Laurie May

fat liberation is body liberation is trans liberation is fat liberation is body liberation is trans liberation x♾️

It is the best!

It's somewhat heartening, that after a decade plus of highly funded anti trans campaigning, they're still a pretty small minority of bigots

A story in two parts . . .

Party supporting trans rights sees membership triple

Party opposing trans rights sees membership half

Maybe attacking marginalised folk is not a vote winner...

I've also been looking this up today - force 8 gale sounds much worse than "45mph gusts"

It's windy up here too
<grumbles>
Probably my least favourite type of weather

Cheshire Women’s Institute branch to close in solidarity with trans women A Cheshire Women’s Institute branch has announced it will close at the end of March after members voted overwhelmingly to suspend the group in protest at the national organisation’s exclusion of trans...

Apparently at least 25 WIs have now closed as a result of threats by “gender critical feminists”.

GCs do not represent (cis)women.

WOW, supporters of the trans inclusive party are the people most likely to think much more needs to be done to reach gender equality.

Shock horror 😲, Almost like trans rights and women's rights are not actually in conflict but mutually supportive of each other ... Colour me shocked n all that.

Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes start to have benefits cut in UK after accepting compensation Exclusive: Campaigners urge Keir Starmer to back ‘Philomena’s Law’ to protect payments for up to 13,000 survivors living in Britain

Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes start to have benefits cut in UK after accepting compensation | Ireland | The Guardian share.google/UhKBh9lyp9Uy...

That looks like a desk where useful things happen

Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

'gordon'

A very simple diagram showing radar, a chaff cloud, a confused missile and an airplane. The confused missile is aiking for the chaff cloud and not the airplane.

THE CHAFF PROJECT

Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!

How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.

Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

Images of multiple organisations that have signed our open letter.

The list of organisations continues to grow larger.

When a community deems a term offensive, this constitutes a slur.

We are calling on all organisations to sign our open letter. Please get in touch via DM or our website.

Individuals can also sign via this link:
tacc.org.uk/biological-s...

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Some good news for a change

BBC celebrating having helped harass a woman out of her job.

Key point

High Court rules on lawfulness of the EHRC’s interim guidance High Court decides services may lawfully allow trans women to use women’s facilities – but the fight for trans rights continues

This is our news read out:

"Service providers may lawfully allow trans women to use women’s facilities without being forced to open them to cis men" and "the EHRC’s exclusionary draft Code of Practice does not accurately reflect the law and the Minister will have to send it back to be rewritten."

Enough now

Let’s be absolutely clear:

Any politician found in possession of indecent images of children is a child sex abuser

Any politician who chooses to maintain a relationship with a known abuser is, at a very minimum, enabling child abuse

Any politician rewarding these people is complicit

That's fair - it's not at all obvious these days that it used to be way more accessible and generally popular

A little harsh on opera 😅

Tim Allan, who just quit as Starmer's director of comms, was on the board of the trans-eliminationist hate group "Sex Matters", whose director of advocacy Helen Joyce urged transphobes to get through to "decision makers" so that the "numbers" of trans people could be "reduced." That's what they did.

New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

Heartbreaking and completely preventable

Those responsible must be held to account

Thread:

Thanks for that earworm

What a way to make a living

Paid less for being trans, a woman and a trans woman This LGBTQ+ Equal Pay Day, The 19th focuses on the wage gap for trans women, who make 60 cents for every $1 earned by the average American worker.

Since the transphobic dog whistle/air horn of "trans people are an affluent white demographic" is doing the rounds again, remember that it is an absolute crock of shit and you should call it out accordingly. Here's some info on the transgender pay gap in the US:

Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

Sort it out, folks