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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

88 signatures so far - if you live in the UK PLEASE email your MP about adding their name - it will take you less than 5 minutes with the form below. Yes, even if your MP is a transphobe - it's good for them to know how many of their constituents disagree with them.

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I have written to the Prime Minister and Bridget Phillipson, calling for the cruel and confusing EHRC Code of Practice to be rejected. Legislative action must be taken to create an equalities framework that protects trans people’s safety, dignity and humanity.

Image is a letter. It reads: Dear Keir and Bridget,
Reject the EHRC’s Code of Practice
I am writing as Interim Women and Equalities lead of the Parliamentary Green Party to raise
serious concerns over proposed guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission,
which is not fit for purpose and will harm trans people living in the UK.
The Code of Practice for services, public functions, and associations is the culmination of
years of well-funded campaigns to drive a minority group out of British public life. It sets out
a system of segregation where trans people are excluded from services and spaces that reflect
their gender, and in some cases also excluded from services and spaces that reflect their sex
assigned at birth. Where unisex facilities exist, trans people will be forced into them. Where
they do not exist, trans people will be left with nowhere to go.
Your own Equalities Impact Assessment1 on the code admits there will be a significant
impact on those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment - from forcing trans
people to out themselves by using disabled toilets to putting trans women at greater risk of
sexual violence by making them use men’s services.
The Code of Practice is both cruel and confusing. Inconsistencies between the Code of
Practice and its Equalities Impact Assessment, the Gender Recognition Act and the European
Convention on Human Rights will leave organisations and service providers at risk of
litigation from all sides. Frontline staff in spaces like cafes, gyms, and offices will be forced
to police gender, whilst the costs of creating self-contained gender neutral facilities are
estimated by your advisors as reaching £600m, which the government is providing no
funding to cover.2 I am pleased to see associations, like the Women’s Institute and
Girlguiding, given a potential route to serving trans and cisgender women, but this does not
counteract the pain caused by the majority of the guidance.

Letter continued: By enacting this guidance, trans people will simply be scapegoated. Research by Translucent
found there was just one complaint to English Unitary Authorities in 2025 concerning trans
women’s use of single-sex spaces, such as toilets and changing rooms.3 By refusing to act,
your government is once again playing politics with trans people’s lives, rather than tackling
real problems, like the soaring cost of living, rising inequality and the ongoing climate
crisis.

Trans people of all ages and backgrounds exist in communities across the country - and
always have. They have every right to thrive just as their cisgender friends, family members,
and colleagues do. When Labour brought in the Gender Recognition Act in 2004 it promised
trans people they could live their lives with peace, privacy, and dignity. Now you are
breaking that promise.
I believe there is a real risk of trans people being essentially segregated from public spaces. I
urge you to withdraw the code and take legislative action to create an equalities framework
that protects trans people’s safety, dignity and humanity.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A Tory peer has just told Today that "We need to get back to a form of policing that is more colour-blind". When was that, precisely? The idea that we *used* to live in a colour-blind society, until minorities got special privileges, goes against *everything* we know of the history of policing.

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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 03/06/2026

These incidents at Manchester are appalling. We know sexual violence is an issue in medical schools across the country. We're committed to working with national stakeholders to eliminate all forms of sexual violence towards medical students across the country.

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University of Manchester to investigate sexual harassment of female medical students

About 20 students report anonymous late-night phone calls from men who ‘intimidated, demeaned and belittled’ them

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 03/06/2026

Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 03/06/2026

If you suggest police officers shouldn’t kick people in the head, you’ll get the chief of the Met condemning you on national television. If you say the police are institutionally racist against whites and suggest people should riot, you’ll get invited onto a BBC couch to expand upon your theories.

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IDEA: The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

In our first post for Dementia Action Week, Danielle Bromwich asks whether people living with dementia can consent to sex. Drawing on her consent research, she argues for a novel view: ethics-untangled.ghost.io

An image reading ‘can people living with dementia consent to sex?’

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Caitlin @feminomenologist.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Every day I do my research and think, "there can't possibly be another case of obstetric violence as harrowing as this" and every day I am proven wrong.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🚨Reminder: Photo ID for voting in England 🗳️Local elections are taking place tomorrow, Thursday 7th May, in Wales, Scotland, parts of England and all London boroughs. For those voting in England, please remember bring photo ID. You won't be able to vote without it.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Please do share, and write if you can 🙏🙏🙏

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Tremendous and much-needed good news - the University of Sussex have won their High Court battle against the Office for Students. The OFS fined the university over half a million pounds for having a trans inclusion policy. If upheld, this would have set a gross precedent for all oppressed groups.

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Journal of Applied Philosophy @the-joap.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Coming up soon: Society for Applied Philosophy — Annual Conference 2026 3 July, 2026 – 5 July, 2026 University of Edinburgh, JMCC Register here 👇 www.appliedphil.org/society-for-... #philsky #philosophy

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Society for Applied Philosophy — Annual Conference 2026 – The Society for Applied Philosophy

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Cicely Marston @cicely.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I keep saying to people that the fight against right wing attacks on trans rights and their attacks on abortion rights are linked. We’re in the same fight for human rights and if you can’t see it yet here’s a clear sign www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/17/e...

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Former EHRC chair signs amendments targeting abortion rights

Baroness Kishwer Falker, the EHRC's former chair, was among those to support amendments that would ban a form of abortion in the UK.

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Rebecca Brione @rebeccabrione.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

It is depressing that, five years after leaving Birthrights, the findings of their latest report are worse rather than better. I think it is crucial to call a spade a spade though: the majority of the cases described in this report are not simply coerced. They are not cases where consent is present.

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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Use this link to email the lords it only takes a few seconds. Please share bpas-campaigns.org/time-to-act/...

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It's time to act

Ask your MP to help change the law today.

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British Society for Phenomenology @thebsp.org.uk · 10/03/2026

#Phenomenology of Perinatal Care - Upcoming Talk (13 March Online) Dr. Iris Parra Jonou at an international webinar on perinatal care, organized by No Bump No Care. www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/03/10/p...

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Neema Begum @neemabegum.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Say the quiet part out loud about “family voting” & “South Asian-type election practices”. These assume Brown men are telling their wives how to vote & that Muslims, by nature, violate democratic norms. Trope of Muslim women being oppressed and unable to participate fully in democracy is tiresome

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Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

In honour of the Sunday Telegraph's editor and offical maddest columnist, we have created the Allister Heath headline generator... stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

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Allister Heath Headline Generator

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Rebecca Brione @rebeccabrione.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Delighted to have spoken at the launch of the Boshier Pregnancy Resources last night. The resources include guides for autistic people, professionals, & partners and supporters and aim at ensuring rights-respecting support for pregnant autistic people. restraintreductionnetwork.org/resource/bos...

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Boshier Pregnancy Resources – Restraint Reduction Network

The RRN is pleased to have developed a new suite of resources aimed at delivering rights respecting support for pregnant autistic people. These include an infor

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Socio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

'Limiting the Scope of the Terminal Illness Requirement' by Alexandra Mullock www.slsa.ac.uk/post/limitin... The second instalment of our guest series on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill considers vulnerability and the definitional parameters of assisted dying.

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Limiting the Scope of the Terminal Illness Requirement

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has been described by many as one of the most significant shifts in the legal landscape of England and Wales in our generation. Whether this claim overstat...

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Rebecca Brione @rebeccabrione.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

This is a must-read for anyone interested in the conceptualisation of people as potentially potentially pregnant: a thoughtful and important reflection on pregnancy and possible foetal interests arising in unanticipated places. www.slsa.ac.uk/post/pregnan...

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Pregnancy as a Barrier: Assisted Dying and Amendment 458

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by
@micarosenberg
et al for ProPublica:

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

"As a society, we are in a sort of collective, constantly renewed amnesia of the size of sexual violence." - @manongarcia.bsky.social Don't miss this interview with philosopher Manon Garcia about the Pélicot trial & the ubiquity of rape. Illuminating & chilling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtE9...

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Why ‘ordinary men’ commit violence against women

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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Rebecca Brione @rebeccabrione.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The next in our blog serious on Narratives of Consent comes from Eli Ansari and Katherine Maslowski: “You Speak and Nobody Hears”: The Racialisation of Pregnancy and Birth in the UK, addressing the invisibilisation of Black and Brown people within maternity care. www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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“You Speak and Nobody Hears”: The Racialisation of Pregnancy and Birth in the UK, Eli Ansari and Katherine Maslowski - Durham University

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Rebecca Brione @rebeccabrione.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

New Narratives of Consent blog from @zainamahmoud.bsky.social on experiences & invisibilisation of British surrogates in public and private healthcare contexts which are often ill-equipped to support people whose care needs don't fit into a 'standardised' mould. www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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Mandatory (M)othering: An Exploration of British Surrogates’ Healthcare Experiences - Durham University

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Bev Clough @bevclough.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

We have now started the next stage of our project: focus groups with (1) birth doulas, (2) healthcare professionals involved with birth and (3) people who have used or considered using a doula during birth in the past 5 years. Please do share with networks! @annanelson95.bsky.social

As part of our research into birth douals and medical law we are running focus groups with (1)
birth doulas, (2) healthcare professionals (widely defined) involved in childbirth and (3)
people who have used or seriously considered using a birth doula in the past five years. To
take part you must have worked or given birth in the UK. Interviews will take place in English.
(Please note, we will hold separate focus groups with each of these three groups)
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If you choose to take part in this research, you will be invited to participate in a focus group
discussion with 5-8 other participants. These may be online or in-person, and you will be
given a chance to specify your preference on the expression of interest form. The groups will
last approximately 90 minutes and will be facilitated by both of the researchers. They will
take place between February-April 2026.
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During the discussion, you will be asked to share your thoughts, experiences, and opinions on
birth doulas, including understanding the boundaries of the role, the interprofessional
dynamics in birth spaces, and navigating medico-legal frameworks. There are no right or
wrong answers—we are interested in your honest perspectives.
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Participation in this study is wholly voluntary. Participants will not recieve payment for taking
part.
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If you are interested in taking part, please fill in the expression of interest form linked below
by 5pm MONDAY 23 FEB 2026. If you have any questions, please do get in touch.
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EOI FORM - LINK & QR CODE : https://forms.office.com/e/9ZREnz1SGA

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

it's not great when the consultation landing page continues the labour habit of just making things up where immigration rules are concerned. SETTLEMENT IS NOT GRANTED AUTOMATICALLY. absolute joke of a government

"Settlement refers to a person’s right to live in the UK permanently without any immigration restrictions. It is also known as Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR).

