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Labour for Trans Rights @labour4transrights.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Labour MPs, trade union leaders, and civil society are joining together to stand in solidarity with the trans community and say enough is enough. Trans people deserve equal rights and the government must change the law to restore the freedoms that have been lost.

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Labour for Trans Rights @labour4transrights.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fantastic to see so many people in attendance at our annual rally, packing out one of the largest rooms in the whole Labour Conference fringe!

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At UK Labour conference, @labour4transrights.bsky.social has held successful fringe events and had a warm reception from delegates. Tomorrow they will hold a rally sponsored by major trade unions and attended by many Labour MPs. Kudos to them for demonstrating that this fight continues until we win.

Flyer for the trans solidarity rally at Labour Conference 2026, on Tuesday 29th September 11.30am to 1pm in Room 3A Liverpool ACC.

Pictured attendees include Nadia Whittome MP, Dame Emily Thornberry, Dawn Butler, Alex Sobel, Lorrain Beavers, Yuan Yang, Kate Osborne, Liv Bailey, Emily Darlington, Rachel Taylor, Steve Race, Euan Steinbank, Andrea Egan (Unison), Joanne Thomas (USDAW) and Dave Calfe (ASLEF). Other attendees listed include Amy Tamblyn (LGBT+ Labour trans officer), Barbara Plant (GMB), Maria Exall (CWU), Jess Barnard and Cat Arnold (NEC members).

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 A thread about dark-money-funded lawfare pushing transphobia in the heart of the Scottish Labour movement, and a challenge to Scottish Labour's new leader to condemn it.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Both of the nominated Scottish Labour leadership candidates oppose trans rights. Due to the deliberate actions of gender critical Scottish Labour MPs and MSPs, Monica Lennon, who supports trans rights, was kept off the ballot. We must add August 17th 2026 to the list of shameful days in our party.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Scottish Labour parliamentarians who have privately supported me in my public stance on trans rights are publicly endorsing transphobic candidates. I get that there are other issues and nominations aren't based on a single policy, but if you won't stand for human rights will you stand for anything?

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Okay, so we now know that Joe Fagan is, like Michael Marra, also happy to throw trans people under the bus. So unless Monica Lennon can get onto the ballot the only leadership options available to Scottish Labour members are transphobic. What an utter betrayal of our principles and our history.

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Scottish Labour leadership hopeful hits out at party support for gender self-ID

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Fagan said Labour should have abstained on the gender reform law and also said trans rapist Isla Bryson is a man.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Nominations open today for the Scottish Labour leadership election. The same powerful forces in the party which forced transphobia into the May manifesto against the wishes of members are desperate to keep pro-trans candidates off the ballot so that the debate is not dominated by this issue.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Meanwhile Labour's leadership really must now reflect on the stark difference between the success achieved by this pro-trans stance compared to the abject failure of Scottish Labour in May after they threw trans people under the bus in their manifesto (against the wishes of Scottish members).

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

To become a candidate for the Scottish Labour leadership an MSP needs at least three nominations from the 18-strong Scottish Labour MSP group (self-nomination allowed), at least three nominations from the 36-strong Scottish Labour MP group, and at least three nominations from affiliates/unions.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Scottish Labour Against Bigotry welcomes the resignation of Anas Sarwar as Scottish Labour leader. Sarwar chose to reverse decades of pro-LGBT policy and action from Scottish Labour by opposing trans rights in a cynical attempt to shore up votes from transphobes. This attempt, inevitably, failed.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

One of the biggest problems young people have with Scottish Labour is its embrace of transphobia. Indeed it was Scottish Young Labour (@scottishyl.bsky.social) and Scottish Labour Students (@scotlabourstudents.bsky.social) who spoke against the anti-trans motion at conference and defeated it.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Scottish Labour members please note the SEC review of the 2026 election campaign is seeking members' views at meetings to be held in all 8 Scottish Parliament regions between 14th and 22nd July. It's vital the SEC hears a clear message: transphobic policy lost the party both volunteers and votes.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Troubling thread on the use of AI in the EHRC analysis of consultations about equality law.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Keir Starmer was the human rights lawyer who did pro bono work for LGBT activists fighting unjust laws across the world, then became the Prime Minister who capitulated to opponents of LGBT rights and cut off essential support for trans people. The next Labour leader must reverse the damage done.

