Jay Todd 🏳️⚧️
@jaytoddgla.bsky.social
Non-binary academic in trans geographies & histories, Glasgow Uni. Leverhulme Fellow exploring trans strategies & spaces for navigating life in the UK, present & historical. they/them
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/jaytodd/
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Jay Todd 🏳️⚧️
@jaytoddgla.bsky.social
· Apr 22
Exploring Young Trans and Non-binary People’s Strategies and Spaces for Navigating Marginality in the United Kingdom: A Novel Resilience, Resistance, and Restoration Framework
Amid recent, unprecedented sociopolitical scrutiny and hypervisibility of young trans people in the United Kingdom, this article considers how trans youth develop individual and collective mechanis...
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Amidst the bleakness, I've just published an article exploring how young trans people are dealing with life in the UK @geographers.bsky.social. Do read to understand more about how trans youth are navigating & thriving in these times. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Rosie Duffield and her cohort of bigots are the danger to "gay, vulnerable, neurodivergent kids".
December 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Rosie Duffield and her cohort of bigots are the danger to "gay, vulnerable, neurodivergent kids".
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It was already dodgy as hell legally-speaking that the UK banned puberty blockers for all trans kids while still quite rightly prescribing them to cis kids in Tanner 2 at those young ages. Terrible precedent was set to deny minority groups treatment based on characteristics other than capacity
December 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It was already dodgy as hell legally-speaking that the UK banned puberty blockers for all trans kids while still quite rightly prescribing them to cis kids in Tanner 2 at those young ages. Terrible precedent was set to deny minority groups treatment based on characteristics other than capacity
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The protocol for the trial tells you what Tanner stage they have to be at (Tanner 2), Rosie and your very left-wing tagged chums.
1) that means they’re already in early puberty and 2) we really do not want to be eroding Gillick and Fraser competence
1) that means they’re already in early puberty and 2) we really do not want to be eroding Gillick and Fraser competence
Rosie Duffield and her cohort of bigots are the danger to "gay, vulnerable, neurodivergent kids".
December 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The protocol for the trial tells you what Tanner stage they have to be at (Tanner 2), Rosie and your very left-wing tagged chums.
1) that means they’re already in early puberty and 2) we really do not want to be eroding Gillick and Fraser competence
1) that means they’re already in early puberty and 2) we really do not want to be eroding Gillick and Fraser competence
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It's not illegal to use the right toilets and no one should adhere to Mary-Ann Stephenson's headmistressly call to "follow rules" that serve no good purpose, breach the UK's human rights obligations, will be bad for all women, and debase trans dignity. Make her appoint her sodding toilet police.
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
It's not illegal to use the right toilets and no one should adhere to Mary-Ann Stephenson's headmistressly call to "follow rules" that serve no good purpose, breach the UK's human rights obligations, will be bad for all women, and debase trans dignity. Make her appoint her sodding toilet police.
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So, Laura Kuenssberg's introduction to her interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson is just hideous.
Let me count the ways. 🧵
Let me count the ways. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
So, Laura Kuenssberg's introduction to her interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson is just hideous.
Let me count the ways. 🧵
Let me count the ways. 🧵
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When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet.
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Equality boss expects people to 'follow rules' over single-sex spaces
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson said
www.bbc.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet.
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Also, which rules? When I got my GRC, I signed a declaration that I feel and am bound by. I shall obey my conscience and the law, not the EHRC's 'rules'.
December 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Also, which rules? When I got my GRC, I signed a declaration that I feel and am bound by. I shall obey my conscience and the law, not the EHRC's 'rules'.
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If the reporting on the Peggie decision tells us anything, it should be that the way news gets reported in this country has little to do with truth, and much more to do with narrative - as well as whose heavily spun press release lands on journos desks first.
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If the reporting on the Peggie decision tells us anything, it should be that the way news gets reported in this country has little to do with truth, and much more to do with narrative - as well as whose heavily spun press release lands on journos desks first.
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"[The Tribunal held that] Mrs Peggie had in some of her remarks impermissibly manifested her gender
critical beliefs"
So there *is* a floor on this thing. They *can't* just say whatever the hell they like under the banner of protected beliefs. That'll come as a shock to some of them, I'm sure
critical beliefs"
So there *is* a floor on this thing. They *can't* just say whatever the hell they like under the banner of protected beliefs. That'll come as a shock to some of them, I'm sure
December 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"[The Tribunal held that] Mrs Peggie had in some of her remarks impermissibly manifested her gender
critical beliefs"
So there *is* a floor on this thing. They *can't* just say whatever the hell they like under the banner of protected beliefs. That'll come as a shock to some of them, I'm sure
critical beliefs"
So there *is* a floor on this thing. They *can't* just say whatever the hell they like under the banner of protected beliefs. That'll come as a shock to some of them, I'm sure
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‘Biological’, presumably as opposed to ‘not biological’, is very very close to ‘human’ as opposed to ‘sub-human’, isn’t it?
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
‘Biological’, presumably as opposed to ‘not biological’, is very very close to ‘human’ as opposed to ‘sub-human’, isn’t it?
