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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · 14h

Hello! To make sense of the world, transphobia and my research, I’m looking for *poetry* suggestions about:

- agency, activism and solidarity after torture
- life/emotions post dehumanisation
- the oppression-trauma-guilt-shame mix

With a preference for 🏳️‍🌈 authors other than cis straight men! 🏳️‍🌈

Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social for such a cool idea to sketch while listening to the podcast!! (And yes, it seems like I’ll be able to take it out of the sketchbook!)

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · Aug 20

The banality, everyday-ness of hate is one of the most striking parts of this.

The way in which bystanders are once again happy to make humiliation of trans and gender non-conforming people a part of their routine social interactions.

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · Aug 19

A new report from TransActual shows that trans and cisgender people face job loss, violence, vigilantism and wholesale exclusion following the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC guidance.

Read the report at: tinyurl.com/trans-segreg...

#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #EqualityAct #EHRC #TransRights

Experiences of trans segregation following the Supreme Court ruling. A new report from
TransActual shows
Trans and Cis
people face job loss,
violence, vigilantism
and wholesale
exclusion following
the Supreme Court
Ruling and EHRC
guidance. tinyurl.com/trans-segregation
-in-practice

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · Aug 12

The NHS are forcibly detransitioning trans kids in Brighton and calling it “managed withdrawal.” Their own impact assessment acknowledges trans kids will be at increased risk of harm as a result, don’t want this, and are likely to just use DIY hormones instead

TERF Watch Brighton @terfwatchbtn.bsky.social · Aug 9

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Update: NHS Sussex acknowledge “increased risk of suicidal ideation” and “negative impact” on patient experience due to WellBN investigation

Following a Freedom of Information request by TERF Watch, NHS Sussex ICB has published the Equality and Health Inequality Impact Assessment (EHIA) and Quality Impact Assessment (QIA) for the investiga...

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · Aug 11

It was so nice to see @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social and Gina, and to have a small PhD workshop filled with feminist and queer care practices to navigate academia!

Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · Aug 11

Academic selfie: PhD workshop day with @theshippinglawyer.bsky.social, @matteobassetti.bsky.social, and Gina Heathcote edition

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · Jul 15

I confirm - once again - that not having to justify your whole existence to access basic gender affirming healthcare FEELS GOOD. And light. And decent.

Thank you Australia (2025) and Belgium (2021) for these brief encounters with your imperfect (!!) but not violently transphobic healthcare systems.

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · Jul 12

I’m taking a breather from England and its transphobia, and reading this from a place where gender self-determination is a solid policy makes the hate and cruelty so visible and incomprehensible at the same time.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jul 11

Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police.

Thank you, Wes Streeting.

Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · Jun 13

I know. But there’s nothing legally binding about pronouns. The Court made an active choice to misgender the applicant and not respect their/her dignity. It’s about recognising that a person’s identity exists and deserves respect before legal recognition and while their/her rights are being violated

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · Jun 13

All good BUT details matter:

> the Court misgenders the applicant EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. 🤯

> no critique of aim of the interference - the aim to maintain states’ ability to exclude some trans people from recognition and protect cisnormativity is still *fine* for the Court.

Dr Lucie Fremlova 🍉🌻🦋 @inclusivelucie.bsky.social · Jun 12

Today, the European Court of Human Rights has published a key judgment: T. H. v. the Czech Republic. The decision brings yet another major shift in the rights of transgender and non-binary people in the Czech Republic.

The Court unanimously ruled that making the change of personal identification /1

HUDOC - European Court of Human Rights

The HUDOC database provides access to the case-law of the Court (Grand Chamber, Chamber and Committee judgments and decisions, communicated cases, advisory opinions and legal summaries from the Case-L...

https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-243567%22]}

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · May 29

Oh wow, yes, absolutely that would be amazing!!!

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · May 29

Oh amazing! I heard from Gina and planned to see each other in July, it would be great to catch you for a coffee too!

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · May 29

Summer is winter, winter is summer - I’m staying from the end of June to mid September. 🥶

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · May 29

Hi!
I’ll be in Melbourne this summer for a research visit :)

If anyone has tips about the city, bookshops to visit, queer things to do, leads on housing, or anything else, let me know!!

