Not now, symbolism.
Happy to go door knocking with you sometime 😊
The only LGBT+ people I know who are still voting Labour are Labour members, the party has lost the average queer voter and pissing everyone off by pretending you’re “actually listening” to our concerns is going to motivate us to not only vote against you, but actively campaign for rival candidates
We've read them, Ms Collinge. You don't come off well.
Anyone who believes Streeting 'followed the evidence' about puberty blockers is either too ignorant and naive to understand what a con job looks like or is in on it themselves.
Even for Labour transphobia, this is embarrassing.
Oh yeah? How about this @lizzicollinge.bsky.social :
YOU meet with the trans kids Wes met with and see if they think he 'listened' to them.
I'll set up the meeting myself. We'll even video it and put it online so you can show everyone how 'listened to' trans kids feel by Labour.
I dare you.
There is much to commend in @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social's proposal. While a lasting solution can only come via novel legislation (enshrining enby/intersex rights, self-ID, informed consent, etc.), a pr🟢gressive government would do well to promulgate along these lines as an emergency relief measure.
Every penny spent has made life worse for trans children & young people, for trans people in general.
Not one penny has been spent on making life better.
That's what you get in research processes where trans people are not even allowed in the room.
I thought we got numbers for Sullivan. About £250k
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Yeah, this isn't about principles or tactics. It's about Fry personally being a lightweight luvvie and fairweather friend.
It's great the wind is changing direction; Fry's a sign of that. But why heap praise on a weathervane?
I'll change my mind about this if Fry ever gets some skin in the game.
I think you're both right. The Lib Dems are still once burned twice shy about coalitions, so will eschew anything like that if they can. Ideologically/legislatively, though, the two parties could easily find enough common ground to cobble together 5 years of governing. Quite radical stuff, too.
Sarah was at LSE with me that night!
I'd give a pass to Nadia Whittome too.
A new report from TransActual shows that trans people in the UK are being catastrophically failed.
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Lol. The reason those MPs didn't (read: couldn't) make it about themselves is because if they tried they would be laughed/booed off the stage.
Labour is a machine that has resolved to do harm to trans people. Attending a concert doesn't change change that, or wash the blood from your hands.
Interestingly, as this concert was going on I attended a talk from Sarah Owen, a backbench MP. I asked her some pointed questions and she handled them admirably. I'll write up about it soon.
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I'd run up to the podium at top speed to the tune of the Benny Hill Theme
I'm a KC and I'm sure I understand how the law works and I would (also) say the For (Some) Women Scotland decision is the product of (perhaps unconscious) "bigotry, prejudice" - I would not go so far as to say "hatred."
A poor, tone deaf response from Lord Reed to the harm FWS has caused.
This is really quite significant for our case in Northern Ireland where we assert that the unfathomably poor For Women Scotland (and the way in which it has been interpreted hitherto in the UK) breaches the non-regression provisions in the Good Friday agreement.
Today's CJEU decision in Shipova has major implications for legal protections for trans people in Northern Ireland, where relevant EU law still applies. First the Court underlines that different treatment of trans people vs biological sex is not generally acceptable:
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There was a great article a while back calling for us to resurrect euphemisms from the 40s for being gay. Maybe they could work here?
"He gives too much change for a dollar"
"He's an Eton boy"
"She knows how to tell two from three"
"She's a Mae West fan"
The numbers are growing. 42 organisations have signed our open letter against the transphobic 'biological sex' framing of trans people.
Be part of the movement. Sign the letter, and have your voices heard, in a world that tries to silence us all.
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"The women who changed the system so I could be here"
@greenpartyhan.bsky.social pays homage to women who fought for change in her maiden speech during the International Women's Day debate.
"It’s particularly horrendous to me when you have someone from within our own community who demonises a minority group. I don’t know what’s going on in Wes Streeting’s head, but what I do know is it’s terrifying for trans people,” he said.
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#TransYouth #NHS #GAHT
NHS England has announced that it is pausing new prescriptions of gender-affirming hormones for those aged under 18 years old.
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I can only assume someone at OfCom will be by soon to administer 50 lashes to the news director at ITV who allowed a trans person to speak.
This is superb work by Ms Lynnette. Well done!
'So important' they've held a half dozen of them about trans rights/healthcare, all of which came back with majorities supporting trans people, that they summarily ignored.
Those consultations were a box-ticking exercise. This one is no different.