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Stephen Harte @sjharte.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Sending Pride wishes to good people of @slabcampaign.bsky.social. It may be true that the Labour Party leadership at UK level and Scottish level are ridden with ugly and shameful transphobia but we must salute those willing to call out their own party in this Pride month.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

An absolutely damning indictment of the UK Labour government. If we start to see travel advisories from European governments advising their trans citizens not to travel to the UK it will be entirely justified. Shame on this Labour government.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Anas Sarwar has appointed Carol Mochan, who called the recent EHRC guidance which deeply harms trans people's ability to participate in society "a victory for basic common sense", as Scottish Labour's equality spokesperson. Scottish Labour continues to betray its LGBT rights supporting membership.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

If excluding trans men and women from both men's and women's spaces on the basis that cis people might feel uncomfortable represents a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim, then the law which says so needs to be fixed, and Labour MPs need to stand up and say that *right now*.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

That it has made this announcement so sheepishly, so politely and with such regret only deepens the shamefulness of the EHRC's surrender. And that the Labour government has been so evasive and so desperate to delay and deflect only underlines the loss of its moral compass, and its utter cowardice.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It is hard to overstate the egregiousness of this failure. The body whose statutory duty is to protect the human rights of, and prevent discrimination against, trans people has published exclusionary rules for trans people under the aegis of a government run by the party which created those duties.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

So the EHRC guidance has been updated from "Fuck trans people's rights" to "I'm terribly sorry but fuck trans people's rights", and it remains glaringly obvious that the government's response to the Supreme Court judgement should have been to fix the law rather than cower in fear of bigots.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

As the party struggles in the throes of electoral defeat and leadership instability, Labour's journey on LGBT rights tells in microcosm the wider story of its malaise: instead of standing for its principles and standing on its legacy, it has sought to appease those who criticise it. And here we are.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The staggering thing for my party is that it was Labour delivery on LGBT rights between 2001 and 2010, and Labour MPs pushing equal marriage over the line in 2013, that put the UK at number one. It's now Labour's surrender to transphobia and think-of-the-children rhetoric that has pushed us down.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Eleven years ago the UK was number one on this list, leading Europe in LGBTI rights. It's now 22nd. The list is deliberately relational - countries can lose places simply by standing still while others progress - but the UK has actively harmed LGBTI rights as well. It is a shameful legacy.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I think among the very many mistakes made by Scottish and UK Labour leaderships was believing this GC-manufactured idea that there's a sizeable constituency of LGB people prepared to thrown trans people under the bus. It's never been true. The LGBT community is united, and it's FUCKING PISSED OFF.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is a disgraceful thing for a Scottish Labour candidate to write, but he has been encouraged to embrace this position by the Scottish Labour leadership, so the disgrace is theirs too. What a shameful moment in our party's proud history.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I'm still on the LGBT+ Labour mailing list and they are now using it simply to recruit canvassers for the LGB committee members standing in the local elections. Has the goodwill of tens of thousands of LGBT+ Labour members and allies been squandered for personal advancement? Sure looks like it.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 16/04/2026

As a reminder, while there’s no Strasbourg case law on toilets, there are two on hospital wards and similar settings: the case of Goodwin, and the case of “I”. This is legally unachievable.

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Stephen Harte @sjharte.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

LGBT+ Lib Dems would be screaming from the roof tops if this had happened in the Lib Dems

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

LGBT Labour Scotland is an official, affiliated society of Scottish Labour, but it appears not to have made any public statements or held meetings or elections since 2023. Can anyone shed any light on who if anyone is now in charge of this organisation, or if it has in fact been quietly closed down?

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Further to the earlier thread detailing how transphobic policy was put into Scottish Labour's manifesto despite Scottish Conference voting it down, it's worth noting that Scottish Labour's key policy development body is the Scottish Policy Forum, convened for two years every parliamentary session.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

At Scottish Labour Conference in Feb 2025, a leadership-backed motion to adopt a transphobic policy on single-sex spaces in schools was defeated. Party members and affiliates voted it down. Today Scottish Labour's leadership put that transphobic policy into its manifesto for May's election anyway.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Good to see moral clarity and decency from LGBT and women's groups within the Green Party, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP. Damning that LGBT Labour has once again left @georgiameadows.bsky.social to stand alone against transphobia. Self-serving cowardice which shames the entire Labour movement.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Some folk are comforting themselves that Labour's draft school guidance is a slight improvement over the Tories' original draft, but as it stands it remains incredibly damaging to trans kids' lives and life chances. This thread sets it out starkly.

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Labour for Trans Rights @labour4transrights.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This means the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice does not accurately reflect the law. Bridget Phillipson must now send it back to the EHRC to be rewritten reflecting the trans-inclusive elements of today’s judgement.

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Labour for Trans Rights @labour4transrights.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Contrary to the position set out by the EHRC, service providers may allow trans women to use women’s facilities without being forced to open them to cis men. It will likely be unlawful to demand that trans people use services corresponding to their sex as recorded at birth.

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Labour for Trans Rights @labour4transrights.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Labour for Trans Rights welcomes the High Court’s decision that service providers may continue to operate toilet and changing room facilities on a trans-inclusionary basis.

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

even a cursory glance at the statistics will tell you this is a pro-rape policy

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Plenty of people in Scottish Labour know that this policy and Sarwar's transphobic campaign is disgraceful. Here's my advice: get rid of him and his cronies. Take your party back. Anyone prepared to slander a minority like this is unfit to lead.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The Scottish Prison Service has an effective policy on trans prisoners based on expertise and experience. Folk concerned about women prisoners' safety should look at the stats. Trans people are not, and never have been, the problem. This is reactionary and should have no place in Labour's manifesto.

