This captures why I absolutely can't stand the current UK Supreme Court's shift into absurdly rigid textualism and a version of the mirror principle that leads to viciously narrow readings of the ECHR. For a while, there was at least some awareness that judgments don't exist in a conceptual bubble

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 13h ago

One of the bigger problems the 2025 ruling has introduced is establishing that, instead of resolving equality cases based on trying to as best as possible integrate everyone's right to be treated humanely, we use philosophical debates about what someone's true legal essence is to decide rights.

The EU law principle of equality means that none of this shit could happen. If there was an indication that the justification used to exclude trans people from positive action would affect other rights, the courts, including the Supreme Court, would have to refer it to the ECJ.

If we're doing transition age gaps, you're not allowed to date outside of your name generation. No, Zoe and Katie, you can't date the Luna or the Lily. You're clearly at very different life stages

Stupid Twink@stupidtwink.bsky.social · last wk.

Others have said this but this is the exact same argument around trans healthcare right now - some people (Hilary Cass) saying that you can't prove that affirmation doesn't cause trans people to continue to be trans and therefore we should try conversion therapy on kids

The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m sorry what

If you happen to live in Lisa Nandy's constituency (Wigan), you could do worse than to ask her to meet with you to discuss this. goodlawproject.org/sex-matters-...

Sex Matters are breaking charity law with transphobic hate – we’re taking action | Good Law Project

We’ve made a formal complaint to the Charity Commission and the government, citing 46 examples of offensive transphobia

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My main thing I've learned from being a feminist since I was a teen is that feminism isn't intuited by people who are negatively affected by sexism, it's hard worked through critical thought about the experience of sexism, and most people just refuse to learn that and default to prejudices about it.

Really grateful for Alexandra Brodsky—for everything, but especially for this commentary on the disappearance of public feminism: newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/in-the-vac...

In the vacuum of feminism

Alexandra Brodsky on online Platner apologia

newsletter.thedriftmag.com

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

Cynically, I think Burnham's Cabinet is going to be functionally more transphobic than Starmer's. Burnham has portrayed himself as an antidote to Starmer's 'boy's club' and, sadly, I think that will mean more bigoted members of the Women’s Parliamentary Labour Party wielding greater influence

It's time

Posting this on behalf of a fellow researcher: Hello please reply to Transhate@proton.me with the most grim and egregious stuff Rowling has done targeting people.

ANYWAY. 18th July. Details to follow.

not that there isn't some pleasure to take in farage falling out of favour and taking a kicking, but i always resent what a fix the whole mainstream UK news media is. when you're in they help you hide your scandals, when you're out they suddenly rediscover them. breaking news: some old news we hid

I know this is a football ad but...

since theyre killing the culture industry i suppose warhammer is going to become britains last remaining profitable business

Arts Professional@artsprofessional.co.uk · 4w ago

Performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of “difficult decisions” about spending priorities, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said.

It's important that women get listened to about problems they're facing in healthcare but if the problem is they don't like someone else's healthcare, that's frankly not a problem.

Finally got to see the Angel's Egg remaster in the cinema, and it was such a fantastically immersive experience! Great film about a girl with a special interest in water, and nothing deeper.

It’s fun to have gone from calling myself transsexual when I transitioned in 2002, to grudgingly updating to the new word and grumbling about bullshit “no trans person thinks you can change sex lol” rhetoric, back to calling myself transsexual again. Hello old friend, you’re so much fun to say.

There's a special place in Hell for the person who created the "sex and gender are different things!" talking point. I've hated it for as long as I've heard it. It's trash.

I'm so impervious to flirting that I thought somebody was just trying to be funny when she put a napkin in my handbag with her number on it and an actual kiss next to it 'Haha, she's doing the movie thing! What a fun new friend I've made' 🫩

RIP to a legend ▫️Survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki ▫️Pioneered drag culture in Japan and was one of the first openly gay celebrities there ▫️Had a relationship with Yukio Mishima and became his muse ▫️Delighted Hayao Miyazaki in the recording booth for Princess Mononoke #voiceacting

Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Akihiro Miwa perfects Moro's laugh in the recording sessions for Princess Mononoke From: How Princess Mononoke Was Born (1998), dir. Toshiro Uratani, Buena Vista Home Entertainment

As someone who has extensively researched conversion therapy promoters operating in the UK I have been raising alarms about the uselessness of the UK corporate charity sector in addressing the practical realities of it for several years now and unfortunately I was fucking right.

Gendered Intelligence@genderedintelligence.co.uk · last mo.

👏 We did it! Today the Government have published their long overdue draft Bill to ban conversion practices. For far too long, LGBTQ+ people have been subject to practices that seek to change or suppress who they are. Conversion practices have caused profound and lasting harm to many LGBTQ+ people.

I've said it before but I hate the way that some people speak to volunteers or campaigners like an angry customer. There's no resources or training and it's not a service. It's just people doing their best with very little and giving what they can

If you need someone to vent at, pay a therapist, or get a teddy bear. Don't send abuse to an effective org. I hope you understand that by making hard working campaigners like those at TSA deal with your bullshit, you are materially damaging your own interests – and the trans community's.

It's disgusting that an entirely volunteer trans org has been getting abusive emails for a difficult but necessary safety decision. If you have given them grief over this you should be utterly ashamed. Wasting our community's resources on soothing your tantrum – from an org actually doing the work.

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance@transsolidarity.bsky.social · last mo.

We’ve had quite a few abusive and angry emails about this decision. Just to explain it a bit further, this decision was a delicate balance. We knew many people would want to go whatever we said - and would struggle to get refunds on booked travel - when the weather warning was still Amber. …

Using a hair dryer while the air conditioner is on feels perversely decadent and like I'm just being mean to physics

love that I can track the intensity of a heatwave by checking how badly my curls have exploded

Burnham pays tribute to Josh Simons, who he says recognised it couldnt continue to be business as usual If theres anyone who understands what business as usual meant under the Labour right, its the man who arranged a smear campaign against journalists who were investigating them

My GP almost always makes a point of joyfully saying "I never once saw you smile before you transitioned. You came to life" whenever he speaks to me. I know how lucky I am to have access to a doctor that is just happy for me, even so many years later.

We have to do something about the creeping policing of increasingly normal stuff online. It's getting ridiculous. If I could post a movie clip of someone looking busty but clothed, even in a sexy way, I should be allowed to post myself doing it.