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1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
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This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
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BBC Now Calling Trans Women 'Biological Males Who Identify As Women'
These stories come in the aftermath of allegations that a small but mighty cabal of “LGBT reporters” had somehow seized control of the BBC and “censored” right-wing views.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Statement regarding our action against the EHRC's London HQ
October 31, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Statement regarding our action against the EHRC's London HQ
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“Trans people being denied the very same medication that cis people are given without question. Many of the refusals are for people that are already on HRT"
✅ Restricting legal recognition
✅ Restricting freedoms
✅ Restricting health care
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
✅ Restricting legal recognition
✅ Restricting freedoms
✅ Restricting health care
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Campaigners warn of ‘staggering increase’ in GPs denying trans care
Mr Lyon had been receiving testosterone treatment for a decade until he moved to a new practice, as more GPs are halting trans care
www.independent.co.uk
August 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
“Trans people being denied the very same medication that cis people are given without question. Many of the refusals are for people that are already on HRT"
✅ Restricting legal recognition
✅ Restricting freedoms
✅ Restricting health care
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
✅ Restricting legal recognition
✅ Restricting freedoms
✅ Restricting health care
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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I hate to say it, but this feels like a horribly-targeted attack on trans healthcare, which so many people are being forced to seek privately because access via the NHS is so dire.
Please do respond to the consultation if you can (the GCs will be all over this 😭)
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Please do respond to the consultation if you can (the GCs will be all over this 😭)
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Private (non-NHS) prescribing: call for evidence document
www.gov.uk
August 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I hate to say it, but this feels like a horribly-targeted attack on trans healthcare, which so many people are being forced to seek privately because access via the NHS is so dire.
Please do respond to the consultation if you can (the GCs will be all over this 😭)
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Please do respond to the consultation if you can (the GCs will be all over this 😭)
www.gov.uk/government/c...
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This is Gavin Newsom introducing and attempting to mainstream the idea that adults should also not be allowed to transition.
That he, and people like him, should have the right to dictate whether we receive medical care, or are denied it.
And you ask why we'll oppose him to our dying breaths?
That he, and people like him, should have the right to dictate whether we receive medical care, or are denied it.
And you ask why we'll oppose him to our dying breaths?
Gavin Newsom suggesting that 25 years of age is too young to transition and agreeing to right-wing entryism of concern trolling about trans people in sports. This is your opposition leader?
I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.
I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.
August 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This is Gavin Newsom introducing and attempting to mainstream the idea that adults should also not be allowed to transition.
That he, and people like him, should have the right to dictate whether we receive medical care, or are denied it.
And you ask why we'll oppose him to our dying breaths?
That he, and people like him, should have the right to dictate whether we receive medical care, or are denied it.
And you ask why we'll oppose him to our dying breaths?
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Makes me feel very not good that the BBC openly refers to trans people with slurs. If you weren’t aware, to call a trans person “biologically [their sex assigned at birth]” is a slur - it’s dehumanising and inaccurate!
August 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Makes me feel very not good that the BBC openly refers to trans people with slurs. If you weren’t aware, to call a trans person “biologically [their sex assigned at birth]” is a slur - it’s dehumanising and inaccurate!
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The NHS are forcibly detransitioning trans kids in Brighton and calling it “managed withdrawal.” Their own impact assessment acknowledges trans kids will be at increased risk of harm as a result, don’t want this, and are likely to just use DIY hormones instead
August 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The NHS are forcibly detransitioning trans kids in Brighton and calling it “managed withdrawal.” Their own impact assessment acknowledges trans kids will be at increased risk of harm as a result, don’t want this, and are likely to just use DIY hormones instead
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Labour is functionally the Democratic party of the UK. When you seen an American trans person getting mad at Democrats over trans issues, this is what we are trying to prevent.
Labour officials consulted for American Democrats last election.
Labour officials consulted for American Democrats last election.
🚨 BREAKING | Labour is set to impose a sweeping ban on trans people using any "single-sex space".
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
August 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Labour is functionally the Democratic party of the UK. When you seen an American trans person getting mad at Democrats over trans issues, this is what we are trying to prevent.
Labour officials consulted for American Democrats last election.
Labour officials consulted for American Democrats last election.
