Laurie May
@lauriemay.bsky.social
GSRD Psychotherapist
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Nothing to see here, just @thetimes.com having to apologise for calling an anti-trans group anti-trans.
The British media's complicity in instigating and prolonging moral panics targeting vulnerable minorities will be studied for years to come.
The British media's complicity in instigating and prolonging moral panics targeting vulnerable minorities will be studied for years to come.
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Transgender Trend is an anti-trans[2][3][4][5] British pressure group, which describes itself as a group of parents, professionals and academics who are concerned about the number of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria. [6] [7] It was founded in 2015 by Stephanie Davies-Arai.[1]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t6ndneremtkumxvhxpwwmax5/bafkreidtijkk72ofrpxz3wq7n5nkhmfsiwnpnp7stkyv67bpxlwphkfxx4@jpeg)
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Nothing to see here, just @thetimes.com having to apologise for calling an anti-trans group anti-trans.
The British media's complicity in instigating and prolonging moral panics targeting vulnerable minorities will be studied for years to come.
The British media's complicity in instigating and prolonging moral panics targeting vulnerable minorities will be studied for years to come.
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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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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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1993: Stephen Lawrence is murdered by racists.
1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents.
2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police.
2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.
1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents.
2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police.
2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.
Met Police says it will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents
The move comes as an investigation into Father Ted creator Graham Linehan is dropped, after his arrest over a post on X.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
1993: Stephen Lawrence is murdered by racists.
1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents.
2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police.
2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.
1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents.
2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police.
2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.
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Trans Safety Network have written to Healthwatch regarding their concerning recommendations in their trans health report. We fear if this report is not withdrawn, it will lead to significant deterioration in trans people's ability to access NHS care. transsafety.network/posts/danger...
'Dangerous Recommendations': Trans Safety Network write to Healthwatch
Trans Safety Network was shocked by the dangerous recommendations of Healthwatch's recent trans healthcare report. We find it hard to believe that any trans organisations or persons were involved sign...
transsafety.network
October 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Trans Safety Network have written to Healthwatch regarding their concerning recommendations in their trans health report. We fear if this report is not withdrawn, it will lead to significant deterioration in trans people's ability to access NHS care. transsafety.network/posts/danger...
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Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."
This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."
RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."
RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack
A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.
share.google
October 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."
This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."
RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."
RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
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"91% of respondents did not report their most serious incident of anti-LGBT+ hate crime to the police"
I'd say that renders the official stats pretty much meaningless
I'd say that renders the official stats pretty much meaningless
The newly released Official Statistics for Hate Crime in 2024-2025 do not accurately reflect the true prevalence of anti-LGBT+ hate in England and Wales. This misrepresentation matters.
Read our full statement ⬇️
bit.ly/3J6BNYr
Read our full statement ⬇️
bit.ly/3J6BNYr
October 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"91% of respondents did not report their most serious incident of anti-LGBT+ hate crime to the police"
I'd say that renders the official stats pretty much meaningless
I'd say that renders the official stats pretty much meaningless
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Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
October 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
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The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has adopted a groundbreaking recommendation to the organisation’s 46 member states on equal rights for intersex persons👇
🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
@coe.int #Consent #Equality #NoDiscrimination
🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
@coe.int #Consent #Equality #NoDiscrimination
Council of Europe adopts landmark Recommendation on equal rights for intersex persons
<p>Historic milestone calls for prohibition of non-consensual medical interventions and for full equality and non-discrimination against intersex persons across all areas of life</p>
www.coe.int
October 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has adopted a groundbreaking recommendation to the organisation’s 46 member states on equal rights for intersex persons👇
🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
@coe.int #Consent #Equality #NoDiscrimination
🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
@coe.int #Consent #Equality #NoDiscrimination
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New Report Says Cass Review Should Not Be Benchmark For Trans Healthcare in Australia
New Report Says Cass Review Should Not Be Benchmark For Trans Healthcare in Australia - Star Observer
A major new peer-reviewed report warns that the Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide Australia's care for trans young people.
www.starobserver.com.au
October 6, 2025 at 7:41 AM
New Report Says Cass Review Should Not Be Benchmark For Trans Healthcare in Australia
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Wellness culture feeds directly into eugenics.
