@kevinguyan.bsky.social
Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA 🌈 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 📊 he/him/his ➡️ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
A poster for the Gender and the Machine event on 20 November 2025.
Just a few tickets left for tomorrow's GENDER AND THE MACHINE event! 🔥
Join us to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI.
🗓️ 20 Nov 2025
📍 Edinburgh
👋 All welcome
With @haimson.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
Delighted to join you all for the seminar! A great gathering with fab questions ✨
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Collage of pictures taken during Political Technologies event w Dr Kevin Guyan
What a lovely talk by Dr Kevin Guyan (@kevinguyan.bsky.social) earlier today as part of the Political Technologies seminar series at UCC! More about Dr Guyan’s work here: kevinguyan.com
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
@maybenansi.bsky.social
@frenchdeptucc.bsky.social
@uccwomenstudies.bsky.social
The logo for LGBTQ+STEM Day, with the hashtags below and the date 18 of November, over a rainbow background
Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM!
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed.
But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people.
1/8🧵
okay but the second any trans person gets a survey like that we're not going to be answering like that and can't be forced to. so it sorta seems like it's a waste of time, regardless?
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An event poster for Kevin Guyan's Rainbow Trap talk at the University of Manchester on Tuesday 25 November.
📌 Next stop on the Rainbow Trap book tour: MANCHESTER!
Keen to connect with others in Manchester interested in LGBTQ data!
📅 Tues 25 Nov 2025 | 1.30pm – 3.00pm
📍 University of Manchester
👋 All welcome
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rainbow-tr...
#LGBTQ #data #queer #gender #sexuality #Manchester
Poster for the online event with Dr Kevin Guyan
Feel welcome to attend the online seminar by our next Political Technologies cluster speaker, Dr Kevin Guyan, and that on Tuesday 18/11 from 4-5PM. For more details, see the poster below!
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social
God forbid you accidentally include a few trans women in your disaggregated data; let's make sure everyone who participates in climate activities must disclose intimate information! An absurd distraction that only hinders urgent progress for women and girls.
14.11.2025 16:38 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1It's not new but it recently hit me again, that one big thing transphobes are, is wreckers. They're wrecking progressive movements. I'm reading Judith Butler's "Who's Afraid Of Gender" right now and it's really good on this
14.11.2025 10:02 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0Thereby once again imposing narrow conceptions of sex that are not those espoused by many communities across the world.
14.11.2025 09:56 — 👍 43 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0"The Vatican, which rarely intervenes in climate negotiations, called for a reference to 'sex' rather than 'gender' during discussions on the need for disaggregated data."
Scratch the surface of demands to collect data about 'biological sex' rather than gender and we quickly see the real motives...
Even in conversations about saving the planet from catastrophic destruction, regressive anti-trans voices are trying to derail things by demanding climate agencies collect data about 'biological sex' rather than gender 📊🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Heading to Edinburgh next week for this exciting event on 🤖🏳️⚧️Gender and the Machine🧟♀️🧑💻, where @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I will be talking about our research!
Thanks to @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @kevinguyan.bsky.social for organizing!
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
Time and time again we see the idea of 'data accuracy' being used to justify changes to sex and gender data practices 🔢
These changes have the likely effect of erasing the lives and experiences of trans, non-binary and/or gender non-conforming people from existing in data.
Police Scotland's efforts to simplify their approach to sex and gender data just creates a further jumble of confusion (as this evidence session is already starting to highlight).
12.11.2025 11:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Still unclear to me how wide this change goes e.g.
Q. If I report a crime (or am a victim of crime), am I now required to declare my biological sex?
Q. Will I be counted as gay in Police Scotland stats if I am attracted to trans men? How does this square with a biology-first approach to data?
Police Scotland is giving evidence today at the Scottish Parliament on the recording of sex and gender in data 📊
Although plans are not yet confirmed, it feels like a big pivot to a biology-first approach to data 👇
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/citi...
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Sex in the medical machine: How algorithms can entrench bioessentialism in precision medicine” by K. Ichikawa, M. Boulicault, A. Thinius, M. DiMarco, A. Murchland, B. Maldonado, A. Higgins, and S. Richardson.
🔓: lnkd.in/dwivCrXH
#sex #gender #precisionmedicine
🗣️ Featuring talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus a panel discussion and networking reception.
Co-organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab and @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social, supported by @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
Event poster for Gender and the Machine.
Event poster for Gender and the Machine.
📢 GENDER AND THE MACHINE
Join us in Edinburgh on 20 Nov to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI.
🗓️ Thurs 20 Nov 2025
📍 Edinburgh
👋 All welcome
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
#data #AI #tech #emotion #trans #LGBTQ #queer
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04.11.2025 12:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Because numbers are political and what is counted is not a value-neutral representation of the world. Numbers only ever tell a partial story ✨
And... so what if there actually happened to be a numerical 'over-representation' of Black people in UK TV adverts? This is not a bad thing.
Excellent thread, highlighting some of my complaints with a 'numerical diversity' approach to DEI work.
Counting the number of people from a minoritised background (e.g. in TV adverts, company boards, universities) is a flawed method that creates opportunities for the misuse of diversity data 🔢
✨📣 Excited to announce our upcoming event GENDER AND THE MACHINE!
Join us on Nov 20th for an afternoon exploring gender, marginalisation and emotion in tech - talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus panel discussion and networking reception
⬇️ sign up
shorturl.at/QlMfx
“It’s made everything much worse for me. I’m a cis woman and it was supposed to protect me. I was never scared of men in the first place. I didn’t need this ruling, but now we’ve got it I am now scared of some women, so will avoid the places they gather in their so-called safe women only spaces.” CIS WOMAN, ENGLAND
“The most recent is that I went to the ladies’ loo at Victoria station. A group of young women gathered around me and told me I should get out saying ‘don’t you know you’re not allowed in here anymore’. I … locked myself in a loo. They stood outside and were banging on the door and shouting that they were going to call the police and that I was ‘disgusting’ and had no right to be born and all sorts of horrible things …I’m a cis woman and just happen to be tall and quite flat chested and wear my hair short. Before the ruling any challenges had been gentle, like ‘oh by the way this is the ladies’ and people were embarrassed or apologetic when I said ‘it’s okay I’m a girl’. but now it’s aggressive and horrible…” CIS WOMAN, ENGLAND
I felt so ashamed. I avoided using public toilets for weeks. Gender-non-conforming cis woman, East Midlands
Important.
@transactualuk.bsky.social have released a new report about the harm caused by the Supreme Court misjudgement & the EHRC's interpretation of it.
It shows how the ruling & interpretation is also harming cis women. Those it was supposed to "protect".
transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Flyer for rainbowR meet-up. Bright rainbow striped background, inside a dark navy box with bright text in rainbow colours: rainbowR zoom meet-up: Wednesday Oct 29th, 4:30pm UTC. Sign up via rainbowR.org/meetups
🌈 rainbowR meet-up today: Wed Oct 29th, 4:30pm UTC 🌈
- connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️🌈
- ask questions about R 🙋
- tell us about an R package you like 📦
- show us something R-related you’ve done 💻
Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups - NEW LINK AND TIME FOR WINTER SERIES
Have now gone down this rabbit hole:
Guidance for HM Passport Office operational staff on how to check, add and record titles and observations on a passport
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Very interesting! I guess I want as little info about me on my passport as possible - can't imagine the added stress of having a border agent asking me to explain my research!
29.10.2025 10:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Perhaps, although I imagine you would have to submit relevant evidence/documentation during the visa application process.
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