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I’m really excited to announce I’m partnering with the Labour Party to hahaha can you imagine? Seriously though, this is the most anti-LGBTQ government we’ve had in decades
🚨 EXC: No10 will host up to 90 online creators this week as part of a wider strategy embedding influencers into government comms
📱 Ministers are now giving briefings and press notices to TikTok stars and YouTubers
@zoecrowther.bsky.social reports
📱 Ministers are now giving briefings and press notices to TikTok stars and YouTubers
@zoecrowther.bsky.social reports
No10 Host First Influencer Reception As They Step Up Their Digital Strategy
EXC: No10 is hosting a reception with online influencers in Downing Street for the first time ever, as part of their push to “go where people are” ...
www.politicshome.com
July 30, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I’m really excited to announce I’m partnering with the Labour Party to hahaha can you imagine? Seriously though, this is the most anti-LGBTQ government we’ve had in decades
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Sex testing is officially back in sports -- which is a huge bummer and also contradicts so much ethics, human rights law, and actual science. More on all that (and the history) on my podcast Tested: www.tested-podcast.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Sex testing is officially back in sports -- which is a huge bummer and also contradicts so much ethics, human rights law, and actual science. More on all that (and the history) on my podcast Tested: www.tested-podcast.com
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🏳⚧ 100,000 people marched at London Trans+ Pride yesterday - but the BBC, Times, Telegraph & Daily Mail ignored it completely.
These outlets publish dozens of anti-trans stories a week. But when trans people show joy, pride, and solidarity?
🦗 Silence.
#TransPride #MediaBias
Read why it matters ⬇️
These outlets publish dozens of anti-trans stories a week. But when trans people show joy, pride, and solidarity?
🦗 Silence.
#TransPride #MediaBias
Read why it matters ⬇️
100,000 People Marched at London Trans+ Pride. The Transphobic UK Media Ignored It.
The UK’s biggest news outlets ignored a record-breaking march for trans equality, despite publishing dozens of trans stories each week.
medium.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🏳⚧ 100,000 people marched at London Trans+ Pride yesterday - but the BBC, Times, Telegraph & Daily Mail ignored it completely.
These outlets publish dozens of anti-trans stories a week. But when trans people show joy, pride, and solidarity?
🦗 Silence.
#TransPride #MediaBias
Read why it matters ⬇️
These outlets publish dozens of anti-trans stories a week. But when trans people show joy, pride, and solidarity?
🦗 Silence.
#TransPride #MediaBias
Read why it matters ⬇️
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The government has just introduced a new Section 28 that will harm a generation of gender-nonconforming kids. New column by me (below).
I grew up under Section 28. I know the damage it caused. This will be a new darkness, with more silence and fear. Another blackout.
inews.co.uk/opinion/new-...
I grew up under Section 28. I know the damage it caused. This will be a new darkness, with more silence and fear. Another blackout.
inews.co.uk/opinion/new-...
A new Section 28 is here – and it will harm gender-nonconforming children
This is idiocy and cruelty
inews.co.uk
July 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The government has just introduced a new Section 28 that will harm a generation of gender-nonconforming kids. New column by me (below).
I grew up under Section 28. I know the damage it caused. This will be a new darkness, with more silence and fear. Another blackout.
inews.co.uk/opinion/new-...
I grew up under Section 28. I know the damage it caused. This will be a new darkness, with more silence and fear. Another blackout.
inews.co.uk/opinion/new-...
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Ian Dunt is turning into a real trans ally, this article describes the likely stitch-up of how Starmer and Philippson are likely to take away all trans people’s human rights without a debate or vote in parliament.
The trans rights stitch-up
How government plans to silence debate on the new rules
iandunt.substack.com
July 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Ian Dunt is turning into a real trans ally, this article describes the likely stitch-up of how Starmer and Philippson are likely to take away all trans people’s human rights without a debate or vote in parliament.
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since I see ppl posting pictures from a pseudoscience convention this morn, I will re-up this. Blanchard's theory of autogynephilia (read: his taxonomy & etiology) have been disproved by multiple research studies (see my reviews here):
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience
plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic
juliaserano.medium.com
July 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
since I see ppl posting pictures from a pseudoscience convention this morn, I will re-up this. Blanchard's theory of autogynephilia (read: his taxonomy & etiology) have been disproved by multiple research studies (see my reviews here):
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
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1. Today, 200,000 marched in Budapest Pride in defiance of a ban by Orbán's far-right government.
It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering."
He was warned of arrest.
They marched anyway.
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It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering."
He was warned of arrest.
