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Equalities Minister tears apart logic of EHRC’s “trans-exclusive” guidance in High Court 👇
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/equalities-minister-tears-apart-logic-of-ehrcs-trans-exclusive-guidance-in-high-court/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/equalities-minister-tears-apart-logic-of-ehrcs-trans-exclusive-guidance-in-high-court/
Equalities Minister tears apart logic of EHRC’s “trans-exclusive” guidance in High Court
The EHRC was irresponsible in rushing out "overly simplistic" and "transphobic guidance", the High Court has heard
www.wearequeeraf.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Equalities Minister tears apart logic of EHRC’s “trans-exclusive” guidance in High Court 👇
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/equalities-minister-tears-apart-logic-of-ehrcs-trans-exclusive-guidance-in-high-court/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/equalities-minister-tears-apart-logic-of-ehrcs-trans-exclusive-guidance-in-high-court/
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If you’re based in Scotland, please stand in solidarity with sex workers by coming to Scotland for Decrim’s protest outside Scottish Parliament next Tuesday. Sex workers and allies will be there protesting Ash Regan’s dangerous Nordic model bill.
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If you’re based in Scotland, please stand in solidarity with sex workers by coming to Scotland for Decrim’s protest outside Scottish Parliament next Tuesday. Sex workers and allies will be there protesting Ash Regan’s dangerous Nordic model bill.
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This is just how the Equality Act is structured re. all sorts of things (including, eg , provision for disabled people as well). You can obviously have criticisms of how that Act is structured but in terms of explaining how it currently works, I don't think the Minister's position is bad.
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
This is just how the Equality Act is structured re. all sorts of things (including, eg , provision for disabled people as well). You can obviously have criticisms of how that Act is structured but in terms of explaining how it currently works, I don't think the Minister's position is bad.
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Seeing a lot of people I frankly thought better of misunderstanding this. It means case by case re. the service provider not the individuals using the service. This is how the Equality Act has worked for years - with providers having to justify exclusion as proportionate.
NEW:
While remaining a neutral party to the case, Bridget Phillipson's lawyers have told the High Court they don't think the EHRC's proposed blanket bathroom ban is the right reading of the law
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
While remaining a neutral party to the case, Bridget Phillipson's lawyers have told the High Court they don't think the EHRC's proposed blanket bathroom ban is the right reading of the law
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Seeing a lot of people I frankly thought better of misunderstanding this. It means case by case re. the service provider not the individuals using the service. This is how the Equality Act has worked for years - with providers having to justify exclusion as proportionate.
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This is contemptible from Labour!
Immigrants make phenomenal contributions to life in the UK - working in pretty much every sector, bringing cultural diversity & creativity to our society.
This scapegoating must stop!
Labour must stop pandering to the far right!
Immigrants make phenomenal contributions to life in the UK - working in pretty much every sector, bringing cultural diversity & creativity to our society.
This scapegoating must stop!
Labour must stop pandering to the far right!
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This is contemptible from Labour!
Immigrants make phenomenal contributions to life in the UK - working in pretty much every sector, bringing cultural diversity & creativity to our society.
This scapegoating must stop!
Labour must stop pandering to the far right!
Immigrants make phenomenal contributions to life in the UK - working in pretty much every sector, bringing cultural diversity & creativity to our society.
This scapegoating must stop!
Labour must stop pandering to the far right!
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‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
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Wes Streeting, one of whose aides was recently found guilty of exposing himself to a child, pictured with Epstein associate Peter Mandelson
It has come to my attention that many of you have been sharing this photo of Streeting and Mandelson widely.
Please remember that Wes Streeting does not like it being shared widely. So please do not share it widely and on every possible occasion. We wouldn’t want to upset him would we?
Please remember that Wes Streeting does not like it being shared widely. So please do not share it widely and on every possible occasion. We wouldn’t want to upset him would we?
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Wes Streeting, one of whose aides was recently found guilty of exposing himself to a child, pictured with Epstein associate Peter Mandelson
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we have GOT to stop thinking about this in terms of hypocrisy because that's not what's going on! we NEED to understand why pedo apologia is so rampant in anti-trans pseudoscience, why abuse is so rampant in the home, why child marriage is still legal across the country etc.
