@abigail-meanswell.bsky.social
I blog at https://clareflourish.wordpress.com
Exercising my human rights to freedom of expression, association and religion with https://defendourjuries.org/lift-the-ban/
Exercising my human rights to freedom of expression, association and religion with https://defendourjuries.org/lift-the-ban/
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UK politicians and trans rights
What have UK political parties, and individual politicians, said about trans rights? Some people are trans. The European Court of Human Rights recognised our privacy, and accepted trans women as wo…
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What UK politicians have said about trans rights: clareflourish.wordpress.com/members-of-p...
I complained about the BBC referring to trans women as "biological males identifying as women". It is inaccurate- trans is linked to genes. It is a spurious claim to scientific objectivity when the decision what sex people are is social, not biological, in cases of ambiguity, which include trans.
December 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I complained about the BBC referring to trans women as "biological males identifying as women". It is inaccurate- trans is linked to genes. It is a spurious claim to scientific objectivity when the decision what sex people are is social, not biological, in cases of ambiguity, which include trans.
Complaining about the BBC, again: their use of the slur "trans-identified male". I edit this post for each new complaint: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2019/12/06/n...
BBC transphobia
BBC journalists are transphobic, and tell transphobic untruths. You can complain here. Here are the BBC’s Guidelines. Particularly relevant are section 15, conflicts of interest and section 4…
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September 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Complaining about the BBC, again: their use of the slur "trans-identified male". I edit this post for each new complaint: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2019/12/06/n...
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The Green Party is clear:
Trans Rights are Human Rights
Solidarity for a select few isn’t solidarity at all.
We stand with everyone.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
Trans Rights are Human Rights
Solidarity for a select few isn’t solidarity at all.
We stand with everyone.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The Green Party is clear:
Trans Rights are Human Rights
Solidarity for a select few isn’t solidarity at all.
We stand with everyone.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
Trans Rights are Human Rights
Solidarity for a select few isn’t solidarity at all.
We stand with everyone.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
I oppose genocide. I support Defend Our Juries: defendourjuries.net/lift-the-ban/
Lift The Ban - Defend Our Juries
Following intensive lobbying by representatives of the Israeli government and the arms industry such as Lord Walney, dishonestly presented to the public as ‘independent advisers’, Palestine Action hav...
defendourjuries.net
August 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I oppose genocide. I support Defend Our Juries: defendourjuries.net/lift-the-ban/
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Here’s how everyone can LEGALLY get JK Rowling’s birth certificate for £11…
1️⃣ Go to the official GRO website: www.gro.gov.uk
2️⃣ Search for the record:
• Name at birth: Joanne Rowling
• DOB: 31 July 1965
• Place of birth: Sodbury
• Mother’s maiden name: Volant
• GRO Ref: Vol: 7b, Pg: 849
3️⃣ Pay
1️⃣ Go to the official GRO website: www.gro.gov.uk
2️⃣ Search for the record:
• Name at birth: Joanne Rowling
• DOB: 31 July 1965
• Place of birth: Sodbury
• Mother’s maiden name: Volant
• GRO Ref: Vol: 7b, Pg: 849
3️⃣ Pay
August 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Here’s how everyone can LEGALLY get JK Rowling’s birth certificate for £11…
1️⃣ Go to the official GRO website: www.gro.gov.uk
2️⃣ Search for the record:
• Name at birth: Joanne Rowling
• DOB: 31 July 1965
• Place of birth: Sodbury
• Mother’s maiden name: Volant
• GRO Ref: Vol: 7b, Pg: 849
3️⃣ Pay
1️⃣ Go to the official GRO website: www.gro.gov.uk
2️⃣ Search for the record:
• Name at birth: Joanne Rowling
• DOB: 31 July 1965
• Place of birth: Sodbury
• Mother’s maiden name: Volant
• GRO Ref: Vol: 7b, Pg: 849
3️⃣ Pay
At the LGBTIQA+ Zoom Green leadership hustings, I explained to Ellie Chowns why the term "biological sex" used to call trans women men is a social construct, and why it is so deeply offensive and inaccurate. I asked her to use "sex assigned at birth" instead. If she uses "bio sex" again, we'll know.
August 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
At the LGBTIQA+ Zoom Green leadership hustings, I explained to Ellie Chowns why the term "biological sex" used to call trans women men is a social construct, and why it is so deeply offensive and inaccurate. I asked her to use "sex assigned at birth" instead. If she uses "bio sex" again, we'll know.
Why the term "biological sex" used to call a trans woman male or a trans man female is hate speech: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/b...
“Biological sex”
My sex is female. My legal sex is female, my biological sex is female, my sex at birth was female, I have always been female. My sex assigned at birth is a private matter, and nobody, cis or trans,…
clareflourish.wordpress.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Why the term "biological sex" used to call a trans woman male or a trans man female is hate speech: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/b...
Mary-Ann Stephenson, appointed by Bridget Phillipson as chair of the "Equality and Human Rights Commission", which has not deserved that name for some time.
Anyone else recognise the names of all of the ‘gender critical’ transphobes Mary-Ann Stephenson followed (but not any trans people or orgs) before she deleted her BlueSky account!??
Archive here 👉 archive.ph/rDR65
Archive here 👉 archive.ph/rDR65
August 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Mary-Ann Stephenson, appointed by Bridget Phillipson as chair of the "Equality and Human Rights Commission", which has not deserved that name for some time.
Fabulous Brighton Pride march: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/08/02/b...
Brighton Pride 2025: Ravishing rage
Party across the city! I walked with my trans flag down the hill from my home. As I passed the pub, drinkers outside cheered. A man came up, gave me a rose, and said, “Happy Pride”. A woman said, “…
clareflourish.wordpress.com
August 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Fabulous Brighton Pride march: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/08/02/b...
On exercising my human rights to free speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of association, under the eyes of the police: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/p...
Palestine action
What can we do, at the time of genocide in Gaza?
clareflourish.wordpress.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
On exercising my human rights to free speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of association, under the eyes of the police: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/p...
The new schools guidance on RSHE does not actually ban telling the truth about trans: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/t...
July 16, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The new schools guidance on RSHE does not actually ban telling the truth about trans: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/t...
I support Palestine action.
To be clear: I do not support terrorism. But I do support action (note the lower case a) to end the genocide in Gaza.
To be clear: I do not support terrorism. But I do support action (note the lower case a) to end the genocide in Gaza.
July 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I support Palestine action.
To be clear: I do not support terrorism. But I do support action (note the lower case a) to end the genocide in Gaza.
To be clear: I do not support terrorism. But I do support action (note the lower case a) to end the genocide in Gaza.
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A good explanation of the ECtHR decision against the Czech Republic. It says that trans and non-binary people have a full right to privacy which cannot be balanced against any other characteristic.
Changing our sex is a human right.
Changing our sex is a human right.
The human right to change sex
The European Court of Human Rights has again affirmed the human right to change gender. TH has won their case against the Czech Republic. The judgment is available here. TH identifies as “intergend…
clareflourish.wordpress.com
June 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A good explanation of the ECtHR decision against the Czech Republic. It says that trans and non-binary people have a full right to privacy which cannot be balanced against any other characteristic.
Changing our sex is a human right.
Changing our sex is a human right.
The European Court of Human Rights has again affirmed the human right to change legal sex. clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/t...
The human right to change sex
The European Court of Human Rights has again affirmed the human right to change gender. TH has won their case against the Czech Republic. The judgment is available here. TH identifies as “intergend…
clareflourish.wordpress.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The European Court of Human Rights has again affirmed the human right to change legal sex. clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/t...
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This is important.
Has Akua Reindorf, an EHRC commissioner, LIED about the Equality Act?
It looks like what she said in 2020/21 in her Essex University report completely contradicts what she said last week about the Equality Act, according to Clare.
It seems to me that both cannot be true...
Has Akua Reindorf, an EHRC commissioner, LIED about the Equality Act?
It looks like what she said in 2020/21 in her Essex University report completely contradicts what she said last week about the Equality Act, according to Clare.
It seems to me that both cannot be true...
Akua Reindorf says she lied
Akua Reindorf is on the board of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and what she says about trans rights carries significant weight. On 9 May she spoke at the LSE, and her words were reporte…
clareflourish.wordpress.com
June 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This is important.
