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peke-a-poo.bsky.social @peke-a-poo.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks to you, Oscar & Amanda for a very informative webinar. What a mess!

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 8d

We are hearing of many reports that MPs have not been contacted, we need to get emails sent by as many constituents as possible.

TACC @tacc.org.uk · 9d

We urge everyone to contact your MP to call for proper scrutiny, debate and a free vote on the draft Code, using our template:

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · Sep 1

We’re also calling on individuals to act. Use our template to email your MP, share your concerns, and demand proper scrutiny, debate and a free vote on the EHRC Code. Every voice counts. Find the template here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 8d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 12d

Timeline cleanser 🐈

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 16d

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

Details below. Please share.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope

Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights.

While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

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peke-a-poo.bsky.social @peke-a-poo.bsky.social · 11d

MoFo is quite an unfortunate abbreviation of their name.

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 13d

Liberal Democrats cannot support mandatory digital IDs. People shouldn't be criminalised just because they don't want to hand over their private data.

“Liberal Democrats cannot support a mandatory digital ID where people are forced to turn over their private data just to go about their daily lives... People shouldn’t be turned into criminals just because they can’t have a digital ID, or choose not to.” — Victoria Collins, Liberal Democrat Science, Innovation and Technology Spokesperson.

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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 15d

Interesting that every time we discuss women's rights at Lib Dem Conference the group that claims to care so deeply about "the rights of women and girls" is completely and utterly absent.

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peke-a-poo.bsky.social @peke-a-poo.bsky.social · 19d

An interesting read on Kirk, stochastic terrorism and his increasing anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric over the years, especially if you’re into data analysis. eveywinters.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

Charlie Kirk and The Hate Speech Algorithm

Prologue

eveywinters.substack.com

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peke-a-poo.bsky.social @peke-a-poo.bsky.social · 22d

Tyler Durden from Fight Club?

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · Aug 18

Trans Legal Clinic need your support in funding this case. We all have a duty to do something, even sharing this will help, share it other platforms and to allies.

If you can please donate to help fund this case, this is the most important part of the restoration of the our rights:

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peke-a-poo.bsky.social @peke-a-poo.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you Wendy. I'm also very pleased to see @ollyglover.bsky.social has signed this too. Thank you very much Olly.

Wendy Chamberlain MP @wendychambld.bsky.social · 26d

I’ve signed this letter calling for full parliamentary scrutiny of the EHRC’s guidance.

Trans people deserve clarity, dignity, and safe access to services - not uncertainty and exclusion. Parliament must ensure that any guidance reflects lived experience and protects everyone’s rights.

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peke-a-poo.bsky.social @peke-a-poo.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hi @ollyglover.bsky.social have you seen this?

Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · Sep 5

@equalityhumanright.bsky.social are withholding their consultation report till after the Code is a “done deal”

But we sent copies of the public’s submissions direct to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social & @niagriffith.bsky.social

Any MPs can view this dossier *right now*

Share this post and❗tag your MP❗

As the EHRC refuses to make public evidence for its new guidance, MPs can find out how trans people have responded by asking the Minister
Post author
By jane fae
Post date
5 September 2025
For immediate release: 5 September 2025

Our friends at TACC have discovered yet more evidence of shocking EHRC cover-up. An FOI request reveals that the EHRC is not planning to publish a report on its public consultation until AFTER its new Code of Practice has gone all the way through Parliament, and is a “done deal”.

FOI re. EHRC consultation process
FOI re. EHRC consultation process
When the new Code is laid in Parliament, MPs will have 40 days to carefully scrutinise and evaluate it. But how can they carry out this important Parliamentary duty without any insight into the public’s 50,000+ submissions to the EHRC’s obligatory consultation?

MPs will have no idea whether the EHRC integrated any of those stakeholder responses into its finalised Code – or ignored them entirely.

Luckily, TransActual and TACC anticipated exactly this problem. They asked individuals and organisations to share their EHRC public consultation submissions with them.

The result was a massive 10-volume dossier, which we have delivered directly to the heart of Government.

Spread of pages from TransActual EHRC consultation doc
Spread of pages from TransActual EHRC consultation doc
Any MP who genuinely wants to know the questions, fears and concerns the public have raised about the EHRC’s new Code doesn’t need to sit in the dark while the EHRC conceals its report until it is too late.

They simply need to go to the offices of Equalities Ministers Bridget Phillipson and Nia Griffith, and ask to read the completely uncensored submissions already in their possession.

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peke-a-poo.bsky.social @peke-a-poo.bsky.social · Jun 22

Signed & verified on 1st attempt. All the emails from Organise are coming through with a potential phishing attempt warning so maybe that’s why people are having issues?

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · Jun 21

Open letter calling for an inquiry into the EHRC. I’ve just signed.

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Screenshot from the above webpage.

To Women & Equalities Committee
We, the undersigned, write to express serious and urgent concerns about the actions of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the apparent unwillingness of the Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) to investigate them.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the EHRC is no longer operating as an impartial human rights body. Over the past several years, its leadership has shifted in a direction that appears ideologically driven, hostile to trans equality, and closely aligned with lobbying groups who advocate for the removal of legal protections for transgender people. These groups - including Sex Matters, Policy Exchange, and the LGB Alliance - have played a significant role in reshaping public discourse and influencing legal interpretations of the Equality Act 2010.

We are calling on the Women and Equalities Committee to launch an immediate and transparent inquiry into:

- The EHRC’s internal decision-making processes regarding the definition of “sex” under the Equality Act 2010;

- All communications, meetings, and correspondence between the EHRC and external lobbying organisations from 2020 to the present;

- The EHRC’s advice to government departments, ministers, and the courts—especially its role in shaping the outcome of For Women Scotland v The Lord Advocate [2024] UKSC 59.

As transgender people and allies, we are gravely concerned that this advice, and the EHRC’s developing policy stance have been influenced not by human rights or evidence, but by ideological lobbying and political convenience. We must understand who the EHRC has been speaking to, what was said, and why these decisions were made. Anything less is a dereliction of democratic oversight.

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peke-a-poo.bsky.social @peke-a-poo.bsky.social · Jun 19

Vacek is a Czech professional cyclist, strange that he’d be setting T levels though! In all seriousness the way it reads is that ‘Vacek’ seems out of context in that sentence and I wonder if it’s supposed to be a different word maybe?