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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social

@abigail-meanswell.bsky.social
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I blog at clareflourish.wordpress.com Exercising my human rights to freedom of expression, association and religion with defendourjuries.org/lift-the-ban

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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Lots of trans people and allies at the Together Against The Far Right march: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/t...
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Together against the Far Right
We are a trans-inclusive community, together against the far right. Trans people and trans allies marched alongside all sorts of people with many different concerns. We are for equality and human r…
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I complained about the BBC referring to trans women as "biological males identifying as women". It is inaccurate- trans is linked to genes. It is a spurious claim to scientific objectivity when the decision what sex people are is social, not biological, in cases of ambiguity, which include trans.
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Complaining about the BBC, again: their use of the slur "trans-identified male". I edit this post for each new complaint: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2019/12/06/n...
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BBC transphobia
BBC journalists are transphobic, and tell transphobic untruths. You can complain here. Here are the BBC’s Guidelines. Particularly relevant are section 15, conflicts of interest and section 4…
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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The Green Party is clear: Trans Rights are Human Rights Solidarity for a select few isn’t solidarity at all. We stand with everyone. @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I oppose genocide. I support Defend Our Juries: defendourjuries.net/lift-the-ban/
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Lift The Ban - Defend Our Juries
Following intensive lobbying by representatives of the Israeli government and the arms industry such as Lord Walney, dishonestly presented to the public as ‘independent advisers’, Palestine Action hav...
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Here’s how everyone can LEGALLY get JK Rowling’s birth certificate for £11… 1️⃣ Go to the official GRO website: www.gro.gov.uk 2️⃣ Search for the record: • Name at birth: Joanne Rowling • DOB: 31 July 1965 • Place of birth: Sodbury • Mother’s maiden name: Volant • GRO Ref: Vol: 7b, Pg: 849 3️⃣ Pay
Image of blank U.K. birth certificate with “WARNING: A CERTIFICATE IS NOT PROOF OF IDENTITY” clearly printed on the bottom!
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
At the LGBTIQA+ Zoom Green leadership hustings, I explained to Ellie Chowns why the term "biological sex" used to call trans women men is a social construct, and why it is so deeply offensive and inaccurate. I asked her to use "sex assigned at birth" instead. If she uses "bio sex" again, we'll know.
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Why the term "biological sex" used to call a trans woman male or a trans man female is hate speech: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/b...
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“Biological sex”
My sex is female. My legal sex is female, my biological sex is female, my sex at birth was female, I have always been female. My sex assigned at birth is a private matter, and nobody, cis or trans,…
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Mary-Ann Stephenson, appointed by Bridget Phillipson as chair of the "Equality and Human Rights Commission", which has not deserved that name for some time.
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Fabulous Brighton Pride march: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/08/02/b...
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Brighton Pride 2025: Ravishing rage
Party across the city! I walked with my trans flag down the hill from my home. As I passed the pub, drinkers outside cheered. A man came up, gave me a rose, and said, “Happy Pride”. A woman said, “…
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
On exercising my human rights to free speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of association, under the eyes of the police: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/p...
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Palestine action
What can we do, at the time of genocide in Gaza?
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The new schools guidance on RSHE does not actually ban telling the truth about trans: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/t...
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I support Palestine action. To be clear: I do not support terrorism. But I do support action (note the lower case a) to end the genocide in Gaza.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
A good explanation of the ECtHR decision against the Czech Republic. It says that trans and non-binary people have a full right to privacy which cannot be balanced against any other characteristic. Changing our sex is a human right.
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The human right to change sex
The European Court of Human Rights has again affirmed the human right to change gender. TH has won their case against the Czech Republic. The judgment is available here. TH identifies as “intergend…
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The European Court of Human Rights has again affirmed the human right to change legal sex. clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/t...
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The human right to change sex
The European Court of Human Rights has again affirmed the human right to change gender. TH has won their case against the Czech Republic. The judgment is available here. TH identifies as “intergend…
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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Petition: Give trans people legal access to single-sex spaces of their acquired gender
We want the government to give trans people legal access to single-sex spaces of their acquired gender. We feel that the recent supreme court ruling could undermine trans people's access to single-sex...
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is important. Has Akua Reindorf, an EHRC commissioner, LIED about the Equality Act? It looks like what she said in 2020/21 in her Essex University report completely contradicts what she said last week about the Equality Act, according to Clare. It seems to me that both cannot be true...
