Lisa Severn
@lisasevern.uk
More than the subtraction of my parts 🏳️⚧️
Goth 🖤 Rock 🤘 Glasgow 🏴
Goth 🖤 Rock 🤘 Glasgow 🏴
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Well, well, well, just as expected, there’s a lot more buried in the Appleby Report and the ICO.
I’m now demanding Wes Streeting’s department explain what the meow they thought they were doing by redacting parts of the witness statement.
I’m now demanding Wes Streeting’s department explain what the meow they thought they were doing by redacting parts of the witness statement.
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Well, well, well, just as expected, there’s a lot more buried in the Appleby Report and the ICO.
I’m now demanding Wes Streeting’s department explain what the meow they thought they were doing by redacting parts of the witness statement.
I’m now demanding Wes Streeting’s department explain what the meow they thought they were doing by redacting parts of the witness statement.
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1. On Tuesday Night, Democrats won elections nationwide in a stunning rebuke of anti-transgender politics.
From Virginia to New Jersey to New York and beyond, anti-trans candidates fell left and right after spending tons of time and money campaigning on hate.
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From Virginia to New Jersey to New York and beyond, anti-trans candidates fell left and right after spending tons of time and money campaigning on hate.
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"A Stunning Rebuke Of Anti-Trans Politics"—Dems Win Elections Nationwide Despite Anti-Trans Ads
As election results poured in on Tuesday night, it became clear that Democrats were winning nationwide against anti-trans opponents.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
1. On Tuesday Night, Democrats won elections nationwide in a stunning rebuke of anti-transgender politics.
From Virginia to New Jersey to New York and beyond, anti-trans candidates fell left and right after spending tons of time and money campaigning on hate.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
From Virginia to New Jersey to New York and beyond, anti-trans candidates fell left and right after spending tons of time and money campaigning on hate.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line.
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Tommy Robinson / Stephen Yaxley-Lennon using the same argument as Maya Forstater?
How closely intertwined are transphobia and the far right going to get?
How closely intertwined are transphobia and the far right going to get?
A District Judge has cleared Tommy Robinson on a terror charge because he found Robinson had a protected belief. How does that pass the 5th limb of the Grainger test?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
![Grainger criteria
To qualify as a 'philosophical belief' under the Equality Act, the belief must satisfy the five criteria set out at para 24 in Grainger plc v Nicholson [2010] and mirrored in the Equality and Human Rights Commission Code of Practice 2011. These are that:
The belief must be genuinely held
The belief must not simply be an opinion or viewpoint based on the present state of information available
The belief must concern a weighty and substantial aspect of human life and behaviour
The belief must attain a certain level of cogency, seriousness, cohesion and importance
The belief must be worthy of respect in a democratic society, not be incompatible with human dignity and not be in conflict with the fundamental rights of others.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:noqaydlcbia5upq6va2p2znw/bafkreidbknxirxpcidqg6kgd7ejugwdwzncsxcm7foh6wxc5rf5qbs6pny@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Tommy Robinson / Stephen Yaxley-Lennon using the same argument as Maya Forstater?
How closely intertwined are transphobia and the far right going to get?
How closely intertwined are transphobia and the far right going to get?
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The "trans" story so far in the UK...
The entire anti-LGBT extremist movement knows that misgendering trans people causes extreme distress and even suicide, so they went to the Supreme Court to mandate that the entire country must, by law, misgender literally every trans person in the country.
The entire anti-LGBT extremist movement knows that misgendering trans people causes extreme distress and even suicide, so they went to the Supreme Court to mandate that the entire country must, by law, misgender literally every trans person in the country.
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The "trans" story so far in the UK...
The entire anti-LGBT extremist movement knows that misgendering trans people causes extreme distress and even suicide, so they went to the Supreme Court to mandate that the entire country must, by law, misgender literally every trans person in the country.
The entire anti-LGBT extremist movement knows that misgendering trans people causes extreme distress and even suicide, so they went to the Supreme Court to mandate that the entire country must, by law, misgender literally every trans person in the country.
Been back on prog for 24 hours and I've already had some bloke silly grinning at my boobs. In a garden centre 🤷♀️
Anyway the right-wing wet dream might be to ship me off to a conversion therapy camp or something, but I'm going to have fucking fabulous tits when I get there
Anyway the right-wing wet dream might be to ship me off to a conversion therapy camp or something, but I'm going to have fucking fabulous tits when I get there
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Been back on prog for 24 hours and I've already had some bloke silly grinning at my boobs. In a garden centre 🤷♀️
Anyway the right-wing wet dream might be to ship me off to a conversion therapy camp or something, but I'm going to have fucking fabulous tits when I get there
Anyway the right-wing wet dream might be to ship me off to a conversion therapy camp or something, but I'm going to have fucking fabulous tits when I get there
Some guy trying to play footsie on the train home fucksake
October 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Some guy trying to play footsie on the train home fucksake
Out on a Friday night with @divinegoth.bsky.social to see X-mal Deutschland & The Psychedelic Furs @ Barrowlands 😱
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Out on a Friday night with @divinegoth.bsky.social to see X-mal Deutschland & The Psychedelic Furs @ Barrowlands 😱
What's it like inside your head?
