Superb analysis of Sex Matters' eliminationist agenda against trans people:

"some are starting to realise supporting Sex Matters’ position has entangled them in something they never sign up for ... those seeking compromise find they have surrendered nearly everything they once stood for"

Exciting news for U.K.-based people who love theatre, literature or creative writing and have dreamed of spending summer weeks up in Edinburgh.

SUISS are now offering for the first time a Domestic Student Discount of 30% off course fees. Come study with us! Registration now open:

For anyone looking for an immersive, LGBTQI+-welcoming experience this summer, come study at the SUISS summer school school in Edinburgh in 2026. Courses on literature, creative writing and theatre, the latter coinciding with the queer-friendly Edinburgh Fringe/Festival and its thousands of shows.

My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...

Are you doing research on anti-trans politics? Consider submitting to the special issue of @cogitatiopag.bsky.social 'Global Politics and Anti-Trans Moral Panics: Transfeminist Perspectives', co-edited by me, @ashstokoe.bsky.social and @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social to be published in 2027 (1/2)

The pub I was in yesterday had no gender-neutral toilets. It highlights the impracticality of what's being demanded of us.

But that's the lesser issue.

Asking trans people to stop using the single-sex toilets that match their gender is asking them to participate in their own detransition.

I've just been contacted by a media team that want to interview me for a YouTube show about 'free speech' and 'cancel culture,' provisionally titled 'The impossible conversation.' I said, 'no thanks.' It really hit home the contrived, asymmetrical nature of these continuing narratives ... 1/

Good news! UCU have won an employment tribunal against the directors of the film 'Adult Human Female,' who claimed UCU's protest against the screening of the film represented discrimination and harassment due to their GC beliefs. UCU press release here for details:
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404...

I'm excited to announce that @cnlester.bsky.social CN Lester will be performing at the University of Edinburgh on 25 June, 7-9pm. For an evening of music and words from the transgender imaginary, in the elegant setting of the UoE's Reid Concert Hall, tickets here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/music-and-...

I attended today's hundreds-strong trans rights demo at Holyrood in Edinburgh, not just protesting the Supreme Court ruling and the EHRC / Gov segregationist guidelines, but also the SNP for not challenging the SC decision, which they could have, at the European Court of Human Rights ...

Here I am, receiving an award from the First Minister at the Scottish Trades Union Congress, as UCU Edinburgh's LGBT+ rep. Later I made one of several speeches for a motion that condemned the Cass Review. The motion passed. Oh, and I used the ladies' toilets with no problem.

UCU statements by its LGBT+ members' and Women members' National Standing Committees, on the terror unleashed on the trans, non-binary and intersex communities by the Supreme Court ruling. We unequivocally reject the ruling made by the Supreme Court:

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1400...

Great analysis by CN on the half-life offered to trans people by the SC ruling:

"Out yourself, and have no access [or] hope to god that you’re never outed ... transition as a form of death: the necessity to leave everything behind and assume a new identity ... and hope to god you can stay safe."

UCU's LGBT+ UK standing committee (of which I'm a member) is drafting a statement. Unity, sharing and solidarity are vital. Please do reach out to the national committee (me or others) to know what's going on at a national level, so that we've got each other's backs: www.ucu.org.uk/article/2971...

Brilliant article by Sophie Lewis on the Supreme Court ruling: "This is also paradoxically why TERFism, like all fascist discourses ... imagines itself upside-down, as somehow preyed-upon, bullied, colonized, and at risk of genocidal erasure at the hands of the subjugated group it dehumanizes."

If this is something we're beginning to discuss openly on Bluesky, then I may as well say it, I applied for a new passport just a few days ago. I don't want to catastrophize but I think once the EHRC's statutory guidelines are published in the summer, everything is fair game, as in the U.S.A.

I'm a trans woman who frequently does try to use gender-neutral toilets, and that's why I know that this call for trans people to use 'third space' / gender-neutral bathrooms is unfeasible, not to mention cruel and even dangerous. Here are some of my reflections:
www.ginamaya.co.uk/transgender-...

So proud to have been at Edinburgh's massive protest against the Supreme Court stitch-up to take away trans people's rights. It's easy to feel demoralised until you realise the scale of the anger and the strength of the solidarity in support of trans rights. This is the beginning of the fight back.