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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 4h

1/🧵 I should note that from the beginning, I knew the EHRC would withdraw their “interim update” guidance.

My aim was to make it untenable for them to defend the position that segregation of trans people is mandatory. And I think that strategy has been successful.

That doesn’t mean we can stop.

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 6h

By calling for the 2011 Code to be revoked BEFORE Parliament debates the new one, the EHRC is behaving like a lobbying group, not an impartial regulator.

This would make it far easier for organisations to legally exclude trans people from services… Exactly what transphobic EHRC Board members want!

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 6h

The 2011 Code clearly protects trans people, stating that exclusion from single-sex services must only happen when strictly necessary and proportionate.

*THAT’S* what the EHRC now wants to erase.

Services, public functions and associations: Code of Practice | EHRC

People with the protected characteristics set out in the Act should not be discriminated against when using any service provided publicly or privately, whether that service is for payment or not. Courts and tribunals must take this Code of Practice into account in cases involving discrimination in services, public authorities carrying out public functions or membership associations.

equalityhumanrights.com

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Jacey is a suitable combo of my actual name for privacy reasons @spacegrace.bsky.social · 7h

It’s almost like rightwing commentators and talking heads lack empathy or the ability to understand how others may feel even if you’re not actually them and cannot comprehend how others can.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10h

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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Jacey is a suitable combo of my actual name for privacy reasons @spacegrace.bsky.social · 7h

This reeks of desperation by a batshit, genitally-obsessed, hateful baroness. Sadly, it also seems like the sort of thing that an also bigoted Minister for let’s say Women and Equalities, would go along with as soon as a pesky failed attempt to raise her status within her party is out of the way…

Equality and Human Rights Commission @equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 8h

We've written to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to request the government to revoke the 2011 services code and make our updated version statutory. It accurately reflects the law and updated guidance is urgently needed: www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 8h

as a child, did you dream you'd grow up to make a career out of obsessing over other people's genitals?

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 14h

Labour is telling you VERY LOUDLY who to vote for if you value human rights. And it's definitely NOT LABOUR.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 9h

List of Labour MPs who are openly transphobic nowadays and who to vote for to unseat them.

1) Tonia Antoniazzi

Transphobic for years. Open GC. Behind the "Women's Dec" for Labour

Constituency: Gower
Maj: 11567

Suggested vote: Plaid Cymru

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 1d

I think it would have surprised even the most pessimistic if you'd told people during the 2024 campaign that a year into Government Starmer's team would be negatively briefing against the ECHR and Council of Europe for daring to question their assault on trans rights

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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 1d

ANNOUNCEMENT
This evening, 14/10/25 the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network have taken the next step in the struggle to restore the human rights, dignity & safety of UK trans people.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 1d

Today, we and the Trans Exile Network have made a joint submission to the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK Supreme Court's judgment in the For Women Scotland v. Scottish Ministers case of April 2025.

tacc.org.uk/2025/10/14/p...

Press Release – Submission to the CoE Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK’s non-compliance in Goodwin v. UK - tacc.org.uk

Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network seek urgent re-opening of enforcement of key human rights decision against UK. Today, the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective ...

tacc.org.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 1d

6/ Haha, this is exactly the point I was making BEFORE the Scottish Ministers case was decided, to show how futile it would be for the hate group to bring the case and to explain why their strategy would not succeed.

Finally, it is bizarre and worrying that the Guidance went out of its way to note that
"it could be indirect sex discrimination against women if the only provision is mixed-sex." To the extent that this may be the case, it is a fortiori true that it could be gender reassignment discrimination against trans people if organisations adopt blanket policies which exclude trans people from using the toilets which align with their gender identity.

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Emily Shepherd @emi.ly · 1d

Guardian headline writers be like...

A popular meme format showing two rows. The first row shows Drake holding his hand up and turning away to reject the text "The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights".

The second row shows a happy looking Drake, pointing towards the text "Anonymous 'rights expert'"

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 1d

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 2d

REALLY not sure about @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social's "pick people at random" system to decide policy.

