Keyne
@keyne-unable.bsky.social
Folk devil ¦ wonkish agitator for climate @Transition-Network and trans lib @TransActualUK/TMW ¦ probably touching grass instead of being here ¦ does other things but don't worry about it ¦ views not mine either ¦ pronounced like cane ¦ they/them
It's much easier for westminster to get extremely exercised about procedural stuff like this than it'd be to have the same level of amazement at all the batshit unprecedented overton-window-slamming policy announcements people come out with. They can vent without losing access to said batshit folk.
You know this govt deserves to be unpopular but hard to avoid the conclusion that it gets treated by the bbc like a govt that decided to nuke a old persons home when its just sort of shit
Mate you need to chill the fuck out lmao
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It's much easier for westminster to get extremely exercised about procedural stuff like this than it'd be to have the same level of amazement at all the batshit unprecedented overton-window-slamming policy announcements people come out with. They can vent without losing access to said batshit folk.
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Every elite authority in the UK appears to have lost their mind in precisely the same way
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Every elite authority in the UK appears to have lost their mind in precisely the same way
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The draft EHRC Code of Practice, as reported in the Times, now admits that there is no way to enforce the anti-trans bathroom ban other than based on policing the appearance and gender presentation of all service users.
#EHRC #TransRights #ScrapTheBathroomBan #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct
#EHRC #TransRights #ScrapTheBathroomBan #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The draft EHRC Code of Practice, as reported in the Times, now admits that there is no way to enforce the anti-trans bathroom ban other than based on policing the appearance and gender presentation of all service users.
#EHRC #TransRights #ScrapTheBathroomBan #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct
#EHRC #TransRights #ScrapTheBathroomBan #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct
A clear weakness of the framing rhetoric of 'evidence based policymaking' in politics. It allows for bad actors to set ridiculously high or low evidence thresholds and then invoke the authority of science or rationality for their evil ends. Not new, but ever clearer.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
A clear weakness of the framing rhetoric of 'evidence based policymaking' in politics. It allows for bad actors to set ridiculously high or low evidence thresholds and then invoke the authority of science or rationality for their evil ends. Not new, but ever clearer.
Not very important really, but dispiriting the way we - collectively - have a goldfish-like memory for who has been actively persecuting trans people for the last decade. Maybe the tragic result of having been paying attention for too long. Or maybe it's being locked out of publications of record...
Some of us remember when Maitlis said that primary age school kids are having gender confirmation surgery. The BBC anti Trans bias goes back nearly a decade #BBCTransphobia
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Not very important really, but dispiriting the way we - collectively - have a goldfish-like memory for who has been actively persecuting trans people for the last decade. Maybe the tragic result of having been paying attention for too long. Or maybe it's being locked out of publications of record...
Tired of not being able to celebrate awful people losing their powerful positions because they are being forced out and replaced by worse people.
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Tired of not being able to celebrate awful people losing their powerful positions because they are being forced out and replaced by worse people.
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To be really clear, Sussex ICB threatened, in writing, to close a Brighton GP practice serving 25,000 patients, purely to bully them into passing over child records. The GP did not want to pass on these records, because they understood the acute risk (& reality) of harm to trans adolescents.
Sophie's article is back up with a statement from the ICB. They are lying. They threatened Well BN with closure if they weren't given access to our childs records. Well BN held off for months, trying to stop them.
"Laura fears all will be lost if ICB Sussex forces her child off the medication.
If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
To be really clear, Sussex ICB threatened, in writing, to close a Brighton GP practice serving 25,000 patients, purely to bully them into passing over child records. The GP did not want to pass on these records, because they understood the acute risk (& reality) of harm to trans adolescents.
Was about to wade into NIMBY discourse again until I decided to treat myself by simply not doing that, but solidarity with the Peckham campaigners holding out for housing worth having.
November 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Was about to wade into NIMBY discourse again until I decided to treat myself by simply not doing that, but solidarity with the Peckham campaigners holding out for housing worth having.
100%, some of y'all need to read the Braindead Megaphone essay again and internalise the lesson of actively leading our own conversations instead of reacting to the idiot.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
100%, some of y'all need to read the Braindead Megaphone essay again and internalise the lesson of actively leading our own conversations instead of reacting to the idiot.
open.ocolearnok.org/app/uploads/...
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Oh the EHRC are suddenly feeling shy! Come on now, you recommended this change to the law in 2023 and intervened supportively in the supreme court case but you don't want any of the credit?
Bit late now to just be neutrally enforcing the law isn't it...
www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/defaul...
Bit late now to just be neutrally enforcing the law isn't it...
www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/defaul...
October 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Oh the EHRC are suddenly feeling shy! Come on now, you recommended this change to the law in 2023 and intervened supportively in the supreme court case but you don't want any of the credit?
Bit late now to just be neutrally enforcing the law isn't it...
www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/defaul...
Bit late now to just be neutrally enforcing the law isn't it...
www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/defaul...
Next elections the messaging will be 'Vote Labour, get Reform';
True if labour pull just enough votes away from viable progressive candidates and let reform in.
Also true if labour win, unless they get a new leader and cabinet.
True if labour pull just enough votes away from viable progressive candidates and let reform in.
Also true if labour win, unless they get a new leader and cabinet.
Caerphilly, Senedd constituency by-election result:
PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Next elections the messaging will be 'Vote Labour, get Reform';
True if labour pull just enough votes away from viable progressive candidates and let reform in.
Also true if labour win, unless they get a new leader and cabinet.
True if labour pull just enough votes away from viable progressive candidates and let reform in.
Also true if labour win, unless they get a new leader and cabinet.
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The EHRC has written to the Minister for Women and Equalities, demanding that she rushes through their dreadful draft Code of Practice.
This is a bizarre intervention from a supposedly impartial public body.
This is a bizarre intervention from a supposedly impartial public body.
Equalities watchdog urges UK ministers to ‘act with speed’ on trans guidance
EHRC writes to Bridget Phillipson over implementation of code on single-sex public spaces after supreme court ruling
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The EHRC has written to the Minister for Women and Equalities, demanding that she rushes through their dreadful draft Code of Practice.
This is a bizarre intervention from a supposedly impartial public body.
This is a bizarre intervention from a supposedly impartial public body.
Hi, quango expert here! this is not funny, government bodies only do this when they're in extreme distress or are deliberately campaigning against the rights of a minority they are supposed to protect.
So the EHRC are upset that government is doing... basic (mandatory) due diligence on their bathroom ban instead of rushing it through parliament before taking legal advice or waiting for the legal challenge to it.
Desperate to avoid democratic scrutiny!
www.equalityhumanrights.com/our-work/adv...
Desperate to avoid democratic scrutiny!
www.equalityhumanrights.com/our-work/adv...
Our letter to the Minister for Women and Equalities about government action on our draft code of practice | EHRC
Published: 15 October 2025
www.equalityhumanrights.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Hi, quango expert here! this is not funny, government bodies only do this when they're in extreme distress or are deliberately campaigning against the rights of a minority they are supposed to protect.
So the EHRC are upset that government is doing... basic (mandatory) due diligence on their bathroom ban instead of rushing it through parliament before taking legal advice or waiting for the legal challenge to it.
Desperate to avoid democratic scrutiny!
www.equalityhumanrights.com/our-work/adv...
Desperate to avoid democratic scrutiny!
www.equalityhumanrights.com/our-work/adv...
Our letter to the Minister for Women and Equalities about government action on our draft code of practice | EHRC
Published: 15 October 2025
www.equalityhumanrights.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
So the EHRC are upset that government is doing... basic (mandatory) due diligence on their bathroom ban instead of rushing it through parliament before taking legal advice or waiting for the legal challenge to it.
Desperate to avoid democratic scrutiny!
www.equalityhumanrights.com/our-work/adv...
Desperate to avoid democratic scrutiny!
www.equalityhumanrights.com/our-work/adv...
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We have partnered with @transactualuk.bsky.social to create a new tool to help you write to your MP.
Your voices have been making a difference. Because of you, pressure is mounting, but we have to keep it up.
Write to your MP now 👇
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Your voices have been making a difference. Because of you, pressure is mounting, but we have to keep it up.
Write to your MP now 👇
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October 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We have partnered with @transactualuk.bsky.social to create a new tool to help you write to your MP.
Your voices have been making a difference. Because of you, pressure is mounting, but we have to keep it up.
Write to your MP now 👇
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Your voices have been making a difference. Because of you, pressure is mounting, but we have to keep it up.
Write to your MP now 👇
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
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We are at Labour conference, telling members about the impact of the proposed bathroom ban. It would devastate trans people’s lives, create unworkable business challenges, and alienate voters.
This would be Labour’s legacy on LGBT+ rights for a generation. But it’s not too late for them to stop it.
This would be Labour’s legacy on LGBT+ rights for a generation. But it’s not too late for them to stop it.
September 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We are at Labour conference, telling members about the impact of the proposed bathroom ban. It would devastate trans people’s lives, create unworkable business challenges, and alienate voters.
This would be Labour’s legacy on LGBT+ rights for a generation. But it’s not too late for them to stop it.
This would be Labour’s legacy on LGBT+ rights for a generation. But it’s not too late for them to stop it.
Digital ID is a terrible idea for a lot of reasons: technical, political, economic. Especially with the involvement of far right tech oligarchs and it being explicitly sold as a way of surveilling people so as to imprison or deport immigrants.
But there's a layer which many aren't seeing...
But there's a layer which many aren't seeing...
