Catherine
@memoirwriter54.bsky.social
Trans, neurodivergent, socialist. Public health & higher ed background. Passionate > striving against inequality. Former Public Mental Health national strategist, now retired. Writing poetry and my evidence-based autobiography: a life lived differently.
We all need to recognise our collective lgbt lessons from history. The fight is never really over.
And six months on from what was supposed to be decisive knock out blow, there are signs the bigots are faltering.
Fraying at the edges.
The fight is nowhere near over.
But history teaches: when you come for a minority - any minority - you'd better succeed.
Fraying at the edges.
The fight is nowhere near over.
But history teaches: when you come for a minority - any minority - you'd better succeed.
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
We all need to recognise our collective lgbt lessons from history. The fight is never really over.
Keep up the political lobbying ✊.
Success! We delivered our joint letter demanding full scrutiny, meaningful debate & a free vote for MPs on the new Code of Practice.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/02/e...
Many MPs we’ve spoken to are now ready to help.
❗️BUT they’ve advised that they need you—as constituents—to keep writing in❗️
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www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/02/e...
Many MPs we’ve spoken to are now ready to help.
❗️BUT they’ve advised that they need you—as constituents—to keep writing in❗️
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September 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Keep up the political lobbying ✊.
Well, that was no surprise.
September 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Well, that was no surprise.
Anyone see this coming😕?
The Northern Ireland Health Minister has asked Cass to do a review of Northern Ireland gender services
www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast...
www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast...
Assessment of Northern Ireland’s gender identity services ordered
Mr Nesbitt described Dr Cass, who delivered a review into gender identity services for young people across the UK, as “eminently qualified”
www.belfastlive.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Anyone see this coming😕?
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The Northern Ireland Health Minister has asked Cass to do a review of Northern Ireland gender services
www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast...
www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast...
Assessment of Northern Ireland’s gender identity services ordered
Mr Nesbitt described Dr Cass, who delivered a review into gender identity services for young people across the UK, as “eminently qualified”
www.belfastlive.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Northern Ireland Health Minister has asked Cass to do a review of Northern Ireland gender services
www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast...
www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast...
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The Starmer government wants to impose a toilet ban that will result in trans people being assaulted, r*ped and quite possibly murdered.
A group of cis women who oppose him using them as a justification for doing this have set up a petition “Not In Our Name”
Please sign and share…
A group of cis women who oppose him using them as a justification for doing this have set up a petition “Not In Our Name”
Please sign and share…
Sign the Petition
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
www.change.org
July 31, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The Starmer government wants to impose a toilet ban that will result in trans people being assaulted, r*ped and quite possibly murdered.
A group of cis women who oppose him using them as a justification for doing this have set up a petition “Not In Our Name”
Please sign and share…
A group of cis women who oppose him using them as a justification for doing this have set up a petition “Not In Our Name”
Please sign and share…
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Sometimes I post pieces which are recent and which others may not have seen. This is a reminder why groups like GLP, Trans Exile Network, TACC, TLC and so many lovely allies stand up to GCIM ideology and why the UK is literally red flagged for genocide right now.
goodlawproject.org/parliament-s...
goodlawproject.org/parliament-s...
Parliament surrenders to anti-trans activists on toilet policy
The UK parliament has thrown trans people under the bus on toilets, abandoning its own policy to placate activists who accosted a trans barrister on the parliamentary estate.
goodlawproject.org
August 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Sometimes I post pieces which are recent and which others may not have seen. This is a reminder why groups like GLP, Trans Exile Network, TACC, TLC and so many lovely allies stand up to GCIM ideology and why the UK is literally red flagged for genocide right now.
goodlawproject.org/parliament-s...
goodlawproject.org/parliament-s...
This article is deeply disturbing from so many perspectives and I felt that I had fallen down a rabbit hole only to emerge in a world of hatred and paranoia. I pushed through and read it through to the end but felt violated by the planned and managed cabals out there who are violently transphobic.
July 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This article is deeply disturbing from so many perspectives and I felt that I had fallen down a rabbit hole only to emerge in a world of hatred and paranoia. I pushed through and read it through to the end but felt violated by the planned and managed cabals out there who are violently transphobic.
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Robin Allen KC is, for most lawyers, the leading discrimination specialist at the bar so his gentle but persistently critical analysis of the For (Some) Women Scotland decision for Discrimination Law Association will carry real weight.
