Roz Kaveney
@rozkaveney.bsky.social
Elderly trans novelist and poet living in London.
This is chapter and verse for how and why the Supreme Court judgement is bad law. Not just because of the EA or the GRA or basic human decency or the ECHR or Goodwin Vs UK, but because of law laid down in the late 90s.
1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999 Drafting Instructions - a Freedom of Information request to Government Equalities Office
Please send me copies of the Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999’s Drafting Instructions given to the Parliamentary Counsel. If you can’t locate all versions, send me any one of th...
www.whatdotheyknow.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This is chapter and verse for how and why the Supreme Court judgement is bad law. Not just because of the EA or the GRA or basic human decency or the ECHR or Goodwin Vs UK, but because of law laid down in the late 90s.
Have just blocked @forwomenscotland.bsky.social and 61 followers that I don't need in my life.
November 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Have just blocked @forwomenscotland.bsky.social and 61 followers that I don't need in my life.
The really interesting question about the Times story is who leaked the EHRC guidance document and why. The Government evidence in the GLP's judicial review last week seemed to indicate some weakening of the Government's resolve. It looks as if this is a crude attempt to bully the Government.
November 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The really interesting question about the Times story is who leaked the EHRC guidance document and why. The Government evidence in the GLP's judicial review last week seemed to indicate some weakening of the Government's resolve. It looks as if this is a crude attempt to bully the Government.
Are we going to call it #Bubbagate?
November 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Are we going to call it #Bubbagate?
Seriously...I was an early member of GLF, a former Deputy Chair of Liberty, involved in consultations on both the GRA and the EA and various trans health initiatives. I have had a distinguished career in publishing and writing. Of course they'd never appoint me but turning me down would look bad.
The job adverts for EHRC Commissioners (4 posts) are finally out.
Deadline: 1st December.
If you, or anyone you know, feels brave enough to apply, please do consider putting in an application!
apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9026?b...
Deadline: 1st December.
If you, or anyone you know, feels brave enough to apply, please do consider putting in an application!
apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9026?b...
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Seriously...I was an early member of GLF, a former Deputy Chair of Liberty, involved in consultations on both the GRA and the EA and various trans health initiatives. I have had a distinguished career in publishing and writing. Of course they'd never appoint me but turning me down would look bad.
I am a truly insignificant person who doesn't rate my own Grokipedia entry.
October 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I am a truly insignificant person who doesn't rate my own Grokipedia entry.
Did we all know that Lee Harvey Oswald was an SF reader?
October 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Did we all know that Lee Harvey Oswald was an SF reader?
These are the words I try to live by in my politics.
I had just started reading this over the weekend...
“…you can't throw anybody under the bus. You can't leave anybody behind. And that's become my favorite thing to say to people: I won't throw anybody under the bus, and I'm not leaving anybody. It has to include us all, or it's not going to work.”
“…you can't throw anybody under the bus. You can't leave anybody behind. And that's become my favorite thing to say to people: I won't throw anybody under the bus, and I'm not leaving anybody. It has to include us all, or it's not going to work.”
Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work.
Rest in peace 🖤
Rest in peace 🖤
October 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
These are the words I try to live by in my politics.
Small victories are how we survive and thrive.
October 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Small victories are how we survive and thrive.
Miss Major has passed. One of the best of that generation of trans women of colour who started our fight.
"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."
- Miss Major, 2023 💔
- Miss Major, 2023 💔
October 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Miss Major has passed. One of the best of that generation of trans women of colour who started our fight.
The Attorney General of Texas has ordered an undercover investigation for terrorist conspiracy of anti-fascist and trans groups. The forcefem fiction practically writes itself...
October 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The Attorney General of Texas has ordered an undercover investigation for terrorist conspiracy of anti-fascist and trans groups. The forcefem fiction practically writes itself...
Good man on this issue...
I’ve been appointed to be the local government correspondent of @thenerve_news covering the Russian Spy Party - Нет-нет-нет. Это не «Русская шпионская партия». Это «Реформа Великобритании». Извините за путаницу .
Read @thenerve_news for the latest on @reformparty_uk.
Read @thenerve_news for the latest on @reformparty_uk.
October 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Good man on this issue...
An excellent LRB piece by the late Connor Gearty which sets the For Women Scotland judgement in a broader context of the current UK Supreme Court walking back all uses of the HRA to limit regressive state power and promote extension of human rights.
He will be missed
He will be missed
October 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
An excellent LRB piece by the late Connor Gearty which sets the For Women Scotland judgement in a broader context of the current UK Supreme Court walking back all uses of the HRA to limit regressive state power and promote extension of human rights.
He will be missed
He will be missed
Demo against Digital ID and surveillance state at Angel. A lot of honking in support.
September 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Demo against Digital ID and surveillance state at Angel. A lot of honking in support.
The first of many to get caught, I hope. Too many people in public life have taken money from foreign powers to act in ways that harm us all.
Ironic that so many of them tout conspiracy theories while being part of actual conspiracies.
Ironic that so many of them tout conspiracy theories while being part of actual conspiracies.
Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The first of many to get caught, I hope. Too many people in public life have taken money from foreign powers to act in ways that harm us all.
Ironic that so many of them tout conspiracy theories while being part of actual conspiracies.
Ironic that so many of them tout conspiracy theories while being part of actual conspiracies.
This is an excellent thread on how the brilliance of Vergil is closely tied to his ambivalence about power and success. It can be argued that the effectiveness of Octavian/Augustus was that he tolerated that level of ambivalence towards his autocratic rule from great artists.
If you view the Aeneid simply as Vergil writing self-insert fan-fic, you are missing the complexity of the poem.
Vergil tasked with writing *the* definitive version of Rome's founding myths at the dawn of a new autocracy whose autocrat claims direct descent from Aeneas and this is what he writes!
Vergil tasked with writing *the* definitive version of Rome's founding myths at the dawn of a new autocracy whose autocrat claims direct descent from Aeneas and this is what he writes!
September 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This is an excellent thread on how the brilliance of Vergil is closely tied to his ambivalence about power and success. It can be argued that the effectiveness of Octavian/Augustus was that he tolerated that level of ambivalence towards his autocratic rule from great artists.
Ian Dunt being excellent - if on Substack - about Starmer's version of ID cards as an example of the folly of making concessions to racist populism.
substack.com/@iandunt/not...
substack.com/@iandunt/not...
ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea
Many people I admire believe firmly in ID cards, or have grown to accept them. This is why they're wrong.
substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Ian Dunt being excellent - if on Substack - about Starmer's version of ID cards as an example of the folly of making concessions to racist populism.
substack.com/@iandunt/not...
substack.com/@iandunt/not...
Excellent piece by @notrightruth.bsky.social about trans community as the antidote to trans despair.
ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...
ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...
Reject Trans Doom-Posting
This week I took the long train down to the south of England for my friend Robyn’s funeral. She died very suddenly three weeks ago, aged just 32. Robyn gave so much love to the world, and was so lo…
ruthpearce.net
September 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Excellent piece by @notrightruth.bsky.social about trans community as the antidote to trans despair.
ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...
ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...
One of the reasons why the Right oppress trans people while also consuming vast amounts of porn about us is that they want to keep us poor, marginalised and available for low paid sex work. They hate the idea of our having other options.
September 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
One of the reasons why the Right oppress trans people while also consuming vast amounts of porn about us is that they want to keep us poor, marginalised and available for low paid sex work. They hate the idea of our having other options.
Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men.
There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years
There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years
September 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men.
There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years
There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years
Russia is facing a cold cold winter with the logistics of keeping warm seriously fucked and a million war dead. Constant provocations are intended to make NATO do something that will enable Putin to unify Russians in patriotism.
Which makes Trump's suddenly turn to hawkishness a bit interesting.
Which makes Trump's suddenly turn to hawkishness a bit interesting.
September 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Russia is facing a cold cold winter with the logistics of keeping warm seriously fucked and a million war dead. Constant provocations are intended to make NATO do something that will enable Putin to unify Russians in patriotism.
Which makes Trump's suddenly turn to hawkishness a bit interesting.
Which makes Trump's suddenly turn to hawkishness a bit interesting.
I'm very excited to see that there's a new monograph about the work of Tessa Boffin.
September 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I'm very excited to see that there's a new monograph about the work of Tessa Boffin.
This is amazingly good news though too late for the two friends of mine that out killed.
September 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is amazingly good news though too late for the two friends of mine that out killed.
He's definitely plotting to get rid of Starmer and become PM, and has realised transphobia might get in his way. I mean, his other major areas of liability are his relationship with private health care and his personality and he clearly can't change either of those....
"Health Secretary Wes Streeting has vowed to ensure the safety of LGBTQ+ patients in the NHS after hearing “firsthand” trans harassment accounts"
Yeah Wes, the trans harassment is actually coming from you
(Oh look, bonus points for him squeezing in a "Dignity and Respect" there as well)
Yeah Wes, the trans harassment is actually coming from you
(Oh look, bonus points for him squeezing in a "Dignity and Respect" there as well)
Screenshot with alt text so people don't have to sift through
September 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
He's definitely plotting to get rid of Starmer and become PM, and has realised transphobia might get in his way. I mean, his other major areas of liability are his relationship with private health care and his personality and he clearly can't change either of those....
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Farage wants the UK to quit the ECHR. It is exactly what Putin wants, for the UK to join Russia and Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR. It would be a huge victory for Putin in his war against human rights and the international rule of law.
Farage is a traitor.
Farage is a traitor.
September 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Farage wants the UK to quit the ECHR. It is exactly what Putin wants, for the UK to join Russia and Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR. It would be a huge victory for Putin in his war against human rights and the international rule of law.
Farage is a traitor.
Farage is a traitor.