TransForum UK (they/them)
@transforumuk.bsky.social
Bluesky id for the transgender advocacy and resource group TransForum UK.
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Hmm. Here's their phone number for "enquiries and feedback" for anyone who'd like to give them a call
I mean you COULD just tweet/etc at them but there's nothing like real phone calls from confused/disappointed/alienated customers to make clear people's feelings about the humiliation of segregation
I mean you COULD just tweet/etc at them but there's nothing like real phone calls from confused/disappointed/alienated customers to make clear people's feelings about the humiliation of segregation
May 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Hmm. Here's their phone number for "enquiries and feedback" for anyone who'd like to give them a call
I mean you COULD just tweet/etc at them but there's nothing like real phone calls from confused/disappointed/alienated customers to make clear people's feelings about the humiliation of segregation
I mean you COULD just tweet/etc at them but there's nothing like real phone calls from confused/disappointed/alienated customers to make clear people's feelings about the humiliation of segregation
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Decided to write to all the London attractions In a Friend/Member of and ask for assurances they won't treat trans visitors unfavourably in future. Natural History Museum are first to respond
May 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Decided to write to all the London attractions In a Friend/Member of and ask for assurances they won't treat trans visitors unfavourably in future. Natural History Museum are first to respond
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If your employer is struggling to work out how to respond to the awful Supreme Court decision this FAQs document reflects advice we've had from a team including a leading KC. goodlawproject.org/resource/tra...
Trans inclusion after the Supreme Court decision: FAQs | Good Law Project
Guidance for this time of uncertainty
goodlawproject.org
May 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
If your employer is struggling to work out how to respond to the awful Supreme Court decision this FAQs document reflects advice we've had from a team including a leading KC. goodlawproject.org/resource/tra...
Hmm. Here's their phone number for "enquiries and feedback" for anyone who'd like to give them a call
I mean you COULD just tweet/etc at them but there's nothing like real phone calls from confused/disappointed/alienated customers to make clear people's feelings about the humiliation of segregation
I mean you COULD just tweet/etc at them but there's nothing like real phone calls from confused/disappointed/alienated customers to make clear people's feelings about the humiliation of segregation
May 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Hmm. Here's their phone number for "enquiries and feedback" for anyone who'd like to give them a call
I mean you COULD just tweet/etc at them but there's nothing like real phone calls from confused/disappointed/alienated customers to make clear people's feelings about the humiliation of segregation
I mean you COULD just tweet/etc at them but there's nothing like real phone calls from confused/disappointed/alienated customers to make clear people's feelings about the humiliation of segregation
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"So to ensure that everyone feels respected and supported during their visit, we provide gender-neutral, accessible toilets across the Gardens"
I'm nonbinary, and I have never felt less respected and supported than when you use gender neutral toilets to segregate binary trans people.
I'm nonbinary, and I have never felt less respected and supported than when you use gender neutral toilets to segregate binary trans people.
May 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"So to ensure that everyone feels respected and supported during their visit, we provide gender-neutral, accessible toilets across the Gardens"
I'm nonbinary, and I have never felt less respected and supported than when you use gender neutral toilets to segregate binary trans people.
I'm nonbinary, and I have never felt less respected and supported than when you use gender neutral toilets to segregate binary trans people.
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🏳️⚧️ "They will not win because, for all these reasons and more, they cannot win. Ultimately, even if everyone else wants to let them, we will not."
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-did-this-supreme-court-ruling-happen-a-brief-history-of-how-great-britain-became-terf-island/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-did-this-supreme-court-ruling-happen-a-brief-history-of-how-great-britain-became-terf-island/
How did this Supreme Court ruling happen? A brief history of how Great Britain became Terf Island
How the UK anti-trans machine turned the UK from a place of hope for the Trans+ community, to hate
www.wearequeeraf.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
🏳️⚧️ "They will not win because, for all these reasons and more, they cannot win. Ultimately, even if everyone else wants to let them, we will not."
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-did-this-supreme-court-ruling-happen-a-brief-history-of-how-great-britain-became-terf-island/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-did-this-supreme-court-ruling-happen-a-brief-history-of-how-great-britain-became-terf-island/
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Separate is never equal.
“There isn’t any law saying that you cannot use a neutral third space, and they should be using their powers of advocacy to ask for those third spaces.”
I swear I've seen those third spaces before.
oh, yeah
I swear I've seen those third spaces before.
oh, yeah
May 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Separate is never equal.
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This reads like more evidence that the interim EHRC guidance was drawn up by Kishwer Falkner and cronies, without input from neutral expert staffers.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
May 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This reads like more evidence that the interim EHRC guidance was drawn up by Kishwer Falkner and cronies, without input from neutral expert staffers.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Now THIS is how you do a response statement.
My response to the decision of Glasgow Pride to suspend participation by political parties.
In short, the culture war against our community has gone on far too long, and needs to end.
In short, the culture war against our community has gone on far too long, and needs to end.
