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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

170 people took part across parallel programmes, online and in-person — a reach that speaks to just how much this work resonates. Presenters from across the globe joined us representing the UK, India, Europe, Pakistan, Africa, and the US.

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Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I think it’s pretty cool that I co-hosted the @tvce.bsky.social online event all day on Friday and played vets rugby at a tournament in Forfar today. It feels like I am a fully-rounded person with wide-ranging interests and social interactions. Curious which bruises will be most painful tomorrow.

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genevieve clifford @mun-tonsi.net · 24/07/2026

really enjoyed today at @tvce.bsky.social symposium today, and now i'm having some delicious filipino food. today has been amazing :)

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Hauntfren Lastname @ulyverse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The @tvce.bsky.social was incredible. I had a blast. I'm feeling so much trans joy from intellectual and cultural sharing!! I am so grateful to call @sandraduffy.bsky.social & @jamologies.net my comrades, friends and sharing ideas together too & massive thanks to those who came to our talk <3

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Heading home from London after a lovely day at @tvce.bsky.social symposium with @jamologies.net and @ulyverse.bsky.social - our presentation went really well and the other panels we caught were excellent.

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Hauntfren Lastname @ulyverse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Post-lunch I've been sat hearing the testimonial of a trans Pakistani activist, and how/why borders develop beyond geography. "No borders, no nations, trans liberation" ringing around my mind amongst amazing things she shared.

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Hauntfren Lastname @ulyverse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

After a fun, engaged session on Bristol Trans Futures, I'm now hearing all about 20th century gender transition & transness, and how we frame an oral history of transness, and now we narrativise our histories with Zoe Playdon #tvce

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Hauntfren Lastname @ulyverse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I am at @tvce.bsky.social and seated and v excited!

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Off to London for @tvce.bsky.social conference today! Looking forward to seeing everyone and to our Bristol Trans Futures presentation (regional trans activism represent!).

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"The future is queerness’s domain... The here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and now’s totalizing rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there." Thinking along with Muñoz today as prep for @tvce.bsky.social conference with @jamologies.net and Hafren.

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Hauntfren Lastname @ulyverse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

agenda for @tvce.bsky.social looks AMAZING. Can't wait to take part, can't wait to attend

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Asha Okasili-Henry (they/he) of Birkbeck, University of London will present an echo paper titled "Reclaiming the Monster: Transgender Horror and Individual Legibility" www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Part of the #TVCE #Symposium Join the waitlist: tvcebirkbecksymposium.eventbrite.com 🌈🎓

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Asha Okasili-Henry (they/he) of Birkbeck, University of London will present an echo paper titled "Reclaiming the Monster: Transgender Horror and Individual Legibility" as part of Part of the 2nd Annua...

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

the tech issues with our waitlist are now resolved - if you had previously signed up to this, please do so again. We apologise for inconvenience. The waitlist will remain available until the end of Friday 17th July 2026. tvcebirkbecksymposium.eventbrite.com Thank you

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TVCE x BiGS Existing Otherwise: A Trans+ Symposium

The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence (TVCE) & Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality (BiGS) forum co-convene the 2nd annual TVCE Symposium

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Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I am gonna be running a session at this where we discuss the speculative fiction* we love and gather up our suggestions for a trans liberation reading list *science fiction, fantasy, horror, gothic fiction, alternate reality and related genres all incuded (I take a loosey-goosey approach to genre)

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Hauntfren Lastname @ulyverse.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Excited to do this with @sandraduffy.bsky.social & @jamologies.net at the end of the month - get the smattering of tickets left

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Musa Sharples (he/they) @oscarsharples.bsky.social of @uniofbrighton.bsky.social presents a Conversational Paper "DIY HRT and Liberated Futures" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium TICKETS: tvcebirkbecksymposium.eventbrite.com #Queer #Trans #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 #Trans #TransPride #LGBT #Conference #Health