September 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Digital ID is a terrible idea for a lot of reasons: technical, political, economic. Especially with the involvement of far right tech oligarchs and it being explicitly sold as a way of surveilling people so as to imprison or deport immigrants.
But there's a layer which many aren't seeing...
But there's a layer which many aren't seeing...
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Truly exceptional article from @polphilpod.bsky.social on the political meanings and impacts of Labour's transphobia and how it strengthens fascism worldwide: www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat... Even if you're not a capital-L Liberal, this is very much worth your time
Britain’s Bathroom Ban
The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.
www.liberalcurrents.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Truly exceptional article from @polphilpod.bsky.social on the political meanings and impacts of Labour's transphobia and how it strengthens fascism worldwide: www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat... Even if you're not a capital-L Liberal, this is very much worth your time
This is a brilliant piece both for general summary and in what it adds to the conversation. Perfect clarity on the absolute abandonment of norms and principles to anti-trans legal panic and the politics of disgust.
Where is the core of politicians who even pretend to care about basic democracy?
Where is the core of politicians who even pretend to care about basic democracy?
"They’re doing an awful, evil thing based on a self-evidently foolish strategy, one that has repeatedly failed for them. And they’re doing it without even the pretense of values. One day they believed in trans rights, the next day they didn’t." www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...
Britain’s Bathroom Ban
The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.
www.liberalcurrents.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is a brilliant piece both for general summary and in what it adds to the conversation. Perfect clarity on the absolute abandonment of norms and principles to anti-trans legal panic and the politics of disgust.
Where is the core of politicians who even pretend to care about basic democracy?
Where is the core of politicians who even pretend to care about basic democracy?
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Draft EHRC guidance on Equality Act is unworkable for businesses 👇👇👇
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’
Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’
www.independent.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Draft EHRC guidance on Equality Act is unworkable for businesses 👇👇👇
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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BREAKING 🚨
The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared.
It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating.
But politicians still have time to stop this.
The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared.
It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating.
But politicians still have time to stop this.
September 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
BREAKING 🚨
The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared.
It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating.
But politicians still have time to stop this.
The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared.
It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating.
But politicians still have time to stop this.
Media already frothing with frustration that a party leader won't bend the knee to their own political game and frame, after having successfully cowed the labour party.
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement:
"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"
Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"
Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
September 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Media already frothing with frustration that a party leader won't bend the knee to their own political game and frame, after having successfully cowed the labour party.
Whenever I end up near algorithmic video feeds I am always left with a total revulsion at them. It's as though even the things that aren't adverts feel like adverts, because aggressive attention-seeking is seen (probably accurately) as the path to being an influencer. And it's irredeemably horrible!
God am I just a freak for hating video? Doesn’t everyone hate it???? My strong belief is it’s better for advertisers thus more easily monetised, but most people find it a chore
September 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Whenever I end up near algorithmic video feeds I am always left with a total revulsion at them. It's as though even the things that aren't adverts feel like adverts, because aggressive attention-seeking is seen (probably accurately) as the path to being an influencer. And it's irredeemably horrible!
begging journalists to pin them down on exactly what they want to do to us that is currently being prevented by Article 8...
they have been talking about the ECHR endlessly as some theoretical spectre. dying for some specificity about which material rights they want us to lose, and why?
they have been talking about the ECHR endlessly as some theoretical spectre. dying for some specificity about which material rights they want us to lose, and why?
Bridget Phillipson, "Labour believes there needs to be reform to the ECHR"
Trevor Philips, "You want to see changes in the ECHR?"
Bridget Phillipson, "Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is looking at Article 8 Provisions to see if they need updating"
*Article 8: Right for private and family life*
Trevor Philips, "You want to see changes in the ECHR?"
Bridget Phillipson, "Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is looking at Article 8 Provisions to see if they need updating"
*Article 8: Right for private and family life*
August 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
begging journalists to pin them down on exactly what they want to do to us that is currently being prevented by Article 8...
they have been talking about the ECHR endlessly as some theoretical spectre. dying for some specificity about which material rights they want us to lose, and why?
they have been talking about the ECHR endlessly as some theoretical spectre. dying for some specificity about which material rights they want us to lose, and why?
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Forthcoming statutory guidance could have a profound impact on trans people's lives.
I've written to the Women and Equalities Minister to urge her to reject anything that undermines trans people's rights, inclusion, privacy or safety, and for Parliament to have proper oversight.
I've written to the Women and Equalities Minister to urge her to reject anything that undermines trans people's rights, inclusion, privacy or safety, and for Parliament to have proper oversight.
August 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Forthcoming statutory guidance could have a profound impact on trans people's lives.
I've written to the Women and Equalities Minister to urge her to reject anything that undermines trans people's rights, inclusion, privacy or safety, and for Parliament to have proper oversight.
I've written to the Women and Equalities Minister to urge her to reject anything that undermines trans people's rights, inclusion, privacy or safety, and for Parliament to have proper oversight.