Dreamliner Again
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The question is, do you feel lucky, human? Well do ya?
To quote Liz Truss (who appointed Falkner), “that is a DISGRACE!”
No, really.
It’s beyond disgusting that the EHRC behaved in this way.
No, really.
It’s beyond disgusting that the EHRC behaved in this way.
51/ The EHRC Chief Executive, John Kirkpatrick, gave written evidence that it took less than a day to draft the guidance, and just over 24 hours in total to decide to publish it.
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
To quote Liz Truss (who appointed Falkner), “that is a DISGRACE!”
No, really.
It’s beyond disgusting that the EHRC behaved in this way.
No, really.
It’s beyond disgusting that the EHRC behaved in this way.
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50/ On the procedural aspect of Ground 2, Stilitz says it is inappropriate to rush, especially when there is no obligation to provide advice. Doing nothing is better than publishing guidance that is incomprehensible or harmful.
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Because the bigots in charge of the EHRC don’t see trans people as fully human…
48/ He says, this is in contrast to the old Code, nowhere in the guidance is there any mention of the dignity of trans people or sensitivity in handling these situations. The approach is blunt, matter-of-fact, and fails to account for the specific considerations at stake.
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Because the bigots in charge of the EHRC don’t see trans people as fully human…
The assymetry in risk of discrimination in the guidance is marked.
It’s almost as though the EHRC just decided to abandon trans people entirely 🤔
It’s almost as though the EHRC just decided to abandon trans people entirely 🤔
46/ The guidance mentions the risk of indirect sex discrimination against cis women.
Stilitz points out that there is also a risk of both direct and indirect discrimination affecting gender recognition, yet the guidance makes no reference to these risks, making it one-sided.
Stilitz points out that there is also a risk of both direct and indirect discrimination affecting gender recognition, yet the guidance makes no reference to these risks, making it one-sided.
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The assymetry in risk of discrimination in the guidance is marked.
It’s almost as though the EHRC just decided to abandon trans people entirely 🤔
It’s almost as though the EHRC just decided to abandon trans people entirely 🤔
I forget exactly when it was (@philippaeast.bsky.social?) but the EHRC at one point was pushing for a “biological” definition of sex, and they also had multiple meetings with the trans-eliminationists at Sex Matters.
They’d been waiting for the SC ruling.
They jumped the gun. And the shark?
They’d been waiting for the SC ruling.
They jumped the gun. And the shark?
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I forget exactly when it was (@philippaeast.bsky.social?) but the EHRC at one point was pushing for a “biological” definition of sex, and they also had multiple meetings with the trans-eliminationists at Sex Matters.
They’d been waiting for the SC ruling.
They jumped the gun. And the shark?
They’d been waiting for the SC ruling.
They jumped the gun. And the shark?
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a riff on the most famous johnny cash lyric in the replies to an article _about johnny cash_ being interpreted as a death threat is the type of braindead, uncultured and ignorant moderation we've come to expect from the mods here
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
a riff on the most famous johnny cash lyric in the replies to an article _about johnny cash_ being interpreted as a death threat is the type of braindead, uncultured and ignorant moderation we've come to expect from the mods here
This has baffled me since April.
“Proportionate” and “legitimate” were tossed out of the window the moment Falkner went on Radio 4 to announce that, henceforth, all trans people were banned from the loos that align with their gender.
“Proportionate” and “legitimate” were tossed out of the window the moment Falkner went on Radio 4 to announce that, henceforth, all trans people were banned from the loos that align with their gender.
35/ Any measures must be a proportionate means to a legitimate aim, designed to overcome or minimise social exclusion.
This consideration is not accounted for in the Commission’s guidance.
This consideration is not accounted for in the Commission’s guidance.
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This has baffled me since April.
“Proportionate” and “legitimate” were tossed out of the window the moment Falkner went on Radio 4 to announce that, henceforth, all trans people were banned from the loos that align with their gender.
“Proportionate” and “legitimate” were tossed out of the window the moment Falkner went on Radio 4 to announce that, henceforth, all trans people were banned from the loos that align with their gender.
My tea this evening has consisted of alcohol and chips (American friends… not that kind, the British kind). I’m about to dive into a Ben & Jerry’s.
Look, it’s been a shit day and the shitty calorific intake has made me feel a little better about myself, mmmkay?
Look, it’s been a shit day and the shitty calorific intake has made me feel a little better about myself, mmmkay?
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
My tea this evening has consisted of alcohol and chips (American friends… not that kind, the British kind). I’m about to dive into a Ben & Jerry’s.
Look, it’s been a shit day and the shitty calorific intake has made me feel a little better about myself, mmmkay?
Look, it’s been a shit day and the shitty calorific intake has made me feel a little better about myself, mmmkay?
“Regrettable” is a beautiful, almost poetic understatement.
21/ “It is regrettable that the EHRC, rather than carefully considering the judgment and proceeding cautiously, issued guidance that undermines the rights of trans people. That‘s why we are here.”
He now turns to the detailed grounds of challenge.
He now turns to the detailed grounds of challenge.
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“Regrettable” is a beautiful, almost poetic understatement.
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19/ He says the press summary, as read in the Supreme Court, too shows that the judgment does not move the dial by giving victory to “women’s rights” or defeating trans rights.
It is the EHRC guidance, not the court, that gives preeminence to “women’s rights” and reduction of trans rights.
It is the EHRC guidance, not the court, that gives preeminence to “women’s rights” and reduction of trans rights.
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Thread, for anyone wanting to know what happened on day one of @goodlawproject.bsky.social’s judicial review hearing.
