Jay Todd 🏳️⚧️
@jaytoddgla.bsky.social
Non-binary researcher of trans lives in the UK. Human geographer. Geordie in Glasgow. they/them
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📣 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.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.
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Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.
February 12, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.
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If you were trying to come up with more harmful guidance towards trans and non-binary young people you would be hard pressed to find it. The fact it is backed by Cass shows how wrong it is.
We are already seeing an increase in suicide rates among trans young people.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We are already seeing an increase in suicide rates among trans young people.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Vast majority' of parents should be involved if children question gender, schools told
School leaders welcome the
www.bbc.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 5:42 PM
If you were trying to come up with more harmful guidance towards trans and non-binary young people you would be hard pressed to find it. The fact it is backed by Cass shows how wrong it is.
We are already seeing an increase in suicide rates among trans young people.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We are already seeing an increase in suicide rates among trans young people.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This goes further than Section 28 ever did.
Compulsory outing of children to their parents.
Referral of children to medical interventions for straying outside the norm.
Those are threats being wielded against trans kids that weren't even in the demands of Section 28.
Compulsory outing of children to their parents.
Referral of children to medical interventions for straying outside the norm.
Those are threats being wielded against trans kids that weren't even in the demands of Section 28.
February 12, 2026 at 5:35 PM
This goes further than Section 28 ever did.
Compulsory outing of children to their parents.
Referral of children to medical interventions for straying outside the norm.
Those are threats being wielded against trans kids that weren't even in the demands of Section 28.
Compulsory outing of children to their parents.
Referral of children to medical interventions for straying outside the norm.
Those are threats being wielded against trans kids that weren't even in the demands of Section 28.
Involving parents and carers - calling for schools to act as informants on young people who dare to transgress or experiment beyond gender norms - is so large a safeguarding issue, putting the everyday wellbeing - and in some cases the lives - of trans youth at risk. Because of transphobia.
February 12, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Involving parents and carers - calling for schools to act as informants on young people who dare to transgress or experiment beyond gender norms - is so large a safeguarding issue, putting the everyday wellbeing - and in some cases the lives - of trans youth at risk. Because of transphobia.
Social transition “requests” aka subjecting to trans youth to authoritarian control over almost everything they do because they’re trans. Flying in the face of existing best practice for supporting social transition and all published work on young trans people’s autonomy and experiences.
Labour continues to troll the trans community - and to prioritise pleasing the right wing press. We know Hilary Cass was selected for her transphobic views: Kemi Badenoch told us exactly that.
So why is she running trans policy for Labour?
So why is she running trans policy for Labour?
February 12, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Social transition “requests” aka subjecting to trans youth to authoritarian control over almost everything they do because they’re trans. Flying in the face of existing best practice for supporting social transition and all published work on young trans people’s autonomy and experiences.
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Just imagine, today, if children got referred to "clinical support" if they expressed any interest in "gay feelings" with the Government saying that approval for them to be allowed to express being homosexual at school would only be likely in very limited circumstances.
That's what this guidance is
That's what this guidance is
This draft guidance reproduces Cass insisting that clinicians must be involved in decisions about *social transition* which actually should be none of their damn business
They take the line that this "non-directive" intervention should force things to be "keeping options open and flexible"...
They take the line that this "non-directive" intervention should force things to be "keeping options open and flexible"...
February 12, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Just imagine, today, if children got referred to "clinical support" if they expressed any interest in "gay feelings" with the Government saying that approval for them to be allowed to express being homosexual at school would only be likely in very limited circumstances.
That's what this guidance is
That's what this guidance is
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The ZDF announcer said her outfit looks like Jean-Paul Gaultier, who will presumably sue for defamation.
February 11, 2026 at 8:50 PM
The ZDF announcer said her outfit looks like Jean-Paul Gaultier, who will presumably sue for defamation.
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The review "implicitly promotes the systematic exclusion and erasure of trans and gender diverse people from research,” says @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and @felicitycallard.bsky.social
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February 10, 2026 at 6:16 PM
The review "implicitly promotes the systematic exclusion and erasure of trans and gender diverse people from research,” says @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and @felicitycallard.bsky.social
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the whole thing is of course completely revolting. 20 YEARS to settlement for refugees? no settlement if you’ve ever had a criminal conviction or a tax debt? 10 YEARS added if you’ve ever received benefits? partners and children on their own routes to settlement? What are you even TALKING about
February 11, 2026 at 8:43 AM
the whole thing is of course completely revolting. 20 YEARS to settlement for refugees? no settlement if you’ve ever had a criminal conviction or a tax debt? 10 YEARS added if you’ve ever received benefits? partners and children on their own routes to settlement? What are you even TALKING about
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Thank you @wearequeeraf.com for covering Jay’s @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and my peer-reviewed critical response to the Sullivan Review rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The review "implicitly promotes the systematic exclusion and erasure of trans and gender diverse people from research,” says @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and @felicitycallard.bsky.social
Read more in our newsletter 📩
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February 10, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Thank you @wearequeeraf.com for covering Jay’s @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and my peer-reviewed critical response to the Sullivan Review rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The narrative of “distress” is so potent. This idea that young trans people are by default “distressed” about their gender is demonstratably false & wilfully misrecognises that “distress” most often emerges from lived conditions not as an inherent consequence of transness.
