Katie Neeves - Cool2BTrans - Trans Ambassador
@cool2btrans.bsky.social
Inspirational speaking, event hosting, presenting & trans awareness training with heart, humour & humanity. National Diversity Awards Positive Role Model for LGBT 2025. British Diversity Awards Hero of the Year.
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Reform council leader accused of racism after alleged remarks about Sadiq Khan
Reform council leader accused of racism after alleged remarks about Sadiq Khan
Ian Cooper allegedly called Khan ‘narcissistic Pakistani’ and made comments about lawyer Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
A Reform UK council leader has been accused of racism after allegedly describing Sadiq Khan as a “narcissistic Pakistani” and saying a black British lawyer should have “F’d off back to Nigeria”.
Ian Cooper, the leader of Staffordshire county council, is also said to have attacked the justice secretary, David Lammy, in a social media post that said: “No foreign national or first generation migrant should be allowed to sit in parliament.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Reform council leader accused of racism after alleged remarks about Sadiq Khan
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There's not much left of the rule of law if organisations can be financially bullied into not asserting their legal rights. goodlaw.social/sb50
Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.
goodlaw.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
There's not much left of the rule of law if organisations can be financially bullied into not asserting their legal rights. goodlaw.social/sb50
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1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999 Drafting Instructions - a Freedom of Information request to Government Equalities Office
Please send me copies of the Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999’s Drafting Instructions given to the Parliamentary Counsel. If you can’t locate all versions, send me any one of th...
www.whatdotheyknow.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
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Anyone still on X? Just wondering how many 'British GC and Proud' accounts are actually Russian.
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Anyone still on X? Just wondering how many 'British GC and Proud' accounts are actually Russian.
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I don't want any trans child to feel alone.
I see being trans as being a bit of a superpower.
I’m lucky to be who I am & I want every child that’s growing up trans now, might be thinking what’s the future going to be like? It’s going to be all right❤️🏳️⚧️
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/o...
I see being trans as being a bit of a superpower.
I’m lucky to be who I am & I want every child that’s growing up trans now, might be thinking what’s the future going to be like? It’s going to be all right❤️🏳️⚧️
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/o...
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I don't want any trans child to feel alone.
I see being trans as being a bit of a superpower.
I’m lucky to be who I am & I want every child that’s growing up trans now, might be thinking what’s the future going to be like? It’s going to be all right❤️🏳️⚧️
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/o...
I see being trans as being a bit of a superpower.
I’m lucky to be who I am & I want every child that’s growing up trans now, might be thinking what’s the future going to be like? It’s going to be all right❤️🏳️⚧️
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/o...
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🧵 On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we’re stressing the gendered nature of anti-trans violence.
#TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #CERV #EndVAW #VAW
#TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #CERV #EndVAW #VAW
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🧵 On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we’re stressing the gendered nature of anti-trans violence.
#TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #CERV #EndVAW #VAW
#TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #CERV #EndVAW #VAW
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Thank you, @joshbabarinde.bsky.social for pressing the government on today's appalling leaked EHRC proposals. It is both sickening and predictable that they should leak on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Thank you for committing the @libdems.org.uk to standing up for our rights.
November 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Thank you, @joshbabarinde.bsky.social for pressing the government on today's appalling leaked EHRC proposals. It is both sickening and predictable that they should leak on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Thank you for committing the @libdems.org.uk to standing up for our rights.
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VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
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Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
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It's completely unlawful as a matter of Strasbourg law - it shows no regard to the dignity or privacy of trans people - but whether this will detain a Labour Party which has shown itself willing to undermine the human rights of other groups attacked by the Far Right is a moot point.
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
It's completely unlawful as a matter of Strasbourg law - it shows no regard to the dignity or privacy of trans people - but whether this will detain a Labour Party which has shown itself willing to undermine the human rights of other groups attacked by the Far Right is a moot point.
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At least it's honest, right? Intrusive questioning of women who don't conform to norms about how they should look, and women then being banned if they tell their inquisitor to mind his own sodding business, has always been the logical end point for the patriarchal project that is TERFdom.
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
At least it's honest, right? Intrusive questioning of women who don't conform to norms about how they should look, and women then being banned if they tell their inquisitor to mind his own sodding business, has always been the logical end point for the patriarchal project that is TERFdom.
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I have also to say, again, shame on the UK Supreme Court. Whatever led us here, it is absolutely not its apolitical application of the law.
Am increasingly with the very senior UK barrister who is telling her colleagues: "at least with the US Supreme Court you know what their politics are."
Am increasingly with the very senior UK barrister who is telling her colleagues: "at least with the US Supreme Court you know what their politics are."
At least it's honest, right? Intrusive questioning of women who don't conform to norms about how they should look, and women then being banned if they tell their inquisitor to mind his own sodding business, has always been the logical end point for the patriarchal project that is TERFdom.
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I have also to say, again, shame on the UK Supreme Court. Whatever led us here, it is absolutely not its apolitical application of the law.
Am increasingly with the very senior UK barrister who is telling her colleagues: "at least with the US Supreme Court you know what their politics are."
Am increasingly with the very senior UK barrister who is telling her colleagues: "at least with the US Supreme Court you know what their politics are."
Today (20th November) is Transgender Day of Remembrance. It's a day which was originally set up to remember all the trans people who lost their lives as a result of anti-trans violence.
#TDOR #TDOR2025 #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance
#TDOR #TDOR2025 #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Today (20th November) is Transgender Day of Remembrance. It's a day which was originally set up to remember all the trans people who lost their lives as a result of anti-trans violence.
#TDOR #TDOR2025 #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance
#TDOR #TDOR2025 #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance
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Trans Day of Remembrance is today.
The link below gives details of just some of the #trans, #nonbinary and gender nonconforming people we have lost in the past year.
#SayTheirNames #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025
tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/tdor...
The link below gives details of just some of the #trans, #nonbinary and gender nonconforming people we have lost in the past year.
#SayTheirNames #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025
tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/tdor...
Remembering Our Dead - Reports - TDoR 2025
1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025
tdor.translivesmatter.info
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Trans Day of Remembrance is today.
The link below gives details of just some of the #trans, #nonbinary and gender nonconforming people we have lost in the past year.
#SayTheirNames #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025
tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/tdor...
The link below gives details of just some of the #trans, #nonbinary and gender nonconforming people we have lost in the past year.
#SayTheirNames #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025
tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/tdor...
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"The judge described this as the "grotesque behaviour" of a teacher putting his own "ridiculous sense of himself" above the needs of pupils. He said Mr Burke was willing to sacrifice the pupils of the school on the altar of his fanatical campaign against transgenderism." www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
High Court orders Enoch Burke be imprisoned immediately
The High Court has said that Enoch Burke and his family have engaged in the most deliberate, sustained and concerted attack on the civil courts and the rule of law in this country in recent times and ...
www.rte.ie
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"The judge described this as the "grotesque behaviour" of a teacher putting his own "ridiculous sense of himself" above the needs of pupils. He said Mr Burke was willing to sacrifice the pupils of the school on the altar of his fanatical campaign against transgenderism." www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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1. In a major update, the Trump administration has reversed course publicly, and now says "all passports" will remain valid until they expire for transgender people.
This comes after many outlets reported a message that indicated passports could be revoked.
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This comes after many outlets reported a message that indicated passports could be revoked.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
1. In a major update, the Trump administration has reversed course publicly, and now says "all passports" will remain valid until they expire for transgender people.
This comes after many outlets reported a message that indicated passports could be revoked.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This comes after many outlets reported a message that indicated passports could be revoked.
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Anti-trans extremists poured millions into fearmongering, hoping cruelty could substitute for leadership — and once again, it failed.
Read more: https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/11/13/pro-trans-candidates-triumph-despite-millions-in-transphobic-ads/
Read more: https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/11/13/pro-trans-candidates-triumph-despite-millions-in-transphobic-ads/
November 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Anti-trans extremists poured millions into fearmongering, hoping cruelty could substitute for leadership — and once again, it failed.
Read more: https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/11/13/pro-trans-candidates-triumph-despite-millions-in-transphobic-ads/
Read more: https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/11/13/pro-trans-candidates-triumph-despite-millions-in-transphobic-ads/
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Trans and non-binary people have always existed, and will always exist — as our neighbors, family, and friends. They’re just as American, just as human, and it’s up to ALL OF US to fight for their rights.
Join us and tell your story to add to our 1 Million Voices for Equality pledge: hrc.im/voices
Join us and tell your story to add to our 1 Million Voices for Equality pledge: hrc.im/voices
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Trans and non-binary people have always existed, and will always exist — as our neighbors, family, and friends. They’re just as American, just as human, and it’s up to ALL OF US to fight for their rights.
Join us and tell your story to add to our 1 Million Voices for Equality pledge: hrc.im/voices
Join us and tell your story to add to our 1 Million Voices for Equality pledge: hrc.im/voices
1 - Most people have never knowingly met a trans person and that's why it's so easy for trans-hostile politicians and media to dehumanise us. When people actually get to people like me and my fellow trans speaker colleagues, they realise that we are just ordinary people who want to be happy.
November 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
1 - Most people have never knowingly met a trans person and that's why it's so easy for trans-hostile politicians and media to dehumanise us. When people actually get to people like me and my fellow trans speaker colleagues, they realise that we are just ordinary people who want to be happy.
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This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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1/🧵 Day 2 of 2. Today at 10:30am, High Court in London, Court 1, before Mr Justice Swift, R (Good Law Project, on the application of) v Equality and Human Rights Commission, a rolled-up hearing for judicial review of EHRC’s “interim update”.
No live reporting, sorry.
No live reporting, sorry.
1/🧵 Today at 10:30am, High Court in London, Court 1, before Mr Justice Swift, R (Good Law Project, on the application of) v Equality and Human Rights Commission, a rolled-up hearing for judicial review of EHRC’s “interim update” (Day 1 of 2)
No live reporting, sorry.
No live reporting, sorry.
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
1/🧵 Day 2 of 2. Today at 10:30am, High Court in London, Court 1, before Mr Justice Swift, R (Good Law Project, on the application of) v Equality and Human Rights Commission, a rolled-up hearing for judicial review of EHRC’s “interim update”.
No live reporting, sorry.
No live reporting, sorry.
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The hearing in our judicial review challenge to the EHRC's (now withdrawn) Interim Guidance has finished. Judgment will follow later. No indication given as to when but he's usually pretty efficient and I would be surprised if we didn't get a judgment before Christmas.
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The hearing in our judicial review challenge to the EHRC's (now withdrawn) Interim Guidance has finished. Judgment will follow later. No indication given as to when but he's usually pretty efficient and I would be surprised if we didn't get a judgment before Christmas.
Today marks the start of Trans Awareness Week 2025, as it runs from the 13th to the 19th of November every year.
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Today marks the start of Trans Awareness Week 2025, as it runs from the 13th to the 19th of November every year.