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Whiling away time, it seems like a good idea to provide some light reading at this time of hate in the UK towards trans people, their families and kids. Just askin.
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
Statement on the Genocidal Nature of the Gender Critical Movement’s Ideology and Practice
November 29, 2022
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention voices its concern over the growing number of laws introduced in the United States that target transgender individuals and the transgend...
www.lemkininstitute.com
May 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Whiling away time, it seems like a good idea to provide some light reading at this time of hate in the UK towards trans people, their families and kids. Just askin.
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
June is Pride Month. Let's call out companies who show support for LGBTQ+ people while also advertising on GB News, a channel that pumps out LGBTQ+ hate. Tell these companies to pick a side - hate or Pride:
action.goodlawproject.org/pick-side-ha...
action.goodlawproject.org/pick-side-ha...
Pick a side – hate or Pride
June is Pride month. So our social feeds will be awash with corporate rainbow logos performatively signalling their support for the LGBTQ+ community. But some of the same companies celebrating Pride a...
action.goodlawproject.org
June 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
June is Pride Month. Let's call out companies who show support for LGBTQ+ people while also advertising on GB News, a channel that pumps out LGBTQ+ hate. Tell these companies to pick a side - hate or Pride:
action.goodlawproject.org/pick-side-ha...
action.goodlawproject.org/pick-side-ha...
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For noen kan et lite regnbueflagg bety at vi føler oss tryggere. Man ser flagget og tenker; « her kan jeg passe inn»
En enkel måte å vite at jeg også blir satt pris på.
Veldig fin video
Oslo Pride🌈
En enkel måte å vite at jeg også blir satt pris på.
Veldig fin video
Oslo Pride🌈
May 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
For noen kan et lite regnbueflagg bety at vi føler oss tryggere. Man ser flagget og tenker; « her kan jeg passe inn»
En enkel måte å vite at jeg også blir satt pris på.
Veldig fin video
Oslo Pride🌈
En enkel måte å vite at jeg også blir satt pris på.
Veldig fin video
Oslo Pride🌈
Reposted by Michelle Gardiner
Critically appraising the cass report: methodological flaws and unsupported claims.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Critically appraising the cass report: methodological flaws and unsupported claims - BMC Medical Research Methodology
Background The Cass Review aimed to provide recommendations for the delivery of services for gender diverse children and young people in England. The final product of this project, the Cass report, re...
link.springer.com
May 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Critically appraising the cass report: methodological flaws and unsupported claims.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The UK seems such a long, long way from Western Australia - both geographically and in how gender identity is recognised 🇦🇺
We just added a new article! - Star Observer - LGBTQIA+ Groups Celebrate As Changes To WA Birth Certificate Laws Come Into Effect
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LGBTQIA+ Groups Celebrate As Changes To WA Birth Certificate Laws Come Into Effect - Star Observer
Western Australia's new birth certificate laws come into effect today, eliminating unnecessary hurdles for transgender communities.
www.starobserver.com.au
May 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The UK seems such a long, long way from Western Australia - both geographically and in how gender identity is recognised 🇦🇺
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Hate or Pride?
Burberry, Adobe, KLM, Listerine, Nissan, Radisson Hotels, SoundCloud, Squarespace, Trainline and VistaPrint: the big brands that fund GB News' revolting homophobia whilst claiming to support Pride.
Here's how you write to them and ask them to choose.
goodlaw.social/xoau
Burberry, Adobe, KLM, Listerine, Nissan, Radisson Hotels, SoundCloud, Squarespace, Trainline and VistaPrint: the big brands that fund GB News' revolting homophobia whilst claiming to support Pride.
Here's how you write to them and ask them to choose.
goodlaw.social/xoau
You can’t support Pride and fund attacks on LGBTQ+ people | Good Law Project
Firms who advertise on GB News are paying for a channel built on hatred. It’s time for companies to pick a side – hate or Pride.
goodlaw.social
May 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Hate or Pride?
Burberry, Adobe, KLM, Listerine, Nissan, Radisson Hotels, SoundCloud, Squarespace, Trainline and VistaPrint: the big brands that fund GB News' revolting homophobia whilst claiming to support Pride.
Here's how you write to them and ask them to choose.
goodlaw.social/xoau
Burberry, Adobe, KLM, Listerine, Nissan, Radisson Hotels, SoundCloud, Squarespace, Trainline and VistaPrint: the big brands that fund GB News' revolting homophobia whilst claiming to support Pride.
Here's how you write to them and ask them to choose.
goodlaw.social/xoau
Reposted by Michelle Gardiner
Last week we fell to 22nd place for LGBT+ rights in Europe. This week UN experts warn the UK about the situation for trans people. We hope the UK Government will do what they have urged - act decisively to restore and protect the rights of trans people.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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 2:35 PM
Last week we fell to 22nd place for LGBT+ rights in Europe. This week UN experts warn the UK about the situation for trans people. We hope the UK Government will do what they have urged - act decisively to restore and protect the rights of trans people.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Reposted by Michelle Gardiner
Robert Mullins: For Women Scotland: Fastening the “Biological” Straitjacket ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/22/r...
