Chris(tyn) Parkes

The UK’s Trans Genocide The slow machinery of erasure: courts, clinics and ministers weaponising our disappearance

Call it what it is: Genocide. Legal erasure, ministerial attacks, non-existent health care. This is not a debate. It's an attack on our existence!

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The @transgreens.bsky.social and ourselves have revamped our Teemill website where the #ElectTheDolls t-shirts that we had at conference are now on sale.

Do check it out: lgbtiqagreens.teemill.com

It's gotten worse.

This sounds as tedious as it does pointless

They say when the Elizabeth Line sneezes the whole Tube network catches cold.

And proudly planting the flag for trans rights and healthcare!

Great comparison. Transmisogyny is misogyny, after all.

There's also an element of sunk cost fallacy at play or, more cynically, ass-covering. So many people who are so well-connected are in so deep on the transphobia grift that they've closed ranks. They know if one of them hangs, they all do.

Australian report says UK’s Cass review should not guide transgender healthcare QNews LGBTIQA+ News

If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...

Decades after a much cited study which claimed to 'prove' conversion therapy works for Trans youth, & which underpins claims made in the Cass Review, a now 60 year old Trans person has spoken out about the trauma she suffered during institutionalisation at 10 years old. Another nail in Cass.

Also, paging @notrightruth.bsky.social. You know what to do.

It's just the same story over and over. Anytime a group of doctors take an honest look at the Cass Review they realize it's bunk.

The irony is that Cass and her confederates were convinced they were blowing the lid off a major medical conspiracy to trans kids.

Transphobe physicians heal thyselves.

If the EHRC can’t uphold equality for everyone, it’s failing its purpose

We urgently need a public inquiry into whether the EHRC has betrayed its duty

The public has a right to know if the Commission is institutionally transphobic and failing the people it was created to protect

This is how you manufacture consent. Nothing since the SC ruling had required any of this, but GCs insist that people illegally misinterpret it for their own personal discriminatory agenda.

Out of curiosity, what are the 1780s organizing models that you think are worth looking at, specifically?

Indeed. There's no plausible comprehensive account that doesn't involve questioning whether Corbyn's Labour really had an antisemitism 'crisis', or that the money and elite collusion behind rise of transphobia, or the possible law breaking in Labour selection contests. Powderkegs upon powderkegs.

If they said it out loud it would obligate them to try to provide an explanation for that huge step. Doing so would involve levelling some extremely uncomfortable accusations against their confederates in the legacy press.

The instinct of this government is ever further restrictions on civil liberties. It is authoritarian at its core, and at this stage needs to be opposed by anyone who at all considers themselves a progressive.

#UK #TransRights Excellent article which uses the Cass review as an example of how the term "evidence-based practices" can be easily weaponized into policy defining outcomes while essentially not providing with evidence to support those policies. www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/false-p...

*grindr message noise*

Hmm. Hadn't seen the Lesbian Greens around. The GPW have a stall that was not all that well attended as far as I could see.

Which groups were inside?

After the "MyPartyNotYours" shenanigans with a transphobe now installed in a senior position, the Green Party is a breath of fresh air for trans people and all those who believe in fairness and justice.

This is a very dense (for a non-lawyer) piece, but worthy reading for anyone trying to get a sense of the big picture at play in the recission of trans rights in the UK.

Kudos to Conor Gearty for headlining FWS as an example of the conservative judicial assault on human rights law.

I was impressed with @mothinali.bsky.social's speech. But I noted a conspicuous lack of mention of trans people as a target of the right-wing besides immigrants, Muslims, and black/brown people.

Historically speaking, ethnic cleansers are also moral cleansers. Fighting back requires resisting both.

Looking ahead, they're going to either drop the ban completely or they're going to fudge it with a truely ridiculous redefinition of conversion practicies and/or what the NHS is doing so there's no overlap between them.

It's a point of weakness we can exploit.

Personally, I think they need to adopt more of a gallop pace, but point taken 🏇

if you are wondering, this weekend is a great time to send a short loving message to Jewish friends. just to say 'thinking of you'.

I have certainly noticed that the most fundamentalist right wing people I know are reaching out.

To the trans girl from Cumbernauld who just got her estrogen: Happy 2249!

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Free Creative Writing Workshop on Saturday 1 November at 12 to 2 pm. Inspired by the resilience, creativity and activism of the Black Parents Movement. Free for Haringey Residents At the Marcus Garvey Library, Tottenham N15 4JA Email info@georgepadmoreinstitute.org to book your place.

Calling Haringey Residents!

Free Creative Writing Workshop celebrating Black Haringey History 365

Inspired by the creativity, resilience and activism of the Black Parents Movement.

Saturday 1 November at 12 to 2pm. Venue: Marcus Garvey Library.

Book: email us at info@georgepadmoreinstitute.org

How many more generations will be denied Black queer history before we take action? When we understand that our history is diverse, it changes our outlook. I hope that this Black History Month, we all take the time to uncover the history lessons we were denied in school

A great article from @wearequeeraf.com that is absolutely worth a read and a share!

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