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Sam G
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Fat, queer, disabled, neuro-divergent, middle-aged, inclusive feminist. PhD.

Writer (spec fic, mostly) and Lecturer (ethics).

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Manchester Trans Pride 2.8.25

(repost due to a blur fail)

@transactualuk.bsky.social #transrightsarehumanrights
August 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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goodlawproject.org
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
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
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stopfundinghate.bsky.social
Now, more than ever, it’s vital to stand together against transphobia and anti-LGBTQ+ hate.

So ahead of Pride month, Stop Funding Hate is joining forces with Good Law Project to urge advertisers to do the right thing: goodlaw.social/sfh
goodlawproject.bsky.social Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · May 28
Pride isn’t a marketing moment.

Some firms who have supported Pride are advertising on GB News – a rightwing TV channel known for pumping out hatred of LGBTQ+ people.

We’ve teamed up with Stop Funding Hate to get these companies to pull their ads.

Support our action 👇
goodlaw.social/dft0
May 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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shelleybwoke.bsky.social
Reminder that no matter how many times the institutionally-transphobic British media reprints it, "trans-identified men" is hate speech.
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · May 27
The Telegraph going after the Quakers because the Quakers won't be assholes to trans people.

That opening paragraph by Daniel Martin is lol. It's Helen Joyce doing the accusing.
Quakers refuse to ban trans women from female lavatories The Daily Telegraph27 May 2025By Daniel Martin Deputy political editor QUAKERS have been accused of “destroying” their reputation as pioneers on women’s rights by refusing to provide female-only lavatories. The group said its lavatories in Britain would remain “trans inclusive” despite the ruling by the Supreme Court that the word “sex” in the Equality Act refers to biological sex and not gender identity. It said it was not desirable to monitor who uses its facilities, adding: “We can- not guarantee any shared space as exclusive for one group of people.” The Quakers have gained a reputa- tion for their progressive attitude towards women, having allowed them to preach as early as the 17th century. But Helen Joyce, the director of advocacy at Sex Matters, a women’s rights group, said they appeared to have abandoned that legacy by adopting “textbook trans activism”. “Early Quakers were famously supportive of women’s rights – they would surely be shocked and ashamed if they could see the destruction of that proud legacy,” she added. #TransAgendaClips
May 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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transactualuk.bsky.social
Our new Know Your Rights guide will be with you soon too - we're just taking the time to make sure we get it right.
May 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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transactualuk.bsky.social
Another good explainer from Oscar, this time on toilets:

www.linkedin.com/posts/oscar-...
#trans #supremecourt #women #scottishwomen #lgbtq #humanrights | Oscar Davies
‘I’m trans using the toilets in a public space, what do I do?’ Here is my take on the question I’m being asked a lot following the judgment and interim EHRC guidance (latter of which is not the law)....
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April 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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natacha.bsky.social
The British Medical Association Resident Doctors are the backbone of the NHS, they look after us all in hospital.

They passed this motion at their conference which pulls the “supreme” court judgement to pieces.

They call it

“scientifically illiterate”
and
“biologically nonsensical”

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EM4 This meeting condemns the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' with respect to the Equality Act as being based on 'biological sex', which they refer to as a person who 'was at birth of the female sex', as reductive, trans and intersex-exclusionary and biologically nonsensical. We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender diverse people. As such this meeting: i. Reiterates the BMA's position on affirming the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals to live their lives with dignity, having their identity respected. Reminds the Supreme Court of the existence of intersex people and reaffirms their right to exist in the gender identity that matches their sense of self, regardless of whether this matches any identity assigned to them at birth. iii. Condemns scientifically illiterate rulings from the Supreme Court, made without consulting relevant experts and stakeholders, that will cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary and intersex communities in this country. iv. Commits to strive for better access to necessary health services for trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people.
April 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM