Derek Cohen 🏳️🌈
@thederekcohen.bsky.social
Researcher looking at the coverage of gender diversity in online news.
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Peer-reviewed critiques of The Cass Review
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Peer-reviewed critiques of The Cass Review
(In chronological order of publication) Horton, C (2024) The Cass Review: Cis-supremacy in the UK’s approach to healthcare for trans childre...
uncommon-scents.blogspot.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Peer-reviewed critiques of The Cass Review
uncommon-scents.blog...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
uncommon-scents.blog...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Bridget Phillipson v Lucy Powell for Labour Party Deputy Leader... Their personal statements sent to party members are bland and contentless. Does anyone know where they stand on Trans issues?
September 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Bridget Phillipson v Lucy Powell for Labour Party Deputy Leader... Their personal statements sent to party members are bland and contentless. Does anyone know where they stand on Trans issues?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... [Streeting] added: “I don’t think the government can afford to bury our heads in the sand about the fact that trans people in our country today feel less safe than they did 10 years ago.” And whose fault is that, Wes?
We must tackle rising tide of racism and homophobia claiming to be free speech, says Streeting
Exclusive: Health secretary says Labour cannot afford to ignore far-right protests as Starmer under pressure
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... [Streeting] added: “I don’t think the government can afford to bury our heads in the sand about the fact that trans people in our country today feel less safe than they did 10 years ago.” And whose fault is that, Wes?
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As an infertile woman, I found JK Rowling’s comment about “faulty equipment” absolutely disgusting
JK Moulding does not give a sh*t about women and is clearly no ‘feminist’. It’s blatantly obvious her only interest is brain-rotting transphobia! 😣
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
JK Moulding does not give a sh*t about women and is clearly no ‘feminist’. It’s blatantly obvious her only interest is brain-rotting transphobia! 😣
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
As an infertile woman, I found JK Rowling’s comment about “faulty equipment” absolutely disgusting
I fought doctors for over 15 years to have my excruciating pain believed. And now, JK Rowling thinks I'm faulty because I'm infertile?
www.thecanary.co
August 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
As an infertile woman, I found JK Rowling’s comment about “faulty equipment” absolutely disgusting
JK Moulding does not give a sh*t about women and is clearly no ‘feminist’. It’s blatantly obvious her only interest is brain-rotting transphobia! 😣
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
JK Moulding does not give a sh*t about women and is clearly no ‘feminist’. It’s blatantly obvious her only interest is brain-rotting transphobia! 😣
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
Huge shout out to Nord Liverpool, a restaurant I visited recently, for their gender-diversity positive toilet labelling. For the toilets they have seven single-person IDENTICALcubicles and one disabled one.
August 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Huge shout out to Nord Liverpool, a restaurant I visited recently, for their gender-diversity positive toilet labelling. For the toilets they have seven single-person IDENTICALcubicles and one disabled one.
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‘The fight for trans safety is a fight for everyone’s safety. The campaign against trans people is not about anyone’s safety. It is exactly what it looks like: an organised effort to drive a tiny minority from public life, back into the closet.’
- Freddy McConnell
- Freddy McConnell
The fight for trans safety is a fight for everyone’s safety – MPs must have the chance to debate it | Freddy McConnell
The supreme court has made a mockery of gender recognition. Our politicians must not allow the EHRC to further shatter trans lives, says journalist Freddy McConnell
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:44 AM
‘The fight for trans safety is a fight for everyone’s safety. The campaign against trans people is not about anyone’s safety. It is exactly what it looks like: an organised effort to drive a tiny minority from public life, back into the closet.’
- Freddy McConnell
- Freddy McConnell
Does anyone know much about an organisation called "Queer Beyond Belief" DM me if you prefer. Thanks
July 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Does anyone know much about an organisation called "Queer Beyond Belief" DM me if you prefer. Thanks
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Hmm. Where have I seen that in the New York Times before...
June 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Hmm. Where have I seen that in the New York Times before...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025... an article in The Guardian on gender without a single terf being quoted. Thanks to the trans orgs speaking out for equality.
Transgender campaigners call for European rights body to report on UK
Alliance of groups wants Council of Europe to investigate implementation of supreme court ruling on biological sex
www.theguardian.com
June 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
www.theguardian.com/society/2025... an article in The Guardian on gender without a single terf being quoted. Thanks to the trans orgs speaking out for equality.
I don't think I've seen anyone draw parallels between the insistence by TERFs that trans women should be excluded from single sex spaces that match their gender and apartheid where black people were forced to use racially segregated facilities etc.
June 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I don't think I've seen anyone draw parallels between the insistence by TERFs that trans women should be excluded from single sex spaces that match their gender and apartheid where black people were forced to use racially segregated facilities etc.
