Being queer means being the target of violence. Every queer person knows this. It's deeply engraved in who we are. We live with it every day of our lives. Not because of terrorism but because it is structurally enshrined in our "free" societies. Violence against queer people is not an exception ...

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Drawing on over 40 years of state violence in the UK, this @inquest-org.bsky.social documentary is an invaluable campaigning and educational tool. Please repost! @britishcriminology.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @timnewburn.bsky.social @waylon18.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr-v...

The UK Is Not Innocent

YouTube video by INQUEST Charitable Trust

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It's interesting how the indispensable leftist organisers we simply must forgive and give infinite chances to are always abusers and never the people they have abused so badly that they never want to enter an organising space again.

ICYMI - Our Manager wrote for the Scotland on Sunday about the recent decision in the Court of Session about the Scottish Prison Service's policy for trans prisoners. (Content note: this article discusses violence, distress and suicide) www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Why it's wrong for every trans prisoner to serve their sentence according to their sex at birth

Trans women in male prisons tend to be held in isolation for their own safety but this can have devastating effects on their mental health

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Cool article and supporting blog post from @notrightruth.bsky.social @tiojeda.bsky.social and others describing and defining recognisable patterns in misuse of evidence in Sex and Gender policy.

New article: Misuse of Evidence in Sex and Gender Policy

The UK is currently sweltering through the hottest June on record. The Met Office has issued a “red warning” for much of England and Wales, highlighting an active danger to life. Trains…

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Lots to say about this quote from Phillipson but I think a key element is how cis people are understood as 'biological' and therefore as having material needs (services, spaces) where as trans people are an 'identity' and therefore only have cultural/recognitional needs ('not being pilloried').

📝 CfP: Dr @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social, Dr Martin Cathcart Fröden, and Prof Alistair Fraser are Editors of this Special Section Crime, Media, Culture: Special Section Call for Papers: Rewriting Crime Stories: Criminology and Creative Writing #CrimSky #Criminology www.linkedin.com/pulse/crime-...

Crime, Media, Culture: Special Section Call for Papers: Rewriting Crime Stories: Criminology and Creative Writing

Editors: Phil Crockett Thomas, Martin Cathcart Fröden, Alistair Fraser How might creative writing reflect and generate different kinds of knowledge and affect about crime, harm, and justice? Themes of...

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“The Lemkin Institute would like to remind everyone…The “danger” caused by the existence of the trans community is a common refrain of the genocidal gender critical movement and is in no way based in fact… and therefore does not require a state response that causes harm to trans and intersex people”

Statement on the Anti-Trans and Anti-Intersex EHRC Code of Practice in the United Kingdom

June 20, 2026 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security condemns the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) updated Code of Practice for services, public functions, and a...

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The Court of Session has ruled today that the Scottish Prison Service’s policy of conducting a risk assessment for each trans prisoner and then deciding whether to place them on the men’s or women’s prison estate, is unlawful. Read our initial thoughts here: www.scottishtrans.org/statement-on...

Survivors say no to the EHRC…

#SomeoneIKnew EHRC Survivor Campaign

Landing page for survivor EHRC campaign

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Good article 🏳️‍⚧️ Please share 🏳️‍⚧️ novaramedia.com/2026/05/29/t...

Trans Segregation Is Becoming Law. What Can We Do About It? | Juliet Jacques

‘Single-sex spaces’ must now exclude trans men and women, according to new guidance from the EHRC. We aren’t taking seriously just how dangerous this will be, write Juliet Jacques.

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Satuday's @theguardian.com cartoon #transrights #EHRC #LGBTQ

We've read the new Code of Practice. Here's what you need to know.

The Code of Practice: what you need to know | Good Law Project

The updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations has been laid before Parliament. Here’s what that means.

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Today @drjogrady.bsky.social wrote to the University of Reading. Trans staff and students are being forced into formal grievances just to find out why policies that affect their daily lives exist. That is not legal compliance. It is institutional opacity. We’re calling on Reading to act.

Super interesting to think how different things could be...

Christyn Parkes@parkesland.bsky.social · 3mo ago

See, UK, it *is* possible for a court to uphold the rights of trans people! More seriously, to me this case highlights how feckless the UK Labour Party has been in its mishandling of trans rights over the past 5-10 years. The Sex Discrimination Act amendments and the Equality Act are of a kind. 1/

New research on queer criminology Explores how challenging assumptions about gender & sexuality can reshape justice systems and address inequality. By Prof Avi Boukli & Dr Calogero Giametta 🔗 doi.org/10.1332/3033...