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
What's it like inside your head?
Disastrous for both Labour and Tory parties; the Westminster political class with it's mutualistic relationship with the media and establishment, and it's disconnect from the rest of the country, is becoming irrelevant
Caerphilly Senedd By-Election Result:
🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0)
➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2)
🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New)
💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2021.
🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0)
➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2)
🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New)
💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2021.
October 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Disastrous for both Labour and Tory parties; the Westminster political class with it's mutualistic relationship with the media and establishment, and it's disconnect from the rest of the country, is becoming irrelevant
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Losing words in vocabulary for exacly how bad today has been for the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Baroness Falkner, her incoming replacement and for the Gender Critical Ideological Movement of the UK who are strangely subdued. Cannot think why.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Dozens of Labour MPs warn of chaos for firms over gender recognition advice
Nearly 50 backbenchers write to business secretary over potential costs and legal ‘minefield’ of upcoming guidance
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Losing words in vocabulary for exacly how bad today has been for the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Baroness Falkner, her incoming replacement and for the Gender Critical Ideological Movement of the UK who are strangely subdued. Cannot think why.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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🚨 Joint Statement
This formal challenge to the EHRC’s fitness for purpose has been brought by @transactualuk.bsky.social, @amnestyuk.bsky.social k.bsky.social and @transsolidarity.bsky.social
Together they have reported the EHRC
to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)
This formal challenge to the EHRC’s fitness for purpose has been brought by @transactualuk.bsky.social, @amnestyuk.bsky.social k.bsky.social and @transsolidarity.bsky.social
Together they have reported the EHRC
to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)
October 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🚨 Joint Statement
This formal challenge to the EHRC’s fitness for purpose has been brought by @transactualuk.bsky.social, @amnestyuk.bsky.social k.bsky.social and @transsolidarity.bsky.social
Together they have reported the EHRC
to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)
This formal challenge to the EHRC’s fitness for purpose has been brought by @transactualuk.bsky.social, @amnestyuk.bsky.social k.bsky.social and @transsolidarity.bsky.social
Together they have reported the EHRC
to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)
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The research shows Trans women athletes align to c1s women.
Here are 51 studies (6,434 participants), demonstrating that, there are no significant differences in upper/lower-body strength or VOpeak after 1–3 years of GAHT between trans & c1s women.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Here are 51 studies (6,434 participants), demonstrating that, there are no significant differences in upper/lower-body strength or VOpeak after 1–3 years of GAHT between trans & c1s women.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Physical Fitness and Body Composition in Transgender vs. Cisgender Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Objective To compare fitness and body composition between transgender and cisgender individuals.
Design Systematic review and meta-analysis.
Data sources PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and SportDis...
www.medrxiv.org
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The research shows Trans women athletes align to c1s women.
Here are 51 studies (6,434 participants), demonstrating that, there are no significant differences in upper/lower-body strength or VOpeak after 1–3 years of GAHT between trans & c1s women.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Here are 51 studies (6,434 participants), demonstrating that, there are no significant differences in upper/lower-body strength or VOpeak after 1–3 years of GAHT between trans & c1s women.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence”
when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:
when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:
October 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence”
when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:
when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:
Assuming trans people's physiology based on our birth certificates is potentially unsafe
October 22, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Assuming trans people's physiology based on our birth certificates is potentially unsafe
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This smells of the gender recognition panel testing their power and influence.
This is a gross abuse of power. The gender recognition panel should be abolished.
This is a gross abuse of power. The gender recognition panel should be abolished.
💥WIN: Victory in landmark case on gender recognition
Am so proud to have worked on this case, and to work for an org which fights for - and successfully defends - trans rights.
"A huge victory for trans people’s human rights in this country, at a moment where things have felt particularly dark."
Am so proud to have worked on this case, and to work for an org which fights for - and successfully defends - trans rights.
"A huge victory for trans people’s human rights in this country, at a moment where things have felt particularly dark."
WIN: Victory in landmark case on gender recognition
High Court rules that a trans man cannot be denied a Gender Recognition Certificate because he is trying to conceive, in an important win supported by Good Law Project.
goodlawproject.org
October 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This smells of the gender recognition panel testing their power and influence.
