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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️

@humanrightsvicky.bsky.social
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Former UK Judge, now Litigation Strategist (W-Legal UK). Speaker & human rights fighter. Brought McCloud v Ministry of Justice, returning pensions to Public Sector workers. Largest State discrimination claim for all women ever.

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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
No surprises. I was an editor of it until I stepped down after a gcim slur campaign. Absent any informed cultural experience from the trans community it is now free to express the reality of how judges are now expected to act post FWS, and their ignorance of the decision be damned!
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Just read this and pause please: if you adhere to contested Gender Critical Ideology are you reaping benefits worth the suffering of even one innocent child? medium.com/@ParentofaTr...
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🌈 She Just Wanted to Wear the Uniform — How a Six-Year-Old Trans Girl Was Left Behind
An impact story of a 6 year old trans girl.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
If you have a God, may your God go with you with all that means. If you have no God or don’t know if you do or not, may your Christmas be full of joy, light and hope whoever you are, wherever you are. Victoria.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Happy Christmas to all, but especially to those who this Christmas find themselves part of the GCIM yet unfulfilled, lonely and angry. May they find peace and may we will be here to acknowledge and be at their side because we above all know how hard it is to become one's, real, true, self.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
We know the peace, the happiness and the fulfilment which can come from self-acceptance. I for one hope they start to find that in 2026 their challenges become a lighter burden to bear. I hope we will be willing to forgive, when the time comes, and that we will realise that hate is self-defeating.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Lets hope to ‘God’ or whatever sense of higher significance we have, that their anger gives way, that they find some personal peace and move on to more fulfilled futures. As trans people we have been on that journey, surely, or at least we see some common reference?
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
As 2025 ends. I hope we can take a moment this Christmas to glance THEIR way and away from ourselves just for a day. Let's see THEIR pain amid ours, see THEIR similarity with us in their gender conflicts and challenges.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
We do not know where they have been, what traumas they have had. It is hard for them if they appear to be trans or intersex or ’not feminine’ or ’not manly’ yet face requirements to conform to appearance and behavioural requirements rooted in sex but which are are vital to acceptance in their world.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
They present as they do, in my view, to avoid difficult conversations about of the sort we as trans people have had to face and overcome. We owe it to them in my view to challenge the myth they present of who they are, and to do so compassionately to them. They are self-harming. They need help.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
These people who became caught up in it are however not objects or fictions or animals or fungi: they are humans too like us. We tend to forget this sometimes.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Like a Cordyceps fungus it took control of the minds of more than one or two politicians whose brains were admittedly under-utilised, and in need of a little leadership to start with.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
No more poorly disguised use of ambiguous language to make people with wildly different views feel as if they are part of a movement sharing one ideology.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
At last we know what we face. No more hiding behind the limited notion of an uncontroversial ‘protected belief’ about sex being different from gender identity, but instead a bold fresh army on the march, hectoring about women’s roles, flags waving into U-bends of toilets.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
The Gender Critical Ideological Movement, a rather sinister spin-off of innocuous things about wanting to debate ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ and so forth finally came to the prominence in the UK this year.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
We help others to leave once we have put down roots. Jolly good for us… but lets not be smug and let’s think about other people just for one day, the 25th December which as I write is today.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
This year TEN was born, on the 8th April 2025 but the plans had been in place 2 years before. Now we are an active pipeline and Trans+ people and non-conforming people and families are getting out where they can from the UK to safer, better lives overseas.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
A 1am Christmas morning message from the founder of the UK Trans Exile Network. A Christmas card from me, not on behalf of the Trans Exile Network (UK) but heck, I founded it so…. First of course happy Christmas if you can have it. Find love, find peace, find calm.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Nice one keep up the good work…
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Rivkah Brown succinctly breaks down the media's wide misrepresentation of the facts reported on the Peggie v NHS Fife and Upton case and the Kelly v Leonardo tribunal. novaramedia.com/2025/12/16/a...
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Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One | Novara Media
Gender-critical campaigners had hoped that this year’s Supreme Court ruling would tee up US-style bathroom bills across the UK, throwing hundreds of thousands of pounds at lawsuits to exclude trans wo...
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
and the Schrems nightmare arises with repercussions far beyond the parochial UK context. Here, then, is the letter sent today to the EU Commission. It is page by page as images because a PDF cannot be posted here.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
and expects the enforcement of access to goods and services, healthcare and employment, grants and scholarships according to personal sex history as dictated by the EHRC in its present form, then the likelihood of EU States agreeing to send that data to the UK for their students is minimal
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
We note that the Prime Minister was pleased to announce that the UK is to rejoin ERASMUS for students in the EU coming here and vice versa. But if the UK persists in its present course
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
TEN and others today wrote accordingly to the EU. The UK Government must consider its position and the economic risks of breaching the BREXIT arrangements over EU citizens privacy.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
unless it remedies the present mass infringement of EU citizens' privacy is a Schrems-style block by national EU courts and the ECJ itself. The implications for all forms of cross-border working between UK and EU would be severe.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
There is precedent for this. The USA and Ireland case of Max Schrems led to a decision by the EU that data transfers to the USA from the EU would have to stop unless the USA changed its laws. The USA eventually complied. The UK has much less luxury of taking its time. Simply, what the UK now faces
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The net result is that the EU will now be asked to reconsider whether in 2026 the UK is any longer worthy of continued so called "Adequacy" status. If it is not, and the Courts of the EU decide so, then data transfers between the State and businesses across the Brexit border will be stopped.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
which has by many businesses, the State and employers been applied as if law, the privacy of UK and EU citizens in the UK has been violated on a mass scale by demanding sensitive disclosure of sex history so as to 'enforce' very legally dubious 'trans bans'.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The European Court of Justice or any EU State's Information Commission/Data Privacy authority. TEN and two other orgs today sent a letter to the EU Commission raising the issue that since the For Women Scotland Decision and the flawed interim guidance of the Equality and Human Rights Commission,
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
WHAT is this about? When BREXIT happened the UK had to agree to comply with laws equivalent to the EU in data privacy. The EU validated our laws and issued an "Adequacy" decision. That will now run for 6 years from 2025 just as it ran up to now after Brexit, but can be in effect suspended by
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
of EU and UK people triggered by Labour's and the EHRC's contested Gender Critical Ideology over peoples' sex and gender data will be under the microscope at EU States' level with serious implications for the UKs ability lawfully to send or receive sensitive personal data across the Brexit border."
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Speaking from Ireland, Dr Victoria McCloud the founder of the Trans Exile Network said "Whilst preventing Adequacy is unlikely today, in 2026 the UKs EU GDPR adequacy in the light of the mass invasion of privacy
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"Trans Exile Network and two major EU human rights bodies raise post Brexit data concerns: UKs cross-border data transfer rights in key economic sectors to be under the microscope in 2026 amid UKs mass invasion of privacy over sex data of EU and UK citizens."
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
UK Key economic sectors face post-BREXIT challenge in 2026: the Gender Critical Data Chickens come home to roost. Today, Trans Exile Network, which helps trans+ people, their families and anyone perceived as trans to flee the UK in the present climate released the following update.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Girlguiding UK say trans kid blanket exclusion was not "due" to 'safeguarding concerns'. The Trans Exile Network last week raised thr concern, not that this was "due to safeguarding concerns" but rather that it is being pursued *without proper regard to such concerns* for all affected by the ban.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Good, right thing to do.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We have here a bona fide case of a clash between Legislature and Court and a personal attack on a judge by way of the judgment not legally but in terms of accuracy, truthfulness or honesty. (From Merriam-Webster).
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Veracity is a very significant choice of word. It does not mean ‘legal correctness’. It means truthfulness, accuracy, or honesty. Its a huge step to take against a judge.
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Baroness Falkner questions “veracity” of a judge’s judgment. In a possibly unique statement the immediate former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Baroness Falkner is reported by the BBC as having questioned the ‘veracity’ of the Judgment of the Judge in Peggie v Fife and Upton.
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