Not for me to summarize it - but I do highlight this point.
Not for me to summarize it - but I do highlight this point.
July 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Robin Allen KC is, for most lawyers, the leading discrimination specialist at the bar so his gentle but persistently critical analysis of the For (Some) Women Scotland decision for Discrimination Law Association will carry real weight.
Not for me to summarize it - but I do highlight this point.
Not for me to summarize it - but I do highlight this point.
A helpful analysis of the recent SC ruling and the slippery slope the EHRC is on.
The disgraceful EHRC misconduct is now drawing fire from the United Nations. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
UN experts warn of legal uncertainty and rights implications following UK Supreme Court ruling
GENEVA – A group of independent human rights experts* today expressed concern about the implications of the recent UK Supreme Court judgment interpreting the definition of “woman” under the Equality A...
www.ohchr.org
May 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A helpful analysis of the recent SC ruling and the slippery slope the EHRC is on.
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TransLucent are almost half way to an initial target to fund their legal challenge of the EHRC.
They’re seeking a 12 week consultation period and also arguing the EHRC may have already pre-determined the outcome of any consultation.
More info in link.
They’re seeking a 12 week consultation period and also arguing the EHRC may have already pre-determined the outcome of any consultation.
More info in link.
Bin the EHRC Single Sex Guidance
TransLucent.org.uk are a Trans led Advocacy & Human Rights Organisation.
TransLucent are raising £100k to cover court & legal fees for action against the EHRC.
www.crowdjustice.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
TransLucent are almost half way to an initial target to fund their legal challenge of the EHRC.
They’re seeking a 12 week consultation period and also arguing the EHRC may have already pre-determined the outcome of any consultation.
More info in link.
They’re seeking a 12 week consultation period and also arguing the EHRC may have already pre-determined the outcome of any consultation.
More info in link.
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We may already know of some of the young #trans victims of suicide referenced in this report, but without the release of the report it is hard to be sure.
bsky.app/profile/good...
bsky.app/profile/good...
So, a few weeks back I put up an Instagram Reel about a report that we had uncovered, compiled by the National Child Mortality Database which was being suppressed from publication. www.instagram.com/reel/DIbwgbX...
May 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
We may already know of some of the young #trans victims of suicide referenced in this report, but without the release of the report it is hard to be sure.
bsky.app/profile/good...
bsky.app/profile/good...
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Intersectional feminists know that trans people are just a wedge issue for the patriarchal forces trying to push back abortion rights, gay rights, assisted dying and the emancipation of women and people of colour. We stand together or fall apart. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer
New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs
observer.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Intersectional feminists know that trans people are just a wedge issue for the patriarchal forces trying to push back abortion rights, gay rights, assisted dying and the emancipation of women and people of colour. We stand together or fall apart. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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"The stark and needlessly cruel position adopted by the Government humiliates trans people by forcing them to use the wrong toilets and obliges them to reveal deeply personal information about their gender to complete strangers"
✍️ Jo Maugham
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
@goodlawproject.org
✍️ Jo Maugham
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
@goodlawproject.org
Bridget Phillipson ‘breached human rights’ by backing trans lavatory ban
Group of lawyers accuses Education Secretary of ‘humiliating’ transgender people
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"The stark and needlessly cruel position adopted by the Government humiliates trans people by forcing them to use the wrong toilets and obliges them to reveal deeply personal information about their gender to complete strangers"
✍️ Jo Maugham
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
@goodlawproject.org
✍️ Jo Maugham
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
@goodlawproject.org
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Look what Gary Lineker said to Oliver Brown and the Telegraph about trans people...
May 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Look what Gary Lineker said to Oliver Brown and the Telegraph about trans people...
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Fantastic display of solidarity with @chelseapride.bsky.social for the trans+ community at today's Women's FA Cup Final! ❤️💙
We stand by our trans, non-binary and intersex siblings in their time of need. Transphobia has no place in women's football!
#MUWomen #WomensFACupFinal
We stand by our trans, non-binary and intersex siblings in their time of need. Transphobia has no place in women's football!
#MUWomen #WomensFACupFinal
May 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Fantastic display of solidarity with @chelseapride.bsky.social for the trans+ community at today's Women's FA Cup Final! ❤️💙
We stand by our trans, non-binary and intersex siblings in their time of need. Transphobia has no place in women's football!
#MUWomen #WomensFACupFinal
We stand by our trans, non-binary and intersex siblings in their time of need. Transphobia has no place in women's football!
#MUWomen #WomensFACupFinal
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Is this what’s happened to me on a very small and personal scale?
Woman’s Hour asked me on to talk with Emma Barnett after Alice’s inquest. Emma is GC so I said I’d only do the interview with another presenter. They never got back to me.
Now they won’t have me on to talk about Her Name Is Alice.
Woman’s Hour asked me on to talk with Emma Barnett after Alice’s inquest. Emma is GC so I said I’d only do the interview with another presenter. They never got back to me.
Now they won’t have me on to talk about Her Name Is Alice.
It's not even the hypocrisy that's the most irritating thing; it's the smug superiority by Radio 4 about its standards.
The truth is, if you punch up the BBC won't stand for it but if you punch down, with power, it's fine.
It never tells *powerful* people what they don't want to hear.
The truth is, if you punch up the BBC won't stand for it but if you punch down, with power, it's fine.
It never tells *powerful* people what they don't want to hear.
May 19, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Is this what’s happened to me on a very small and personal scale?
Woman’s Hour asked me on to talk with Emma Barnett after Alice’s inquest. Emma is GC so I said I’d only do the interview with another presenter. They never got back to me.
Now they won’t have me on to talk about Her Name Is Alice.
Woman’s Hour asked me on to talk with Emma Barnett after Alice’s inquest. Emma is GC so I said I’d only do the interview with another presenter. They never got back to me.
Now they won’t have me on to talk about Her Name Is Alice.
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Remember, Jonathan Rutherford, the guy who is crafting Labour's narrative is based at Policy Exchange.
Jonathan Hall is speaking at Policy Exchange today, and if the reporting of his planned speech is accurate, some of these points are being put in an extraordinarily inept way, making it sound like any pro trans, feminist or anti racist discourse is undermining the UK and sustained by hostile powers:
May 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Remember, Jonathan Rutherford, the guy who is crafting Labour's narrative is based at Policy Exchange.
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"The Court's discussion is poorly informed and simplistic... reducing a complex subject to an overly simple one is not what is needed."
Supreme Court taking a shoeing from an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Cambridge University.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Supreme Court taking a shoeing from an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Cambridge University.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The UK Supreme Court's ruling and the rights of transgender people
On April 16, 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that only those who are what it terms
as biologically female can be defined as women.1 This has wide implications for medicine
as well as for people who a...
www.thelancet.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"The Court's discussion is poorly informed and simplistic... reducing a complex subject to an overly simple one is not what is needed."
Supreme Court taking a shoeing from an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Cambridge University.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Supreme Court taking a shoeing from an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Cambridge University.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Along with a man and a woman who are trans, and someone who is intersex, we are suing the EHRC and the Equalities Minister in respect of the disgraceful and unlawful EHRC guidance.
In line with our transparency principles we are publishing the full 32 page legal letter. goodlaw.social/2ihj
In line with our transparency principles we are publishing the full 32 page legal letter. goodlaw.social/2ihj
We're bringing a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘Interim Update’
A number of trans and intersex individuals have today begun a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘Interim Update’ following the For Women, Scotland decision
goodlaw.social
May 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Along with a man and a woman who are trans, and someone who is intersex, we are suing the EHRC and the Equalities Minister in respect of the disgraceful and unlawful EHRC guidance.
In line with our transparency principles we are publishing the full 32 page legal letter. goodlaw.social/2ihj
In line with our transparency principles we are publishing the full 32 page legal letter. goodlaw.social/2ihj
A reflection on the the journeying of the trans community and its uncertain future in the UK.
May 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A reflection on the the journeying of the trans community and its uncertain future in the UK.
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Thanks to Labour’s cowardice, Britain is stumbling into one of the most cruelly anti-trans regimes in the western world. A bathroom ban is neither workable, ethical, popular nor debated by legislators but they’re just waving it through
April 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Thanks to Labour’s cowardice, Britain is stumbling into one of the most cruelly anti-trans regimes in the western world. A bathroom ban is neither workable, ethical, popular nor debated by legislators but they’re just waving it through
A Homer Simpson moment! Duurgh
Hilarious.
Also, read the judgement. Trans men are specifically excluded from using the women's.
Stop using trans men as a gotcha.
Also, read the judgement. Trans men are specifically excluded from using the women's.
Stop using trans men as a gotcha.
This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
April 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
A Homer Simpson moment! Duurgh