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Worked in Scottish healthcare. Trying to be a decent inclusive human being. Love the outdoors, hiking, biking, pondering life & trying to help save the natural world.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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@allport.bsky.social · 15h ago

BBC EHRC guidance article out in middle of night. Will be writing a complaint in the morning unless they change some of their wording.

NevereverDave.bsky.social@nevereverdave.bsky.social · 2d ago

The concept of Trans people being deliberately erased, here by state broadcaster and news vendor #BBC Dr #BethUpton remains a #Trans Woman entitled to respect. Innocent in all regards. She was treated so badly by media she elected to leave the country altogether. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sandie Peggie's employment tribunal appeal to go ahead next year

The nurse was suspended by NHS Fife after she objected to sharing a female changing room with a transgender doctor.

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Helen Belcher@helenbelcherobe.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is something I now hear regularly from almost all my trans friends. The tension between wanting to stay but not feeling safe. The tension between fleeing or fighting. The “what if where I go becomes just as bad?” It’s utterly shameful that law-abiding people feel they’re being forced out.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 4d ago

Drinking espresso martinis, discussing with my fiancé at what point we need to flee the UK. I don't want to leave my home. My family. My friends. With every passing month, it feels more and more inevitable. We are losing so hard and I can't see how it stops.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕@mimmymum.bsky.social · 7d ago

Lecturer loses appeal after calling trans student a ‘troublesome trans kid’ and using homophobic slur An Employment Appeal Tribunal has now upheld an earlier ruling that found his dismissal was fair, rejecting arguments that his rights to freedom of expression and academic freedom had been breached

Lecturer loses appeal after calling trans student a ‘troublesome trans kid’ and using homophobic slur

A university lecturer who referred to a trans student as a “troublesome trans kid” and used a homophobic slur in class has lost his final attempt to challenge his dismissal. Russell Cherrington, a se...

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Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2w ago

Terrifying to see wildfires raging through Scotland. The climate crisis isn't a distant threat - it's right here and right now. How many warning signs and alarm bells until Andy Burnham takes action to end oil and gas drilling?

Person trying to put out wildfires in Scotland
Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 3w ago

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of: improved recognition changing help-seeking behaviour institutional incentives pressures within existing service pathways Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including: real increases in distress in some groups improved recognition of previously unmet need changing expectations about support systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need. In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services. The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.
Philippa East (Author)@philippaeast.bsky.social · 3w ago

Whenever you reference the Code of Practice, it’s worth including a link to *this* equality impact assessment, which sets out just how grim this policy of trans exclusion will be for so many. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Equality impact assessment

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance@transsolidarity.bsky.social · 3w ago

New: the EHRC’s code of practice is set to come into effect on 5th August, after the minister made a commencement order that has now been published. More to follow. www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/78...

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆@chiitan.love · 11mo ago

People who criticize transgender people say there are only two genders. But the soul has so much more individuality🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 No matter how much my activities are restricted, super Chiitan will continue to speak out until we live in a world where everyone can freely express their love and love each other♡

Richard Burgon MP@richardburgon.bsky.social · last mo.

When an MP can pocket more in a couple of hours of “work” than a nurse earns in an entire year - as Nigel Farage has done - something is deeply broken in our politics. This has to stop. It’s time to ban ALL MPs’ second jobs. From my speech in Parliament today.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · last mo.

As someone who has been working on the issues of trans death certificates for years, I am very relieved by the outcome in this case. Huge thanks to Leigh Day and my colleague Cat Knight who have done most of the hard work on this case. Proud to work alongside them.

Win: Coroner agrees to record trans man as male

A coroner issued a death certificate that ignored Aiden Longmuir’s identity as male – after action from Good Law Project he’s getting the respect he deserves

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Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last mo.

Folks, there's a fundraiser for the families of the trans kids who were with WellBN but are being stripped of their healthcare and it urgently needs eyes and wallets on it. Full details on the fundraiser page. Please share. www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...

Donate to Emergency Support for WellBN Families, organized by Wellbn Families Fund

Families of trans children urgently need help before a 31 July 2026 NHS med… Wellbn Families Fund needs your support for Emergency Support for WellBN Families

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UnicornsRockUK@unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You might want to share this, and maybe save it too. "In its attempt to erase trans and intersex people from public life, this document is genocidal in nature." www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...

Statement on the Anti-Trans and Anti-Intersex EHRC Code of Practice in the United Kingdom

June 20, 2026 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security condemns the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) updated Code of Practice for services, public functions, and a...

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