No one should face exclusion or discrimination because of who they are. The Green Party stands in solidarity with the trans community and will keep fighting for equality that includes everyone.
Penncat
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Shy, disabled, queer, autistic. Requires alt text to follow you. Writer of contemporary m/m/m and lesbian historical novels. Book related stuff found mostly at @penthewriter.bsky.social Cornwall dweller. May actually be the cat in the picture
About 10% of people in pre-historic times appear to have been non-binary, according to their burial rituals. But sure, we were only created ten years ago by some random on the internet..
Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪@brexitbin.bsky.social · last yr.Here's the full scientific article on the subject of non-binary people in ancient times published by Cambridge University Press. #NonBinary 🏳️🌈
Meanwhile, while people are raking the ashes out of their homes, barns, and forests, the fossil fuel companies are raking in the profits. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · 7h agoThis is what climate failure looks like. Nature, homes and livelihoods are being destroyed. The Government must act now.
The Code of Practice goes live today. It *does not change the law*. No member of the public has a right to demand details about your sex and expect to be told anything.
TACC@tacc.org.uk · 17h ago🚨🚨Today the EHRC Code of Practice goes live. Our voices have been ignored. We will not stand for this. We will not stop until our rights are restored. The CoP does not change the law. Inclusion can happen. The vast majority of the public do not want this. WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT 🏳️⚧️✊♥️
Across Europe, Pride is under attack by political scapegoating, bans, defunding, lack of protection, and ultimately violence. We're calling on the #EuropeanCommission to help protect Pride, and the freedoms that make it possible. Add your name to our open letter 👉 protectprideprotectdemocracy.com
I’ve written to the Mayor of London: “I urge you now to work with councils across London to support their efforts to make sure the (EHRC) guidance cannot be used to diminish the everyday rights of 🏳️⚧️ trans Londoners and to seek the wider adoption of these approaches across our city.” [1/3]
![Letter to the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Code of Practice for Service
providers, Public Functions and Associations
I am writing following our conversation at Mayor’s Question Time (12 June 2026) where I raised concerns about the distress and anxiety trans Londoners tell me they are feeling following the publication of the revised Code of Practice for service providers and associations by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
You told me that your “priority is to ensure London remains a city where everyone, regardless of gender identity, can thrive, feel safe and belong.” [1]
You'll be aware that this week, on 5 August 2026, the Government's updated EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect, following an order from the Minister for Women and Equalities.
Trans led organisations, such as Trans Actual, have maintained that the Code remains unworkable; it does not protect trans people, it does not help service providers and it does not respect the UK’s human rights obligations. [2]
Despite cross party condemnation, with 166 MPs signing Early Day Motion (EDM) 240,
tabled by Nadia Whittome MP, in an effort to halt this discriminatory guidance, there has
been no debate in Parliament.
The government's own Equality Impact Assessment admits that this code of practice would have wide-ranging negative impacts on Trans people and that Trans women could face a "disproportionate risk of violence and sexual assault.” [3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y72k4zijlsi47z7wk262cv24/bafkreifzyqhohvnimtn7f55trm54cbxvwqcjjxkmdfuq74twtvtyacufaq)
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I would like to know what work you and your Deputy Mayors have been doing, since we spoke about this in June, to prepare for the changes coming into effect on 5 August.
Londoners need to know how you intend to uphold the rights of trans people and support service providers to remain trans inclusive.
As an elected London politician, I am particularly concerned because London has the highest proportion of people in England whose gender identity differs from their sex
assigned at birth. [4] These are people in our community, work colleagues, neighbours, friends and family members, who should be able to participate in public life without fear of being outed, harassed or discriminated against at work or in public when using a toilet or changing room.
Lambeth Council recently announced that it would challenge the implementation of the
Draft Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions and Associations. Councillors backed a motion condemning the draft code as “incoherent and self-contradictory, discriminatory, and impossible to implement in a reasonable and proportionate manner.” [5]
The motion called on the council to protect LGBTQIA+ workers and service users by
refusing to implement the guidelines should legal advice confirm that such a move would be lawful.
When we spoke at MQT in June, you said “the GLA will continue to work closely with
boroughs, service providers, community organisations and partners to ensure our services remain welcoming, safe and appropriate.” [6]
I urge you now to work with councils across London to support their efforts to make sure
the guidance cannot be used to diminish the everyday rights of trans Londoners and to
seek the wider adoption of these approaches across our city.
This is about Trans people's right to exist in society free from abuse, discrimination and
segregation, with the autonomy to be who they know themselves to be.
Yours sincerely,
Caroline Russell AM
Leader of the Green Group on the London Assembly](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y72k4zijlsi47z7wk262cv24/bafkreifwtum3lzri5qtxr2t6626xrghonytnxiodbgdnsxjvqya3jwxbmy)
I trusted my teen, that I’d given him enough info about not giving personal details away, or having porn thrust upon him (unless he wanted), as well as that he wasn’t an arse. I didn’t check his emails, or barge into his room when he was on the computer. Turned out fine - luck, or judgement?
cinnamon 🐇 🏳️⚧️@plushie.holdings · 13h agothey let me on the internet as a kid and all that really happened was i learned gamehacking and heard a bunch of good music and figured out a bunch of etiquette the embarrassing way which is imo better earlier
The only time I interact with AI is when forced to because it’s the only form of help offered by businesses where once they employed people who actually gave the answer I was looking for. Gosh, however would I manage if we went back to real folk again?
