Vikki with other LD MPs and Daisy Cooper in front of a giant “Trumpflation” balloon
With inflation up and BBC reporting insider trading, @libdems.org.uk want to see the Govt help struggling households & business using increased tax take from higher energy prices. Buses, trains, vans and cars - we need to keep people and goods moving
Trumpflation is ballooning the cost of living.
All cheered on by Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch.
Thanks to @chrisn.xyz and @eddavey.libdems.org.uk for this. It's been a hard year, and we have work to do. But we're in the fight, and we're proud that the @libdems.org.uk are in it with us. Trans rights are human rights. 🧡🏳️⚧️
TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY It's time to UPDATE THE EQUALITY ACT Make it fair for Trans+ people The background is a picture of our signature 15+ metre Trans Pride Flag as part of a Pride parade through a town centre, with the LGBT+ Liberal Democrats' rainbow bird-of-liberty logo above.
It's Trans Day of Visibility, and it's time to update the Equality Act! 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
We believe it should do what its drafters intended from the start. Sign our petition here 👇
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#transrights #tdov #ea2010 #equalityact #LibDems
Thanks to Tanya for writing this, and to Lib Dem Voice for publishing it. 🧡 🏳️⚧️
A screenclip from The Good Law Project with the text: "But Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrts, also came and met with us, and appeared on the Trans Mission stage. His, and the Lib Dems', commitment to trans people is no less secure and no less profound." Below is a picture of Jolyon Maugham talking to Zack Polanski back-stage on the left, and one of JM talking with Ed Davey on the main Trans Mission on the right. In his picture, Ed is midway through gesturing with both hands while addressing the crowd.
Huge thanks to @eddavey.libdems.org.uk for joining @jolyon.goodlawproject.org and others on the Trans Mission stage to reaffirm the @libdems.org.uk party's long-standing and fundamental support for Trans+ rights. 🧡
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#transrights
Text reads: Our struggle is a shared struggle. Image shows a diverse group of women facing each other.
Happy International Women’s Day! Today we celebrate ALL women. Solidarity is crucial in the struggle against patriarchy. Whether we’re cis or trans we share that struggle.
This year’s theme is ‘Give To Gain’ emphasizing the power of reciprocity and support.
#InternationalWomensDay #Solidarity
Transmisogyny directly hurts not only the lives of trans women, but it comes to hurt cis women as well, now cisgender athletes will have to pay for testing to "prove they're cis" due to transmisogynist policy. www.thetimes.com/sport/athlet...
Today on International Women's Day we celebrate all women and the effort that still goes into fighting for the rights of all women, no matter their orientation or identity.
#InternationalWomensDay | #InternationalWomensDay2026
Image shows a copy of the Trans Lives 2025 report. Text reads: A new report from TransActual shows that trans people in the UK are being catastrophically failed. transactual.org.uk/trans-lives-25
A new report from TransActual shows that trans people in the UK are being catastrophically failed.
Read the full report here: transactual.org.uk/trans-lives-25
Donate to support our work to push for the change that’s needed: tinyurl.com/DonateTransA...
#TransLives25 #TransLives #Trans
Great to be at @fvhscot.bsky.social awards tonight at London Welsh Centre. Super to catch up with a fabulous array of friends from #Lgbtq world of #Football @louenglefield.bsky.social @jonhholmes.bsky.social @iainfaefife675.bsky.social @caronmlindsay.bsky.social @pluslibdems.bsky.social @rigg.lgbt
Dinner last night with leading feminist thinkers Dr Charlotte Proudman, Prof Catherine MacKinnon and the Harvard academic Mischa Shuman. One of the most profound compliments for the work I get to do is being considered safe to be invited into intimate spaces in communities to which I do not belong.
Today is the first day of LGBT History Month
LGBT+ people have always been part of our societies, but often their stories are hidden and go untold.
This month is an opportunity to celebrate those stories and continue to campaign for progress.
"We honour the trailblazers who came before and stand with the next generation as they push for a fairer future.
Our message is unwavering: you belong, your history matters, and we will continue fighting until everyone is truly free to be who they are."
-Ed Davey
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California has joined the World Health Organization’s GOARN on its own after the US’s departure. We are not a sovereign member state with full voting rights but are part of its network for disease detection and response.
www.abc10.com/article/news...
I can confirm that Sex Matters has been refused permission to bring its anti-democratic, exclusionary, and bigoted challenge to the inclusive space at Hampstead Ponds. More to follow.
The High Court has blocked a legal challenge from transphobic group Sex Matters, siding with thousands of swimmers who fought to keep the ponds inclusive
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It's very hard to combat this stuff - the BBC's three stage internal complaints process is designed to wear people down so it never has to come clean about its lies. The best thing to do, if only for your own self-respect, is stop paying your license fee so you are not funding its misinformation.
Collection of logos of organisations that have signed our 'biological sex' letter
Organisations that have signed our “Biological Sex” and Its Variants are Transphobic Slurs open letter.
Any organisation that would like to sign the letter in support, please get in touch with us via DM or our website.
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Individuals can also sign via the link above.
For those interested in the Darlington nurses judgement, the BBC now have the tribunal's summary up, but the full judgement is still pending. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
The quotes from the claimants being used in headlines do not accurately portraying the context, based on the tribunal summary.
Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela.
Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe.
Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.
Former Nadeshiko Japan midfielder Marumi Yamazaki, who retired in 2023 after a career spent mostly in the Nadeshiko League with Urawa, Niigata, Nagano and Chiba (along with a short WEL stint at Omiya) has come out as a trans man and announced his marriage.
h/t @rbyryo.bsky.social
632. A wider aspect of evidence we considered concerned an attack on her position in cross examination to the effect that she was generally transphobic, which she denied both when giving evidence initially and on recall (which is addressed further below). Some of the messages she sent are indicative of views which could be described as trans-phobic. In one dated 10 January 2024 the claimant described the second respondent as “it”. In an earlier part of the same message there is reference to the second respondent having a shadow (being in our view a reference to the appearance of stubble on the face) and a “pathetic voice”. These are disparaging remarks in relation to the second respondent in our view, because of the second respondent being a trans woman. 633. In another the second respondent is described as a “weirdo”, which the claimant sought to explain as someone acting weirdly, but which we did not accept as being what she had intended by use of that word. These remarks we consider to be consistent with other evidence of her making comments the second respondent was liable to find offensive that went beyond the simple expression of a gender critical belief, but amounted to personal attacks on the second respondent.
I can't help but remember that "it" is also the word used by the man who murdered poor Brianna Ghey in a transphobic attack.
These people don't have "reasonable concerns" - they are revolting bigots.
Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
This is the second decision - both first instance - since the appalling For (Some) Women Scotland decision to find that there is no trans bathroom ban. www.gov.uk/employment-t...
There were some rather unusual questions asked in cross examination, for example Ms Cunningham asked a question seeking to compare the second respondent to the torturer in the novel 1984, to which objection was taken and after the lunch adjournment but before a decision on that was made it was withdrawn. It ought not to have been asked, but does indicate the extent to which the second respondent’s position was challenged in cross examination.
Some robust criticism is made of the way in which Naomi Cunningham conducted herself. Query whether this is going to come before her professional regulator.
(i) The Supreme Court decision 789. The question that arises from that conclusion is whether the application of the Supreme Court decision must mean that, under the provisions over which this Tribunal has jurisdiction under the 2010 Act as to work, the second respondent as a biological male required to be excluded from the female changing room, such that the permission given by the first respondent to do so was necessarily unlawful under those provisions. We have concluded that the answer is in the negative.
This is the key paragraph in the Sandie Peggie decision.
631. The third aspect was her evidence given when recalled in relation to a message she had passed on to her group of friends which related to floods in Pakistan in the most highly offensive terms. She initially described the messages as “dark humour”. Her evidence later was that the message had been sent to provoke a reaction, in broad summary. We did not consider that latter evidence to be credible given the content of the message sent and her initial evidence about it. In our view it was an untruthful attempt to downplay what she had done, which she recognised as having included very offensive material. We consider that it was clear beyond serious argument that the author or authors of the original message considered the remarks humorous, and that the claimant had also considered them humorous which was why she had passed them on. That was supported in our view by her reference to dark humour
Oooft. Sandie Peggie shared highly offensive messages and was then "untruthful" in giving evidence to the Tribunal.
This is the 'hero' Gender Critical campaigners have chosen.