Image of the front page of today's Daily Record (2 Feb 2026), showing the headline "WOMEN ONLY Labour chief Sarwar vows to ban all trans prisoners from female jails if he's elected first minister".

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Jackie Baillie, Mel Ward, Claire Baker, Joani Reid and Anas Sarwar all publicly backed Sandie Peggie in her employment tribunal case. Yesterday that tribunal ruled that Peggie unlawfully harassed Beth Upton. Scottish Labour must now apologise to Dr Upton for this catastrophic failure of judgement.

Screenshot of a Tweet from Jackie Baillie (@jackiebmsp) on Jul 23 2025:

The SNP should focus on getting NHS waiting times down rather than wasting taxpayers’ money on tribunals attacking hardworking staff

[link to scotsman.com: Here's where the blame for NHS Fife-Sandie Peggie case really lies]

Screenshot of a tweet from Melanie Ward MP (@melanie_ward) on Jul 21, 2025:

This morning @clairebakermsp & I met with Sandie Peggie, who I have spoken in support of in Parliament.

Sandie has 30 years’ service as a nurse at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy & should never have had to take legal action to uphold her right to change in a single sex space.

Screenshot of a tweet from Joani Reid MP (@JoaniReid) on 8th Dec 2025:

What happened to Sandie Peggie was a disgrace. Her harassment has been enabled by a warped NHS culture and fostered by a Scottish Government that refused to listen to women’s concerns. It allowed the ideology of a small group of unrepresentative activists spread like wildfire through our institutions.

Those in NHS Fife who played any part in this must be accountable and I struggle to see how they stay in post. They have wasted masses of NHS money on their trans rights crusade.

Enough is enough.

Screenshot of a tweet from Holyrood Sources (@HolyroodSources) on 18 Feb 2025:

EXCLUSIVE: Anas Sarwar and Jackie Baillie say they support nurse Sandie Peggie.

The Scottish Labour leader tells us:

"Knowing what we know now, we would not have supported the [Gender Recognition Reform] bill."

@CalumAM
@akmaciver
@geoffaberdein

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

A Labour government passed the Equality Act. A Labour government was in power when the Supreme Court interpreted it to not mean what ministers at the time were clear it was intended to mean. The Labour government response should have been to legislate to fix it. Not doing so was a cowardly betrayal.

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

To mark Trans Day of Remembrance @divamag.bsky.social has published an extract from my memoir Her Name Is Alice. We must keep sharing our stories. Today we remember all the beautiful trans people we have lost. As we remember them every day. And then we press on. To make things better.

divamag.bsky.social

DIVA Magazine (@divamag.bsky.social)

The leading mag for LGBTQIA+ women & non-binary people, covering queer news, politics, pop-culture, lifestyle and opinion journalism 🌈

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Labour members: Bridget Phillipson is currently soliciting our votes to become the deputy leader of our party. Contact her campaign today at @backbridget.bsky.social or www.backbridget.com to let them know that your vote is contingent on her rejecting the bathroom ban being proposed by the EHRC.

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I kid you not, over on Twitter Maya Forstater is trying to pass off a photo of herself and just one other transphobe as being from 'the launch of Labour LGB'... ...except it's nothing of the sort. The event they're at is the Labour for Trans Rights rally!

A photograph, taken from X, of Maya Forstater and one other deeply tragic individual pretending to be at the launch of Labour LGB, when they are in fact at the Labour for Trans Rights Conference rally.

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Labour for Trans Rights @labour4transrights.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

A massive thank you to the organisations supporting our rally this year: @unison.org.uk, @gmb.org.uk, @cwunews.bsky.social, @aslefunion.bsky.social, @ucu.org.uk, @nus-uk.bsky.social and @utaw.tech. The union movement was built on the principles of solidarity & equality: glad to have you onboard ✊

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Labour for Trans Rights @labour4transrights.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We're excited to announce the first details of this year's Trans Solidarity Rally at Labour Party Conference - trans allies are here to stay in our labour movement 🏳️‍⚧️ Attending Labour Conference? Put this date in your diary 👇

Trans Solidarity Rally, Tuesday 30th September 12.30-2pm, Room 3A Liverpool ACC (inside secure zone)

Speakers:
Nadia Whittome MP
Dame Emily Thornberry MP
Dawn Butler MP
Alex Sobel MP
Lorraine Beavers MP
Yuan Yang MP
Steve Race MP
Richard Quigley MP
Emily Darlington MP
Christina McAnea, General Secretary of Unison
Mick Whelan, General Secretary of ASLEF
Jo Grady, General Secretary of UCU
Georgia Meadows, Trans Officer LGBT+ Labour
Chloe Brooks, Young Labour LGBT+ Officer
Steph Richards, TransLucent
Jess Barnard, Labour NEC
Saranya Thambirajah, NUS
Maria Exall, CWU
Phil Jones, Unite
Rhea Wolfson, GMB
Avery Greatorex plus other speakers TBA

Supported by Unison, GMB, CWU, UCU, NUS and UTAW

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