Thanks to @reactiveashley.bsky.social for her reporting 🙏🏻
Thanks to @reactiveashley.bsky.social for her reporting 🙏🏻
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 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Thread, for anyone wanting to know what happened on day one of @goodlawproject.bsky.social’s judicial review hearing.
Thanks to @reactiveashley.bsky.social for her reporting 🙏🏻
Thanks to @reactiveashley.bsky.social for her reporting 🙏🏻
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18/ Counsel therefore submits that the old Code does not express a view on the question addressed in Scottish Ministers, so the Supreme Court judgment has no bearing on the continued correctness of the old Code.
He also referred to Lord Hodge’s interview with the press.
He also referred to Lord Hodge’s interview with the press.
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Ordered some things online
Website had QR code for tracking
Which asked me to download an app
Which required me to sign up
And link my Google account
To tell me that my order had been delivered
Or was on its way
Or was being prepared
It wasn’t sure
Neither am I
(Except that it’s not here)
Website had QR code for tracking
Which asked me to download an app
Which required me to sign up
And link my Google account
To tell me that my order had been delivered
Or was on its way
Or was being prepared
It wasn’t sure
Neither am I
(Except that it’s not here)
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Ordered some things online
Website had QR code for tracking
Which asked me to download an app
Which required me to sign up
And link my Google account
To tell me that my order had been delivered
Or was on its way
Or was being prepared
It wasn’t sure
Neither am I
(Except that it’s not here)
Website had QR code for tracking
Which asked me to download an app
Which required me to sign up
And link my Google account
To tell me that my order had been delivered
Or was on its way
Or was being prepared
It wasn’t sure
Neither am I
(Except that it’s not here)
~100 letters a day. Thank you!
If you haven’t done it already, could you spare 5 minutes to write to your MP? 👇🏻🙏🏻
If you haven’t done it already, could you spare 5 minutes to write to your MP? 👇🏻🙏🏻
I've a favour to ask of my cisgender UK followers. It'll take you 5 minutes!
Please use this template to write to your MP.
I know, I know... AGAIN. But this is to counter the letter-writing campaign undertaken by Sex Matters, who want the awful EHRC trans-exclusionary Code to be rushed through.
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Please use this template to write to your MP.
I know, I know... AGAIN. But this is to counter the letter-writing campaign undertaken by Sex Matters, who want the awful EHRC trans-exclusionary Code to be rushed through.
🙏🏻
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
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
~100 letters a day. Thank you!
If you haven’t done it already, could you spare 5 minutes to write to your MP? 👇🏻🙏🏻
If you haven’t done it already, could you spare 5 minutes to write to your MP? 👇🏻🙏🏻
Timeline cleanse.
Local walk. Autumn textures and colours.
Local walk. Autumn textures and colours.
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Timeline cleanse.
Local walk. Autumn textures and colours.
Local walk. Autumn textures and colours.
Beyond time that Sex Matters lost its charitable status.
Sex Matters coming swinging in to the BBC debate in the only way they can with the demand that trans people be expunged from all media content (unless they're being demonised).
Because that's their aim across society as well as media. Hate groups will push hate, they're just very open about it.
Because that's their aim across society as well as media. Hate groups will push hate, they're just very open about it.
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Beyond time that Sex Matters lost its charitable status.
I started to type a reply to this, based on my own experience.
It quickly became too dark, so I deleted it.
Make of that what you will.
It quickly became too dark, so I deleted it.
Make of that what you will.
I have a closeted, pre-transition transfemme friend in the UK who abandoned her dreams of coming out and transitioning specifically because of how the environment in the UK is. We all embraced her coming out online. But she knew society wouldn't in person. It's crushing. I just want her to be happy.
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I started to type a reply to this, based on my own experience.
It quickly became too dark, so I deleted it.
Make of that what you will.
It quickly became too dark, so I deleted it.
Make of that what you will.
Wes Streeting is a lickspittle cunt.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Wes Streeting is a lickspittle cunt.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
I mixed up infer and imply.
I'm going to go and hang my head in shame. I'm a professional writer FFS.
I'm going to go and hang my head in shame. I'm a professional writer FFS.
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I mixed up infer and imply.
I'm going to go and hang my head in shame. I'm a professional writer FFS.
I'm going to go and hang my head in shame. I'm a professional writer FFS.
“Objections to the presence of trans people solely on the basis of prejudice or lack of respect for their human rights cannot constitute reasonable grounds for excluding them”
A careful, and compelling analysis, of how the Equality Act operates post the awful Supreme Court decision, from the woman who guided the Act through Parliament. www.linkedin.com/pulse/does-e...
Does the Equality Act ban trans women from women's services?
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers (FWS) on 16 April this year that “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 (EA2010) means biological sex, there has been si...
www.linkedin.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
“Objections to the presence of trans people solely on the basis of prejudice or lack of respect for their human rights cannot constitute reasonable grounds for excluding them”
Has any democracy (successfully) banned the use of VPNs?
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Has any democracy (successfully) banned the use of VPNs?
Age yourself with gaming 🎮
November 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Age yourself with gaming 🎮
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The way I look at is, I’m a woman because I’m a woman. It’s not ideology, it’s me. A trans woman is a woman in exactly the same way. A trans man is a man because that’s who they are. None of us makes a conscious decision. It’s just we are what we are.
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The way I look at is, I’m a woman because I’m a woman. It’s not ideology, it’s me. A trans woman is a woman in exactly the same way. A trans man is a man because that’s who they are. None of us makes a conscious decision. It’s just we are what we are.
<sigh>
Authoritarian overreach incoming.
Authoritarian overreach incoming.
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
<sigh>
Authoritarian overreach incoming.
Authoritarian overreach incoming.