How can we re-imagine safeguarding to actually make people safer? The greatest healing there is, I truly believe, is to hold this truth for clients; “you are not broken. It’s not you that’s deeply ‘fucked up’, it’s what’s happened to you, the context it happened …

What if we stopped having unnuanced convos about abuse and started talking about power and structural inequalities in all their forms?

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Sam hope reading "Visibility was never our problem" YouTube video by Sam Hope

An old poem of mine for TDOV, "visibility was never our problem".

Couldn't decide if this still stands when they're trying to erase us but many of the points still stand.

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Yup same

Oh buddy absolutely not

Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

Another blow for the ascientific disaster that is the Cass Review: "It is profoundly misguided to cast health care based on low-certainty evidence as bad care or as care driven by ideology, and low-certainty evidence as bad science."

Sex workers in Nevada fighting to become first in U.S. to unionize Nevada is the only state where people can legally purchase sex, and now sex workers at one of the state's oldest brothels, Sheri's Ranch, are fighting to become the first in the U.S. to unionize.

Sex work is work.

Solidarity to these workers as they unionize. And kudos to my @wbng.org parent union, @cwaunion.bsky.social, for supporting the organizing.

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Another example of how disabled rights and trans rights are linked; this issue with shared care happens to many groups and we need to fight it as a systemic issue

I would quietly suggest this is one of our best episodes. The research and careful analysis that went into this is a shining example of what I think WTT does really well...and of course I went and threw a grab bag of deeply silly noises all over it too

Finding supportive and helpful mental health resources as someone who is trans and/or non-binary can be really challenging. I genuinely hope that my books can offer some of that support for you. You absolutely deserve to be recognised and understood fully.

Absolutely amazing, thorough analysis, thankyou,

When they make movies about this in the future they will tone down the cruelty of ICE and border patrol, like Spielberg did with Goeth in Schindler's List, because no one will believe they were actually this monstrous.

Please speak out against the new draft guidance for schools that effectively bans trans kids from socially transitioning & this high court ruling that trans people must be segregated/third-sexed in the workplace. Trans people must be able to live as the sex we transition to.

TransActual and Trans+ Solidarity Alliance joint statement on the EHRC Judicial Review. Despite claims that the Supreme Court judgment brought ‘much needed clarity’, today’s ruling confirms it has brought nothing but chaos. We welcome the fact that this ruling makes it clear service providers can include trans people in gendered spaces. It is equally clear that trans people should not be forced to use facilities according to their sex assigned at birth. Statement on TransActual website

TransActual and Trans+ Solidarity Alliance (@transsolidarity.bsky.social) joint statement on the EHRC Judicial Review

Despite claims that the Supreme Court judgment brought ‘much needed clarity’, today’s ruling confirms it has brought nothing but chaos.

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Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts

This story is not surprising to a lot of us but also hugely important, especially for 🔭 because this is who the space sciences are being handed to 🧪

"Musk’s posts repeatedly echoed prominent white supremacist narratives and ideologies"

Every Republican since Eisenhower has increased the deficit.

Every Democrat since Carter has decreased the deficit.

The panopticon, The Disability Diversion, and a Disability Dongle all in one.

This is a beautiful essay. I didn’t know Robyn had passed and I am gutted, but so heartened my these words. I love my friend, I haven’t picked up my banjo in a while and will do now

That is a reflection of the situation I think you've done a stellar job

We're also getting questions about what the decision means for service providers whose toilets are also used by employees. The High Court doesn't deal with this - and frankly the law is a terrible mess - but the safest (and frankly the most efficient) thing to do is make all toilets unisex.

It's an amazing, comprehensive resource, Ruth, thank you.

Bernie Sanders meme, with text as follows: I am once again updating my mega post about how awful the Cass Review is.

Happy Friday 13th! To celebrate the success of the UK establishment's continued "clarity" on trans exclusion, I am delighted to share a major update to my blog post "What's wrong with the Cass Review?"

The biggest change is an entirely new section on harms caused.

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The (fucking stupid) legal answer is, you both (1) don't need to come out to your employer but (2) legally shouldn't use the 'wrong' toilets (and should follow any lawful instruction from your employer). What a nonsense.

Black Women Are Losing Jobs At Three Times The Rate Of Other Women | Essence New labor data shows Black women accounted for a disproportionate share of job losses across 2025, especially in federal, education, and care-sector roles.

"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women."

😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that!

"Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate."

Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!

Reform candidate calls for ‘young girls’ to be given ‘biological reality’ check Exclusive: Matt Goodwin argued ‘young girls’ should be explained ‘the biological reality’ that ‘many women in Britain are having children much too late in life’

This is Elon Musk territory, isn't it? A woman's purpose is to bear children.

“Palestine Action is the first civil disobedience organisation that does not advocate for violence to be proscribed by the British Government as a ‘terrorist’ group, in a Trumpian abuse of power which would have seen this Labour Government proscribe the Suffragettes": Ammori.

Tell MPs: the EHRC’s guidance is wrong – it’s time to send it back The High Court has confirmed what we already knew was true: it is entirely lawful for service providers to allow trans women to use the women’s toilets – without having to admit cis men. Put simply, t...

The High Court’s ruling confirms what we already knew: the EHRC’s draft code of practice is wrong.

And we all know that the media is going to lie about the judgment, so please, write to your MP and explain why Bridget Phillipson needs to send it back. 🏳️‍⚧️✉️

Excluding trans girls is a safeguarding issue Experienced sexual violence therapist Sam Hope examines how the UK is creating a safeguarding problem of massive proportions, and reminds us one of Epstein’s first whistleblowers was a trans girl.…

Fully agree. I think one of the tricks being played that we can repeatedly counter is what constitutes "safeguarding". We know there's risk to trans kids who aren't accommodated, both psychological and from others sam-hope.co.uk/2026/01/06/e...

NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people.

1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield

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Early resistance matters.