Robert Mullins: For Women Scotland: Fastening the “Biological” Straitjacket
In her excellent and informed critique of the Supreme Court’s judgment in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 (“FWS”), Crash Wigley notes that in its judgment the Court negle…
ukconstitutionallaw.org
May 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Robert Mullins: For Women Scotland: Fastening the “Biological” Straitjacket ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/22/r...
Reposted by Michelle Gardiner
Already the wheels are falling off the false – at best – EHRC guidance on the For Women Scotland decision.
After a month of insisting the law was “clear”, it’s now asked for an extension to reply to the “significant and complex issues” our letter raises:
goodlaw.social/nvfh
After a month of insisting the law was “clear”, it’s now asked for an extension to reply to the “significant and complex issues” our letter raises:
goodlaw.social/nvfh
The wheels are falling off the false EHRC guidance | Good Law Project
The EHRC said that the law was clear. So why do they want so much time to clarify it?
goodlaw.social
May 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Already the wheels are falling off the false – at best – EHRC guidance on the For Women Scotland decision.
After a month of insisting the law was “clear”, it’s now asked for an extension to reply to the “significant and complex issues” our letter raises:
goodlaw.social/nvfh
After a month of insisting the law was “clear”, it’s now asked for an extension to reply to the “significant and complex issues” our letter raises:
goodlaw.social/nvfh
Reposted by Michelle Gardiner
"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...
Reposted by Michelle Gardiner
Be proud.
Proud of whom you love.
Proud of who you are.
Proud of who you are becoming. Because your journey is your power.
Always remember: Europe is your ally. I am your ally.
This week and every week.
Be proud. Always.
Proud of whom you love.
Proud of who you are.
Proud of who you are becoming. Because your journey is your power.
Always remember: Europe is your ally. I am your ally.
This week and every week.
Be proud. Always.
May 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Be proud.
Proud of whom you love.
Proud of who you are.
Proud of who you are becoming. Because your journey is your power.
Always remember: Europe is your ally. I am your ally.
This week and every week.
Be proud. Always.
Proud of whom you love.
Proud of who you are.
Proud of who you are becoming. Because your journey is your power.
Always remember: Europe is your ally. I am your ally.
This week and every week.
Be proud. Always.
Reposted by Michelle Gardiner
One month ago, the Supreme Court made a ruling that rolled back trans rights in the UK
It made this decision without listening to a single trans voice
Today, to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, we’re bringing those voices somewhere they can't miss them 🏳️⚧️
It made this decision without listening to a single trans voice
Today, to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, we’re bringing those voices somewhere they can't miss them 🏳️⚧️
May 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
One month ago, the Supreme Court made a ruling that rolled back trans rights in the UK
It made this decision without listening to a single trans voice
Today, to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, we’re bringing those voices somewhere they can't miss them 🏳️⚧️
It made this decision without listening to a single trans voice
Today, to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, we’re bringing those voices somewhere they can't miss them 🏳️⚧️
Reposted by Michelle Gardiner
This, from the Legal Gender Recognition section if the Rainbow Map is particularly damning.
May 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
This, from the Legal Gender Recognition section if the Rainbow Map is particularly damning.
Reposted by Michelle Gardiner
Reposted by Michelle Gardiner
The #RainbowMap 2025 is live! Find out how 49 European countries rank on LGBTI human rights and see which ones are leading, or falling behind. Check it out now! rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org
May 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
The #RainbowMap 2025 is live! Find out how 49 European countries rank on LGBTI human rights and see which ones are leading, or falling behind. Check it out now! rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org
Reposted by Michelle Gardiner
Today ILGA Europe have published the Rainbow Map and rankings. The UK has dropped further in the rankings to number 22 - a drop of 6 places. For context, just 10 years ago the UK was ranked number 1 in Europe on LGBTQ+ rights. Is this the reputation the UK Government to have internationally?
May 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Today ILGA Europe have published the Rainbow Map and rankings. The UK has dropped further in the rankings to number 22 - a drop of 6 places. For context, just 10 years ago the UK was ranked number 1 in Europe on LGBTQ+ rights. Is this the reputation the UK Government to have internationally?
Reposted by Michelle Gardiner
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Shameful that Scotland moves from being a leading advocate for trans rights to adopting 'guidance' (except that it isn't) from EHRC that goes far beyond the Supreme Court ruling and that has been challenged by the UK government's own committee for equality.
The UK Government hasn’t made this change at any of its premises btw
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2514895...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2514895...
Access to Holyrood toilets and changing rooms to be based on sex following ruling
Scottish Parliament to bar trans women from female toilets and redesignate facilities as gender neutral after Supreme Court ruling on legal…
www.heraldscotland.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Shameful that Scotland moves from being a leading advocate for trans rights to adopting 'guidance' (except that it isn't) from EHRC that goes far beyond the Supreme Court ruling and that has been challenged by the UK government's own committee for equality.
