Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️

I grew up riding the 18 bus to School in central Jerusalem and came very close to a horrible death in more than one bomb attack. It hasn’t made me believe that Jewish safety comes from the right to oppress and kill Palestinians. It hasn’t made me scared of Muslims or a supporter of genocide 🧵

Event flyer including photos of the four speakers, and a question: What is the role of geography, geographers, and critical geographical scholarship at a time of anti-trans reactionary politics?

I will be speaking alongside @jaytoddgla.bsky.social, Ed Kiely & @amkanngieser.bsky.social on this panel: ‘A Sense of the Possible: Trans Geographies in Dystopian Times’, 13 Nov 2025, 12:00-1:30 GMT

Sign up for the Zoom link here: rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/trans-geographies-in-dystopian-times

Please read and consider signing the letter in solidarity with Dr Farhana Sultana who has been placed on leave for extramural speech in the context of intensifying repression docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

YouTube video by Library of Eurovision Belgium 🇧🇪 - Eurovision 1969 - Louis Neefs - Jennifer Jennings

I’ll go for Louis Neefs m.youtube.com/watch?v=soyX...

‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK

In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
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Great to see GLINTS up and running! This is a safe and creative space to discuss, explore and collaborate on trans research happening at @uofglasgow.bsky.social - open to academic colleagues and research students.

Picture of the GLINTS logo. Glasgow Lab for Intersex Non-binary and Trans Studies

Thanks to everyone who came to the GLINTS launch yesterday. Great to see so many academics, students & supporters. Excited for the possibilities of this new space. Thanks to @echomikeromeo.bsky.social @notrightruth.bsky.social @kenglish.bsky.social @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & co-directors not on here

weird how researchers keep finding this over and over again in different countries huh??

The answer is clear: Bridget Phillipson needs to send this back to the EHRC and tell them that they need to produce a Code of Practice which outlines how to include trans people in services for their lived gender, not try to mandate exclusion even where the service provider doesn't want this.

Equalities watchdog urges UK ministers to ‘act with speed’ on trans guidance EHRC writes to Bridget Phillipson over implementation of code on single-sex public spaces after supreme court ruling

The EHRC has written to the Minister for Women and Equalities, demanding that she rushes through their dreadful draft Code of Practice.

This is a bizarre intervention from a supposedly impartial public body.

The 2011 EHRC statutory services code was the result of almost two years work. Numerous consultations were held with relevant stakeholders, including many women's and trans groups.

By contrast, the proposed 2025 code was assembled within weeks, with a one-month consultation assessed by genAI.

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

“She affirmed that our lives hold meaning and that we stand on the shoulders of giants like her, whose courageous love and relentless fight assured our right to live with dignity.”

RIP, Miss Major.

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int Strasbourg 14/10/2025

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

Questioning trans kids The UK Government and UK research councils have contributed £10 million pounds to a series of research studies on service users of the newly established Children and Young People’s Gender Services.…

New blog: Questioning Trans Kids

A summary of the questions asked to trans under 18s and families in the new 'PATHWAYS Horizon' study for the new Children's Gender Clinics.

growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...

A picture of the shell game - three red - ish cups, with a hand lifting one to show a dice.

As EHRC leaks a final draft Code of Practice to the Equality Act to the Times then delivers it to govt and attempts to wash its hands of the impact on trans people, its important to recognise and call out the shell game we're in. EHRC will say 'we're just following the Supreme Court judgement' 1/3

Questions to the Equalities Minister today about trans people.
🧵 of relevant clips…

1. Generic statement on diggly and raspberries.

Screenshot of a commentary abstract in Area by Rhianna Garrett (2025) entitled 'The architecture of whiteness' with a black banner at the top. On 27 January 2025, I submitted my doctoral thesis titled ‘The architecture of whiteness: How institutional whiteness shapes academic careers in the UK’, and shared this milestone on X (formally Twitter). However, given the far-right political landscape of the platform, the post became a representative for the very thing I was hoping to challenge—the normalcy of whiteness. In this paper, I define the architecture of whiteness as the metaphorical notion that whiteness is a structure feature of the UK university space—both physically and metaphorically—and focuses institutional investigations on ‘race’ and racism on spatial features that have been built into the walls of the academy. I argue that now more than ever, whiteness must be articulated as more than a phenotype, more than an imagination, more than a system, but as an architecture, particularly in the context of university organisations built by bricks of whiteness.

#OpenAccess in Area:

'The architecture of whiteness' by Rhianna Garrett

In this commentary, the author discusses the experience of using the word 'whiteness' in a viral X social media post celebrating their thesis submission.

doi.org/10.1111/area...

SCREAMING ahahah this is too good

Yvette Cooper days the government will temporarily suspended new refugees family reunion applications.

UNCRC Article 10 (family reunification
Governments must respond quickly and sympathetically if a child or their parents apply to live together in the same country.
If a child’s parents live apart in different countries, the child has the right to visit and keep in contact with both of them.

A photo of the panelists and convenors. From left to right: Elsa Noterman, Marlene H. Jacobsen, Jay Todd, Matej Blazem, Sarah Klosterkamp, Negar-Eloise Behzadi and James Esson.

The panel “What Is Critical Geography, and What Can, and Must, It Be?” yesterday was so necessary to think about the futures we aspire to have - whilst having to address all sorts of emergencies now. Thank you @sklosterkamp.bsky.social for convening! #RGSIBG25

The EHRC don't want your views; TransActual are challenging Government Ministers to do better!

We had no faith that the EHRC would conduct this consultation professionally, fairly or transparently. We asked individuals and organisations to send us copies of their consultation responses.

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

At paragraph 69 of its new schools guidance, the UK government mandates that from 2026 children must be taught that trans people are not recognised at law in their acquired sex. This is indoctrination into accepting a practice which is definitively a human rights abuse.

81% "thought positively" about the EHRC? - a Freedom of Information request to Equality and Human Rights Commission On 11 June 2025, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission gave evidence to the Women and Equalities Select Committee, stating. "But people who thought positively about us were in the reg...

Do you remember when Baroness Falkner said 81% of people thought favorable of the EHRC.

Looks like she may have made it up

www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/81_t...

Guess the W&E committee should be made aware

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

I love that the photo actually has a family of four

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NEW: We’ve uncovered how the EHRC met behind closed doors twice with anti-trans group Sex Matters to discuss rolling back trans rights. What they said will alarm you. 1/6

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