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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 19h

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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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 17h

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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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 22h

Our Judicial Review of the EHRC: we've published our formal written case - together with that of the EHRC and Bridget Phillipson - and they are very much worth a read. goodlaw.social/7gs4

An update in our judicial review of the EHRC’s interim guidance | Good Law Project

We’re publishing key documents in our legal challenge against the interim guidance issued by the EHRC in the wake of the For Women Scotland decision.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 1d

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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

Council of Europe commissioner voices concerns after April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman

www.theguardian.com

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 1d

NHS England will soon be publishing its review of adult gender services. Trans Healthcare Coalition have created a breakdown of what the review is about, what outcomes we’d like to see, and more.

Find the full breakdown here: tinyurl.com/LevyExplaine...

#transhealthcare #NHS #LevyReview

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TaBelinda @tabelinda.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not going to lie I'm so scared of what the EHRC has sent in it will hurt so many including non trans

It will make the good I do for ALL the local community almost impossible to do

Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 1d

"The proposed Code of Practice is discriminatory and unworkable. It would lead to segregation, harassment and exclusion of trans and gender non-conforming people."

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 2d

www.scenemag.co.uk/jane-fae-a-d...

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 1d

Labour members: Bridget Phillipson is currently soliciting our votes to become the deputy leader of our party. Contact her campaign today at @backbridget.bsky.social or www.backbridget.com to let them know that your vote is contingent on her rejecting the bathroom ban being proposed by the EHRC.

Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 1d

Bridget Phillipson, Minister for Women & Equalities, has a decision to make.

Will she sign a bathroom ban in secret? 🕵️‍♂️ Or will she reject the EHRC Code that seeks to mandate the exclusion of trans people from public life?

The Code could be laid in Parliament any day now so this is really urgent. ⏰

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...

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TaBelinda @tabelinda.bsky.social · 1d

Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1d

I was speaking at a Trans Health conference in Oslo last week. We actually had TWO afterparties, an official one with food & an unofficial one the next day down the pub.

No violence at all. Just great trans (& cis) people & conviviality.

But you can bet that won't get reported in mainstream media.

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 1d

So as our country’s key businesses are ‘cyber’ attacked by Russia and China. We have Reform and the Tories attacking everything the Labour government does. Along with their pals in the media. This is not normal. This is dangerous.

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Grannies4Equality @grannies4equal.bsky.social · 2d

'Huge waiting times for trans healthcare in the NHS, in children’s & adult services, are by design. Better political & institutional decisions in Spain have removed this waiting list, delivering far better outcomes at a fraction of the cost'

growinguptransgender.com/2025/10/12/t...

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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TaBelinda @tabelinda.bsky.social · 1d

A real show of hate, no way can this ever be hidden behind free speech. It's about time this behaviour got called out for what it is.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian did a profile of Linehan last month in which they described a 57 year old man’s years-long obsession with harassing trans people as “gender activism”

What’s next? Is Tommy Robinson a race activist?

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 1d

A significant workplace discrimination win.
Well done Sophie!

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Trans postie sues Royal Mail for harassment and discrimination by colleagues

A trans postal worker has won a discrimination case against Royal Mail after suffering harassment from colleagues. Sophie Cole, 46, from Cambridge, was awarded £12,500 after an employment tribunal fou...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2d

Wes Streeting condemned some trans activists for vandalising a building. He will be condemning this, too, right?

naoarte 🎚️🦋🎀🤍🎀🦋🎚️ @naoarte.bsky.social · 2d

FiLiA Statement on yesterdays brawl between Jean Hatchett and Lucy Masoud. Possibly others...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Lower bills.

Fund our NHS.

Not their culture war nonsense.

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Zack Polanski HUMILIATES Piers Morgan LIVE On Air!

YouTube video by Antony Jones

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 2d

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/u...

Home Office releases updated hate crime stats– but they don't tell the full story

“These numbers don’t tell the full story for the LGBTQ+ community. Today’s headline data focuses on hate crimes reported outside of London," say Stonewall

www.thepinknews.com

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 2d

The multimillionaire who shaped modern Trans+ healthcare 👇

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/the-multimillionaire-who-shaped-modern-trans-healthcare/

The multimillionaire who shaped modern Trans+ healthcare

Erickson’s access to wealth and relationship to trans healthcare went on to greatly shape how Western gender clinics developed from the 1960s onwards

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Tired but resilient @elboricano.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps the lgbtq community wouldn’t need any sort of mental health help if they weren’t unfairly judged, persecuted, harassed, ridiculed, and shamed by those bigots in society (most likely closeted themselves) that are probably angry at them because they have the courage to be who they really are!?

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 2d

I love this so much 🥹

"How" @myoneandonlykat.bsky.social · 3d

Timeline cleanse!

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 2d

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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TaBelinda @tabelinda.bsky.social · 5d

On World Mental Health Day, Mental Health Together Have put out a wonderful publication showcasing the valuable work we do.

mentalhealthtogether.co.uk/reports-and-...

Click on the mentalhealthtogether.co.uk/wp-content/u... link to see the work we do (Yes sorry for the self promotion Im in here)

Promoting the value of Experts by Experience » Mental Health Together

This World Mental Health Day, professionals across Derby and Derbyshire are encouraged to recognise the value of lived experience in shaping mental health services.

mentalhealthtogether.co.uk

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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 9d

If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...

Australian report says UK’s Cass review should not guide transgender healthcare

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

qnews.com.au

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TaBelinda @tabelinda.bsky.social · 9d

An amazing group that need way more support than there getting

Please share in the hope of finding supporters to keep this amazing project alive

www.wearemakeshift.uk

Hello we are Make / Shift

We are Make / Shift, a small team collaborating with others to create projects which support communities in Amber Valley.

www.wearemakeshift.uk

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TaBelinda @tabelinda.bsky.social · 9d

Sophie Ellis-Bextor hits out at transphobia: “These people make trans people their whole personality and spend their entire day being angry”

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Sophie Ellis-Bextor hits out at transphobia: "These people make trans people their whole personality"

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has criticised increasing levels of transphobia in the UK and overseas in a new interview.

www.nme.com

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Annie Wallace @anniewallace.com · 9d

Circulate this widely. The so-called debate about the ECHR is nothing more nor less than an existential crisis for the UK. Brexit crippled us. Leaving the ECHR would completely destroy any moral authority we claimed to inhabit.
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Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?

YouTube video by The Guardian

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TaBelinda @tabelinda.bsky.social · 9d

FFS no more Imgur, this government are complete idiots, yet another site removing itself from the UK over the stupid age checks set up without any thought or planning