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Keyne
@keyne-unable.bsky.social
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Folk devil ¦ wonkish agitator for climate @Transition-Network and trans lib @TransActualUK/TMW ¦ probably touching grass instead of being here ¦ does other things but don't worry about it ¦ views not mine either ¦ pronounced like cane ¦ they/them
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ciaramoloney.bsky.social
i'm fascinated by how much people love and are amazed by chat gpt saying "nice catch!" and "great observation!" because i personally find the condescension and obsequiousness the most skin-crawling thing about how LLMs "talk"
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14d
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
This is true solidarity from @robinince.bsky.social and it will be returned in kind.
thegmcconnachie.bsky.social Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 18d
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
Hugely important role + opportunity for someone who is serious about both overhauling organisational strategy, branding and processes for campaigning impact, and getting out and about in the media to counter misinfo about trans people with facts and clear values. Is it you?
philippaeast.bsky.social Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 21d
Come work for TransActual!
We are recruiting a Communications Lead 🤗
We will also soon be advertising for a Fundraising Officer.
Full details here:
transactual.org.uk/jobs/
@transactualuk.bsky.social
Communications Lead (closing date 25th January 2026) Key info Closing date: Sunday 25th January 2026 at 23:59. Job pack: Communications Lead job pack Application form: Communications Lead application form Annual salary: £42,400 Hours: 37.5 hours per week (full time) Location: UK based, mainly remote with occasional in person work Overview of the role: TransActual is recruiting a Communications Lead to join our rapidly growing team. You’ll be working alongside our board and Senior Management team to develop and implement a communications strategy across all media channels that supports the accurate representation of TransActual’s work to the wider world and our mission to advocate, empower and inform. We are looking for someone with strong interpersonal skills both in terms of understanding and responding to underlying questions in a sometimes hostile media environment, identifying the effective ways of proactively and reactively communicating about our advocacy goals, and working closely with our Policy Lead, Director of Operations and for Healthcare, staff team, board and volunteers to achieve that. Your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the creation of a communications strategy, communications processes, protocols and standards, press releasing and liaison, and line management of our communications officer. You will be responsible for forward planning of communications where events are foreseeable and will also be required to enable rapid and sensitive response to unpredictable events and consequent media inquiries. We particularly welcome and encourage applications from trans people, Black People and People of Colour, neurodivergent people and disabled people.
December 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
The clarity, dignity and compassion continues to intensify...
peterwalker99.bsky.social Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 20d
Very good explainer/analysis by top colleague @libbybrooks.bsky.social on the legal aftermath of the Sandie Peggie employment tribunal result, and the way organisations are still left tiptoeing across a minefield of rights, duties, and potential lawsuits.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Does the NHS trans doctor ruling mean there is no bathroom ban?
Some businesses still waiting for final EHRC guidance while firms that moved early to exclude trans people show no sign of backtracking
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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scotnational.bsky.social
Read the full story: www.thenational.scot/news/2568550...
I read the Sandie Peggie ruling. Here are nine key points the media missed out
MEDIA coverage of the tribunal ruling on Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife has one common characteristic: a disconnect from what the tribunal ruling…
www.thenational.scot
December 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
“This is a moment that requires bravery. Organisations that value trans people should know not just that the law is on their side – but so, also, are many people who will step up to defend them if they have the courage to take a stand” – @jessothomson.co.uk
https://bit.ly/44CyMa3
The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson
Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too, says Jess O’Thomson of the Good Law Project
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
The reporting was so bad that LOTO and half the prominent GCs all started celebrating the 'victory' (and spreading the misinfo in the process) and then had to issue clarifications about how it's actually a terrible ruling once they learned the detail. Honestly astounding levels of biased reporting.
thatdocphoenix.com Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 22d
Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US
December 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:

"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."

All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
"supermarkets don't sell booze to a kid"

How do you manage to fuck up *examples* so badly that you choose one of the only things in this country that requires a person to check your photo ID, tryna demonstrate nobody having to check your ID.

Surprised the Times didn't give her a do-over...
polphilpod.bsky.social Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 25d
falkner argues the bathroom ban will be self-enforcing

just like *checks notes* . . . traffic laws
December 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
Always a breath of fresh air to read US media on the UK trans panic...

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trans-...
Women And Girls' Groups 'Pushed To Force Out Trans People', Charity Claims
Both the Women's Institute and Girlguiding recently announced changes to their policies.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
Being a trans ally in this country is hard. No question. But the key attribute of it is the fortitude to resist. It's no good knowing what's right if you let yourself be bullied by the powerful, or even (incorrectly interpreted) unjust laws. To say no, you get us this way or you don't get us.
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
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:
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
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 3:21 PM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
This. There's something deeply wrong with our media and political environment that half of them convinced themselves this completely batshit idea is what actually genuinely happened. And the other half (minus some notable exceptions) know better but go along with it.
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28d
All of the UK is pretending that the UK secretly passed the equality act in 2010 that required a national bathroom ban along with a full ban of trans people from society and it was only discovered fifteen years later. It's obscene.
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
The important and unanswered question is how the WI intend to enforce this. People, including trans people, have a legal right to not disclose their gender, sex or trans status. And for those who have GRCs, they have legal protections against being outed. (1/x)
transactualuk.bsky.social TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 28d
In the past 48 hours both Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute (WI) have announced changed membership policies. After seeking legal advice, they felt left with no option but to exclude trans girls and women from membership.
Statement on new membership policies from WI and Girl Guiding. In the past 48 hours both Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute (WI) have announced changed membership policies. After seeking legal advice, they felt left with no option but to exclude trans girls and women from membership.
December 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
"architects are cooked" my dude that is a floorplan. Do you think that is what architects do.

