Alex
@alexical.bsky.social
Software/DevOps in the public sector. Non-binary trans (they/them).
This is a very good explainer of why the EHRC code is surprising even within the current case law This is a legislative issue, the law will need to change to unravel this mess, but a greater degree of accurate clarity for duty bearers on these points would make a big everyday difference until then
Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 11h agoWe have also written a detailed legal explainer about why we think the code of practice gets the law wrong.
❌ "ADHD is a legitimate disorder that affects millions" ✅ "the eugenics gang never planned on stopping at trans people or autism. they're coming for all of us. knuckle the fuck up."
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
❌ "she's doxxing a trans woman" ❌ "men can be survivors too" ❌ "she's violating patient privacy" ✅ "she's fine with people she doesn't like being raped"
❌ "he wasn't the person targeted by the warrant!" ✅ "they fucking murdered a guy" ❌ "plenty of cis people need hormone treatments for medical conditions" ✅ "they're doing a genocide"
created an infographic to explain why arguing the hypocrisy of fascist talking points only helps erode your point. don't fight bad faith with good faith. don't engage with their point. don't meet them where they are. they're killing people. eat their frame.
Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 11mo agoif they say something and you say that's not true, your response is still shaped like their frame Your frame has to *contain and explain* their frame, not just contradict it. You have to eat their frame. Like Kirby
Every one of these debates is the exact same thing: "Can you theoretically imagine someone abusing this for nefarious goals?" "Yes." "Is it happening?" "No or negligibly." "Are there safeguards in place?" "Yes." "Should we very cruelly over-react in ways that hurt people anyway?" "Yes!"
We are aware that NHS England is implementing a change to how it records patient data, prioritising ‘sex observed at birth’ over gender and other medically-relevant data. transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/07...
This sucks. It’s likely due to the fact that our division began this policy, not the overall university. The division wanted to keep the policy but it placed pressure on the overall uni to roll out a good policy uni-wide. Instead they decided to make MPLS reverse a good thing, shafting ECR parents
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · last wk.Oxford University's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division will no longer underwrite parental leave for all fixed-term researchers. This reverses its previous policy where all fixed-term researchers had their contracts extended to cover parental leave, regardless of funding.
It's in a trans friendly field camp listening to a jungle radio set DJed by Terry Wogan (impersonated) over a phone service that you call into, that really underlines how much most spaces are miserable because they've been engineered to be miserable on purpose by ppl worried what fun might lead to.
I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact
Note the use of “intention” in this exception, it’s a glaring admission that the NHS’s “gender exploratory therapy” is conversion therapy with the explicit intent to deny the person’s gender identity
As a conversion therapy survivor: No, this ban has so many loopholes that it will not protect people from conversion therapy. The healthcare exemption's breadth is worrying, it's hard to even figure out what this bill even bans.
Bedwellj101@alyx.whatthetrans.com · last mo.Draft bill on conversion practices is out. Lots of loopholes in it www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-conversion-practices-bill/conversion-practices-draft-bill
The draft bill allows for conversation practices which aren't "abusive", or which are abusive but don't cause "serious harm" to someone's physical or mental health. Abusive conversion practices that cause serious harm are allowed in healthcare even if the conduct falls below professional standards.
Bedwellj101@alyx.whatthetrans.com · last mo.Draft bill on conversion practices is out. Lots of loopholes in it www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-conversion-practices-bill/conversion-practices-draft-bill
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
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Not only mentioning the plaque, but other counts as well, which are documented at length. Menon KC's closing statement is worth a read, I think www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
![Indeed, it was as long ago as 1670 that the independence of the jury was definitively established
beyond question. William Penn and William Mead were Quakers; they were prosecuted for
preaching to an unlawful assembly. It was a crime in 1670, this is about 20, 30 years after the
end of the English Civil War, to have a religious assembly of more than five people outside the
auspices of the Church of England.
And what William Penn and William Mead had done was they had preached to a group of ore
than five people on the streets of London; they stood trial at the Old Bailey before a judge and
jury. At the end of the evidence the judge directed the jury to convict, the jury refused to
convict.
The judge was furious, he ordered the jury to convict again and stated that they would not be
dismissed until they did so; the jury again refused to convict. The judge remanded the entire
jury in custody for two days and ordered that they be denied all food and water. As the jurors
were being taken from court to prison, William Penn, it is said, shouted out, ‘You are
Englishmen, mind your privilege, give not away your right’, to which one member of the jury,
Edward Bushell, it is said, replied, ‘Nor shall we ever do’.
