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Tristan Grayford

@tristangrayford.scot

🏳️‍🌈 activist in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Views entirely my own Co-founder @endconversiontherapy.scot Serial political policy author (he/they) ↙︎↙︎↙︎

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Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 7h ago

This is a repeated pattern Burnham has already displayed - portraying environmental protection and economic prosperity as zero sum, sacrificing one for the other. It might be canny short term politics, but it’s a horrible message that validates the culture messaging of the climate deniers

Tristan Grayford@tristangrayford.scot · 7h ago

The Burnham premiership continues its approach to the future which is "wildfires? lets have more of that please, the young can be put to work to put out the flames" www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11h ago

They really believed that all they had to do was keep throwing money at vexatious litigation until they got a big win, then get our crank government behind it, and then the public would rise up to praise and thank them and act as their enforcement arm. Well, nope.

Caroline Russell@carolinerussell.bsky.social · yesterday

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] page 2 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 AssemblyLetter to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. Links to refs. All available at this link. https://www.london.gov.uk/caroline-russell-am-letter-mayor-ehrc-code-practice
ECT Scotland@endconversiontherapy.scot · 9h ago

Today the most markedly hostile anti-trans regulation ever conceived in the UK goes into force - creating legal chaos and an environment of suspicion and hostility targeted at anti-trans segregation with a blast radius that will hit everyone else as well. It is unworkable, unenforceable, and cruel.

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 9h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

Quote from Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson: 'At the EHRC we want a society where everyone’s rights are respected and realised, so that we can all live well together. Our statutory guidance will help services across the country comply with the Equality Act, protecting service users from discrimination and harassment while reducing the risk of the provider being subject to litigation. As Britain’s equality regulator, our work doesn’t end upon publication of this guidance. We monitor compliance with the law and take enforcement action where proportionate and necessary, in line with our well-established regulatory model and decision-making framework.'
Tristan Grayford@tristangrayford.scot · 19h ago

Boots theory is just a pop culture phrase for part of the poverty trap - A phenomenon where escaping poverty has large upfront costs but not tackling those costs has greater long-term costs, locking people in poverty. This is not a seriously contested phenomenon. It's very well researched.

Tristan Grayford@tristangrayford.scot · 20h ago

The right doesn't see a contradiction in saying that they're protecting women from immigrants and trans people whilst also campaigning against their rights. Because they see those rights as undermining women's protected place - in the home, in servitude to their protective husbands.

Euan@euan.bsky.social · 22h ago

I think people are seeing the mass arrests of people for wearing t-shirts and holding signs in support of Palestine Action and are assuming there's One Weird Trick to force the cops to treat Nazis the same

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · yesterday

www.thenational.scot/news/2641894... This is great and all, but the police already ignore it when Nazis turn up with Combat 18 flags and combat 18 has been banned since they went on a bombing spree in Muslim Jewish and Gay areas in London.

Tristan Grayford@tristangrayford.scot · 20h ago

Sturgeon is right and if the next SNP Programme for Government looks how I expect it to look - with continued ditching of progressive policies and betrayals of promises to women and LGBTQ+ people... the cracks will get wider. www.thenational.scot/news/2643110...

Nicola Sturgeon warns John Swinney SNP policy shift driving voters to Scottish Greens

NICOLA Sturgeon has warned John Swinney that the SNP risk losing more votes to the Scottish Greens under the party’s current policy direction.

thenational.scot

Xander@xanderelliards.bsky.social · yesterday

Fantastic news out of Harris this morning, where a huge swathe of the isle (as well as numerous others and hundreds of crofts) are set to come under community ownership Story: Locals win £1m to buy 27,000-acre Scottish island estate after 14-year campaign

Locals win £1m to buy 27,000-acre Scottish island estate after 14-year campaign

A HUGE Scottish estate with its own private island is set to be purchased by the local community after a £1 million grant was secured ...

thenational.scot

Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · yesterday

Anti-trans activists lost twice in one day, after the High Court rejected a challenge to police guidance. @jessothomson.co.uk argues that the ruling raises important questions for trans human rights: https://goodlaw.social/0kp3

High Court rules strip searches don’t have to be based on ‘biological sex’ | Good Law Project

Anti-trans activists lost twice in one day, after the High Court rejected a challenge to police guidance – Jess O’Thomson argues that the ruling raises important questions for trans human rights

goodlaw.social

Tristan Grayford@tristangrayford.scot · 23h ago

Any PM who doesn't raid and pillage remaining oil and gas profits until the industry hits its inevitable dead end, to invest in renewables, simply is not fit to prepare the UK for what's coming

ECT Scotland@endconversiontherapy.scot · yesterday

Our analysis of the UK Conversion Practices bill remains the same. It is insufficient and, in fact, if passed in its current form it would actively damage the fight against conversion practices. The Scottish Government must proceed with its own far more comprehensive and well-designed bill.

ECT Scotland@endconversiontherapy.scot · last mo.

Westminster has published its conversion practices bill: www.gov.uk/government/p... We will be looking more carefully at it in the coming days - initial concerns include the lack of mention of suppression of behaviours and relying on definitions for sexuality now unfit due to SC judgement on "sex"

Ian Rennie@theangelremiel.bsky.social · yesterday

People like Liddle actively made life worse for disadvantaged people. He stirred up hatred against ethnic minorities, immigrants, Muslims, women, gay people, disabled people, and trans people. He didn't just disagree with them, he harassed them and made their lives worse.

Tristan Grayford@tristangrayford.scot · yesterday

Russia is spending some of its last years with guaranteed massive oil profits to prop up its Government and economy, as the world begins mass-installation of renewables tech, instead burning an entire generation on the battlefield and having its oil infrastructure wrecked every week.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · yesterday

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

The Times full page - ‘Brilliant, provocative, inimitable’ Rod Liddle, who has died aged 66, combined a serious intellect with razor-sharp wit, writes Alex Farber