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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 3h

On its 75th anniversary, here's a reminder:

The ECHR defends your rights to speak out, to live freely, to be treated fairly.
When politicians attack it, they’re attacking us.
We need to fight back
https://goodlawproject.org/nigel-farage-is-wrong-about-the-european-convention-on-human-rights/

Nigel Farage is wrong about the European Convention on Human Rights | Good Law Project

The Reform leader is unveiling legislation to leave the ECHR. His arguments are wrong – and that move would be a disaster.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 20h

The moustaches for Movember make it the sexiest month of the year - but we do need to have conversations beyond just “it’s okay to be not okay” and meet men where they are and improve mental health access if we’re going to do better.

Movember: Great Moustaches, Terrible Mental Health Infrastructure

We’ve nailed the slogans and motivational posters. Now it’s time to build the bloody scaffolding underneath them

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jun 15

Shrink from it? He can hardly wait to deliver for his investors.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve looked into where Lib Dems are coming from with their bizarre messaging about publishing the EHRC Code ASAP and I’ve done a kind of briefing statement in response.
This might be helpful to get the message across to the Lib Dems about what is actually needed right now.
Feel free to use & share!

I understand the point of view that, while there is a delay, the fear is that gender critics will continue their law fare and get exclusionary policies embedded. However, I think it’s really important to understand that the Code can only be *published* once it is approved by the Minister for Equalities and laid in Parliament. It will then become statutory after 40 days, *automatically*. Because the Code will be laid under the “negative procedure“, there will be no opportunity for MPs to debate, vote on or change the Code.

MPs can try to table a motion calling for a debate and vote. However, it’s up to the Minister to allow time for this, and she will likely refuse given that by that point, she will have formally approved the code. MPs can try to table a fatal motion against the Code to get it annulled, but such a motion has not succeeded since 1979.😧

So once the Code is published, there is almost nothing we can do. We would have to go to court to get the entire approved Statutory Code of Practice overturned. This is a massive uphill battle. In the meantime, gender critics will use the Statutory Code, and it’s exclusionary policies, to secure more legal wins.

What we can do instead *right now*, is pressure Phillipson to *reject the draft Code* and instead send it back to the EHRC, with a demand that it be rewritten to include guidance on how trans people can be lawfully included in single-sex services according to their lived gender.

Transactual have been running a massive (and effective) campaign on this for weeks, supported by Trans+ Solidarity Alliance, TACC, TEN, Translucent and others. See here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

With the addition of the complaints from Labour backbenchers on the cost of businesses, and the recent statement of alarm from the Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe, the messaging is really cutting through that this Code of Practice is absolutely unfit for purpose and needs to be written, not approved.

By delaying the Code, Phillipson is also allowing a number of things to happen
— the outcome of the Good Law Project judicial review on 12th November, which may itself deem the EHRC position of mandatory exclusion unlawful
— running down the clock on Kishwer Falkner’s term as EHRC chair, such that once she is gone, we can go back to the drawing board and work on getting this code re-written, not approved.

There are clear signs that Phillipson is not happy with the EHRC or the Code that they have produced. Her own submission to the judicial review diverges wildly from the EHRC position, and proffers legal arguments of how trans inclusion can still be lawful, and how mandatory exclusion may be discriminatory. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iN4GscMz-4k9oRHVFZfJxrQhXNaa1tFL/view

Asking Phillipson to publish the Code right now will do nothing but play into the hands of the gender critics and lock in devastating policies of trans exclusion. Please join us instead in pressuring Phillipson to reject this draft Code and get it re-written to ensure trans inclusion. This could save us a huge amount of pain and work down the line 🙏🙏🙏

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4d

We are already helping several employees sue employers for enforcing the EHRC Interim Guidance, which *we think* is unlawful. Should the High Court agree, we plan to make available in generic form, for free, and in a usable state, all the legal materials a trans employee needs to sue their employer.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4d

I'd venture politely to suggest that if the EHRC had done its job and written a code that was about the law rather the pursuit of an anti-trans ideological agenda duty bearers would be better able to do what she urges upon them.

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 3d

New report details the harm caused by EHRC interim guidance

TransActual will be taking copies of their findings to meet with MPs

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 4d

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 6d

‘Section 28 2.0’: New “transphobic” curriculum restricts teachers from encouraging Trans+ pupils to understand their identity 👇

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-new-transphobic-curriculum-restricts-teachers-from-encouraging-trans-pupils-to-understand-their-identity/

RSE guidance is “patently and cruelly transphobic” - community responds to ‘Section 28 2.0’ curriculum

It has taken a "trans exclusionary" approach and received widespread condemnation from the LGBTQIA+ community

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Sarah Louise Gregory🎸 @sarahlouisegregory.bsky.social · 6d

It’s her legacy- hopefully that will be better reflected by a downgrade from ganhari

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 7d

Incredible work, everyone!
Over 6,500 letters sent, which means (on average) over 10 letters per MP!
If you haven’t written in and still want to, you can find @transactualuk.bsky.social’s easy-peasy tool here: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

Screenshot of the landing page of the above link, showing the total letters sent sitting at over 6800

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 8d

🗣️ 65% of trans adults reported verbal abuse in public spaces
👊 24% said they have suffered physical violence

A new YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK:
https://goodlaw.social/u5y8

‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe

YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK

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swimininthemuck.bsky.social @swimininthemuck.bsky.social · 10d

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 9d

“Before the election it promised to ‘remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance.’ But in government it has lined up alongside the Tories and Reform UK at the cruelty Olympics.” – @goodlawproject.org
https://bit.ly/43CpABH

91% of UK trans people don't trust the Labour Party, survey reveals

91% of trans respondents in a YouGov poll conducted between July and August, commissioned by the Good Law Project, said they distrust Labour.

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 10d

Major human rights groups call for EHRC to be downgraded over ‘deeply disturbing’ actions
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Rights groups call for EHRC to be downgraded over 'deeply disturbing' actions

The coalition has called for the UK's top human rights regulator to be downgraded over what they say are "deeply disturbing" actions surrounding its trans guidance.

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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 12d

Equality and Human Rights Commission FAIL

Its not just trans, its EHRC Incompetence... disabled people have been failed also. Close the EHRC now.

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EHRC struggles to justify key omissions from equality and rights report

The human rights watchdog has struggled to explain why its major report on Britain’s “equality and human rights landscape” has ignored key breaches of disabled people’s rights by the UK government.…

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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 12d

ALL: please spread far and wide. The Trans Exile Network was aware of preparations for this and supports it. We will release a PR of our own shortly also. Note that Amnesty are supporting.

There will also be more from TEN shortly on another initiative.

Stay safe

transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/10...

Equality and Human Rights Commission faces a devastating challenge for yet again violating its human rights obligations – TransActual

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 12d

More information here: transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/10...

Equality and Human Rights Commission faces a devastating challenge for yet again violating its human rights obligations – TransActual

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 12d

Huge thanks to @tacc.org.uk for spearheading this, and to everyone involved for all their dedicated hard work. The EHRC is #NotFitForPurpose and can no longer be relied upon to uphold and protect the human rights of people in the UK.

TACC @tacc.org.uk · 12d

🚨 Joint Statement

This formal challenge to the EHRC’s fitness for purpose has been brought by @transactualuk.bsky.social, @amnestyuk.bsky.social k.bsky.social and @transsolidarity.bsky.social

Together they have reported the EHRC
to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 12d

🚨 Joint Statement

This formal challenge to the EHRC’s fitness for purpose has been brought by @transactualuk.bsky.social, @amnestyuk.bsky.social k.bsky.social and @transsolidarity.bsky.social

Together they have reported the EHRC
to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 12d

A YouGov poll has revealed a startling 91% of trans people distrust Labour

This comes on the final day of voting for Labour’s deputy leader
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Survey shows 91% of trans people distrust Labour

YouGov poll reveals a startling lack of trust in Labour, judges, the police and the legal system.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 12d

We commissioned @yougov.co.uk to poll trans people on how they feel about parties, institutions and the UK.

A striking 91% of trans people distrust the Labour Party. goodlaw.social/wcsv

Survey shows 91% of trans people distrust Labour

YouGov poll reveals a startling lack of trust in Labour, judges, the police and the legal system.

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Esse House UK @essehouse.bsky.social · 14d

Distribution of accessible keys: "A wise self-protection measure" share.google/g6rkCmHJ8NGG...

Distribution of accessible keys: "A wise self-protection measure"

A respected figure in the community has endorsed Esse House's scheme to distribute accessible toilet keys in the UK.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 13d

And yet the UK's NHS is now insisting on your 'birth sex' when treating and diagnosing a trans person. Even though they know that puts us at risk. Even though more evidence like that below comes to light.

Papillon19 @papillon19.bsky.social · 13d

@kirstimiller30.bsky.social

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Gender-affirming hormone therapy rewrites body proteins to match gender identity

Melbourne researchers have discovered gender-affirming hormone therapy can alter body proteins to match a person's gender identity, potentially affecting susceptibility to certain health conditions.

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 13d

@MoiraDeemingMP if you ask Helen Joyce, (an accountant), for her expert opinions on sex, gender, & the law, then I hope your next colonoscopy is done by a plumber.

She has zero education in biology, let alone in gender, sex or law!

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