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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 13h

Still on X? Noticed your feed getting a lot more right wing recently?

That’s no mistake:
https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464487

How the world's richest man is boosting the British right

news.sky.com

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 11h

Appalling.

Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 12h

So Tim Davie has resigned from the BBC over a failure to be impartial in relation to Trump.

Once.

The BBC has failed to be impartial about trans people since Davie's tenure started.

Systematically and regularly.

So why did he not resign over these?

BBC director-general Tim Davie resigns over Trump documentary controversy
Tim Davie’s statement in full as BBC director-general steps down

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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 12h

Genuinely believe with my whole heart that the stances on trans rights taken by @zackpolanski.bsky.social are contributing massively to a load of emotionally burn-out and mentally exhausted trans people having hope for the first time in bloody ages.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 9h

The “Democratic Republic of Korea” is undemocratic,

“Georgian Dream” is a nightmare,

The “United States” is disunited,

“Gender-critical” bigots are uncritical of gender,

The “Labour Party” is the party of capital,

BBC “News” is just propaganda,

Landlords don’t “provide housing” they ration it

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ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social · 22h

As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, @bylinetimes.bsky.social republishes Adam Bienkov and Patrick Howse's 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...

The BBC’s Road to Appeasement

As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish Adam Bienkov and Patrick Howse's 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right

open.substack.com

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 18h

Heads up 😅

Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc

📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++

Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

Scrap the Bathroom Ban

🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...

actionnetwork.org

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 18h

We have been tracking people’s experiences with gendered spaces and our new report looks at the impact of the 2025 EHRC interim update on access to, and experiences within, gendered spaces in the UK.

Image shows a row of toilet stalls with blue doors. Text reads: " I went to use the women's toilets as I was on my period and there were no gender neutral ones. A middle aged male security guard ran in after me…he started banging on the [cubicle] door, trying to open it as he shouted "sir, sir you can't be in here”... hearing the pitch of my voice was enough for him to drop it and leave. But I sat in the toilet feeling scared, vulnerable and dirty for a good few minutes." -a non-binary person tinyurl.com/ReportALoo

Image shows a sign hanging from the ceiling that says 'WC' and has male and female toilet symbols. Text reads: “ A few months ago in a local LGBTQ+ owned bar, I went into the men's toilets and another guy looked at me and then yelled "You’re in the wrong toilet" in my face at close range.” -a transmasc person tinyurl.com/ReportALoo

Image shows multicoloured soft play mats and apparatus. Text reads: "I was supervising my 5 year old disabled son, who was in the establishment’s soft play area. My son soiled himself and so I stood to take him to the facilities. However, when I made to head to the bathroom a woman who I assume to be in a senior role quickly came towards us and blocked my progress, pointing at the men’s toilets and advising me that “The gentlemen’s are there.” -a disabled, trans woman
(who had been making her
way to the accessible toilet) tinyurl.com/ReportALoo

Image shows 3 toilet signs one accessible, one women's and baby changing and one men's. Text reads: "I was stopped going into a bathroom by another tourist who stated that “these are the women’s toilets”. I stated that I am a woman and therefore using the ‘correct’ toilet for my gender. This is the most recent example of me being harassed going into a toilet in the past year. Which has gone from never to 6 incidents now." -a cis, butch dyke tinyurl.com/ReportALoo

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 18h

Trans people are being challenged, misgendered and harassed whether they use a facility that aligns with their sex assigned at birth, or not. Many gender non conforming women also report more challenges in gendered spaces.

Read the full report here: transactual.org.uk/gendered-spa...

The Gendered Spaces Report 2025 – TransActual

This report examines how the hastily released non-statutory EHRC interim update (following the April Supreme Court Judgement on the definition of sex for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010) has…

TransActual.org.uk

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 21h

Interesting thread. As I said, judicial review of guidance is discretionary, and in this case, it appears to be used to sidestep human rights.

SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 22h

A more detailed dissection of why the decision in our application for a Judicial Review of the lawfulness of the EHRC's 'Interim Update' wasn't successful. It might have been if judges were even partly conscious to what trans people are facing right now...
short 🧵

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 21h

It still seems grossly incompetent to me that Hodge would write an introduction saying there is a purpose in the Equality Act 2010, yet say nothing in the body of the judgment about what that purpose actually is. At the same time, the other Acts and Regulations are taken to have no purposes at all.

Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 22h

What the Supreme Court have clearly failed to grasp is that the purpose of the Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999, Goodwin v UK in 2002, the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2010 provisions was to integrate trans people in society, with a small number of exceptions where necessary.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 21h

Basically, Intolerance of any sort is now a protected characteristic under the equality act. Just straight up putting the paradox of tolerance in the law

Incredible

Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 1d

This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men.

This will be used to abuse.

A screenshot of a news article discussing a UK judge’s ruling that Islam-critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010. The article reports that Patrick Lee, a 61-year-old actuary, was previously found guilty of misconduct and banned from his professional body for posting critical comments about Islam on X (formerly Twitter). The tribunal later ruled that his belief that Islam is problematic and should be criticised is legally protected. The piece notes that this is the first time a court has confirmed protection for “Islam-critical” beliefs, and compares the case to the 2021 ruling that gender-critical beliefs held by Maya Forstater are also protected under the same law.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22h

I am hearing there’s a political campaign against the BBC by cynical liars and frauds who don’t care what’s real and only want to destroy it, and I can say: LOL too bad lads, you could not possibly more deserve to get wrecked by the wingnuts and cranks you were once so happy to promote.

