Reads: What is trans-exclusionary data activism? And the logo for the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab.
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...
We have launched a survey to understand how LGBTQIA+ people and organisations in civil society are being affected by legal and regulatory changes on the definition of ‘sex’ and ‘gender’.
Click the link to complete the survey:
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Let's be very clear what's happened: the BMA has been trying to negotiate with the govt for months (when there was no flu epidemic). As late as November the BMA were trying to get round the table & wrote a letter to Wes Streeting. He didn't bother replying.
🗣️ 65% of trans adults reported verbal abuse in public spaces
👊 24% said they have suffered physical violence
A new YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK:
https://goodlaw.social/u5y8
The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major
The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.
Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
🆕️🚨 After painstaking research, dozens of FOIs and months of analysis we release the Gender Clinic Files which reveal waiting times for every GIC in the country.
They lay bare, how far off the mark the Health Secretary's estimation of the average wait is 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...
Some good news.
London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.
The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
the UK's new anti-trans rules are indefensible & will make global fascism stronger
my latest with @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...
Aaah. Yes, they changed the boundary before the last election.
@jamesasser.bsky.social have you requested the above please?
The Quakers are doing exactly what all public services are legally allowed to do even if the EHRC wants to pretend they're not: say gender-based toilets are inclusive and for anyone bothered by that as a matter of belief, there are stand-alone cubicles that they are very free to use. 1/
Author wearing a rainbow dyed t-shirt takes a photo of them showing off their book, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law.
My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
Please get in touch with Netpol if you have been affected by police stop and search as a trans person following the interim guidance
Experiences of trans segregation following the Supreme Court ruling. A new report from TransActual shows Trans and Cis people face job loss, violence, vigilantism and wholesale exclusion following the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC guidance. tinyurl.com/trans-segregation -in-practice
A new report from TransActual shows that trans and cisgender people face job loss, violence, vigilantism and wholesale exclusion following the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC guidance.
Read the report at: tinyurl.com/trans-segreg...
#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #EqualityAct #EHRC #TransRights
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This thread is the reality that me and other parents supporting trans kids are living right now.
The UK is pushing conversion on all trans kids, and directing state violence against anyone who tries to provide the affirmative healthcare and social support that is a basic right for any trans kid.
Reform council in Kent is removing 'trans books' from school libraries, on the basis of a (ONE) "concerned member of the public", who may or may not have kids in Kent schools. If you live in Kent, especially if your kids go to school there, hope you'll push back.
Enigma is available in the UK on Now TV!
The biggest democracy in the world 👇🏼
"Justice Venkata Jyothirmai Pratapa..[]..rejected arguments that tie womanhood exclusively to reproductive capacity, declaring such views “legally unsustainable” and contrary to the Indian constitution’s guarantees of dignity, equality, and identity"
It’s now being said by Westminster staff, that today was the largest mass lobbying in UK Parliament history. Historically, trans ppl have always led Queer liberation; today shows that proud history continue.
Politicians are seeing, in real life, the impact of their nasty rhetoric & policies.
I’m a queer Palestinian. Stop using my identity as cover for the destruction of Gaza
@jadsalfiti.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
TW: harm to children.
My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review.
It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban.
Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...
The EHRC's lawyers admitted its position re. toilets adopted in its interim update (specifically mandating employers to have single-sex toilets instead of individual gender neutral cubicles) was wrong.
We think they're even more wrong still, though.
NEW: Meta’s policy rollbacks are driving a surge in hate, fear, and self-censorship for LGBTQ people and other marginalized communities. Read the findings from GLAAD, @ultraviolet.bsky.social & @weareallout.bsky.social 👉 makemetasafe.org #MakeMetaSafe
Let’s remember what Jo Cox said IN FULL and not what the trash More In Common foundation edited it down to.
Koko employing literal toilet police feels so dystopian.
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Responding to the EHRC Consultation? We've gathered tools and resources from LGBT+ organisations to support you!
Find everything you need in one place:
🔗 consortium.lgbt/2025/06/04/responding-to-ehrc-consultation-june2025/
Good news! UCU have won an employment tribunal against the directors of the film 'Adult Human Female,' who claimed UCU's protest against the screening of the film represented discrimination and harassment due to their GC beliefs. UCU press release here for details:
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404...
