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Andi Phillips

@andiphillips.bsky.social
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Gone liminal: technospiritual trans/nonbinary. (Unitarian minister with years in STEM HE/research.) Still human.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Done a little writing regarding the state of UK trans rights: yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af... (TLDR: Please get your MP to sign Early Day Motion 240 disapproving the hideous EHRC Code of Practice)
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Second-class citizens? The erosion of trans rights in the UK
Unitarians have long supported LGBTQ+ rights, support that has never been more vital in the face of the EHRC Code of Practice
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Did you know trans+ people in the UK are facing a bathroom ban, without a vote in Parliament? Learn how you can help stop it... 🧵
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The EHRC – the body which is meant to protect our human rights – is proposing guidance which would turn the Equality Act into a bathroom ban. If this becomes law, it would force trans people out of public life. And terrifyingly - this is all happening behind closed doors 🧵
Don't let them take away our rights behind closed doors

The EHRC's proposed Code of Practice would devastate trans+ lives and put everybody at risk.

This trans bathroom ban is set to become law with no debate, no scrutiny and no vote in Parliament.

We have to act now.
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Stop Discriminating Against Cash Users at Self-Checkouts
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
you.38degrees.org.uk
Yvette Cooper- Proscribe the IDF
The "IDF" has repeatedly carried out large-scale, deliberate acts of violence against civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. It is our sincerely held belief that the atrocities and tactics use...
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Please sign. We do not need to make it easy for authoritarianism.
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Reject plans for a mandatory BritCard (digital ID)
Sir Keir Starmer is considering a mandatory digital ID scheme called “BritCard” that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives. Mandatory digital IDs give the state enor...
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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'Targeting queer migrants isn't where oppression ends - it's where it begins'
Pride Month must be about resistance, not rainbow capitalism and toxic positivity, Rainbow Migration volunteer Ayman Eckford writes.
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Trans folk and allies concerned about (as everyone ought to be) the "institutional capture" of the EHRC can consider signing this open letter to the Women and Equalities Committee who get to scrutinize the preferred (by HMGov) appointment to EHRC head - who appears to be yet another transphobe.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
#gaza #publicinquiry #corbyn
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naoarte @naoarte.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Got a Labour MP? Post them this.
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
transactual.org.uk/the-trans-loo/
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work. The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
An excellent summary of how UK trans rights (and understanding of gender) ended up in their current abysmal state (even though written before the Supreme Court ruling of 16/4 on sex)
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This letter from Tony Vaughan KC, the MP for Folkestone, is the clearest articulation I’ve seen on the flaws of the interim update from the EHRC. The section titled ‘Legal Incoherence’ hits the nail on the head.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I am proud to be a signatory to this letter speaking out in support of our trans siblings in the face of the current appalling assault on their rights and safety. If you are a feminist academic or educator please do read, share and consider signing. #transrightsarehumanrights #CisWithTheT
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Dear #r4today, Autism is not a "mental health disorder", it is a form of neurodivergence, different thing. Yes autistic individuals do tend to be more likely to be trans or non-binary, that doesn't mean autistic, trans or non-binary individuals have mental health issues, get your reporting sorted.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
TRUMP HAS NOW DEPORTED MULTIPLE U.S. CITIZEN CHILDREN WITH CANCER www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer
Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Finally those gender definitions I mentioned! I am hopeful they will provide a useful contribution to how we re-construct trans rights by having a philosophical foundation that gender critical folk will find harder to disagree with (or to negatively caricature). rudderandsails.com/2025/04/21/p...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/04/2025
From my latest piece. The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.
Ultimately, Freeman’s column isn’t pitiful because it rubs salt in the wound—it’s pitiful because it lays bare the true aim of the anti-trans movement. This was never about policy or bathrooms or youth sports. It’s about a cohort of people who feel culture shifting beneath their feet, who were raised in a world where casual cruelty toward transgender people was normalized, and who now find themselves resentful that society has moved on. Rather than reflect or grow, they double down, demanding that their revulsion be seen as virtue—that their discomfort be not only accepted but celebrated. Freeman’s yearning for social validation, cloaked in the language of righteous indignation, reveals the movement’s hollow core. The title of her piece says it all: this isn’t about the law, it’s about the isolation that comes from being wrong. And no court decision—no matter how cruel—will win back the friendships lost to hate, or rescue those who chose the wrong side of history from the consequences of that choice.
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Penultimate post on my current sex/gender/trans blog splurge. Sex and gender are imperfectly correlated. I hope you are still on board!
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Sex and Gender are Imperfectly Correlated
Let us be clear that, regardless of any philosophical theory or statements by any political or legal body (including the UK Supreme Court), there is no widescale consensus about what sex and gender…
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Still on the foundational ideas but getting closer. This post discusses biological sex and recognises the reality of intersex conditions. Sex is not binary, it is bimodal.
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Biological Sex is not Simple: Intersex people exist and Deserve Dignity and Respect
It is not my intention to go into great detail critiquing the UK Supreme Court judgement of Weds 16th April 2025 on sex/gender. I do not intend to fight a legal battle that I lack the resources, or…
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Still some way off the promised writing on gender definitions but here's some trans related stuff that is pretty axiomatic, for me at least.
rudderandsails.com
Trans Folk are Real and Not Mad, Bad or Sad
Before I really dive in, as promised in my previous post, I have some foundational ideas to mention. What I mean by saying that trans people are real is that there are people (for whatever reason, …
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Jolyon Maugham nails the problem leading to this highly flawed Supreme Court ruling
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We left it to the Supreme Court to decide ‘what a woman is’ – they chose wrong
The Supreme Court’s decision regarding trans women has made me ashamed of my profession – and ashamed of what our law has become, writes Good Law Project founder Jolyon Maugham KC
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Arek Malecki @arecki-yrks.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
In resonse to the raid on Westminster #Quaker Meeting House, I sent this letter to our MP, with the blessing from my congregation, expressing our concern at the far-reaching consequences of the Public Order Act and the Policing Act. #Unitarians in standing in solidarity with @quaker.org.uk
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It is time for me to warm up my very inactive blog. As I promised elsewhere I will be writing about gender definitions etc. in the wake of today's UK Supreme Court ruling but first, for at least some folk reading, there's the need for a small amount of personal context.
rudderandsails.com
Hello Again: An Update on a Big Change!
I have the intention to make a more detailed (and less personal) post later but, in order for that to make sense for some readers, I need to make this update as it has been such a long time since I…
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Much love and care to all UK transgender and gender non-conforming individuals on a very difficult day. You are not alone. ------------------------------- I will have more to say, not so much on today's UK Supreme Court ruling, but upon underlying definitions and philosophy shortly.
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The following Emergency Motion was passed (and is thus now a Resolution) with an overwhelming majority at the Annual Meetings of the UK General Assembly of the Unitarian and Free Christian Churches on Sunday 13th April.
This General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches
i) recognises, with concern, the increasingly authoritarian stance taken by the Trump administration in the USA and particularly notes the administration’s:
a. brazen disregard for the truth
b. demonisation of diversity and of vulnerable minorities
c. disempowerment of women
d. increasingly belligerent rhetoric towards other sovereign nations
ii) stands in solidarity with the Unitarian Universalist Association of America and with all Americans who uphold the truth and the marginalised
iii) recognises, with sadness, the need for greater caution regarding US influence over UK public life and policy.
Accordingly, it requests that Unitarians write to their MPs, and that the Chief Officer writes to the Prime Minister, urging that the UK Government resists making concessions to court favour with the Trump administration.
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Wow! Incredible stamina. Incredible oration. Hopefully it connects.
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Cory Booker crosses 24-hour mark in marathon Senate floor speech protesting Trump agenda | CNN Politics
Sen. Cory Booker is holding the Senate floor into Tuesday afternoon, as the New Jersey Democrat continues his marathon speech protesting actions taken by President Donald Trump’s administration.
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Trans Day of Visibility: am typically visible these days. Planning on being more audible too...
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the unitarians @ukunitarian.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Unitarians in solidarity with @quaker.org.uk after the Westminster Quaker meeting house was violently entered by over 20 police officers this week, and arrests made of 6 women holding a peaceful meeting relating to concerns about the climate and Gaza.   www.unitarian.org.uk/2025/03/29/u...
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Unitarians stand in solidarity with Quakers  - The Unitarians
Unitarians have expressed their concern and alarm at the reports from Quakers in Britain that …
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is absolutely outrageous.
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
How the media makes all trans people - at least if we make the mildest squeak - into unreasonable "activists" while making anti-trans bigots into folk simply having "reasonable concerns"
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Framing Wars: How the Media Tricks You into Thinking Transphobes Are the Good Guys
How the media uses language to make trans people seem 'radical' while painting transphobes as 'reasonable defenders of free speech'.
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Paul Frost @paulfrostafcm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
No more appeasement of Trump and big tech! Let them do their worst and show everyone who and what they really are! act.38degrees.org.uk/act/tech-gia...
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Sign the petition: don’t cut taxes for US tech giants!
Unbelievable. Rachel Reeves is thinking about cutting a tax on US tech giants to appease Trump and his band of billionaires. If anything we should be taxing them more - not less! Agree? Sign today:
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
When it all comes down she - a fascist and a bigot - is utterly disgusting herself. Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance embodied for our times...
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Kellie-Jay Keen Says Disgust Reflex Good — Assigned
Known anti-feminist, anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen (or perhaps Posie Parker?) has come out in support of… “rejecting” things that are “gross”? What does Keen think is gross? And what sort of rej...
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Disgraceful. And other GPs nearby are refusing new trans patients. I had been thinking of moving to that area... 🙁
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is absolutely shocking if true. A government's treatment of its most vulnerable citizens is a key indicator of its humanity and the strength of its social fabric. Enough is enough
independent.co.uk
Labour ‘to slash disability benefits for 1 million people’ as part of huge cuts
Those who have difficulty washing, dressing or eating will be denied payments due to a tougher eligibility criteria
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Chairing this should be fun!
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Sorry folks but this is increasingly my take (with or without a slice of Kremlin Pie)
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/03/2025
1. Reports this week revealed that DHS has rescinded guidance banning surveillance based on someone's gender identity or sexual orientation. We have confirmed those reports. The latest from S. Baum, who goes over steps you can take to protect yourself. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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DHS Now Allows for Surveillance based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
If you or your loved ones are part of the LGBTQ community, there are steps you should take to protect yourself.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has updated is statement about the ongoing trans genocide in the US and apologised for the previous one.
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UPDATED AND RE-RELEASED RFA
28 February 2025
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Clearly I can't personally verify this but it is consistent with Trump's remarkably cosy relationship with Putin.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Keep doing what you do @bylinetimes.bsky.social. You’ve got them worried
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I had the honor of speaking with the razor sharp Julia Wong about Enemy Feminisms, & she really gets it. Writers are not always so lucky to receive such care in journalism. Thank you Julia for putting so much thought into this offering which frames EF rightly as an antifascist strategy intervention
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IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Trans people fighting to cling on to our very basic existing human rights are totally outgunned at the moment. I promise you, hand on heart, 99.9% of what you are told about us every day is a lie. We can’t answer back on traditional media platforms, because we are banned.
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Andi Phillips @andiphillips.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Recital - admission free but donations to WAND (Sheffield Women's Neurodiversity Network) much appreciated. The previous concert given by Emily and Madge (who is one of our evening organists) was excellent. Please come along and bring a friend!
Winter into Spring Lunchtime Recital
Friday 21 February 2025
12noon - 1.00 pm
Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street, S1 2JD

Emily Chaplais: violin
Madge Woollard: piano

Vivaldi: Winter, Spring from the Four Seasons
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Donations to WAND: Sheffield Women's Neurodiversity Network
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