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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 1h

Statutory or not, it still is not the law: A statutory code of practice is not a law itself, but it is a form of guidance issued by a statutory body.

Equality and Human Rights Commission @equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 1h

We've written to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to request the government to revoke the 2011 services code and make our updated version statutory. It accurately reflects the law and updated guidance is urgently needed: www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

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Just Being Human ❄️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @woke66.bsky.social · 42m

True 🖕

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1h

Says it all about the way UK mainstream media operates...

Sonia Sodha:
Why do I keep abusing my position as a journalist to publish dishonest anti-trans propaganda? Because I know trans people are banned from responding.

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 6h

I was in a meeting yesterday warning that if we lose the ECHR we are Royally Fucked. I think people think it could never happen - but remember everyone said that about Brexit. Let’s not be as stupid as then.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 20h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Just Being Human ❄️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @woke66.bsky.social · 48m

I hoped against hope that at least the ongoing campaign against the trans community would be toned down or moderated and would hopefully quietly dissipate but sadly it’s continued unabated.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 19h

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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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 18h

Today, we and the Trans Exile Network have made a joint submission to the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK Supreme Court's judgment in the For Women Scotland v. Scottish Ministers case of April 2025.

tacc.org.uk/2025/10/14/p...

Press Release – Submission to the CoE Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK’s non-compliance in Goodwin v. UK - tacc.org.uk

Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network seek urgent re-opening of enforcement of key human rights decision against UK. Today, the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective ...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 7h

Trans people have been warning about these people for *years*

Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 1d

This is a huge story but massively under the radar in the UK.

A US Christian legal org called the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is working to roll back abortion rights here using the same playbook it used in the US: briefing politicians, watching, waiting.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 18h

We have jointly applied to the Council of Europe formally to seek re-opening of enforcement of the case of Goodwin v UK under rule 9 of the Rules for the supervision of the execution of judgments and of the terms of friendly settlements, in the European Court of Human Rights. T

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 3h

Looking back at this and seeing a Labour government choosing option 3 in the most petulant manner possible…

…because this Labour government is determined to be worse than Thatcher for LGBTQIA+ people.

A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 1d

He’s flagging that 🇬🇧 is in breach of it’s obligations with the result being:

1. They change the approach

2. They lose when this gets to the ECHR

3. The 🇬🇧 leaves the international human rights body we imposed on Europe to stop the rise of fascism happening again.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 3h

a skull full of soup.

cinesthetic. @TheCinesth.... 13h
Teaser trailer for 'AMADEUS' starring Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany has been released.

Graham Linehan @Glinner 7h
How would you like to see Amadeus again, except this time Mozart is black?
Me neither! Yet here it is!

Clara @Americana Mama79 6h
That guy is black?

Graham Linehan @Glinner 6h
Apparently not but the point rrrremains!

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 9h

Trans people are not a threat to cis women or anyone or taking away anyone’s human rights.

Mahmoud’s actions reveal that transphobes would rather take away EVERYONE’S human rights, including those of cis women (whose rights to bodily autonomy will be next) than allow basic rights for trans people.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 19h

If Labour doesn't intend to adhere to its human rights obligations anyway, there's little point in us being signatories to the ECHR. Better, more honest, for Mahmood to join Reform in campaigning to leave it.

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NevereverDave.bsky.social @nevereverdave.bsky.social · 19h

Done, I've included Paragraph 472 in Scottish Parliament Stage One Report on GRA Reform from 2022 and there having been no concrete examples of the lobbied threats & harms transgender person's are alleged to present give the EA 2010 is 15yrs trouble free old.

bprcdn.parliament.scot/published/EH...

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 6h

The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇

🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com

“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

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Adam @adamf23.bsky.social · 19h

Absolutely disgusting. The ECHR was created to deal with governments that think like this

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 20h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 18h

People had to complain to get Polanski an interview.

Weird nobody has to beg the BBC to give Farage airtime.

I mean, it's not actually weird. We all know what it is and why it happens.

Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 19h

BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview

www.thenational.scot/news/2554271...

BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview

ZACK Polanski will be interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg after the BBC received complaints from the public for the lack of coverage of the Green Party…

www.thenational.scot

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Just Being Human ❄️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @woke66.bsky.social · 18h

I grew up in the 1970s and 80s and I grew up fearful and ashamed and we’ve been dragged back to those times.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 19h

‘we successfully chased ppl back in to the closet. huzzah!’ — @mattyglesias.bsky.social

if you’re looking for the ppl responsible for contemporary fascism you should start with ‘liberal’ political advisors like matt. without them it wouldn’t have happened.

onion person @junlper.beer · 19h

people are acting like this is a study talking about all trans people but it’s just about nonbinary people which makes sense that this is lower, 9 out of 10 nonbinary people i’ve ever met have now transitioned lol

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court decision is “clear”.

A clear breach of trans people’s human rights:

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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Kev Cunningham @krcunningham.bsky.social · 1d

Even the Times seems to have managed to report on this in an almost reasonable way. But our national broadcaster… they’re too busy with the important stories.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Britain's most remote pub cancels Harry Potter night over backlash

The Old Forge in Knoydart said staff had received 'inappropriate grief' over the Halloween event

www.bbc.co.uk

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 20h

Mahmoud originally said that the transphobic “guidance” from the EHRC should “not be challenged”, now she is saying it is “beyond reproach” even though it breaches basic human rights deliberately and unnecessarily.

She should come clean, she is just a bigot who wants to harm trans people.

Geri Scott
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This has gone down *badly* with some in govt, amid push to reform the ECHR from the inside.
Shabana Mahmood especially is said to take a "dim view" of arguments made and her allies say issue of trans rights after the Supreme Court's judgement is "beyond reproach".
Govt source says "it doesn't help sustain public confidence in the European Convention when the Council is seen to intervene in domestic politics and national security".
(f) Steven Swinford @ @Steven Swinford • 5h
Breaking:
The government's treatment of trans people in the UK could breach the European Convention on Human Rights, Europe's human rights watchdog has claimed...
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Amy 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @amy1.bsky.social · 19h

They'll use this as an excuse to pull out of the ECHR and then blame it all on the trans folk.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 20h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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

A powerful letter to UK ministers from the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, warning strongly about curtailing human rights for trans people in a bogus 'zero-sum game'.

It's clear the Commissioner is deeply worried that ministers are already on this path.

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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Just Being Human ❄️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @woke66.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. The trans community has faced an ongoing orchestrated campaign by sections of the media and political class against their rights over the past decade and the SC judgement was the culmination of that and it is now being used to marginalise and exclude them from society.

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