For small minority groups like trans people it will mean we are, as usual, locked out of spaces where decisions about us are made, just like Labour/Tories/Reform.

Voters' voices are being shut out of British politics. Your Party has a radical plan to change that | Jeremy Corbyn

At our conference in November we will use a jury service-type model to allow members to discuss and decide policy, strategy and even the name of our party, says Your Party co-founder Jeremy Corbyn

www.theguardian.com

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Jacey is a suitable combo of my actual name for privacy reasons @spacegrace.bsky.social · 2d

I’m guessing book but god knows. Now just terrified to update the rest of the Office suite because it will take me twice as long to find everything!

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Jacey is a suitable combo of my actual name for privacy reasons @spacegrace.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not one to be like “all change is bad” but this is a bad change. White W on a blue tile = Microsoft Word. Whatever this is = 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 2d

I post this without comment.

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 3d

THE SAME PEOPLE CALLING US "VIOLENT" AND "DISGUSTING" ARE NOW MOCKING THE DEATH OF A 17-YEAR-OLD GIRL

WHAT DO THEY EXPECT? FOR US TO SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP WHILE THEY MOCK US FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE? TO TAKE THE PUNCHES AND NOT RETALIATE?

NO MORE TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK.

www.transbashback.com

BASH BACK

www.transbashback.com

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 3d

Men like Piers Morgan have found women in trans women who it is socially acceptable to abuse.

Every time they do this stuff they are telling you how they'd treat cis women if they could get away with it.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 3d

‘Doublethink*’ alive and well in the U.K. Government.

Given the U.K. Government’s statement to the United Nations on 10 October 2025:

www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 3d

Presumably the U.K. Government will be urgently introducing domestic legislation to overturn the erroneous interpretation of the Equality Act reached by the U.K. Supreme Court in ‘For Women Scotland’?

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 3d

graham linehan’s latest escalation is hiring ppl to dox and harass trans women. 🤷‍♀️

jus imagine for a second that a cis man was doing this to cis women.

society says not only is it okay to do it to trans women but it’s fine to publicly crowdfund to pay for it. 😕

Let's hire a private detective!
Here's where we are: for wears, Ive been reporting a group of men to the police. They ve harassed dozens of people.
the harassment and death threats they send my way, nothing happens. When others report them, nothing happens.
But here's what does happen: the police investigate us for talking about them.
Ine grotesque nature or this colacerason would be laservano trom a oritance. Unortunatty, fi not as a ostance, and it's been going on for years.
So I've decided to do something that feets wonderfully ridiculous and also completely necessary, hire a proper private detective. Someone who actually investigates things. Novel concept, I know.
I'm deughted to say that our prece on Melody Uawion has resuited in members of his tamity ottung m touch. And that s what we can do without a private detective. Think what will happen if we get professionals on the case.
Picture it: a licensed imestigater with a proper case file, following leads from Sussex to Capetown, gathering evidence the authorities keco oretendina doesn't exist. Well comale everything, oresent & to indroundent abservers and every maic)
outlet we can find.
What Your Money Gets
• A licensed investigator who actually does the job
• Document searches, survellance, evidence gathering
• Property documented findings that can be used legally or journalistically
Iknow vou're sick of the Cancel Tax. I'm sick ct it too. But ths onels dicent. This one micht oroduce results that and
decoly satistving no matter where you are in the foht. The l& detective work. And when tis done, we'll have something
Why It Costs What It Costs
The goal looks high because this isn't some bloke following someone to Tesco. This is a proper irvestigation spanning multiple juriscictions. Were not just atter a few bad actors. We want to out all of them.
Every donation puts us closer to exposing something the authorities have worked very

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 4d

We will not be intimidated into silence, Rest Streeting.

“Wes Streeting posts on X and JK Rowling reposted it. He wrote, Quote,

This kind of violent direct action is disgraceful. It is designed to intimidate people - in this case women - into silence and it must not be allowed to happen with impunity.

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