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Prof Stephen Whittle
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🏳️‍⚧️💪🏼🏳️‍🌈 Law Professor, Woke, anti-growth, lefty lawyer. 69yrs of which 50yrs as Proud Trans Man, Activist. No reply to anonymous accounts. Wife & 4 great grown up kids. he/him/his
If you follow me I will usuallly try to follow you, but I dont chat
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TRANSMISSION Wednesday 11 March 2025
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An extraordinary thing.

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In aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase

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November 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
profstephenwhittle.bsky.social
Collette Spinetti: Conquering New Frontiers for the Next Generation of Uruguayan Trans Women
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Collette Spinetti: Conquering New Frontiers for the Next Generation of Uruguayan Trans Women
In 2024, amid a surge of conservative governments throughout the region, Uruguay's Frente Amplio-led presidency, under the direction of Yamandú Orsi, appointed Collette Spinetti as Human Rights Secret...
news.tpathealth.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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translucent.org.uk
The women who actually use Kenwood Ladies Pond spoke clearly: the 900 members democratically voted to maintain their trans+ inclusive policy, in place since 2019. 🏊‍♀️

notinourname.org.uk/nion-women-r...

#TransInclusion #KenwoodLadiesPond #TransRightsAreHumanRights @nionwomen.bsky.social
NION Women Rejects Anti-Trans Narrative at Kenwood Ladies Pond - Not in our name
NION women supports the previous decision by members to keep the Kenwood ponds inclusive, and calls for people to engage in the consultation
notinourname.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
profstephenwhittle.bsky.social
A reminder that the public consultation on proposed changes to the service specification for children and young people's gender services, which launched in August is still open, so there is still time to share your views if you haven’t already. www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...
NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service Specification - NHS England - Citizen Space
This site contains surveys and consultations that are run by NHS England.
www.engage.england.nhs.uk
October 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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tacc.org.uk
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.
October 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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five2one.bsky.social
The idea that the judiciary is apolitical based on the fact that they don't speak on political matters is one of the fig leaves of the British establishment. It allows them to historically and contemporaneously make political judgements while those behind them can be protected from some of it.
October 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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reactiveashley.cat
1/🧵 Well, Hodge is the vice president of the court, so he can walk in and take his seat on any panel he likes. In the judiciary, seniority rules. And it was Robert Buckland, the then tory justice minister, who handed him the power to tip the scales.
tacc.org.uk TACC @tacc.org.uk · Oct 14
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.
October 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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reactiveashley.cat
A former member of the world’s most sovereign Parliament glorifies the broken constitution of another country. 🤷🏻‍♀️
pault.bsky.social Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · Oct 10
New Zealand doesn’t have a First Amendment — we have Parliamentary sovereignty and NZBORA. Our Parliament banned conversion therapy because it harms people. If Stephen Franks wants US-style “freedom” to abuse LGBTQIA+ kids, he can move there.

Absolutely, this dude utterly sucks!
Many will know a parent who may be doomed to this desperate state - with no way out. Even if they’ve only permitted or aided their innocent child’s groomers without authorising surgery or drugs, some will be haunted. Can they undo the harm? Could they have prevented it? My firm is trying to help a number of parents who are doing all they can while they can to protect their deluded children. It is an outrage that the Parliamentarians who passed the conversion therapy ban, despite its direct conflict with freedom of speech, are tolerating the prevarication of Minister Doocey over dangerous ‘gender-affirming’ hormone ‘therapy’ for children The US Supreme Court is likely to invalidate conversion therapy bans shortly, as contrary to the First Amendment (freedom of speech).
October 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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effecttrans.com
The outcome was predictable given the EHRC submission and that @profstephenwhittle.bsky.social and Victoria McCloud couldn't submit testimonies. By not lobbying Labour ahead of time, we essentially let the court write gender recognition policy for them.
October 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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tomgordonld.bsky.social
The Council of Europe has warned that the UK gov’s treatment of trans people may breach human rights law.

