As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

New blog: Questioning Trans Kids

A summary of the questions asked to trans under 18s and families in the new 'PATHWAYS Horizon' study for the new Children's Gender Clinics.

growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...

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

Questions to the Equalities Minister today about trans people.
🧵 of relevant clips…

1. Generic statement on diggly and raspberries.

#OpenAccess in Area:

'The architecture of whiteness' by Rhianna Garrett

In this commentary, the author discusses the experience of using the word 'whiteness' in a viral X social media post celebrating their thesis submission.

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SCREAMING ahahah this is too good

UNCRC Article 10 (family reunification
Governments must respond quickly and sympathetically if a child or their parents apply to live together in the same country.
If a child’s parents live apart in different countries, the child has the right to visit and keep in contact with both of them.

The panel “What Is Critical Geography, and What Can, and Must, It Be?” yesterday was so necessary to think about the futures we aspire to have - whilst having to address all sorts of emergencies now. Thank you @sklosterkamp.bsky.social for convening! #RGSIBG25

The EHRC don't want your views; TransActual are challenging Government Ministers to do better!

We had no faith that the EHRC would conduct this consultation professionally, fairly or transparently. We asked individuals and organisations to send us copies of their consultation responses.

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

At paragraph 69 of its new schools guidance, the UK government mandates that from 2026 children must be taught that trans people are not recognised at law in their acquired sex. This is indoctrination into accepting a practice which is definitively a human rights abuse.

Do you remember when Baroness Falkner said 81% of people thought favorable of the EHRC.

Looks like she may have made it up

www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/81_t...

Guess the W&E committee should be made aware

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

I love that the photo actually has a family of four

AND RIGHT NOW YOU CAN SAVE 50 POUNDS PER PERSON. THATS 200 POUNDS OFF FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR

NEW: We’ve uncovered how the EHRC met behind closed doors twice with anti-trans group Sex Matters to discuss rolling back trans rights. What they said will alarm you. 1/6

tacc.org.uk/2025/06/23/h...

Toilet ban in UK parliament

"Members of the public should use facilities that correspond to their biological sex or the gender-neutral toilets."
www.parliament.uk/visiting/acc...

Allowing assisted dying while savagely cutting PIP is telling disabled people they're allowed to die with dignity but not to live with dignity

We need to ask questions about what it is about the culture of MPs of this particular ethnicity that makes them continually be arrested for sexual assault

This is *excellent*. Would highly recommend for anyone who is trying to get up to speed on the EHRC situation / getting their heads round the technicalities of the legal issues at stake.

Mine is quite pitiful *looks at Wales*

Sounds absurd to assert that a person's desire to know what my genitals are is more important than my desire to keep my genitals private but here we are.

This is born out by Falkner's claim during questions by the Women's and Equalities Committee that Article 8 - the right to privacy - does not apply to us.

In future, when GCs say 'what rights don't you have?', we will be able to say 'the right to privacy' apparently.

Here it is... the smoking gun that should bring down this entire EHRC committee.