Rob Mullins

Rob Mullins

@robertmullins.bsky.social

Associate Professor, University of Queensland.

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Rob Mullins
@robertmullins.bsky.social

It's quite clear to me that the Equality Act also needs to be amended to protect sex characteristics (rather than sex simpliciter), but that would involve hard questions the government wants to avoid.

Rob Mullins
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The bill protects 'transgender identity' (or similar), but it doesn't *clearly* protect e.g. a woman born with variations in sex characteristics that is told she must live as a male when she enters puberty.

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Mitch Travis
@profmitchtravis.bsky.social

Hi all a new blog post reflecting on the UK intersex communities open letter, the report from the call for evidence and the UK governments responsibilities. journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/interse... Featuring myself, Fae Garland, David Griffiths and Charlotte Jones.

journaloflawandsociety.co.ukIntersex Awareness Day 2026: 30 years after the first protest, why is action still deferred? | Journal of Law and SocietyBy Mitchell Travis (University of Leeds), Fae Garland (University of Manchester), Charlotte Jones (Swansea University) and David Griffiths (University of Su ...

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Alastair Lawrie
@alastairlawrie.bsky.social

On Intersex Awareness Day, I'm sharing for the first time the full video of the speech I gave to launch my research paper "From Re Carla to an emerging 'Australian model': How NSW should legislate to protect the bodily integrity of children born with variations of sex characteristics." #auslaw 🧵1/

youtube.comFrom Re Carla to an Australian model: Protecting bodily autonomy | Justice Ideas Forum 2026YouTube video by Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales
Rob Mullins
@robertmullins.bsky.social

Lulu news is great, but it would be even better if we didn't have to alternate between cosmopolitan social democracy and exurban Hitlerism every election cycle.

Rob Mullins
@robertmullins.bsky.social

I have not seen any reporting about this from Australian media. It is hard to overstate the extent to which this is a weird (and obsessive and hateful) British media thing.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk

Viscerally upset by the Beth Upton stuff. They won't be satisfied until they have hounded a woman – who the tribunal explicitly found had done nothing wrong – to her death. Btw the "incident" in Australia is that a patient worried she *might* be forced to be treated by her. She of course wasn't.

Rob Mullins
@robertmullins.bsky.social

I think a lot about gay marriage: there were plenty of journalistic and political elites who criticized the pro-marriage argument right up into the tipping point but now just happily pretend they always supported it.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social

every now & then someone on the anti-trans side will get cold feet about how openly ugly it's all getting—they want to keep the image of a nice, sensible centrist but it's never enough for them to get off the train

Rob Mullins
@robertmullins.bsky.social

I guess my point is that people seldom admit that they just got it wrong, and in a way I draw encouragement from the fact that so many people are trying to find different ways to avoid the conclusion that they've backed the wrong horse.

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Claire Connelly
@claireconnelly.bsky.social

Unfathomable. Does not feel like we are having the necessary reckoning with the cultural, political, and media environment in which this targeted attack took place

6 News Australia@6newsau.bsky.social

Indi MP Helen Haines remains in a critical condition tonight at The Alfred, with doctors now fighting to save her second leg after she was pinned between two cars in a vehicle attack yesterday LATEST: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hIy...

youtube.comIndi MP Helen Haines loses leg after vehicle attackYouTube video by SIX News Australia
Rob Mullins
@robertmullins.bsky.social

Back when I did Parkrun the same dog would best me every week and he was extremely cocky about it. He'd always hold his leash in his mouth as he overtook me in the final km.

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Rob Mullins
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No one seems to care, but these were the UK's submissions about hospital use in I v UK in *2002*. I get that the UKSC is big on reading ECtHR jurisprudence as narrowly as possible, but it really does strain credulity to think there is no Art 8 violation .

Rob Mullins
@robertmullins.bsky.social

It has that same way of emulating understanding, and it's quite often accurate, but it doesn't feel quite right. It sometimes uses synonyms where a lawyer would use a precise legal term, for instance.

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Kay
@gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social

Returning to this point several days later, I wrote something about this the summer after FWS. The book it’s going to be in hasn’t been published yet, but I’ve been given the go ahead to put it on SSRN. I don’t know how useful anyone else will find it, but I found writing it psychologically helpful.

papers.ssrn.comTrans Surgeries and Reproductive JusticeThis chapter demonstrates that abortion and trans surgeries have been conceptually linked both as an institutional matter and by activists campaigning for and a
🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃@angryblacklady.blacksky.app

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.