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Jen Neller @jenneller.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I'm a bit proud that I did a #bighike yesterday 🥾🥾 I somehow managed to walk 26 miles around the Peak District in 8 hours and 42 minutes, finishing #94/482. I'm also a bit surprised I can still walk today! Thank you, @cancerresearchuk.org fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/jens-bi...

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Jen's Big Hike

Thanks for taking the time to visit my Giving Page. This year I am taking part in Big Hike to help power progress for people affected by cancer. Please donate to my Giving Page and help me take big st...

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

FYI: @amnestyuk.bsky.social has launched an online course for folks who want to learn more about feminist and queer approaches to gender justice. It explores connections between human rights struggles (abortion, trans care, LGBT education, etc) and provides tools for action. It’s free to access! 🌈🎓

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Gender Justice: Addressing Challenges - Online Course - FutureLearn

Defend human rights and advance gender justice by tackling discrimination and the anti-gender movement. Gain insights and actionable strategies from Amnesty International.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Scholars leading research centres and groups devoted to feminist/gender/sexuality research have joined together to condemn the recent UK Supreme Court judgment that erroneously reduces “sex” to biology and claims to represent feminist and gay people while doing so. Well, not in our name!

We are leaders of centres, research groups and networks, of scholarship, teaching, learning, and academic expertise in gender, feminist, women’s and sexuality studies across the country. We are dismayed by the recent Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010.

This judgment, which states that ‘sex’ for the purposes of the Act refers to the ‘sex of a person at birth’, was handed down after a refusal to hear any testimony from legal experts on gender reassignment or from trans, nonbinary, or intersex people. We do not believe it provides more legal clarity on the relationship between gender and sex. Instead, it adds more confusion and gives more potential for transphobic opportunism and harm in an already fraught area.

We are also deeply concerned by responses to the judgment by the Equality and Human Rights Commission and organisations such as the British Transport Police. These responses have already used the judgment to declare the exclusion of trans people from facilities and services, and to align policies with ‘biological sex’. Such responses will expose trans, nonbinary/gender-nonconforming, and intersex people to forced outing, deny their lived realities, and limit their ability to participate in society.

We reject the framing in the media and in public discourse that puts women, and/or feminists, at odds with trans people. This is especially the case in relation to the inclusion of trans women in women’s spaces. Womanhood is lived; it is not biologically given or legally bestowed. The rights of trans people and the rights of cisgender women are inherently connected. As academic experts on sex and gender, we do not agree that biological sex is ‘self-explanatory.’ As feminists, we see the weaponisation of ‘women’s safety’ to vilify and exclude trans people as shameful.
We view this judgment and the damaging responses to it as part of a broader trend of backsliding on equality, which will harm all marginalised groups and expose all gender nonconforming people to exclusionary violence, including cisgender-nonconforming women.

Discrimination does not exist in isolation and the stripping away of legal protections threatens us all. Everyone’s bodily autonomy is put at risk by the anti-scientific elevation of ‘biological sex’ as a self-evident category, which will ultimately be policed by intensified regulation of the borders of gender expression.

Our support for trans rights, and in particular for trans women’s inclusion in women’s spaces, and the rights of trans, intersex and gender-nonconforming people to access safe and inclusive healthcare and sanitary facilities, is steadfast. We are proudly trans-inclusive and will remain so.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 01/05/2025

Hey there manchester

Protest
Manchester Trans Liberation Assembly
Resist the Ruling
Saturday 3rd May 2pm at the Crown Court, Crown Squate, M3 3FL

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

“Defining women as a biological group is a disaster for feminism. The many feminists who have argued against the biologisation of sex have been so routinely ignored that if you picked up a mainstream paper in the UK, you would not even know they existed.” Important piece by @saranahmed.bsky.social.

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Patriarchal Hammers

Some thoughts on the recent judgement by the Supreme Court

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

So many self described “progressive” British politicians and media were quick to condemn the segregation of trans people when it happened in the US but are now silent (or actively endorsing!) as it happens in the UK. We must continue to protest these bathroom bans. They’re dangerous and degrading.

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Jen Neller @jenneller.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I'm looking forward to this tomorrow! Further info is available here: rise.mmu.ac.uk/activity/man...

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Rise x Future Me at Manchester MetActivity/manchester-law-journal-2025-issue-launch – Rise

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Bev Clough @bevclough.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We are advertising a number of lectureships in the Law School at MMU- very happy to talk anyone interested in joining our vibrant research community manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

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