This must be a wake up call.

We’ve seen an increase in hostility towards trans in recent years.

Everyone deserves dignity, safety, & respect - that includes trans people.
October 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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suepascoe001.bsky.social
To those who advocate violence and perpetrating criminal damage, I am reminded of the words of Millicent Fawcett. “I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to convince people that women ought to be enfranchised.”
October 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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drdind.bsky.social
🧵Phillip Michael Hook, tenured art professor at the University of South Dakota, can keep his job until at least the temporary injunction hearing on Oct. 8, based upon a federal court ruling.

Hook made comments about Charlie Kirk, which aroused politicians to call for his firing.
Independent headline University of South Dakota professor can’t be fired for calling Charlie Kirk a ‘Nazi’, judge rules Phillip Michael Hook wrote online that he did not ‘give a flying f***’ about Kirk, and described him as a ‘hate spreading Nazi’ in a post on the afternoon the MAGA activist was killed
September 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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jambodes.bsky.social
Yep.

Probably also secretly hoping it distracts from this:

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natacha.bsky.social Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · Sep 15
It has come to my attention that many of you have been sharing this photo of Streeting and Mandelson widely.

Please remember that Wes Streeting does not like it being shared widely. So please do not share it widely and on every possible occasion. We wouldn’t want to upset him would we?
Mandelson and Streeting
September 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
profstephenwhittle.bsky.social
Keep Hampstead Heath’s Ladies’ Pond Inclusive
Fund Trans Rights and Defend Our Community! gofund.me/7042444f
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August 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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alexsobel.co.uk
#EHRC #TransRights
July 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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alexsobel.co.uk
I urge the Commission to reconsider its approach in the interests of legal clarity, practical workability, and the fundamental rights and dignity of all those affected.
July 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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alexsobel.co.uk
I have serious concerns about the EHRC consultation.
July 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Buried away in the Daily Rowling's story about Sex Matters' plans to try and force its bigotry onto Hampstead Ladies' Pond: it's not what users want.
Last year, in a meeting of the KLPA, members voted to reject a motion that “only those born female in sex can use the pond”. The motion, which would have excluded transgender women, was “resoundingly defeated”.
July 14, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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goodlawproject.org
Extraordinarily response from the EHRC to our letter asking whether they were using AI to process consultation responses: "It is not for your client to question the manner in which that process is
being conducted while the process is ongoing."

Obviously we won't let it drop.
July 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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reactiveashley.cat
Bigotry and Clownery Commission 🤡
Paragraph 22. The Defendant published the Interim Update in response to what its Commissioners described as misinformation. However, it remains unclear what specific misinformation was being addressed, or from which side of the debate it originated, as the Defendant has refused to fulfil its duty of candour at the pre-action stage. A helpful point of context is that Lord Sumption, a former Justice of the Supreme Court, observed that the judgment does not require separate or single-sex services or facilities to exclude trans people. Following Lord Sumption’s remarks, many public and private sector employers and service-providers stepped back from making drastic changes to the provision of services and facilities for trans people. In a public talk at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Akua Reindorf KC derisively referred to this insight as “Sumption law” (a play on the term “Stonewall law” often used by those behind the gender critical campaign). Reindorf also stated that there will be a “period of correction” regarding trans people’s legal rights, saying they “have been misled for many years”. It appears the misinformation the Defendant purports to counter was Lord Sumption’s remarks.
July 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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abigailspanberger.com
Let’s call it what it is — UVA President Jim Ryan’s forced resignation is an attack on all of our public higher education institutions.
June 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
The Department of the Interior thought they could rewrite history by asking folks to report “negative” park narratives via QR codes… but instead, people used those codes to flood the system with support for our National Parks, and some hilariously blunt messages.
July 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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humanrightsvicky.bsky.social
I feel the time is approaching therefore for the UK to be red-flagged as a State engaging in steps tending towards Cultural Genocide for the purposes of the definitions used by these well respected early warning systems.
June 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM