Reposted by Karen HawaNoelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness… 315147582317 14.8K
Reposted by Karen HawaStéphanie says… 🏴☠️🦈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“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.” Has she read her Equality Impact Assessment? 813534 135
Reposted by Karen HawaSamantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org 5472221 472
Reposted by Karen HawaNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Trans women in sport: This table shows how massively out of place the UK is in Europe. The UK is the only country that bans trans women from most sport. Even recently-fascist Hungary is fairer than the UK. Britain is a transphobic outlier. 7279104 279
Reposted by Karen HawaAssigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 03/08/2026A new study out of Canada looked at four youth gender clinics. Out of 445 patients only four who started gender affirming hormone therapy ceased taking it, and only one did so due to a re-identification with their birth sex. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...assignedmedia.orgA New Study from Canada Again Finds Less Than 1 Percent of Trans Youth Detransition - Assigned MediaOut of 445 patients across four gender clinics only one who started hormone therapy stopped due to a change in gender identity. 9386160 386
Reposted by Karen HawaJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 28/07/2026A short thread explaining trans exclusion in the law, and the Code of Practice, in response to a load of questions 🧵 Obviously this is necessarily simplified. I cannot write a legal textbook on Bluesky. 2377117 377
Reposted by Karen HawaEthel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Who wants to go on a deep dive into the new NHS data standard, and marvel at the way it builds in the complete maceration of privacy and medical care for trans people? Let's go. 314752 147
Reposted by Karen HawaAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/07/2026The anti trans crowd was outraged by this study because it included clinicians who actually practice gender affirming care. Yet another systematic review that follows Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Utah, and Louisiana that finds this care is safe and effective with rare regret. 112536757 2.5K
Reposted by Karen HawaCrash Krylova @crash-w.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I've written about the Outer House's decision in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2026] CSOH 59, a case about the placement of trans people in Scottish prisons, for the @ukcla.bsky.social. ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/07/16/c...ukconstitutionallaw.orgCrash Krylova – Trans people in prison: For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2026] CSOH 59Introduction On 19 June 2026, the Outer House of the Court of Session handed down judgment in the case of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2026] CSOH 59 (“For Women Scotland 3”). This piece… 05822 58
Reposted by Karen HawaPhilippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Whenever you reference the Code of Practice, it’s worth including a link to *this* equality impact assessment, which sets out just how grim this policy of trans exclusion will be for so many. www.gov.uk/government/p...gov.ukEquality impact assessment 719183 191
Reposted by Karen HawaQ. McLamore @ghawinriver.bsky.social · 13/07/2026What folks don't get about these groups is just how powerful, well-connected, and legally literate they really are. The research Abigail cited here, we took to no less than 20 press outlets before putting it out online, and most of them folded under legal threats, killing the stories dead. 2989341 989
Reposted by Karen HawaAshleeee 🌊🪭 (ᯟ︿ᯏ)” @reactiveashley.cat · 11/07/20261/🧵 Hilary Cass wrote to MPs and Lords last week to defend her conversion therapy and fishing expedition to falsify evidence against puberty pausing treatment. She frames hate groups’ obstruction as merely a difference of opinion, whilst presenting gender-affirming care as harm. 719671 196
Reposted by Karen HawaDr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Trying to make sense of gender pay gap reporting after the UK Supreme Court ruling on 'sex'? 🔢 @jenitennison.com has written a guest post for the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab explaining why organisations should continue to report gender data. gensexdatalab.business-school.ed.ac.uk/updates/orga... 03416 34
Karen Hawa @kazhawa.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Yet another discussion of the UKSC decision in FWS … and it’s a long one. Note it’s not a legal analysis and it won’t tell you what it means. Instead it covers some of the history the court ignored and discusses some false assumptions and facile arguments it used instead. medium.com/@edsc639/the...medium.comThe TBD Interpretation of the Gender Recognition Act 2004Introduction 020 2
