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🏳️‍⚧️ Woman from Manchester, UK 😊

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Samantha Niblett MP @samanthaniblett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of my personal highlights from Labour Party conference was speaking at trans solidarity rally, Photo credit @olivermousley.bsky.social #Trans #TransAlly #TransSoliarity #LGBTQ
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LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk · 02/10/2026
Was great to meet Hannah Spencer and her lovely Greyhound's showing support for trans rights the @lgbtfdn.bsky.social brunch Conference Fringe event.
A photo of Hannah Spencer, Reade Layton and Greyhound.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question
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Anne Trans+ Healthcare 🏳️‍⚧️ @annehealthcare.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you’re struggling to get an appointment, access human support, or have your health looked after compassionately, there is an alternative. Transitioning can be tough, you don’t need to jump through extra hoops just to receive healthcare. Get in touch or sign up at anne.health today 💙
A teal advocacy graphic declaring "Trans+ healthcare shouldn't be difficult to access," calling for easier, more accessible transgender healthcare.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/09/2026
They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.
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TransLucent @translucent.org.uk · 30/09/2026
ANNOUNCEMENT: TransLucent is proud to announce that award-winning actor, author and Artistic Director Alan Cumming is our newest Patron. Alan said: “I am honoured to join TransLucent as a Patron at a time when standing up for the human rights...... translucent.org.uk/translucent-...
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TransLucent is Proud to announce that Alan Cumming has become our latest Patron.
TransLucent is Proud to announce that Alan Cumming has become our latest Patron.
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
anakin amidala meme

top left: anakin saying ‘hope’
top right: amidala grinning with glee with ‘2024’ written on her forehead 
bottom left: anakin saying ‘hope again’
bittom right: amidala looking concerned with ‘2026’ written on her forehead
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Nathan Ramsden @nathanjramsden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just posting this here for the purposes of documenting the scourge of transphobia in our party. The tiny gang of miserable bigots which calls itself 'LabourLGB' has sent a tirade of abuse to Yuan Yang on X because she spoke up for trans people at Labour Conference today.
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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 29/09/2026
I have written to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to ask some important questions relating to her appearance and comments on The Daily T's Sunday Showdown, where she stated she was "a woman, defined by my biology", and that a women’s refuge should be for those of us who are “biologically women"
"... When asked whether you would have allowed a trans woman fleeing domestic abuse into the women’s refuge you once managed, you answered: “No.”

You said that alternative provision could be made, and that a women’s refuge should be for those of us who are “biologically women”.

That deserves considerably more scrutiny than another political soundbite.

You have chosen to justify your position by appealing to biology, so I would like you to explain what you mean by that claim in biological terms, rather than simply referring back to the law, the Supreme Court or the EHRC.

What, biologically, is a woman?

The scientific picture is considerably more complicated than the neat binary your statement suggests. Sex-related biology involves multiple characteristics, including chromosomes, gonads, reproductive anatomy, hormones and secondary sex characteristics. These characteristics do not always align in the stereotypical way, which is why medicine recognises differences of sex development. Contemporary scientific literature describes sex-related biology as involving multiple interacting characteristics rather than one single biological test that can infallibly sort every human being into one of two boxes.

You already know this. Biologists, doctors and other experts sent you an open letter specifically explaining these issues. They warned that reducing human sex biology to an immutable binary is an oversimplification and that policy built upon that oversimplification can cause real harm.

That does not mean biological sex is meaningless. It obviously is not. Female and male reproductive biology are real and medically important. But acknowledging that doesn't require pretending every human body is a perfectly standard biological specimen.

So let us get away from slogans.

You say that you are a woman “defined by my biology”. You say that I am not.

What, precisely, is the biological distinction you are making?""...And how would you establish it?

Would you take my blood? Sequence my chromosomes? Examine my gonads? Inspect my anatomy? Measure my hormones? Demand medical records?

Because the moment “biologically a woman” has to become a real-world test rather than a political phrase, the simplicity disappears.

