⭕⭕⭕ Zoe Greene ⭕⭕⭕

Equality and Human Rights Commission Dear Your Freedom of Information Request FOI Reference: 15238932 Date: 16 February 2026 Thank you for your request, detailed below, which we received on 19 January 2026. "1) Does the EHRC hold minutes for meetings with any trans-led or trans- focused groups (excluding general LGBTQI+ groups) in the last 5 years. For clarity, these could include but are not limited to: - TransActual - Translucent/Steph's Place - Scottish Trans - Trans legal project - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective - Trans Safety Network - Trans Solidarity Alliance - Trans Resistance Network - Trans Exile Network If so, could you a) break down how many sets of minutes were recorded per year. (Here 1 "set of minutes" means "minutes for 1 meeting") And b) name which trans-led or trans-focused organisation these are with." This request is being handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Response Following a search of our records, we have determined that the information you have requested is not held by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. While the Commission regularly engages with a wide range of stakeholders, including trans-led and trans-focussed civil society organisations where relevant to our work, we do not hold any formal minutes of meetings with the organisations listed in your request within the timeframe specified. T: 0161 829 8100 E: foi@equalityhumanrights.com Arndale House, The Arndale Centre Manchester, M4 3AQ equalityhumanrights.com T: 0161 829 8100 E: foi@equalityhumanrights.com Arndale House, The Arndale Centre Manchester, M4 3AQ equalityhumanrights.com

FOI reveals the EHRC holds zero minutes of meetings with trans-led organisations in the past 5 years.

This is the UK’s 'equality' regulator.

Trans voices are not important enough for the EHRC to keep a record of what was said. This should be a headline in all the papers.

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Vote Green and give this bigoted fascist, and the bigoted fascists-lite in the Labour Party, a reality check

When Musk said the "cumulative sum of human knowledge has been exhausted" for training AI, what he was really saying is that he would not pay for digitisation, and had reached the limits of useful data he could scrape for free. The GenAI house is built on sand.

The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.

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If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.

To be fair, there is a whole line of work indicating that social media and all sorts of modern communication techniques encourage conflict and zero-sum thinking. This may then spill over into more petty arguments, but reflect the inability to more constructively work through conflicts.

A UAE investor secretly gave Trump $187 million and his top Middle East envoy $31 million. And then Trump gave that investor access to sensitive defense technology that broke decades of national security precedent.

Brazen, open corruption. And we shouldn't pretend it's normal.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

imagine if we had to follow the Constitution

The Biggest Threat to Democracy Is the GOP Stealing the Next Election Unless and until the Republican Party recommits itself to playing by democratic rules of the game, American democracy will remain at risk.

Sadly time to re up this (from 2021!)

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Thank god you didn't mention Phish. You are definitely not talking about me 🤣

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Isn't this broadly just an argument for ending geography-based representation 😜

The Supreme Court ruling upholding this is gonna be an amazing read bsky.app/profile/kair...

Never turn the page, throw the book

Flood the streets

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Abolish ICE. Really.

Phillipson blocks trans rules protecting safe spaces for women Minister is challenging guidance that would require businesses and public bodies to offer female-only lavatories

"One Whitehall source told The Telegraph there is a growing belief that if the Good Law Project wins its case, Ms Phillipson will tell the EHRC to reconsider its guidance."

Well, yes, because it will be unlawful.

Incredibly brave. Imagine the faceless bores the BBC will have making their programmes if they continue down this path.

I think politicians, political operatives, and pundits should read *more* political science, not less, and in particular enough to understand that empirical patterns (e.g. loss of presidential party in midterm years) are equilibrium outcomes but not self-executing laws of nature.

If you wanna know why bands struggle to leave Spotify… 75% of Los Campesinos total streams were Spotify, 60% of their streaming rev was Spotify.

Artists are trapped where the listeners are.