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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · 4d

224 years!

QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 5d

🆕️🚨 After painstaking research, dozens of FOIs and months of analysis we release the Gender Clinic Files which reveal waiting times for every GIC in the country.

They lay bare, how far off the mark the Health Secretary's estimation of the average wait is 👇

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 18d

NEW: This is a story I worked really hard on.

I spoke to four American trans people about why they're claiming asylum in Canada or the Netherlands.

It's an eye-opening window into just how unsafe people now feel here — and what drove them to that point.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump’s war on trans people has left Americans seeking asylum — from America

Four trans Americans claiming refuge abroad tell Io Dodds why they no longer feel safe in their home country, from fears of martial law to being arrested in changing rooms

www.independent.co.uk

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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · Sep 6

As otherwise we will only be opposing it once it’s almost certainly too late

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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · Sep 6

Sadly with the process as it stands, we won’t see it until after it’s been laid post ministerial approval and set to take effect automatically under negative SI process. Really there should be transparency prior to the decision I agree, but we have to assume it’s as bad as they keep saying it’ll be

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · Sep 5

Govt have total control over what happens next. They can require the EHRC produce a code that is compliant with the Human Rights Act and the public sector equality duty. They also have a range of legislative options open. If they choose not to act, they are responsible for every bit of harm.

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Supreme Court judgement says 'trans people's rights should not be affected'. The Government will *try to say 'responsibility for codes of practice lies with the EHRC'. In the meantime, the draft code continues to mandate an unprecedented regime of trans+ exclusion and segregation.

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · Sep 5

As EHRC leaks a final draft Code of Practice to the Equality Act to the Times then delivers it to govt and attempts to wash its hands of the impact on trans people, its important to recognise and call out the shell game we're in. EHRC will say 'we're just following the Supreme Court judgement' 1/3

A picture of the shell game - three red - ish cups, with a hand lifting one to show a dice.

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EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary) @siobhanftb.bsky.social · Aug 19

Rather than signal boosting this bruised thumb of a human, I'll share Sarah Ahmed:

Whenever people keep being given a platform to say they have no platform, or whenever people speak ... about being silenced, you not only have a performative contradiction; you are witnessing a mechanism of power"

MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · Aug 19

Oh FUCK OFF

John Boyne a bald middle aged white man sat in a garden in ab orange polo shirt

John Boyne
Here's what happened when they tried to cancel me
My nomination for the Polari Prize led to this year's award being abandoned entirely - we're supposed to believe in free speech

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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · Aug 19

Amazing work! 💕

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Foxdie @foxdie.bsky.social · Aug 18

I think it's really worth shouting out that the first 2 people to withdraw were black debut authors (Mae Diansangu followed by Jason Okundaye). They both had some of the most to lose by doing so before others did, and yet they did anyway. I'm grateful to all who withdrew, but to them especially.

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · Aug 18

Look at that solidarity gets the goods

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Aug 12

🚨 NEW 🚨

Sign and share this letter to Ministers to express your business' or organisation's concerns with the EHRC's proposed Code of Practice

www.transsolidarityalliance.com/businesses-o...

A copy of the letter. The full text can be found on our website.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Aug 11

What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest

Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · Aug 11

Letter of the day (in the Times)

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · Aug 8

Look, it's very simple, 15 years ago, the UK passed legislation that meant you had to carry your birth certificate to use a toilet.

This was to prevent trans people from using them, unless they have their cert modified by a GRC, in which case the Toilet Bouncer becomes a character in a logic puzzle

Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · Aug 8

Not quite meaningless, as if a company discovers via its birth certificate investigation that someone has a GRC, then it now has an obligation to keep that information secret, at risk of a jail sentence.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Aug 8

The EHRC is not changing course on their bathroom ban.

They don’t care what the consultation said.

So what happens now? 🧵

archive.ph/inGpF

Ban trans women from single-sex spaces, equality watchdog to say

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Trinket @trinketbirdy.bsky.social · Apr 24

It is a horrible day in Britain and you are a lovely trans person

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · Aug 6

At this point I just assume that the point of this is to ensure someone gets badly hurt or worse, because there really is no way to dress this shit up as Very Real Concerns.

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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · Jul 31

This is a blisteringly good piece of writing

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 31

The fight for trans safety is a fight for everyone’s safety – MPs must have the chance to debate it | Freddy McConnell

The supreme court has made a mockery of gender recognition. Our politicians must not allow the EHRC to further shatter trans lives, says journalist Freddy McConnell

www.theguardian.com

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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · Jul 30

The EHRC say they are still on track to rush through 50,000+ consultation responses and finalise their proposed code by the end of August. After that, it looks like we won’t get to see it until it’s been approved by the government and on track to become statutory 😬😬

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · Jul 30

🚨 Important 🚨

The EHRC *did not* say that the guidance is being sent in December. They said that they would send it to the Minister by the end of August. I have checked both my own notes, my colleague's transcript, and Tribunal Tweets.

I'm not sure of the source of the December claim.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · Jul 30

🚨 Important 🚨

The EHRC *did not* say that the guidance is being sent in December. They said that they would send it to the Minister by the end of August. I have checked both my own notes, my colleague's transcript, and Tribunal Tweets.

I'm not sure of the source of the December claim.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · Jul 29

diagram of a man leaning forward in his chair meme

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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · Jul 26

The pile ons are deeply organised and deeply vicious - if you’re trans yourself you can guarantee they will go after anything they can in your life with fury, and as a result so many trans people are just too scared to speak for themselves. Thank you for writing this 💕

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Jul 25

The trans rights stitch-up: How the government plans to silence parliamentary debate on the most far-reaching restriction of minority rights in our lifetime open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · Jul 25

a woman sitting in front of a microphone with the words internally screaming below her

ALT: a woman sitting in front of a microphone with the words internally screaming below her

media.tenor.com

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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · Jul 25

Oh my god who on earth did they consult with to produce this

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