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Elisabeth Murray@lizthelemming.bsky.social · 6d ago

Don't think you won't be affected by the Code just because you're not trans or non-binary. If some bigot thinks you are, it will affect you. Please support this, for everyone's sake, trans or not.

@nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social · 6d ago

A pleasure to help put this campaign together with the Good Night Out Campaign 🏳️‍⚧️ With the EHRC Code about to roll out, please put these posters up in your venues and help us spread the message: Pee in Peace 💖 #PeeInPeace #GoodNightOut #TransRights #TransInclusion

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · last wk.

🚨 BREAKING Anti-trans activists are in the High Court today, seeking permission to challenge the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial. If their challenge goes ahead, we will be supporting Gendered Intelligence in making an application to intervene – defending healthcare for young trans people 🏳️‍⚧️

Legal challenge to trans youth healthcare in High Court | Good Law Project

Anti-trans activists are challenging a puberty blocker trial – we’re supporting Gendered Intelligence as they prepare to defend healthcare for young trans people

goodlaw.social

Caroline Litman@alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 2w ago

A bit overwhelmed this morning with my words quoted in the Metro, Standard, Mirror, Independent and even in Australia, but crickets, i’m told from the Times, Telegraph, Guardian and Daily Mail. I always ruminate about how I might have said it better, because the message is too important to mess up.

Transparent Action@transparentaction.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today London Trans Pride was full of celebration, defiance, joy, tears, pride and protest. 150K trans+ people, allies, parents, partners, & children saying “ENOUGH” at the cruelty & blatant discrimination being targeted at trans+ people in the UK - much of it from our current government!

Standard 150,000 march through London in world's largest trans pride, organisers say "The co-founder of advocacy group Transparent Action said: "Andy (Burnham), if you're listening, I'm the mother of a trans child who took her life by suicide and more children are going to die on your watch if you don't do something to reverse the anti-trans policies that your predecessor has overseen. " - Caroline Litman
Nadia Whittome MP@nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 4w ago

The scrutiny period for the EHRC's draft Code of Practice ends this week. This Code will enforce trans people's segregation, out them to others, and put them at increased risk of harassment, abuse and violence. 1/2

TACC@tacc.org.uk · 4w ago

We have emailed all 650 Members of Parliament with a copy of the "Women’s organisations speak up against the EHRC's updated Code of Practice" open letter and also informed them of the overwhelming support for EDM 240. We have also sent the open letter to the WEC and JCHR

"Dear Member of Parliament, We are writing on behalf of the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective to draw your attention to the attached open letter from more than 40 women's organisations across the United Kingdom opposing the Equality and Human Rights Commission's draft Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations. The letter has been coordinated by Not In Our Name (NION) Women, a women's collective whose wider open letter supporting trans women and calling for evidence-based approaches to tackling violence against women has attracted more than 100,000 signatories. The attached letter is significant because much of the public discussion surrounding the draft Code has proceeded on the assumption that restricting the rights of trans people reflects the wishes of women as a whole. The organisations signing this letter challenge that assumption directly. They argue that the draft Code does not address the root causes of violence against women, risks increasing scrutiny of gender non-conforming cisgender women, and undermines long-established trans-inclusive services that have operated successfully for many years. We also wish to draw the Committee's attention to the level of parliamentary concern regarding the draft Code. As of 7 July, Early Day Motion 240, the fatal prayer seeking to annul the Code under the negative resolution procedure, has attracted 164 signatures. Based on our analysis, this makes it the most supported Early Day Motion of the current Parliament, the most supported EDM introduced in the last five years, and one of the most supported fatal prayer motions in recent parliamentary history, with support from Members across multiple political parties. Given the Committee's role in scrutinising matters relating to human rights, we hope you will consider the concerns raised by the organisations represented in the attached letter, alongside the significant level of parliamentary concern about the draft Code."
Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · last mo.

This is amazing; 40 women’s organizations standing in support of trans people’s human rights against this government’s targeting of trans people against the EHRC transphobic code. Trans people and cis women’s rights are not in opposition.

Ashleeee 🌊🪭@reactiveashley.cat · last mo.

1/🧵 I have written about this years before the UK and US apex courts made their decisions. “biological” means unlawful, much like the notorious surplusage “unlawful”. It is a word long used in superfluous statutory language to ban something by pretending it was already prohibited.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last mo.

"Biological sex" is fundamentally a retronym like "acoustic guitar" or "snail mail" that adds an adjective to a word whose meaning has shifted over time to try and refer to something older. The first legislative language to adopt it was North Carolina's bathroom ban in 2016.