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Amanda Kamanda (she/her) of #Minority #Inclusion Front UK will present an Ephemeral Manifesto titled "The Manifesto and Flashmob of Resistance" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium TICKETS: tvcebirkbecksymposium.eventbrite.com #Queer #Trans #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 #Trans #TransPride #LGBT #Conference

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

@nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social (they/them) will present & host a #LongTable titled "The Binary Trap: Imagining Intersex and Non-Binary Recognition Beyond the Limits of Current UK Law" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium TICKETS: tvcebirkbecksymposium.eventbrite.com #LGBTQ #Law #UKLaw #LegalSystem #EHRC

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Amazing TVCE member @kmunday.bsky.social is involved with this, do join if you can this Tuesday (30th) at 12:30 for The Trans+ Research Hub's first Sharing Session! beyond-reflections.whitefuse.net/events/trans...

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Trans+ Research Hub Sharing Session

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Aurelia Guo (she/her) of @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social will present an FRAGMENTED PAPER titled "McNally, Desire and Knowledge" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium TICKETS: tvcebirkbecksymposium.eventbrite.com #Queer #Trans #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 #Trans #CriminalLaw #LGBT #Conference #Law #Psychoanalysis

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Avi Ben-Zeev (he/him) of San Francisco State University & Birkbeck University will present an Ephemeral Manifesto titled "Our Trans* and Nonbinary Stories" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium TICKETS: tvcebirkbecksymposium.eventbrite.com #Queer #Trans #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 #Trans #TransPride #LGBT #Conference

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Lucy Lamia Tatarusanu (she/they) from @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social will join our #film #screening and panel to present "After A Century" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium TICKETS: tvcebirkbecksymposium.eventbrite.com #Trans #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBT #Conference #Queer #Art #queerfilm

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Eleanor Beaton (she/her) @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social will present a TRANSMISSION titled "Who is the legitimate subject of trans research? Or, if you’d asked me that summer what a hospital was…" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium TICKETS: tvcebirkbecksymposium.eventbrite.com #Queer #Trans #AcademicSky 🌈🎓

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

@hsincavage.bsky.social (she/her) Wilkes University USA presents a DISTRIBUTED ACTION - part of our online events - titled "to hold is to be held: the work of untying" TICKETS: tvcebirkbecksymposium.eventbrite.com #TVCE 🌈🎓 #TransLivesMatter #LGBT #Symposium #Conference #AcademicSky #LGBTQ #Queer

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Trying to write the auto-ethnographical section of my methodology has been really complicated. So I’ve taken this opportunity to try to make sense of my thoughts and hopefully have conversations about this by using images.

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Matteo Bassetti @matteobassetti.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Doing things a little different at this conference! I’ll be “presenting” an illustrated and partially animated reflection on the complex and chaotic emotional journey that this PhD has been (and continues to be - still writing 🫠)

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Sacha Mead (they/them) @uniofbrighton.bsky.social presents a TRANSMISSION - part of our online events - titled "Breathing. Being. Bound: experiences of a nonbinary, transmasculine, white-passing, working-class sculptor in the face of oppression" TICKETS: tvcebirkbecksymposium.eventbrite.com #TVCE 🌈🎓

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Matteo Bassetti (he/they) from @universityofessex.bsky.social will present a TRANSMISSION titled "Defining pathologization as torture: graphic auto-ethnography of a legal thesis" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 24/7/26 TICKETS: tvcebirkbecksymposium.eventbrite.com #Queer #Conference #AcademicSky 🌈🎓

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Early Bird + Mailing List exclusive #tickets have all sold for our #Trans+ symposium Existing Otherwise on 24th July 2026 at #Birkbeck #University of #London. A line-up announcement is imminent, beat the rush, grab your 1st Wave #Ticket now tvcebirkbecksymposium.eventbrite.com 🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #LGBTQ

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TVCE x BiGS Existing Otherwise: A Trans+ Symposium

The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence (TVCE) & Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality (BiGS) forum co-convene the 2nd annual TVCE Symposium

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

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TVCE x BiGS Existing Otherwise: A Trans+ Symposium

The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence (TVCE) & Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality (BiGS) forum co-convene the 2nd annual TVCE Symposium

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🆕 Alongside colleagues, we have written to the Prime Minister setting out the damage he is doing to our community. We have made clear that this is a political choice. The UK must pick another path, and the responsibility here lies with government. Read more: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/06...

