Just checked and this is real - Scottish Labour’s manifesto refers to trans people using slurs and commits to a policy of explicit segregation in public life

The EHRC has issued a statement stating they have amended their guidance in accordance to the advice given by the Secretary of State Bridgette Phillipson.

Phillipson is to give a statement at 12:30pm today.

We like everyone wait with bated breath.

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I know journal editors have a tough job. I really do. But at some point there has to be a conversation about how the review crisis has a disproportionate burden on precariously employed academics.

Putting the Cass and Sullivan Review into an AI blender does produce this kinda vibe

What does trans mean and what rights do transgender people have? The UK Supreme Court's definition of a woman in equalities law has significant implications for transgender people.

I have no words for how utterly vile and transphobic this entire BBC “explainer” is. Was it just written by Sex Matters or?

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The Olympics are violating their own charter to discriminate against trans people.

Person in blue football shirt in a crowd holding up cardboard sign saying "boot out transphobia". On the sign is a drawing of a white, pink and blue shoe.

Boot out transphobia

Taken at Exeter Pride 2025

Failing to immediately act in defence of trans and gender diverse people risks the loss of trans scholars and trans scholarship, a loss that critical scholars would carry as their failure and burden.

I recently published an article in @acme-geography.bsky.social asking whether critical scholars are failing to respond to the perilous, authoritarian moment facing trans and gender diverse people, and what they can do to resist and enact solidarity

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Police Scotland’s Sex and Gender Review Police Scotland has confirmed its revised approach to sex and gender data, where data collected about suspects and victims of all crimes and offences will ask about ‘biological sex registered at bi…

Police Scotland has confirmed its revised approach to sex and gender data, where data collected about suspects and victims of all crimes and offences will ask about ‘biological sex registered at birth’ 🔢

#data #gender #trans #police #Scotland

Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.

Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

Female athletes must pay £185 to prove their sex Matt Lawton - Chief Sports Correspondent British female track and field athletes are being asked to pay £185 for a sex test if they want to compete internationally. World Athletics requires all athletes to take an SRY gene test before competing in the female category at major championships and Diamond League events to guarantee fair competition by excluding trans and DSD (differences of sex development) competitors. Before the World Championships in Tokyo last September, World Athletics gave $100 per test for the thousand or so female athletes needing one. More money will be provided by the international federation for this year’s World Junior Championships. But British women have been advised by UK Athletics (UKA) to pay for the test themselves, urging them to have the cheek swab, which indicates the presence of a Y chromosome, “as soon as possible to avoid delays around selection”. However, some women have complained it is unfair when the test is not required for men. UKA has a hardship fund to pay for the test and will assess requests on a case-by-case basis. But the situation is symptomatic of a national federation already facing financial challenges, made worse by UK Sport cutting its funding for this Olympic cycle. While almost £32 million was given to the relatively niche sports that won five medals at last month’s Winter Olympics, athletics has had its funding cut from £22.18 million to £20.45 million despite winning ten medals in 2024. It was only last year UKA returned to some form of financial stability, posting a profit of £107,588. But it is now facing a big fine after admitting corporate manslaughter over the death of Abdullah Hayayei, who died in 2017 after a metal cage fell on him while he was training for the World Para Athletics Championships in London.

"Feminism" [Times]

Vice-chancellor calls for review into student loans for those without A-levels Adam Tickell, of University of Birmingham, says money is loaned to people who ‘are not really capable of graduating’

Endlessly embarrassed by the geographers who show their neoliberal selves - pretending otherwise was just their career move. Get that ladder pulled up, says Tickell.

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Continuity Badenoch is not the change I believe Labour promised in 2024.

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

This situation further compounds the misery of being a fixed-term/precarious academic. Why would universities hire an ECR if they can hire an established academic who has been made redundant?

But fundamentally, this shows why first past the post isn’t fit for purpose. If the government doesn’t introduce proportional voting, a far right party could win the next general election outright on a minority of the vote.

sex matters trustee charlotte cadden

gorton and denton by-election result: she gets 706 votes, 1.9% of the total

underappreciated but very funny gorton and denton sideplot: the conservatives nominating literal sex matters (uk terf group) trustee charlotte cadden, only for her to get the worst result for the conservatives in by-election history and lose her deposit

Sorry but Matt Goodwin losing to the Green Party, I just love good news, this is delicious

Read Ruth’s post and then take action by 22 April

Utterly extraordinary that Hilary Cass on the BBC this morning said if some young people had "taken more time" they might not have pursued medical treatments, when her own report last year found that children routinely faced multi-year waiting lists for gender services.

UK Government). SR2 presents adherents to a binary model of sex as possessing 'ordinary mainstream views about the reality of sex' (SR2, 32) that align with 'scientific and scholarly norms which are essential to the production of knowledge' (SR2, 12). SR2 construes 'some aspects of gender-identity theory [as lying] outside of truth-seeking norms', and it describes 'threat[s] to the norms of the reality-based community'— which it contrasts with the 'norms of propaganda and disinformation'—as a 'threat to democracy' (SR, 31). SR2 also recommends universities consider 'paring back the scope and power of ethics committees' in various ways (SR2, 16-17).

City St George’s VC spoke at event last week www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... focused on 2nd report of Sullivan Review (SR2).

@jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I want everyone to be clear about who & what SR2 positions as “threats to democracy” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

City v-c backs Sullivan Review on gender question in research Failure to use biological sex as 'basic variable' will make research 'weaker and less reliable', says City St George's head Anthony Finkelstein Published on February 13, 2026 Last updated February 13, 2026 Jack Grove

The vice-chancellor of City St George’s, University of London has publicly lent his support to the Sullivan Review.

Read @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical article to understand the full stakes of this Review rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

(Covered by the THE)

It’s very exhausting Cal. X

I assume the government is delighted that the Supreme Court has brought clarity to this situation

A review of public data collection and research that recommends ensuring that data about ‘sex’ is prioritised over data about ‘gender’ or ‘gender identity’ has been criticised in new research The Sullivan Review, which was widely viewed as skewed towards gender-critical biases, has been criticised in a new report that warns that if it is adopted it will "undermine the quality of public institutions’ research, erode academic freedom, and threaten the rights of trans and gender diverse people".

“Streeting’s view that the Sullivan Review ‘will lead to better, more inclusive and fairer outcomes for everyone', is wrong,” @jaytoddgla.bsky.social

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Being trans is not a medical condition nor is it an unwanted life outcome to be guarded against, it is a healthy way that many people choose to express themselves.

Being trans is not a medical condition nor is it an unwanted life outcome to be guarded against, it is a healthy way that many people choose to express themselves.

It’s absurd for this Government’s proposed guidance to suggest that schools need to seek clinical advice if a young person wants to change their name, uniform or hairstyle.

It’s absurd for this Government’s proposed guidance to suggest that schools need to seek clinical advice if a young person wants to change their name, uniform or hairstyle.

There's a lot going on - bear with us as we take the time to understand the ruling on the EHRC's guidance on the Equality Act, but in the meantime...

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