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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 6h

We’re supporting @nionwomen.bsky.social, a collective of women refusing to let their identity be weaponised to justify discrimination against trans people.

They’re calling on women everywhere to join them:
https://goodlaw.social/xmgc

goodlaw.social

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 5h

Gender clinic waiting list 'far too long' says coroner after teen's death www.mylondon.news/news/health/...

Gender clinic waiting list 'far too long' says coroner after teen's death

Camden's Tavistock Centre has been criticised by a coroner but its specialist clinic for children and young people closed down last year

www.mylondon.news

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rabbit2025.bsky.social @rabbit2025.bsky.social · 5h

The Cass Review..
- how many more young trans people will commit suicide.
- Is this not suicide but genocide. by the Cass Review & by who implements the Cass Review.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 15h

Uncharacteristically sloppy reporting of a very important issue, this from the FT. It quotes "Fair Civil Justice" without mentioning it is a front for the US Chamber of Commerce and it quotes CMS without mentioning it is Fair Civil Justice's lawyers. on.ft.com/48gOSZv

Drop in class action cases sparks warnings over litigation funder curbs

Investors behind collective lawsuits say limits to their share of damages hamper public access to justice

on.ft.com

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 1d

Permitting the Conservative Party conference to be used for the demonisation of trans people shows the Conservatives will be unfit for government for a generation.

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

Gender critical activists accused of ‘hateful’ remarks about trans women

Labour MP Richard Quigley said he was ‘appalled by the comments, but not surprised’

www.independent.co.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 17h

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

Gender critical activists accused of ‘hateful’ remarks about trans women

Labour MP Richard Quigley said he was ‘appalled by the comments, but not surprised’

www.independent.co.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 17h

Because of the unforgivably appalling decisions of the Charity Commission, these hate groups, Sex Matters and LGB Alliance, are funded from your taxes.

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trade winds @lucyksy.bsky.social · 1d

You don't earn a billion dollars. You extract it, from workers, the planet, communities. There is no ethical billionaire.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

"Gender critical campaigners have been accused of making “hateful” and “extremist” remarks at an event at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester after suggesting those who support trans rights have “broken brains” and that so-called gender ideology is “an evil”."

Pretty tame for them tbf.

Gender critical activists accused of ‘hateful’ remarks about trans women

Labour MP Richard Quigley said he was ‘appalled by the comments, but not surprised’

www.independent.co.uk

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1d

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – it's time to fight back.

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive - add your name 👇
https://goodlawproject.org/petition/keep-hampstead-womens-pond-inclusive

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rabbit2025.bsky.social @rabbit2025.bsky.social · 1d

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back goodlawproject.org/s/4860b3

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

goodlawproject.org

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1d

The problem with asylum hotels was never asylum seekers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9r5m74de8o

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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rabbit2025.bsky.social @rabbit2025.bsky.social · 1d

How do we trust the state.
How has the terrorist law been used against us? At the time, what people raised as worrying happened. There is no way we trust the state & not allow the state to collect & use our private data. This is against our human rights. You can't sell us digital ID cards. Listen!!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

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rabbit2025.bsky.social @rabbit2025.bsky.social · 1d

Bailout with taxpayers' money.
Further payment by taxpayers in the form of increased water & sewerage subscription rate.
Paying both ways to TW!!!
Thank you, Mr Starmer. This illustrates how the government is riping of taxpayers.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Thames Water's creditors have put a bailout plan to Ofwat which they say is lawful. But are they right? www.whatthelawdoes.com/p/is-the-tha...

Is the Thames Water bailout plan - which relieves the company from fines for up to fifteen years - lawful?

A group of Thames Water’s senior creditors, London & Valley Water (“L&VW”), has submitted to Ofwat proposals for them to be relieved from fines for past or future sewage dumping for a period of up to ...

www.whatthelawdoes.com

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rabbit2025.bsky.social @rabbit2025.bsky.social · 1d

Our money will be given to the bailout plan, and then TW stays in the private hand. Our water subscription will be increased by TW to cover the cost of water & sewerage infrastructure. This is the story of how we lose. Our monies are not used for us, but for globally operating estate managers.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 2d

Cass Review slammed AGAIN. This time by Australian academics.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/06/c...