Reposted by Karen HawaNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Melanie Field, independent adviser on human rights on the problems with the EHRC “guidance” and what the EHRC commissioners need the do to put it right. LinkedIn article.linkedin.comHas the Equality and Human Rights Commission done its job?The EHRC’s draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations Last November, I wrote on Linked In about my concerns that the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice submitted to government o... 713638 136
Reposted by Karen HawaAbigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026As I’ve said before, any serious attempt to ban conversion therapy needs to confront the fact that the NHS has been doing it for decades. 31649374 1.6K
Reposted by Karen HawaKD Smith @kd-smith.bsky.social · 09/06/2026With Alt Text. The Chair of the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission, follows 38 accounts on Bluesky that have transphobia labels and/or are on one or more transphobia block lists due to their content. It appears she does not follow any trans people, nor any trans-supportive organisations. 6304135 304
Reposted by Karen HawaAshleeee 🌊🪭 (ᯟ︿ᯏ)” @reactiveashley.cat · 05/06/20261/🧵 I see MPs are finally making a constitutional point. The Supreme Court’s role is to apply the law to specific facts and controversies. Where facts are distorted and those affected are denied participation, the court is likely not fulfilling this role. 39525 95
Reposted by Karen HawaMatthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Section 28 was passed on this day in 1988. It didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from a society where 75% of people thought homosexuality was wrong. It came from a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of lesbian or gay lives. 🧵 1/16 20689361 689
Reposted by Karen HawaEthel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 10/05/2026So, here it is, a single article that does a deep dive into the nonsense infesting the NHS policy proposal on banning gender-affirming hormone therapy for under 18s If you're going to reply to the consultation - and I understand if you feel it's futile - I hope this gives you some ammo to usekim-hipwell.medium.comA Medical Mess: An Analysis Of The NHS’s Proposal To Ban Hormone Therapy For Trans YouthIntroduction and Background 515061 150
Reposted by Karen HawaRob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 08/04/2026A blog post by legal experts @antoineduval.bsky.social and @michelekrech.bsky.social: verfassungsblog.de/ioc-genetic-...verfassungsblog.deThe IOC’s Great Leap Backwards on Genetic Sex Testing 222 2
Reposted by Karen HawaWilliams Institute @williamsinstitute.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Among U.S. adults, over 2.1 million people -- 0.8% of the population -- identify as transgender. Minnesota has the highest percentage of transgender residents at 1.2%. Read the full report at bit.ly/TranspeopleUS 03712 37
Reposted by Karen HawaJakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 21/04/2026🇪🇺🏳️🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner. 10820304 820
Reposted by Karen HawaKaren Hawa @kazhawa.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report on the Draft Gender Recognition Bill in Nov 2003. In Paragraph 31 they expressed concern courts might fail to recognise the effect of a GRC particularly for e.g. the Sex Discrimination Act. 🧵 publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200203/... 1246 24
Karen Hawa @kazhawa.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report on the Draft Gender Recognition Bill in Nov 2003. In Paragraph 31 they expressed concern courts might fail to recognise the effect of a GRC particularly for e.g. the Sex Discrimination Act. 🧵 publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200203/... 1246 24
Reposted by Karen HawaEthel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Having looked at the farce of the "evidence reviews" across two threads, here's a third thread looking at the decision made by NHS England to stop hormone therapy for trans people under 18 years old. The start of these threads is here: 18344 83
Reposted by Karen HawaEthel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 24/03/2026A second thread on the NHS England Evidence Review on "Children and Young People Masculinising and Feminising Medicines" (their terminology) The first thread, about one of the ten evidence review papers, is quoted here 14018 40
Reposted by Karen HawaEmma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · 20/03/2026A school leadership team has misused safeguarding procedures against a librarian for stocking 'controversial' books - which, by the way, are not controversial at all. This makes me feel sick to my stomach. 814088 140
Reposted by Karen HawaNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Anti-trans hate group advertises globally to get 70 “detransitioners” together for a propaganda photo. It fails to do so and only gets 42. Meanwhile effortlessly 100,000 people attended Trans Pride London last July and 10,000 were at TransMission in Wembley Arena this week. 111834 118
Reposted by Karen HawaColin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Today's CJEU decision in Shipova has major implications for legal protections for trans people in Northern Ireland, where relevant EU law still applies. First the Court underlines that different treatment of trans people vs biological sex is not generally acceptable: share.google/MKNxuwd2oXHB... 215054 150
