Transphohic orgs threatening a human rights org with legal action is a new level of brazen. It's kind of disorienting that it's probably going to work.

Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

UK warns gay travellers about US anti-LGBT laws

The UK government warns LGBT travellers to be careful in the US due to laws affecting LGBT people in North Carolina and Mississippi.

bbc.co.uk

Mark Grimshaw@markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congratulations to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social on somehow making Theresa May’s Conservative Party the most socially progressive government of the last decade, I suppose. Really impressive to be that fucking ghoulish a person.

bsky.app/profile/malr... Literally this, it's like when Nazis start saying "I'm not racist I just love and care about a future for the white race. It's okay to be white! Don't infringe on my rights, you racist!" They know what they are and they're taking the piss.

Headache Critic@malreveng.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I have GC colleagues who put on the ‘let’s have a coffee and talk it out’ act. Look at their Twitter/mumsnet accounts and they are just bathed in a sea of hated. Even if you don’t engage, you can’t psychologically be part of these communities without propagating generational enmity of trans people

This is why when stating their beliefs positively rather than in the negative of what they're critical of (trans people), they describe themselves as believing that sex is immutable, innate and has inherent importance to it. They regress to the anti feminist idea that it's Just Basic Biology.

The gender critical movement objectively formed in response to trans rights advances and a desire of the people who formed it to repeal trans rights. Cherry Ann Austin, the founder of seminal GC campaign Fair Play For Women joked about trans women dying of cancer as something she wanted.

www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho... This is so unbelievably absurd and harrowing.

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship

A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

indexoncensorship.org

New School Guidance announces: Full bathroom ban. Full PE ban. Full school trip accommodation ban. Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/

The disrespect and dehumanisation is off the scale.

be the chaotic good you wish to see in this trash world, i can't stress this enough

Screaming "wtf" and waiting for a spontaneous uprising is going to discourage you. There won't be a spontaneous uprising. That's just not where the people are at. Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.

That’s unfair; it also convinces people to kill themselves.

Ash@queerash.bsky.social · 8mo ago

AI CEOs: why aren't people more pro-AI?! also AI CEOs: we have invented the automated revenge porn machine

I have become more sympathetic to the idea that saying you can’t hold Trump voters morally culpable for Trump regime actions is patronizing. It partakes of an old and to my mind destructive left wing habit: to think of conservative white voters as not quite adults.

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 11mo ago

you cannot "smolbeanify" the moral agency of millions of people who decided to enshitty the rest of the world, whether it be USAID, climate change, or whatever

Always alarming when hierarchy is deemed “natural” (psssssst - it’s constructed and changeable) Is it time to whip out my fave Le Guin quote again?

Running Dog@runningdog.bsky.social · last yr.

IDK man, UK politics has been loudly hunting for “elites” to blame for 10 years, and probably the most popular single thing the government could do rn would be to put the board of Thames Water in cuffs. The obstacle to tax reform is the press and donors.

I talk/dream/practise/read a lot about hope as a way to imagine myself into a liveable future. This current timeline certainly makes it challenging. I’ve been stuck on hard mode but it’s my first time playing the game, and ya know? I’m tired. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country. Join us. The time is now. Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...

My research into the effects of the UK puberty-blocker ban was published only 10 days ago, it has already been viewed more than 7,000 times! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The idea that Rowling just has a controversial opinion is wrong and dangerous, too. She’s one of the world’s leading transmisogynists—a bigot stoking violence—and she delights in endangering women. It should be socially unacceptable to display Harry Potter merch.

The law is systematically oppressing trans people so I'm afraid if you actually want to call yourself trans allies or a 'trans inclusive organisation' then you cannot be upholding that law. And if you aren't comfortable advising people to not legally segregate, then you were never an ally.

The Ministry of Justice scrubbing LGBT, race and gender from its diversity policy isn’t neutrality it’s erasure. You don’t protect marginalised people by pretending they don’t exist. This isn’t progress. It’s a warning sign, and we should all be paying attention!!

Ministry of Justice scraps public support for LGBT in diversity overhaul

Department promises to take ‘evidence-based’ approach after updating equality and diversity policy

telegraph.co.uk

If you cannot run your business by following simple laws, you don’t have a business, you have a racket.

The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense) then please sign this open letter I and others have put together to UK Archaeological associations to urge overt and resolute solidarity with trans archaeologists, and the wider trans community docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Open Letter to CBA, CIfA, FAME, and UAUK, in relation the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Interim Guidance

If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense), and you would like to sign this open letter then please fill in GOOGLE FORM LINK. Responses will be manually inputted. The for...

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The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

Chris Williams@chrisw100.bsky.social · last yr.

Another record year for the Green Party 👏 859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk

This is heartening and, I find, the common experience. We hear time and time again the narrative that *everyone* believes that trans people are bad, evil, whatever, and the support for this is a handful of the hateful usual suspects. Then along comes pushback and people flood in in their thousands.

Caroline Dodds Pennock@carolinepennock.bsky.social · last yr.

Close to TWO THOUSAND academics and educators say TRANS RIGHTS NOW. (Sorry if you've seen this (and the historians' letter!) too many times. The lack of an algorithm means we have to keep reposting it to catch people, and this really matters.)

🧵 A Thread of UK University Statements on the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Guidance Against Trans Inclusion This thread catalouges statements by UK Universities in relation to the Supreme Courts transphobic ruling and the EHRC guidance for trans segregation. I'll try update it daily. 1/?

A friend who is a trans woman and who plays women’s football received an email from the FA about the decision which contains this paragraph. Free therapy to cope with the fact you’ve been transphobic bigots, fucking brilliant.

Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@bernietranders.bsky.social · last yr.

The English Football association have also caved and have announced today that they will be banning trans women from competing in women’s football next season. www.thefa.com/news/2025/ma...

The UK is a fascist state with the pretence of democracy. Autism is not a disease. Being trans is not a disease. Neither need cured. Leave us the fuck alone!!

The reality in the UK right is now the ideology of trans eradication is being given more legal protections than the reality of being trans. And if you can't see that with everything that's going on, then you are part of the problem. Do better, listen to trans people, fight back against the bigots.

Really excited* to see UK universities/educational institutions roll back any trans protections they’ve had in place thanks to the new clarity of all being defined by how *squints* our genitals appeared at birth??? Fabulous. Love that for all of us. *filled with dread

I wrote about the Trump administration’s embrace of the pro-natalist movement, and the need to combat pro-natalist misogyny in cultural terms. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...