This is significant, thank you to the persistence of activists and Scottish Greens who have persisted. The fight should not have been this long, while the government at Westminster and Labour in Scotland refuse to take decisive action to end the genocide.

An update on posts you might have seen surrounding the EHRC:

Trans flag, non-binary flat, University of Sunderland logo. Participants needed for a PhD study exploring trans & non-binary people’s experiences of community pharmacy. Do you for the criteria? Identify as trans or non-binary, Aged 18 years or over, have lived experience of interaction with community pharmacy staff and live in the UK, anonymous 30 minute online interview. £10 Amazon voucher for every participant. If you are interested or would like to discuss the research, please email Callum Tierney at: Callum.tierney@tees.ac.uk

Participants needed for a PhD study exploring trans & non-binary people’s experiences of community pharmacy.

Are you over 18yrs, trans or non-binary & have lived experience of interaction with community pharmacy?

Email Callum.tierney@tees.ac.uk
(£10 Amazon voucher for participants)

Please sign this petition. It doesn't matter that the government's initial response states lamely that the right to transition is already enshrined in UK law. If the petition reaches 100k and gets debated in parliament we can lobby MPs to ask questions as per the OP. MPs are beginning to wake up.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I mean, look, if Mamdani actually had invented time travel, went back in time and invented Twitter so it existed six years before it was created, to tweet about something that happened when he was 9 yeas old, with a picture of him at age 33, well... then maybe it's something to talk about...

Campaign poster for Q Manivannan, Scottish Greens candidate for Fountainbridge-Craiglockhart, encouraging people to vote in today's by-election

Polls are open in Fountainbridge-Craiglockhart! A Green [1] vote can stop a second Tory councillor for the ward, deliver fresh ideas and new energy to Edinburgh council.

Just waking up to the news that Zohran Mamdani won! South Asian socialists are on the up. If you are a Scottish Green Party member in Edinburgh and Lothians East, consider giving me your #1 vote. I can’t rap but I can dance

I'm really excited about the incredible list of prospective candidates we have standing in Edinburgh and Lothians East (including myself 😅)

I'll post more about the other candidates I'm supporting soon, but big shout out for Mridul as one of my top three!! 💚💚💚

See you in Parliament

Happy Pride Edinburgh! #TransRightsNow 🏳️‍⚧️

A graphic with a photo from a demonstration with the text: "Edinburgh Council has voted to uphold its support for trans rights. Greens Worked with the SNP, Lib Dems, and independents to ensure the vote passed. Labour and the Tories sought to 'welcome' the Supreme Court's regressive ruling on sex and gender. Greens will always stand up and advocate for trans and non-binary people. We will never stop being vocal trans allies."

We're thrilled that Edinburgh's Green councillors have worked successfully with other parties to reaffirm the city's commitment to promoting equality for Edinburgh’s LGBT+ community.
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Find the full motion text at the link below:
www.edinburghgreens.org.uk/blog/edinbur...

YouTube video by NFB BECAUSE WE ARE GIRLS | Full Documentary | National Film Board of Canada

I no longer work in the gender based violence sector after being hounded out by peddlers of allyship and of course haters. However, as a survivor of violence, this documentary is a must watch. I spent nearly 20 years of my life working to serve survivors like me. youtu.be/QQQhyopGOxw?...

If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there.

(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️

Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

I didn’t realise that all CEO’s and directors of boards and shareholders are undocumented migrants

“There is little that strikes working people as more unfair than watching illegal migration drive down their wages, their terms and their conditions,” he added.

I have not seen such a blatant anti-immigrant statement based on falsehoods, pitting people against people, in some time. Statement made by Keir Starmer at today’s immigration summit.

Read a news story today that one of the hate filled women who ran a smear and false campaign against me and my former employer is being convicted of abuse against children. The real danger is from GCs.

A navroze table set with dry fruits, flowers, seasonal veg and fruit, a lit lamp, images of the prophet Zarathustra and Lord Ganesh.

Trans joy: Navroze Mubarak! Prepping for a dinner with friends and family tomorrow.

All this talk about getting people into work through changes to welfare, almost as if discrimination in recruitment has been magicked away. Even if you can work, will they let you ?

A bright blue rollator being used as a desk with a computer on it, logging in to NHS wifi.

♿As the govt attempts to gut #disability benefits AND do wholesale reorganisation of the NHS I want to share a little bit about my day, as a disabled person who works and needs to access a fair bit of healthcare. Mega 🧵starring my #rollator as desk (see glamourous shot below)

Insistence on Relation Or how not to be pulled in by positivity

My life in the feminist movement in Scotland was just this. debating me, complaining about me and then getting rid of me, passing off cleverly worded prejudice as non violent communication and then making public statements of not being transphobic feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/insistence...

Wonder why i linked terfs and fascism 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Just read that the local domestic abuse service near me is saying the quiet part loud, : all pretense of inclusion out the window. Equality is only as they imagine the present to be, why dare to dream for a future

An image of saffron and rose candy

Trans joy: made rose and sugar candy, beginning the slow welcome to Navroze, the equinox

Graphic with Puprle and Blue Gradient background. It reads: Most people aren’t trans, but some people in fact are. Trans people need to be able to recover on hospital wards, use toilets, access cancer screenings, receive support after experiencing sexual violence, go swimming, try on new clothes… just like anyone else. For many years, not enough people recognised this, and trans people faced real and significant harm because of that.  Let’s not go back to those times.' The Scottish Trans logo is in the bottom right corner.

Let’s not go back to a time where trans people could not go to work safely, use services that met our needs, or use public spaces freely.

Read our thoughts: www.scottishtrans.org/responding-t...

Peggie v NHS Fife: More casualties to come Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife: More casualties to come

This reads a lot like daring the SHRC to try to get rid of or sanction her in any way while berating them publicly, because she’s been emboldened by the shift she highlights in Scottish Labour’s position & the anti-trans media frenzy surrounding the NHS tribunal.

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The solidarity of the white feminist movement in Scotland has always been fickle and reluctant. The first threat to what they control and marginalised minorities are told to wait their turn, sidelined and for trans people cast out, abandoned or reduced to being the recipients of their saviourism.

While in the UK, sexual abuse organisations are doing something similar in anticipation of what is coming for trans people. Re-Embracing the white suprematist roots of white feminism

Well said 👇🏾