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NickyT85
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(They/Them) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ LGBTI+ Champion 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 CPD & Strategy professional. Marvel & Women's football fan ⚽ *All views are my own* 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤
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mimmymum.bsky.social
“I WRITE as a feminist and the parent of a trans teenager. I have also spent years working to safeguard women and children. I understand risk – and where harm comes from”…
Guidance from EHRC should be challenged by the Labour government
I WRITE as a feminist and
www.thenational.scot
October 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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kathyburke.bsky.social
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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parkesland.bsky.social
This essay is a tour de force. To trans people, it reads as a grim reminder of the litany of indignities and travesties visited upon us by the UK government. To cis people, I hope, it is a bracing and sobering wake up call to how illiberal the UK and Labour have become. 1/

One additional thought:
September 18, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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tillywittrup.bsky.social
Long 🧵

Lemkin Institute calls for GANHRI to withdraw accreditation of EHRC in the UK.

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Statement on the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission: Violation of the Paris Principles and erosion of protections for transgender and intersex people
September 5, 2025 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention & Human Security calls on the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) to withdraw accreditation from the Equalit...
www.lemkininstitute.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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natacha.bsky.social
Statement by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention about the EHRC.

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www.lemkininstitute.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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tacc.org.uk
Lemkin Institute release, Statement on the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission: Violation of the Paris Principles and erosion of protections for transgender and intersex people.

Read it here ✊🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

bit.ly/EHRCUK
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September 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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ajlanes.bsky.social
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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agc1985.bsky.social
Updated: Starmer’s Labour: The most anti-LGBT+ govt since Thatcher. A list of the awful things they've done and said regarding LGBT+ people, especially trans people.
Labour: Ditched its longstanding pledge to demedicalise gender recognition for trans people before the 2024 election • And then abandoned even plans for watered-down reform • Made the Tories’ temporary ban on puberty blockers for trans children indefinite • Endorsed the flawed and discredited Cass Review • Refused to pass legislation to protect trans people’s gender recognition following the recent Supreme Court ruling • Introduced a new Section 28 for trans people • Banned trans women from standing for internal Women’s Officer posts • Oversaw the UK dropping to its lowest ever place in the ILGA-Europe rankings of LGBT+ rights in European countries • Has adopted covertly transphobic language (‘sex-based rights’, ‘transmen’, ‘transwomen’) in internal documentation • Took no action against Rosie Duffield even after years of vile social media posts targeting trans (and bi) people – including sharing a post denying Nazi persecution of trans people • Re-elected Duffield Women’s PLP Chair on International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 2021 • Suspended the whip from Stonewall founder Michael Cashman for (rightly) criticising Duffield • Reappointed a ‘gender-critical’ bigot, Baroness Falkner, as Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission • Then tried to appoint ANOTHER ‘gender-critical’ figure, Mary-Ann Stephenson, as Falkner’s successor! • Suspended Lloyd Russell-Moyle, a gay MP and one of the most vocal pro-trans parliamentarians, on bogus charges shortly before the last election • Oversaw the introduction of new CPS guidelines that put trans people at risk of prosecution if they do not disclose their gender identity before having sex • Multiple Labour MPs attempted to dilute a motion at the Council of Europe condemning anti-LGBT+ hatred • Labour MPs abstained on backing trans rights in Scotland • Unlike other European countries, has not issued updated travel warnings for trans travellers to the US • Hosts anti-trans groups at its conferences Health Secretary Wes Streeting: Responded to the (flawed, discredited) Cass Review by saying he’d been wrong to say trans women are women • Banned the use of puberty blockers, against international best practice and evidence, and severely restricted gender healthcare for trans children • Supports segregation of trans patients in hospitals • Has expressed sympathy for conversion therapy groups • Implemented a ban on young trans people being able to obtain hormone therapy outside the NHS • Has overseen guidance directing GPs not to monitor trans people’s blood values – putting them at harm if they are forced to self-medicate due to NHS failings • Wrote in The Sun to share the lie that the NHS no longer uses the term ‘women’ • Shared the false claim that the practice history of doctors who transition to a new legal gender would not be disclosed to patients • Shared false claims that terms such as ‘breastfeeding’ are being ‘erased’ • Invited transphobic groups to produce NHS exclusion guidelines • Has overseen a rise in GPs refusing hormone prescriptions to trans people, which can have serious mental and physical health consequences • Responded to the recent Supreme Court ruling by calling on those who’d previously recognised trans people’s lived gender identities to reconsider • Was named What the Trans ‘Villain of the Year’ in 2024 • Issued an apology to Duffield for how she had been treated, ignoring her years of vitriol against trans people on social media STARMER’S LABOUR: THE MOST ANTI-LGBT+ GOVT SINCE THATCHER Prime Minister Keir Starmer: Responded to the recent Supreme Court ruling by declaring that trans women are not women • Attended a deeply homophobic church to deliver his Easter message • Then did it AGAIN two years later! • Supports the exclusion of trans women from sports • Refused to meet with trans Labour members to discuss concerns about institutional transphobia in the party • Left Marsha de Cordova in post as Shadow Equalities Secretary even after she shared overtly transphobic content on social media • Staged a fake meeting with LGBT+ community members (in reality all Labour staffers/councillors) for a publicity stunt • In 2023, expressed ‘concerns’ about the Gender Recognition Reform Bill in Scotland that was supported by his Scottish Labour colleagues • Believes trans children should require parental permission to socially transition Education Secretary and ‘Equalities’ Minister Bridget Phillipson: Responded to the recent Supreme Court ruling by immediately declaring trans people should use toilets according to ‘biological sex’ • Supports the removal of anti-transphobia policies at universities • Supports trans schoolchildren being outed to their parents • Welcomed the fine imposed on the University of Sussex due to students using their free speech to protest campus transphobia • Erased the word ‘trans’ from the new schools guidance • Prohibited schools from promoting ‘gender identity’ and ‘social transition’ – Section 28 all over again • Requires schools to misrepresent the law about ‘biological sex’ and gender recognition STARMER’S LABOUR: THE MOST ANTI-LGBT+ GOVT SINCE THATCHER Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood: During protests against LGBT-inclusive RSE in schools, argued that pupils’ ‘religious background’ and ‘age appropriateness’ should be considered • Agrees with J. K. Rowling’s views on ‘biological sex’ • Claimed it is ‘absolutely unacceptable’ to criticise the recent Supreme Court ruling • Home Secretary Yvette Cooper: Passed guidelines that would allocate trans women to male prisons – threatening their safety and dignity • Responded to a demonstration for trans rights by condemning washable chalk graffiti on a statue • Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy: Deleted all her past tweets supportive of trans people when the government switched to an explicitly anti-trans position • Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar: During the NHS Fife tribunal case, backed the ‘gender-critical’ nurse accused of harassing trans doctor Beth Upton • U-turned on previous support for gender recognition reform in Scotland • Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens: Shared content from gender-critical group Woman’s Place UK • Parliamentary Under-Secretary Feryal Clark: Described LGBT+ affirming education as ‘nonsense’ on social media • Parliamentary Under-Secretary Jess Phillips: Shared a conspiracy theory on social media alleging that the murderer of Phoenix Netts was a trans woman • Tonia Antoniazzi MP: Accused Welsh government of being ‘dictated to’ by Stonewall and having an ‘ideological culture’ • Jonathan Hinder MP: Supports exclusion of trans women from (non-competitive, mixed-sex) Parkruns
July 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Bronze played with fractured tibia to help England win Euros reut.rs/4la1dS8
Bronze played with fractured tibia to help England win Euros
England defender Lucy Bronze revealed after Sunday’s Euro 2025 final victory over Spain that she had played the entire tournament with a fractured tibia.
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July 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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cjzero.bsky.social
England wins
July 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
The trans rights stitch-up: How the government plans to silence parliamentary debate on the most far-reaching restriction of minority rights in our lifetime open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
July 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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nateo.bsky.social
@saranahmed.bsky.social’s extensive article documenting how anti-trans extremists have silenced trans academics is a must-read, but will not be covered in UK mainstream media because it goes against the dominant narrative feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/hounded
Hounded!
As a cover story (told by and about "gender critical" feminists)
feministkilljoys.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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tacc.org.uk
The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found.

tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
FOI Exposes EHRC Bias: Private Meetings, Legal Echoes, and Policy Capture - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
Let’s be honest. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is not acting like a neutral regulator. It is not standing above the fray.
tacc.org.uk
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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natacha.bsky.social
Get your cis friends to read this. It reveals how the anti-trans hate groups are really part of a web of extremist right-wing hate groups…
Behind the ruling: how ‘Sex Matters’ is shaping UK policy on trans rights
The UK Supreme Court ruling redefined ‘sex’ – but for trans people, it’s the start of something far more sweeping and exclusionary
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
June 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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natacha.bsky.social
This is a very, very good explanation of the failings and corruption in the Equalities & Human Rights Commission by Ian Dunt. Well worth a read especially for people who are not totally au fait with what is going on.
Judgement Day for the EHRC
How the equality watchdog turned into a culture war campaign group
iandunt.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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rozkaveney.bsky.social
This is a very good piece.

Smiling 'i have concerns ' transphobia is how the Centre establishment takes away trans people's rights as much as frothing bigotry.
June 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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humanrightsvicky.bsky.social
You know its heating up when someone says "Neo nazis"...

Barbs fly as UK Equality Body remains mired in controversy amid latest anti minority Labour PR disaster.

(Tories rubbing hands in glee as Labour falls still further from its LGBTQ pedestal in Pride Month)

medium.com/@selfsovall/...
The EHRC’s Mask Slips: An Urgent Letter to Parliament on Britain’s Failing Equality Watchdog
The EHRC Chair Nomination and the Future of Equality in Britain
medium.com
June 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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tacc.org.uk
EXPOSED: Sex Matters met privately with EHRC leadership in Sept, just months before major guidance changes, pushing anti-trans framing under the guise of “clarity.”

TACC obtained the documents via FOI.

tacc.org.uk/2025/05/23/i...
Inside Access, Outside Influence: How Sex Matters Is Shaping the EHRC's Agenda - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
TACC (Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective) can now reveal, through documents obtained via a Freedom of Information request, that in early September 2024, the anti-trans lobbying group Sex…
tacc.org.uk
May 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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humanrightsvicky.bsky.social
** BREAKING ** UK Trans and Lesbian human rights crisis - #LGBT #LGBTQ

TACC (Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective) tonight releases highly significant press release @tacc.org.uk

tacc.org.uk/2025/05/23/i...
Inside Access, Outside Influence: How Sex Matters Is Shaping the EHRC's Agenda - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
TACC (Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective) can now reveal, through documents obtained via a Freedom of Information request, that in early September 2024, the anti-trans activists Sex Matters secu...
tacc.org.uk
May 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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scottygb.bsky.social
The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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chris-noone.bsky.social
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.

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May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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humanrightsvicky.bsky.social
Hello World!

Welcome to followers changing channels from LinkedIn. Thank you everyone following me for the first time.
Here is a video link to an address I gave at the start of Trans History Week. Wherever you are, know the UK is trans-hostile. It will take 12mins of your life.
youtu.be/IPU6XN4lOvw
Trans judge taking UK to European Court Of Human Rights speaks out during Trans+ History Week
YouTube video by QueerAF | Understand the LGBTQIA+ news
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May 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM