Kate Davison

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@thebetootaadvocate.bsky.social

He also said “yeah, this stuff with trans discrimination [in our workplace], it’s awful; I just don’t have time to get involved”.

Another man *at a union meeting*, in reply to an appeal for more senior men to get involved in organising, laughed “I admire you, but I just don’t have the time!”

💯

Why collective refusal is the only option.
Reading this, I recalled the time a white, cis-het man (ostensibly my equal; I later learned he was being paid at 4 grade steps above me for no reason) said “y’know all these sexist micro-aggressions in the workplace you talk about? I just don’t see them!”)

This follows the BMA passing a motion supporting gender affirming care last month. So the BMA is now clear on both trans & Palestinian autonomy and self-determination. *The BMA*

And a shout out to the @withmeaa.bsky.social trade union for supporting its journalist members and defending their right to political speech.

This important legal victory galvanises all of us to never stop speaking about Palestine, war crimes, human rights, colonisation and land sovereignty. 🇵🇸🗣️🔊📣

MUST WATCH/LISTEN!
Thank you @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social for battling this in court so that it’s all on the public record—you speak for those (likely hundreds, if not thousands) of us who have had similar/adjacent experiences but are gagged by NDAs & confidentiality clauses. 🙏

Impressive analysis of what appears to be a rather damning dossier — compiled within 24 hours because EHRC only responded to the FOI request *after* it’s consultation deadline yesterday. Thank you @tacc.org.uk 🙏

4/ Israeli military operations, including Leonardo S.p.A.315 and Ben-Gurion University, through the Al and Data Science Lab at Ben-Gurion University, 316 sharing research that directly links it with assaults on Palestinians.”

Full report 👇
shorturl.at/uOA0p

3/ With both direct and indexed investments, the University ranks among the most financially entangled institutions in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The University also partners with firms aiding

2/ “The University of Edinburgh holds nearly £25.5 million ($31.72 million) (2.5 per cent of its endowment) in four tech giants - Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM314 - central to the Israeli surveillance apparatus and the ongoing Gaza destruction.

1/ Peerless! @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social named exclusively in UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories @franceskalbs.bsky.social’s latest report due to its investments in genocide (esp. tech). It says:

Brilliant result of militant, unrelenting strike action!

Streeting banned puberty-blockers despite there being no evidence whatsoever that they are dangerous, and now plenty of evidence (including my own peer-reviewed research) that banning them is harmful.

However…

He enthusiastically promoted weight loss drugs however, and now people are being harmed

EHRC formally abandons single-sex toilet stipulation | Good Law Project The EHRC’s rushed guidance caused harm from the moment it was released. But now they’re u-turning.

Not sure what a 'sexed' toilet is anyway, tbh. Toilets are inanimate.

goodlawproject.org/ehrc-formall...

Sadly not.

Where my ALP/Labour hacks at?

Shhh.

*RIDDLE FOR MEETING PROCEDURE NERDS*
Without giving you the context, give me a *democratic* solution to this👇

A motion + 4 amendments are tabled at a union meeting. Instead of voting in the meeting they will be sent out to 3k members for electronic ballot. A decision must be reached within 3 days.

Remembering that Starmer doesn't have a favourite book or poem, and doesn't dream

‘Kitchen said he wanted other Australians to be aware that “cleaning” their phones wouldn’t necessarily mean they would be able to get their Esta approved upon arrival in the US. “They had already prepared a file on me and already knew everything about me”.’

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Today’s news inspired me to enjoy a double bill of Black lesbian resistance films this evening, both advocating collective revolutionary truth against disinformation ❤️‍🔥✊🏾
#borninflames1983
#thewatermelonwoman1996

amounting to ‘nothing more than expressions of pure disgust that promote suspicion, stigmatisation and hatred of trans individuals and smear the trans community as a whole’. 🔥🔥🔥

Proud as punch to be quoted in this judgement describing AHF as ‘propaganda promoting hatred of trans women’ with ‘no academic merit’, full of statements that ‘are false, untrue, based on hearsay or anecdotal evidence, or use shoddy methodology that would fail a first year assignment’,

I’m not sure why this would be in question!

No, UCU Legal coordinated the defence - Grant and Lena presented at the tribunal as they were the leading branch and region officers at the time, thus representing the ‘respondent’ (UCU as a whole).

Employment Tribunal rejects claims University and College Union discriminated against members on grounds of their gender critical beliefs The University and College Union has successfully defended claims against it in an Employment Tribunal from two UCU members who claim they had been discriminated against and harassed by the union beca...

Our branch stands firmly for trans inclusion and trans equality, and will not cease in protesting against discriminatory and inflammatory claims about trans people!

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404...

Heroic effort by @gbuttars.bsky.social (then-president of UCU Edinburgh) and Lena Wånggren (then-president of UCU Scotland), who represented the UCU at the Tribunal 🙏🦾

Employment Tribunal rejects claims University and College Union discriminated against members on grounds of their gender critical beliefs The University and College Union has successfully defended claims against it in an Employment Tribunal from two UCU members who claim they had been discriminated against and harassed by the union beca...

Employment Tribunal rejects claims UCU discriminated against members on grounds of their gender critical beliefs. Includes comment from UCU. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404...