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 19h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
"Mainstream media" is just six billionaires in a trenchcoat.
somebody seems to be trying real hard to get Gurt’s attention
Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
I like this fella on a lot of things, and if he can get elected, without big money behind him, it’s an encouraging sign for the US.
Ron Skolnik@ronskolnik.bsky.social · 23h agoEl-Sayed: "I believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination, for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis alike... If that’s 2 states, I’m for it. If it’s 1 state, I’m for that. If it’s this 'land for all' model, ... or whatever they decide." www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
I am speaking to Green Party Members proposing motions for Green Party 2026 Autumn conference. Here is my interview with Sheridan Kates from the Green Party Economic Policy Group about Fiscal Referees (A65) youtu.be/7MB_2G5MeNE
Ed Poole speaks to Sheridan Kates about Fiscal Referees
YouTube video by Amplify with Ed Poole
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Recently a sign has gone up at my doctor’s reception desk saying that abuse will not be tolerated. I’m so fucking white it hadn’t even occurred to me it might be racist abuse, but my doctor is newish and Asian, and there’s a new Black doctor too. And I love Cornwall but it’s depressingly white…
Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · yesterdaynews.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
BP joins Shell in making billions at the expense of us and the planet. When is the government going to stop subsidising fossil fuel companies and tax them, and fund green energy and jobs? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BP profit highest since 2022 as Iran war pushes up oil price
Higher oil prices boost the energy giant's results while environmental groups accuse it of profiteering.
bbc.co.uk
🚨🚨🚨 Mass lobby sign ups have just opened. Click here to sign up, invite your MP, and join us to show that we aren’t going away. Wednesday 9th September, just after Parliament returns, 1-5pm: www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...
Mass Lobby for Trans Equality - 9th September 2026
The law around trans equality is fundamentally broken. Government inaction is hanging trans people and organisations out to dry - with a confusing mess of challenging rules and lawfare.
transsolidarityalliance.com
Ugh, just breathed in my orange squash rather than drinking it and I do not recommend it. My poor, poor windpipe. *tries not to wake entire house coughing and choking*
Excellent stuff. When I worked, mine paid for me to get to work & have a mobility scooter to get around when at work. What I want to know is how Clarkson expects severely ill folk to be able to manage what he’s asking. I could write (usually) but couldn’t post anything personally being bedbound…
Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 2d agoBrilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
If you want to know what companies to boycott, there is a list here: boycott-israel.org/boycott.html Even if you can’t avoid them all, switching high/very high impact companies to low/medium impact ones instead is better than nothing. Don’t do nothing because you feel you can’t do everything.
Boycott Israel - A Simple Boycott List
A simple boycott list of Israeli and global firms active in Israel, guiding purchases to pressure the government and uphold international law.
boycott-israel.org
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 2d agoMany things are complicated. There's nuance to almost everything. Pretty much everything in the legal system is complicated by design. But some things are not. Buying Israeli products like sodastreams. Vacationing in Dubai. Buying a new phone when you can afford a used one.
At what point do we rechristen it the Injustice System?
Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · 3d agoAMAZING MOMENT A woman came back still wearing a custody tshirt having been released for a terrorism arrest. While being arrested for declaring support for Palestine Action a second time, another woman came back to do the same. The opposition to this ban cannot be contained.
This feels like a thing that trans folk have pointed out is where anti-trans policies will end up if you take them to their logical conclusion, and all the sensibles in the centre have gone “come now, it won’t come to that!” And maybe they need to apologise because apparently it absolutely will.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Oh look. Age verification doesn’t work…at least, not for what they claim they want it for, keeping kids off social media. As a way to start getting people used to having their details given over dangerously online, losing the right to privacy, it’s working just as intended.
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 2d agoAustralia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
This sounds fabulous.
Quakers in Britain Peace Team @peace-campaigns.quaker.org.uk · 2d agoComing together in a ‘loud silence’ for peace Plans are underway for a national silent walking vigil for peace in London on 19 September. Join us as we come together with those from other faiths in a worshipful prayer. www.quaker.org.uk/action/news/...
Genuinely don't think we're hearing nearly enough about the effective youth/GenZ protest movements in middle and lower-middle income countries in the past couple of years foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/30/c...
How Gen Z ‘Cockroaches’ Beat Modi at His Own Game
India’s prime minister is famous for his savvy use of social media. Now he’s getting a wake-up call.
foreignpolicy.com
Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/
How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net
librarian.net
This is utterly revolting stuff. This is the new Prime Minister? Same as the old PM. Pandering to the Far Right, where the cruelty is the point.
UnicornsRockUK@unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 3d agoLooks like the discussions between the UK and the EU have broken down 😒 The similar level of gaslighting used to tell trans people we never had recognition is now used to tell EU citizens they never had right to remain. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...