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Katelyn Burns

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the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.

Emily Hamilton @emilymcminn-ms.bsky.social · 27d

Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)

screen grab of Sun Sport artilce about IOC ban for trans women including a picture of Cisgender Boxer Imame Khelife

November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM

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PinkNews

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Stark report highlights harassment of trans, cis and intersex people since Supreme Court ruling
https://bit.ly/41Sw7r9

Trans, cis and intersex people report harassment since Supreme Court ruling

Trans, cis and intersex people alike are experiencing harassment in the wake of the UK Supreme Court's gender ruling, reports TransActual.

www.thepinknews.com

August 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM

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Adam Turner 🏳️‍🌈

@awjt.bsky.social

Explosive response of the British Medical Association to the Supreme Court's "biologically nonsensical" ruling: "We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine".

This meeting condemns the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' with respect to the Equality Act as being based on 'biological sex', which they refer to as a person who 'was at birth of the female sex', as reductive, trans and intersex-exclusionary and biologically nonsensical. We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender diverse people. As such this meeting:

i. Reiterates the BMA's position on affirming the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals to live their lives with dignity, having their identity respected.

ii. Reminds the Supreme Court of the existence of intersex people and reaffirms their right to exist in the gender identity that matches their sense of self, regardless of whether this matches any identity assigned to them at birth.

Condemns scientifically illiterate rulings from the Supreme Court, made without consulting relevant experts and stakeholders, that will cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary and intersex communities in this country.

iv. Commits to strive for better access to necessary health services for trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people.

April 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM

R Harris

@rjharris.bsky.social

Just had a blog posted about LGBTQ+ students in schools - research.reading.ac.uk/research-blo...

The courage gap: Why schools, not students, should be leading on LGBTQ+ inclusion - Connecting Research

In this blog, Professor R. Harris highlights the challenges that still face LGBTQ+ students in UK schools today and argues how schools must lead the way with a more inclusive approach.

research.reading.ac.uk

February 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM

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Non-bio Fairy

@natacha.bsky.social

Just published, my blog post on the FGEN website. In part a big chapeau to @katymontgomerie.com for her thoughts on here earlier today, which inspired some of it.

feministgenderequality.network/the-cass-sca...

The Cass Scandal: Labour’s Section 28 - Feminist Gender Equality Network

The indefinite puberty-blocker ban announced by Keir Starmer’s Labour government this week bears a hideous resemblance to Margaret Thatcher’s Section 28 introduced in the late 1980s, which targeted LG...

feministgenderequality.network

December 14, 2024 at 4:12 PM

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Ali Messer

@freereed59.net

#HistoryEducation #HistoryTeacher 🗺 so much to think about here

ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · Dec 3

Great to see this paper, by 1 of our outstanding @ioe.bsky.social MA 2023 graduates now published in @beranews.bsky.social's Curriculum Journal. A great exploration of 16-19 year old students' thinking on the aims of learning about the Holocaust. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...