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Letting trans and non-binary just live our lives in peace and without harassment isn't going to turn everyone either trans or non-binary. This is just like the "gay panic" of the 80's/90's.
The ECHR draft guidance was so poor and illiterate they had to delete it.
www.thetimes.com/article/3d81...
The ECHR draft guidance was so poor and illiterate they had to delete it.
www.thetimes.com/article/3d81...
December 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Letting trans and non-binary just live our lives in peace and without harassment isn't going to turn everyone either trans or non-binary. This is just like the "gay panic" of the 80's/90's.
The ECHR draft guidance was so poor and illiterate they had to delete it.
www.thetimes.com/article/3d81...
The ECHR draft guidance was so poor and illiterate they had to delete it.
www.thetimes.com/article/3d81...
Fascism through and through.
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Fascism through and through.
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Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
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Day 4 of #ResearchAdvent - Hope
Recon I will mention this for a few of these prompts but the energy behind the new Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary & Trans Studies gives me hope. Been great seeing the impressive works of resistance from colleagues & students 🏳️⚧️
www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...
Recon I will mention this for a few of these prompts but the energy behind the new Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary & Trans Studies gives me hope. Been great seeing the impressive works of resistance from colleagues & students 🏳️⚧️
www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...
December 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Day 4 of #ResearchAdvent - Hope
Recon I will mention this for a few of these prompts but the energy behind the new Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary & Trans Studies gives me hope. Been great seeing the impressive works of resistance from colleagues & students 🏳️⚧️
www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...
Recon I will mention this for a few of these prompts but the energy behind the new Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary & Trans Studies gives me hope. Been great seeing the impressive works of resistance from colleagues & students 🏳️⚧️
www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...
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So the WI will be asking for all their members birth certificates or just demanding trans women out themselves (or else?) or what?
This seems completely impractical. I mean and cowardly, obviously.
This seems completely impractical. I mean and cowardly, obviously.
The first gender reassigned surgery in the UK was in 1951. She would be over 100 today and lived as a woman for 60+ years. Telling these women they are no longer welcome in the WI is brutal, as they themselves admit. These are our regressive times. #transrightsarehumanrights
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
December 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
So the WI will be asking for all their members birth certificates or just demanding trans women out themselves (or else?) or what?
This seems completely impractical. I mean and cowardly, obviously.
This seems completely impractical. I mean and cowardly, obviously.
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UK Supreme Court: You're allowed to discriminate against trans people, but you don't have to
cis people: "well, our hands are tied"
cis people: "well, our hands are tied"
December 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
UK Supreme Court: You're allowed to discriminate against trans people, but you don't have to
cis people: "well, our hands are tied"
cis people: "well, our hands are tied"
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The article explicitly notes WI had had a trans-inclusive policy *since the 1970s*!
December 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The article explicitly notes WI had had a trans-inclusive policy *since the 1970s*!
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Reports about our complicated legal system, what trustees can and can’t do, are getting my goat. It might not be grown up and sensible but I want big institutions to stand up to bullying. If they lose and girlguiding implodes as a result let’s see the GCs spin that as a win for women and girls.
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Reports about our complicated legal system, what trustees can and can’t do, are getting my goat. It might not be grown up and sensible but I want big institutions to stand up to bullying. If they lose and girlguiding implodes as a result let’s see the GCs spin that as a win for women and girls.
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I would like any of these orgs to display an ounce of the courage that it takes any ordinary trans person to keep showing up in work and civil society every day in the midst of All This.
December 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I would like any of these orgs to display an ounce of the courage that it takes any ordinary trans person to keep showing up in work and civil society every day in the midst of All This.
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This. We do not deserve to be abandoned. We deserve the full throated support of people who claim to support us. Not the apologetic shuffle of "sorry, but it's hard!"
I think a lot of trans people go way too easy on organisations that choose to be complicit in our oppression. I believe this is due to internalised transphobia. We often don't think we're important enough for other people to care about our safety, wellbeing, and equitable involvement in society.
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This. We do not deserve to be abandoned. We deserve the full throated support of people who claim to support us. Not the apologetic shuffle of "sorry, but it's hard!"
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Excluding a minoritised group of children from social activities on the basis of threats, hate, and unjust laws is not acceptable. You don't have to accept it.
December 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Excluding a minoritised group of children from social activities on the basis of threats, hate, and unjust laws is not acceptable. You don't have to accept it.
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"Utmost regret and sadness"
Is the new “dignity compassion and respect”
Is the new “dignity compassion and respect”
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
"Utmost regret and sadness"
Is the new “dignity compassion and respect”
Is the new “dignity compassion and respect”
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Fuck this shit.
December 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Fuck this shit.
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It’s also my firm stance that it’s not my job to police people’s disabilities or need for accommodations, and that if you tell me you have a need and/or were sick and/or your dog died, I’m taking you at your word unless I have strong, individualized reasons to suspect otherwise.
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
It’s also my firm stance that it’s not my job to police people’s disabilities or need for accommodations, and that if you tell me you have a need and/or were sick and/or your dog died, I’m taking you at your word unless I have strong, individualized reasons to suspect otherwise.