The 2025 UK Immigration White Paper, Restoring Control over the Immigration System, introduced significant reforms to how migrants can settle in the UK.

Settlement will no longer be granted automatically after a fixed period. Instead, migrants will need to earn it by demonstrating sustained good conduct, contribution and integration."

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Healthwatch Sutton @healthwatchsutton.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

🏥Have your say on NHS services in Sutton! Your Health, Your Sutton, Your Voice is a survey to understand the healthcare experiences of local residents. Your feedback help us understand how we can shape NHS services for our community. Take part in our anonymous survey: t.co/RbQhjnY1UG

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials

Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

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Rebecca Brione @rebeccabrione.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

New blog on Dr. Emma Brooks' chapter in Narratives of Consent and Reproductive Subjects, which examines the contours of consent with multilingual antenatal appointments. An issue close to my heart with a far more complex presentation than usually assumed. www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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Choice and consent: communicative challenges faced in multilingual antenatal settings - Durham University

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Rebecca Brione @rebeccabrione.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This is a long read but an important one for anyone interested in how the Court of Protection, or indeed any public service, interacts with families. It is a shocking and very frightening case and I'm hugely grateful to Zoe and to Celia for sharing it.

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Rebecca Brione @rebeccabrione.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Next blog in our series teasing the chapters in our book, Narratives of Consent and Reproductive Subjects Tales of Invisibility. Today, Jacqueline Nicholls (UCL) shares her reflections on birthing people's and clinicians' perspectives on 'consent consultations'. www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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'I Just Want to be me' - Durham University

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Elena Caruso @elenacaruso.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Are you working on a paper on law, history and reproduction? My great colleague Dr Gauri Pillai and I are organising a workshop for you at the University of Bristol Law School on 1 May 2026! Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025. Travel grants available.

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Open Justice Court of Protection Project @openjusticecop.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Interested in learning more about how the court works and observing some hearings? Join us on Thursday (6th November) for a small and friendly webinar. We'll explain how to watch the court (via MS Teams etc) and how our "buddy" system works. All welcome. Email openjustice@yahoo.com

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Rebecca Brione @rebeccabrione.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Next blog in our series reflecting on narratives of consent and the invisibilisation of reproductive subjects, and this time the author is me! Contains discount code for our edited collection - perfect for scholars, students and tricky-to-buy-for aunts alike. www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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‘It Wasn’t About What I Wanted’ The Consent Experiences of Women Living With Complex Social and Health Circumstances: Rebecca Brione, KCL. - Durham University

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Open Justice Court of Protection Project @openjusticecop.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

On Monday 20-22 October 2025, the UK Supreme Court is being asked to re-consider its judgment in Cheshire West. In particular, the court is to be asked whether a person’s wishes and feelings can be taken as consent to their care arrangements 🧵

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Jack Aldane @jackaldane.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

More power to @profangiehobbs.bsky.social – I hope this revival of The Great Philosophers brings about the rebirth of deep learning through television. Archived programming on YT from the 70s and 80s has been a gift for two whole decades, but it’s time to put philosophy back on the mainstream menu.

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Rebecca Brione @rebeccabrione.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

First of a series of blog posts about my new edited book: Narratives of Consent and Reproductive Subjects: Tales of Invisibility is up now! Includes exclusive discount code for anyone wanting to start their Christmas shopping early! www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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Narratives of consent and reproductive subjects: Tales of invisibility - Durham University

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Celia Kitzinger @handle.invalid · 09/10/2025

On October 2025, the UK Supreme Court will be asked to re-consider its judgment in a case commonly referred to as "Cheshire West". In this blog, @clarkdaniel.bsky.social explains the background to the case. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/10/07/r...

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Reconsidering Cheshire West in the Supreme Court: Is a gilded cage still a cage?

Even when P says they’re happy with their residence, and that they do not want to leave, and welcome the fact that the doors are kept locked, this still amounts to a deprivation of liberty. I…

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

🧠 Prof. Marga Vicedo warns: "At the end of the day, saying it's a mother's fault is a very strong and powerful way of keeping mothers as the main caretakers." www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n... Must-read piece from @npr.org #Autism #Tylenol

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'Long history of blaming mothers': Trump's Tylenol warning echoes past misconceptions

Medical scholars say that efforts to find a singular cause for autism have historically led to scrutinizing parents and fueling stigma about autism

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Her husband gets a mention before we learn her name…

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