Dear Prime Minister,
We have all written to this government numerous times in the past year to warn you about the devastating impact of your approach to LGBTQ+ policy on the ability of trans people to participate in public life with dignity. This Government failed to act at any point to secure and defend trans people's fundamental rights and protections, and the current situation has become completely untenable for a rights-respecting nation.
The Supreme Court's job is to interpret statute, it is for our political representatives to set out a coherent vision for what the law should be and to make the law better. Even before the For Women Scotland judgment, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has acted in a way that has shredded our community's trust in regulators and institutions. This is not good enough.
The Code of Practice now before Parliament is set to crystallise an interpretation of the law that is fundamentally in conflict with the UK's human rights obligations. Many MPs have already spoken out about the unjust and unworkable situation the code would create, and more than a hundred have already used the limited available scrutiny process to oppose it.
We urge you to listen to these concerns. The Code does not provide clarity; it exacerbates confusion, conflict, and risk. We have consistently argued that a Code of Practice must pass three tests to be workable: it must protect trans people's ability to participate fully in society, support organisations that wish to remain inclusive, and comply with the UK's domestic and international human rights obligations. This Code fails on all counts.
Prime Minister, the everyday harms this causes will be wide-ranging. This will be viewed as Labour's legacy on LGBTQ+ rights for a generation.

You still have the opportunity to intervene - scrap this harmful guidance and change the law to fix the mess we find ourselves in.

The government's own Equality Impact assessment outlines these consequences starkly, warning of discrimination, physical danger, and limiting trans people's access to vital services. Beyond just our trans communities, the assessment warns of the dangers of appearance-based gender policing on the safety of the public at large.
This Code of Practice could absolutely have been better within the current legal framework, and its current raft is dangerous and unacceptable. This is, however, also a symptom of the broader legislative probler acing our community and requiring action from our governmen
Last year's Supreme Court ruling turned Parliament's intentions for UK equality law on its head. It interpreted the Equality Act in a way that is clearly in direct opposition to decades of deliberate policymaking and well-documented intent. It has turned decades-old settled policy on how trans people should be treated into a mess of contradictory, harmful and incoherent rules.
The current Deputy Prime Minister, David Lammy MP, said this in response to a proposed amendment to prevent trans people accessing services in line with our gender identities when debating the Gender Recognition Act before it was passed more than twenty years ago:
“the Government entirely reject the implication of the new clause that transsexuals might set out to cause offence to others. That is not the Government's experience, and we therefore reject the new clause. The Government also believe that separate facilities for minority groups are objectionable, and we urge the House to reject the proposal."
Yet now your Government is set to approve a Code that not only condones that approach but encourages it as the norm across Britain. The Supreme Court said that their ruling would not be disadvantageous to or remove protection from trans people with or without a GRC", but the government's own impact assessment now makes clear that widespread harm is happening.

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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Green MP @sianberry.bsky.social has tabled Early Day Motion 240 to formally disapprove the Code, and it has already gained cross-party support from over 100 MPs. There's a simple tool to find your MP and ask them to sign: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

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Email your MP to reject the Code of Practice and support EDM 240

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Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Today I re-read my latest #zine which is called TESTO PESTO. In it I reflect on (my) gender expression, ageing and the general state of affairs in the world: war, repression, disinformation.

Mika (white, middle aged, glasses) holding up the zine. They have a sad little smile
On their face.

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