I wrote this a couple of months ago for OU Pride. I've been reluctant to share it too much because it was a vulnerable piece for me to write. But I just read it and I'm pretty proud of it. You can even show it a bit of love if you like 😍 thehootstudents.com/trans-safety...

Our new report with @disabledstudentsuk.bsky.social is out! Drawing on the lived experiences of disabled doctoral students, it sets out a clear roadmap for improving the experiences of disabled PGRs across the UK HE sector 1/6 research.open.ac.uk/news/report-...

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A new collaborative report from The Open University and Disabled Students UK sets out a clear roadmap for improving the experiences of disabled doctoral students across the UK’s higher education secto...

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Recent court decisions are making it increasingly difficult for trans and nonbinary people to go to work with dignity and privacy. Complete our Workers Survey to help us push the government to update the law and make trans inclusion possible again! tinyurl.com/TransActualW...

📜 RPRN statement 📜 HEPI’s Preparing for Populism is a profoundly unhelpful document that mistakes capitulation for strategy Research, critical inquiry, expertise, and the transmission of knowledge are not incidental irritants reactionary projects, they are its targets reacpol.net/populism-hepi/

RPRN statement on HEPI’s Preparing for Populism debate paper - Reactionary Politics Research Network

RPRN statement on HEPI’s Preparing for Populism debate paper

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I work with a lot of newly out trans people, and this is by far the most common thing I have to talk them through. The saddest part is that how many of them report that the community itself has been the source of their fears. You cannot overestimate how much harm and hurt community gatekeeping does.

Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛@shelleybwoke.bsky.social · last yr.

The deepest imposter syndrome I ever knew was thinking that I wasn't "trans enough." That's why I bang on so much about it. There's no transgender measuring stick with a line on it saying "enough." You are always "Trans Enough," and you don't deserve that imposter bullshit anymore than I did. 💜

Visibility without protection produces gendered harms

TransLucent@translucent.org.uk · 4mo ago

Organizations such as ILGA-Europe recently reclassified the UK as having "no functioning legal or administrative process for legal gender recognition." This places the UK alongside countries like Hungary and Russia in European rights rankings. rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/categories/l...

Please if anyone can, show your support of the Dyke Project for all the work they do: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-th...

Ruth Pearce@notrightruth.bsky.social · 4mo ago

From Instagram - today the Dyke Project shut down NHS England HQ to protest the politically motivated ban on trans youth healthcare.

They really sat down and said: how can we make trans people even less comfortable reporting crimes to the police?

Dr Kevin Guyan@kevinguyan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Police Scotland has confirmed its revised approach to sex and gender data, where data collected about suspects and victims of all crimes and offences will ask about ‘biological sex registered at birth’ 🔢 #data #gender #trans #police #Scotland

So, research funding for “research” about trans people BY CIS PEOPLE is likely between £13-£15 million. Trans researchers were excluded from ALL of these. Research funding for trans academics is WAY below this, if available at all. This is an equal opportunities issue as well as an ethical one.

Thrilled this is out in the world - and thanks to @ulyverse.bsky.social for being the best coauthor! F@L is always a pleasure to write for and the editors of this special section were fantastic.

Hafren@ulyverse.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I'm ecstatic to share my feminists@law article (!!) co-written and steered by @sandraduffy.bsky.social . I want to thank them publicly for rooting me on & the editorial team who were very supportive. Please read. First of many I'm hoping... journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...

On Friday, the High Court published its judgment on a case between the Good Law Project and the Equality and Human Rights Commission. We've put up a page explaining the background to the case, some key parts of the judgment, and what might happen next: www.scottishtrans.org/good-law-pro...

Calling transfeminist researchers! See our call for abstracts below - deadline 1-15th March (with full papers in August)

Dr Charlotte Galpin@drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Are you doing research on anti-trans politics? Consider submitting to the special issue of @cogitatiopag.bsky.social 'Global Politics and Anti-Trans Moral Panics: Transfeminist Perspectives', co-edited by me, @ashstokoe.bsky.social and @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social to be published in 2027 (1/2)

Non-binary and survivor-led researchers from the University of Hertfordshire are looking for an expert by experience to join our participatory action research project looking at the strengths of LGBTQIA+ survivors of conversion practices. #TransResearch #ResearchSurvey #LGBTQResearch