doi.org/10.1111/tran.12662
doi.org/10.1111/tran.12662
February 10, 2026 at 6:02 PM
The narrative of “distress” is so potent. This idea that young trans people are by default “distressed” about their gender is demonstratably false & wilfully misrecognises that “distress” most often emerges from lived conditions not as an inherent consequence of transness.
doi.org/10.1111/tran.12662
doi.org/10.1111/tran.12662
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Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I discussed the dangerous hardening of a particular model of 'sex' in our paper on the Sullivan Review rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/....
Just look at the violence of that phrase 'sex-rejecting procedures'
Just look at the violence of that phrase 'sex-rejecting procedures'
SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals.
The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
HHS Has Been Using Anti-Trans Language From a Christian Right Think Tank
The department refers to gender-affirming care as “sex-denying procedures,” a term coined by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
www.importantcontext.news
February 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I discussed the dangerous hardening of a particular model of 'sex' in our paper on the Sullivan Review rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/....
Just look at the violence of that phrase 'sex-rejecting procedures'
Just look at the violence of that phrase 'sex-rejecting procedures'
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Our amazing @sophisteria.bsky.social recently gave evidence, alongside reps from other Scottish HEIs, to the Education, Children and Young People's Committee at a special session on HE funding at the Scottish parliament. We have made a 2.5 minute video mash up of her best moments. Enjoy! #UCU
February 8, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Our amazing @sophisteria.bsky.social recently gave evidence, alongside reps from other Scottish HEIs, to the Education, Children and Young People's Committee at a special session on HE funding at the Scottish parliament. We have made a 2.5 minute video mash up of her best moments. Enjoy! #UCU
Sharing again this thread on the potentially harmful approach to research ethics - impacting all forms of research - proposed by report 2 of the Sullivan Review
doi.org/10.1111/tran.70057
doi.org/10.1111/tran.70057
February 8, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Sharing again this thread on the potentially harmful approach to research ethics - impacting all forms of research - proposed by report 2 of the Sullivan Review
doi.org/10.1111/tran.70057
doi.org/10.1111/tran.70057
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New on the CDBU blog: 5 low cost things employers could do to help precarious staff 💰
Words by @hagenilda.bsky.social ✍️
Words by @hagenilda.bsky.social ✍️
Our employers say they care about precarious staff. Here are five low cost things they could do right now to help us – and them - CDBU
cdbu.org.uk
February 7, 2026 at 4:19 PM
New on the CDBU blog: 5 low cost things employers could do to help precarious staff 💰
Words by @hagenilda.bsky.social ✍️
Words by @hagenilda.bsky.social ✍️
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LATEST: Together, we have sent a vital message to our political representatives:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/protectinclu...
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/protectinclu...
February 7, 2026 at 12:04 PM
LATEST: Together, we have sent a vital message to our political representatives:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/protectinclu...
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/protectinclu...
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A vital piece of work 👇👇
📣 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.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.
February 3, 2026 at 9:17 AM
A vital piece of work 👇👇
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This piece has been covered in the Times Higher Education - read more here below ⬇️
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-r...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-r...
Trans research ‘at risk’ if data collection guidance adopted
Response to Sullivan Review argues recommendations could hit quality of findings and impinge on academic freedom
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:47 PM
This piece has been covered in the Times Higher Education - read more here below ⬇️
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-r...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-r...
One of the key problematics in the Sullivan Review is that in some face to face settings the review recommends an “observed sex” approach… which, ethics contraventions aside, will also lead to inaccurate data!
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM
One of the key problematics in the Sullivan Review is that in some face to face settings the review recommends an “observed sex” approach… which, ethics contraventions aside, will also lead to inaccurate data!
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Please read this excellent &timely critique of the Sullivan Review out today: it cogently argues that the SR's recommendation of a single binary sex-at-birth model for data collection undermines trans&gender diverse people's (& I'd say, by extension, all participants') self-determination in research
📣 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.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.
February 3, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Please read this excellent &timely critique of the Sullivan Review out today: it cogently argues that the SR's recommendation of a single binary sex-at-birth model for data collection undermines trans&gender diverse people's (& I'd say, by extension, all participants') self-determination in research
Reminder of our abstract deadline of 18 February for our session on Queering Environmental Justice at the RGS-IBG 2026!
