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@cstross
@christineburns
Tim Allan used to be a Trustee of UK transphobe organisation "Sex Matters" which says a lot.

Good riddance and I wonder what his links are to Mandelson. He resigned in an awful hurry ...

#UK #UKpolitics #UKpol #Transrights

Sex Matters' Post

Sex Matters wishes Tim Allan who served as a trustee on our board from September 2024 to the end of August 2025, all the best in his new job as Executive Director of Communications in 10 Downing Street.

We benefited greatly from his strategic insight, and our loss is the government's gain. — Sex Matters' Post Sex Matters wishes Tim Allan who served as a trustee on our board from September 2024 to the end of August 2025, all the best in his new job as Executive Director of Communications in 10 Downing Street. We benefited greatly from his strategic insight, and our loss is the government's gain.

Charlie Stross

@cstross@wandering.shop · 14 hours ago

@christineburns Given his track record he should probably have been titled "Director of Sloppy Sharts".

Natasha 🇪🇺

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt replied · 10 hours ago

@cstross
@christineburns
Tim Allan used to be a Trustee of UK transphobe organisation "Sex Matters" which says a lot.

Good riddance and I wonder what his links are to Mandelson. He resigned in an awful hurry ...

#UK #UKpolitics #UKpol #Transrights

Alex, the Hearth Fire boosted

Natasha 🇪🇺

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt · 4 days ago

UK: The women fighting for trans inclusion at Hampstead ponds

The Good Law Project speaks to the activists and regular swimmers behind the movement to keep the ponds inclusive...

https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/69529/1/the-women-fighting-for-trans-inclusion-at-hampstead-heath-ponds-sex-matters

#uk #Transrights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Dazed

The women fighting for trans inclusion at Hampstead ponds

The High Court has rejected a legal challenge attempting to ban trans people from Hampstead Heath’s single-sex ponds. Good Law Project speaks to the activists and regular swimmers behind the movement to keep the ponds inclusive

Natasha 🇪🇺

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt · 4 days ago

UK: The women fighting for trans inclusion at Hampstead ponds

The Good Law Project speaks to the activists and regular swimmers behind the movement to keep the ponds inclusive...

https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/69529/1/the-women-fighting-for-trans-inclusion-at-hampstead-heath-ponds-sex-matters

#uk #Transrights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Dazed

The women fighting for trans inclusion at Hampstead ponds

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: boosted

TransActual

@transactualuk@mastodon.social · last week

A lot has happened recently on the EHRC’s proposed bathroom ban but they're
still trying to exclude trans people from public life. The EHRC aren’t changing
course, and we have to keep the pressure up.

Write to your MP: https://tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

#ScraptheBathroomBan #EHRC
#TransRights

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Image shows a white toilet. Text reads: Scrap the bathroom ban. A lot has happened on the EHRC’s proposed bathroom ban but they're still trying to exclude trans people from public life.

Image shows a person shrugging surrounded by question marks. Text reads: Scrap the bathroom ban. There has been an extreme lack of clarity with employment tribunal outcomes causing further confusion.
The government needs to fix this mess. — Image shows a person shrugging surrounded by question marks. Text reads: Scrap the bathroom ban. There has been an extreme lack of clarity with employment tribunal outcomes causing further confusion. The government needs to fix this mess.

Image shows someone being weighed down by lots of squiggles. Text reads: scrap the bathroom ban. Organisations who want to be trans inclusive are feeling pressure to exclude trans people.

Image shows an email icon. Text reads: Scrap the bathroom ban. The EHRC aren’t changing course, and we have to keep the pressure up. Write to your MP:
tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban — Image shows an email icon. Text reads: Scrap the bathroom ban. The EHRC aren’t changing course, and we have to keep the pressure up. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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TransActual

@transactualuk@mastodon.social · last week

Write to your MP: https://tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

#ScraptheBathroomBan #EHRC
#TransRights

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Chip Butty and 1 other boosted

Neil

@interacter@im-in.space · 2 weeks ago

While this High Court decision is obviously great for #trans folks' access to #Hampstead Ponds, there's a point that I'd like to particularly pull out. A point which strengthens the decision.

Quoting from the BBC:

"A consultation run by the City of London Corporation and published on Thursday found that nearly 90% of respondents backed trans-inclusive access to the ponds.

