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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 16h

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Letter discussing issues related to trans rights with recommendations for government compliance. Signed by Dr. McCloud and Mrs. Duerinckx. Mentions legal scrutiny.

Transcript of a discussion about gender recognition and discrimination. Vera Baird emphasizes that a certificate confirms legal recognition of a woman and protections under sex discrimination laws. Dr. Harris queries these points.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 16h

Letter sent to JCHR and WEC from The Trans Exile Network and the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective 1/2

Letter on organizational letterhead with logos for "Trans Advocacy & Complaints Collective" and "Trans Exile Network." Addressed to UK officials, dated 18 October 2025, discussing legal actions related to rights and equality in Council of Europe.

Text document discussing the UK’s non-compliance with rulings on transsexual rights. It outlines legal actions and laws like the Gender Recognition Act.

A legal document discusses UK trans rights under specific acts, court judgments, and European obligations. It questions compliance with equality norms.

Text-heavy document titled "Closing points" discusses legal issues for transsexual people in the UK regarding recognition and rights, referencing European human rights.

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 6h

And in fact, due to our state's 'positive obligation' to ensure legal gender recognition, this judgment tipped the scales so far against Article 8 rights of trans people that the Government are compelled by the Goodwin judgment to act.

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 6h

The SC judgment _did_ purposefully argue against trans rights. It was not neutral, and did the whole 'balancing of competing rights' thing, happening to tip against trans rights every time.

But our Government is perfectly capable of now instituting more robust protections as a result.

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 6h

We could look at the SC judgment in two different ways:

"Trans people have no rights! Let's get 'em!"
"Trans people have no rights! We need to fix that!"

Our Government is currently pursuing the former strategy. It's our job to show them that the only option is the latter.

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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 1d

**** Trans Exile Network press releaset 24 October 2025 ****
UK and Ireland: 24 October 2025
The Trans Exile Network and the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective write to the Women and Equalities Network in relation to re-opening Human Rights enforcement and seeking questioning of minister

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 1d

Re-read the placard!

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 1d

In 2015, Kishwer Falkner argued in favour of repealing the Human Rights Act. The Tories elected her Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/475...

In 2025, the damage she's done has been laid bare for all to see.

www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-and-hu...

Trans and human rights organisations call for EHRC to be downgraded as an internationally-accredited human rights body

A wide-ranging coalition of trans and human rights organisations are calling on the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to be downgraded as an internationally-accredited human rights body. Th...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 2d

We have formally reported the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), calling for a full investigation and a downgrade or removal of their A-status accreditation.

Full submission:
tacc.org.uk/2025/10/23/p... 1/2

Alt text: "A statement from the Trans Advocacy & Complaints Collective on a pink and blue gradient background expressing concerns about the EHRC's independence and preferential access issues. Includes a website link and a QR code at the bottom."

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 2d

Trans woman: "Haha, I'm kidding."

Article: GENDER TERRORIST 'KIDDING' EXPLAINED

Content: As the trans believe they can identify as cats, new trend of Trap-Neuter-Release of HUMAN CHILDREN emerges. If a trans says they're 'kidding', CALL THE POLICE. Follow us for more trans lingo scoops!

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting position from the Met. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It has two potential lines of reasoning I can see:

1) They're abandoning prosecution of hate crime with only speech components.

2) They're pressuring the Government on the Linehan case by suggesting the above.

Met Police says it will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents

The move comes as an investigation into Graham Linehan is dropped, after his arrest at Heathrow Airport.

www.bbc.co.uk

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 8d

I've wanted to be a weird gremlin that reconciles TERF rhetoric with trans rights for a while now.

"What's so hard to understand? Sex is binary and immutable. People, though, are complex systems, and the sex we 'are' is a social label. Trans men are men, trans women are women. Basic biology."

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 8d

My story 📖: A Path Out of the Gender Critical Movement 🤬, and into Trans Rights Activism 🏳️‍⚧️✊ - Thread 🧵 below (1/x)

I did some self-reflection and stopped being a fucking asshole

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 8d

PEASANT! DO NOT BLASPHEME OUR FEARLESS, ESTEEMED EQUALITIES CHAIR - HER LADYSHIP, HEIR TO THE EMPIRE, MASTER OF DEFLECTING FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, BARONESS OF MARGERINE, MADAM DAME KISHWER "HUMAN RIGHTS" FALKNER.

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 8d

... This is happening for me, too. The only thing linking us is an interest in trans rights.

That's two data points. It's inarguable. Only one option.

a man is walking down a dirt road in a field

ALT: a man is walking down a dirt road in a field

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 9d

This feels very relevant to our Supreme Court, also, where Conor Gearty noted the tendency of 'human rights' style arguments of one group being used to undermine human rights, particularly those relevant to vulnerable groups.

It's all the same thing - rich people getting all of us to in-fight.

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 9d

The public interest test in weighing trans people's usage of public bathrooms and changing facilities in their acquired gender was unquestionable. Deception of the public has not undone the State obligations to ensure effective LGR. This is why the Supreme Court judgment is impossible to implement.

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 9d

This is precisely the reason that the 'for all purposes' clause was implemented for appropriate LGR as passed down in the Goodwin judgment. Little else than examples such as national security interest could reasonably override the state's positive obligation to ensure LGR.

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 9d

Now we've properly contextualised the view of the time - do you spot the issue? - If a widespread public interest in upholding traditional versions of such a sacred tenet were outweighed by the requirement of appropriate LGR, what non-absolute rights WOULDN'T it outweigh?

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 9d

The Government's concern was because fervent traditionalism among the public lead to such widespread opposition to gay marriage, that even a left-wing party in power in 2004 were concerned to lose public confidence through allowing its implementation.

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 9d

Professor Stephen Whittle has discussed the main challenge in getting the Gender Recognition Act (which ensured appropriate LGR) implemented by Parliament - convincing the Government the Act would not allow 'gay marriage by the back door'. This is why the medical diagnosis requirement was created.

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 9d

In the same judgment, the court weighed that Article 8 protections did not extend limitlessly, insofar as to allow gay couples to marry. However, those protections DID outweigh the competing arguments preventing a trans persons right to marry in their acquired gender.

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 9d

The court weighed the UK government's arguments on public interest, biological facets, and bureaucratic hurdles. However, they determined 'no concrete or substantial hardship' would flow from appropriate LGR.

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 9d

Privacy rights are non-absolute. They must be weighed against other competing rights (the one truth in TERF legal bending), such as Article 10 Freedom of Expression rights. Once the privacy right violations were established in Goodwin, the ECtHR needed to weigh the effect of LGR.

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effiarya.bsky.social @effiarya.bsky.social · 9d

In the case, Goodwin's Article 8 Privacy rights were deemed violated. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) noted the applicant 'had been placed in an intermediate zone' as not quite one sex or the other, for the purpose of right to personal identity, and day-to-day provisions of services.

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