Eugenics feeds directly into fascism.
This is nothing new, and it’s why disabled people have been screaming for solidarity for years.
We saw this coming. We know it’s going to get worse.
Refuse to leave vulnerable people by the wayside.
Eugenics feeds directly into fascism.
This is nothing new, and it’s why disabled people have been screaming for solidarity for years.
We saw this coming. We know it’s going to get worse.
Refuse to leave vulnerable people by the wayside.
October 4, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Wellness culture feeds directly into eugenics.
Eugenics feeds directly into fascism.
This is nothing new, and it’s why disabled people have been screaming for solidarity for years.
We saw this coming. We know it’s going to get worse.
Refuse to leave vulnerable people by the wayside.
Eugenics feeds directly into fascism.
This is nothing new, and it’s why disabled people have been screaming for solidarity for years.
We saw this coming. We know it’s going to get worse.
Refuse to leave vulnerable people by the wayside.
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Trans Safety Network are very concerned to see that the review into supposed over diagnosis of mental ill heath and neurodivegence ordered by Wes Streeting is to be chaired by Peter Fonagy with Simon Wessely as Vice chair.
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
October 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Trans Safety Network are very concerned to see that the review into supposed over diagnosis of mental ill heath and neurodivegence ordered by Wes Streeting is to be chaired by Peter Fonagy with Simon Wessely as Vice chair.
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
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One of the reasons why the Right oppress trans people while also consuming vast amounts of porn about us is that they want to keep us poor, marginalised and available for low paid sex work. They hate the idea of our having other options.
September 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
One of the reasons why the Right oppress trans people while also consuming vast amounts of porn about us is that they want to keep us poor, marginalised and available for low paid sex work. They hate the idea of our having other options.
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Prof. Andrew Sinclair who discovered the SRY gene says: “ Science does not support the overly simplistic assertion of World Athletics’ that SRY testing is a “reliable proxy” for determining biological sex.”
September 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Prof. Andrew Sinclair who discovered the SRY gene says: “ Science does not support the overly simplistic assertion of World Athletics’ that SRY testing is a “reliable proxy” for determining biological sex.”
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It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us?
✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u
✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u
Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
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goodlaw.social
September 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us?
✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u
✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u
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In other words, in all the thousands of athletics events that have taken place in the 20th Century, around 2 or 3 final competitors a year have been intersex women.
Talk of the "integrity" of women's sport in this context is clearly just a euphemism for "purity", but they know that would sound bad.
Talk of the "integrity" of women's sport in this context is clearly just a euphemism for "purity", but they know that would sound bad.
Sex tests brought in after data showed 50-60 DSD athletes in finals, World Athletics says
World Athletics’ head of health and science told a panel in Tokyo that DSD athletes were ‘over-represented’ in female category finals since 2000
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In other words, in all the thousands of athletics events that have taken place in the 20th Century, around 2 or 3 final competitors a year have been intersex women.
Talk of the "integrity" of women's sport in this context is clearly just a euphemism for "purity", but they know that would sound bad.
Talk of the "integrity" of women's sport in this context is clearly just a euphemism for "purity", but they know that would sound bad.