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If you are a cis person using a single-sex space or service and the provider of that space questions your birth sex , would you feel that your privacy had been invaded?
Repost for “yes”.
Repost for “yes”.
June 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If you are a cis person using a single-sex space or service and the provider of that space questions your birth sex , would you feel that your privacy had been invaded?
Repost for “yes”.
Repost for “yes”.
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The EHRC's lawyers have conceded its position on single sex toilets is wrong. goodlaw.social/z87e
EHRC backs down on single-sex toilets | Good Law Project
The EHRC’s interim update unleashed chaos after the Supreme Court’s transphobic decision. But now the commission says it was only ‘some observations’ and rows back on its demand for single-sex toilets...
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June 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The EHRC's lawyers have conceded its position on single sex toilets is wrong. goodlaw.social/z87e
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Massive thank you to @heatherherbert.uk @sarahjanebaker.bsky.social
and many other amazing trans and enby people for taking part in this.
Trans People are not a threat.
We are just human beings.
Please share! 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
and many other amazing trans and enby people for taking part in this.
Trans People are not a threat.
We are just human beings.
Please share! 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
June 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Massive thank you to @heatherherbert.uk @sarahjanebaker.bsky.social
and many other amazing trans and enby people for taking part in this.
Trans People are not a threat.
We are just human beings.
Please share! 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
and many other amazing trans and enby people for taking part in this.
Trans People are not a threat.
We are just human beings.
Please share! 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
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“Our services are free or low-cost, co-created with the community, and led by experienced LGBTQIA+ qualified professionals.” Great interviewing Tim Spoor for GAY TIMES! #BeWell25 #PrideMonth www.gaytimes.com/life/queerwe...
Queerwell: Inside the radical new LGBTQIA+ mental health and wellness charity
Philip Baldwin speaks with Tim Spoor about founding Queerwell, a radical new mental health charity by and for LGBTQIA+ people.
www.gaytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“Our services are free or low-cost, co-created with the community, and led by experienced LGBTQIA+ qualified professionals.” Great interviewing Tim Spoor for GAY TIMES! #BeWell25 #PrideMonth www.gaytimes.com/life/queerwe...
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June 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Badenoch's lack of joined up thinking. Women can wear what they want unless it's something she disapproves of.
June 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Badenoch's lack of joined up thinking. Women can wear what they want unless it's something she disapproves of.
Coming Out With The Help Of A Time Machine - Short Film
YouTube video by Tongal
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June 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
www.spectator.co.uk/article/end-... vile piece of writing
End of the rainbow: Pride’s fall can’t come soon enough
Is Pride flopping? This parti-coloured celebration of all things LGBTQIA+ started half a century ago as an afternoon’s little march for lesbians and gay men. Then it became a day, then a week, then a ...
www.spectator.co.uk
May 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
www.spectator.co.uk/article/end-... vile piece of writing
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05... Robert Wintemute is Professor of Human Rights Law at King’s College London. I wonder what his trans/gender diverse students feel about being taught by someone who believes in two tier human rights. Human rights are indivisible. Trans rights are human rights.
I changed my mind on trans rights – and lost multiple friends
As a human rights lawyer, I never questioned the trans movement. But, after a lightbulb moment, I publicly changed my position
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05... Robert Wintemute is Professor of Human Rights Law at King’s College London. I wonder what his trans/gender diverse students feel about being taught by someone who believes in two tier human rights. Human rights are indivisible. Trans rights are human rights.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... funny how government ministers uncritically follows the Supreme Court when it comes to gender but not when landed gentry are involved.
Labour MPs press for right to roam policy in England after supreme court ruling
Backbencher says ‘it’s time to resolve the issues of access to the English countryside once and for all’
www.theguardian.com
May 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
www.theguardian.com/environment/... funny how government ministers uncritically follows the Supreme Court when it comes to gender but not when landed gentry are involved.
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UK constitutional law blog shreds the supreme court ruling
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/22/r...
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/22/r...
Robert Mullins: For Women Scotland: Fastening the “Biological” Straitjacket
In her excellent and informed critique of the Supreme Court’s judgment in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 (“FWS”), Crash Wigley notes that in its judgment the Court negle…
ukconstitutionallaw.org
May 23, 2025 at 4:40 AM
UK constitutional law blog shreds the supreme court ruling
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/22/r...
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/22/r...
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Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy.
This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.
This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.
May 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy.
This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.
This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... - it's just a re-run of standard imperialism
Stockholm rejects ‘bizarre’ US letter urging city to scrap diversity initiatives
City official says it will not comply with request seeking to impose Donald Trump’s rollback of diversity measures
www.theguardian.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... - it's just a re-run of standard imperialism