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Jen @jen.northsky.social · 12/10/2026
Interesting. I've been cycling 100/200 out of curiosity for a few months. I think it had an impact on my mood at the start but it seems to be doing very little now. It's so difficult to tell
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Jen @jen.northsky.social · 12/10/2026
Happy birthday! 🎂
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/10/2026
"Transgender rights activists are spreading misinformation about guidance that protects single-sex spaces by claiming it erodes trans people’s rights, the equalities regulator has said." [Times page 2]
Trans activists ‘wrong over single-sex code’
Geraldine Scott - Assistant Political Editor
Transgender rights activists are spreading misinformation about guidance that protects single-sex spaces by claiming it erodes trans people’s rights, the equalities regulator has said.

Mary-Ann Stephenson, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said criticism of its updated code of practice had made the “real alarm” felt by trans people worse by wrongly suggesting they had lost protections or would face sex checks.

Stephenson said women had also been affected by not having access to single-sex spaces. She said: “Women who believe that their right to privacy, dignity or safety have not been properly protected deserve to have those concerns taken seriously too.”

Last week the Liberal Democrats passed a conference motion branding the code discriminatory and “unworkable”.

At Labour’s conference Joanne Thomas, the general secretary of the Usdaw union and chairwoman of Labour Unions, said the law and the EHRC code would hurt trans and nonbinary people and argued that rights had been rolled back.

Stephenson said the code did not create new law or abolish protections for transgender people.

She said: “Recognising women’s need for access to single-sex services doesn’t require us to dismiss the rights of trans people. And recognising the vulnerability of trans people doesn’t require us to dismiss women’s concerns.”

The EHRC’s code of practice came into force in August, 16 months after the Supreme Court ruled that sex in relation to the Equality Act must be defined biologically. This means single-sex lavatories, changing rooms, hospital wards and refuges must be used based on a person’s birth sex, not the gender with which they identify.

The Good Law Project, which is backing a legal challenge against the code, accused the EHRC of producing “discriminatory” and “unworkable” guidance and said service providers which followed it would be “helping to strip trans pe…
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 05/10/2026
Please don't forget about us trans people. Facing the worst attack on our rights in this country due to Labour's current transphobia. Don't forget my community. That's all I ask. Please.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Our 2026 Radical Book Fair programme is LIVE and fizzing with the energy of this year's theme: Building a Better Now! The fair will be made up of book stalls, activist stalls, events, workshops and more! Assembly Roxy, 5-8th November lighthousebookshop.com/events/edinb...
1 excited bookseller holds a placard in one hand with a poster stuck to it, with the text 'programme now live' written on it. A second, more casually excited, bookseller leans against a green wall holding a stack of booksa green and yellow graphic displaying all the as yet announced authors and speakers who will be featured at the radical book fair
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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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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29/09/2026
🚨 We need to hear from YOU Have you had a problem accessing gendered services since April last year, outside of school and the workplace? Are you a service provider worried about remaining inclusive? PLEASE let us know through this form - and share widely goodlaw.social/mzb3
goodlaw.social
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 29/09/2026
Burnham is stacking a whole lot of things under a list of "Todo, IF we win the next General Election" and quite a lot fewer things under "Todo, currently, whilst we hold power with a huge majority"
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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you've a few pounds to spare, consider donating some to a lovely queer and trans bookshop in Glasgow who've been having their windows smashed and sadly need to install roll shutters to be safe. They're close to the target, so help push it over? 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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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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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
PSA: Andy Burnham has presided over the imposition of trans segregation and the use imposition of trans Section 28 in schools. Just in his first 6 weeks in power he has imposed more transphobic measures than any other PM ever.
Andy Burnham is the most transphobic
Prime Minister ever.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 06/09/2026
"Masked activists bring chaos to Dover in protest against migrants" "Trans activists show who they really are: a violent mob"
Telegraph page 5 today - Masked activists bring chaos to Dover in protest against migrants and Who are the disguised protesters who brought port to a standstill?Telegraph 20 April 2025 - Trans activists show who they really are: a violent mob"
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Cwiar Cymru @cwiar.org · 01/09/2026
More appalling behaviour from the BBC. ⬇️ A trans person interviewed about their horrific experience having their surgery cancelled whilst in the hospital described as 'biologically female'. And then half the article devoted to praising the work of an unemployed transphobe. 🗣️ DEFUND THE BBC 🗣️
bbc.co.uk
Welsh Gender Service: Transgender patients told surgery cancelled in hospital
One patient said they were "heartbroken" after being told their surgery was called off 24 hours before.
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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Completely untenable to have someone who talks about a minority group like this in charge of anything, let alone being the final say in matters of equality and human rights
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 22/08/2026
I better not see anyone waving this around as though a worthless statement counterbalances funding a right wing hate campaign and constant legal attacks on trans people's ability to exist in public.
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 18/08/2026
"GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today warned that the UK’s revised Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions, and Associations, in force as of 5 August, may place transgender and gender-diverse persons at heightened risk of discrimination and exclusion." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
ohchr.org
UK: Revised Code of Practice risks institutionalising discrimination against transgender and gender-diverse persons, warn UN experts
GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today warned that the UK’s revised Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions, and Associations, in force as of 5 August, may place transgender and gender-divers...
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Jen @jen.northsky.social · 16/08/2026
I was able to take a few moody photos of the eclipse through the clouds. This one is my favourite
Partial solar eclipse through cloud cover. A crescent of light in an otherwise mostly dark photo
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
TransActual is launching the Trans Lives Survey 2026. It's quick, anonymous and will help us campaign for our community! Take the survey here: form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3 #TransLives #TransSurvey #Trans
A pink and blue graphic with a black and white cartoon of some people on the bottom. 

