Fran Amery

When she does*

It's the uncertainty right. Like my partner mostly doesn't get clocked but that 2% of time when we does is gonna be enough to have her looking over her shoulder permanently

Trans healthcare trolley problem An unknown number of trans people have been tied to one of the train tracks, while a runaway trolley is set to roll down the empty track, saving the trans people. However, that guy over there might voluntarily walk onto the train track. Do you pull the lever, sacrificing the trans people to protect that one guy from possibly making a mistake?

TRANS HEALTHCARE TROLLEY PROBLEM

A runaway trolley is set to roll down the empty track, saving the trans people.

However, that guy over there might voluntarily walk onto the train track.

Do you pull the lever, sacrificing the trans people to protect that one guy from possibly making a mistake?

Westminster's top minds have finally found something it's acceptable to criticise Farage on

From this, it seems the new free speech legislation for universities has made it so being someone who is actively combatting discrimination is at least as bad, if not worse, than being someone who engages in discrimination.

There is 0 chance this doesn’t result in disaster.

Critics claim gender clinics are seeing an excess of trans boys. But new data suggest otherwise Some claim ‘social contagion’ is driving teenagers who were assigned female at birth to identify as transgender and seek medical care.

I'm glad this specifically names and discusses the mechanisms of societal transmisogyny and harsh policing of transfemininity under patriarchy, which results in transfems staying closeted for longer. While the number of trans men and women are roughly equal, trans women tend to come out later.

In UoBath pay data staff who did not disclose their sexual orientation or disability status have higher average pay even than those who disclosed being straight or abled and I have always really wanted to get to the bottom of this! Has anyone spotted something similar in institutional data?

Wait are you the head of PIR or is the unicorn?

I've been working on a queer history walking tour with OutStories this past year and we're almost ready to launch it!

If you're in Bristol, Bath and surroundings - watch this space 💙

but it was ‘political correctness’ that stopped the police properly investigating

The uterus is the original 3D printer (a line I first heard from @roseveleth.com).

I'm hearing anecdotal reports of trans people being turned away from hospital because there are no "private rooms" and they are refusing to put them in single sex wards.

If this happens to you (physical health)

Ask for a senior nurse, explain things to them

Take all their names

Cont.

The banning of pornography always, always ends with the forced removal of queer and trans people from anything remotely resembling public life. it is an attempt to keep us impoverished, to keep us desperate, to alienate us from each other and our communities.

We know Wes Streeting had a hour or more face to face with trans teens pouring their hearts out, and the next week banned the healthcare they said had saved their lives.

The leaders are not lacking in information.

They either hate us, or have decided we are politically expendable

UK under a Labour government:

Healthcare – criminalised
Trans teens being medically detransitioned
Forced conversion practices disguised as therapy
Forced identity investigation
Social transition denied
Segregated and humiliated at school
Excluded from sports

Some of the same far right influencers praising the rioters attacking an asylum hotel in Essex last night were on the same platform as “social justice” anti rape company Enough last month

This is about my working theory, yes! But we have so little to go on

Meanwhile, on the REF2029 CKU front, 'diversity of outputs' has become all the rage, apparently diverting scrutiny of the known 'diversity of researchers' problem toward the 'representativeness' of submitted outputs notwithstanding the dismal human EDI stats in REF2021. 3/3

In UoBath pay data staff who did not disclose their sexual orientation or disability status have higher average pay even than those who disclosed being straight or abled and I have always really wanted to get to the bottom of this! Has anyone spotted something similar in institutional data?

It is important to be impartial on whether people should have rights - Britain in 2025

This article is confusing because it quotes draft guidance under the tories and mentions changes in the new guidance apparently published Tuesday, but that guidance actually isn't out anywhere I can find yet. So it's unclear if the bad parts of the draft guidance made it in. Or if they're worse now.

It feels like living in a parallel universe at the moment: the disabled people and their loved ones experiencing this horror, and the currently able people who have no idea. If you're not following @francesryan.bsky.social you need to be - this article is essential reading - please share.

Yep. It's conflating gender recognition with gender reassignment. The law is pretty clear they aren't the same.

Every day I hear of more trans kids dropping (being forced) out of school. Kids who have used the bathroom with no bother for years, sometimes throughout their school years, who are now being forcibly outed, excluded, isolated, & segregated. 1/3

Hey abortion friends, consider submitting a proposal for my edited collection 'Abortion Within and Beyond Medico-Legal Frameworks' 👇

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/... #repro #abortion

absolutely spot on re: why time limits function through stigmatising, anti-abortion logics.

these are also the same logics underpinning the so-called decrim amendments: ‘the time limit doesn’t change’.

This thread is the reality that me and other parents supporting trans kids are living right now.

The UK is pushing conversion on all trans kids, and directing state violence against anyone who tries to provide the affirmative healthcare and social support that is a basic right for any trans kid.

Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police.

Thank you, Wes Streeting.

This is because of the Online Safety Act, and UK folks had better get used to doing this because every site on the internet that "is likely to be accessed by children" and has users in the UK will be doing this as of 25 July; that's Ofcom's deadline.