New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢

This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID.

doi.org/10.1080/0958...

The Kite Trust are running a survey on how the puberty blocker ban has affected people from 16-24

www.instagram.com/p/DTdbulSFqj...

www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no... Sheffield University is under threat and we are doing our best to save it. Please, sign and share this petition to protest against the grotesque assault on university staff #Sheffield #againstculturalvandalism #UCUstrike @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Ninety UK universities to have posted accounts so far cut 13,300 jobs last year, spending £303 million on severance pay - sector-wide total clearly going to be well in excess of predicted 10,000. Great reporting by @patrickjack.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pay-spe...

Last week I had a new article published, comparing trans adolescent and family experiences in different UK healthcare services. 1/4

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.

Research Assistant opportunity for any White Rose DTP funded PhD student! 3 months to work on the LGBTQI+ Futures project with me, running creative and qualitative workshops on wellbeing and imagined futures with LGBTQI+ young adults across the UK.

wrdtp.ac.uk/lgbti-futures/

Gorgeous collection of sociological fiction and poetry in this (and all!) editions of SoFiZine. Very grateful to @awtsn.bsky.social for including a couple of my bits on ghosts//haunting//collective memories. sofizine.com/edition-18/

We’re on our 3rd day of (v cold) strike today @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out

Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can shorturl.at/EpeTe

This Saturday after painstaking research and FOIs by @clairestranstalks.bsky.social with @whatthetrans.com, we'll publish 'The Gender Clinic Files' in our newsletter:

A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare

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Italian unions call for general strike as global protests grow and multiple governments criticise Israel.

CfP for an exciting workshop I'm co-organising at the Uni of Sheffield - Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling Times.

(More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug)

tinyurl.com/qstorytelling

TKDB: "We will protest. We will protect. We will organise and we WILL outlast them. To every trans kid out there: we are NOT giving up and we WILL NOT let them bury your truth in shame or bureaucracy! To the ones we lost: your names are not forgotten. They are a battle cry!"

What can science fiction tell us about abolitionist futures and the path to utopia?

@philcrockettthomas.bsky.social @stirunicriminology.bsky.social @thesccjr.bsky.social on prison abolition activism, collaborative fictioning and the ideas of Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Really good piece by @annabull.bsky.social on how universities should respond to the EHRC's proposed segregation programme. The evidence points to trans people's heightened vulnerability to sexual harassment and violence - so single-sex policies must account for this.

CfP for an exciting workshop I'm co-organising at the Uni of Sheffield - Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling Times.

(More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug)

tinyurl.com/qstorytelling