Text reads: TransActual is launching its biggest survey for the trans community yet!

TRANS LIVES SURVEY

2026

We want to hear about your experiences as a trans person living in the UK.

It's quick, anonymous, and will help us campaign for our community!
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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
being trans means sometimes you walk into somebody's house and they've got all seven novels in the Wine Kampf series on the bookshelf, plus a twee little poster that says something like "Proud Witch of House Goebbels"
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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I don’t care if you like its cultural output. The BBC has been a major player in the immiseration of this country, in the persecution of trans people, immigrants, muslims, travellers and disabled people, in the spread of dangerous rhetoric about climate change and vaccines. It must be dismantled.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/07/2026
Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
amnesty.org.uk
An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026
Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/07/2026
If Amnesty is afraid to call anti-rights groups anti-rights, they are no longer fit for purpose.
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
If you're a trans person in England (or the parent or guardian of a young trans person in England) I strongly recommend doing this immediately. The new data principles for the shared NHS record in England - based on the transphobic and psuedoscientific Sullivan Review - are designed to out us.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/07/2026
"Give him more than a week" say the people who have not been segregated from society, while he rolls out even more anti-trans policies and gives positions of power to people who hate us.
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The UK media has been so captured by privileged, powerful, and well-funded ‘gender critical’ transphobes, that it’s quite a shock when an article is published so clearly exposing their bullying, gaslighting, and hypocrisy!.. Read 👉🏻 archive.ph/oQ2Cs
Belfast Telegraph

