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"Ignorance is ignorance; no right to believe anything is derived from it." - S. Freud Musician. Psychiatric Nurse. Psychodynamic Counselling. B.A. in Theology and Religious Studies. Woman born with Gender Incongruence. Human Rights Campaigning. Jewish.

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hlongabaum.bsky.social @hlongabaum.bsky.social · 10h
So true
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elizabeth says ‘Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor’ @thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 17h
Oh fuck off
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BBC announces JK Rowling documentary exploring her views on trans rights
The BBC has announced a new two-part documentary about JK Rowling which will explore her rise to global fame and the controversies surrounding her views on Scottish independence, feminism, free speech...
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hlongabaum.bsky.social @hlongabaum.bsky.social · 20h
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❝The UN's human rights system is being hollowed out so it can be captured - Geneva Solutions
The UN human rights architecture is being hollowed out from within and carefully prepared for capture. Nobody should be watching from the sidelines, warns Victor Madrigal-Borloz, trustee at the UN’s f...
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Your regular reminder that in 2023 I was asked on Women’s Hour to be interviewed by Emma Barnett about Alice’s inquest. I said no, because Emma is GC, but I’d go on with someone else. They didn’t engage with me after that. The BBC is biased. It’s anti-trans and anti-anyone who supports trans people.
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hlongabaum.bsky.social @hlongabaum.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Seventeen-year-olds could be banned from getting a haircut, based on school guidance
The new guidance says schools must “consider what is in the best interest of that child and other children,” before they’re allowed to cut their hair or adopt a nickname
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Heather Herbert is .... @heatherherbert.uk · 11/10/2026
www.thenational.scot/news/2662604...
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Fury as BBC censors pro-trans message on Strictly Come Dancing star's T-shirt
THE BBC has sparked a backlash after censoring a pro-trans message which appeared on a Strictly Come Dancing star’s T-shirt.
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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The scale of negligence committed by the NHS' Gender Clinics cannot be understated, and yet only 3 of the 13 clinics asked in QueerAF's survey actually disclosed suicide figures. To the NHS GCS: DISCLOSE THE DEATH TOLL Every trans suicide is murder, every cover-up is intentional xoxo BASH BACK
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 10/10/2026
Former Labour MP Tom Watson is calling people power against Palantir "mob rule" while defending its NHS deal, despite the tech giant's reliance on lobbying, and lavish perks...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 10/10/2026
“How can Mayor Khan tell trans Londoners that ‘this city is yours too’, whilst allowing a Christmas lights display to go ahead that will help fund anti-trans rights groups? The mayor must back up his words with action.” bit.ly/4rVeDWZ
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Thousands sign petition urging Sadiq Khan to block Harry Potter Christmas lights in London
Backed by the Good Law Project, the petition calls on the Mayor of London to stop the Oxford Street display from going ahead.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 10/10/2026
"The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage of Badenoch ... and the utterly dismissive coverage of Polanski, who has significantly improved his party’s standing over the past year, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK" www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/why-the-ho...
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Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party
The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics
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hlongabaum.bsky.social @hlongabaum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.forbidden-colours.com/hate-review/...
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The Hate Review: United Kingdom
How the anti-gender movement spread across Europe
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Jenni Jayne 🏳️‍⚧️ @jennifer-erin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3f
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Sadiq Khan: Pull the plug on transphobia
Tell the mayor of London to switch off JK Rowling’s Christmas lights
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In May of this year, over 80 clinicians, researchers and academics signed an open letter. In August, Medical Director James Palmer finally responded - yet many of the experts’ most significant concerns remain unaddressed or even acknowledged. This is what they said:
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wasn’t aware of this, but ‘Not In Our Name’ have a gofundme page.👇 Please consider a donstion, even if it’s just £1, to support the work that is being done to challenge the bigotry against trans people. And please repost and share! www.gofundme.com/f/notinourna...
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Donate to Women in support of the trans community, organized by NION Women
Help Women Speak Up for Trans Inclusion: Support NION Women Tens of thousands of w… NION Women needs your support for Women in support of the trans community
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 06/10/2026
trans ppl are being eradicated by the labour party trans ppl are being erased by the british state the sensibles are all completely silent on it. but they will make up lies about how the green party wants to eradicate and erase jewish ppl there is actually a minority being persecuted in the uk 🙄
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Healthcare experts have signed an open letter to Health Secretary Yvette Cooper escalating concerns over the rationale behind NHS England’s evidence reviews of gender-affirming care for under-18s. Read the full statement here: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/10...
Text reads: Experts escalate concerns over NHS England’s evidence reviews of gender-affirming care. Healthcare experts have signed an open letter to Health Secretary Yvette Cooper escalating concerns over the rationale behind NHS England’s evidence reviews of gender-affirming care for under-18s.
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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#UK #NHS #TransRights While prescribing HRT for a gender incongruence patient is considered "dangerous" by the NHS, citing biased systematic reviews, that same NHS has no problem putting the same patients on SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, a cocktail of antidepressants).
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Vile transphobic bigot Bridget Phillipson is leaving trans women survivors of domestic violence with nowhere to go. Trans people are particularly vulnerable to domestic violence & this disgusting government taking away support is putting lives in danger. Statement by @galopuk.bsky.social.
If the UK Government's position is, as the Minister for Women and Equalities, Bridget Phillipson, said on Sunday, that trans women should not be allowed in women's refuges, then it's their job to ensure trans+ people have accommodation they can access. Anyone who is escaping abuse and violence deserves a safe place to go.
But the Supreme Court Ruling and the EHRC's updated Code of Practice has put trans+ victims and survivors in a dangerous state of limbo with no clear guidance on what services they can turn to.
Over the last year, it has been virtually impossible for our frontline services to find anywhere safe for trans+ victims and survivors to go. Despite the fact that trans+ people are at particularly high risk of experiencing abuse and violence. We need direct action now from the UK Government to support trans+ people to find safe accommodation.
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Every cis person needs to read and understand this.These decisions aren’t taken lightly. Our Labour government is effectively making political refugees of trans ppl and their families who flee and seek safety overseas. It’s shameful. They can stick their dignity and respect where the sun don’t shine
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
“Everyone should be assigned a fixed sex at birth that is policed by the state” is basically The Handmaid’s Tale. This is why many feminists oppose “gender critical” politics — it just enables authoritarianism. Trans rights and women’s rights are secured together by refusing biological essentialism.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m considering leaving the UK also. I don’t want to. I’m a Londoner through & through. Burnham is by far the most transphobic PM ever. Transphobia is a flagship Labour policy. It’s also a political litmus test for how it will treat minorities & capitulate to oligarch media. A test it has failed.
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hlongabaum.bsky.social @hlongabaum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#UK #TransRights #NHS When the time arrives and the new systematic reviews turn out to be as detrimental as I'm predicting them for the little bit of healthcare we have left, remember this skeet. The McMaster review clearly linked to National Institute for Health www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie...
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PROSPERO
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ex-Commissioner of the EHRC, and one of the people involved in drafting the Equality Act 2010, raises significant concerns about the Supreme Court ruling and Code of Practice (note: the posts in this thread are not in chronological order) www.linkedin.com/pulse/has-eq...
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Has the Equality and Human Rights Commission done its job?
The EHRC’s draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations Last November, I wrote on Linked In about my concerns that the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice submitted to government o...
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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#UK #EHRC #TransRights I'm rather curious exactly what the terms and conditions are, because they haven't specified them in the news article. www.equalityhumanrights.com/news/funding...
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Funding available for organisations to give evidence to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) | EHRC
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riajourno.bsky.social @riajourno.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An 80-yr-old activist was filmed calling Andy Burnham a 'bastard' as police removed her from a Palestine Action protest on Sunday. She was later identified as Elizabeth Morley, the daughter of an Auschwitz survivor. #UKnews #AndyBurnham #UKPM www.ibtimes.co.uk/elderly-prot...
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Elderly Woman Calls Andy Burnham a 'Bastard' as Police Remove Her From Palestine Action Protest
Elizabeth Morley repeatedly called Prime Minister Andy Burnham a 'bastard' while being led away from a Liverpool protest against the Palestine Action ban.
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hlongabaum.bsky.social @hlongabaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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More than 44,000 file legal objections to Palantir NHS platform handling their data
Exclusive: Campaign comes amid backlash against tech company’s involvement with Israeli military and Trump’s ICE crackdown
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hlongabaum.bsky.social @hlongabaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.forbidden-colours.com/hate-review/
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The Hate Review
How the anti-gender movement spread across Europe
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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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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Still gathering signatures, still reaching new people, still receiving largely positive feedback and messages of support. Lots more to do of course but some meaningful activities planned. Compassionate cis women in the UK please keep signing, everyone self, please keep sharing notinourname.org.uk
Spoiler alert:
Trans women were never the issue

NION
notinourname.org.uk
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 27/09/2026
Over 85,000 people have asked their local NHS Trust to say no to Palantir. Time is running out, so every email counts. Will you email your local trust and ask them to stand against Palantir? notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/ema…
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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hlongabaum.bsky.social @hlongabaum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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It's official: Labour's transphobia has no mandate from women across the UK
Labour held its women's conference, barred trans women from the hall, and women across the country stayed away.
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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025.
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hlongabaum.bsky.social @hlongabaum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Senedd presiding officer accuses Reform MS Joe Martin of offensive comments
Joe Martin called for "butcher" doctors who performed surgery on children to be jailed.
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 25/09/2026
We have heard today from one of our members in Glasgow that Category is Book in Govanhill has been attacked again for the second time in a fortnight. The main shop window has been smashed again. www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...
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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books
For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please watch this VIDEO: The media is deliberately ignoring Andy Burnham’s Transphobic Section 28+ now imposed on schools. A lot of trans children are being bullied, victimized, abused and harmed at school by the government’s transphobic “KCSIE” diktats. Many are now school refusing…
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 24/09/2026
Make sure you get down to your local protest next week and join the international day of action to say NO to Palantir ❌ Not able to make it? Take action with our digital tool instead 👇 goodlaw.social/74abab
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UK government is calling for evidence on puberty suppressing hormones for children and young people with gender incongruence. It’s asking: what research has emerged since 2023. How has the evidence base changed? What makes the evidence hard to generate, evaluate and use in clinical/policy decisions?
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Puberty-suppressing hormones for children and young people accessing gender identity services
How has evidence on puberty suppressing hormones for children and young people with gender incongruence evolved since 2023, and what challenges affect its interpretation and use?
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ANOTHER ARTICLE TO READ… www.jezebel.com/trump-transg...
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Trump Chillingly Implies Transgender People Will “End” If GOP Prevails in Midterm Elections
Fox News host Trey Gowdy naturally did not respond by saying "And what exactly does an 'end' for transgender people mean?"
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Clive is of course correct, and the key thing here is not that Watson has succumbed to temptation: he was a bullshit artist and a crook ten years ago too. This is just what the system looks like when there is no longer any need to pretend these people work for you, not their future employers.
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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 24/09/2026
Wait til he hears about the UK newspapers....
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 24/09/2026
“Climate change and nature loss have never been issues for climate and environment ministers alone. They are defining challenges for our citizens, our economies, our foreign policy and our national security.” bit.ly/4hn1lO3
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UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer
El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If anyone is interested… prideinleadership.co.uk/upcoming-eve...
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How to talk to a transphobe: Tips for coliberation in divisive times - Pride In Leadership
This session will outline both the knowledge and, crucially, the skills needed to engage in a meaningful dialogue with those with opposing (and, indeed, prejudicial) views.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 19/09/2026
She is trans and therefore has no choice but to take seriously the catastrophe currently being inflicted on that community specifically www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
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The American Transgender Refugee Crisis
If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 23/09/2026
When the health department published Palantir’s contract with most of its pages completely blanked out, our legal action forced ministers to reveal key sections about the protection of personal data. And now we’re doing it again. Support our challenge for transparency: goodlaw.social/xcsv
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Make the government come clean about Palantir | Good Law Project
Together with Democracy for Sale, we’re challenging the information commissioner’s decision to keep ministerial briefings about Palantir’s platform hidden
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/09/2026
When Andy Burnham served as the Manchester regional mayor, he did so in the only region of England that refused Palantir access to its data. Now, as British prime minister, Palantir could be his first major test in office.
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The UK Government Faces a Reckoning Over Palantir
Andy Burnham once kept Palantir out of Greater Manchester. His first test as prime minister is whether to cut the company’s £330 million NHS contract—and risk a rupture with Big Tech and Washington.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 22/09/2026
Court rules trans women can be housed in men’s prisons & calls them men “who claim to be female” www.lgbtqnation.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #transphobia
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Court rules trans women can be housed in men’s prisons & calls them men “who claim to be female”
The three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals consisted exclusively of Donald Trump appointees.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 22/09/2026
⚖️ NEW ⚖️ The latest High Court judge appointees are all white, and nine out of ten are men – no wonder the legal system fails to deliver justice: goodlaw.social/ac7w
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The new High Court judges: 90% male, 100% white | Good Law Project
The latest High Court judge appointees are all white, and nine out of ten are men – no wonder the legal system fails to deliver justice
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hlongabaum.bsky.social @hlongabaum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender people
Motion passed at party conference calls for new approach to implementing ruling that legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex only
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