Sign in

Jess O'Thomson

@jessothomson.co.uk
20K followers 281 following 6.2K posts

Legal researcher, writer, journalist | Trans Rights Lead @ Good Law Project | PhD student @ University of Leeds Views my own. Not your lawyer; not legal advice. They/them hello@jessothomson.co.uk

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
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
My branded typeform
Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.
0145108
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2h
Can people on the left stop backing this incredibly antisemitic man please. Thanks.
0303
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 3h
TransActual partnered with @scottishtrans.bsky.social and @transsolidarity.bsky.social to bring messages from this month’s Mass Lobby for Trans Equality to the Labour conference in Liverpool, and to ask the party: what now for our standing on LGBTQ+ rights?
04013
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 9h
Most TV is just this now.
13152961532
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 23h
Support for Andy Burnham's proposal to change the triple lock in order to help fund part of a national care service, by age All Britons: 48% support / 28% oppose 18-24yr olds: 56% / 12% 25-49yr olds: 49% / 18% 50-64yr olds: 46% / 35% 65+yr olds: 43% / 46% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
2237
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Tbh it was a good speech and I would really like to be able to back the man, I just need him to have a decent position on our human rights obligations. Which is also a necessary component of any future relationship with the EU.
51128
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29/09/2026
This looks a teensy weensy little bit like potentially criminal fraud...
3346
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Tbh it was a good speech and I would really like to be able to back the man, I just need him to have a decent position on our human rights obligations. Which is also a necessary component of any future relationship with the EU.
51128
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
My branded typeform
Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.
0145108
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Ps – one reason why things often need to be in the manifesto is so you can rely on the Salisbury Convention to push them through the House of Lords.
3484
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".
39621126
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29/09/2026
He's gonna mention the sacred triple lock? Jesus.
3250
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today is Andy Burnham’s first party conference speech as PM. We’ve taken your messages from the mass lobby on tour to Labour conference in Liverpool, with our friends at @transactualuk.bsky.social and @scottishtrans.bsky.social We aren’t going anywhere.
7606171
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
581617520
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 28/09/2026
They tried to march again at 4am this morning...
1402
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal
Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."
337152601270
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Labour are really shitting the bed on this
5593
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Read this and tell me they are not there solely to inflame things.
DUP leader Gavin Robinson has been holding a press conference.

He insists the Orange Order who had gathered at Drumcree Church at 8am for the controversial parade can wait hours, days, and months to march down Garvaghy Road.

“If it takes another 28 hours, if it takes another 28 days they will show the same steadfast determination and patience and a willingness to uphold the law that’s been there for the last 28 years,” Robinson told reporters in Belfast.
35713
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Portadown is where the first Loyal Orange Lodge was founded. I don't discount that Drumcree is important to them. But the Orange Order is also a sectarian hate brigade that's inexorably linked to paramilitary violence over the years. They're bigots through and through.
413014
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 27/09/2026
This Bluesky post is the first time I have ever heard of this song. Genuinely.
91185
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 27/09/2026
I genuinely cannot believe we're back here. It's so viscerally upsetting.
211610
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.
18636254
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Growing up, it was palpable how traumatised so many of my Irish Catholic family members were by The Troubles. The paranoia and anxiety. Makes me so angry, how little care has been shown for that trauma.
11029
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 27/09/2026
How dare the lawless rabble at Cable Street block the roads?
0423
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Just like that guy in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square. And Gandhi in India.
2723
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And I can’t stress this enough: people are re-traumatised by this decision to antagonise and push through the community. There isn’t a single net positive to this entire farce before the courts. There has not been a single element of responsibility with the Parade Commission.
1216
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Feeling so sick about Portadown this morning and I just know most people in this country have no idea it's even happening.
3797
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't want to just dunk on Bryant, who is new in post, but successive UK Govts have been profoundly complacent about the stability of NI even after several summers of rioting. That the Secretary of State is only coming to NI now is jaw dropping.
910737
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Finally a leaflet talking about the real issues in the constituency
"Vote in Christian Values" - Saint Pancras was martyred age 14 by beheading
2537062
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Full story from Belfast’s high court Judge injuncts tomorrow’s March down Garvaghy Road as she urged all parties to “step back from the abyss” and consider the whole of society in NI www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Belfast court injuncts decision to allow Orange Order march down Garvaghy Road
Andy Burnham calls for calm as fears of unrest grow after request for countermarch in mainly nationalist area
02713
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 26/09/2026
An insight into my true self haha
1641
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 26/09/2026
I actually still have my cartridge of pokemon emerald from when I was a kid, with my original save still on it. It was my first pokemon game, I was like six years old, and for unknown reasons named my mudkip starter SLAPPY 5000
4572
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 26/09/2026
These are my people
2321
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Parades Commission decision on the Drumcree parade rests in large part on the police assessment of disorder. This is a huge call by the police and I can only think how awful this renewed attention must feel for the Quinn, O'Reilly and Nelson families: www.paradescommission.org/viewparade.a...
35314
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 25/09/2026
Parades Commission decision is simply extraordinary.
1171
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 25/09/2026
Personally think City should have to give back all of their silverware, alongside mandatory demotion (ideally to League 2)
4210
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mind-blowing story in Private Eye about how the Telegraph's chief reporter reached out to James Orr (or meant to) after the Channel 4 donation revelations


...within hours of journalists on either the *Guardian* or *Sunday Times* contacting Reform for comment on the same stories ahead of them publishing their own investigations. Reform deputy leader Richard Tice and his fiancée, supposed journalist Isabel Oakeshott, even crowed online about their spoiler tactics.

Not that the *Telegraph* doesn't do its own leg work when reporting on Reform. After James Orr, the party's head of policy, had to resign after a sting by *Channel 4 News* (see "*Right Orr Wrong*, p14"), *Telegraph* chief reporter Rob Mendick texted Orr: "I was hoping to talk to you entirely on background," he schmoozed. "You must be feeling very bruised and I totally Appreciate [sic] the sensitivities. I suspect you deserve better and I wanted to see how I can put the record straight in some way." Alas, instead of the Reformer and Cambridge theologian, Mendick messaged someone else, who shared it with the *Eye*!
11565248
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Evan Davis on PM asked if ‘Danny Tommo’ “had any kind of point” by puncturing a dinghy with a knife because “the [authorities] should be doing that themselves”. He went on to describe it as “vigilante action”.
37220101
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 23/09/2026
this is daft. driving passengers away is the whole point of a bus
578199
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Harry @harry-is-human.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There's passive voice and then there's this shit for describing pulling a knife on the RNLI.
Screenshot of the BBC article. Text reads:

Daniel Thomas, known as Danny Tommo, shared a YouTube livestream of the boat from the Channel. Thomas-a long-term campaigner against migrants -organised recent protests in Portsmouth and Dover.
49725
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Am actually just sat here crying at the fact that this is where we are.
61382
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just as well those committing wrongs against the RNLI are not holding placards supporting a proscribed organisation, else they would really be in trouble.
01241310
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Don't know what to say anymore
Protesters amassed in Gosport, Hampshire, after rumours spread that the migrants might be brought ashore by lifeboats there. Police closed off access roads to the marina as activists rallied by Thomas on YouTube arrived to attempt to block the boat’s arrival. Crowds of masked protesters confronted a line of police to chants of “let them drown” sung by a child over a megaphone.
6492101
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Why has he not been arrested?
612716
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 20/09/2026
Do you remember when Biden won in 2020 and he spent four years legislating to protect minorities, secured the right to abortion, and dismantled all of the detention camps? It was such a wonderful time, cannot believe trans people specifically want to prevent the Dems from doing this tbh.
1033832
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 20/09/2026
Very normal response!
3451
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 20/09/2026
Always nice to go back to Cambridge
A picture of me in front of the CamA picture of my feet hanging over a wall by the river, with a punt in the background
5870
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 20/09/2026
Oh man, the Lib Dems really do be like that sometimes
2694
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 20/09/2026
Talking domestic politics for a sec. Tell me if I am mad. But if I were Burnham, I would announce an incredibly populist tax and spendy budget with huge incentives for the electorate – say it would require tax rises on the wealthiest – and then announce a GE off the back of it to legitimise it?
101147
Reposted by Jess O'Thomson
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ben-Gvir: “If we get the Palestinians out of Gaza, that means more lives for us. “And then Gaza can become a real-estate arena. It can become a beautiful coastal gem. “Settlements need to be built there. A lot of things need to be done there.”
914053