Women's rights are at risk
— just not from a tiny trans minority

Far from being silenced, anti-trans views are currently among the most disproportionately platformed - shared by the world's most powerful men
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Jessica Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @mintopia.net · 27/07/2026
I did everything they asked, played nicely, played their games. - Fought for a GP referral to GIC - Waited 16 months for a GIC appointment - Answered the invasive questions - Took their homeopathic doses of HRT - Saved the NHS money by having private SRS - Took statutory declarations 1/8
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 24/07/2026
btw my advice to local authorities remains that they should petition for private Acts of Parliament to grant exemptions and reliefs. Make it a Labour problem.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23/07/2026
Dear men, If you ask me how I am in the street, and I smile at you, that does not entitle you to follow me at a distance for several streets to my bus stop, and then sit down next to me to try and hit on me. That just makes me scared and uncomfortable. Many thanks.
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🏳️‍🌈 Dolly Darren 🏳️‍⚧️ @dollydarren.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Well, the @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social has got how to label toilets properly... 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The proper analogy to get across why you shouldn't buy from J. K. Rowling is that, if you saw a bunch of Klan members selling cookies in the wal-mart parking lot, and you bought their cookies, it doesn't matter that you only did it because you really like oatmeal raisin, you still supported the Klan
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The best time to stop playing Fortnite was last year when they did that Harry Potter shit. The second best time is right now.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15/07/2026
The Code of Practice will come into force on the 5th August. Here's what that means: goodlaw.social/3b7a2a
goodlaw.social
‘Discriminatory’ and ‘unworkable’ trans guidance to come into force | Good Law Project
The equalities minister has ordered the government’s harmful code of practice will apply from 5 August – we’re pushing back
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Miffythegamer @miffythegamer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In my opinion, this is litigious thuggery. Amnesty spoke their truth and it hurt the feelings of the anti-trans brigade. TERFs destroy everything they touch. I mean, imagine suing Amnesty, of all organisations?
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13/07/2026
JK Rowling offers to fund lawsuits against Amnesty is a headline that will cut through.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/07/2026
And there it is. JK Rowling personally and publicly offering to bankroll litigation against Amnesty International using her massive wealth.
A screenshot of a social media thread on X (formerly Twitter) featuring two posts by J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling).
​The first post reads: 'Should any of the women's organisations targeted by @AmnestyUK's recent 'anti-rights' blacklist wish to take legal action, applications can be made to the JK Rowling Women's Fund. jkrwf.org'.
​This first post includes a quote post from the account Trans Widows’ Voices. (@transwidows) that says: 'Whilst I understand the detriment to Beira's Place is real, and focussing on @jk_rowling get clicks it's a shame that mainstream press coverage of the Amnesty debacle is not also focussing on us smaller groups listed who do ...'
​The second post, a reply in the thread by J.K. Rowling, reads: 'Gay men's organisations named on the list are welcome to contact me through my website. While the JK Rowling's Fund was set up to support women, JK Rowling herself is more than happy to donate to your legal fighting fund.'"
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 11/07/2026
"The government's schools guidance constitutes a form of ‘Ambient Conversion Therapy’ by embedding systemic pressures that will undermine trans children's identities and wellbeing 24/7" - @natacha.bsky.social www.wearequeeraf.com/english-scho...
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English schools to segregate Trans+ kids from toilets – including those who've already transitioned – from September
New ‘Keeping Children Safe In Education 2026’ (KCISE) guidance sets out in detail the limits now placed on schools on supporting Trans+ children
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
There really is no overstating how horrific the 2026 KSCIE guidance from the UK government is. It takes on board all of the punitive, coercive, ill-conceived musings of the Cass Review, and turns them into a recipe for making kids' lives hell on earth.
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 11/07/2026
Apparently, Amnesty International pulled their list of anti-trans hate groups, so I should probably re-post this. ashley-nein.notion.site/19101d3e04aa...
ashley-nein.notion.site
List of anti-trans hate groups and collaborators in the UK | Notion
Last updated: 2025-05-27
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It tells you everything you need to know about the state of British society when the Anne Frank Trust has to step in because of the dehumanising attacks on the LGBT community. What a disgrace we’ve become
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/07/2026
What if I told you one woman, with little accountability, is wearing the name of the United Nations to launder false anti-trans forum posts into global legal fights, including the US Supreme Court? Our reporter S. Baum investigates Reem Alsalem in our collaboration piece with The Nation.
erininthemorning.com
How One Woman Is Using the UN to Attack Trans Rights Worldwide
It’s no coincidence that the Supreme Court’s decision allowing trans sports bans echoes the work of Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls.
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
2) Services only for cisgender women were ALREADY lawful in certain circumstances before the SC ruling. It's a lie that "women couldn't access" these. Trans-inclusive single sex services were ALSO lawful. Providers had flexibility to offer either/or. That balance and flexibility is now gone.
Gender reassignment discrimination and separate and single-sex services 13.57 If a service provider provides single- or separate sex services for women and men, or provides services differently to women and men, they should treat transsexual people according to the gender role in which they present. However, the Act does permit the service provider to provide a different service or exclude a person from the service who is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or who has undergone gender reassignment. This will only be lawful where the exclusion is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate.
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
As the updated CoP is set to come into force, I think there's two lines of messaging it will be helpful to push. 1) Trans people never asked for this. None of the disruption and expense is their fault. It's because gender critics have pushed and pushed for blanket exclusion of trans people. (PTO)
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Anne Widdecomb will be remembered as a disgusting bigot who somehow managed to stay further to the left than the current Labour Party
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Remember, the transphobic EHRC code is being implemented by this government by CHOICE, not because it HAS to. Labour is CHOOSING to implement transphobic segregation.
mirror.co.uk
Trans advocates and MPs urge government to scrap 'segregation' code'
The EHRC Code of Practice is set to pass Parliament today at the end of the 40-day scrutiny period, despite 166 MPs signing a 'prayer' motion to stop it — including more than 90 Labour backbenchers
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 10/07/2026
if you’re thinking about how nasty and vile ann widdecombe was id like to remind you that labour called her ‘woke’ simply bcos, unlike @darrenpjones.bsky.social and @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, she acknowledged that if you put trans women in male prisons we get passed around and used as rape toys.
Tom Harwood @tomhh • Aug 6, 2025
Ann Widdecombe has written today for GB
News arguing "Kemi Badenoch needs to grow up and tell us then if it is Conservative policy to put trans prisoners in danger.

Jonathan Hinder MP @Jonathan_Hinder
The "Woke Right" not letting this drop.
Transgender woman raped 2,000 times' in all-male prison
'It was hell on earth, it was as if I died and this was my punishment'
Will Worley
Saturday 17 August 2019 09:16 BST
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 07/07/2026
Eight protests from the BAD Coalition (Bodily Autonomy and Dignity Coalition) have cropped up for Thursday 9th July at 18:00. Do try to attend if you can, although many of these protests are in London. There are a few scattered across England though. Details here: whatthetrans.com/compilation-...
Protest placard that reads "Transphobia ages you", with a small portrait of Glinner in the bottom left.
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Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh @rtie.org · 15/06/2026
Staying trans-inclusive as a Service-provider Protecting the safety, dignity, and rights of trans people and others who may not have a conventional gender presentation in response to the new Equality Act Code of Practice. rtie.org/2026/06/04/s...
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