The PhD has finally been awarded! 🎓 For anyone interested, here is a link to the PhD thesis 👀 etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/39...

I don't have any coherent words about this. Just a loud and formless scream.

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

Feeling this a bit post-corrections as I fully lock in to the post-PhD job search. (corrections are done, but I'm waiting on final bits to be done like signing forms and uploading stuff to depositories, all that final admin stuff).

Sylvia@silbheuig.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Themes around being 'professionally trans' came up in my research, but also that's what has happened or will happen to me too, depending on what I do next. I also have that kind of anxiety as to how I'm perceived by trans workers and academics. What is my position now?

The EHRC’S new code has been published. We’ll have a detailed analysis out shortly. The guidance has been toned down from the previous draft – but it still treats trans people like they’re a third sex. This pushes trans people out of public life and violates their human rights.

🚨 New EHRC guidance is here and we will have analysis soon assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a0de6... Key points to remember:

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance@transsolidarity.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New EHRC guidance is due today. Remember: ➡️ Early reports based on unattributed briefings are spin, not facts. ➡️ This is civil law around who can and cannot bring discrimination claims - not criminal law. ➡️ Whatever it says, it is a choice by this government. They can fix it. ➡️ We will keep going.

This is why you really shouldn't trust the immediate reporting on, eg, the code, or about legal cases. It is genuinely remarkable the extent to which reporting does not get even the most basic details correct. Please wait for actual analysis from the law and policy experts working in this space.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 4mo ago

The Times coverage of what the Code is likely to contain is embarrassingly wrong. It talks repeatedly about what it will tell employers to do – but, of course, the guidance is only for service providers and associations. This is a question of basic accuracy and understanding. Shameful.

The UK Government is expected to publish its updated Code of Practice tomorrow – just in time for their holidays.

Still around, just not on this website that much aside from looking at the timeline from time to time. Have I lost the ability to post? Will I get it back? 😝

'You’re allowed to take a moment – just a moment – after a year of struggle, to be proud of the fact that we’re still here. We’re still fighting. And no matter how long and difficult the struggle is – it is a fight we will win, together.'

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 5mo ago

It's a year today since the Supreme Court decision on the meaning of "sex" under the Equality Act 2010. Jolyon Maugham and I have written a reflective piece with our thoughts on the judgment, everything that has happened since, and why it's so important that we are still fighting - together 👇

I'll try and get the blog idea set up again soon, not sure if I want to keep using the one I have on bearblog or learn a bit more HTML and do something else.

International law - the whole edifice; all of diplomacy; and every comma in the American constitution are failing in this abject and absolute triumph of necropolitics with impunity. Every last sinew of diplomacy must now be strained. UK airspace must be closed to US military. Immediately.

It's my 30th birthday today! 🎂 I've spent it reading Congress documents from the PTB-PVDA (as one does) and listening to music (currently listening to Slayyyter's new album). But otherwise, I'm just relaxing and reflecting on the past decade. I've come so far. 😊

Feeling better now after a walk and the promise of a chippy for tea tonight. I've done a lot and despite my anxieties about what is ahead, I'm proud of what I've done and how far I've come. (I'm also in a more reflective mood since my 30th is on Thursday, a busy time for me rn!) Have some tulips 🌷

This year's TDoV has happened in a strange time in my life. I just did a PhD researching trans women and yet I also feel a detachment from a lot of trans communities and spaces. It's that kind of subsummation of my identity into such a huge piece of work and maybe post-PhD burnout.

Trans Day of Act Now to Stop Labour's Section 28! Tell all your cis friends and colleagues. They have until 20 April.

Labour’s Section 28 is here – act now

In May 1988, the Conservative government introduced Section 28. This legal measure outlawed support for “homosexuality as a pretended family relationship” across Britain, especially in …

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Good morning! It’s TDOV and I’m a broke trans woman who hasn’t been paid since March 12th. I haven’t been able to restock my pantry and I’m living on my reserves of frozen meals, cup noodles, and rice. If you wanted to provide me with grocery money, it would mean the world. www.paypal.me/JPierce954

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Go to paypal.me/JPierce954 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Just reupping this post for the people that think giving money to the bigot lady is a matter or nuance, she is actively trying to undermine the law in my country. The main anti-trans organisation here admits they have 20-30 members, nobody apart from a handful of bigots wants this

ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ@ciara2001.eurosky.social · 11mo ago

And remember, this woman is trying to illegally (it's generally illegal for a third party to fund court cases here) export her brand of hatred to a country that has had problem-free self-id for ten years

Today's the day! The viva! Wish me luck everyone!

Hey everyone, a collective I'm part of is starting a radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle, a city where the last radical bookshop closed around 40 years ago. We've just launched our crowdfunder. Please take a look a share widely! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

a useful explainer of International Women's Day by Cinzia Arruzza

A lovely exhibition that I went to today at the Graves Gallery in Sheffield. 'Revolution, Revelation, Reinforcement: Queer Legacies in Sheffield's Art Collection'

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Three women found guilty of criminal damage after a pro-Palestine protest at a Newcastle factory owned by Rafael Advanced Defence Systems, an Israeli state-owned weapons company www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Three women guilty of criminal damage after pro-Palestine protest at factory

Hollie Mildenhall, Summer Oxlade and Georgia Coote targeted Pearson Engineering because it is owned by Rafael Advanced Defence Systems, an Israeli state-owned weapons company

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“If you are concerned about your data being used in the new data linkage study. You can set the National Data Opt-Out. The EIA for The Gender Recognition (Disclosure of Information) (England) Order 2026 confirms both national + study-specific opt-outs will apply.” tacc.org.uk/2026/03/03/h...

How to opt out of your NHS data being used for research - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective

This explains, plainly and precisely, how to stop your confidential NHS patient information being used for research or planning, and what limits apply after the recent Government statements and Order ...

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Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · 6mo ago

Updated with information on how those affected can opt out from having their personal data used. Information provided by the brilliant @tacc.org.uk sophie-molly-reports.beehiiv.com/p/labour-set...

Very useful book for my masters thesis on the inter-war feminist journal Urania that Gore-Booth co-founded (declaring that 'sex is an accident') which included a trans feminine editor, Irene Clyde. 👀

Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Publishing today! A special anniversary edition of Sonja Tiernan's acclaimed biography of Irish poet, pacifist and political firebrand Eva Gore-Booth. Currently 30% off on our website until the end of March. #WomensHistoryMonth #biography #booksky

Something different on here. Albums I've listened to and rated on my RYM account over the last month. 😊 🎧

Been *feeling* it since yesterday, that this month is the month of the viva. Of course I'm nervous, but as I'm reading through the thesis now (giving myself enough time for prep!) - I'm reminded that I did accomplish all of that. I am proud of it, that's for sure.

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...

Cheeky shout-out, but if anyone has any thoughts about the YP CEC elections, the by-election in Gorton and Denton or any other socialist-adjacent topics, please feel free to submit any letters (up to 500 words) to @prometheusmagazine.bsky.social and I'll have a look! prometheus-mag.com/submit/

A quick post to let everyone know that I'm doing good, keeping myself busy with things here and there as I start my viva preparation. I'm mainly on Instagram atm and not much else in terms of social media. If people want to catch me on there, just reply to this and I can DM you my account.