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Great to be at @fvhscot.bsky.social awards tonight at London Welsh Centre. Super to catch up with a fabulous array of friends from #Lgbtq world of #Football @louenglefield.bsky.social @jonhholmes.bsky.social @iainfaefife675.bsky.social @caronmlindsay.bsky.social @pluslibdems.bsky.social @rigg.lgbt

Dinner last night with leading feminist thinkers Dr Charlotte Proudman, Prof Catherine MacKinnon and the Harvard academic Mischa Shuman. One of the most profound compliments for the work I get to do is being considered safe to be invited into intimate spaces in communities to which I do not belong.

Today is the first day of LGBT History Month

LGBT+ people have always been part of our societies, but often their stories are hidden and go untold.

This month is an opportunity to celebrate those stories and continue to campaign for progress.

Ed Davey reflects on LGBT History Month 2026 This LGBT+ History Month we celebrate the contributions of LGBT+ people throughout history, reflect on the struggles they have faced and reaffirm our determination to make progress on equality.

"We honour the trailblazers who came before and stand with the next generation as they push for a fairer future.

Our message is unwavering: you belong, your history matters, and we will continue fighting until everyone is truly free to be who they are."
-Ed Davey
www.libdems.org.uk/news/article...

California joins WHO public health network following US exit, marking a first for any state California joined WHO's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, countering federal withdrawal from the organization.

California has joined the World Health Organization’s GOARN on its own after the US’s departure. We are not a sovereign member state with full voting rights but are part of its network for disease detection and response.

www.abc10.com/article/news...

I can confirm that Sex Matters has been refused permission to bring its anti-democratic, exclusionary, and bigoted challenge to the inclusive space at Hampstead Ponds. More to follow.

Hampstead Heath Ponds to remain inclusive The High Court has blocked a legal challenge from transphobic group Sex Matters, siding with thousands of swimmers who fought to keep the ponds inclusive

Hampstead Ponds will remain inclusive. Our analysis of the judgment.

Hampstead Heath Ponds to remain inclusive The High Court has blocked a legal challenge from transphobic group Sex Matters, siding with thousands of swimmers who fought to keep the ponds inclusive

The High Court has blocked a legal challenge from transphobic group Sex Matters, siding with thousands of swimmers who fought to keep the ponds inclusive

goodlawproject.org/hampstead-he...

It's very hard to combat this stuff - the BBC's three stage internal complaints process is designed to wear people down so it never has to come clean about its lies. The best thing to do, if only for your own self-respect, is stop paying your license fee so you are not funding its misinformation.

GOOD LAW goodlawproject and jolyon_maugham 1 hour ago ... A huge win for trans rights Hampstead ponds will remain trans inclusive

I have met many women who use the pool and hoped this would be the result - enjoy your swim

Collection of logos of organisations that have signed our 'biological sex' letter

Organisations that have signed our “Biological Sex” and Its Variants are Transphobic Slurs open letter.

Any organisation that would like to sign the letter in support, please get in touch with us via DM or our website.

tacc.org.uk/biological-s...

Individuals can also sign via the link above.

For those interested in the Darlington nurses judgement, the BBC now have the tribunal's summary up, but the full judgement is still pending. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

The quotes from the claimants being used in headlines do not accurately portraying the context, based on the tribunal summary.

Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela.

Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe.

Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.

Former Nadeshiko Japan midfielder Marumi Yamazaki, who retired in 2023 after a career spent mostly in the Nadeshiko League with Urawa, Niigata, Nagano and Chiba (along with a short WEL stint at Omiya) has come out as a trans man and announced his marriage.

h/t @rbyryo.bsky.social

632. A wider aspect of evidence we considered concerned an attack on her position in cross examination to the effect that she was generally transphobic, which she denied both when giving evidence initially and on recall (which is addressed further below). Some of the messages she sent are indicative of views which could be described as trans-phobic. In one dated 10 January 2024 the claimant described the second respondent as “it”. In an earlier part of the same message there is reference to the second respondent having a shadow (being in our view a reference to the appearance of stubble on the face) and a “pathetic voice”. These are disparaging remarks in relation to the second respondent in our view, because of the second respondent being a trans woman. 633. In another the second respondent is described as a “weirdo”, which the claimant sought to explain as someone acting weirdly, but which we did not accept as being what she had intended by use of that word. These remarks we consider to be consistent with other evidence of her making comments the second respondent was liable to find offensive that went beyond the simple expression of a gender critical belief, but amounted to personal attacks on the second respondent.

I can't help but remember that "it" is also the word used by the man who murdered poor Brianna Ghey in a transphobic attack.

These people don't have "reasonable concerns" - they are revolting bigots.

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.

She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

B M Kelly v Leonardo UK Ltd: 8001497/2024 Employment Tribunal decision.

This is the second decision - both first instance - since the appalling For (Some) Women Scotland decision to find that there is no trans bathroom ban. www.gov.uk/employment-t...

There were some rather unusual questions asked in cross examination, for example Ms Cunningham asked a question seeking to compare the second respondent to the torturer in the novel 1984, to which objection was taken and after the lunch adjournment but before a decision on that was made it was withdrawn. It ought not to have been asked, but does indicate the extent to which the second respondent’s position was challenged in cross examination.

Some robust criticism is made of the way in which Naomi Cunningham conducted herself. Query whether this is going to come before her professional regulator.