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
we have GOT to stop thinking about this in terms of hypocrisy because that's not what's going on! we NEED to understand why pedo apologia is so rampant in anti-trans pseudoscience, why abuse is so rampant in the home, why child marriage is still legal across the country etc.
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when RWers say "grooming" they mean "threatening my patriarchal sexual authority, corrupting my property, damaging my goods." they don't actually mean anything to do with sexual abuse, which they see as perfectly permissible under the right circumstances.
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
when RWers say "grooming" they mean "threatening my patriarchal sexual authority, corrupting my property, damaging my goods." they don't actually mean anything to do with sexual abuse, which they see as perfectly permissible under the right circumstances.
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when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
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We've worked with Paul McLennan MSP to submit a motion to the Scottish Parliament to recognise Transgender Awareness Week, and Trans Remembrance Day, in the Scottish Parliament.
You can read the motion in full here: www.parliament.scot/.../votes-an...
You can read the motion in full here: www.parliament.scot/.../votes-an...
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
We've worked with Paul McLennan MSP to submit a motion to the Scottish Parliament to recognise Transgender Awareness Week, and Trans Remembrance Day, in the Scottish Parliament.
You can read the motion in full here: www.parliament.scot/.../votes-an...
You can read the motion in full here: www.parliament.scot/.../votes-an...
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Even if you're completely on Bluesky's side on this, thinking that quoting a Johnny Cash lyric in an obvious joke about a Johnny Cash article should be treated like a serious death threat,
What the fuck do you mean, "Our mod team's turnaround time on responding to Death Threats is a month?"
What the fuck do you mean, "Our mod team's turnaround time on responding to Death Threats is a month?"
CORRECTION: The post was made on Oct 10. Due to a backlog in cases, our mod team didn’t review and take action until Nov 11, which is when we engaged with the account owner about the reason for suspension.
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Even if you're completely on Bluesky's side on this, thinking that quoting a Johnny Cash lyric in an obvious joke about a Johnny Cash article should be treated like a serious death threat,
What the fuck do you mean, "Our mod team's turnaround time on responding to Death Threats is a month?"
What the fuck do you mean, "Our mod team's turnaround time on responding to Death Threats is a month?"
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Recently I talked to a woman who had been raped about cross examination. She went into a catatonic state for 15 mins, then asked me to hold her hand, and then began to cry. We discussed whether she should refuse to give evidence - even though it would mean he got off.
And now this 👇🏻
And now this 👇🏻
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Recently I talked to a woman who had been raped about cross examination. She went into a catatonic state for 15 mins, then asked me to hold her hand, and then began to cry. We discussed whether she should refuse to give evidence - even though it would mean he got off.
And now this 👇🏻
And now this 👇🏻
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Why should workers under 18 be paid different rates to do the same job? Young people don’t get a discount on their rent or their food bills ⬇️
November 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Why should workers under 18 be paid different rates to do the same job? Young people don’t get a discount on their rent or their food bills ⬇️
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An additional email was excluded which they applied a section 36 exemption.
This is a low volume of communications considering the vast amount we have already uncovered.
Do we believe SM have eased off on their communications? /3
This is a low volume of communications considering the vast amount we have already uncovered.
Do we believe SM have eased off on their communications? /3
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
An additional email was excluded which they applied a section 36 exemption.
This is a low volume of communications considering the vast amount we have already uncovered.
Do we believe SM have eased off on their communications? /3
This is a low volume of communications considering the vast amount we have already uncovered.
