Katrina

Lets suppose there was some medical invention in the future that allowed cis men to become pregnant. My reading of the Equality Act where pregnancy is a separate category to sex would suggest that such a man would already have protection from discrimination should he choose to take advange of it.

My answer to that is that pregancy is listed as a separate protected characteristic to sex. So, just like how disabled people (another separately listed catagegory) can be men, women, or whatever; there is no reason why the same can't apply to pregant people.

The actual problem in the UK is that the Thatcher privatisation chickens have come home to roost.

There's people who use Oyster because they are entitled to reduced fares and paying full Adult fare on contactless would be more expensive.

But GWR require you to have separate cards for pay as you go and season tickets in places like Bristol where they offer pay as you go, and people who are entitled to discounted fares (children for example) can't really use regular contactless.

It would need a new card with more than 4 bits of memory allocated to fare zones. Maybe a TfL branded ITSO card so that it can be compatible with the rest of the country.

It is a bit counter-intuitive that you can use a GWR Touch card on that part of the line, even between stations managed by TFL that only get a GWR service very late at night after the Elizabeth Line trains have gone to bed, but you can use a TFL Oyster card.

A large proportion of them seem to be on the Elizabeth Line, and it appears to be mostly people travelling beyond West Drayton on an Oyster Card.

The've reversed that decision
www.libdems.org.uk/fileadmin/gr...

I really hope @goodlawproject.org’s recent forays into going after Tufton St charities are test cases for hanging Sex Matters out to dry.

“Human rights charity” is not a remotely accurate description of who they are or what they do.

They’re a hate group. It’s their entire purpose.

It would be more accurate to say that they denied that trans people *have* rights

What the actual 🤬

I had surgery when I was about 20 minutes old. I'm pretty much cis passing with only HRT, even in trans spaces where people know what to look for. I probably am intersex 🤷🏻‍♀️.

7. We also use the expression “biological sex” which is used widely, including in the judgments of the Court of Session, to describe the sex of a person at birth, and we use the expression “certificated sex” to describe the sex attained by the acquisition of a GRC.

Sex at birth, not assigned sex at birth, so if you are intersex, what does that mean?
supremecourt.uk/cases/judgme...

Brianna Ghey's Phone Didn't Stab Her 28 Times The trans girl murder victim's mom has turned her death into an unrelated political crusade against teenage phone use. Note: I want to be clear upfront that I have no issue with Esther Ghey, mother o...

For my newsletter, I talked about the proposed teenage phone restrictions in the name of a murdered teenage trans girl.

(Noted this twice in the piece but again, I have no issue with Esther Ghey)
www.burnsnotice.com/brianna-ghey...

Ours doesn't even do that. I thought I could name him, but I checked and he stood down in 2021 and another one was elected in his place.

Do we need a replacement?

Oh my word. EHRC just admitted in court they were playing politics and trying to pressure a Minister.

@ganhri.bsky.social, you up? 😅

Any sort of analysis of the numbers shows that trans women as a demographic are far less likely to be criminals than anyone else, including cis women. As for rapists, any time that comes up, people are only able to name one, Isola Bryson, so I assume there aren't any others.

Is it not already lower than Starmer's?
Maybe it is just the places I hang out, but I hear 🤬 Wes Streeting far more often than I hear 🤬 Queer Harmer.

What pisses me off more than anything is that Esther Ghey does not at all get, or speak for, the trans community. But she gets the microphone and what she does with it hurts her daughters community

Switzerland has a wealth tax, and also has lots of rich people living there. People think it is a tax haven, it used to be, but that hasn't been true for about 25 years now.

And that's rather besided the point, because Brianna Ghey was not murdered by phones or social media. Everyone including her mother is speaking as though Brianna killed herself because of online bullying. She was murdered, in person, by two kids she met at school. Not a stranger met online,

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor applies to shut down business interests Former prince seeks to dissolve Dragons’ Den-style startup competition and his innovation company

The director of those two companies is also a director of PPE Medpro, Michelle Mone’s company that was found guilty of defrauding the NHS and alleged to have defrauded a large amount of tax 👀

Equality & Human Rights Commission faces devastating challenge:

See press release & announcement.

Trans Exile Network supports this release and is yet to lodge its GANHRI submissions to strip EHRC of recognised status. 'Crowing' by the EHRC is sorely misjudged.

transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/10...

It's actually worse than this - Prescott tried to argue that the BBC had inappropriately hidden the fact that a Trans woman in pro wrestling had been part of storylines where she "won" trophies against other women - a fictional sport he treated as if it was real.

Actual trans people have a better understanding of trans violence. Yes.

They were radicalised by people like JK Rowling, Wes Streeting, and the EHRC.

Drawn 133 years ago, and the con hasn't changed one bit.

If there is 'no money' and the richest are richer than ever, and getting richer faster than ever.

There is only one solution.

And it ain't cuts for Disabled People and pensioners.