Cherry L
@cherryl.bsky.social
Wiltshire based, socialist, Quaker, trans ally.🏳️⚧️ She/her
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The “Pathways” trial is, IMO on more than one level, a thoroughly unethical piece of “research” to be carrying out on children, especially children who are part of a marginalised minority.
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The “Pathways” trial is, IMO on more than one level, a thoroughly unethical piece of “research” to be carrying out on children, especially children who are part of a marginalised minority.
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I remember talking to a GC woman once, long before the SC ruling.
She wasn’t interested if she inadvertently harassed cis women in toilets; all she wanted to do was ‘hunt’ trans women down who were using them.
She wasn’t interested if she inadvertently harassed cis women in toilets; all she wanted to do was ‘hunt’ trans women down who were using them.
This is the real legacy of For Women Scotland: mass harassment of women, overwhelmingly cisgender women, from people embolded by transphobia.
A new report from TransActual looks at the impact of the 2025 EHRC interim update on access to, and experiences within, gendered spaces in the UK.
Read the full report here: transactual.org.uk/gendered-spa...
#TransRights #EHRC #ScrapTheBathroomBan #EqualityAct
Read the full report here: transactual.org.uk/gendered-spa...
#TransRights #EHRC #ScrapTheBathroomBan #EqualityAct
October 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I remember talking to a GC woman once, long before the SC ruling.
She wasn’t interested if she inadvertently harassed cis women in toilets; all she wanted to do was ‘hunt’ trans women down who were using them.
She wasn’t interested if she inadvertently harassed cis women in toilets; all she wanted to do was ‘hunt’ trans women down who were using them.
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Quite why Maya Forstater thinks her views are more important than the sizeable majority who voted to keep the ponds trans inclusive, as they always have been. But she does. She and her gazillionaire backers have a hearing in the High Court next month - and we're fighting back. goodlaw.social/vs0d
We’re standing with trans people against hate at Hampstead women’s pond | Good Law Project
It’s almost crunch time for a legal challenge from an anti-trans pressure group which could see trans people banned from Hampstead women’s pond. We’re not backing down.
goodlaw.social
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Quite why Maya Forstater thinks her views are more important than the sizeable majority who voted to keep the ponds trans inclusive, as they always have been. But she does. She and her gazillionaire backers have a hearing in the High Court next month - and we're fighting back. goodlaw.social/vs0d
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The Guardian are reporting a significant increase in Jewish people voting for the Green Party.
It's almost like many of us grew up learning a history of persecution & violence.
We don't oppose the Genocide in spite of being Jewish but because of it.
Never again for everyone.
It's almost like many of us grew up learning a history of persecution & violence.
We don't oppose the Genocide in spite of being Jewish but because of it.
Never again for everyone.
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The Guardian are reporting a significant increase in Jewish people voting for the Green Party.
It's almost like many of us grew up learning a history of persecution & violence.
We don't oppose the Genocide in spite of being Jewish but because of it.
Never again for everyone.
It's almost like many of us grew up learning a history of persecution & violence.
We don't oppose the Genocide in spite of being Jewish but because of it.
Never again for everyone.
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While it feels like I'm repeatedly slamming my head against a brick wall repeating this massively simple concept. Saying "Reform would be worse" doesn't make what Labour is doing better. Labour is now the most anti-immigration, anti-any marginalised group, government we have seen in decades. 1/
Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
Home Secretary orders police and border 'hit squads' to Albania to stamp out people smugglers | LBC
Shabana Mahmood will send hit squads of police and border force teams to Albania in a fresh drive to stamp out people-smuggling gangs upstream.
www.lbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
While it feels like I'm repeatedly slamming my head against a brick wall repeating this massively simple concept. Saying "Reform would be worse" doesn't make what Labour is doing better. Labour is now the most anti-immigration, anti-any marginalised group, government we have seen in decades. 1/
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This was my understanding when I voted for the Gender Recognition Act and the Equality Act - otherwise I could not have supported them.
1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999 Drafting Instructions - a Freedom of Information request to Government Equalities Office
Please send me copies of the Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999’s Drafting Instructions given to the Parliamentary Counsel. If you can’t locate all versions, send me any one of th...
www.whatdotheyknow.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This was my understanding when I voted for the Gender Recognition Act and the Equality Act - otherwise I could not have supported them.
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Definitely. And deep down they know it…
We now have a government and a gender critical cult muttering to themselves, “This is not how it was supposed to go! It was only supposed to target the tr@nnies!”
And now they don’t know how to extract themselves without admitting they were wrong all along.
We now have a government and a gender critical cult muttering to themselves, “This is not how it was supposed to go! It was only supposed to target the tr@nnies!”
And now they don’t know how to extract themselves without admitting they were wrong all along.
November 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Definitely. And deep down they know it…
We now have a government and a gender critical cult muttering to themselves, “This is not how it was supposed to go! It was only supposed to target the tr@nnies!”
And now they don’t know how to extract themselves without admitting they were wrong all along.
We now have a government and a gender critical cult muttering to themselves, “This is not how it was supposed to go! It was only supposed to target the tr@nnies!”
