Catherine

We all need to recognise our collective lgbt lessons from history. The fight is never really over.

We’ve got your back 💕

Keep up the political lobbying ✊.

Well, that was no surprise.

Anyone see this coming😕?

Assessment of Northern Ireland’s gender identity services ordered Mr Nesbitt described Dr Cass, who delivered a review into gender identity services for young people across the UK, as “eminently qualified”

The Northern Ireland Health Minister has asked Cass to do a review of Northern Ireland gender services

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Sign the Petition Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

The Starmer government wants to impose a toilet ban that will result in trans people being assaulted, r*ped and quite possibly murdered.

A group of cis women who oppose him using them as a justification for doing this have set up a petition “Not In Our Name”

Please sign and share…

Parliament surrenders to anti-trans activists on toilet policy The UK parliament has thrown trans people under the bus on toilets, abandoning its own policy to placate activists who accosted a trans barrister on the parliamentary estate.

Sometimes I post pieces which are recent and which others may not have seen. This is a reminder why groups like GLP, Trans Exile Network, TACC, TLC and so many lovely allies stand up to GCIM ideology and why the UK is literally red flagged for genocide right now.

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I sincerely hope that the BMA can add to and strengthen the scientific arguments against the deeply flawed Cass Review. Its presence is an insult to evidence-based practice.

This article is deeply disturbing from so many perspectives and I felt that I had fallen down a rabbit hole only to emerge in a world of hatred and paranoia. I pushed through and read it through to the end but felt violated by the planned and managed cabals out there who are violently transphobic.

Robin Allen KC is, for most lawyers, the leading discrimination specialist at the bar so his gentle but persistently critical analysis of the For (Some) Women Scotland decision for Discrimination Law Association will carry real weight.

Not for me to summarize it - but I do highlight this point.

A helpful analysis of the recent SC ruling and the slippery slope the EHRC is on.

Bin the EHRC Single Sex Guidance TransLucent.org.uk are a Trans led Advocacy & Human Rights Organisation. TransLucent are raising £100k to cover court & legal fees for action against the EHRC.

TransLucent are almost half way to an initial target to fund their legal challenge of the EHRC.

They’re seeking a 12 week consultation period and also arguing the EHRC may have already pre-determined the outcome of any consultation.

More info in link.

We may already know of some of the young #trans victims of suicide referenced in this report, but without the release of the report it is hard to be sure.

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Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs

Intersectional feminists know that trans people are just a wedge issue for the patriarchal forces trying to push back abortion rights, gay rights, assisted dying and the emancipation of women and people of colour. We stand together or fall apart. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Bridget Phillipson ‘breached human rights’ by backing trans lavatory ban Group of lawyers accuses Education Secretary of ‘humiliating’ transgender people

"The stark and needlessly cruel position adopted by the Government humiliates trans people by forcing them to use the wrong toilets and obliges them to reveal deeply personal information about their gender to complete strangers"
✍️ Jo Maugham
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Full page interview with Gary Lineker. The headline is "Trans people are some of the most persecuted on the planet"

When The Rest is Football tried a public question-and-answer experiment last November, Martina Navratilova, Sharron Davies and hundreds of other women asked him what he thought of the FA banning a teenager – revealed by The Daily Telegraph last weekend as Cerys Vaughan – for asking a transgender opponent: “Are you a man?” Even under pressure from a nine-time Wimbledon singles champion and a celebrated Olympic swimmer, he neglected to engage. Why? “Ugh,” he sighs, slumping so far forward in his chair he nearly hits the table. “You can’t cover that subject properly in a post. It’s too nuanced. I don’t actually think, in terms of sport, that it will ever be a real issue. Sport, as it’s already doing, will sort it out and work out rules. Like they did in boxing, when they realised they couldn’t have heavyweights against little fellas.” Is it not blindingly obvious, however, that sport will not simply “sort it out”? It has taken many determined female campaigners a punishingly long time to undo the damage of gender ideology, compelling sports to prioritise fairness for women rather than vacuous mantras about inclusion. Amid broad acceptance that the rights of half the population should trump the view of a small, vocal minority of men that they are entitled to colonise women’s sport, Lineker makes it clear where his sympathies lie. “They’re some of the most persecuted on the planet, trans people.

“You’ve got to be very careful not to have bigoted views on that. I genuinely feel really badly for trans people. Imagine going through what they have to go through in life. Is there even any issue? It’s the same swimmer, the same weightlifter, the same boxer. They’re the only people I ever see.” Lineker’s perspective here is myopic. The three examples he raises – American swimmer Lia Thomas, New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, not transgender but permitted to win gold as a woman at the Paris Olympics despite sex tests indicating the presence of male chromosomes – are indeed well publicised. But they are far from the only ones he could cite, with a recent report by Reem Alsalem, the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, documenting how governing bodies’ failures to act have led to more than 600 female athletes around the world losing 890 medals in 29 different sports. In his eyes, only cases at elite level matter. “We’ve got the Women’s Euros in the summer. Let’s see if there’s one issue – I don’t think there is. Are you telling me that there are many people who pretend to be women just so they’re going to be good at sport?” The desire of some males to receive affirmation as female can be a powerful motivating force, I argue. “It’s so complex,” Lineker says. “I see both sides to a degree.”

Look what Gary Lineker said to Oliver Brown and the Telegraph about trans people...

Fantastic display of solidarity with @chelseapride.bsky.social for the trans+ community at today's Women's FA Cup Final! ❤️💙

We stand by our trans, non-binary and intersex siblings in their time of need. Transphobia has no place in women's football!

#MUWomen #WomensFACupFinal

Is this what’s happened to me on a very small and personal scale?

Woman’s Hour asked me on to talk with Emma Barnett after Alice’s inquest. Emma is GC so I said I’d only do the interview with another presenter. They never got back to me.

Now they won’t have me on to talk about Her Name Is Alice.

Remember, Jonathan Rutherford, the guy who is crafting Labour's narrative is based at Policy Exchange.

The UK Supreme Court's ruling and the rights of transgender people On April 16, 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that only those who are what it terms as biologically female can be defined as women.1 This has wide implications for medicine as well as for people who a...

"The Court's discussion is poorly informed and simplistic... reducing a complex subject to an overly simple one is not what is needed."

Supreme Court taking a shoeing from an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Cambridge University.
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We're bringing a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘Interim Update’ A number of trans and intersex individuals have today begun a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘Interim Update’ following the For Women, Scotland decision

Along with a man and a woman who are trans, and someone who is intersex, we are suing the EHRC and the Equalities Minister in respect of the disgraceful and unlawful EHRC guidance.

In line with our transparency principles we are publishing the full 32 page legal letter. goodlaw.social/2ihj

A reflection on the the journeying of the trans community and its uncertain future in the UK.

Thanks to Labour’s cowardice, Britain is stumbling into one of the most cruelly anti-trans regimes in the western world. A bathroom ban is neither workable, ethical, popular nor debated by legislators but they’re just waving it through

A Homer Simpson moment! Duurgh

Hilarious.

Also, read the judgement. Trans men are specifically excluded from using the women's.

Stop using trans men as a gotcha.

Someone on TikTok pointed out that Pedro Pascal’s two sentence Instagram comment got more press for trans rights than all trans people combined in the wake of this ruling- which is infuriating but also a reason for more cis people to speak out