Check it out:
Check it out:
🔉Call for Papers! This September Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & I will be organising a session on "Queering Environmental Justice" at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference @rgsibg.bsky.social
⏰ Abstract deadline: 18 February 2026
🔗 Conference website: www.rgs.org/research/ann...
⏰ Abstract deadline: 18 February 2026
🔗 Conference website: www.rgs.org/research/ann...
![This session aims to bring environmental justice praxis into conversations around queer and trans liberation and subjugation. Anti-gender politics and the transnational eliminationist movements against trans and gender diverse people (Holvikivi et al. 2024) are increasingly affecting environmental policy and advocacy, and gender has become hotly contested in global environmental governance processes (Balayannis 2026). In response, this session asks: how do queer and trans liberation matter for environmental justice?
The exclusion and regulation of trans and queer bodies from and within public spaces is now routinely making headlines in the UK and well beyond (Butler 2025; Faye 2022). Meanwhile, the environmental sciences also have a long history of eco-normativity and structurally pathologising queer lives; often characterising transness, intersex bodies, and same-sex sexual behaviours, as the adverse effects of pollution exposure (Di Chiro 2010; Zabalegui 2024). Despite its focus on power and difference (Schlosberg et al. 2025), environmental justice praxis has yet to address these enduring epistemic harms and (up until recently) has lacked engagement with queer and trans politics.
Recent calls to queer environmental justice are configured as an “inclusion” issue (e.g. Goldsmith and Bell 2022), and overlook the more fundamental structural harms of dominant science (Liboiron 2021). Geographical research has tended to reinforce the boundaries between environmental politics, and queer and trans politics, suggesting that existing work in queer and trans geographies holds limited relevance for expanding on environmental justice. This session confronts this assumption and considers the potentialities of queer and trans studies, beyond making sense of gender, sexuality, and heteronormativity. [continued on next image]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kgdfqnolcmjydc3uu34kgets/bafkreia2pszeu4qoyxhjk4bt4h3tmy2jm2uhvrdbkvjcnqr3wmtile26he@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Reminder of our abstract deadline of 18 February for our session on Queering Environmental Justice at the RGS-IBG 2026!
Check it out:
Check it out:
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Not only does the University of Edinburgh have net assets of £3.1bn, but they have a surplus of £43mn. Yet, in the name of savings, the university continues to pursue redundancies which harm students, staff, and the institution itself.
An utter disgrace.
An utter disgrace.
February 4, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Not only does the University of Edinburgh have net assets of £3.1bn, but they have a surplus of £43mn. Yet, in the name of savings, the university continues to pursue redundancies which harm students, staff, and the institution itself.
An utter disgrace.
An utter disgrace.
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We would love for @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical response to be read widely, given the Sullivan Review’s potential for far-reaching implications across the social and health sciences — and indeed well beyond the academy
New Intervention in TIBG:
'A critical response to the UK's "Sullivan Review" into sex and gender in research and data' by @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & @felicitycallard.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
'A critical response to the UK's "Sullivan Review" into sex and gender in research and data' by @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & @felicitycallard.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
February 3, 2026 at 7:24 PM
We would love for @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical response to be read widely, given the Sullivan Review’s potential for far-reaching implications across the social and health sciences — and indeed well beyond the academy
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No dude is gonna double-check a woman's chromosomes or birth certificate before he sexually assaults her or turns her down for a job.
February 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM
No dude is gonna double-check a woman's chromosomes or birth certificate before he sexually assaults her or turns her down for a job.
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This, for me, always raises questions around *why* we are collecting data on sex.
Are we collecting data on sex simply for the sake of it?
Or - do we *actually* seek to understand sexism and gender inequality?
If the latter, we have decades of research on why trans experiences are relevant.
Are we collecting data on sex simply for the sake of it?
Or - do we *actually* seek to understand sexism and gender inequality?
If the latter, we have decades of research on why trans experiences are relevant.
Thread- Has there been a 'loss of data on sex', as the Sullivan Review argues? @kevinguyan.bsky.social's work unpicks this. Guyan notes: for Sullivan, ‘sex’ data only counts when trans people are *forced* to record sex aligned with what was assigned at birth.
doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2025.2611975
doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2025.2611975
February 4, 2026 at 4:32 PM
This, for me, always raises questions around *why* we are collecting data on sex.
Are we collecting data on sex simply for the sake of it?
Or - do we *actually* seek to understand sexism and gender inequality?
If the latter, we have decades of research on why trans experiences are relevant.
Are we collecting data on sex simply for the sake of it?
Or - do we *actually* seek to understand sexism and gender inequality?
If the latter, we have decades of research on why trans experiences are relevant.