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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 3d

Dear people of the U.K. (ostensibly England and Wales)

Until you realise this country is fucked because of 14 years of terrible mismanagement in every way by the Tories….

You will end up with Reform U.K. Ltd (Tories on crack) running this country.

And you think it’s bad now?!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · 4d

Despite the wrong conclusion being reached in the initial criminal case. As her transgender status wasn't a material part of the act, and it didn't pose a risk to either party

Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · 4d

Depending on the judge they may use the logic. That since she knew her ASAB at birth and was engaging with an individual who looks male. Then she understood that she was engaging in a "SC homosexual" relationship. So informed consent was given on her side.

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · 4d

It is due to them switching the cost effectiveness model as they use to have more leeway. Now that isn't the case and so they only deem it worth the money for a narrower selection of the population. You can read more about it here: www.gov.uk/government/p...

JCVI statement on COVID-19 vaccination in 2025 and spring 2026

www.gov.uk

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · 4d

As part of that the court should have accommodated making the process to change the law easier if possible. Most likely this would have been by the HRA with article 14 due to no legal pathway of access to a service i.e. discrimination. Then parliament can fix it with the easier process in HRA.

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, the problem was/is that in past cases there has been situations where it has been on a basis of being treated as ASAB. Due to exclusion of recognition in certain circumstances; this provided justification for the SC ruling - rather the law should have broke. Then fixed by parliament

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · 4d

Then they should be treated like that even if it means some laws where a biological basis exists for access to that law. They shouldn't have access and it is the job of parliament to fix it if it doesn't apply, but probably should.

Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · 4d

In previous cases should have been left up to parliament to fix those laws. With the human rights act 1998, I get the impression that if someone chooses to establish a different sex to what they were assigned at birth.

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · 4d

The lower court came to a more correct interpretation of the law. Then the conclusion that was reached and due to past misapplication of gender reassignment act 2004. It was made to bendy the interpretation rather the court should of stuck to its words. The problems that the SC highlighted. 1/2

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · 6d

It might be possible to phrase it like this "Notwithstanding the Equality Act 2010, a reference to a person or a group will be based on either sociological or legal classification, and whichever interpretation provides more access to a space will be the interpretation adopted for this act."

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · 7d

It could do on the basis of social development, but might be challenged by the government unfortunately. So if a bill was going to work then it would likely be a national bill

Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · 7d

There is a risk that part of the bill may be like that of new clause 21 that was proposed for the data (use and access) act in the house of lords. So there should be attempts to influence the bill to not have such provisions.

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 23d

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

Details below. Please share.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope

Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights.

While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · Sep 7

We need a Great British construction company. Primarily, to address the problems of a lack of construction within our country of homes, healthcare centres and commercial hubs. Alongside, expanding the human rights act to apply to corporate entities

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GIRES UK @giresuk.bsky.social · Sep 5

Over 100 LGBTQ+ orgs including GIRES have urged MPs to demand scrutiny of the EHRC’s new Code of Practice on single sex spaces.

Without debate it will pass into law in 40 days — threatening rights, dignity & safety of trans+ and gender-diverse people.

Read more 👉 www.gires.org.uk/joint-statem...

Joint statement: Calling on MPs to scrutinise the EHRC Code of Practice

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yes, that's the hard part, but would hope it would snap some people's mind to realise the direction of travel

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · Sep 1

The reason I say the EU is due to our trading relationship with them post brexit has a political declaration to support human rights.

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · Sep 1

Unfortunately that is the case. Just got to hope the ECtHR strikes it down or the EU demands human right compliance improvements in the future. That is unlikely to happen for now sadly

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · Sep 1

Just something is interesting the supreme court didn't interpret. What it meant to change gender beyond changing legal name. They don't even really bother to insert a dictionary definition of gender as it would deprove their point

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · Aug 9

It is limited unfortunately due to the FWS v The Scottish Minster as when discussing the proceeding act. They said the following -

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · Aug 9

All that protected is gender reassignment. The 2010 EA does not define "gender" nor does it clearly indicate what aspect of this being reassigned is protected

A page which is coloured white that shows section 7, of the Equality Act 2010

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · Aug 9

Didn't mean to come off passive aggressive here; so if it seems that way I apologise

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · Aug 9

Against people who are that person's gender. This in effect means a facility that lets transgender people into it. It produces the out of no longer legally being a single sex service and it could create a "disadvantage".

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Sophie 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sophieeeeexc.bsky.social · Aug 9

It is statutory guidance, which in effect means that if an organisation is viewed to fall below the standard set within it. Then companies can get lawsuits for "discrimination"

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