And nowhere is that more obvious than in the refuge you once managed.

Imagine a woman arriving at the door after fleeing an abusive partner. She is terrified. She has no passport, no birth certificate and no medical records. She may have left everything behind to get herself and her children somewhere safe.

You have said the refuge should be for women who are “biologically women”.

So how does the refuge establish that?

Does she need to prove her chromosomes before being allowed through the door? Does somebody examine her body? Does she have to produce evidence of her reproductive anatomy? Or does a member of staff simply look at her and decide whether she appears sufficiently female?

Because the last option is not biology.

It is gender policing.

And then comes the question you cannot escape: how would you identify a trans woman without simply assuming that she is trans?

You cannot see somebody's chromosomes. You cannot see their gonads. You cannot see their hormone levels. You cannot see their developmental history.

If your answer is appearance, you have created a system in which women can be challenged because they are too masculine, too tall, too muscular, too deep-voiced, too gender-nonconforming or do not conform to somebody else's idea of what a woman is supposed to look like.

That is not a minor administrative problem. It is the policing of women's bodies, dressed up as biological certainty.

And feminism should recognise that for what it is....""...Sex and gender are related, but they're not interchangeable concepts. Sex encompasses biological characteristics and processes; gender also encompasses the social and personal dimensions through which human beings understand and live their gender. The scientific literature itself recognises that these concepts interact in complex ways rather than functioning as two completely separate boxes.
...You have experience running a women's refuge. You know what a woman arriving at that door needs. She does not need a politician's abstract definition of womanhood. She needs safety.

So I am asking you, as Minister for Women and Equalities, to answer some very straightforward questions.

What biological characteristics make you a woman and make me not one?

How would you establish that distinction in practice?

How does your definition account for women with differences of sex development?

What happens to women whose chromosomes do not fit the stereotypical XX model?

What happens to women who cannot produce eggs, who have no ovaries, who have undergone hysterectomy or who have otherwise experienced changes to their reproductive anatomy?

And most importantly:

How does a frightened woman fleeing domestic abuse prove that she is “biologically a woman” without being subjected to exactly the kind of bodily scrutiny and gender policing that feminists have spent generations challenging?

If your answer is that she does not have to prove it, then why should a trans woman?

If your answer is documentation, what happens to the woman who has none?

If your answer is appearance, whose idea of female appearance are you using?

And if there is no practical biological test, then perhaps “biology” is not quite the straightforward answer you have presented it as.

Women fleeing violence need refuge workers asking whether they are safe, not whether they can pass an ideological biology exam.....""...You have chosen to draw a line between yourself and me by saying that you are a woman defined by biology and that women like me are not. I am therefore asking you to explain where that line actually is.

Not in a court judgment.

Not in an EHRC document.

Not in a political slogan.

In biology.

Because if you cannot define the biological test, and cannot explain how it could be applied fairly to women standing at the door of a refuge, then “biologically a woman” is not the clear, objective safeguard you claim it is.

It is simply a phrase being used to decide which women are allowed through the door.

And when the woman on the other side of that door is fleeing an abuser, that is not an abstract debate.

That is somebody's life.

Yours sincerely,

A woman who apparently needs a biology exam to prove it,'
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‘you can hope again!’ — andy burnham my hope is that wes streeting stand trial for the over 40 trans children he murdered. somehow don’t think that’s gonna happen.
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 29/09/2026
Centrists are gonna let Labour steamroll over trans people and immigrants all because Andy Burnham said some pretty words.
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My new article, co-authored with @sandraduffy.bsky.social is out today, please read & share: "Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic - Cal Horton, Sandra Duffy, 2026
Trans children in the UK are the targets of an escalating moral panic, centred around access to affirmative adolescent healthcare. Combining moral panic theory ...
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bridget Phillipson is obviously correct to say violence against women has been weaponised for political purposes by Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch. Anyway, here’s Bridget Phillipson weaponising violence against women to justify her bigotry against trans people for political purposes.
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Labour for Trans Rights @labour4transrights.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fantastic to see so many people in attendance at our annual rally, packing out one of the largest rooms in the whole Labour Conference fringe!
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Homophobes are very grateful to the transphobes who pathed the way for this. The racists can’t wait to get their turn. It’s only a matter of time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Christian 'discriminated' against in job retraction over LGBT views, court hears
Felix Ngole was rejected for a job after his potential employer discovered his views on homosexuality.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.
Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions
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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At UK Labour conference, @labour4transrights.bsky.social has held successful fringe events and had a warm reception from delegates. Tomorrow they will hold a rally sponsored by major trade unions and attended by many Labour MPs. Kudos to them for demonstrating that this fight continues until we win.
Flyer for the trans solidarity rally at Labour Conference 2026, on Tuesday 29th September 11.30am to 1pm in Room 3A Liverpool ACC.

Pictured attendees include Nadia Whittome MP, Dame Emily Thornberry, Dawn Butler, Alex Sobel, Lorrain Beavers, Yuan Yang, Kate Osborne, Liv Bailey, Emily Darlington, Rachel Taylor, Steve Race, Euan Steinbank, Andrea Egan (Unison), Joanne Thomas (USDAW) and Dave Calfe (ASLEF). Other attendees listed include Amy Tamblyn (LGBT+ Labour trans officer), Barbara Plant (GMB), Maria Exall (CWU), Jess Barnard and Cat Arnold (NEC members).
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Alice took her own life in the fledgling years of a decade that I believe may come to be recognised the most hostile in the history of modern trans existence, at least in the uk” From the epilogue to Her Name Is Alice. This report ⤵️ shows I was right and demonstrates how we got here.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wrote to the EHRC chair about how she must monitor the impact of her code of practice on trans and nonbinary rights, and inclusive organisations. It is her statutory duty to do so and is vital if we are to make legal gender recognition for trans people a reality again in the UK. buff.ly/AhfkaJr
Image shows sian with three Green councillors at an event in Parliament marking Trans+ History Week. The group is stood in front of blue and pink banners that read: 'the future lies with me' and the logo of Trans + History Week.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Can we just take a moment to appreciate that this (very good) podcast by two trans women talking about superhero comics is called eX-Men.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 24/09/2026
"It's for historians to determine how much the Transgender hate played a role in all this... " "... And they used transgender people as a lever to open up ancient hatreds that are now being directed at everybody" James O'Brien
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Cwiar Cymru @cwiar.org · 23/09/2026
Brown shouldn't be able to withdraw care unilaterally without patient or regulator consultation. We're asking you to write to her and tell her how you're feeling right now. actionnetwork.org/letters/rest...
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Restore Access to Gender‑Affirming Surgeries in Wales
Trans people in Wales have been left in limbo following a decision by NHS Wales to pause access to gender affirming surgeries without warning. The decision was made by the NHS Wales Joint Commissionin...
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Cwiar Cymru @cwiar.org · 23/09/2026
Meet Juliet Brown. She cancelled hundreds of evidence-based gender-affirming surgeries across all of Wales three weeks ago. Brown isn't a doctor. Or any sort of clinician. She's a businessperson, formerly a director of the service commissioning Tavistock.
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Cymraeg →
Meet the person that cancelled hundreds of surgeries for trans people
Juliet Brown, NHS Wales
Chief Commissioner
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 22/09/2026
Everyone deserves to live in safety and with dignity. We urgently need new, workable and inclusive guidance that protects the rights of women and trans people alike. These rights are not in competition – both are essential to a fair society.
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Rebecca Jones 🔶🇪🇺 @rebeccajones03.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Delighted to see my speech quoted in @theguardian.com! I'm so grateful for the opportunity to speak up for trans equality at #LDConf. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Another speaker for the motion, Rebecca Jones, said that as a trans woman she was “tired of being a culture war prop”.

She said: “You now fear using public spaces. You fear anyone that looks at you too much in case they hate trans people enough that they put you at risk. All whilst your government repeats the words ‘dignity’ and ‘respect’, whilst doing everything in their power to ensure trans people do not have them.”
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 21/09/2026
Great to see today the @libdems.org.uk vote overwhelmingly to restore trans rights in the UK. @rebeccajones03.bsky.social was one of those to speak during the conference. www.youtube.com/live/br_Z_iQ...
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Autumn Conference 2026 - Monday Afternoon
YouTube video by Liberal Democrats
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21/09/2026
See also Northern Ireland for the last year
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trans rights or we all enjoy the camps
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19/09/2026
Trans folks, how many cis people, that you consider friends in the real world, have reached out to ask if you're OK over the last five years? For me, despite them mostly being queer people or family, that number is zero.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026
I would simply like to live my quiet little life as a trans woman and buy fruit and sing and walk my dog and wave to my neighbors and watch movies and use restrooms without being the subject of a culture “war” where both political parties agree I’m a disgusting freak who doesn’t deserve civil rights
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2026
Cis folks really don't understand what it's like to have who you are made into a political scape goat for 5 years straight with legislation targeting every aspect of your life. And then, the only political party that pretends to care is slowly being pushed to abandon you as a political albatross.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026
Called it. The father was charged with punching the child while the mother did witness intimidation to cover it up. www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...
The case was reported to the state in early 2025. Both parents were charged in connection with an incident at the family’s Southborough home in late January of that year, according to court documents. WBUR is not identifying the teenager, who is a minor.

Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, records from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.

Kutzko was arrested the next day and pleaded not guilty. In setting bail, the judge referred to three prior restraining orders against Kutzko, one of which is permanent. She did not say whether any are tied to this case.

The child’s mother, Arlene Kutzko, was charged with witness intimidation after allegedly pressuring the child to “tell the school that she was exaggerating and being stupid.”
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026
Holy shit. Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined. "I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports." This is getting out of control.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
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Leona Scream @editor.scot · 15/09/2026
The cognitive dissonance is unreal. These folk want to be seen as the *kind* transphobes
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
5 years ago, there were over 100 multidisciplinary gender clinics for trans youth. Today, there are less than 31 (as of July 2026). bsky.app/profile/esqu...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Again, 5 years ago, none of these policies existed. 15 states require the forced outing of trans students 16 states ban medicaid coverage of gender affirming care 14 states have "Don't say trans" laws banning discussion of trans people's identities. 29 states have banned participation in sports.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trans people may want to read this extraordinary thread by practising barrister Naomi Cunningham and decide for themselves whether to report it to the Bar Standards Board.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/09/2026
Democrats are not entitled to our votes. If they want want them, they have to meet us where we're at. If you don't like it, get better policy positions on trans people.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13/09/2026
There really are cis people out there shouting at trans people "how can you do this to me?!' because trans people are saying they won't vote for people who want to take our rights away. It's wild.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/09/2026
"Why won't you vote for the lesser evil for trans people and vote for a transphobic democrat?!" This is why.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 13/09/2026
Regardless of your thoughts on voting strategies, the way trans people are being spoken to and about by self-described "progressives" and "allies" is absolutely wild.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
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"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are serious issues for Parliament to resolve, to make legal and practical gender recognition for trans people a reality again in the UK. My letter to the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission: www.sianberry.org.uk/news/monitor...
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Monitoring the impact of new guidance From The Equality and Human Rights Commission - Sian Berry MP
I have once again written to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, asking questions of how they plan to monitor the impact of their new guidance, the Code of practice for services, public function...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 09/09/2026
"if only the EHRC knew what harm was being done to trans people" is some nonsense naivety. Bring a thousand trans people to Stephenson's home for tea. She. Still. Won't. Care. What is happening is what they want to happen.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
You can keep pretending the Labour government secretly introduced a bathroom ban in 2010 all you like but it is obviously completely at odds with actual events.
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