When the jury returned to court two days later, having not had any food or water for that period,
the judge again ordered them to convict; the jury continued to refuse and returned a verdict of
not guilty. The judge was determined not to let the matter lie; he fined the jury for contempt of
court and remanded them in custody until the fines were paid. Eight jurors paid their fines, four
jurors refused to pay and one of those jurors was Edward Bushell.
Edward Bushell then petitioned a Higher Court in what is called a writ of [habeas] corpus,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2qwpeisxhznwdjfylihurdp4/bafkreicpmtyamdq6hftje2v4gs72m7gd3flayg5qw6ny5mbvhx42wc3djm)
![which if issued by the court would result in his immediate release from custody. The Higher
Court issued that writ and Edward Bushell and the three other jurors were released, thereby
establishing the right of a jury to return a verdict without fear of punishment from the trial
judge.
Now, this legal challenge by Edward Bushell has come to be known as Bushell’s Case and is
one of the most celebrated cases in British legal history. There is a marble plaque inside the
Old Bailey in Central London, which reads as follows: ‘Near this site, William Penn and
William Mead were tried in 1670 for preaching to an unlawful assembly in Grace Church
Street. This tablet commemorates the courage and endurance of the jury, Thomas Vere, Edward
Bushell and 10 others, who refused to give a verdict against them, although locked up without
food for two nights and were fined for their final verdict of not guilty. The case of these jury
men was reviewed under a writ of [habeas] corpus and Chief Justice Vaughan delivered the
opinion of the Court, which established the right of juries to give their verdict according to
their convictions’.
So, bringing that all together, members of the jury, you can find Charlotte and her
co-defendants not guilty of criminal damage; it is a perfectly fair and proper verdict for you to
return in this case. Please do not for one second think that you are somehow barred as a matter
of law from doing so, indeed, you should find Charlotte and her co-defendants not guilty of
criminal damage.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2qwpeisxhznwdjfylihurdp4/bafkreif7ka53g2txmtexfy4nf3l425oyukn7knght63isj4hwfydb42pt4)
Netpol@netpol.org · last mo.Judge Johnson has decided that Filton Four barrister Rajiv Menon KC has a case to answer for alleged contempt of court and has referred it to a senior judge to find a High Court judge to preside. Rajiv faces a criminal trial for telling a jury about a plaque outside the Old Bailey.
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now living in a country that fully cares about and supports my child, we are still traumatised. We are the lucky ones, we got out. So many families don't have the means to do the same. I am so angry that my child was forced to leave his family and friends behind, and he doesn't understand why.
My son was caught up in this, and it has utterly destroyed our lives. My once happy, confident, thriving child, was harmed by the investigation that is claiming to be preventing harm. We had to flee the UK to keep him safe. My husband and I are broken. 2 months after leaving and despite
Here we are: forced detransition of trans youth. They know the harms that this will cause to trans teens and their families, and they just don't care. This country and this government is flagrantly indifferent to the mental and physical wellbeing of transgender youth.
Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 2mo agoUpdate: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.
Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.
Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 2mo agoTrans adolescents accessing the only NHS route to healthcare (WellBN) have been through a stressful year long transphobic investigation. For a year they have sat under the threat of forced medical detransition. With significant negative impacts. 1/2
I have signed the fatal motion on the code of practice. The answers to the questions I raised below - and to those from other committee members - fell far short of anything workable, just or fair.
Sarah Owen MP@sarahowen.org.uk · 2mo agoToday, @commonswec.parliament.uk will be questioning the EHRC on the new code of practice. It's important we remind ourselves that trans people across the country are simply trying to exist freely. I am very grateful to those in Luton North who have been kind enough to share their stories with me.
New @bmj.com piece by me & @martinmckee.bsky.social on the need for the UK's public health institutions to prepare to speak up in the event of a populist government set on undermining our population's health protections. The tea leaves aren't that mysterious. www.bmj.com/content/393/...
Today, @commonswec.parliament.uk will be questioning the EHRC on the new code of practice. It's important we remind ourselves that trans people across the country are simply trying to exist freely. I am very grateful to those in Luton North who have been kind enough to share their stories with me.
Most EDM only reaches 120 maybe 150 bpm.. which is how you know EDM 240 must be really good
Using the word "tyrannies" when criticising trans people is A++ deniable wordplay. A rhetorical masterpiece of which someone could be proud. (No context here, natch)