This is a gross abuse of power. The gender recognition panel should be abolished.
This is a gross abuse of power. The gender recognition panel should be abolished.
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1/🧵 The EHRC asked the minister to revoke the current Code of Practice. This position is inconsistent with the misinformation spread by some of its commissioners. They advised service providers not to follow the Code, but instead to rely on their interim guidance, which has since been withdrawn.
October 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
🧵 👇
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Aside from the senseless cruelty from our so called Human Rights body, The absurdity of requiring that every UK business seeks legal advice on how & whether they should attempt to segregate Trans people. What a monumental waste of money, time & resources to spend on lawyers.
🚨 The EHRC has withdrawn advice to segregate Trans+ from website, and told businesses to seek legal advice 👇
The move comes amid approval for a draft code which largely advises the same, but campaign group the Good Law Project says businesses who continue to follow could face legal action 🧵
The move comes amid approval for a draft code which largely advises the same, but campaign group the Good Law Project says businesses who continue to follow could face legal action 🧵
October 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Aside from the senseless cruelty from our so called Human Rights body, The absurdity of requiring that every UK business seeks legal advice on how & whether they should attempt to segregate Trans people. What a monumental waste of money, time & resources to spend on lawyers.
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Tuesday: Shabana Mahmood attacks an international human rights body for pointing out the UK is likely breaching its legal obligations to trans people.
Wednesday: five months after publishing transphobic legal guidance the EHRC, a month before it has to defend it in court, takes it down.
Wednesday: five months after publishing transphobic legal guidance the EHRC, a month before it has to defend it in court, takes it down.
The EHRC has finally, five months after producing its wildly transphobic and, we believe, unlawful Interim Guidance now taken it down. Our judicial review challenge to that Interim Guidance will be heard in less than one month.
October 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Tuesday: Shabana Mahmood attacks an international human rights body for pointing out the UK is likely breaching its legal obligations to trans people.
Wednesday: five months after publishing transphobic legal guidance the EHRC, a month before it has to defend it in court, takes it down.
Wednesday: five months after publishing transphobic legal guidance the EHRC, a month before it has to defend it in court, takes it down.
Today's treats when I get up are an hour of exercise, several hours of particularly tedious work, then an "every couple of weeks when we remember" dilation
Related: I haven't got up yet
Related: I haven't got up yet
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Today's treats when I get up are an hour of exercise, several hours of particularly tedious work, then an "every couple of weeks when we remember" dilation
Related: I haven't got up yet
Related: I haven't got up yet
I used to think that the UK had a better judicial system than the USA with it's blatant politicisation. I assumed our judges would rule 'without fear or favour' on the basis of accumulated law
As an out trans woman, living under a hostile government and a belligerent media, I no longer think that
As an out trans woman, living under a hostile government and a belligerent media, I no longer think that
We sent an FOI request to the Supreme Court asking several questions, including communications relating to the selection of Lord Hodge on the panel for the FWS case. We also asked if any conflicts of interest were considered. 1/
![Alt text: A letter acknowledging a Freedom of Information request dated 19 September 2025, concerning UK Supreme Court case [2025] UKSC 16. The requester seeks details about selecting Lord Hodge for the panel, including guidance, records, and potential conflicts of interest. The letter asks for electronic delivery of info.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:njup4kv6td4bzhh6g64faacb/bafkreiaiktgl3y5qqsfrhjdnhmz7ggfgvmchawomnplodnafscsuxyzkru@jpeg)
October 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I used to think that the UK had a better judicial system than the USA with it's blatant politicisation. I assumed our judges would rule 'without fear or favour' on the basis of accumulated law
As an out trans woman, living under a hostile government and a belligerent media, I no longer think that
As an out trans woman, living under a hostile government and a belligerent media, I no longer think that
The legal equivalent of picking up the grenade they threw at us and hurling it right back at them. Superb 👏
Today, we and the Trans Exile Network have made a joint submission to the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK Supreme Court's judgment in the For Women Scotland v. Scottish Ministers case of April 2025.
tacc.org.uk/2025/10/14/p...
tacc.org.uk/2025/10/14/p...
Press Release – Submission to the CoE Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK’s non-compliance in Goodwin v. UK - tacc.org.uk
Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network seek urgent re-opening of enforcement of key human rights decision against UK. Today, the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective ...
tacc.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The legal equivalent of picking up the grenade they threw at us and hurling it right back at them. Superb 👏
October 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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There's a common sense argument, as well as an ethical one, to not letting terfs into your movement. They will destroy it if you let them, and FiLiA let them…
October 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
There's a common sense argument, as well as an ethical one, to not letting terfs into your movement. They will destroy it if you let them, and FiLiA let them…
