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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 22h

If anyone is in touch with any of the local trans inclusive safe spaces orgs around the country can you reach out to them and ask if they would be willing to speak to me over the next day or so please. I have opened my DMs.

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Leah.... @tilly.northsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well we didn't expect to see open blossom on our (In a pot) pear tree.... What month are we again..???!!!???

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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 29/09/2026

I have written to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to ask some important questions relating to her appearance and comments on The Daily T's Sunday Showdown, where she stated she was "a woman, defined by my biology", and that a women’s refuge should be for those of us who are “biologically women"

"... When asked whether you would have allowed a trans woman fleeing domestic abuse into the women’s refuge you once managed, you answered: “No.”

You said that alternative provision could be made, and that a women’s refuge should be for those of us who are “biologically women”.

That deserves considerably more scrutiny than another political soundbite.

You have chosen to justify your position by appealing to biology, so I would like you to explain what you mean by that claim in biological terms, rather than simply referring back to the law, the Supreme Court or the EHRC.

What, biologically, is a woman?

The scientific picture is considerably more complicated than the neat binary your statement suggests. Sex-related biology involves multiple characteristics, including chromosomes, gonads, reproductive anatomy, hormones and secondary sex characteristics. These characteristics do not always align in the stereotypical way, which is why medicine recognises differences of sex development. Contemporary scientific literature describes sex-related biology as involving multiple interacting characteristics rather than one single biological test that can infallibly sort every human being into one of two boxes.

You already know this. Biologists, doctors and other experts sent you an open letter specifically explaining these issues. They warned that reducing human sex biology to an immutable binary is an oversimplification and that policy built upon that oversimplification can cause real harm.

That does not mean biological sex is meaningless. It obviously is not. Female and male reproductive biology are real and medically important. But acknowledging that doesn't require pretending every human body is a perfectly standard biological specimen.

So let us get away from slogans.

You say that you are a woman “defined by my biology”. You say that I am not.

What, precisely, is the biological distinction you are making?"

"...And how would you establish it?

Would you take my blood? Sequence my chromosomes? Examine my gonads? Inspect my anatomy? Measure my hormones? Demand medical records?

Because the moment “biologically a woman” has to become a real-world test rather than a political phrase, the simplicity disappears.

And nowhere is that more obvious than in the refuge you once managed.

Imagine a woman arriving at the door after fleeing an abusive partner. She is terrified. She has no passport, no birth certificate and no medical records. She may have left everything behind to get herself and her children somewhere safe.

You have said the refuge should be for women who are “biologically women”.

So how does the refuge establish that?

Does she need to prove her chromosomes before being allowed through the door? Does somebody examine her body? Does she have to produce evidence of her reproductive anatomy? Or does a member of staff simply look at her and decide whether she appears sufficiently female?

Because the last option is not biology.

It is gender policing.

And then comes the question you cannot escape: how would you identify a trans woman without simply assuming that she is trans?

You cannot see somebody's chromosomes. You cannot see their gonads. You cannot see their hormone levels. You cannot see their developmental history.

If your answer is appearance, you have created a system in which women can be challenged because they are too masculine, too tall, too muscular, too deep-voiced, too gender-nonconforming or do not conform to somebody else's idea of what a woman is supposed to look like.

That is not a minor administrative problem. It is the policing of women's bodies, dressed up as biological certainty.

And feminism should recognise that for what it is...."

"...Sex and gender are related, but they're not interchangeable concepts. Sex encompasses biological characteristics and processes; gender also encompasses the social and personal dimensions through which human beings understand and live their gender. The scientific literature itself recognises that these concepts interact in complex ways rather than functioning as two completely separate boxes.
...You have experience running a women's refuge. You know what a woman arriving at that door needs. She does not need a politician's abstract definition of womanhood. She needs safety.

So I am asking you, as Minister for Women and Equalities, to answer some very straightforward questions.

What biological characteristics make you a woman and make me not one?

How would you establish that distinction in practice?

How does your definition account for women with differences of sex development?

What happens to women whose chromosomes do not fit the stereotypical XX model?

What happens to women who cannot produce eggs, who have no ovaries, who have undergone hysterectomy or who have otherwise experienced changes to their reproductive anatomy?

And most importantly:

How does a frightened woman fleeing domestic abuse prove that she is “biologically a woman” without being subjected to exactly the kind of bodily scrutiny and gender policing that feminists have spent generations challenging?

If your answer is that she does not have to prove it, then why should a trans woman?

If your answer is documentation, what happens to the woman who has none?

If your answer is appearance, whose idea of female appearance are you using?

And if there is no practical biological test, then perhaps “biology” is not quite the straightforward answer you have presented it as.

Women fleeing violence need refuge workers asking whether they are safe, not whether they can pass an ideological biology exam....."

"...You have chosen to draw a line between yourself and me by saying that you are a woman defined by biology and that women like me are not. I am therefore asking you to explain where that line actually is.

Not in a court judgment.

Not in an EHRC document.

Not in a political slogan.

In biology.

Because if you cannot define the biological test, and cannot explain how it could be applied fairly to women standing at the door of a refuge, then “biologically a woman” is not the clear, objective safeguard you claim it is.

It is simply a phrase being used to decide which women are allowed through the door.

And when the woman on the other side of that door is fleeing an abuser, that is not an abstract debate.

That is somebody's life.

Yours sincerely,

A woman who apparently needs a biology exam to prove it,'

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Kevin (Des) @jambodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Burnham had a chance to change this. He fucked it. "bUt bArM!!!"

Andy Burnham

Prime Minister of Apartheid

🏳️‍⚧️Trans Rights are human rights🏳️‍⚧️

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Leah.... @tilly.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been sentenced to seven years in jail after he was found guilty of sexually abusing two primary school-age children......" www.itv.com/news/2026-09... #NotATransWoman #NotATransman #NotOurCrimes

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is Andy Burnham’s first party conference speech as PM. We’ve taken your messages from the mass lobby on tour to Labour conference in Liverpool, with our friends at @transactualuk.bsky.social and @scottishtrans.bsky.social We aren’t going anywhere.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Labour is dishonest when is uses the slogan “hope”, which, tellingly, it nicked from the Green Party, while touting a policy to make pensioners even poorer than they are already. The irony of having the slogan “Hope again” alongside headlines about Labour’s policy of making pensioners poorer…

HOPE AGAIN
UK POLITICS
Minister refuses to rule out scrapping state pension triple lock ahead of Burnham speech
• Burnham's deputy refuses to say if he will scrap triple lock - live

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The NION Campaign has now reached 113,000. That’s 113,000 cis women who stand with trans people and say “No!” to bigotry and discrimination. If you find what the UK has done to trans people’s rights and healthcare appalling, and you haven’t signed their letter yet, please do.👇 notinourname.org.uk

notinourname.org.uk

Home - Not in our name

Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions

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nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social @nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What does a GRC actually mean after For Women Scotland? A trans person can now be legally recognised as one sex for some purposes, while treated as another under the Equality Act. Has the law created an “intermediate zone” of legal recognition? #TransRights #EqualityAct

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Halcyon Ember @halcyonember.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If anyone in the US or UK tells you thatbthey’re proud of their “Anglo Saxon heritage” say “oh so you’re an immigrant?”

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Peter Sturgeon @prsturgeon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Please boost. Emma is not reaching anyone

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Leah.... @tilly.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ve asked my MP to a Line We Crossed evening in Parliament on 26 October: clips from the film and a panel discussion. Add your name and ask yours too: thelinewecrossed.com/parliament/

thelinewecrossed.com

Invite your MP: The Line We Crossed in Parliament

An evening of film clips and panel discussion in the Houses of Parliament on 26 October 2026, hosted by Clive Lewis MP. Add your name and we'll invite your MP.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 27/09/2026

Over 85,000 people have asked their local NHS Trust to say no to Palantir. Time is running out, so every email counts. Will you email your local trust and ask them to stand against Palantir? notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/ema…

notopalantir.goodlawproject.org

Say no to Palantir in the NHS

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

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Emma Williams @emanemz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1/Got three new projects under my belt over the last two days alongside my coursework. Then finished my evening off going back to basics and making two extra large scrunchies as Emily and I love this fabric. So I made one for Emily and there is one more available for £10- if anyone wants to help

Pink cutting board with day of the dead kitty fabric depicting skeleton cut fish bowls with skeleton fish and two extra large scrunchies

Pink cutting board with day of the dead kitty fabric depicting skeleton cats fishbowls flowers and skeleton fish and two extra large scrunchies

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Labour party women's conference is as popular as apartheid era South Africa. The room is mostly empty after Labour created the largest rollback of human rights since the Raj era Criminal Tribes Act. Like Brexit transphobia was helped along by Epstein's operation and the Russians.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Finally a leaflet talking about the real issues in the constituency

"Vote in Christian Values" - Saint Pancras was martyred age 14 by beheading

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025.

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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 26/09/2026

An NHS policy designed to clear "ghost patients" from GP lists is backfiring, disproportionately removing vulnerable and elderly people in deprived areas and blocking access to repeat prescriptions. Doctors are calling for an immediate pause. Read more: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Peter Sturgeon @prsturgeon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The girl in the Café Lawrence: Tell me... why were you in prison? Gina: I hurt a man. Lawrence: Why? Gina: Because he hurt a child, killed a child. Lawrence: Your child? Gina: Does it matter whose child? #Gaza #Genocide

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is where the UK government is different. It hosts international LGBTQ+ rights conferences and preaches to other nations about human rights, while annihilating trans people from public life, at home.

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Dr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And they thought Muslim women choosing to wear hijabs (headscarves) and niqabs (face veil) was a threat to British values lol

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Chris Tregenza @tregenza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes, but some would say it has already started.

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Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Although I am not into miniatures & war gaming myself it is an art form I appreciate so send some love their way please.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Services like this are the sort of thing I’m thinking about. I’d love to see links to services like this included at the end of such documentaries: respectphoneline.org.uk/help-for-per... @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social

respectphoneline.org.uk

Help For Domestic Violence & Abuse Perpetrators | Respect UK

Offering help for domestic abuse perpetrators who want to change. We give confidential advice and support to help you stop being abusive.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Heartbreaking VIDEO for all my cis followers on here (please share with any other cis people you may know) It’s about Andy Burnham’s new Transphobic Section 28 in schools and the harm caused to one trans child as a result. I never say this but I will now; Please watch don’t scroll.

youtu.be

Trans kids are no longer safe in UK schools

YouTube video by Cool2BTrans

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And she did so with no significant evidence to support the decision.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Burnham is concerned about foreign governments spreading, lies, disinformation, preying on people’s fears and amplifying far-right narratives in the UK. He needs to look first at what his own government has done however…

to spread lies and disinformation, and prey on people's fears.

Campaigners have accused a government minister of making "inflammatory and dangerous" remarks after comments in Parliament about single-sex spaces,
as international organisations warn new guidance could lead to increased exclusion of trans people in the UK.
Seema Malhotra, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities, told MPs that "most people have
the common sense to step in when necessary, for example when a person of the opposite biological sex enters a single sex facility in error - and when to alert a member of staff".

The Telegraph

Starmer vows to ban
'gender ideology' being taught in schools
Attempt to clarify position on matter but Labour can't define what the term means

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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Be the reason someone decides there’s still genuine good left in this world.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have one question to transphobes in the UK: You now had about 2 years of rampant transphobia at the help, and... Please explain how did that make your life measurably better. Just one concrete example will suffice, thanks. I'll wait.

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Leah.... @tilly.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

@support.bsky.team Oh I do wish there were a way that we could remove a follower from following..... They have not quite reached a block threshold just yet and a mute wouldn't achieve the desired effect... Hey ho....

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Michiel @murtoz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

With alt so everybody can read this

a post on the fascist site by andy peacock (@andypeacock999):

Four clapped out ambulances mysteriously catch fire.

COBRA meeting
Community leaders at Downing St.
£319m for 'security'

RNLI threatened by far-right thugs

Nothing.

Mosques set on fire

Nothing

Racist attacks in parks

Nothing

Welcome to @UKLabour Britain.

16:01 18/9/2026 - 64K views

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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I would suggest that she asks her new taskforce to start by reading the government’s own equality impact assessment on her EHRC’s new code of practice.

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Leah.... @tilly.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

People forget we exist': Why older LGBTQ+ community fears losing identity... "It's very common for people to hide things if they have a carer visiting their home, for example hiding their wedding photos or taking down a trans flag," he says www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Why growing older LGBTQ+ community in Britain fears losing identity

A report suggests older LGBTQ+ people experience more social isolation than their heterosexual peers.

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Leah.... @tilly.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's when you hit send/reply and the little whirly thing starts the processing process..you then spot the spelling issue and it whirly around thing whirls around just that little bit longer knowing you cannot do a single thing to stop it... Blooming tease or what !

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14/09/2026

So utterly depressing and soul destroying to be the target of unrelenting institutional hate while being told it's not even happening.

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Leah.... @tilly.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

Then we need to share this far and wide. Ok folks, let's do this ! 👍😊👍

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Six men wanted by the police after far right riots in Portsmouth

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TransLucent @translucent.org.uk · 13/09/2026

Long-serving Labour Party member Emily Brothers has been banned as a Delegate to the Women’s Conference and excluded from reserved seats for women in National Policy Forum (NPF) elections because she is transgender. translucent.org.uk/latest-news/

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