Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️

What happens when a court ruling suddenly throws your life into turmoil? My new paper explores how trans+ people dealt with the aftermath of the FWS judgement, the EHRC's response, and political antagonism, showing they remained defiant, finding space for joy alongside fear and rage. bit.ly/4jhvf96

wrote about how the new hospital wards policy in the NHS entrenches mistreatment, & concentrates anti-trans power in places where trans people are trapped or incapacitated xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

This is a damning document--NHS England's *own assessment* states that their policy will mean trans people experiencing delays to care, increased 'corridor care', fear, and involuntary outing. It states some will be exposed to "animosity"; others will even "avoid accessing healthcare at all".

Short thread on Jason Arday & Cambridge: where things are: (1/n) about ten days ago, 45 senior staff sent a letter to the Chancellor, reminding the University that a thorough review had been promised, and was nowhere in sight. The Afzal review was on one specific matter alone

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This will kill people

I am honoured that Teaching Gender won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British History. Congratulations to all these amazing awardees!

"Trans lives and defiance following the For Women Scotland UK Supreme Court ruling...in its aftermath TGD+ people continued to surface trans joy, defiant in refusal to comply with proposals that would restrict the scope of their everyday lives and determined to continue as before." ✊🏳️‍⚧️

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

The institution no longer bothers to put up any façade that it cares about pedagogy, its staff, or “student experience”

Thank you so much to the hundreds of trans people and allies who joined today's mass lobby! The queue stretched across both sides of the road outside Parliament, and so many MPs participated in meetings and responded to green cards. Together, we delivered a powerful message for change 🏳️‍⚧️

What one has to remember, when reading an AI puff piece that has plausible-looking notes of caution in it, is that The Guardian is in partnership with OpenAI. I found myself looking for the "sponsored advertorial" badge that never came.

For those of us outside Wales - now is the time to be following Wales trans organisations and activists, and keeping an eye on how we might act in solidarity. Also potentially writing to our own local representatives and expressing our concern.

This is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted.

This is utterly shocking.

We’ve written to the UK Supreme Court with a formal complaint about its permanent “The Law and Us” exhibition and its presentation of For Women Scotland TACC, alongside @translucent.org.uk and @transparentaction.bsky.social, are calling for a full review of its wording, imagery, balance and context

Yeah sure I could answer my emails, or I could lay down on the floor and stare at the ceiling while feeling incredibly overwhelmed, you know?

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Pretty much everything you need to know about the British Right in two images.

An amazing PhD project opportunity with an incredible researcher

I am resharing this in light of recent news that HESA, the NHS and other bodies have changed their data collection approach to sex and gender, erasing trans people’s realities in light of the Sullivan Review.

HESA is now citing the Sullivan Review to mandate categorising all student data in England and Wales by binary “sex at birth” - no possibility to answer otherwise (unless non-British national with different “legal sex”). Gender to now be “gender reassignment”. www.hesa.ac.uk/collection/2...

🚨 Bridget Phillipson remains as the Minister for Women and Equalities After FWS Phillipson publicly stated that trans women should use men's toilets. She recently signed into force harmful & discriminatory statutory guidance which will devastate trans lives. Suggests no change re. trans rights.

I keep getting asked to peer review these papers that are so clearly LLM generated. We need to do a much better job of weeding these out before it gets to that stage.

In July 2024, JK Rowling said called the Cass Review, "the single most authoritative and comprehensive review of the affirmative model ever conducted." Today, she retweeted a tweet saying that Cass should be "derided" for her "ridiculous comments" on the puberty blocker trial. Do you see?

New important statement from Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention. On the EHRC Code: “In its attempt to erase trans and intersex people from public life, this document is genocidal in nature.” www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...

'A less than five-minutes-long Teams call with no opportunity to respond is how staff at the University of Dundee heard that their jobs, the courses that they teach and their livelihoods might be at risk. I ask members to think about that for a moment.' (Maggie Chapman (North East Scotland) 1/5

Stonking article by @iandunt.bsky.social. Nailed, just as he and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social do in their JK Rowling podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o... Thank you, thank you, thank you from this cisgender woman. iandunt.substack.com/p/the-ehrc-t...

Email your MP now: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

Alongside TransActual and Trans+ Solidarity Alliance, we have written to the prime minister to express our deep concerns with the new Code of Practice and urged the government to legislate now to protect trans people’s rights, dignity and inclusion. www.scottishtrans.org/jointpmletter/

Fascism is already here. What matters is acting now to stop its foothold getting deeper.