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“The healing that began with ‘Who am I to judge?’ (Pope Francis in 2013) needs to continue and grow to ‘Who am I, if not a friend to LGBTQ+ people?’”
- Francis DeBernardo offers his hope for Pope Leo XIV.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
- Francis DeBernardo offers his hope for Pope Leo XIV.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Unearthed comments from new pope alarm LGBTQ+ Catholics
Previous negative remarks by Pope Leo XIV about ‘homosexual lifestyle’ at odds with papacy of Pope Francis
www.theguardian.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
“The healing that began with ‘Who am I to judge?’ (Pope Francis in 2013) needs to continue and grow to ‘Who am I, if not a friend to LGBTQ+ people?’”
- Francis DeBernardo offers his hope for Pope Leo XIV.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
- Francis DeBernardo offers his hope for Pope Leo XIV.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
I expect some countries to issue travel advice for the UK to highlight how vulnerable trans visitors and tourists will be in the current 'hostile environment' that has been exacerbated by the Supreme Court ruling.
Importanf article by Human Rights Watch about the UK human righrs crisis: Reminder, if you are Trans or an ally, it is not sensible to come to the UK at present during the rights clampdown here.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
UK: Court Ruling Threatens Trans People
(London, May 9, 2025) – A United Kingdom Supreme Court ruling on April 16, 2025 threatens the rights of trans people, Human Rights Watch said today. In in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers, ...
www.hrw.org
May 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I expect some countries to issue travel advice for the UK to highlight how vulnerable trans visitors and tourists will be in the current 'hostile environment' that has been exacerbated by the Supreme Court ruling.
Reposted by Michelle Gardiner
We're collecting data and stories on what the appalling Supreme Court decision means for trans and gender non conforming people. Lawyers will review all responses - please share your story because if we don't know we can't act.
(And please share with friends.) goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...
(And please share with friends.) goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...
The Supreme Court ripped up the Equality Act – what has it done to you? | Good Law Project
Use the form to securely share your experience with us.
goodlawproject.org
May 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We're collecting data and stories on what the appalling Supreme Court decision means for trans and gender non conforming people. Lawyers will review all responses - please share your story because if we don't know we can't act.
(And please share with friends.) goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...
(And please share with friends.) goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...
Reposted by Michelle Gardiner
Trans guy asks 60 gyms if he’d be welcome to join. The responses include him being asked what genitalia he has, and telling him he must use the women’s changing rooms.
How is this consistent with his dignity? How does it make women safe? inews.co.uk/news/gyms-tr...
How is this consistent with his dignity? How does it make women safe? inews.co.uk/news/gyms-tr...
‘I asked 60 gyms if trans people like me could join – this is what happened’
After the Supreme Court ruling on sex and gender, Evan Wade wanted to know where his trans community could now work out
inews.co.uk
May 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Trans guy asks 60 gyms if he’d be welcome to join. The responses include him being asked what genitalia he has, and telling him he must use the women’s changing rooms.
How is this consistent with his dignity? How does it make women safe? inews.co.uk/news/gyms-tr...
How is this consistent with his dignity? How does it make women safe? inews.co.uk/news/gyms-tr...
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“It is incredibly important that everybody be reminded that trans people have always been with us and always will be with us, and the only real thing that’s up for debate is whether we treat trans people with respect or we don’t.” www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/08/t...
Trans voices defiant in wake of Supreme Court ruling: 'We've been around forever'
As Trans+ History Week is marked in the wake of the UK's Supreme Court ruling there is a rallying cry: trans people have always been here.
www.thepinknews.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
“It is incredibly important that everybody be reminded that trans people have always been with us and always will be with us, and the only real thing that’s up for debate is whether we treat trans people with respect or we don’t.” www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/08/t...
Reposted by Michelle Gardiner
An opinion piece I wrote is in @scotnational.bsky.social today on the recent Supreme Court judgment and EHRC update.
“Trans people’s lives deserve to be made better, not worse.” 🏳️⚧️
@lgbtiscotland.bsky.social @scottishtrans.bsky.social
“Trans people’s lives deserve to be made better, not worse.” 🏳️⚧️
@lgbtiscotland.bsky.social @scottishtrans.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
An opinion piece I wrote is in @scotnational.bsky.social today on the recent Supreme Court judgment and EHRC update.
“Trans people’s lives deserve to be made better, not worse.” 🏳️⚧️
@lgbtiscotland.bsky.social @scottishtrans.bsky.social
“Trans people’s lives deserve to be made better, not worse.” 🏳️⚧️
@lgbtiscotland.bsky.social @scottishtrans.bsky.social
Reposted by Michelle Gardiner
The law of …
… unintended consequences.
… unintended consequences.
May 2, 2025 at 6:15 AM
The law of …
… unintended consequences.
… unintended consequences.