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Graphic reading “The ultimate toolkit to shut down lies about Trans+ people – free to download.” Shows the Trans+ History Week workbook, lesson pages, and a phone displaying content.

🏳️‍⚧️ One of the strongest ways to challenge lies that being trans is a ‘trend’ is to lead with the truth.

Our free workbook with @transhistoryweek.com will teach you how to drown out the lies with stories of Trans+ History. 

Download it now 🧵👇
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Ticket to terror as Scots transport workers call for law against soaring attacks RMT union chiefs point to 'horrendous' stories of workers being spat on, abused and attacked while on duty on trains, buses and ferries.

📰 RMT union chiefs point to 'horrendous' stories of workers being spat on, abused and attacked while on duty on trains, buses and ferries.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

Happy Christmas, to all, If you are having a hard time today, are alone, or just need another LGBTQIA+ person to talk to who "gets it" we are here all day from 10am - 10pm.
Reach out to us whether that's by phone, chat or email.
☎️: 0800 0119 100
💬: switchboard.lgbt
📧: hello@switchboard.lgbt

Sharing this as I know it will be of great help. Please like and share to get coverage at what can be a difficult time.

Don't worry if you've not heard of them, @hleehurley.com knows and vouches for them. Thank you @causewaypride.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️🎄

What a good day to be trans in NSW. A TERF has to pay $50,000 to one trans woman soccer player and $45,000 to another. And all of Kirralie Smith’s social media accounts have to display a public trans apology.

Next week is the 20th anniversary of the 7/7 attacks.
After the attacks, many of those affected faced press harassment and intrusion. Years on, nothing has changed. Ask your MP to back changes in the law to protect victims of terror from press abuse: hackedoff.org/campaign-act...

Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention Red Flag Alert on Anti-trans and intersex Rights in the UK Released on 30th of June 2025 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security would like to bring attention to and condemn recent judicial and governmental developments in the United Kingdom, which attempt to harm transgender and intersex people in the UK by stripping them of privacy and segregating them as 'others.' The Lemkin Institute believes these moves are part of a broader process of erasure. It is not only government action but also the media narrative that has fuelled hostility to and debate about the humanity of trans and intersex people while ignoring their voices. We see evidence of genocidal intent and actions targeting these communities. In April this year, the United Kingdom's Supreme Court (UKSC) delivered a judgment declaring that, for the purposes of the Equality Act (2010), "sex" refers to "biological sex," which it did not define clearly. The Equality Act (2010) provides protection against discrimination on a variety of grounds in public spaces. This ruling at the UK's highest court means that individuals are now protected from discrimination on the basis of their assigned at birth sex, regardless of how that corresponds to their gender identity, lived gender, or sex characteristics. The decision is the result of a court challenge brought by the gender critical group For Women Scotland, which is financially backed by author J.K. Rowling and characterises itself as "feminist."' The UKSC decision creates dual legal categories for people who have gender recognition certificates, making them one sex for the purpose of the Equality Act (2010) and another for all other legal purposes, stripping people with Gender Recognition Certificates (GRCs) of crucial protections and privacy. Despite the UKSC's assurances in their reasoning that the decision in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers would not be disadvantageous to trans indiv…

"important protections," the practical repercussions for trans and intersex individuals are clear and serious. Since the ruling, "birth sex," "biological sex," and "natal sex" have all been used interchangeably, ignoring the multiple relevant components of biological sex and the existence of intersex people. Analysts immediately warned that the decision could be used to render single sex spaces off limits for trans people, including hospital wards, sports, and domestic violence shelters. For a group especially vulnerable to domestic violence, exclusion from specialised shelters is nothing short of cruel and could, in some cases, prove a death sentence. Transgender and intersex people may find themselves excluded not only from spaces of their current sex but also from spaces for their sex assigned at birth. Trans men would find themselves excluded from both male spaces on the basis of their assigned sex at birth, and female spaces if they are deemed to look too much like men. In the two months since the UKSC's decision, the situation has only worsened for the trans and intersex communities in the UK. For example the proposed NC21 amendment would have all public institutions record people by their sex assigned at birth and only include gender identity alongside this if they have a GRC, stripping transitioned people of privacy. Although this particular amendment was defeated, the Government has stated its desire to comply with the recommendations of the Sullivan review at a future date, which would require public institutions to collect someone's sex assigned at birth, leading to forced outing of transitioned people. This attempt to forcibly out transitioned people in public life is not limited to documentation. Head of the UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Baroness Falkner recently stated in the annual meeting with the Women and Equalities Committee that neither she nor the UKSC believe that transitioned people have a right to privacy around their gende…

