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Sadly that job came to an end when the boss lost his wife’s house (he was an undischarged bankrupt so everything was in her name) owing to all his online gambling.

The boss at the leaflet job once tried to fire us all for saying we wouldn’t work if we didn’t get paid for travel. But then our eepy driver whose breath constantly stank of rotting flesh produced a recording he’d secretly made of the boss telling us we could bin what we didn’t deliver. We got paid.

collecting glasses in a club where people regularly had sex at the edge of the dance floor. That first job I kept for years. It was so good in how stupid and chaotic it was.

I am so very very boring in comparison to this. I think the only non-academic jobs I have ever had are a leaflet posting job where the driver regularly fell asleep while driving and the boss fired anyone the second they tried to come off benefits (didn’t want the state to know he existed). And a job

I’ve said this before, but if anyone would like to talk trans or transfeminist legal history at the SLS, I am co-convenor of the legal history stream for the next three years and would very much like to accept your paper. Deadline for abstracts 27 March, conference 2-4 September.

Please share.

I know that I am smart and good at my job. And I also know that that fact has always been mostly invisible in my workplace, both before and after transition. I do amazing stuff but I don’t shout about it and I pull my weight, which is I think unwise.

Same problem isn’t it? You’ve got teaching staff and students at least sometimes treating one another as humans. And then you’ve got management, which apparently simply cannot.

I had a bit of student feedback this week specifically saying how unusual it was to experience teaching as ‘humane’ as mine. Which actually made me feel much worse about my job, because I know just how invisible that sort of thing is. But yeah, it’s one of the things that actually feels worthwhile.

I really wish we could find a way to value teaching that treats students as humans.

British female track and field athletes are being asked to cover the cost of their own £185 sex tests if they want to compete internationally. Because curbing trans people's rights to participate in anything subjects everyone to intrusive scrutiny and here, hefty expense. This is not a 'them' issue.

This is deeply infuriating news

The important thing is that leadership is when you smash things up in a masculine fashion.

I did one of those last year. The overwhelming sense among my group after months of meetings was that it was extremely disempowering to painstakingly unpack the ways we lead differently to cishet men if this wasn’t going to be followed by a clear sense that our employer would meet us where we are.

CONGRATULATIONS

Really getting into the swing of using emotes on Outlook now. But I'm disappointed to note that it doesn't have my love, my favourite, my 🙏

I think the assumption is also that transition is something we do to other people, and that families inevitably collapse following transition.

Facebook comment from Girlguiding’s official page. Girlguiding Hi everyone, We're aware of the Good Law Project campaign and the offers being made. Right now, our priority is engaging with our members and exploring how we can continue to champion inclusion while remaining within the law. Inclusion matters deeply to us, and we will continue to support young people and adults in marginalised groups. As part of this, the taskforce is exploring opportunities for trans girls and trans women to connect with and be supported by Girlguiding, while working within our equality and diversity policy. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

Girlguiding seemingly deciding not to take up Good Law Project’s offer of help and continuing to go down the route of excluding trans girls.

I think this dispels the idea that their leadership had their hands were tied by threat of costly legal action. They saw a chance and took it post FWS.

Wait. Hang on. I’m currently putting together a very speculative Reader application, and one of the perks there is that you get to pick your own job title. Hmm …

Yeah my employer is unlikely to ever address me as the Whore of Babylon sadly.

I mostly get called a cunt or a bitch despite very much not passing, so hurrah for me I guess.

Sure, but I’m trying to imagine a scenario where that hypothetical isn’t immediately upended by the discriminating person saying lol no this bitch doesn’t pass

Because I am protected by equality law if it’s option two but not if it’s option one. But clearly there’s no need for me to understand how I stand in relation to the law.

I would like to understand whether passing here means ‘congratulations you’ve hidden your queerness and are therefore subject to criminalisation should you fuck’; or whether passing means ‘you are socially legible as the thing you are going for’.

I wanted to add that, but character limit!

But yeah, this is extra fun of course because it’s built on an unspecified aesthetic judgement which makes the practical existence of this protection depend on *someone* (who knows who?) thinking that you pass.

I agree.

If you have two trans men who are married, and one but not the other has a GRC, you have:
1. The social position, that they are a male gay couple.
2. The legal position (marriage law), that they are a heterosexual couple.
3. The legal position (equality law), that they are a lesbian couple.

This is a good article.

I think tbf the law is clear on this point. We are only protected in these circumstances if we are willing to do a fun bit of self-effacement.

Yeah, it’s not just trans people who were absent in that judgment. It’s the broader queer majority. Perhaps it would have been helpful if some of the big queer orgs had bothered to ask for standing, rather than presumably assuming the law was so clear that this was unnecessary.

Just go the whole hog and restore multi-member city and county constituencies. We could even revive university seats.