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“More than 650 organisations including Ben and Jerry’s, Lush and hundreds of small cafes and pubs have written to the government to warn that the EHRC’s draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’ and would ‘cause significant economic harm’.”
https://bit.ly/4guj9Gf
https://bit.ly/4guj9Gf
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 8:51 AM
“More than 650 organisations including Ben and Jerry’s, Lush and hundreds of small cafes and pubs have written to the government to warn that the EHRC’s draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’ and would ‘cause significant economic harm’.”
https://bit.ly/4guj9Gf
https://bit.ly/4guj9Gf
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Sensing Starmer's departure, and aware his performative hatred of trans people has fatally harmed his own ambition to become PM, he utters some warm words - and commits less than £3 per person to tackle the problem his bigotry helped to create. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
‘Unacceptable’ waiting list of up to eight years for NHS gender care
Exclusive: ‘This breaks my heart,’ says minister Wes Streeting as waiting list tops 42,000
www.independent.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Sensing Starmer's departure, and aware his performative hatred of trans people has fatally harmed his own ambition to become PM, he utters some warm words - and commits less than £3 per person to tackle the problem his bigotry helped to create. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record
Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.
www.them.us
September 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
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In their minutes from 24th April, the EHRC justified a rushed consultation on the grounds that "EHRC had undertaken extensive stakeholder engagement on the definition of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act over recent years."
JUST NOT TRANS STAKEHOLDERS, CLEARLY
www.equalityhumanrights.com/about-us/tra...
JUST NOT TRANS STAKEHOLDERS, CLEARLY
www.equalityhumanrights.com/about-us/tra...
September 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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The EHRC didn't even talk to any trans people before intervening in the supreme court misjudgement.
The EHRC is a deeply transphobic hate group.
The EHRC is a deeply transphobic hate group.
We asked the EHRC whether they consulted any trans, intersex or LGBTQ+ groups before intervening in the 2024 Supreme Court case For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers.
Their answer? They didn’t. 1/
Their answer? They didn’t. 1/
September 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The EHRC didn't even talk to any trans people before intervening in the supreme court misjudgement.
The EHRC is a deeply transphobic hate group.
The EHRC is a deeply transphobic hate group.
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There were NO trans engravings. The media didn’t >confirm< with agents they existed & an expert would have told them that TRN was a brand. Even when it was clear there was no PROOF, media still went with rumour, not fact.
▪️This political violence, by media, is one that Hilary & Newsom seem OK with
▪️This political violence, by media, is one that Hilary & Newsom seem OK with
The far right media is out to demonise trans ppl, over the murder of a Neo-Nazi. This is a common false conspiracy for fascism. There is no public evidence of such engravings & even the WSJ admits it might not be true. This is Nazi style smearing. You don’t print what you can’t prove! [1]
Ammunition engraved with transgender and antifascist ideology was found inside the rifle authorities believe was used in Kirk’s shooting, sources say.
September 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
There were NO trans engravings. The media didn’t >confirm< with agents they existed & an expert would have told them that TRN was a brand. Even when it was clear there was no PROOF, media still went with rumour, not fact.
▪️This political violence, by media, is one that Hilary & Newsom seem OK with
▪️This political violence, by media, is one that Hilary & Newsom seem OK with
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It's not lost on me in the midst of this eulogizing and memorializing a monster that my home state, Florida, has made it a crime to commemorate or remember the victims of the Pulse massacre.
In America, only some deaths are considered grievable. The rest of us are just "collateral damage."
In America, only some deaths are considered grievable. The rest of us are just "collateral damage."
September 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It's not lost on me in the midst of this eulogizing and memorializing a monster that my home state, Florida, has made it a crime to commemorate or remember the victims of the Pulse massacre.
In America, only some deaths are considered grievable. The rest of us are just "collateral damage."
In America, only some deaths are considered grievable. The rest of us are just "collateral damage."
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Nice to see a mainstream news channel interview a sex worker in a respectfuñ manner
Nice to see a mainstream news channel interview a sex worker in a respectfuñ manner
The UK's porn ban 'could backfire' says dominatrix
YouTube video by LBC
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September 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Nice to see a mainstream news channel interview a sex worker in a respectfuñ manner
Nice to see a mainstream news channel interview a sex worker in a respectfuñ manner