Rachel Saunders
@rejserin.bsky.social
Rights researcher. Passionate travel junkie, field hockey goalie, and all round curiousity freak.
Being told to stay in your lane is the oldest put down in the patriarchal handbook. I refuse to stay in my lane. rejserin.medium.com/i-will-not-s...
I will not stay in my lane
Being told to stay in my lane felt like a slap in the face, especially when the person saying it was a woman. It was tot for the first time…
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Gender critics are vixens in the hen house seeking to police all women and dominate any who resist their efforts. rejserin.medium.com/gender-criti...
Gender critical vixens in the hen house
When I was younger I would always bristle at being call duck or hen, stating I was not a piece of poultry, yet the northern forms of…
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You do not increase the security of trans people by welcoming in those who seek to treat you as an unwanted guest. This is my response to @hecubiandevil.bsky.social. rejserin.medium.com/rights-are-a...
Rights are a narrative process
Rights are a narrative process. They are not needed on an island of one because we do not seek to oppress ourselves. Rather, rights become…
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I discuss trans and non-binary domestic abuse with Melissa from @lovingmeuk.bsky.social , whose report has been released today. youtu.be/vCKLx0KL3vY
Lavender and Steel - Episode 007 - Loving Me
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Writing about social issues means I need to be mindful of the allegories I use, especially when my head is currently full of Greek myths. rejserin.medium.com/picking-your...
Picking your allegories
As an ex-Christian my head is full of biblical allegories which I draw on for every day referencing, it is simply part of my cultural…
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Gender critics are chained in a cave of their own making, obsessing over the shadows cast thinking trans people are problem they can solve. rejserin.medium.com/gender-ident...
Gender identity and moral agency
I reject reductive conceptions of morality as they are always rooted in the positionality of whichever person or society conceived them…
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The human condition is not a logic puzzle gender critics can solve because they rely on reductive and redundant ideas. rejserin.medium.com/sexed-bodies...
Sexed bodies compared to conceptions of self
One of the key issues facing trans people is the policing of their physical bodies which sits in contrast to their desire to manifest their…
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AI can be a tool to benefit humanity, but the jury is out on where it is a moral good or causes intrinsic harms to the body politic. rejserin.medium.com/ai-and-moral...
AI and moral harms
I am an avowed AI sceptic, someone who wrote their Masters thesis in 2020 on the dangers of an AI panopticon to rights and our conception…
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Gender critical beliefs need deconstructing because they harm all women. youtu.be/gllm9RQHNb4
Lavender and Steel - Hot Take - Gender critical beliefs
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Gender critical obession over trans bodies is rooted in the need to ratchet up the harmful rhetoric because that is the only way they can keep people's attention. rejserin.medium.com/gender-criti...
Gender critical obsession over trans bodies
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The trans movement is stronger in its diversity, something gender critics seek to tear down because they are scared of a trans inclusive society. rejserin.medium.com/the-many-sid...
The many sided transgender movement
Building a movement with many intersectional moving parts requires compromise, framing, and understanding that you will lose people along…
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All speech is contextual, there is no absolute freedom to use speech to hate another person or group. Gender critics need to remember this. rejserin.medium.com/there-is-no-...
There is no right to hate
Free speech, a quintessential issue of our times, a right so nebulous that those in favour of free speech absolutism are prepared to sell…
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Trans people and our allies stand in solidarity against gender critical hate. rejserin.medium.com/solidarity-w...
Solidarity with everyone in the trans community
5th August 2026 will be a day that lives in infamy for the trans community in the UK. It was the day that the revised EHRC Guidance came…
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Just a reminder, the EHRC guidance is only for businesses, service providers, and organisations. Do not automatically yield to it, do not say you are trans, and ask for any objection in writing with specific reasons why you are barred. youtu.be/4U9SfAHe6FY
Lavender and Steel - Episode 006 - EHRC Special
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Gender critics and transphobes will burn the world down for a few scraps of power. rejserin.medium.com/counting-the...