Do we believe SM have eased off on their communications? /3
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This email concerned "the Scottish Government's policy of allowing staff to use opposite sex facilities, which it has now dropped following our action", and an attachment of a letter sent to the CEO of the EHRC. 2/
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This email concerned "the Scottish Government's policy of allowing staff to use opposite sex facilities, which it has now dropped following our action", and an attachment of a letter sent to the CEO of the EHRC. 2/
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Today, we received an FOI requesting the last two months of communications between the EHRC and Sex Matters. The disclosure contained one email. 1/
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Today, we received an FOI requesting the last two months of communications between the EHRC and Sex Matters. The disclosure contained one email. 1/
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Broadcaster and writer Afua Hirsch explaining how Tim Davie the now former BBC Director-General looked her in the eye and said Black staff supporting anti-racism “breached impartiality” www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4fxa6...
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Broadcaster and writer Afua Hirsch explaining how Tim Davie the now former BBC Director-General looked her in the eye and said Black staff supporting anti-racism “breached impartiality” www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4fxa6...
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Like, the family as a safe place that knows and cares for children is a fucking myth. Even queer folk with decent families (like me!) know how much harm just being raised as a default person when you are not that can do. Let alone all the queer folk who have been brutally abused.
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Like, the family as a safe place that knows and cares for children is a fucking myth. Even queer folk with decent families (like me!) know how much harm just being raised as a default person when you are not that can do. Let alone all the queer folk who have been brutally abused.
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I do wonder how many of the cis people acting offended that mere trannies have the gall to call Brianna's mother a ghoul have experienced familial abuse? I wonder how many have buried that shit in order to maintain relationships trans people have to choice but to give up?
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I do wonder how many of the cis people acting offended that mere trannies have the gall to call Brianna's mother a ghoul have experienced familial abuse? I wonder how many have buried that shit in order to maintain relationships trans people have to choice but to give up?
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removing a trans person's connection to the internet is an act of deliberate social isolation with intent to 'convert' and everyone knows it
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
removing a trans person's connection to the internet is an act of deliberate social isolation with intent to 'convert' and everyone knows it
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literally some of the first things my parents said to me before subjecting me to transphobic abuse was "if you lived in the village and had a Nokia with no internet, we wouldn't have this problem"
So, given that a lot of trans people are offended that Brianna's transfemicide is being turned into a crusade against phone use, when Brianna had a supportive online community and was murdered offline by her classmates:
Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?
Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
literally some of the first things my parents said to me before subjecting me to transphobic abuse was "if you lived in the village and had a Nokia with no internet, we wouldn't have this problem"
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So, given that a lot of trans people are offended that Brianna's transfemicide is being turned into a crusade against phone use, when Brianna had a supportive online community and was murdered offline by her classmates:
Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?
Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
So, given that a lot of trans people are offended that Brianna's transfemicide is being turned into a crusade against phone use, when Brianna had a supportive online community and was murdered offline by her classmates:
Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?
Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?
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They see Brianna as Esther's property, and the fact that we would challenge that assertion is an assault on everything they understand about how family works.
We should just shut up and let her grift her daughter's murder into a new career, that's her *right*.
We should just shut up and let her grift her daughter's murder into a new career, that's her *right*.
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
They see Brianna as Esther's property, and the fact that we would challenge that assertion is an assault on everything they understand about how family works.
We should just shut up and let her grift her daughter's murder into a new career, that's her *right*.
We should just shut up and let her grift her daughter's murder into a new career, that's her *right*.
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Beneath all the cries of “ban their phones” lies a more sinister truth:
They fear what happens when Queer kids find each other,
when their connections mean the strength to survive, and their community gives them power to thrive
- A mum of two kids with phones
They fear what happens when Queer kids find each other,
when their connections mean the strength to survive, and their community gives them power to thrive
- A mum of two kids with phones
I hate this "phones" conversation regarding queer people and queer kids because the bottom line is, cishet society KNOWS. Right-wingers KNOW that the internet is how queer people connect to each other---hell, that marginalized people period use it to organize and educate.
That's why they hate it.
That's why they hate it.
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Beneath all the cries of “ban their phones” lies a more sinister truth:
They fear what happens when Queer kids find each other,
when their connections mean the strength to survive, and their community gives them power to thrive
- A mum of two kids with phones
They fear what happens when Queer kids find each other,
when their connections mean the strength to survive, and their community gives them power to thrive
- A mum of two kids with phones