Category: Trans issues
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Institutional transphobia deepens in the UK – EHRC again
The EHRC, under Kishwer Falkner, have been quick to launch new draft guidance on updating their Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations, in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling. It’s every bit as transphobic as we’ve come to expect. Have your say! Read more
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Kishwer and pals try to flush trans people out of toilets
The UK Supreme Court ruled last week in favour of an anti-trans group, decreeing that ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 means ‘biological sex’. The EHRC have just, in the closing hours of Friday 25 April (!), sneaked out an interim update on the practical implications of the ruling. Read more
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Schrödinger’s legal sex
The political environment for trans people in the UK in 2023 is profoundly unsettling. It has been fraught for quite a few years now, but things seem to be getting still worse, as an ever more authoritarian and brazenly corrupt Tory government panders to ever more emboldened transphobes. Trans and non-binary people in the UK… Read more
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MTG’s trans genocide plan
On Saturday, I published a blog post containing the text of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill for a ‘Protect Children’s Innocence Act’, whose chief stated purpose is ‘to prohibit gender affirming care on minors’. MTG is known for her far-right Christian-nationalist views, but these have some traction in US politics right now, so it’s worth looking… Read more
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MTG’s ‘Protect Children’s Innocence Act’
While the rights of women and LGBT+ people, especially trans people, are under attack at state level across the US following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade earlier this year, far-right Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (a.k.a. MTG) is introducing a House of Representatives bill which she proposes to call the ‘Protect Children’s… Read more
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Sunday Times publishes transphobic article
Ok, that was a clickbaity headline. Sorry! Of course the Sunday Times has published a transphobic article: it does so every Sunday, and has done for a long time. (If you can find exceptions to this in the last couple of years, that would make for an interesting blog post in itself: what on earth… Read more
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Transmisogynistic framing in BBC interview with Lorna Slater
Following the announcement of a draft power-sharing deal between the Scottish Green Party and the Scottish Government, Lorna Slater was interviewed by Justin Webb for BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on 21 August 2021. The first half of the four-minute interview introduced the topic, and covered three very broad questions: how close are the Greens… Read more
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Five years of Pride
Today, 8 August 2021, is the culmination of the week of the first Neuro Pride Ireland, fittingly ending on 8/8, which with a little imagination can be read as ∞/∞, the infinity sign being a symbol of the neurodiversity movement. (Also 8/8 = 1, and we come together as one.) But as important as Neuro… Read more
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Two years of shiny new hormones: a brief update
It was 6 October 2017 when I stuck my first Evorel patch on my thigh and estradiol began seeping into my system. Patches, which irritated my skin, gave way to tiny foil sachets of Sandrena gel, and more recently I’ve been using an Oestrogel pump to squirt the cold, clear gel onto my legs every… Read more