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The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse

It's never just one minority.

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Rofl, the UK has "no legal framework, making gender recognition impossible" Thanks to the @ilgaeurope.bsky.social for this analysis. Amazing stuff, really should ram home to everyone what exactly has happened in the UK's regression.

Every child should be able to play football without worrying about how they look www.wearequeeraf.com/every-child-...

Every child should be able to play football without worrying about how they look

All kids should be able to play with their friends free of pressure to conform to an ever-narrowing set of standards of gender

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After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.

The last 24 hours have shown what many have said for a long time. Britain's role as an accomplice to Trump's America must end. We must urgently decouple from a rogue US & seek security with allies closer to home. That starts with suspension of the US bombers on British soil.

I *love* women's sport And I am forever grateful for the parts of women's sports that love me back

Anyways, solidarity with the trans community in India. You all deserve so much better 💔

The new trans bill in India takes away the right to self identify gender identity, delegitimises trans people and strips them of their fundamental rights. It medicalises identity and criminalises community care. It is completely inhumane and unconstitutional.

a bit about the recent anti-trans bill passed in both the houses of Indian parliament: this bill is an amendment to the 2019 Transgender People (Protection of Rights) Act of 2019 which - though not free of flaws - was a great leap for trans rights in India, and was a result of years of activism.

Wading into the Harry Potter discourse to remind you that India just passed a disastrous bill that removes the right to self identification of gender identity, despite vehement opposition from the trans community.

We are facing a workers' rights crisis for our community, and we need your help. Outdated workplace regulations, last updated in the early 90s, are now being interpreted as requiring the exclusion and outing of trans+ people in the workplace. actionnetwork.org/letters/fix-...

A statement on the IOC's decision to reintroduce mandatory sex testing for women. Please share widely. Alt text follows in the following posts.

I am not even all that worried about professional trans athletes with regards to the SRY-gene-based ban from the Olympics. I worry about all the many intersex/DSD women who are caught up in this. Historically, invasive sex tests based on genetics have led to suicides

With today's IOC decision to test based on presence of SRY genes in female athletes, it's worth revisiting this article about the researcher who discovered the SRY gene. Despite claiming otherwise, this ban in unscientific and intrusive

@jessdee.bsky.social · 5mo ago

He explains why here, if any of you are interested. It is exactly what trans people have been saying the entire time.

The focus, as usual, will be on trans athletes here to get buy in from everyone but the real impact will be on all female athletes and will disproportionately fall on intersex athletes. It's going to be a horror show. I expect legal challenges will eventually overturn this but it will take decades.

the quoted article here is a pretty gross example of the institutional anti-trans bias of papers like the Guardian! it uncritically accepts the IOC's "inherent advantage" and "scientific consensus" framing despite the fact that recent meta-analyses have found little to no advantage

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

despicable. fuck this.

Also, we are back to regular #transphobiathursdays scheduling now it seems. Last year, it was practically a new ban every thursday (including the FA ban on trans-inclussion in women's football. Note also the timing right before Trans Day of Visibility

Georgie Sorensen@georgiehs.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm not terribly surprised, yet dumbfounded by this decision to do a universal IOC ban on trans women in women's sports, especially given olympic sports as of late has included sports such as breakdancing 🤦🏻‍♀️

I'm not terribly surprised, yet dumbfounded by this decision to do a universal IOC ban on trans women in women's sports, especially given olympic sports as of late has included sports such as breakdancing 🤦🏻‍♀️

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 5mo ago

The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

Absolute cowardice from Lib Dems, refusing to have banners up supporting transgender people in the event that anti-trans people will harass party members on social media. First of all, why is nothing done to curb this toxic online envious created by these transphobes?

Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · 6mo ago

"Bex (she/they), a trans woman who used to be a member of the Liberal Democrats, has spoken to North West Bylines about why she left the party. Here is her story, as she told it to me, in her own words." northwestbylines.co.uk/news/equalit...

Stoic: Fast and accurate protein stoichiometry prediction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.13.711535v1

Constant companions is such a nice tool for introducing the concept of plurality to someone who is questioning... My friend has recently come to terms with the fact she might be plural, so I showed her the album, and IMMEDIATELY she was like "woah, that's me!" #plurality #jamiePaige

Considering what is happening in the world we should repurpose SynBio as an instrument of peace & healing, not just as an engine of economic development. Frontline biotech can help repairing the damage caused by war, explosions, oil leaks & fires not only to people but also to the environment 🙏🏻

Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK. Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’

Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

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Why must we have an HMPO that is so utterly incompetent? My friend got her change of name for her passport denied on her passport, despite using her years old unenrolled deed poll as documentation, on the grounds that the deed poll wasn't formatted right. Yet, this is HMPOs own guidance:

when ur confronted by a group of cops they will almost always give u conflicting information and instructions, each one of them wants to be the one in control. this gets even more stressful and confusing when weapons or force are involved. fight or flight is a natural response.

I cannot believe it, Grok is being used to make real-time fake revenge porn against women on twitter as a misogynistic means to silence them, and this is the tepid response from UK regulators...

We have two job openings for computational strain design in our group! Please retweet 🧪 PhD student and postdoc! Both positions are directly with our group leader, Steffen Klamt. The positions are to be filled in Magdeburg, Germany. I highly recommend applying!

Doctoral (PhD) and postdoctoral position (m/f/d) in Computational Biology / Biomathematics / Biosystems Engineering

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The road to hell is paved with "legitimate concerns"

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp repeatedly refusing to say that he thinks Reform MP Sarah Pochin saying she doesn't like seeing black people on TV was racist. Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration

A new review paper from our lab courtesy of @jazzsynbio.bsky.social is published in Trends in Biotechnology In this review, we look at the many opportunities for synthetic biology to be used in the research and applications of Holobionts.