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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 17h

I think it would have surprised even the most pessimistic if you'd told people during the 2024 campaign that a year into Government Starmer's team would be negatively briefing against the ECHR and Council of Europe for daring to question their assault on trans rights

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 4h

I am getting a degree of bodily scrutiny this morning that usually means my outfit is good

Mirror selfie of me in black boots, pink dress, black jacket

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 4h

Perhaps it’s the 4 hrs’ sleep. Or the 6 hours of back to back meetings ahead of me. Or the fact all the teaching and meetings makes my various tasks impossible but no less essential to complete. Or the fact I’ll be working on corrections until 10pm for the next week. But I’m feeling pretty defeated.

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 5h

I Saw The TV Glow, 2024

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 14h

Who am I to pontificate about any of this? I am someone who is deeply annoying and knows fuck all about anything.

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 14h

This is a thing I worry about for myself. My job means I have some cultural protection about saying ‘I’m trans and here’s what I reckon’ at a time where the imperative for many trans people is to hide. But that job also means my trans perspective is necessarily unusual to the point of irrelevance.

Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 1d

I genuinely think Ari Drennen does not think of trans people who exist below a certain tax bracket, yet insists on generalizing her incredibly narrow and limited worldview to the experiences of a population pushed out of the formal economy worldwide.

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 15h

Film 239 of 2025: The Lair of the White Worm

Endearingly shit

A ★★★ review of The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

It’s nice, watching all sorts of stuff, and starting to draw links between different things. For example, I am now reasonably sure that Starve Acre was referencing this. This is an extremely arch fil...

boxd.it

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 19h

I like to imagine myself as a robust, solid, unflappable sort of a person. And yet the state and the media’s disciplinary apparatuses inevitably get me. I’ve just got back home and I am absolutely bursting for a piss.

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 21h

The Hodge sex position is just so bad.

Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 1d

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...

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

www.coe.int

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 23h

While I’m very happy to find myself a part of the cool group of creatives, I really think you’re barking up the wrong tree once you’re describing artists and teachers as a part of ‘the establishment’.

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d

Electoral Calculus and Find Out Now have run a 'poll' of the political leanings of the 'Establishment' for the Telegraph. They define the Establishment as lecturers, teachers, civil servants & professionals, armed services & police. Not finance & banking, media, corporations, companies, security..

Establishment Poll 2025

www.electoralcalculus.co.uk

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Hello trans friends. I have one hour left of the nine hours of teaching I’ve had to do at the start of this week. Imagine having to use your voice like this for nine hours across two days.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 1d

This is quite long, and probably quite dense for anyone who isn't a law person; but I think this article remains one of the best primers on what went wrong in the UK Supreme Court's analysis: goodlawproject.org/for-women-sc...

For Women Scotland: a legal critique | Good Law Project

April’s Supreme Court decision is being treated as the final word. But the judgment has introduced considerable uncertainty to the law, and some parts appear to set back the rights of trans people by ...

goodlawproject.org

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 1d

The more immediate backdrop to the GRA was the decision of the European Court of Human Rights that the failure of the British state since its removal in 1970 to have a system for legal gender recognition was a human rights breach, and there's plenty written about that

Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 1d

I think this recent short article does a good job of summarising the background European position as regards the EU (which of course was the appropriate institutional background when the 2010 Act was passed): journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...

'For Women Scotland' and the CJEU's conceptualisation of sex discrimination | feminists@law

journals.kent.ac.uk

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. Now that the UKSC has implausibly decided that, contrary to the express parliamentary intent in 2010 and fifteen years of settled use, the Equality Act was always intended as a trans ban and a partial repeal of the GRA, it certainly falls to politicians to do their jobs.

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. There’s an incorrect line that’s been shared that says the nice people of the Supreme Court couldn’t have ruled any other way, and that entirely and unnecessarily absolves them of the as a professional matter shockingly low quality of their reasoning in among others the way you suggest.

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry to be replying to your various comments separately, but the European legal context in which the 2004 Act was passed was very much about sex assignation

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 1d

We absolutely can interpret laws based on what we think they mean, and the courts do this all the time. Various principles of statutory interpretation boil down to ‘the text is unclear, so what do we think was intended?’

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 1d

If it is correct that Bridget Phillipson is sitting on the new, post Supreme Court ruling EHRC guidance on trans rights (and I think it v. plausible) so as not to lose deputy leadership votes of pro-LGBT+ MPs, then not only is that sickeningly cynical, but guidance must be off-the-scale extreme.

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 1d

I love to have my legal rights depend utterly on the capricious whim of a nepo wanker.

Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 1d

Lol
archive.is/2025.10.13-1...

Bridget Phillipson 'delaying trans guidance to help deputy leader bid'
The equalities minister is accused of pushing back publication of a code on single-sex spaces until after the Labour election ends
Those close to Bridget Phillipson, who is also education secretary, said her opponents were "weaponising gender issues" in a "cynical and divisive" way

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 5d

From a presentation by Dr Hamnvik at the Oslo Trans Health Conference.

The column on the left is the diagnostic guidelines for gender incongruence.

The middle & right columns are the diagnostic criteria for depression.

If a GP can diagnose depression they can diagnose gender incongruence.

Text too small to see. Small amount in left column, huge amount of text in the other columns

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations!

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s vital that we observe the international networks that are working to eliminate abortion access. And just as vital that we observe that journalists only notice attacks on reproductive and other bodily and social freedoms once they affect people those journalists regard as fully human.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 2d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 3d

Provoke and Publicise was originally used as a strategy by the racist segregationists about Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957 to try and enforce a different, but equally invalid form of apartheid. It involves provoking a response from the victims of oppression and then…

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 3d

We also wrote over 4 months ago to the Brighton Centre and begged them to cancel hosting a de facto genocidal hate movement that wraps itself in the camouflage of feminism.

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