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 8h

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www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Anti-abortion groups have received funds from the UK government

Taxpayer money has gone towards funding anti-abortion groups and crisis pregnancy centres in the UK.

www.bigissue.com

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 8h

The hypocrisy of Carole Malone finding a word offensive and then immediately asking a man whose ancestors actually fled the nazis... this:

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

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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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Amazing to remember Mahmood once boasted: "We lay down in the street and we lay down inside Sainsbury's to say we object to them stocking goods from illegal settlements – and that they must stop. We managed to close down that store at peak time on a Saturday.This is how we can make a difference."

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

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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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 13h

Labour is telling you VERY LOUDLY who to vote for if you value human rights. And it's definitely NOT LABOUR.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

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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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 12h

Shabana Mahmood knows what life is like for Muslims, and especially women. So why is she so willing to throw others to the Far Right wolves? Does she not understand they will also come for her? Or is her bet they will wait until after her political career? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

‘Explosion’ of Islamophobic attacks not being reported to police, politician warns

Exclusive: “There’s been an explosion of Islamophobia since October 7,” shadow secretary of state for justice Shabana Mahmood has said

www.independent.co.uk

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 12h

I was in a meeting yesterday warning that if we lose the ECHR we are Royally Fucked. I think people think it could never happen - but remember everyone said that about Brexit. Let’s not be as stupid as then.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

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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