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Queer Truth @queertruth.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Lee - this is not on point but you are an ally and I dont understand why no one is talking the Good Law Project having completely destroyed trans womens rights in the workplace!? This has been an absolute disaster and no one is holding anyone to account on it!?!? 😞 ❤️ 💙

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Allison Bailey v Stonewall is going to the Supreme Court. It will be fascinating to see whether @stonewalluk.bsky.social takes the opportunity to make sure that trans voices are heard in our apex court.

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I'm very excited to be part of this. (If also slightly terrified to be Chair of such an alarmingly august committee.)

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Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorfkc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Calling all lawyers! FREE CPD! Inaugural event of SaGLA the brand new Sex and Gender Law Association Save the date: 4 June (other details TBC) Civil discussion of any and all views welcome & encouraged

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

In truth, it's hard to be non-partisan in this debate, so I'd mistrust pretty much anyone who claimed not to have a position. It's not difficult. You pick which matters more: women's safety and dignity, or men's hurt feelings.

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

What I take issue with is the DSKC's attempt to frame his analysis as non-partisan, combined with his unself-conscious use of partisan language; and what seem to me to be surprising distortions in his reasoning born of a hostility to the sex realist position and therefore FWS.

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

So I use language that reflects that. I analyse the law as fairly as I can, acknowledging the ever-present risk of motivated reasoning.

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

"Trans woman" is not a term in the EqA either: it is activist language intended to create the impression that a particular subcategory of men is a subcategory of women. And yes: in the blog, I say in terms I take the sex realist position.

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

You can't disagree with him, can you? He may presently join the rest of us at WNTAELF.

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

In the latest update to the Equal Treatment Bench Book, chapter 12, ¶48 is a breath of fresh air: '"Assigned at birth" is used by trans people (and others) instead of biological sex, but is not widely understood, and it is therefore to be avoided by judges.'

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Fascinating eye-witness account of Lynsay Watson/Alex Horwood's latest antics and his arrest last Thursday. Since he's been both camera-shy and menacing online towards many of those he disagrees with, it's also good to have an up-to-date photo of him. www.thehelenjoyce.com/p/lynsay-wat...

thehelenjoyce.com

Lynsay Watson: we meet at last

Unmasking the (trans-identifying) Man of Mystery

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The answer was no. No-one wanted to try to explain to me why men getting infants to suck on their nipples might (even sometimes) be ok. On balance I suppose I find that faintly reassuring, in a rather bleak way.

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Peter Daly @peterdaly.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

So depressing to see a Labour MP push misinformation like this. The judgment @kateosbornemp.bsky.social refers to is here: goodlawproject.org/wp-content/u.... Will she say which paragraph/s say “the EHRC’s draft code of practice got the law wrong”? No. Because none do. bsky.app/profile/kate...

goodlawproject.org

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

And I'm really sorry if being civil to me here earns you a load of abuse — that unfortunately was @swilkenkc.bsky.social's experience after an exchange with me about (of all things) costs as damages. Fingers crossed things have improved here since then.

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Ooh yes me too if you would be so kind? naomi.cunningham@outertemple.com

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Ooh yes me too if you would be so kind? naomi.cunningham@outertemple.com

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

It's awfully rude and unkind to draw attention to these kinds of risks, I know. But isn't that rather the point of safeguarding? Kindness is complicated.

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Bearing in mind what a very wicked world it is — and that autogynephilia is a thing, and some autogynephile men will fetishise pretty much any aspect of femaleness — are there any foreseeable risks in condoning male "breastfeeding"?

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

But I'm by an order of magnitude more cautious (putting it mildly) about the impact on an infant of being "breastfed" by a male artificially induced to lactate. For whose benefit is this really done? And what is the nature of the "benefit"?

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I don't know the data on the respective merits of formula and wet-nursing, for an orphaned infant. If the actual mother is available, I'd be cautious about the impact of wet-nursing on the mother-infant bond, but that could be addressed by evidence.

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

So we are presumably proceeding on the assumption that the female mother is dead, or can't breastfeed (perhaps a "trans man" who has had her breasts removed?), or is otherwise unavailable (a surrogate, maybe; another whole can of worms).

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Are you able to help my failing imagination here? The child must have had an actual female mother, who we presumably agree would be the best person to breastfeed her, if available?

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I am struggling to imagine circumstances in which it would be in the best interests of an infant to be "breastfed" by a male person who has been induced to lactate. I failed my maths degree, but some things stuck, including "confession of failure of the imagination does not amount to proof".

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

We really need to start to face up to the implications of autogynephilia for the admission of men who say they are women to women-only spaces. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC6M...

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What Is Autogynephilia? | Helen Joyce

YouTube video by John Anderson Media

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I re-read "That Hideous Strength" not long ago. The portrayal of the moral corruption of Mark Studdock by bureaucratic evil, using a combination of menace, flattery and calculated desensitisation to horror, had strong contemporary resonances for me.

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I asked rhetorically, given the SC's judgment, what was the remaining point of medical transition. I don't think it is fair to characterise that as saying that that is the only point of all gender transition, do you?

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Oh fab, thank you so much! Especially for braving yet again the hordes of <checks notes> very kind people here.

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

@swilkenkc.bsky.social I'm trying to find the case you mentioned to me about costs as damages, and which opened a whole world of pain for you on this lovely kind site... and I can't find it. Could you possibly remind me?

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

If my account here is still marked "intolerant"... well, in all honesty I'm feeling pretty intolerant right now.

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

And quite a lot of "I'll piss where I like" including threats to piss on TERFs. Which as Richard Dawkins points out is classic male territory-marking behaviour.

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I think this reads "The Guv can suck my [?] girlie [?] dick" The handwriting is poor, so I'm not completely sure of the last two words.

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The demo against the ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS v Scottish Ministers. The #BeKind people.

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Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Jolyon Maugham KC has blocked me, but posted that the guardian article about Melanie Field shows UKSC in FWS v Scottish ministers is constitutionally wrong. For a KC to suggest something so legally illiterate in statutory interpretation is bizarre. My explanation why medium.com/@scott-wortl...

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Did she manage to say anything correct?

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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Oh, so it is! It popped up somewhere for me as if new.

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