They marched anyway.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
200,000 March In Budapest Pride, Refusing To Capitulate To Anti-LGBTQ+ Law
The march can teach the world the power of organized solidarity in the wake of a global, anti-LGBTQ+ reactionary movement.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
1. Today, 200,000 marched in Budapest Pride in defiance of a ban by Orbán's far-right government.
It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering."
He was warned of arrest.
They marched anyway.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering."
He was warned of arrest.
They marched anyway.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
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better yet, consider unsubscribing from HBO/Max the week before her show comes out (& if you rejoin, wait until the HP season is over). it's not enough to *not* watch it – HBO needs to know it will hurt their bottom line if they continue producing it
if you care about trans people, do not watch the new jk rowling show. don’t even hate watch it or you will be funding this new intentionally transphobic organization. we cannot allow hateful people take away more of our rights
June 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
better yet, consider unsubscribing from HBO/Max the week before her show comes out (& if you rejoin, wait until the HP season is over). it's not enough to *not* watch it – HBO needs to know it will hurt their bottom line if they continue producing it
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Trans Kids Deserve Better are protesting against the deeply transphobic and increasingly inappropriately named Equality & Human Rights Commission against their transphobic “guidance”.
Young trans activists occupy the EHRC’s London offices to protest the flawed interim guidance, pressuring them to listen to trans voices | Trans Kids Deserve Better
“Listen to us.”
transkidsdeservebetter.org
May 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Trans Kids Deserve Better are protesting against the deeply transphobic and increasingly inappropriately named Equality & Human Rights Commission against their transphobic “guidance”.
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No mention of trans people and our rights. No mention of the Supreme Court case. No mention of the Conversion Therapy Ban. What happened to Stonewall, man. They weren't this weak even a few years ago
🌍 The ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map ranks the legal and policy landscape for #LGBTQ+ people across Europe.
🚨 The latest rankings today shows the UK has reached an all-time low position of 22 out of 49.
This should be a wake-up call for the British government.
Read our statement ▶️ bit.ly/3S0iuB3
🚨 The latest rankings today shows the UK has reached an all-time low position of 22 out of 49.
This should be a wake-up call for the British government.
Read our statement ▶️ bit.ly/3S0iuB3
Stonewall responds to the UK dropping six places in this year's ILGA…
The ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map ranks the legal and policy landscape for LGBTQ+ people across Europe. Today it has been announced that he UK has reached an…
bit.ly
May 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
No mention of trans people and our rights. No mention of the Supreme Court case. No mention of the Conversion Therapy Ban. What happened to Stonewall, man. They weren't this weak even a few years ago
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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...
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Trans Kids Deserve Better has just covered the front of the NHS England with bloody handprints with the words "release the trans suicides report"
May 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Trans Kids Deserve Better has just covered the front of the NHS England with bloody handprints with the words "release the trans suicides report"
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There's a bill passing through parliament at the moment called the Data Bill
An added amendment would completely remove trans people's right to privacy, and could even revert legal documents
We have to apply a lot of pressure on this one too MPs. More info here:
www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/c...
An added amendment would completely remove trans people's right to privacy, and could even revert legal documents
We have to apply a lot of pressure on this one too MPs. More info here:
www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/c...
From the LabourUK community on Reddit: Shadow Technology Minister Adds amendment to Data Bill to revert all gender markers and out all trans people
Explore this post and more from the LabourUK community
www.reddit.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
There's a bill passing through parliament at the moment called the Data Bill
An added amendment would completely remove trans people's right to privacy, and could even revert legal documents
We have to apply a lot of pressure on this one too MPs. More info here:
www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/c...
An added amendment would completely remove trans people's right to privacy, and could even revert legal documents
We have to apply a lot of pressure on this one too MPs. More info here:
www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/c...
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From my latest piece.
The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.
The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.
April 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
From my latest piece.
The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.
The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.
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This feels quite hollow when the court also decided they didn't need to hear from a single transgender person over the course of their case.
Lord Hodge adds that the Equality Act gives transgender people other, separate protections under the law. He says the judgement should not be read as a triumph for one group in society over another.
April 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This feels quite hollow when the court also decided they didn't need to hear from a single transgender person over the course of their case.
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Planned action!
Protest planned at parliament square on Saturday at 1pm to protest supreme court ruling.
Protest planned at parliament square on Saturday at 1pm to protest supreme court ruling.
April 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Planned action!
Protest planned at parliament square on Saturday at 1pm to protest supreme court ruling.
Protest planned at parliament square on Saturday at 1pm to protest supreme court ruling.