But more importantly what is this door. Naked gun movie sightgag ass design work.
Part of the diagram showing a partial wall that you could walke, with a door through it anyway just a few feet from where the wall ends.
December 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
It's much easier for westminster to get extremely exercised about procedural stuff like this than it'd be to have the same level of amazement at all the batshit unprecedented overton-window-slamming policy announcements people come out with. They can vent without losing access to said batshit folk.
jayzedbee.bsky.social Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · Nov 26
You know this govt deserves to be unpopular but hard to avoid the conclusion that it gets treated by the bbc like a govt that decided to nuke a old persons home when its just sort of shit
jorisbinned.bsky.social Kate Garraway Enjoyer @jorisbinned.bsky.social · Nov 26
Mate you need to chill the fuck out lmao
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Every elite authority in the UK appears to have lost their mind in precisely the same way
Reading a summary of her judgment, the judge said she was not satisfied that Linehan’s conduct amounted to harassment or that the complainant was as distressed as they made themselves out to be. In one video of Brooks confronting Linehan, the judge said that the activist looked “visibly happy and not distressed”. She said that Linehan had not tagged the activist in his social media posts, bar one, and that while his comments were “deeply unpleasant, insulting and even unnecessary”, they were not “oppressive or unacceptable beyond merely unattractive, annoying or irritating”. But the judge found that Linehan had taken Brooks’s phone because he was “angry and fed up”, and had damaged it by knocking it to the ground. She said that while the offence was not aggravated by the fact the complainant is transgender, it was because they were 17-years-old at the time. Reading a summary of her judgment, the judge said she was not satisfied that Linehan’s conduct amounted to harassment or that the complainant was as distressed as they made themselves out to be. In one video of Brooks confronting Linehan, the judge said that the activist looked “visibly happy and not distressed”. She said that Linehan had not tagged the activist in his social media posts, bar one, and that while his comments were “deeply unpleasant, insulting and even unnecessary”, they were not “oppressive or unacceptable beyond merely unattractive, annoying or irritating”. But the judge found that Linehan had taken Brooks’s phone because he was “angry and fed up”, and had damaged it by knocking it to the ground. She said that while the offence was not aggravated by the fact the complainant is transgender, it was because they were 17-years-old at the time.
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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transactualuk.bsky.social
The draft EHRC Code of Practice, as reported in the Times, now admits that there is no way to enforce the anti-trans bathroom ban other than based on policing the appearance and gender presentation of all service users.

#EHRC #TransRights #ScrapTheBathroomBan #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct
Statement on leaked EHRC draft Statutory Code, The draft EHRC Code of Practice, as reported in the Times, now admits that there is no way to enforce the anti-trans bathroom ban other than based on policing the appearance and gender presentation of all service users. Full Statement on our website
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
A clear weakness of the framing rhetoric of 'evidence based policymaking' in politics. It allows for bad actors to set ridiculously high or low evidence thresholds and then invoke the authority of science or rationality for their evil ends. Not new, but ever clearer.
ddiamond.bsky.social Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Nov 20
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
Autism and Vaccines QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS PAGE 2 OF 9 | ALL PAGES J For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. HHS Research on Plausible Biologic Mechanisms between Vaccines and Autism HHS will evaluate plausible biologic mechanisms between early childhood vaccinations and autism. Mechanisms for further investigation include the impacts of aluminum adjuvants, risks for certain children with mitochondrial disorders, harms of neuroinflammation, and more. * The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
Not very important really, but dispiriting the way we - collectively - have a goldfish-like memory for who has been actively persecuting trans people for the last decade. Maybe the tragic result of having been paying attention for too long. Or maybe it's being locked out of publications of record...
dadtrans.bsky.social TransHealthNow @dadtrans.bsky.social · Nov 11
Some of us remember when Maitlis said that primary age school kids are having gender confirmation surgery. The BBC anti Trans bias goes back nearly a decade #BBCTransphobia
Tweet by emily maitlis on Twitter Jan 11, 2017. "should primary school age children be allowed to decide if they're ready for gender reassignment surgery? #newsnight"
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
Tired of not being able to celebrate awful people losing their powerful positions because they are being forced out and replaced by worse people.
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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fiercemum.bsky.social
To be really clear, Sussex ICB threatened, in writing, to close a Brighton GP practice serving 25,000 patients, purely to bully them into passing over child records. The GP did not want to pass on these records, because they understood the acute risk (& reality) of harm to trans adolescents.
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
Was about to wade into NIMBY discourse again until I decided to treat myself by simply not doing that, but solidarity with the Peckham campaigners holding out for housing worth having.
November 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
100%, some of y'all need to read the Braindead Megaphone essay again and internalise the lesson of actively leading our own conversations instead of reacting to the idiot.

open.ocolearnok.org/app/uploads/...
October 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
keyne-unable.bsky.social
Oh the EHRC are suddenly feeling shy! Come on now, you recommended this change to the law in 2023 and intervened supportively in the supreme court case but you don't want any of the credit?

Bit late now to just be neutrally enforcing the law isn't it...

www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/defaul...
“As Britain’s independent equality regulator, we uphold and enforce the Equality Act. We do not make the law – it’s our job to accurately explain how it works in practice – as we have done at every opportunity since the Supreme Court’s judgment on the definition of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act.” From https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/24/ehrc-call-to-be-downgraded/
October 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM