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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The CPS calls this 'balancing' competing rights. Having read what they actually wrote, I am struggling to see where the fuck they put ours.

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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sexual autonomy matters. Of course it does. But TRANS PEOPLE HAVE HUMAN RIGHTS TOO.

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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We have privacy. We have dignity. We have the presumption of innocence. We are entitled to relationships, sex and family lives without living as permanently pre-emptive criminal defendants collecting fucking receipts proving that we disclosed our history.

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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How exactly do you give them their privacy back? Or un-disclose their history? How do you undo being investigated or prosecuted for rape? You fucking can’t. Ever. Its follows you to the grave which in many of these accusation, ends in suicide.

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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Then perhaps, months or years later: NOT GUILTY. TOTALLY INNOCENT. Wonderful. But...

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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But by then that person’s transition history may be dragged into a rape investigation, their messages examined, their most intimate history exposed and potentially their private life discussed in criminal proceedings.

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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The trans person is presumed innocent. Article 6 still exists. Article 8 still exists. The prosecution still has to prove its case. Here comes the 'but'

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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Even having a Gender Recognition Certificate doesn’t magically resolve it. And what happens when somebody says: “She never told me.” and the trans defendant says: “Yes I fucking did”?

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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They KNOW why some trans people fiercely protect this information. They KNOW how profoundly private it is, how disclosure can be dangerous, yet they nevertheless contemplate NON-DISCLOSURE becoming part of the basis of a rape prosecution.

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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And don’t tell me the CPS doesn’t understand what disclosure can mean for trans people. Its own consultation response acknowledges stigma, transphobia, personal safety, anxiety, family breakdown, employment consequences and exclusion from communities.

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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is NO responsibility upon a complainant to establish whether their partner is trans. So they don’t have to ask. But our silence can potentially become the “deception”. What a fucking grotesque allocation of risk.

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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yet apparently trans people are expected to navigate their intimate lives beneath the shadow of a prosecutorial interpretation of criminal law that the CPS itself acknowledges has never been determined by the appellate courts. Oh, and the CPS is crystal clear about something else:

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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It goes further. It accepts that existing cases arguably do NOT conclusively determine the position for trans people. And on the crucial legal question it says: “This has not been determined.”

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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Simply not disclosing some of the most intimate information imaginable about your body and history. And here’s the fucking astonishing bit. The CPS itself admits: “There is no appellate courts authority on trans or non-binary suspects.”

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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Then it produced 'guidance' under which a trans person’s FAILURE TO DISCLOSE that they are trans can potentially be treated as deception relevant to whether consent was valid. Not lying or falsely answering a direct question.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 30/09/2026

The whole thing is a bigoted disgrace. The cis don't have to tell each other if they are married, if they have herpes, if they are a Tory, if they've been convicted of horrendous offences. But if we fail to disclose we're trans, off to prison we go and have to sign the sex offenders register.

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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve now read the CPS consultation response on “deception as to sex”. And I am fucking furious. The CPS actually asked whether its approach properly balanced the rights of trans people to live fully in their acquired gender against the rights of complainants.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3h

We're about to see the far right takeover in Spain and the rest of Europe over the next two years. Next year it's France. Germany is on borrowed time. Brazil is already on the brink. Most of Europe and all of latin America will be under the control of the far right. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

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Here’s the latest.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3h

Here's your de jure discrimination, Amy Coney Barrett.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3h

The Trump administration wanted NYC to explicitly turn away trans veterans from a shelter so NYC was forced to turn down funding for it because it would violate city and state law. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

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NYC turns down $1.3 million for homeless shelter due to dispute over transgender veterans

The city says the federal government would have required them to exclude transgender veterans from seeking shelter beds at the Borden Avenue Veterans' Residence.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h

With Europe and South America being taken over by far right authoritarian parties and China cracking down in its own LGBTQ population, we need to figure out an international response in how to get LGBTQ people to safety. It's going to get so bad while every potential safe harbor is taken away.

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 3h

The nyt has been a culture warrior in important ways: its racially-tinged anti-Mamdani vendetta; its propagandistic campaign against trans ppl; its uncritical promotion of neo-segregation and "biblical patriarchy." So it's interesting to see one its top Opinion editors trying to flip the script

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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 6h

it will be pointless to fight them. Because once published, the only action that has result is getting a full retraction. Which has not been achieved even once related to transgender healthcare research.

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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 6h

And the only way to fight them and have some impact is to challenge them scientifically, something which I've not seen anyone do to date. Tweeting about them doesn't achieve anything. And believe me when I say that it is a slow and very intense undertaking. If they wait until the reports come out,

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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 6h

I can only hope that people now start to take notice that they urgently need to look at the registered protocols on PROSPERO. There are at least half a dozen that need detailed scrutiny, including 2 that I've seen so far which involve Emily Simonoff.

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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 6h

That data can now be completely fragmented in the statistics and the only way to find out is to get a detailed view on all the secondary diagnosis of GIDS patients. And so in the latest report, the only number available is 104 related to the entire period 2016-2023 (on p.13). Impossible to challenge

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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 6h

patients can now be hidden away in Depressive disorder or under the high-level header of Mental health or even one of the comorbidities. And so the NHS can keep going about its merry way to ignore the actual impact they are having on patients with gender incongruence.

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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 6h

have been registered (comorbidities).The second warning was about the NHS deciding to retire the clinical codes for Gender Dysphoria in ICD-10 (i.e. F64.x). The combined result of these two changes didn't take long to show in statistics: Looking at suicides, any increase in suicides by transgender

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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 6h

#UK #NHS #NCISH Twice in the past year have I tried to warn everyone about the consequences of certain decisions taken by the NHS. The first warning was when I highlighted that no patient had received a primary diagnosis of gender dysphoria/incongruence since July 2024. Secondary diagnosis however

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the end you - yes you the cis Brit reading this are also complicit on some level. And I say that not to rebuke, but to say - *you* have a responsibility to do something now. We all do.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m not just angry about today as well - this didn’t start in April last year. It’s years of politicians who should have done more just ‘keeping quiet’. Years of journalists, and others in the Westminster bubble not doing enough to call out colleagues slipping down the rabbit hole.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes there are lots of brilliant trans people and allies fighting. But actually, as a collective society we have no need to do this. There is no serious economic or security context pushing us into this like other political decisions - it’s just pure cruelty and discrimination.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can’t really believe this is happening in our country. And it makes me very angry people aren’t doing more to stop it. An entire group have had their civil rights gutted, and are having their lives made unliveable (especially children who are most vulnerable). And what’s anyone doing about it?

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Marie Leanne Shrewsbury @crapcerealandpills.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So called 'gender critical' cranks are murderers by proxy. They have trans peoples blood on their hands including trans kids who took their lives after having their healthcare taken away for non clinical reasons.

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

When Joyce said that our numbers must be reduced, afair not one gender critter criticised her, just lots of "oh, she didn't mean it like/that/". Since being trans is part of the normal human condition, there is only one way our numbers can be reduced, so, yeah....

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 17h

God this writing is abysmal as well as being total nonsense. This is what happens when you can no longer hire queer comms people!

Our guidance recognises that providing only separate-sex services can have a particular impact on trans people. A combination of single-sex and mixed-sex or individual facilities can be a proportionate way of meeting different needs.
There may be circumstances where a service legitimately needs to establish someone's sex. But the code explains that it's unlikely to be practical or appropriate to inquire about sex where those facilities are incidental to the primary service.
We've had public toilets separated by sex for decades without someone verifying who is entitled to enter. The code doesn't change that.
Uncertainty about their rights has caused real alarm for many trans people. But some of the commentary surrounding the code has worsened that distress, by alleging that it erodes those rights or requires routine sex checks. Those claims do not accurately describe the guidance.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 17h

Is there a more incoherent individual in public life?

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 9h

This gaslighting is honestly jaw dropping. It’s not enough to take away our rights, but you also chide us for not pretending anything has changed?

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 9h

Sonia Sodha in The Times crying about banning conversion practices

Conversion Practices Bill is a licence for trouble
Prime minister needs to ditch toxic legislation that threatens the rights of women and parents
Sonia Sodha @soniasodha

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. A maxim that has been embraced by campaigners for men to be able to intrude into female spaces and for children experiencing gender distress to be pushed down a risky medical pathway, all under the misleading banner of “trans rights”. These campaigners have lost some important battles. Their strategy of bullying female opponents out of their jobs and public life ran into problems when the courts made clear that this was unlawful discrimination. Then the Supreme Court clarified that men are never women for the purpose of using female-only facilities and services.

Meanwhile the medical consensus is finally shifting to an understanding that children experiencing transitory gender distress, often a product of other issues, should be able to access exploratory therapy rather than puberty-blocking drugs.

Now gender campaigners have opened a new front, pushing for legislation to ban so-called “conversion practices”. This innocuous-sounding but dangerous Trojan horse is designed to override legal protections for single-sex spaces and to threaten parents, teachers and healthcare professionals acting in children’s best interests. Worst of all, it was adopted in Labour’s 2024 manifesto, a quid pro quo for the party dropping self-ID.

There is a long and terrible history of same-sex-attracted people being subjected to conversion practices such as electroshock therapy and corrective rape. These practices are thankfully rare, and importantly already criminal.

As is anything constituting harassment or physical or sexual assault under criminal statute. Indeed, the minister who led the Lords debate simply listed a number of existing offences as justification for the bill and when pushed was unable to provide concrete examples of practices that should be — but are no…

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 8h

You can tell this is all bullshit by the quote marks in the headline. If it wasn't bullshit they wouldn't need to quote someone talking bullshit, they could just print their headline. TBF the trans activists bit is also bullshit as it's just trans people.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 9h

"Transgender rights activists are spreading misinformation about guidance that protects single-sex spaces by claiming it erodes trans people’s rights, the equalities regulator has said." [Times page 2]

Trans activists ‘wrong over single-sex code’
Geraldine Scott - Assistant Political Editor
Transgender rights activists are spreading misinformation about guidance that protects single-sex spaces by claiming it erodes trans people’s rights, the equalities regulator has said.

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.

Stephenson said women had also been affected by not having access to single-sex spaces. She said: “Women who believe that their right to privacy, dignity or safety have not been properly protected deserve to have those concerns taken seriously too.”

Last week the Liberal Democrats passed a conference motion branding the code discriminatory and “unworkable”.

At Labour’s conference Joanne Thomas, the general secretary of the Usdaw union and chairwoman of Labour Unions, said the law and the EHRC code would hurt trans and nonbinary people and argued that rights had been rolled back.

Stephenson said the code did not create new law or abolish protections for transgender people.

She said: “Recognising women’s need for access to single-sex services doesn’t require us to dismiss the rights of trans people. And recognising the vulnerability of trans people doesn’t require us to dismiss women’s concerns.”

The EHRC’s code of practice came into force in August, 16 months after the Supreme Court ruled that sex in relation to the Equality Act must be defined biologically. This means single-sex lavatories, changing rooms, hospital wards and refuges must be used based on a person’s birth sex, not the gender with which they identify.

The Good Law Project, which is backing a legal challenge against the code, accused the EHRC of producing “discriminatory” and “unworkable” guidance and said service providers which followed it would be “helping to strip trans pe…

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 8h

Meanwhile in the UK the extreme transphobic schools “guidance” introduced by Andy Burnham in my view constitutes a form of wraparound Ambient Conversion Therapy.

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Dr Natacha Kennedy: "The government’s guide to harming trans children in school"

Words by Dr Natacha Kennedy, a trans academic from Goldsmiths University There’s no point in beating about the bush, the government’s new anti-trans “guidance” for schools is about harming trans chi...

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 8h

PS there are also state-level bans in federal states like the US and Australia. None of these countries have reported any problems. Bans in Taiwan, Queensland & Victoria (Australia), The Netherlands, New Zealand, Ecuador and Malta make conversion practices actual criminal offences.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 8h

Most of the UK’s neighbours have conversion therapy bans France Spain Belgium The Netherlands Germany Norway Portugal & around 30 others incl; Vietnam Argentina Canada Samoa Conversion practices are psychological & physical torture most often targeting trans children. Sonia Sodha disgusts me.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h

If the Democrats win, they have to be ready to bring generational change. Reform the courts, eliminate the filibuster, expand the house, admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, pass a new voting rights act, and prosecute every single corrupt member of the Trump admin.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h

If Democrats think winning back congress this year and the presidency in 2028 is enough, they are sorely mistaken. We'll be right back where we're at in 2032 with an even more fascist and white supremacist Republican party. It's not enough to win power.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18h

The first thing that his son will do is free his father and go on a revenge campaign against everyone involved in holding his father accountable. Somehow, Brazil saw what the US went through with Trump 2 and decided, what if we elected Trump Jr instead.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18h

It's only the first round but I can't believe Brazil did everything right going after Jair Bolsanaro over his attempted coup only to be on the verge of electing his corrupt dipshit son.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18h

I really don't get it. Trump polls at like single digits across the world but then every country is like, but our right wing populist is different!

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