Cass Review full of 'stigma' and should not guide trans youth care, say experts

A newly published study has argued the Cass Review into trans youth care, published in April 2024, is full of 'stigma' and 'misinformation'.

www.thepinknews.com

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rabbit2025.bsky.social @rabbit2025.bsky.social · 1d

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone made this FOI request of the south-west and the London CYP Gender services?

This post ⬇️relates to the north-west service, where not one young person has been offered medical transition since the service was opened over a year ago.

This isn't treatment. It's state sanctioned conversion.

EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 8d

#UK #TransRights An FOI has just confirmed what all of us have feared: for the Youth gender services, since July 2024, not a single patient has been referred to commence HRT. And 22 have been moved from youth to adult services , also without treatment. This is scandalous.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 2d

Inclusion of Trans people in Workplaces and Service Delivery

Anti-trans hate group 'Sex Matters' have been crowing about a Judicial Review they have brought against the Scots Govt to suggest that allowing trans people (trans women p’ly) to use gender-appropriate facilities is harassment of women.

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rabbit2025.bsky.social @rabbit2025.bsky.social · 2d

From TransLucent:
From Shetland to Penzance, from St Davids to Cromer, if you are transgender and are discriminated against because of the FWS v SGM judgment ...WE WANT TO KNOW.
[email protected]
x.com/TransLucent_...

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rabbit2025.bsky.social @rabbit2025.bsky.social · 2d

We know SM's connection & communications with the DHSC, DfE, MfE&W, EHRC. We know the Police & Juduciary somehow are working on SM's favour. So SM has connected relevant organisations to erase trans people from the society, public space
How to strategically fight against SM. We really think it & act

rabbit2025.bsky.social @rabbit2025.bsky.social · 2d

How to stop SM is now crucial. As a single issue charity, SM has enourmous amount of time to attack public organisations with only one objective that is erasing trans people on the belief that sex can't be changed. They have one very powerful weapon that is the SC ruling as if it is the law.

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rabbit2025.bsky.social @rabbit2025.bsky.social · 2d

Sex Matters' attack on the Scottish Government continues. Sex Matters' threat with legal action against the SG seems to be working. Thank to the Supreme Court ruling, weaponised by SM whose only, real aim is to erase trans women.
SM has started refering to trans women as men.

x.com/SexMattersOr...

Sex Matters on X: "UPDATE: @scotgov has dropped its unlawful toilets policy, and we can now confirm that we have withdrawn our application for judicial review 🧵 https://t.co/DgWc1gwpn7" / X

UPDATE: @scotgov has dropped its unlawful toilets policy, and we can now confirm that we have withdrawn our application for judicial review 🧵 https://t.co/DgWc1gwpn7

x.com

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 2d

The Home Office is hiring three Lead Software Engineers with salaries of up to £86,430. The posts are understood to support the Digital ID programme.

Lead Engineer
Home Office
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 12th
October 2025
Return to search results
Home Office
Apply now
Reference number
430079
Salary
£60,300- £66,330
You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a value of up to £20,100 (location dependent). New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the pay range minimum.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Job grade
Grade 7
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
HO - Digital Data and Technology - Engineering
Type of role
Digital
Engineering
Information Technology
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time, Compressed hours

About the job
Job summary
Please note: interviews will be held in person, further information can be found in the selection process section.
We are looking for people who are passionate about Engineering to join our community led team in Shared Applications Service (SAS). You will work in agile multidisciplinary teams with over 700 engineers in a modern cloud environment using the latest technologies. Our purpose as a team is to bring technical understanding in-house for over 600
Home Office applications.
You could be creating and maintaining some of the most critical public services in the United Kingdom and transforming how we use data and technology to improve these. We are responsible for designing, building and supporting solutions to help people prove their identity or apply for visas. You could also be working on critical IT systems that support policing and counter terrorism, which helps protect
UK borders.

Along with the other Senior, Lead and Principal Engineers in your area, you will be responsible for ensuring that all technical approaches being used are appropriate, endorsed and will take part in planning with senior stakeholders, to make sure that product delivery and maintenance is on a firm basis.
Your remit may be across the engineering function, but working closely with Architects and other professions.
Tools and Technologies we use:
We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:
• Backend: C#, Python
• Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript
• Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server,
MongoDB
• DevOps: Azure, Docker, Terraform, Azure DevOps
• Other: Azure Al Foundry, Power Platform,
PowerBl

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