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Jen Neller
@jenneller.bsky.social
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Fidgeter, dreamer, puller of threads. SL in law at MMU. Author of 'Stirring Up Hated: Myth, Identity and Order in the Regulation of Hate Speech'
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senthorun.bsky.social
FYI: @amnestyuk.bsky.social has launched an online course for folks who want to learn more about feminist and queer approaches to gender justice. It explores connections between human rights struggles (abortion, trans care, LGBT education, etc) and provides tools for action. It’s free to access!

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Gender Justice: Addressing Challenges - Online Course - FutureLearn
Defend human rights and advance gender justice by tackling discrimination and the anti-gender movement. Gain insights and actionable strategies from Amnesty International.
www.futurelearn.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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senthorun.bsky.social
Scholars leading research centres and groups devoted to feminist/gender/sexuality research have joined together to condemn the recent UK Supreme Court judgment that erroneously reduces “sex” to biology and claims to represent feminist and gay people while doing so. Well, not in our name!
We are leaders of centres, research groups and networks, of scholarship, teaching, learning, and academic expertise in gender, feminist, women’s and sexuality studies across the country. We are dismayed by the recent Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010. This judgment, which states that ‘sex’ for the purposes of the Act refers to the ‘sex of a person at birth’, was handed down after a refusal to hear any testimony from legal experts on gender reassignment or from trans, nonbinary, or intersex people. We do not believe it provides more legal clarity on the relationship between gender and sex. Instead, it adds more confusion and gives more potential for transphobic opportunism and harm in an already fraught area. We are also deeply concerned by responses to the judgment by the Equality and Human Rights Commission and organisations such as the British Transport Police. These responses have already used the judgment to declare the exclusion of trans people from facilities and services, and to align policies with ‘biological sex’. Such responses will expose trans, nonbinary/gender-nonconforming, and intersex people to forced outing, deny their lived realities, and limit their ability to participate in society. We reject the framing in the media and in public discourse that puts women, and/or feminists, at odds with trans people. This is especially the case in relation to the inclusion of trans women in women’s spaces. Womanhood is lived; it is not biologically given or legally bestowed. The rights of trans people and the rights of cisgender women are inherently connected. As academic experts on sex and gender, we do not agree that biological sex is ‘self-explanatory.’ As feminists, we see the weaponisation of ‘women’s safety’ to vilify and exclude trans people as shameful. We view this judgment and the damaging responses to it as part of a broader trend of backsliding on equality, which will harm all marginalised groups and expose all gender nonconforming people to exclusionary violence, including cisgender-nonconforming women. Discrimination does not exist in isolation and the stripping away of legal protections threatens us all. Everyone’s bodily autonomy is put at risk by the anti-scientific elevation of ‘biological sex’ as a self-evident category, which will ultimately be policed by intensified regulation of the borders of gender expression. Our support for trans rights, and in particular for trans women’s inclusion in women’s spaces, and the rights of trans, intersex and gender-nonconforming people to access safe and inclusive healthcare and sanitary facilities, is steadfast. We are proudly trans-inclusive and will remain so.
May 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Hey there manchester
Protest Manchester Trans Liberation Assembly Resist the Ruling Saturday 3rd May 2pm at the Crown Court, Crown Squate, M3 3FL
May 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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goodlawproject.org
These are the reasons the Supreme Court gave for refusing to hear from the trans intervenors (whilst agreeing to hear from many transphobes).

None.

Our legal team of three barristers included two who are now KCs.

(I have redacted the Registrar's signature.)
May 1, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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senthorun.bsky.social
“Defining women as a biological group is a disaster for feminism. The many feminists who have argued against the biologisation of sex have been so routinely ignored that if you picked up a mainstream paper in the UK, you would not even know they existed.”

Important piece by @saranahmed.bsky.social.
Patriarchal Hammers
Some thoughts on the recent judgement by the Supreme Court
feministkilljoys.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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senthorun.bsky.social
So many self described “progressive” British politicians and media were quick to condemn the segregation of trans people when it happened in the US but are now silent (or actively endorsing!) as it happens in the UK.

We must continue to protest these bathroom bans. They’re dangerous and degrading.
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Apr 26
If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there.

(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...
UK Issues Travel Advisory for North Carolina & Mississippi
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April 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
jenneller.bsky.social
I'm looking forward to this tomorrow! Further info is available here: rise.mmu.ac.uk/activity/man...
March 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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We are advertising a number of lectureships in the Law School at MMU- very happy to talk anyone interested in joining our vibrant research community manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
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February 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM