Rachel Saunders
@rejserin.bsky.social
Rights researcher. Passionate travel junkie, field hockey goalie, and all round curiousity freak.
The trans movement is stronger in its diversity, something gender critics seek to tear down because they are scared of a trans inclusive society. rejserin.medium.com/the-many-sid...
The many sided transgender movement
Building a movement with many intersectional moving parts requires compromise, framing, and understanding that you will lose people along…
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All speech is contextual, there is no absolute freedom to use speech to hate another person or group. Gender critics need to remember this. rejserin.medium.com/there-is-no-...
There is no right to hate
Free speech, a quintessential issue of our times, a right so nebulous that those in favour of free speech absolutism are prepared to sell…
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Trans people and our allies stand in solidarity against gender critical hate. rejserin.medium.com/solidarity-w...
Solidarity with everyone in the trans community
5th August 2026 will be a day that lives in infamy for the trans community in the UK. It was the day that the revised EHRC Guidance came…
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Just a reminder, the EHRC guidance is only for businesses, service providers, and organisations. Do not automatically yield to it, do not say you are trans, and ask for any objection in writing with specific reasons why you are barred. youtu.be/4U9SfAHe6FY
Lavender and Steel - Episode 006 - EHRC Special
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Gender critics and transphobes will burn the world down for a few scraps of power. rejserin.medium.com/counting-the...
Counting the cost of transphobia
How a society treats its marginalised groups is often held to be a sign of how civilised it appears. Most societies seek to appear…
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Sex only matters in the same way race matters to racists. It is a power play by gender critics to exclude any woman they deem not woman enough, and deny trans and NB their core identity. rejserin.medium.com/sex-only-mat...
Sex only matters in the same way race only matters to racists
I preface this by stating that under UK law holding gender critical philosophical beliefs has protection under the Equality Act 2010…
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I have a great conversation with @stephrichards.bsky.social about her work with @translucent.org.uk and her broader campaigns for women's health issues. youtu.be/VNvOmDR94XA
Lavender and steel - Episode 005 - Steph Richards
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I am dealing with a group of X users who are stalking my online accounts, scraping information, and using it against me. I see you. rejserin.medium.com/online-stalk...
Online stalking
To be clear this is me working through a serious issue I am facing on social media, one which the platforms are not prepared to deal with…
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How we record and interpret trans history matters because most trans lives go unrecorded. rejserin.medium.com/recording-tr...
Recording trans history
Over the last decade plenty of books have been published documenting trans history, autobiographies, biographies, and academic textbooks…
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Trans people are being swept from society by those who seek to cleanse us for no other reason that they hate trans identities. rejserin.medium.com/anxiety-and-...
Anxiety and the trans experience
Being trans in the world has always been about conquering fears. No trans narrative has ever been free from the fear for putting on the…
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Trans history is there to those who care to look. It is not the monster gender critics make us out to be. rejserin.medium.com/trans-histor...
Trans history is not a mythic beast
It’s a strange quirk of living your entire adult as a woman when the history you experienced first hand becomes a contest space which…
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A reminder that we are only 200 years removed from LGBTQI+ being executed in the UK for acts of intimacy. Rolling back the rights of one group risks rolling back the rights for all. Not one step back. rictornorton.co.uk/vere.htm
The Vere Street Coterie, 1810
The Vere Street Coterie by Rictor Norton
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Manifested gender critical beliefs are causing moral harm to society through their exclusionary rhetoric and actions. rejserin.medium.com/manifested-g...
Manifested gender critical beliefs cause moral harm to society
In August 2026 the UK is set to introduce a set of punitive sex segregation polices in the revised EHRC Guidance which means that any trans…
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I had a great chat with Laura Targiwnik discussing trans rights, bathrooms, and gender critics. youtu.be/SpffxfTcs0A
Lavender and Steel - Episode 004 - Laura Targownik
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Here I lay out why Beira's Place is anti-rights, laying out the legal philosophical rationale and evidence. J K Rowling and Beira's Place are anti-rights because they dehumanise trans women as a foundational principle. rejserin.medium.com/beiras-place...
Beira’s Place, anti-rights
In July 2026 Amnesty International published a report, since retracted, which outlined that a series of organisations in the UK were…
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Freda Wallace spilling the T about J K Rowling's use of Maya Forstater's upskirt image of her. Its gender critical abuse, plain and simple. youtu.be/YTJZSBgD6rI
Lavender and Steel - Hot take - Freda Wallace responds to J K Rowling
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For all the trans people fighting against gender critical transphobia, here is a great list of 46 books showing trans history and personal experience. rejserin.medium.com/46-transgend...
46 transgender books for you
As we are coming up to the season for Trans Pride marches and events, I have put together a list of trans books from my personal collection…
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Gender critics repeat the same arguments over the ordinary meaning of sex, yet do not care that they exclude anyone they deem not woman enough or that their beliefs harm all women. youtu.be/A83MeQ2Rf6Y
Lavender and Steel - Hot take - The ordinary meaning of sex
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The ordinary meaning of sex falls short when it only has room of the gender critical perspective as espoused by gender critics. It is not a weapon, it is a evolving conception which cannot be rooted in fear. rejserin.medium.com/why-the-ordi...
Why the ordinary meaning of sex falls short
Defining how the average person thinks about an issue is an exercise in trying to divine what the median on any concept is within an…
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I always act in good faith because I want to foster a narrative of hospitality. For those gender critics who deny this I ask you why you resort to bullying and harassment to try to prove your point. rejserin.medium.com/engaging-in-...
Engaging in good faith
To post content online with your name attached to it is to invite critique and deconstruction of that work. As someone with a public…
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I had the great pleasure chatting with Robin Moira White over the weekend in which we discusse Transluscent's court case, her career, and the future of trans rights. youtu.be/1kdov-0KFW4
Lavender and Steel - Episode 003 - Robin Moira White
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You do not play chess with a pigeon for the same reason you don't debate science with gender critics: they peck away and ignore the evidence until they simply sweep the board and declare they have won. rejserin.medium.com/calling-gend...
Calling gender critical dehumanising to account
Over the last month my writing has attracted comments from within the trans community saying why I don’t simply call gender critics bigots…
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Amnesty use their moral authority to speak truth & have been brigaded into taking down their list. No dictator from Iran to North Korea has managed that. This tells you all you need to know about why the gender critical movement is anti-rights. rejserin.medium.com/in-defence-o...
In defence of Amnesty’s anti-rights list
When Amnesty speaks truth to power you know they have hit a nerve when threats of legal action follow the production of their reports. July…
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Setting aside gender critical laws and judicial decisions requires deconstructing the philosophy behind them. rejserin.medium.com/why-legal-ph...
Why legal philosophy can deconstruct gender critical laws and legal decisions
As I have been writing about gender critical legal approaches to the law I have received observations and comments as to how legal…
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Like eugenics, sex realism and gender critical beliefs are nothing but pseudoscience. We need to start treating it as such. rejserin.medium.com/just-like-eu...
Just like eugenics sex realism is pseudoscience
Repeating the mantras over and over again do not make them any more true, especially when they try to twist the human condition into a…
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For everyone supporting the AllianceLGB, Sex Matters, or the Heritage Foundation and any other organisation which seeks to cut the TQ from the LGBTQI+, you are only fooling yourselves, not anyone else. The TQ+ has always been there and always will be. youtu.be/cIxnbhYcB7I
Lavender and Steel - Hot take - The TQ belongs with the LGB
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Manifested gender critical beliefs are performative cruelty which harms all women because they seek to police women's bodies and create unwomen. rejserin.medium.com/manifested-g...
Manifested gender critical beliefs can be cruel and inhumane
Gender critics, I want to ask you to simple questions: who is your target audience, and why do you keep failing in the courts to get your…
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You have the right to define your sexuality as you wish regardless of gender critical belief. rejserin.medium.com/how-you-defi...
How you define your sexuality is your own business
Sexuality has long been a battleground where heteronormative society has sought to impose exact boundaries around who a person can find…
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Gender critics lack all self-awareness about the beliefs they cling to. They harm all women and seek to reduce women to only their reproductive potential. youtu.be/jmgQphyCwhM
Lavender and Steel - Hot take - Gender critical language dehumanises trans women
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