The US has a unique electoral system where the popular vote can be lost by a candidate or there is a slim margin between candidates and a candidate without a massive majority can be elected president off the back of votes by state representatives who form the electoral college
There's always going to be a vocal minority giving some backlash, calling them out and showing their views aren't shared is the way forward. Not branding visibility as needless and criticising it, that sends the opposite signal and encourages them.
Gay visibility in Chesterfield is neither needless or new, Wednesgay night was a thing in 2002 and it's church is hardly straight.
“I WRITE as a feminist and the parent of a trans teenager. I have also spent years working to safeguard women and children. I understand risk – and where harm comes from”…
Sure is! Mine does exactly the same
Far better than getting them on Amazon 👍
Alternatively you can buy keys from disabled peoples organisations such as shop.disabilityrightsuk.org/products/rad... to put funds into the minority communities & causes.
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
This essay is a tour de force. To trans people, it reads as a grim reminder of the litany of indignities and travesties visited upon us by the UK government. To cis people, I hope, it is a bracing and sobering wake up call to how illiberal the UK and Labour have become. 1/
One additional thought:
Long 🧵
Lemkin Institute calls for GANHRI to withdraw accreditation of EHRC in the UK.
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
Statement by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention about the EHRC.
www.lemkininstitute.com/_files/ugd/c...
Lemkin Institute release, Statement on the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission: Violation of the Paris Principles and erosion of protections for transgender and intersex people.
Read it here ✊🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
bit.ly/EHRCUK
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
I feel the frustration with the lost cause, but keep up with it there's more than one of us 💪
Updated: Starmer’s Labour: The most anti-LGBT+ govt since Thatcher. A list of the awful things they've done and said regarding LGBT+ people, especially trans people.
England wins
The trans rights stitch-up: How the government plans to silence parliamentary debate on the most far-reaching restriction of minority rights in our lifetime open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
@saranahmed.bsky.social’s extensive article documenting how anti-trans extremists have silenced trans academics is a must-read, but will not be covered in UK mainstream media because it goes against the dominant narrative feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/hounded
The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found.
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
Get your cis friends to read this. It reveals how the anti-trans hate groups are really part of a web of extremist right-wing hate groups…
This is a very, very good explanation of the failings and corruption in the Equalities & Human Rights Commission by Ian Dunt. Well worth a read especially for people who are not totally au fait with what is going on.
This is a very good piece.
Smiling 'i have concerns ' transphobia is how the Centre establishment takes away trans people's rights as much as frothing bigotry.
You know its heating up when someone says "Neo nazis"...
Barbs fly as UK Equality Body remains mired in controversy amid latest anti minority Labour PR disaster.
(Tories rubbing hands in glee as Labour falls still further from its LGBTQ pedestal in Pride Month)
medium.com/@selfsovall/...
EXPOSED: Sex Matters met privately with EHRC leadership in Sept, just months before major guidance changes, pushing anti-trans framing under the guise of “clarity.”
TACC obtained the documents via FOI.
tacc.org.uk/2025/05/23/i...
** BREAKING ** UK Trans and Lesbian human rights crisis - #LGBT #LGBTQ
TACC (Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective) tonight releases highly significant press release @tacc.org.uk
tacc.org.uk/2025/05/23/i...
4, all with requests to meet. 1 word salad reply yesterday which completely ignored the issues raised and requests to meet. Rachel Reeves.