And now they don’t know how to extract themselves without admitting they were wrong all along.
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Sonia's "suddenly trans people are concerned about gnc cis women" line is so funny, it's not like anyone's been pointing it out since at least the NC bathroom bill way back in 2016. But, that would require actually listening to what we say and that is a complete anathema to gender critters
This is the harm the misogynistic EHRC is causing to ALL women. Their code of practice is deeply disparaging of ALL women.
November 22, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Sonia's "suddenly trans people are concerned about gnc cis women" line is so funny, it's not like anyone's been pointing it out since at least the NC bathroom bill way back in 2016. But, that would require actually listening to what we say and that is a complete anathema to gender critters
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Hodge et al are a bunch of hacks.
2/ The instructions are just… fascinating? Well, every piece of public record I’ve uncovered on this subject so far has been fascinating, but this paragraph is exceptional.
It contradicts the Supreme Court directly, comprehensively, and unequivocally.
It contradicts the Supreme Court directly, comprehensively, and unequivocally.
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hodge et al are a bunch of hacks.
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Imagine, if you can, a parent whose love was not up to the task of saving their child from the environment Wes Streeting has created for young trans people. Imagine the effect on that bereaved parent of a coroner who saw that tragedy as a stage on which to perform their own prejudice.
The tendency of Coroners to ignore guidance from the Chief Coroner, the reality of trans existence, and the wishes of bereaved parents, and express their own views in the death certificate, is both contemptible and unlawful.
We have a legal team ready to go; we will challenge it in the High Court.
We have a legal team ready to go; we will challenge it in the High Court.
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Imagine, if you can, a parent whose love was not up to the task of saving their child from the environment Wes Streeting has created for young trans people. Imagine the effect on that bereaved parent of a coroner who saw that tragedy as a stage on which to perform their own prejudice.
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Those of you who know my work know that misgendering on death certificates has been a preoccupation of mine for several years now. I have been really concerned to hear that even though we now have specific guidance on the issue, there are some Coroners who have not been following it.
The tendency of Coroners to ignore guidance from the Chief Coroner, the reality of trans existence, and the wishes of bereaved parents, and express their own views in the death certificate, is both contemptible and unlawful.
We have a legal team ready to go; we will challenge it in the High Court.
We have a legal team ready to go; we will challenge it in the High Court.
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Those of you who know my work know that misgendering on death certificates has been a preoccupation of mine for several years now. I have been really concerned to hear that even though we now have specific guidance on the issue, there are some Coroners who have not been following it.
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1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999 Drafting Instructions - a Freedom of Information request to Government Equalities Office
Please send me copies of the Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999’s Drafting Instructions given to the Parliamentary Counsel. If you can’t locate all versions, send me any one of th...
www.whatdotheyknow.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
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Of course she has. Transphobia is rooted in misogyny so this is the obvious next step. It's Christofascism.
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Of course she has. Transphobia is rooted in misogyny so this is the obvious next step. It's Christofascism.
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Mumsnet is a domestic terrorist organization
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Mumsnet is a domestic terrorist organization
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And yet its biggest cheerleader, Nigel Farage, continues the face zero accountability for this mess. In fact quite the opposite.
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
And yet its biggest cheerleader, Nigel Farage, continues the face zero accountability for this mess. In fact quite the opposite.
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It's Trans Day of Remembrance.
They won't ever be able to get rid of us, no matter what. No amount of hateful legislation can change the fact of our existence.
They won't ever be able to get rid of us, no matter what. No amount of hateful legislation can change the fact of our existence.
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It's Trans Day of Remembrance.
They won't ever be able to get rid of us, no matter what. No amount of hateful legislation can change the fact of our existence.
They won't ever be able to get rid of us, no matter what. No amount of hateful legislation can change the fact of our existence.
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Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
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#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
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November 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
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The UK is considering a policy that would effectively segregate trans people from society. It would bar trans people from "single sex spaces" even when they use the facility of their sex assigned at birth.
This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.
This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The UK is considering a policy that would effectively segregate trans people from society. It would bar trans people from "single sex spaces" even when they use the facility of their sex assigned at birth.
This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.
This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.
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At last….. Lord Dubs, just now on the Today programme, talking about the need for empathy and compassion in immigration policy.
November 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
At last….. Lord Dubs, just now on the Today programme, talking about the need for empathy and compassion in immigration policy.
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If Nigel Could, Then Nigel Would
YouTube video by Morning Crush - Topic
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November 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Why we - and the Home Secretary - disapply the ECHR at our peril open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...
Why we - and the Home Secretary - disapply the ECHR at our peril
By Jessica Frank-Keyes
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Why we - and the Home Secretary - disapply the ECHR at our peril open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...
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Trans people were told by the chair of the EHRC speaking before the Joint Committee on Human Rights and the Women and Equalities Select Committee that Article 8 rights don't apply to us. It's publicly available information - there's online video and transcript.
November 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Trans people were told by the chair of the EHRC speaking before the Joint Committee on Human Rights and the Women and Equalities Select Committee that Article 8 rights don't apply to us. It's publicly available information - there's online video and transcript.
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“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government