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SCUK16/EHRC Do not comply in advance | use the facilities you are most comfortable in | if challenged your safety comes first, do not engage: look confused, smile, leave ASAP | If you think you may get challenged keep an audio app recording in a pocket
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Contact McSweeney's puppet in No. Ten - the vile xenophobic anti-immigration rhetoric piled on top of the other bigotries; demonising disabled people and transphobia is not a mistake 👇
Remember you can directly message the occupant of No. Ten to let them know how you feel about their position on the Supreme Court Ruling

contact.no10.gov.uk
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The British Medical Association have come out in support of trans and non-binary people 👏🏻🏳️‍⚧️💕

They also criticise the unworkable and damaging Supreme Court Ruling, that ends up diverting resources from an already underfunded NHS!

@bma.org.uk 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Full statement 👉🏻 www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
May 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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My advice for the EHRC Consultation is still to hold fire. If you're in an organisation, by all means start collating information on how this is likely to impact service users and employees, and even start drafting, but I wouldn't submit anything just yet.
May 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Join our Trans Atlantic Political Exchange virtual event 11th June @ 4pm BST
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May 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Very interesting reading and Growing will absolutely hate if it’s shared….

www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...
J.K. Rowling uses 'Harry Potter' wealth to fund anti-transgender organization
This is where "Harry Potter" profits are going.
www.advocate.com
May 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Ref Download and its trans exclusion policy….

Partner companies are pulling out.
Just had this from Lush who had a partnership with the event.

Thank you Lush Team for putting morals ahead of profits. ✊🏳️‍⚧️✊
May 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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This is quite something - massive respect to Kate Nash for putting this out into the world. Give it a listen.

Kate Nash - GERM
youtu.be/q2MoQJP-PhA?...
Kate Nash - GERM (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Kate Nash
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May 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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the idea that you can just talk bigots out of bigotry if you try hard enough is bullshit.

in fact I'd argue from personal experience that pushing back on them directly like that gives them the opportunity to play resistance and only further entrenches them in hateful belief systems.
May 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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We could all do with some wholesome trans content and this had me bawling: here’s the moment where Beth McCarthy gave a trans person a new name at her concert.

🎥 @Bethmaymcarthy on instagram
May 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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If you have cleaners of all genders in your toilets then it is not a single sex space.

Even post Scottish Ministers.
May 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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How to continue to do the right thing for your trans colleagues and customers, from the brilliant folks at Gendered Intelligence. ow.ly/3g6350VZZqa
Maximising trans inclusion after the Supreme Court Judgment
How to maximise your trans and non-binary inclusion in light of the For Women Scotland v Scottish Government Supreme Court Judgment
ow.ly
May 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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May 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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🏳️‍⚧️ During an unsuccessful High Court challenge by ‘gender critical’ campaigners, it has been revealed that the government is undertaking a review into whether prescribing cross-sex hormones to under-18s should be restricted 🧵👇
May 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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1/🧵 The EHRC has just 23 hours left to do the right thing.

They must issue an unreserved apology for the risk of harm caused to the LGBTQI+ community or face legal action.

I think the interim guidance is deliberately evasive and misleading.
May 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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This is phenomenal.

Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.

It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
May 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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EXPOSED: Sex Matters met privately with EHRC leadership in Sept, just months before major guidance changes, pushing anti-trans framing under the guise of “clarity.”

TACC obtained the documents via FOI.

tacc.org.uk/2025/05/23/i...
Inside Access, Outside Influence: How Sex Matters Is Shaping the EHRC's Agenda - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
TACC (Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective) can now reveal, through documents obtained via a Freedom of Information request, that in early September 2024, the anti-trans lobbying group Sex…
tacc.org.uk
May 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The (then) Conservative Government paid off the UN (UN dept GANHRI were evaluating the EHRC at the time after there was multiple complaints about them being transphobic) to the sum of £1 Million, to make sure the EHRC ‘GC’ Chair kept her influential position to implement transphobic policies! 😖
May 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Misinterpretation of
misinterpretation of
misinterpretation of
misinterpretation of
misinterpretation of
misinterpretation.

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People misinterpreted the EHRC interim guidance because it was deliberately written to imply the existence of a “bathroom law” without explicitly stating it.
May 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Currently a big protest at Liverpool Street Satation
May 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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This is the world that people like JK Rowling, Matt Walsh, and Jesse Singal work every day to achieve
Kady Grass, a lesbian teenager in Illinois, was severely beaten after trying to use the bathroom in a McDonald's.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
May 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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hard to put into words. But what is true is that if she had said nothing I would have had a better night. Maybe if you're a cis person and you see someone you think is trans it's best not to walk over and be condescending about their appearance. If you want to be supportive then treat us like...
May 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Who's up for another letter? 😅
This one is for your local service, club or organisation to encourage them to respond to the EHRC public consultation.
As always, feedback welcome, feel free to share.
Off to send a copy to my mum, who's on a campaigning rampage.😆
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Letter to orgs re EHRC consultation
Letter encouraging organisations and services to take part in the EHRC public consultation on the new Code of Practice. You can send a copy of this letter to any services, organisations, association...
docs.google.com
May 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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🚨 Important Action 🚨

Here is a brand new draft letter to your MP, which you should absolutely be sending, based on yesterday's statement from UN experts.

Please send and share!
UN experts are calling on politicians and lawmakers to protect the human rights of trans+ people in the UK, let’s make them listen! WRITE TO YOUR MP. Find a tempate here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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May 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Lets be very clear here, its not trans people could be forced to present papers, its people SUSPECTED of being trans
May 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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This will be my thread concerning my FOIA Request to the EHRC. I think I got some actually worthwhile files, but I'll start with sharing the files so that other people can get their eyes on them.

They provided considerable correspondence between EHRC staff and antitrans orgs.
For what it's worth, this is what I'm waiting for them to respond to.

They're supposed to respond in 4 days. My expectation is that they will give themselves an extension, or deny it with some excuse:
May 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM