Jess O'Thomson
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Legal researcher, writer, journalist | Trans Rights Lead @ Good Law Project | PhD student @ University of Leeds Views my own. Not your lawyer; not legal advice. They/them hello@jessothomson.co.uk
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Fight back against the code of practice
The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us
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Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 10h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
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🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇
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The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back
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The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now in force, telling organisations that provide services they can no longer be trans inclusive. This will have a devastating impact on the everyday lives of trans people. So we’re backing a legal challenge against it: https://goodlaw.social/pmbo
We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project
The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back
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We think this challenge is incredibly important – it goes to the very heart of whether trans inclusion is still lawful. But it is impossible without your support.
Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 9h ago🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇
We’re supporting a legal challenge against the government’s transphobic statutory guidance – here’s why ⚖️👇 https://goodlaw.social/2hix
How the code of practice gets the law wrong | Good Law Project
We’re supporting a legal challenge against the government’s transphobic statutory guidance – here’s why
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Fight back against the code of practice
The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us
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We think this challenge is incredibly important – it goes to the very heart of whether trans inclusion is still lawful. But it is impossible without your support.
Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 9h ago🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇
We have also written a detailed legal explainer about why we think the code of practice gets the law wrong.
How the Code of Practice gets the law wrong | Good Law Project
We’re supporting a legal challenge against the government’s transphobic statutory guidance – here’s why
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The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to stand still and take it, we're supporting a legal challenge led by a trans person and a trans inclusive organisation. But we can only do this together. Will you join us?👇 goodlaw.social/ldco
🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇
We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project
The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back
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Here's a piece from me about the decision against Sex Matters on Friday, and its wider implications 👇
Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · yesterdayAnti-trans activists lost twice in one day, after the High Court rejected a challenge to police guidance. @jessothomson.co.uk argues that the ruling raises important questions for trans human rights: https://goodlaw.social/0kp3
Anti-trans activists lost twice in one day, after the High Court rejected a challenge to police guidance. @jessothomson.co.uk argues that the ruling raises important questions for trans human rights: https://goodlaw.social/0kp3
High Court rules strip searches don’t have to be based on ‘biological sex’ | Good Law Project
Anti-trans activists lost twice in one day, after the High Court rejected a challenge to police guidance – Jess O’Thomson argues that the ruling raises important questions for trans human rights
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Here's a piece from me about the decision against Sex Matters on Friday, and its wider implications 👇
Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · yesterdayAnti-trans activists lost twice in one day, after the High Court rejected a challenge to police guidance. @jessothomson.co.uk argues that the ruling raises important questions for trans human rights: https://goodlaw.social/0kp3
I mean we obviously do accept some deaths for policy reasons of making life better for most people, see, eg, the existence of cars, but it's a really different proposition to suggest trying to do that weighing of risk during a **novel pandemic**.
A more general point but people are also bad at thinking about how risk works. Something can have turned out to be unnecessary or even harmful and still have been the correct decision based on the information you had. Results do not prove the quality or otherwise of your decision-making.
The counterfactual isn't a world in which more kids got infected with covid & were fine. It's the key worker parents they brought it home to. Putting all essential services under more pressure. Including the NHS. It's potential variants which were able to evolve with more spread. ...it's a lot!
People really do project knowledge backwards. All the decisions which were made during the pandemic were made with hospitals at capacity, people dying and becoming severely disabled, and no knowledge of what future variants would emerge or how dangerous they might be.
So how many more disabled people and older people should have been allowed to die so that young people could go out more during a pandemic? As one of these young people who was then at uni, struggled with lockdown & depression, and who also ended up in a wheelchair from long covid... Really?
BREAKING 🚨 Anti-trans campaigners have been denied permission by the High Court in their challenge to the Puberty Blockers trial. Read more here 👇
High Court rejects challenge to puberty blockers trial | Good Law Project
Anti-trans activists’ bid to limit healthcare for young trans people stumbles in court
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Willing to bet I have been on the streets defending the right to protest, faced violence, and been threatened with arrest more than almost everyone defending the inalienable right of trans people to fedpost.
Look, personally, I don't want to be arrested. But if I were going to be, I would much rather be arrested for something meaningful and important that I believe in – like when I went to the Sarah Everard vigil and was threatened with arrest – than a thoughtless angry internet post.
Also: Expect a blog from me on the Sex Matters decision today over the weekend I hope
“The arguments made by the claimants weren’t really rooted in concerns about ethics, safety, or efficacy. But decisions about healthcare should be made by young trans people and their clinicians – not by anti-trans campaigners.” goodlaw.social/vw87
High Court rejects challenge to puberty blockers trial | Good Law Project
Anti-trans activists’ bid to limit healthcare for young trans people stumbles in court
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BREAKING 🚨 Anti-trans campaigners have been denied permission by the High Court in their challenge to the Puberty Blockers trial. Read more here 👇
High Court rejects challenge to puberty blockers trial | Good Law Project
Anti-trans activists’ bid to limit healthcare for young trans people stumbles in court
goodlaw.social
Silly story. This is a rule which clearly exists to promote women in chess, whilst trying to avoid sex discrimination. Abolishing the rule would be far more detrimental to women's participation overall.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5d agoFury as UK’s only all-female chess team promoted – then told they must recruit a man