Jess O'Thomson

🚨 BREAKING We finally heard back from the Court of Appeal in our challenge to the EHRC's interim guidance. We've got an oral hearing to decide if we'll be given permission to appeal – hopefully by the end of this year.

This is also true of physical illnesses.

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. I am intersex – and did not find out until I was 26! Intersex people are also impacted by the decision in FWS, but this is much less talked about. Intersex people continue to be subjected to non-consensual medical interventions. Intersex rights are human rights.

This is about as sensible a take as saying you shouldn't care about the general election results in constituencies you don't live in. We all live on one planet.

I have signed this letter. Please join me.

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. 30 years after the first protests members of the UK intersex communities have come together to write this important open letter to the UK government: openletter.earth/open-letter-... Please do read, sign and share widely.

Fwiw this has fully ruined my day and, given I am already very ill, I really want to just go back to bed and try again tomorrow.

Both of these results today go to show just how antifascists can mobilise. Fascists have an entire apparatus to make their victory feel inevitable. It is not. To crush hope. But hope lives on whilst we keep it alive.

Both of these results today go to show just how antifascists can mobilise. Fascists have an entire apparatus to make their victory feel inevitable. It is not. To crush hope. But hope lives on whilst we keep it alive.

Hope. Relief

Fwiw Polymarket now has Lula at 92% to win. Complete turnaround from earlier today.

I still just find the idea that nonbinary people are somehow not materially oppressed like the real transsexuals are very funny. Like do you really think people with they/them pronouns on their CVs have an equal opportunity at employment? Lmao.

JGP has theorised that it's the existence of enbies like me who have destroyed trans rights. But I know I spend every waking hour trying to fight for my community – whilst she is apparently out here calling the trans sisters who came before her "heterosexual transvestites".

Genuinely breaks my brain between now and March.

Think something needs to be written about GCs, the far right, and lolcowism. If only I had the time.

You can just say you want the Brits to get stuffed (understandable) without having to make stuff up about the EU to go with it.

The "row" and "scandal" here is that a patient recognised her and declined care, as she has a right to do, and this patient then scared herself silly fantasising about being bullied into letting Dr Upton treat her. A thing that did not actually happen.

The experience of being a vocal, public, 24/7, full time advocate for trans people's human rights is not ideal I have to say. Especially when you are also trans.

The story, when you look at the actual facts, is a refutation of the supposed "concerns". A patient declined to be treated by Dr Upton because she is trans. The patient's request was respected and absolutely nothing happened.

She moved country and changed her name – and the British press still won't stop harassing her.

Sorry, do I live in the same country as Lord Sumption?

Even when your job is to absorb horrors, please try and understand that it is: - Absorb a subset of the horrors - Absorb the horrors within working hours(even if you're volunteering) and attempt not to absorb them outside of working hours.

We’re pleased to see that – even if only because of the threat of our court challenge – Wes Streeting is walking back the cruelty of the MOD's position on LGBT+ veterans: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/23/mod-wes-streeting-legal-battle-gay-veterans

The NHS has a ‘gay tax’ on IVF, forcing queer women to pay thousands before they can access treatment. So we’re taking legal action to challenge this discrimination. Help us fight back 👇 https://goodlaw.social/2q4p

"Don't be evil"

"The priority should have been patient safety - instead, trans patients will be left stranded in corridors without proper care," @jessothomson.co.uk