More than 38,000 people took part in the consultation over a period of two months.

Of those, 84% of respondents to the consultation had swum at the bathing ponds and 74% lived in London, the City of London said."
[The exact figure is 86%]

The point to raise is that this isn't a piffling consultation that no-one bothered with.

38k respondents is significant, as is the % support.

This is a clear vote of confidence in #TransRights and #TransEquality.

Everyone should feel safe and secure, and have their voices heard.

That's been done now, so I hope everyone can swim in peace & comfort.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70lyrpekr2o

BBC News

Hampstead ponds trans access challenge dismissed by High Court

The current policy is that trans men and trans women are entitled to use the pond of their choice.

Neil

@interacter@im-in.space · 2 weeks ago

While this High Court decision is obviously great for #trans folks' access to #Hampstead Ponds, there's a point that I'd like to particularly pull out. A point which strengthens the decision.

Quoting from the BBC:

"A consultation run by the City of London Corporation and published on Thursday found that nearly 90% of respondents backed trans-inclusive access to the ponds.

More than 38,000 people took part in the consultation over a period of two months.

Of those, 84% of respondents to the consultation had swum at the bathing ponds and 74% lived in London, the City of London said."
[The exact figure is 86%]

The point to raise is that this isn't a piffling consultation that no-one bothered with.

38k respondents is significant, as is the % support.

This is a clear vote of confidence in #TransRights and #TransEquality.

Everyone should feel safe and secure, and have their voices heard.

That's been done now, so I hope everyone can swim in peace & comfort.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70lyrpekr2o

BBC News

Hampstead ponds trans access challenge dismissed by High Court

The current policy is that trans men and trans women are entitled to use the pond of their choice.

Stefan Bohacek

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online · 2 weeks ago

"Before TikTok, Tumblr or LiveJournal, before widespread computer ownership or the web itself, trans people were connecting online, allowing them to talk to people like themselves.

For many, this was the first time. The earliest forums offered an invaluable space for people whose innate sense of being trans clashed with the prevailing culture. But there, in cyberspace, they built community and friendships."

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/love-knowledge-frontlines-trans-cyberspace

#internet #TheWeb #cyberculture #trans #TransRights #LGBTQI

Assigned

For ‘Love and Knowledge’: On the Frontlines of Trans Cyberspace — Assigned

The moderators of trans forums, many of them volunteers, have demonstrated remarkable resilience and resourcefulness over four decades and multiple digital eras.

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

@markwyner@mas.to · 3 weeks ago

Imagine thinking that someone would pretend to be trans simply to gain access to places like a locker room.

Consider the anxiety and trauma triggered in trying to navigate a society that largely dismisses you and threatens your existence. Why would someone bring on that kind of suffering to see some boobs or gain an athletic “advantage.”

Leave trans folks the fuck alone. Let them be who they were meant to be.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dept-of-education-attacks-middle

#Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ

Dept. of Education Attacks Middle School For Supposedly Letting Trans Student Onto Co-Ed Cheer Squad

“Our District has not violated any laws,” the Superintendent said.

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · last month

Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans

https://www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/experts-warn-u-s-in-early-stages-of-genocide-against-trans-americans

#HackerNews #Experts #Warn #U.S. #in #Early #Stages #of #Genocide #Against #Trans #Americans #transrights #genocide #awareness #discrimination #humanrights #activism

Lemkin Institute

Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans

Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.Genocide scholars are sounding the alarm over what they describe as escalating attacks targeting transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans in the United StatesExperts, including two former presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGC), warn that the nation may already be in the early stages of committing genocide.“I am concerned about genocide against trans peo

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Nina Kiel

@Beurkeek@peoplemaking.games · last month

URGENT:

#Trans people in Germany need your help. Our government is seriously considering to create a list of people who changed their name/gender under the recent self-identification law. This is obviously a terrible idea, especially considering the increasing popularity of the far-right party. The petition linked below would at least force the government to discuss this issue and reconsider... if we managed to reach 30.000 signatures within the next eleven days.

I recently learned that apparently living in Germany is not required to sign, so I kindly ask you to help us (and ideally share this petition with your peers). To make the process easier for you, I took screenshots of the website and translated everything. If there's anything else you don't understand, feel free to reach out to me!

https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_07/_14/Petition_183950.html

#TransRights #Petition