(i) The Supreme Court decision 789. The question that arises from that conclusion is whether the application of the Supreme Court decision must mean that, under the provisions over which this Tribunal has jurisdiction under the 2010 Act as to work, the second respondent as a biological male required to be excluded from the female changing room, such that the permission given by the first respondent to do so was necessarily unlawful under those provisions. We have concluded that the answer is in the negative.

This is the key paragraph in the Sandie Peggie decision.

631. The third aspect was her evidence given when recalled in relation to a message she had passed on to her group of friends which related to floods in Pakistan in the most highly offensive terms. She initially described the messages as “dark humour”. Her evidence later was that the message had been sent to provoke a reaction, in broad summary. We did not consider that latter evidence to be credible given the content of the message sent and her initial evidence about it. In our view it was an untruthful attempt to downplay what she had done, which she recognised as having included very offensive material. We consider that it was clear beyond serious argument that the author or authors of the original message considered the remarks humorous, and that the claimant had also considered them humorous which was why she had passed them on. That was supported in our view by her reference to dark humour

Oooft. Sandie Peggie shared highly offensive messages and was then "untruthful" in giving evidence to the Tribunal.

This is the 'hero' Gender Critical campaigners have chosen.

796. Thirdly, the claimant’s contention was in our view not consistent with the court’s comment that “we have concluded that a biological sex interpretation would not have the effect of disadvantaging or removing important protection under the EA 2010 from trans people (whether with or without a GRC).” 797. After that comment the court explained that a person with gender reassignment as a protected characteristic could pursue a claim of direct or indirect discrimination, or of harassment, if the circumstances so warranted. There was no qualification to it to the effect that that was not applicable in, for example, the context of a single sex space under Part 5 of the Act. If their decision had been that all trans persons must be excluded from the changing rooms or toilets for the sex they identify with because it was not the sex assigned at birth, and may also be excluded from the changing rooms or toilets of their biological sex, that in our view certainly does impact on their rights under section 7. 798. Were the claimant’s contention to be correct that would have the effect of materially reducing the extent to which that protected characteristic could be relied on by trans persons, to their disadvantage. What was desired by the trans person when living their life may not be permitted in a large number of practical instances, and would not have been consistent with the view expressed by Lady Hale in Work and Pensions, and the line of authority in relation to human rights. Such a construction in our view would also not be consistent with the interpretation of the Equal Treatment Directive from the CJEU and its predecessor as referred to above, which remains as assimilated law, and would not be consistent with a purposive interpretation still required. The development of the law in relation to what is now the protected characteristic of gender reassignment is set out above. At the very least we would have expected these considerations to have been addressed speci…

This is a real disaster for those - pretty much the entirety of the British media - advancing a maximalist reading of the For (Some) Women Scotland decision.

Thank you @cajardinemp.bsky.social for pursuing this ! Really appreciated

The transgender experience in the UK right now is basically just waking up to discover what else you've been banned from.

I have called on the Equalities Minister to withdraw badly written guidance for single-sex spaces to protect everyone's rights and ensure trans people are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.

The EU Court of Justice has ruled that all Member States must recognise same sex marriages performed anywhere in the Union. 🌍

This is a huge step for human rights, proving that love and equality know no borders. For liberals, every love matters. 🩷

#Liberals #Equality #HumanRights #LGBTQ #CJEU

BREAKING ‼️
The Govt has just confirmed that Hong Kongers with a BNO passport will still qualify for settlement after 5 years.
I know how much this will mean to so many people - and will be received with a huge sigh of relief.
Proud that our campaign has paid off and the Govt has listened to us!

....that should have been spent on campaigning.

We continue to advocate for changing the law to reverse the effects of the FWS decision. We are also working across the party to develop constitutional proposals to bring back suspended quotas, esp. the LGBT+ quota, to the fullest extent possible.
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...and that the only viable alternative in the face of legal threats would be to suspend gender quotas, despite this being completely against our values. The attempt to instead third-space trans people has wasted a huge amount of staff and volunteer time and effort, not to mention money...
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...and those threatening to sue clearly care about trans exclusion and not women’s liberation.

Several months ago, well before the elections, we advised the party that we supported the existing trans-inclusive gender quotas...
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Statement on the Suspension of Trans-Inclusive Quotas 19 Nov 2025 "We are disappointed that, due to legal pressure from transphobic campaign groups following the For Woman Scotland decision, two eminently reasonable quotas in our party's election regulations have been suspended. These suspensions are profoundly anti-queer, anti-trans and anti-feminist, and those threatening to sue clearly care about trans exclusion and not women’s liberation. Several months ago, well before the elections, we advised the party that we supported the existing trans-inclusive gender quotas and that the only viable alternative in the face of legal threats would be to suspend gender quotas, despite this being completely against our values. The attempt to instead third-space trans people has wasted a huge amount of staff and volunteer time and effort, not to mention money that should have been spent on Liberal Democrat campaigning. We continue to advocate for changing the law to reverse the effects of the For Women Scotland decision. We are also working across the party to develop constitutional proposals to bring back the suspended quotas, particularly the LGBT+ quota, to the fullest extent possible." LGBT+ Liberal Democrats Executive Comittee

We are disappointed that, due to legal pressure from transphobic campaign groups following the For Woman Scotland decision, two eminently reasonable quotas in our party's election regulations have been suspended. These suspensions are profoundly anti-queer, anti-trans and anti-feminist...
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