May 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Now THIS is how you do a response statement.
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For cis allies; something you can do to support trans people…
A list of suggestions from @annehealthcare.bsky.social
A list of suggestions from @annehealthcare.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
For cis allies; something you can do to support trans people…
A list of suggestions from @annehealthcare.bsky.social
A list of suggestions from @annehealthcare.bsky.social
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I'm suing the EHRC.
“Akua Reindorf KC, was overheard in the Supreme Court building plotting with activists from other hate groups about the next steps to take once the judgment was delivered. This is one of the factual grounds for the challenge.”
open.substack.com/pub/ashleeee...
“Akua Reindorf KC, was overheard in the Supreme Court building plotting with activists from other hate groups about the next steps to take once the judgment was delivered. This is one of the factual grounds for the challenge.”
open.substack.com/pub/ashleeee...
I'm suing the EHRC.
Anti-trans interim guidance challenged
open.substack.com
May 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I'm suing the EHRC.
“Akua Reindorf KC, was overheard in the Supreme Court building plotting with activists from other hate groups about the next steps to take once the judgment was delivered. This is one of the factual grounds for the challenge.”
open.substack.com/pub/ashleeee...
“Akua Reindorf KC, was overheard in the Supreme Court building plotting with activists from other hate groups about the next steps to take once the judgment was delivered. This is one of the factual grounds for the challenge.”
open.substack.com/pub/ashleeee...
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From 3 years ago ...
May 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
From 3 years ago ...
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The Government hasn't forced a longer consultation period on the EHRC to avoid a pre-determined outcome. It's forced a longer consultation period on the EHRC the better to shield Labour politically from the pre-determined outcome.
May 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The Government hasn't forced a longer consultation period on the EHRC to avoid a pre-determined outcome. It's forced a longer consultation period on the EHRC the better to shield Labour politically from the pre-determined outcome.
I find it's almost always clearest & best to use their terminology quotatively, in inverted commas & hedged with "so-called".
Therefore "so-called 'biological sex'" or "so-called 'birth sex'" etc
Then they can't (pretend to) misunderstand & also makes clear the dodginess of their terminology.
Therefore "so-called 'biological sex'" or "so-called 'birth sex'" etc
Then they can't (pretend to) misunderstand & also makes clear the dodginess of their terminology.
May 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I find it's almost always clearest & best to use their terminology quotatively, in inverted commas & hedged with "so-called".
Therefore "so-called 'biological sex'" or "so-called 'birth sex'" etc
Then they can't (pretend to) misunderstand & also makes clear the dodginess of their terminology.
Therefore "so-called 'biological sex'" or "so-called 'birth sex'" etc
Then they can't (pretend to) misunderstand & also makes clear the dodginess of their terminology.
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Very pleased to say, we've at last managed to get up some practical guidance on what the For (Some) Women Scotland decision means.
Tl;dr it's absolutely *not* what the bigots in Government or the bigots leading the misnamed EHRC are telling you. goodlaw.social/1c68df
Tl;dr it's absolutely *not* what the bigots in Government or the bigots leading the misnamed EHRC are telling you. goodlaw.social/1c68df
Trans inclusion after the Supreme Court decision: FAQs | Good Law Project
Guidance for this time of uncertainty
goodlaw.social
May 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Very pleased to say, we've at last managed to get up some practical guidance on what the For (Some) Women Scotland decision means.
Tl;dr it's absolutely *not* what the bigots in Government or the bigots leading the misnamed EHRC are telling you. goodlaw.social/1c68df
Tl;dr it's absolutely *not* what the bigots in Government or the bigots leading the misnamed EHRC are telling you. goodlaw.social/1c68df
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1. The organization TGEU (Transgender Europe) has just released their annual transgender rights map.
“For the first time in its 13-year history, setbacks in human rights of trans people now clearly outweigh progress"
The latest from S. Baum.
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“For the first time in its 13-year history, setbacks in human rights of trans people now clearly outweigh progress"
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Europe’s Latest Trans Rights Map Shows Unprecedented Regression
“For the first time in its 13-year history, setbacks in human rights of trans people across Europe and Central Asia now clearly outweigh progress.”
www.erininthemorning.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
1. The organization TGEU (Transgender Europe) has just released their annual transgender rights map.
“For the first time in its 13-year history, setbacks in human rights of trans people now clearly outweigh progress"
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
“For the first time in its 13-year history, setbacks in human rights of trans people now clearly outweigh progress"
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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This is worth noting; the EHRC has form. It has previously produced “guidance” that, like their current“interim” hogwash, was ignored by everyone.
In April 2022 the EHRC produced non-statutory guidance on service provision. It was horrific - effectively how to justify anti-trans discrimination. I described it as ‘a train wreck’. The ECHR’s own board minutes recorded that it wasn’t being followed by business.
May 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This is worth noting; the EHRC has form. It has previously produced “guidance” that, like their current“interim” hogwash, was ignored by everyone.
