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DK Renton
@davidkr.bsky.social
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Barrister, historian, disease-ridden leftist. Books include The New Authoritarians, and The Story of Jenny Greenteeth. Write for LRB, Truthout, Guardian, rs21.
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davidkr.bsky.social
Nothing systematic, but there’s a lot on law and bodies in Dean Spade’s work, eg here
www.deanspade.net/wp-content/u...
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January 10, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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I, maybe naively, think this won’t be permanent. But right now, I can’t imagine just how difficult it is to be trans (or enby) right now. @davidkr.bsky.social writes on one of the most shameful legal cases in UK history.

livesrunning.wordpress.com/2025/04/16/t...
Screenshot of text: The Supreme Court said that trans people without GRCs are still protected from harassment. In reality, they lost that years ago. Go into a workplace, use any insult, speak any slur term you like - and the state of UK discrimination law is that the harasser is protected. It's not too difficult to see where this is going. In America, Presidential orders already declare that anyone seeking to travel to that country using a passport with a sex other than the one on their birth certificate, should be treated as carrying out immigration fraudster. States are experimenting with ideas of legislation to carry forwards the criminalisation of trans people: jail for hairdressers who permit their client to have haircuts in the wrong sex.
December 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
davidkr.bsky.social
Yes, agree about timing
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
davidkr.bsky.social
It comes as close as anything does to taking that side of fascism seriously: Saunders, Jenks, the infiltration of the NFU in the 40s and 50s…
October 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
davidkr.bsky.social
Thanks for sharing. Did you ever read the Coupland book? Have often wondered how that generation felt, to people who actually farm.
October 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM