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

We are at Labour conference, telling members about the impact of the proposed bathroom ban. It would devastate trans people’s lives, create unworkable business challenges, and alienate voters.

This would be Labour’s legacy on LGBT+ rights for a generation. But it’s not too late for them to stop it.

A van with a screen on the side saying

Labour isn't working for LGBT+ voters. Stop the bathroom ban. A queue of people on a red background holding various pride flags.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 12d

Growing up in the deep countryside I remember CCTV becoming a thing in the noughties and the dominant thing I heard among the folk there (all quietly-libertarian) was that CCTV was awful big brother nonsense and 'one more reason to avoid going to the city'. But people get used to such invasions.

Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 12d

So get ready to keep that energy up.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 12d

We had a trial run of this when an anti-trans group drafted an amendment to the data bill which would have made it mandatory for government and public agencies to do this - we defeated them then with a wave of political engagement that rocked MPs across the house.

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · May 2

The UK Data (Use and Access) Bill is currently being debated in Parliament and anti-trans campaigners are trying to amend the Bill so it requires public authorities to collect data about 'biological sex' (see below).

🚨 THIS NEEDS TO BE OPPOSED 🚨

publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

The amendment reads:

To move the following Clause—

“Directions to public authorities on recording of sex data (1) The Secretary of State must, within three months of the passage of this Act, issue regulations relating to the code of practice set out in section 49 of this Act which require public authorities to—

(a) collect, process and retain sex data only where it is lawful to do so in accordance with data protection legislation;

(b) request and record sex data accurately, in every circumstance where sex data is collected, in accordance with following category terms and definitions—

(i) ”Sex” meaning male or female only based on “sex at birth”, “natal sex” or “biological sex” (these terms carrying the same meaning and capable of being used interchangeably); and, (ii) in addition, where it is lawful to do so in accordance with data protection legislation and the Gender Recognition Act 2004, “Acquired Gender” meaning male or female only, as recorded on a gender recognition certificate issued in accordance with the Gender Recognition Act 2004.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 12d

Privacy matters actually! Doubly so in a world where fascism is rising. We cannot and should not give up on it as a political goal just because half the internet is gated behind giving it up. Privacy rights have been hard fought and hard won, for some of us they are equivalent to a right to exist.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 12d

Because trying to make queer people be constantly shamed is their fundamental goal, because they think we are just liars who could start being normal again whenever we want. Hence their slogan 'truth in data'.

And if you think that this would end with trans people, I have a bridge to sell you.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 12d

Because it would result in any petty tyrant with access to ID scanners being able to abuse and harass people. And people who don't match what their ID says they should be could be humiliated every single time they leave the house - in their minds until we 'give up our delusions'.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 12d

But there's a fundamental denial of the practical reality of trans people baked in. The kind of unsolvable problem which they know is not workable for the hundred thousand of us who don't look like or live like what it says on our birth certificates. Which is the point.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 12d

It's not as though the data this would be based on is reliable, as demonstrated in the news recently: www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n...

'Our baby girl is legally a boy because of birth certificate mistake'

Her mum says she has been 'nonstop crying' since

www.nottinghampost.com

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 12d

Which they want to use to ensure dangerous trans people can identified, monitored, excluded from any space they want to designate and free of queer freaks.

And it's a big red flag when authoritarian governments who keep talking about putting people in camps start making lists of queer people....

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 12d

This is their answer to the fundamental unworkability of their bathroom bans. Don't need to ask people to show their birth certificate if instead they have to scan an ID card to take a piss, a bit of trackable data likely in the private hands of a 'digital verification service'.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 12d

This has been a core lobbying goal of the most weird and authoritarian anti-trans lobby groups, who have already been lobbying DSIT ministers, obscure civil servants and right wing parliamentarians to ensure that the single governmental record held lists trans people as their 'birth sex'.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 12d

Digital ID is a terrible idea for a lot of reasons: technical, political, economic. Especially with the involvement of far right tech oligarchs and it being explicitly sold as a way of surveilling people so as to imprison or deport immigrants.

But there's a layer which many aren't seeing...

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 21d

Truly exceptional article from @polphilpod.bsky.social on the political meanings and impacts of Labour's transphobia and how it strengthens fascism worldwide: www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat... Even if you're not a capital-L Liberal, this is very much worth your time

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 20d

Was also glad that @polphilpod.bsky.social found our recent reports full of testimonials useful. This is exactly why we wanted those stories out there.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 20d

This is a brilliant piece both for general summary and in what it adds to the conversation. Perfect clarity on the absolute abandonment of norms and principles to anti-trans legal panic and the politics of disgust.

Where is the core of politicians who even pretend to care about basic democracy?

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21d

"They’re doing an awful, evil thing based on a self-evidently foolish strategy, one that has repeatedly failed for them. And they’re doing it without even the pretense of values. One day they believed in trans rights, the next day they didn’t." www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 23d

Draft EHRC guidance on Equality Act is unworkable for businesses 👇👇👇

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’

Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’

www.independent.co.uk

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Sep 5

BREAKING 🚨

The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared.

It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating.

But politicians still have time to stop this.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · Sep 2

Media already frothing with frustration that a party leader won't bend the knee to their own political game and frame, after having successfully cowed the labour party.

Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · Sep 2

Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement:

"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"

Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · Sep 1

People who willingly subject themselves to a endless barrage of 90s TV ads with no actual content in between them; explain yourself

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · Sep 1

Genuinely think it's bad for Society in that it's so much more difficult to think critically about information spoken at you at fast pace by a person performing at the camera. But also I just hate it. It's my most fogeyish opinion probably but I will die on this hill. Shaking my fist at a cloud.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's like text-based social media, with it's stubborn valuation of having something of interest to say, is being replaced by something which combines the visual subtlety of a youtube thumbnail with the content from pop up ads on a 2010 porn site. And this appears to be mostly organic? Bewildering.

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · Sep 1

Whenever I end up near algorithmic video feeds I am always left with a total revulsion at them. It's as though even the things that aren't adverts feel like adverts, because aggressive attention-seeking is seen (probably accurately) as the path to being an influencer. And it's irredeemably horrible!

Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · Sep 1

God am I just a freak for hating video? Doesn’t everyone hate it???? My strong belief is it’s better for advertisers thus more easily monetised, but most people find it a chore

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · Aug 31

begging journalists to pin them down on exactly what they want to do to us that is currently being prevented by Article 8...

they have been talking about the ECHR endlessly as some theoretical spectre. dying for some specificity about which material rights they want us to lose, and why?

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Aug 31

Bridget Phillipson, "Labour believes there needs to be reform to the ECHR"

Trevor Philips, "You want to see changes in the ECHR?"

Bridget Phillipson, "Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is looking at Article 8 Provisions to see if they need updating"

*Article 8: Right for private and family life*

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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thanks for flagging this, we'll get them gone. A few snuck in without being put in quotation marks during the post-SC scramble and we've been scraping them back out again for exactly these reasons.

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