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"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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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 14h

Türkiye's government is violently cracking down on LGBTQ+ civil society, targeting trans women especially. Among the groups attacked are Kaos GL, who previously translated and republished some of my work in their journal. I am grateful therefore for this statement of solidarity from @ucu.org.uk.

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UCU condemns Turkish state crackdown on LGBTQ+ people and civil society

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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 13h

Flávio Bolsonaro got 56 million votes yesterday. He's under investigation for alleged “money laundering, illicit capital flight, corruption" after he negotiated a $24-million investment from a now-jailed banker—accused of leading the biggest bank fraud in Brazil's history—to finance the movie.

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How a Bolsonaro biopic ended up at the center of Brazil's presidential election

“This movie is going to be a nightmare for the Left.”

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Rosencreutz (alleged youtuber) @rosencreutz.bsky.social · 12h

Even if there's a lot of disagreement and feelings and frustration circling this whole thing, I think, in terms of action-to-be-taken, maximizing the presence of this information is significant. Tacit minimizing is hoping it "goes away" which is what the sorry-not-sorry YTers of the past have done.

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Rosencreutz (alleged youtuber) @rosencreutz.bsky.social · 12h

One final, and I do mean final, thing on Geller: I believe, wholeheartedly, that he has an obligation to present his note as far and wide as possible. It should be on his patreon, it should be on his community tab. Every supporter needs to at the very least, face an "informed decision"

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J. Jacob Marion, Writer of LGBT Urban Fantasy @jjacobmarion.bsky.social · 14h

As I said on Tumblr, it's so disheartening that Harry Potter still has such a thriving fan scene despite having nothing good in 20 YEARS whereas most fandoms nowadays live and die within like two weeks if you're unlucky. Just miserable all around.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 19h

The situation with FurAffinity is pretty amazing. Advertisers threatened their advertising revenue because they considered Plus Sized characters and characters HUGGING to be adult content. So FA said fuck off, and in two days raised their entire yearly funding. Advertisers are so bullshit stupid.

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GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 18h

Doing the maths, USD$180,000 spread over 2500 donations is $72 per year. That's all it is. FA+ just has to increase by a single USD$ per month for a handful of the site's users and they're covered for a whole year.

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CastBound🔞🇻🇪 @castbound.bsky.social · 18h

Of all possible genderbends, I genuinely do not see the appeal of malfoid, even leaving sll the horrible context aside. She's literally just yet another average racist pretentious blonde girl of the lot. Like if unseasoned boiled chicken had a face.

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bran 👽 @pupnik.moe · 23h

the nsfw art trend of the week being a genderbend harry potter character that people are referring to with a portmanteau of the characters name and a misogynistic slur is ridiculously on the nose. it feels like some outlandish parody where someone tried to think of the most soulless thing possible

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Rhiannon 🇵🇸 @rhithewitch.bsky.social · 17h

Hello! Would really appreciate some eyes on this to support our reporting <3 www.thegamer.com/inside-rocks...

thegamer.com

Inside Rockstar's Union Busting Trial

We speak with one of the 34 Rockstar workers who lost their job last year, in the midst of a high-profile employment tribunal.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

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oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore

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Rosencreutz (alleged youtuber) @rosencreutz.bsky.social · 17h

Honest to god, the comparisons between the Geller situation and The Plagiarisms and cancellation efficacy and all that feel 1) premature, 2) horribly matched, and 3) in somewhat poor taste. Let's elaborate:

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 15h

Are you: - a trans woman or a non-binary person with a prostate? - aged 40+? - on oestrogen and/or post-op for bottom surgery? - based in the UK? The TransPRIDE study invites you to participate in research to inform better trans-inclusive prostate care! transpridestudy.org.uk

Recruitment poster with text that reads as follows. Trans or non-binary?
Join us in research led by and for trans people to improve our healthcare.

TransPRIDE (Trans & non-binary Prostate specific antigen Reference Interval
DEtermination) is a research study to help find the normal levels of the PSA blood test in trans women and non-binary people with prostates.
Prostate specific antigen (PSA) is a blood test that helps detect prostate
problems including cancer.

It is lowered by gender-affirming hormones and surgeries but we do not
know the expected normal levels for trans women and non-binary people.

Knowing the normal PSA blood test level will help doctors to find and treat prostate cancer more quickly in this population.

We are looking for 500 trans women and non-binary people aged 40+ who have been on feminising hormone therapy for at least 3 months, and/or had any kind of bottom surgery, to take part.

Participation involves a blood test for PSA and hormone levels, and short
questionnaires.

Blood test results will be returned, and participants are given a £25 gift
voucher for their time.

For more information visit: transpridestudy.org.uk
Or contact: bartsctu-transpride-study@qmul.ac.uk

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 17h

i dont want to download an app i don't want a qr code menu i dont want to talk to an ai assistant i dont want ai summaries for my searches i dont want to optimize my workflow i dont want to jump on a call i dont want to rate anything i don't want to create an account LEAVEME ADLONEe

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

yeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale.

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Rie Sonomura, NeoY2K Hacker Vtuber @riesonomura.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

same with the AI flag in the video itself, ESPECIALLY for music

I wish all AI generated thumbnails a very "Don't recommend channel"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have seen porn considerably less erotic than this man's sex dream about Jesus Christ.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My column leans on reporting done by @nationalobserver.com @rorywh.bsky.social & Mahdis Habibinia. Well done, everyone. 👏🏼

Toronto needs a Blade Runner to help us figure out what's real and what's artificial. In the film series, Blade Runners hunt androids disguised as humans. In Toronto, we need them to root out our AI generated politics.
Brad Bradford's mayoral campaign has come under fire for using an app called Victory that, as an investigation by Canada's National Observer found, "gamifies" political campaigns by awarding participants points for uploading their contacts with possibly-lax privacy standards around voter data. Further, the app also awards points for posting AI-generated messages to social media.
The Star's Mahdis Habibinia asked Bradford himself about using the app and he said the reporting was false and that there's no rewards. In response, the National Observer released audio of a Bradford campaign Zoom meeting where a presenter said a points system would be used and that there will be rewards.

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God @thegodshow.com · 05/10/2026

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PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026

"Our rape statutes were written decades ago, at a time when women were gravely underrepresented in the legislature, and when we understood far less about rape than we understand now."

motherjones.com

The loophole that likely doomed the Cornell rape case before it even started

Accusers who voluntarily drink have little protection under an antiquated law many see as victim-blaming.

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bbno$👶🚫💰 @bbnomula.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026

Elon Musk thinks autism makes him superhuman. Just don’t call it that.

motherjones.com

The 4chan-coded ideology behind Elon Musk's war on normies

Musk thinks autism makes him superhuman. Just don't call it that.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.

His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In @thestar.com I write about agitslop seeping into Toronto’s election & politics. AstroTurf campaigns to AI-driven apps, we need a Blade Runner to help us understand what’s real & what’s fake, but it may inspire a renaissance of showing up in public space for protest or just conversation.

thestar.com

Shawn Micallef: AI slop is turning Toronto politics into a sci-fi dystopia, but it’s not too late to change course

The line between real and fake is blurring and it should be a cautionary tale for voters and candidates

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 05/10/2026

Doctors noted in their records she was at a “high” risk of death. The 37-year-old requested an abortion twice. She was denied and discharged. trib.al/RzISmSA

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Paxton Sued by Family of Woman Who Died After Being Denied Abortion

Ken Paxton is facing a historic lawsuit over Texas’s abortion ban.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

jail

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CielosCambalache @cieloscambalache.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I know the night is looking bleak for my latam oomfies but at least we got ELECTROANDES premiering: a Cyberpunk + Andean folklore story with a side of social comentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNNU...

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ELECTRO ANDES: EPISODE 1 - The Night of the Andean Beast

YouTube video by Bellolandia Studio

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 05/10/2026

This is *the* main continuity between neo-fascism and the 20th Century variety. Erich Fromm argued exactly this in "Escape From Freedom," saying that modernity left many alienated and socially dislocated--and fascist strongmen promised to restore meaning and purpose to their lives.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I will vote, make calls, knock doors, take up arms for whoever destroys the online gambling industry

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The pilot episode of the Argentinian series "Electro Andes" is now online. An ethno cyberpunk project directed by Nacho Malter & Damian Fernandez Gomez at Bellolandia studio. Available with Spanish & English dubs. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNNU...

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's a near-total boycott of the venue now from artists; only one act yet to cancel. All other bands have pulled out. Local inclusive venues have stepped up to host performers who told the Sportsman Club to kick rocks. Solidarity like this matters, so thanks for everyone who pulled out.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 04/10/2026

Agree—unfair to compare ICE to Gestapo when ICE has worked so hard to commit its own atrocities like 5000+ credible cases of ICE sexually abusing migrant children, ~200 deportations of US citizens, forcing 2-yr-old children to rep themselves, & up to 97% arrest rate of people w/o any criminal record

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin was on-site last week at a new ICE facility for unaccompanied kids that’s about to open at an airport in Louisiana. Mullin reiterated the Trump regime’s “worst of the worst” baloney. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...

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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks

A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 05/10/2026

I know nothing of the science of the plague and have no clue how worried everyone should be about whatever happened in Russia, but I’m pretty confident we shouldn’t be listening to X accounts that self-identify as “biological war” experts and POST IN CAPSLOCK while hawking their books

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

I don’t understand why people just jump to the conclusion that voters are the root of electoral outcomes but don’t consider that the people who control the most sophisticated ‘info’ output & surveillance networks on the globe have figured out how to reliably subvert the democratic process by now

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Sunny Ella @sunnywillow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Zionism is racism. The United Nations voted to declare it as such in 1975, half a century ago. This isn’t new, and this isn’t controversial.

A group marching down a street holding a banner that reads zionism is racism

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SEAN ORR @seanorr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Please keep stealing our ideas Mr Eby ;)

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

one thing i think all creatives need to look in the mirror and actually internalize is sometimes that thing you made didnt pop off not cuz the algorithm hates you or cuz people can't appreciate good art when they see it but cuz sometimes you are in fact delivering mid you gotta take those Ls

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SCARIN’ Paget @erindees.me · 05/10/2026

Chris Hansen told me predators keep traumatizing his decoys so I asked how many decoys he has and he said he just goes to SAG-AFTRA and gets a new decoy afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding decoys to predators and then his producer started crying. In all seriousness, amazing review

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you just listen to the audio it sounds like Tucker Carlson is getting owned by the brain gremlin from Gremlins 2

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Multiple people have compared the reaction to SA to the reaction to this HBomberguy video and I guess the one thing I have to contribute is that that video had three plagiarists in it and people only ever bring up the gay man and the woman.

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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire is quietly shooting a pro-ICE movie that dramatizes the Renee Good killing. We got the script. My latest False Flag for @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/daily-wire...

thebulwark.com

The Daily Wire Is Quietly Shooting a Pro-ICE Movie. We Got the Script.

Locals aren’t happy about the film’s take on the ICE shooting of Renée Good.

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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New development this afternoon: Ben Shapiro's pro-ICE movie has lost its right to film in a Montana town, after city officials voted to suspend their filming permit. bsky.app/profile/will...

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