Again, intersex people are left ignored. For example, it is not clear how this guidance would apply to an intersex woman who was originally recorded as male at birth and had her birth certificate amended to female. When asked if intersex people had been considered in this guidance, Baroness Falkner responded that intersex people had not been considered as they are not included in the Equality Act (2010). Baroness Falkner is not alone in her lack of consideration for intersex people in the UK. The UK scored a 0.0 for intersex bodily integrity on the Rainbow Map. Notably, in the United Kingdom, genital mutilation of intersex babies is still legal. If one compares this lack of protection for intersex infants to the efforts against Female Genital Mutilation in the United Kingdom, the overt interphobia of the United Kingdom's Government and judiciary becomes clear. Intersex surgeries are but one part of a documented public health crisis that strips bodily autonomy from people who fall outside of the sex and gender binary. The UK's Government commissioned "Cass Report" on gender-affirming care for transgender youth has not been peer reviewed and is, in fact, internationally criticised as methodologically flawed. Yet, it remains the basis upon which the government has now permanently banned puberty blockers for transgender youth despite evidence of the harm it is causing to transgender youth. Guardians who wish to provide gender-affirming care that has been found to have 'positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes' are forced to take their children out of the country and are at risk of scrutiny by social care services and even legal action. For adults too, gender affirming care in the United Kingdom is in crisis. Transgender adults face incredibly long wait times for such care, sometimes waiting years for an initial appointment. Government calls from both the UK's previous Conservative and current Labour government have advocated for transgender people to…

binaries second-class citizens, it will also lay the groundwork for increased genital mutilation of intersex infants and conversion therapy of transgender people. This escalation of anti-trans actions has done nothing to appease For Women Scotland, who are contemplating additional legal action against the Scottish government to ensure further erasure of trans people from public life. One representative of the group underscored the need to place trans women in male prisons, ostensibly for the safety of women prisoners. This would subject trans prisoners to discrimination and violence. In the United States, where many trans women have already been moved to male prisons, they face solitary confinement for their 'safety' and often suffer sexual abuse at the hands of guards. Despite the efforts of gender-critical groups to manipulate facts, there is no evidence of any danger posed by trans women to the safety of cis women prisoners. All of the actions described above fit neatly into the 9th Pattern of Genocide: "Denial and/or Prevention of Identity." As we have repeatedly stated over the years, genocide does not only manifest in the killing of an entire group. In the case of trans and intersex people, genocide is often perpetrated by making it impossible for individuals to exist as their true selves. The erasure of a group from public life is a step towards an attempt to erase that group's existence, which is the very definition of genocide. The UKSC's decision puts trans and intersex people at peril by forcing them to either out themselves or break the law, both of which run the risk of violent backlash. To explicitly confirm this, gratitude was extended in the UKSC ruling Ben Cooper KC, acting on behalf of Sex Matters. The latter is an explicitly anti-trans lobbying group that has since written to the NHS claiming that transitioning "becomes a major, permanent social problem for those (transgender) young people" - a claim that flies in the face of all serious research …

⚠️ The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention publishes a statement calling the ongoing hostile actions by the U.K. Government and Media towards trans people “genocidal intent”

(Excerpts in below thread)

👉🏻 www.lemkininstitute.com/_files/ugd/b...

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social @sarahowen.org.uk

UPDATE: Can we reach 70,000 now?

Add your name here: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/NoProscription

RMT members posing in front of range of branch banners that had gathered at Trafalgar Square for the May Day International Workers' Day Rally 2025

RMT Bakerloo and Finsbury Park branch banners on display

RMT Wigan branch being paraded through London.

Former RMT president, Alex Gordon standing in front of the Paddington No.1 branch banner.