Has Akua Reindorf, an EHRC commissioner, LIED about the Equality Act?
It looks like what she said in 2020/21 in her Essex University report completely contradicts what she said last week about the Equality Act, according to Clare.
It seems to me that both cannot be true...
Has Akua Reindorf, an EHRC commissioner, LIED about the Equality Act?
It looks like what she said in 2020/21 in her Essex University report completely contradicts what she said last week about the Equality Act, according to Clare.
It seems to me that both cannot be true...
Akua Reindorf says trans people were lied to about our rights. Who told the lies? Akua Reindorf. clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/a...
Akua Reindorf says she lied
Akua Reindorf is on the board of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and what she says about trans rights carries significant weight. On 9 May she spoke at the LSE, and her words were reporte…
clareflourish.wordpress.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Akua Reindorf says trans people were lied to about our rights. Who told the lies? Akua Reindorf. clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/a...
What UK politicians have said about trans rights: clareflourish.wordpress.com/members-of-p...
UK politicians and trans rights
What have UK political parties, and individual politicians, said about trans rights? Some people are trans. The European Court of Human Rights recognised our privacy, and accepted trans women as wo…
clareflourish.wordpress.com
June 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
What UK politicians have said about trans rights: clareflourish.wordpress.com/members-of-p...
Inclusive toilet signs, from the Charleston festival:
May 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Inclusive toilet signs, from the Charleston festival:
I went to the Charleston festival, and asked Lady Hale a question. I referred to human rights based on subjectivity, and her judgment in A v West Yorkshire Police: our "right to a sexual identity". I am delighted her reply is reported.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...
Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says
Speaking at book festival in east Sussex, former supreme court president says reaction to judgment ‘very binary’
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I went to the Charleston festival, and asked Lady Hale a question. I referred to human rights based on subjectivity, and her judgment in A v West Yorkshire Police: our "right to a sexual identity". I am delighted her reply is reported.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...
Highlights from the self-declaration debate. MPs quoted their trans constituents: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/m...
Parliament, and trans lives
Many MPs are trans allies, telling trans stories. The petition to allow trans people to self-identify gender gave them an opportunity. It says, allowing us to live as our gender improves our health…
clareflourish.wordpress.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Highlights from the self-declaration debate. MPs quoted their trans constituents: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/m...
How women's services can still admit trans women, after the Supreme Court judgment: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/h...
How women’s services can include trans women
This is a serious legal argument, not just satire. The Equality Act s7 protects “transsexual persons” from discrimination under the protected characteristic of “gender reassignment”. The people pro…
clareflourish.wordpress.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
How women's services can still admit trans women, after the Supreme Court judgment: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/h...
Now being checked for publication. I will sign it when it is accepted, and hope you will too.
I need 5 people to sign to make this petition to the UK Parliament to pass primary legislation urgently restore full legal recognition for trans people. Please click on the link ✅ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Restore full legal recognition for trans people as the sex they transition to.
We want the UK Government to pass urgent primary legislation superseding the UK Supreme Courts flawed ruling in the For Women Scotland appeal - which is in direct conflict with Goodwin 2004 and the Ge...
petition.parliament.uk
April 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Now being checked for publication. I will sign it when it is accepted, and hope you will too.
Why the EHRC interim guidance is wrong: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/e...
EHRC guidance on trans in toilets April 2025
The EHRC interim Guidance tries to exclude trans people to the maximum possible. It takes the most trans-excluding interpretation of the Equality Act and the Supreme Court judgment. It starts by sa…
clareflourish.wordpress.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Why the EHRC interim guidance is wrong: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/e...
The Supreme Court reversed fifty years of progress for trans human rights in Britain. Here's a summary of that progress with links to explanations of the steps, and the clear intention of the Equality Act reversed by the court: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/a...
A brief history of trans rights in Britain
The Supreme Court judgment is a cataclysm for trans people in Britain. It is an assault on trans people’s human rights, and in no sense merely a technical exercise in statutory interpretation. It i…
clareflourish.wordpress.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The Supreme Court reversed fifty years of progress for trans human rights in Britain. Here's a summary of that progress with links to explanations of the steps, and the clear intention of the Equality Act reversed by the court: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/a...