Reposted by Karen HawaAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/03/2026The reviews searched over 12,000 references. They screened 547 full-text papers for inclusion. They included 17. That's a 96.9% exclusion rate at full text. 530 studies were relevant enough to survive initial screening, then rejected by the review criteria. 6/10 reviews found 0 included studies. 4900266 900
Reposted by Karen HawaNika @nikavia.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The very first paper in the very first review (Allen et al 2019) found a huge decrease in suicidality, from 45% of subjects suffering from suicidality prior to HRT, to just 13% after, p<.001. But it didn't test for boys and girls separately, so this result appears in neither of the relevant reviews. 18822 88
Reposted by Karen HawaRob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 05/05/2025I've written a brief note on the Supreme Court's interpretation of s7 of the Equality Act in For Women Scotland. I'd welcome any comments. open.substack.com/pub/robmulli...open.substack.comA Note on the UK Supreme Court's Interpretation of s7 of the Equality ActI had initially not intended to write about For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers—the recent decision in which the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom concluded that references to gendered terms lik... 2239 23
Reposted by Karen HawaThe Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Genuinely impressed that these loons did an entire book on gays and failed to pick up traces of an accent (this was 1962, Kenneth Williams, Frankie Howerd and John Inman are well established media personalities) ia601906.us.archive.org/11/items/the... 2297 29
Reposted by Karen HawaCal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Oh yes this is the proof Cass is relying on: 36613 66
Reposted by Karen HawaJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I think people think we're exaggerating when we say the widespread use of the term "biological sex" as a term itself isn't organic. This data isn't anomalous, it comports with everything we've seen about the specific use of the term. 101070268 1.1K
Reposted by Karen HawaBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 13/02/2026This week, @amnestyuk.bsky.social's Gender Justice Director Chiara Capraro shared how her team mapped 65 anti-rights groups in the UK. From funding streams to the crossovers with the US, find out what this means for human rights by searching 'Stage Talks with Bellingcat': rss.com/podcasts/bel...rss.com"Mapping the Anti-Rights Movement From the US to the UK" with Amnesty International UK | Podcast Episode on RSS.comIn this week's Stage Talk we were joined by Amnesty International UK’s Gender Justice Director Chiara Caparo. In a recent report, Chiara and her team mapped the structure and funding of 65 anti-rights... 320884 208
Reposted by Karen HawaAshleeee 🌊🪭 (ᯟ︿ᯏ)” @reactiveashley.cat · 22/01/2026I’ve seen drafts of this guidance several times before, but I’ve only just come across it in its published leaflet form. 612133 121
Reposted by Karen HawaSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 23/12/2025“In terms of public perception of the act, I think most Irish people don’t care. They’re happy to let trans people get on with it.” Ireland has allowed people to self-declare their gender for 10 years and the sky did not fall. People just got on living their lives. 🇮🇪🏳️⚧️theguardian.com‘For the first time, she could tell people who she was’: Ireland’s gender recognition decadeIreland’s 2015 Gender Recognition Act was born in an era of optimism and consensus, but as gender-critical activism grows so does debate whether it can hold 1303 30
Reposted by Karen HawaIllusn @illusn.bsky.social · 21/12/2025🧵 1/? Going through the recording: 6:00 Cass: "there was a fair amount of noise [...] about the fact that I wasn't an expert in this field, but that was a deliberate selection that NHS England made because people who were working in the field were so polarised*" * read: support trans rights 514545 145
Reposted by Karen HawaAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/12/2025At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.” Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare. 431413461 1.4K
Reposted by Karen Hawasasha baker @sasha98.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Alice Sullivan tells universities to suppress pro-trans research to protect GC staff. However, HER OWN DATA shows pro-trans research is already more suppressed. When I told the BBC this, they edited out any reference to the data. They have now corrected the record. www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedb...bbc.co.ukCorrections and ClarificationsThe BBC's responses to editorial, technical and corporate issues. 4229104 229
Reposted by Karen HawaThe Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 28/11/2025Hope is here. Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️ 942407905 2.4K