Nick Robinson • @bbcnickrobinson
X.com
Hands up all those who think @BorisJohnson is well placed to lecture anyone else on upholding standards & admitting mistakes.
As I said this morning on @bbcr4today "it's clear that there is a genuine concern about editorial standards and mistakes. There is also a political campaign by people who want to destroy the organisation...Both things are happening at the same time"

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 22h

Folk apparently found helpful my exposition of what I have been calling the ‘Hansard Gap’ in the For Women Scotland judgment. At the suggestion of a correspondent, I am going to set out the myriad other difficulties with this judgment one by one over coming weeks.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21h

This is great to see.

Phillips is completely snookered by @zackpolanski.bsky.social by knowing his history and explaining it clearly and concisely and in enough detail to snuff out Phillips' attempted Culture War attack.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22h

Trevor Philips, "What is the implication of the white poppy?"

Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"

"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 20h

He was the first chair of the EHRC. 🫢

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 21h

Great to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social on @skynewsrss.bsky.social this morning standing up for trans people.

It’s clear that Trevor Phillips was trying to trap Zack by not giving him all the facts! Martine Croxall not only eye rolled, she changed a direct quote - unethical for a journalist!

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 1d

This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men.

This will be used to abuse.

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 1d

I must’ve been a postdoc at MIT or a new-ish engineering professor when I first heard the story of how Ben Barre overheard colleagues talking about how his research was so much better than his ‘sister’ Barbara’s.

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Apr 8

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist

"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 2d

Please read this letter to the Telegraph editor from @tactt.bsky.social about what looks like UKCP supporting conversion therapy (ie psychological torture) targeting children.

Response to Telegraph article

The Telegraph newspaper recently published an article claiming that leaders of membership bodies including the UKCP have been “ousted” for raising safeguarding concerns relating to gend…

therapistsagainsttransphobia.org

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, this really is how silly certain people sound.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

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Kaye
@kaye@cathode.church

Adopt the Juicero or be left behind. A vital shift is underway in juicing. The Juicero is no longer optional. It's tomorrow's future, today. 40% of jobs are impacted by the Juicero. The Juicero isn't the future, it's a present necessity. Nobody hand-juices anymore. To hand-juice is like an impairment. Everyone must now focus on the delegation and the verification of a juice. We become less juice producers and more juice enablers. Adopt the Juicero or be left behind. We are burning every forest and poisoning every river to produce more Juiceros. You will become obsolete if you don't get on the Juicero bandwagon. Students must not be taught how to hand-juice. 80% of jobs will be lost to the Juicero. Students must be taught to exclusively focus on how to collaborate with the Juicero. Education must focus on orchestrating agentic Juicero systems. The Juicero is inevitable. Adopt the Juicero or be left behind. Adapt or risk becoming obsolete. As the Juicero rapidly advances toward automating up to 90% of juicing, the skills that will matter most include juice design, Juicero fluency, juice delegation, and juice quality assurance. 110% of jobs have been replaced by the Juicero.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1d

March 2024: We launch a complaint against the IEA
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm

Charity Commission: IEA must change to address political bias | Good Law Project

After a formal complaint from Good Law Project, the charities regulator has told a radical rightwing think-tank to act on transparency and balance.

goodlaw.social

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 1d

Can anyone tell me when sex markers appeared on UK documents? Have they always been on UK birth certificates?

Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 2d

I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation

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

1/ Apparently, the employment tribunal in Darlington has turned into a circus 🎪 yesterday.

Jo Phoenix, a criminologist known for targeting trans women in prisons and her links to hate groups, is giving expert evidence. The NHS Trust’s lawyer has just asked her a single question.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 2d

I am a little late to this, but I have also requested my name and face to be removed from @cyclinguk.bsky.social publicity due to the decision to remove trans women from their awards.

Trans women are women, gender is on a spectrum (and I did a genetics degree), and cycling is for everyone. 🏳️‍⚧️🚲❤️

Saskia Heijltjes @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social · 4d

Like many others, I am disappointed and angry about the decision by @cyclinguk.bsky.social to change the eligibility criteria for Women in Cycling 2025 to exclude trans women.

Trans women are women 🏳️‍⚧️

I have requested for my name and face to be removed.

www.cyclingweekly.com/news/do-we-n...

'Do we need to exclude people even more?' – Cycling UK's 100 Women in Cycling criticised for not accepting nominations for trans women

Cycling charity say that only biological women can be on list

www.cyclingweekly.com

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Saskia Heijltjes @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social · 4d

Like many others, I am disappointed and angry about the decision by @cyclinguk.bsky.social to change the eligibility criteria for Women in Cycling 2025 to exclude trans women.

Trans women are women 🏳️‍⚧️

I have requested for my name and face to be removed.

www.cyclingweekly.com/news/do-we-n...

'Do we need to exclude people even more?' – Cycling UK's 100 Women in Cycling criticised for not accepting nominations for trans women

Cycling charity say that only biological women can be on list

www.cyclingweekly.com

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 2d

Today is Intersex Day of Solidarity and Remembrance.

It's an opportunity to highlight the continued struggles faced by intersex people globally, from unnecessary medical intervention or stigma.

We all deserve to be treated with dignity, and live a life free from discrimination.

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