Counting the cost of transphobia
How a society treats its marginalised groups is often held to be a sign of how civilised it appears. Most societies seek to appear…
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Sex only matters in the same way race matters to racists. It is a power play by gender critics to exclude any woman they deem not woman enough, and deny trans and NB their core identity. rejserin.medium.com/sex-only-mat...
Sex only matters in the same way race only matters to racists
I preface this by stating that under UK law holding gender critical philosophical beliefs has protection under the Equality Act 2010…
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I have a great conversation with @stephrichards.bsky.social about her work with @translucent.org.uk and her broader campaigns for women's health issues. youtu.be/VNvOmDR94XA
Lavender and steel - Episode 005 - Steph Richards
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I am dealing with a group of X users who are stalking my online accounts, scraping information, and using it against me. I see you. rejserin.medium.com/online-stalk...
Online stalking
To be clear this is me working through a serious issue I am facing on social media, one which the platforms are not prepared to deal with…
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How we record and interpret trans history matters because most trans lives go unrecorded. rejserin.medium.com/recording-tr...
Recording trans history
Over the last decade plenty of books have been published documenting trans history, autobiographies, biographies, and academic textbooks…
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Trans people are being swept from society by those who seek to cleanse us for no other reason that they hate trans identities. rejserin.medium.com/anxiety-and-...
Anxiety and the trans experience
Being trans in the world has always been about conquering fears. No trans narrative has ever been free from the fear for putting on the…
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Trans history is there to those who care to look. It is not the monster gender critics make us out to be. rejserin.medium.com/trans-histor...
Trans history is not a mythic beast
It’s a strange quirk of living your entire adult as a woman when the history you experienced first hand becomes a contest space which…
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A reminder that we are only 200 years removed from LGBTQI+ being executed in the UK for acts of intimacy. Rolling back the rights of one group risks rolling back the rights for all. Not one step back. rictornorton.co.uk/vere.htm
The Vere Street Coterie, 1810
The Vere Street Coterie by Rictor Norton
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Manifested gender critical beliefs are causing moral harm to society through their exclusionary rhetoric and actions. rejserin.medium.com/manifested-g...
Manifested gender critical beliefs cause moral harm to society
In August 2026 the UK is set to introduce a set of punitive sex segregation polices in the revised EHRC Guidance which means that any trans…
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I had a great chat with Laura Targiwnik discussing trans rights, bathrooms, and gender critics. youtu.be/SpffxfTcs0A
Lavender and Steel - Episode 004 - Laura Targownik
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Here I lay out why Beira's Place is anti-rights, laying out the legal philosophical rationale and evidence. J K Rowling and Beira's Place are anti-rights because they dehumanise trans women as a foundational principle. rejserin.medium.com/beiras-place...
Beira’s Place, anti-rights
In July 2026 Amnesty International published a report, since retracted, which outlined that a series of organisations in the UK were…
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Freda Wallace spilling the T about J K Rowling's use of Maya Forstater's upskirt image of her. Its gender critical abuse, plain and simple. youtu.be/YTJZSBgD6rI
Lavender and Steel - Hot take - Freda Wallace responds to J K Rowling
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For all the trans people fighting against gender critical transphobia, here is a great list of 46 books showing trans history and personal experience. rejserin.medium.com/46-transgend...
46 transgender books for you
As we are coming up to the season for Trans Pride marches and events, I have put together a list of trans books from my personal collection…
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Gender critics repeat the same arguments over the ordinary meaning of sex, yet do not care that they exclude anyone they deem not woman enough or that their beliefs harm all women. youtu.be/A83MeQ2Rf6Y
Lavender and Steel - Hot take - The ordinary meaning of sex
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The ordinary meaning of sex falls short when it only has room of the gender critical perspective as espoused by gender critics. It is not a weapon, it is a evolving conception which cannot be rooted in fear. rejserin.medium.com/why-the-ordi...
Why the ordinary meaning of sex falls short
Defining how the average person thinks about an issue is an exercise in trying to divine what the median on any concept is within an…
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