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Akua Reindorf says she lied
Akua Reindorf is on the board of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and what she says about trans rights carries significant weight. On 9 May she spoke at the LSE, and her words were reporte…
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Akua Reindorf says trans people were lied to about our rights. Who told the lies? Akua Reindorf. clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/a...
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Akua Reindorf says she lied
Akua Reindorf is on the board of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and what she says about trans rights carries significant weight. On 9 May she spoke at the LSE, and her words were reporte…
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
What UK politicians have said about trans rights: clareflourish.wordpress.com/members-of-p...
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UK politicians and trans rights
What have UK political parties, and individual politicians, said about trans rights? Some people are trans. The European Court of Human Rights recognised our privacy, and accepted trans women as wo…
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Inclusive toilet signs, from the Charleston festival:
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I went to the Charleston festival, and asked Lady Hale a question. I referred to human rights based on subjectivity, and her judgment in A v West Yorkshire Police: our "right to a sexual identity". I am delighted her reply is reported. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...
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Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says
Speaking at book festival in east Sussex, former supreme court president says reaction to judgment ‘very binary’
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Highlights from the self-declaration debate. MPs quoted their trans constituents: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/m...
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Parliament, and trans lives
Many MPs are trans allies, telling trans stories. The petition to allow trans people to self-identify gender gave them an opportunity. It says, allowing us to live as our gender improves our health…
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
How women's services can still admit trans women, after the Supreme Court judgment: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/h...
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How women’s services can include trans women
This is a serious legal argument, not just satire. The Equality Act s7 protects “transsexual persons” from discrimination under the protected characteristic of “gender reassignment”. The people pro…
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Now being checked for publication. I will sign it when it is accepted, and hope you will too.
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Why the EHRC interim guidance is wrong: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/e...
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EHRC guidance on trans in toilets April 2025
The EHRC interim Guidance tries to exclude trans people to the maximum possible. It takes the most trans-excluding interpretation of the Equality Act and the Supreme Court judgment. It starts by sa…
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The Supreme Court reversed fifty years of progress for trans human rights in Britain. Here's a summary of that progress with links to explanations of the steps, and the clear intention of the Equality Act reversed by the court: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/a...
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A brief history of trans rights in Britain
The Supreme Court judgment is a cataclysm for trans people in Britain. It is an assault on trans people’s human rights, and in no sense merely a technical exercise in statutory interpretation. It i…
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
My experience of the trans and allies in Parliament Square yesterday: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/04/20/s...
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Supreme Court demo
Thousands of people went to London to protest the Supreme Court decision. Here are some signs: I could not resist the slogan on the bus: People left the signs on railings at the end: I recognised P…
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Who says I am female? The UN; the EU; the ECHR. Who has said in the past I am female? The EHRC (before capture by the Tory government) The Labour party until 2024 The Conservative party until 2020 I am female.
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The UK Supreme Court has decided that I am to be treated as a man, for almost all purposes. I am distraught: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2025/04/16/t...
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The Supreme Court and Trans people
Trans women are men, says the UK Supreme Court. It is the worst possible judgment they could make. I believe they are wrong, and that their judgment is contrary to trans people’s human rights as de…
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The UCU is being sued for belief discrimination for opposing a showing of the film "Adult Human Female". A showing would be transphobic harassment. I watched it so you don't have to: clareflourish.wordpress.com/2023/02/09/i...
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Is the film “Adult Human Female” transphobic?
What does the film “Adult human female” say about trans people? It is a film of talking heads. One woman will talk for a minute or so, then another woman will talk for less. The rapid interchange g…
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Why the Office for Students fined the University of Sussex
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The Government should hold an inquiry into the long term effects of section 28. Anti-LGBT bigotry does lasting harm, especially to children. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Conduct a review into the long-term effect of section 28
We want the government commit to launching a full review into the impact of Section 28 on LGBTQ+ individuals. This could include its contribution to physical and mental health struggles, as well as th...
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abigail-meanswell.bsky.social @abigail-meanswell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Sky News question: “US president Donald Trump this week made an executive order for the government to only recognise two genders, male and female. What’s your response to that? And how many genders do you think government should recognise?” Here's my answer:
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A recurring theme in the complex casework I receive is trans people & their families asking for help after terrible experiences trying to access timely, appropriate healthcare. Last week I met @transactualuk.bsky.social to discuss how I can support trans people in this Parliament #TransAwarenessWeek
John McDonnell, Dawn Butler and Carla Denyer standing with a member of TransActualA photo of the book 'Transitions - The Unheard Stories'. Photo credit: Baroness Liz Barker
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