Lola Salem appeared on a panel with a member of anti-trans org Genspect on "gentle parenting vs smacking" at the right wing Battle of Ideas conference. Child abuse as political ideology. web.archive.org/web/20261011...

Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 20h ago

Okay

Of course she wrote a piece for the Critic hand-wringing about the dangers of RSHE and 'gender ideology' to children. Every accusation is a confession and all that archive.ph/YyXsy

Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 20h ago

Okay

New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...

Leaving the UK with a heavy heart

Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…

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My new article, co-authored with @sandraduffy.bsky.social is out today, please read & share: "Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic - Cal Horton, Sandra Duffy, 2026

Trans children in the UK are the targets of an escalating moral panic, centred around access to affirmative adolescent healthcare. Combining moral panic theory ...

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How the anti-gender movement spread across Europe The Hate Review reveals how the anti-gender movement has taken root and evolved in Europe over the last 25 years, it traces how far the anti-gender movement has spread through society and how deeply it has reached into laws and institutions.

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How the anti-gender movement spread across Europe

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TransActual is working with Dr Kat Gupta, a researcher in Politics, to examine how trans people and our supporters responded to this consultation. Please visit transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/09... for more information.

There has been a noticeable lack of serious reaction over Turkish persecution of LGBTQIA+ community from the global community. As in many other countries, Türkiye tries to mask persecution by claiming being LGBTQIA+ isn't illegal and then using "obscenity laws". www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Turkey detains dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and journalists

Protesters teargassed as minister claims widespread raids and arrests under obscenity laws were to ‘protect families’

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It’s good to see that mainstream UK papers are now, finally, after many years, covering esoteric hitlerist Nina Power and DC Miller’s connections to Ben Dilo. It is a shame, however, that this FT column does not go into detail about their egregious antisemitic and racist conspiracy thinking

Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is an extraordinary story and the FT has more here giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

More than 1250 academics standing in solidarity with LGBTI+ people, including researchers, facing repression and state abuse in Turkey. velvele.net/2026/09/17/j...

Judith Butler, Noura Erakat, Slavoj Žižek and others join more than 1,250 academics in joint letter against repression of LGBTI+ people in Turkey

A joint call from more than 1,250 academics, including Judith Butler, Noura Erakat, Slavoj Žižek, Susan Stryker, Jasbir Puar, Elizabeth Anderson, Etienne Balibar and Peter Hallward.

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Her name was Mary Slusser. Over the next 5 years she bought hundreds of sacred Nepali artefacts — deities, temple carvings, ritual regalia — removed illegally from their communities. Yet, she's still celebrated as a foundational scholar of Nepali studies.

In 1965, an American scholar bought her first stolen god from two boys outside a Kathmandu temple. Grains of rice were still stuck to it — offerings from worshippers. She paid less than $2 and wrote in her diary: "I don't think the temple will miss it at all." 🧵 www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...

Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage

A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States

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the things that Brighton university management has decided it simply… no longer recognises? it also no longer recognises UCU or Unison? again: how is this legal!!!!

Daniel C. Blight@danielcblight.bsky.social · 4w ago

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***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · 4w ago

UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY

This is just a cult at this point surely?

Dr Matt Lodder@mattlodder.com · last mo.

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Period Politics (by me, @dr-mel-channon.bsky.social and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social) is available for pre-order! Everything you ever wanted to know about menstrual justice and injustice worldwide 🩸 🩸 🩸 🩸 🩸

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Period Politics - Inside the Global Fight for Menstrual Justice

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The University of Exeter has confirmed that it won’t proceed with compulsory redundancies “at this time”. This means colleagues do not need to complete the pro forma, and there will be no selection process.

It's utterly heartbreaking that in the past two years trans kids have been so specifically targeted by Labour: Told they can't have medical treatment, only conversion therapy Told they are not allowed play sports with their friends Schools, even if they want to be supportive are not allowed to be

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · last mo.

For many, today is the last weekend before school restarts. Sorting uniform, finding books, preparing to be reunited with friends. For my kid, who won't be returning to school, it is a time of huge uncertainty. We don't yet have a clear path forward. English schools are no longer a viable option.

Let's do some categorisation. I see people referring to the persecution of Jason Arday as a 'mob', or as comparable to a social media pile-on. It was actually an elite campaign carried out by media actors with huge power and reach.

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

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His death comes after an obscene and relentless media campaign that denied him the most basic human compassion. By one count, this media barrage totalled 249 media articles in less than a month, with over 20 stories per day even following his resignation. Racism has consequences; it kills.

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

Every single article should include Nathan Cofnas’ name as the instigator of this.

Chris Berez@chrisberez.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Holy fucking shit Jason Arday found dead

Always remembering Lucy Meadows. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o...

Congrats to the UK media for hounding a Black man to death. It wasn't enough even that he resigned, they had to keep at it. Grotesque

Whatever the truth of Arday, it was clear that a section of the establishment resentful of black people in high places saw Arday’s story as a vehicle for them to unleash their fury disguised as legitimate concern, RELENTLESSLY. Arday’s castigation was excessive in every way. And now he’s dead.

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

As a teenager in Northumberland I thought Manchester was in the Midlands

Jess Gulliver@jessgulliver.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Dear media/Londoners etc, the north - the North - is more than Manchester. There’s more north further north.

Amnesty International are absolutely correct in naming these vile anti-abortion groups as anti rights. Misogyny that gets us killed isn’t a cute little spiritual quirk spuc.org.uk/amnesty-inte...

Amnesty International names SPUC as an “anti-rights” group. We are not. - SPUC

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