Jay Todd 🏳️⚧️
@jaytoddgla.bsky.social
Non-binary researcher of trans lives in the UK. they/them
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/jaytodd/
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Jay Todd 🏳️⚧️
@jaytoddgla.bsky.social
· Apr 22
Exploring Young Trans and Non-binary People’s Strategies and Spaces for Navigating Marginality in the United Kingdom: A Novel Resilience, Resistance, and Restoration Framework
Amid recent, unprecedented sociopolitical scrutiny and hypervisibility of young trans people in the United Kingdom, this article considers how trans youth develop individual and collective mechanis...
www.tandfonline.com
Amidst the bleakness, I've just published an article exploring how young trans people are dealing with life in the UK @geographers.bsky.social. Do read to understand more about how trans youth are navigating & thriving in these times. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I wonder if there are any “”gender critical”” people who look at Trump spouting fascism for over an hour an counting and question that they’ve chosen to align their views with his?
January 20, 2026 at 8:03 PM
I wonder if there are any “”gender critical”” people who look at Trump spouting fascism for over an hour an counting and question that they’ve chosen to align their views with his?
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Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
January 19, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
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"Imagine this comparable example: as a gender and sexuality researcher, if I deem that data about gay men needs to satisfy [..] I could similarly conclude that ‘gay data’ does not exist when I fail to find data that matches my narrow criteria.When you author the definition you determine the results"
January 19, 2026 at 3:51 PM
"Imagine this comparable example: as a gender and sexuality researcher, if I deem that data about gay men needs to satisfy [..] I could similarly conclude that ‘gay data’ does not exist when I fail to find data that matches my narrow criteria.When you author the definition you determine the results"
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This is a truly shitty way to treat your staff. You can't deduct pay for work that you already haven't paid them to do. Shame on Sheffield Uni and its cruel managers who clearly know nothing about maintaining positive staff relations or good will!
Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
January 19, 2026 at 4:51 PM
This is a truly shitty way to treat your staff. You can't deduct pay for work that you already haven't paid them to do. Shame on Sheffield Uni and its cruel managers who clearly know nothing about maintaining positive staff relations or good will!
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These tactics – which mirror the anti-trans politics of the Trump administration – is about changing something within trans people rather than changing the signage on toilets and changing rooms.
Read here (open access): doi.org/10.1080/0958...
#data #trans #gender #queer #research #LGBTQ #UK
Read here (open access): doi.org/10.1080/0958...
#data #trans #gender #queer #research #LGBTQ #UK
Trans-exclusionary data activism in the UK
In the UK, the design and management of sex and gender categories in data – including census questions, police and health records, and digital ID – has become a key focus of trans-exclusionary acti...
doi.org
January 19, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Just watched Kier Starmer's word salad nothing statement - why did he even get out of bed?
January 19, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Just watched Kier Starmer's word salad nothing statement - why did he even get out of bed?
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This cannot be emphasised enough: the phrase is itself eliminationist as it sets up being trans as pretense/deception and is calculated to pruriently evoke body parts & elicit disgust.
The ferocity with which the vile phrase “a biological male who identifies as a woman” is being embedded across multiple media in Britain is horrifying. It shows how quickly support for eliminationist attacks against trans and gender diverse people is being solidified
January 18, 2026 at 12:27 PM
This cannot be emphasised enough: the phrase is itself eliminationist as it sets up being trans as pretense/deception and is calculated to pruriently evoke body parts & elicit disgust.
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"Trans zealots" - it was one trans woman who'd worked without issue for 4 years until this lot came along
January 18, 2026 at 8:29 AM
"Trans zealots" - it was one trans woman who'd worked without issue for 4 years until this lot came along
Academics - we should be very worried about and acting to avoid this language becoming adopted by funders, universities, our institutions.
The ferocity with which the vile phrase “a biological male who identifies as a woman” is being embedded across multiple media in Britain is horrifying. It shows how quickly support for eliminationist attacks against trans and gender diverse people is being solidified
January 18, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Academics - we should be very worried about and acting to avoid this language becoming adopted by funders, universities, our institutions.
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The ferocity with which the vile phrase “a biological male who identifies as a woman” is being embedded across multiple media in Britain is horrifying. It shows how quickly support for eliminationist attacks against trans and gender diverse people is being solidified
January 18, 2026 at 9:52 AM
The ferocity with which the vile phrase “a biological male who identifies as a woman” is being embedded across multiple media in Britain is horrifying. It shows how quickly support for eliminationist attacks against trans and gender diverse people is being solidified
Newcastle was really feeding us Lambs today
not me and @jaytoddgla.bsky.social being in like 3 different shops and Fantasy by Mariah being on in all of them
January 17, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Newcastle was really feeding us Lambs today
Utterly astonishing yet entirely predictable.
FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"
January 17, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Utterly astonishing yet entirely predictable.
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Chair of EHRC seeking a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss not only ‘mutual priorities’ but also ‘ways to work together going forward’! 🤔
Utterly inappropriate from a supposedly neutral Chair of the EHRC. Interested to see what will @commonswec.parliament.uk have to say?
Utterly inappropriate from a supposedly neutral Chair of the EHRC. Interested to see what will @commonswec.parliament.uk have to say?
FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"
January 17, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Chair of EHRC seeking a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss not only ‘mutual priorities’ but also ‘ways to work together going forward’! 🤔
Utterly inappropriate from a supposedly neutral Chair of the EHRC. Interested to see what will @commonswec.parliament.uk have to say?
Utterly inappropriate from a supposedly neutral Chair of the EHRC. Interested to see what will @commonswec.parliament.uk have to say?
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FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"
January 17, 2026 at 3:53 AM
FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"
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I find this sickening, tbh. The claim that simply being in the presence of a trans woman creates a “a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment” for cis women could not be more transphobic* if it tried.
*Literally: showing discrimination against, aversion to, or fear of, transgender people
*Literally: showing discrimination against, aversion to, or fear of, transgender people
'Listen to women' NHS nurses say, after tribunal rules sharing changing room with trans woman 'violated dignity'
However, the tribunal dismissed several other claims, finding that the trans woman had not harassed or victimised the nurses.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 2:48 PM
I find this sickening, tbh. The claim that simply being in the presence of a trans woman creates a “a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment” for cis women could not be more transphobic* if it tried.
*Literally: showing discrimination against, aversion to, or fear of, transgender people
*Literally: showing discrimination against, aversion to, or fear of, transgender people
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It is degrading to cis people to have to share a changing room with trans people.
Good to know.
Good to know.
January 16, 2026 at 12:10 PM
It is degrading to cis people to have to share a changing room with trans people.
Good to know.
Good to know.
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With characteristic intellectual dishonesty, The Times, and Geraldine Scott, having come to us for quote have deliberately omitted most of what we said in response. Compare and contrast. 2/2
!["In our legal system the working out in subsequent cases of the consequences of a final court of appeal decision is entirely routine. It is extraordinary that a KC should seek to delegitimise that process. The inconvenient truth is that both Ms Reindorf and The Times chose to ignore what the Supreme Court actually said, and I quote from paragraph 248, 'this interpretation [does] not have the effect of disadvantaging or removing important protection under the EA 2010 from trans people'."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xurjtu2wa2akyi64gab34ahg/bafkreigieffwg3q3anocydvsneiv2wfbwhr4m3zskjo4l7e72ovxhpouem@jpeg)
January 16, 2026 at 5:06 PM
With characteristic intellectual dishonesty, The Times, and Geraldine Scott, having come to us for quote have deliberately omitted most of what we said in response. Compare and contrast. 2/2
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We’ve today formally written to multiple public bodies about BBC reporting on transgender people.
Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6
Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6
December 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We’ve today formally written to multiple public bodies about BBC reporting on transgender people.
Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6
Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6
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Virgin Active decided to restrict changing room access based on 'biological sex'. We're acting for, and financially supporting, a non-binary transmasculine person and a trans woman who are suing it for breaching the Equality Act.
We've published the Letter Before Action.
We've published the Letter Before Action.
We’re suing Virgin Active over their transphobic rules | Good Law Project
Last summer Virgin Active banned trans people from bathrooms and changing rooms across the UK – so we’re taking them to court
goodlaw.social
January 15, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Virgin Active decided to restrict changing room access based on 'biological sex'. We're acting for, and financially supporting, a non-binary transmasculine person and a trans woman who are suing it for breaching the Equality Act.
We've published the Letter Before Action.
We've published the Letter Before Action.
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This was an excellent launch event today. I'm hugely grateful for the invite to contribute as a discussant, and to be in such great company among the respondents. Huge thanks to the research team for the report, for organising the event, and for creating such a supportive space.
Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography.
Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work.
Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change.
Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT):
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
Read report:
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work.
Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change.
Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT):
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
Read report:
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography
Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.
www.rgs.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:19 PM
This was an excellent launch event today. I'm hugely grateful for the invite to contribute as a discussant, and to be in such great company among the respondents. Huge thanks to the research team for the report, for organising the event, and for creating such a supportive space.
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'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.'
Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
Use of fixed-term posts ‘stifling more critical research’
Scholars with short contracts seen as more likely to favour doing ‘safer’ work, with ‘serious ramifications’ for their disciplines
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:08 AM
'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.'
Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
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this was a hugely impactful event, centring on the multiple costs of chronic and endemic precarity in UK HE. the full report and some highly practical action plans are here: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #HigherEd
@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #HigherEd
@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 6:42 PM
this was a hugely impactful event, centring on the multiple costs of chronic and endemic precarity in UK HE. the full report and some highly practical action plans are here: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #HigherEd
@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #HigherEd
@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social
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There are whole university service departments, employing significant numbers of skilled, professional people, spending their time on bids which fail 60 - 80% of the time, at least...
Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals.
What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
January 14, 2026 at 8:36 AM
There are whole university service departments, employing significant numbers of skilled, professional people, spending their time on bids which fail 60 - 80% of the time, at least...
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Costs of applying for grants amount to more than the value of the grants themselves. What excellent value for money for taxpayers!!!!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Client Challenge
www.nature.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Costs of applying for grants amount to more than the value of the grants themselves. What excellent value for money for taxpayers!!!!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We need to talk about the applicationification of academia - I’m currently sat writing an application to use a room for free at the university that employs me 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
January 14, 2026 at 11:29 AM
We need to talk about the applicationification of academia - I’m currently sat writing an application to use a room for free at the university that employs me 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