A day to remember the dead and fight for the living.
Great to see so many RMT branch banners.
Wigan, Bakerloo, Finsbury Park, Berwick Rail, Piccadilly and District West and Paddington No. 1 amongst many more.
#InternationalWorkersDay2025

@rmtunion.bsky.social LGBT+ members will be marching on Saturday in London

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Our website is now live!

Visit lawsadrag.org.uk to find out what we're up to, and how to join us!

Love, drag, and justice xxx

Retirement of RMT general secretary Michael Lynch RMT general secretary Michael Lynch has made the decision to retire at the age of 63 after serving the union in many capacities. He was elected general secretary in 2021.

Retirement of RMT general secretary Michael Lynch

RMT general secretary Michael Lynch has made the decision to retire at the age of 63 after serving the union in many capacities. He was elected general secretary in 2021.
www.rmt.org.uk/news/retirem...

Puberty blockers 'safe, effective and reversible', finds review triggered by Westmead Hospital investigation An independent review into gender-affirming care for children finds research still supports puberty suppression treatment as "safe, effective and reversible" but calls for more long-term quality studi...

NSW just did a review into puberty blockers and found (yet again) that they are in fact safe, effective and reversible.

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09...

Screenshot of two posts from X talking about the RMT campaign to Save ScotRail Ticket Offices: The top one from @RMTunion reads; “They provide a place of safety and refuge. They provide a place of information and guidance. They provide a place where customers know they can find staff. They often provide the only guarantee for older and less able passengers that they will have some assistance.” The reply below reads; “Yawn. Same old, same old. Very few of those matter and they matter to very few people. What proportion of tickets are now sold by ticket offices? Less than 20%. Info is available online. Ah yes, the old and less able card - well done for completing my lefty bullshit bingo card.”

Help us prove that public transport for ALL really does matter.
If, like us, you believe that public transport should be for all the public, please join our campaign to Save ScotRail Ticket Offices
bit.ly/ssto

London queers! 🏳️‍🌈

My wonderful friend had their DJ equipment - which they used to put on amazing queer events - stolen.

They’re doing a fundraiser tonight which will be super fun.

Please spread the word and come if you can! 👇

ra.co/events/2052012

the world’s foremost experts on genocide say it’s genocide.

www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...

A girl with short brown hair, taking a mirror selfie. She is wearing a black and white dress, and had one hand on her hip and the other hand holding a phone, and her eyes are looking down.

Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the death of Leelah Alcorn. She was a trans girl who was 17 years old when she died.
I want you all to remember her with me.

👋

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AI generated image of a three-fingered Santa Claus and two of his reindeer, including Rudolph, being helped to board the Polar Express at Christmas time.

We all need help travelling.
So we'd like to say a huge thank you to all our wonderful members who've kept the country moving in 2024 👏
Many of whom, just like Santa Claus, will be working over the festive period.
🎄 P.S. Santa and his reindeer are all RMT members 🎅🤶

Thanks Simon, merry Xmas to you and yours x

AI generated image of a steam train at Christmas time blowing a bubble gum bubble from its front.

🎄 Christmas Crackers 🤣
What do you call a train full of bubble gum?
A chew-chew train!
Happy Holidays

Unfortunately having to spend Xmas in hospital. But the mighty Finsbury Park branch coming through with surprise goodies @rmtunion.bsky.social

AI generated image of Santa and his reindeer at a Scottish railway station ticket office at Christmas time.

Santa's got his Train-Deer, but can he get a ticket?
Join our campaign to Save ScotRail Ticket Offices
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Here is a statement from the Manchester based charity sparkle who are working with the cwu on this issue

On 11th December, the Labour health secretary, Wes Streeting, has announced a permanent ban on the prescription of puberty blockers on under-18s with gender dysphoria.

This is a safe space 🤍🩵

Today we celebrate the 40 year anniversary of the monumental Pits and Perverts gig 🏳️‍🌈

This is a true turning point in our nations history where oppressed groups united to fight for a greater cause ✊

Never forget!

RMT - Disabled Members Charter This is "RMT - Disabled Members Charter" by RMT union on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, RMT sends solidarity to all disabled transport workers around the world.
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