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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

Meanwhile Labour Women's Conference on Saturday was hit by a boycott by all the major trade unions in protest against the party's turn against trans rights, leaving Minister for Women and Equalities Bridget Phillipson MP delivering her keynote address to a mostly empty hall. A powerful image.

Labour Women's Conference, 26 September 2026. Bridget Phillipson delivers her keynote address to a largely empty hall. The vast majority of seats visible in this shot taken from the seating area are empty.

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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

SLAB is calling on Scottish Labour MSPs and MPs to ensure that party members have the opportunity to vote for a trans-supportive candidate for Scottish Labour leader. After the last leadership stitched up the manifesto despite members' opposition, we cannot allow this election to be a stitch up too.

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

SLAB understands efforts are underway by anti-trans groupings within and outwith the party to try to prevent any trans-supportive MSP from getting onto the ballot. This is despite clear evidence from the 2024 conference that a majority of Scottish Labour members and affiliates are trans-supportive.

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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

SLAB is calling on Scottish Labour members to hold any and all candidates for the leadership to account on their commitment to trans rights and wider LGBT rights. Trans people are being actively harmed by current Labour Party policy and it's vital that members make clear their opposition to this.

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

The danger is that the cynical opportunist who was ready to undermine trans rights for electoral gain may now be replaced by someone who ideologically opposes trans rights, thereby cementing the betrayal of Scottish Labour's proud record on LGBT equality and the pro-trans views of its membership.

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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

Look out for an email inviting you to sign up for the meeting in your region, and if you feel able please go along and make that point at the meeting. The SEC should also be reminded that the leadership put transphobic policy into the manifesto despite Scottish conference voting AGAINST 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

To clarify that last part: at the last Scottish Labour conference at which delegates could vote on policy, Feb 2025, a leadership-backed motion to adopt transphobic policy on single-sex spaces in schools was defeated. Party members and affiliates voted it down. It was put into the manifesto anyway.

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

That's a view. The point being made here, however, is that the Scottish Labour membership as a whole (not just its LGBT members) actually supports LGBT rights. The membership voted against, at the most recent voting conference, the transphobic policy which the leadership then put into the manifesto.

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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

In 2016 Ringo Starr, Bryan Adams and Bruce Springsteen cancelled performances in North Carolina in protest at the anti-trans law. PayPal and Deutsche Bank both cancelled expansion plans in the state with around 650 jobs going elsewhere because of the ban. What response will we see in the UK in 2026?

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

A decade ago the UK Foreign Office under a Conservative government advised trans people not to travel to certain states in the US because they had implemented a "bathroom ban". The guidance published today with the approval of the Labour government imposes a far more wide-ranging ban across the UK.

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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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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It's not about whether that's the case, it's the fact that that is an established dog-whistle for transphobia. And don't pretend you don't know that, your innocence act is deeply unconvincing.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Your account is literally called "Sex Matters"!

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I haven't labelled anything as bigotry in this entire dialogue.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Please just consider you might be being fed scare stories by malign groups determined to sow discord. You don't have all these talking points to hand by accident. Your scare story is baseless and I'd really like you to acknowledge that.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

You were NOT talking about FGM. Perhaps if you thought deeper you'd recognise that you'd made a baseless statement.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

No aggression here, even in response to your deliberately condescending piety. I ask for a third time why you claimed trans adolescents were having gender-affirming surgery when it has never happened, and is not permitted, in the UK. Do you have an answer, other than you were misinformed?

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Oh, I see you've deleted the post where you made that false claim to try to weasel out of it. How loving. How decent.

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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

You didn't answer my question. Why are you talking about gender affirming surgery for adolescents when such surgery has never been allowed in the UK? From where are you getting fed your talking points? Instead of this pious act of loving hate, perhaps you should interrogate your sources better.

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