Matteo in an orange leather jacket and jeans, being happy to be in a city and not a village for once!

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · May 23

Last week I had the amazing opportunity to chat about trans rights catastrophes in the Uk with @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social and Manon!!

Chatting and complaining about the case with such amazing minds was such an important part of making sense of what’s happening on terf island.

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · May 23

#CalledToTheBar is out for the week! This week @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social discusses the Scottish Ministers Case with @matteobassetti.bsky.social and Manon Buery. What does it mean for trans rights? And why do some courts struggle with trans rights as human rights?

soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

41. The Scottish Ministers Case and Trans Rights as Human Rights

This week Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige is joined by Matteo Bassetti and Manon Buery to examine the UK Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers. In this case the Supreme Co

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · Apr 28

Time to make *those* worst-case scenario type of plans for trans people in the UK.

The hard reality is that this is not a panic-induced call, but a very calm and rational one.

Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · Apr 26

Another reminder to trans people - if you're able to, now is an *extremely* good time to update or renew your NHS records, driving license, and/or passport. Better safe than sorry.

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · Apr 22

I’m listening and - wow - they all really do want a medal for most transphobic speaker of the year. The passport stuff they’re throwing around is scary too.

Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · Apr 22

Uh.. is the UK parliament having having a fight about who’s more transphobic?

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · Apr 22

The ruling, as I understand it, did not say that trans women cannot use women's toilets as such. It said it is lawful to exclude us. Which sucks but the difference matters. If organisations discriminate against us it's a decision they are making, not something they've been forced into.

Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · Apr 22

Bridget Phillipson here, confirming that the government’s position is that trans women must always use men’s bathrooms when out in public.

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · Apr 19

I’m still struggling to express my horror for the UK Supreme Court judgement in full sentences.

To be with thousands of fellow trans people and allies made it possible to feel and think about resistance.

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · Apr 18

After reading the UK supreme court case twice, I still do not understand how - even with infinite imagination - the new interpretation of the meaning of 'sex' in the EA2010 could be in compiance with ECtHR jurisprudence.

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · Apr 18

The ECtHR has had a major role in the achievement of trans rights in the UK.
One of the central elements of Goodwin v. The UK was the recognition of the applicant's affirmed gender in *all aspects of her life*
This is one of the few aspects of on trans jurisprudence where the ECtHR has been clear.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Apr 17

🏳️‍⚧️UCU and the trade union movement stands with the trans community.

Join us and fellow unions for an emergency demo on Saurday:

📍Parliament Square
🗓 Sat 19 April
🕐 1pm

Solidarity means standing together, especially when it’s hardest. ✊

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · Apr 17

This is very true.

There are many things to abhor about the judgment but the protected characteristic of 'gender reassignment' stands.

A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · Apr 17

Despite all the bullshit:

Yesterday the Supreme Court made it clear that anti trans discrimination is still unlawful.

Anyone trying to use it today to argue the opposite is still lying.

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · Mar 26

In the face of this horrific attack on equalities from Labour, important to note what we still have:

Stock did not leave Sussex because of a policy. She left because she couldn't stand colleagues' and students' free speech, their opposition to her bigotry. Governments cannot take this power away.

PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · Mar 26

The Uni of Sussex vice chancellor has called the Office for Students investigation into free speech on their campus "politically motivated" and "Kafka-esque" in a strongly worded statement

Prof Sasha Roseneil said the Uni would "strongly contest" the findings after being fined over £500k by the OfS

Vice Chancellor Attacks 'Politically Motivated' Investigation After University Gets Record Fine Over Free Speech Row

The vice chancellor of Sussex University has accused the higher education regulator of 'partisan scapegoating' after the university was fined over ...

www.politicshome.com

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · Mar 23

If you are trans, live in England, and think you might want to change your gender marker on the NHS, contact your GP to sort it **asap**. The UK government is cracking down on trans people and we have seen exactly how this plays out in the US. The form for your GP is here:

Adoptions and Gender Reassignment | PCSE

app.pcse.grantis.co.uk

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