..."piss on the floor" & be sacked.
Basically the so-called "Equalities" minister is forcing employers to "out" transgender employees to their colleagues… -> humiliation, exclusion & stigma
AND making employment even HARDER for trans people to obtain - what employer wants this hassle?
#EHRC #SHAME
Basically the so-called "Equalities" minister is forcing employers to "out" transgender employees to their colleagues… -> humiliation, exclusion & stigma
AND making employment even HARDER for trans people to obtain - what employer wants this hassle?
#EHRC #SHAME
April 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
That's true for public toilets - a nightmare for service providers to "enforce biological sex" as they don't know the users
But easier to enforce in workplace toilets like this case - employers usually know which of their employees are trans (originally to protect them but now to exclude/harm them)
But easier to enforce in workplace toilets like this case - employers usually know which of their employees are trans (originally to protect them but now to exclude/harm them)
April 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
That's true for public toilets - a nightmare for service providers to "enforce biological sex" as they don't know the users
But easier to enforce in workplace toilets like this case - employers usually know which of their employees are trans (originally to protect them but now to exclude/harm them)
But easier to enforce in workplace toilets like this case - employers usually know which of their employees are trans (originally to protect them but now to exclude/harm them)
Not the airplane toilets!
Airbus are banning their transgender EMPLOYEES from using the toilets at work. "Outing" & endangering them
They've rushed to do this even BEFORE the draft guidelines have been reviewed & confirmed… eager to start humiliating & harming their trans employees ASAP.
#SHAME
Airbus are banning their transgender EMPLOYEES from using the toilets at work. "Outing" & endangering them
They've rushed to do this even BEFORE the draft guidelines have been reviewed & confirmed… eager to start humiliating & harming their trans employees ASAP.
#SHAME
April 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Not the airplane toilets!
Airbus are banning their transgender EMPLOYEES from using the toilets at work. "Outing" & endangering them
They've rushed to do this even BEFORE the draft guidelines have been reviewed & confirmed… eager to start humiliating & harming their trans employees ASAP.
#SHAME
Airbus are banning their transgender EMPLOYEES from using the toilets at work. "Outing" & endangering them
They've rushed to do this even BEFORE the draft guidelines have been reviewed & confirmed… eager to start humiliating & harming their trans employees ASAP.
#SHAME
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Another day, another needing to say "The young men who buy into Andrew Tate's bullshit are not victims but perpetrators of the rape culture he sells them".
I think there's an argument to be made that they are often victims of some kind of fraud/con artistry/grift. But not victims of the misogyny.
I think there's an argument to be made that they are often victims of some kind of fraud/con artistry/grift. But not victims of the misogyny.
April 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Another day, another needing to say "The young men who buy into Andrew Tate's bullshit are not victims but perpetrators of the rape culture he sells them".
I think there's an argument to be made that they are often victims of some kind of fraud/con artistry/grift. But not victims of the misogyny.
I think there's an argument to be made that they are often victims of some kind of fraud/con artistry/grift. But not victims of the misogyny.
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I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
Vet found hanging draped in trans flag
The suicide letter they won't publish
zerodoesntsleep.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
Thank you for supporting us.
Sadly your party doesn't.
In implementing that dishonest farce the Cass Report, Labour has committed a permanently-unforgivable betrayal of LGBT rights and is putting in place state-enforced "Conversion Therapy".
Thank you for opposing your party's crimes against us.
Sadly your party doesn't.
In implementing that dishonest farce the Cass Report, Labour has committed a permanently-unforgivable betrayal of LGBT rights and is putting in place state-enforced "Conversion Therapy".
Thank you for opposing your party's crimes against us.
February 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Thank you for supporting us.
Sadly your party doesn't.
In implementing that dishonest farce the Cass Report, Labour has committed a permanently-unforgivable betrayal of LGBT rights and is putting in place state-enforced "Conversion Therapy".
Thank you for opposing your party's crimes against us.
Sadly your party doesn't.
In implementing that dishonest farce the Cass Report, Labour has committed a permanently-unforgivable betrayal of LGBT rights and is putting in place state-enforced "Conversion Therapy".
Thank you for opposing your party's crimes against us.
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Until now, the consensus on X has been that it is a necessary evil for anyone in politics.
But I know my presence on X no longer benefits my role or the people I seek to serve.
So I have left, for good.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
But I know my presence on X no longer benefits my role or the people I seek to serve.
So I have left, for good.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
X under Musk is like a toxic partner, MP says in ‘break-up letter’
Labour’s Sarah Owen has joined a list of MPs leaving Elon Musk’s platform over its rise in misogyny, threats and intimidation
www.thetimes.com
November 11, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Until now, the consensus on X has been that it is a necessary evil for anyone in politics.
But I know my presence on X no longer benefits my role or the people I seek to serve.
So I have left, for good.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
But I know my presence on X no longer benefits my role or the people I seek to serve.
So I have left, for good.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...