The historically pivotal court case, that is critical to the future UK Trans+ rights Tracing Trans+ workers rights back to an unlikely Cornish case, which set out how Trans+ people can be discriminated against based on sex

A great analysis of the legal status-quo for Trans+ people's employment rights in the UK
www.wearequeeraf.com/workplace-ri... by @ludovicparsons.bsky.social

The historically pivotal court case, that is critical to the future UK Trans+ rights Tracing Trans+ workers rights back to an unlikely Cornish case, which set out how Trans+ people can be discriminated against based on sex

In 1996, a trans woman won a crucial legal right for Trans+ people in the workplace.

What went wrong? @ludovicparsons.bsky.social traces the history in the final edition of Milestones 🏳️‍⚧️

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A crowd of people walking across a city bridge. Overlaid text reads: “TRANS+ WORKPLACE RIGHTS IN THE UK USED TO BE BETTER THAN PEOPLE THOUGHT
NOT ANY MORE. SO, WHAT HAPPENED?”

In 1996, an unlikely Cornish case won a crucial legal right for Trans+ people in the workplace.

Tomorrow, @ludovicparsons.bsky.social traces how we got those protections and what’s happening to them now.

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How UK media has wrongly shaped knowledge about the UK’s most important Trans+ legal cases From outing Trans+ women to minimising legal successes, inflating “gender critical” power, the media has been failing in its responsibility to report fairly for decades

Brief history of UK media transphobia and how it relates to contemporary coverage of 'gender critical' legal cases. for @wearequeeraf.com

www.wearequeeraf.com/how-the-uk-m...

what vague meaningless waffle. has Starmer's speechwriter secretly defected to the Greens?

A brief history of how the UK’s broken Trans+ healthcare system only serves its cisgender doctors History shows us that the UK’s Trans+ healthcare system isn’t broken – it’s working exactly as it was meant to, right from the very start

“The gender clinic system is structurally flawed, working not for Trans+ people’s health and wellbeing but against Trans+ existence itself.”

The views of cis people determine whether trans folk can access medical transition. We need a health system to better support trans people’s bodily autonomy.

thanks Marty!

“The clinics and the diagnosis don’t have to exist.”

Take the time out to get into this hugely informative and prescient long read from @ludovicparsons.bsky.social about the history of our healthcare.

Our healthcare doesn’t have to and shouldn’t be this way.

thanks for reading and sharing, Jo!

A brief history of how the UK’s broken Trans+ healthcare system only serves its cisgender doctors History shows us that the UK’s Trans+ healthcare system isn’t broken – it’s working exactly as it was meant to, right from the very start

This is absolutely fascinating.

It taught me so much about the history of medical gender transition and why it is still so controlled.

Long, but utterly brilliant. Please read.

www.wearequeeraf.com/a-brief-hist...

thank you for reading!

This is very good, describing very bad things.

Given the news about adult Trans+ healthcare reviews, and the removal of care for under 18s, this excellent piece of journalism by @ludovicparsons.bsky.social - is incredibly timely

To fight back, we all need to better understand the system that was built to gatekeep, not help Trans+ people 👇

timely for this to be out this week: a longread from me about the history of trans healthcare in the UK i.e. why we are in the mess we are in

featuring some historical enemies – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, John Randell – and an amazing line about gender doctors from @notrightruth.bsky.social

Important journalism by @sasha98.bsky.social, one of very few news outlets actually capturing the severity of the threat to trans children in the draft school guidance.

Worth noting that this risk of outing was one of the features that won Goodwin v UK in the European court of human rights. It's treatment institutionally that can cause outing that resulted in the UK losing against Christine Goodwin and being forced to implement the gender recognition act.

the powerful trans lobby is trying to raise just £8k to fund more trans+ investigative journalism at @wearequeeraf.com. you can donate to help us do that here:

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/queeraf2026

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We heard last week from @ludovicparsons.bsky.social at the After Section 28 conference on the importance of journalism that both supports and employs LGBTQ+ people and their allies. QueerAF are a shining example, and they could reach a wider audience with a little more support

It's worth noting that this was also a pretext to open up new services designed and run by people who push an unproven pseudoscientific "Gender Exploratory Therapy" model that has been likened to conversion therapy by international experts.

One in six children who died by suicide were LGBTQ+, new data shows Amid heated public debate about whether trans children are dying by suicide, campaigners say we need to "take the politics out of policymaking"

it was a news story, written by a trans journalist (me) for a queer media outlet (@wearequeeraf.com) the week before the GLP follow up.

www.wearequeeraf.com/one-in-six-c...

when i started working as a journalist in 2014, there were trans reporters in multiple national newsrooms. almost all have left. the high output of anti-trans articles & the near absence of articles by trans journalists are two sides of the same coin: institutional transphobia in the UK media.

The Great Flood Grief, marshes and Storm Henk

for 3 years in a row i've vowed to start writing on Substack, and this year i've actually gone and done it... whoever said third time's a charm was evidently onto something
this first piece weaves together boats, climate change & the loss of a beloved cat
ludovicparsons.substack.com/p/the-great-...

One in six children who died by suicide were LGBTQ+, new data shows Amid heated public debate about whether trans children are dying by suicide, campaigners say we need to "take the politics out of policymaking"

Important new data uncovered by @ludovicparsons.bsky.social & @wearequeeraf.com

107 of 647 children who died by suicide in England were LGBTQ+ in 2019-2025. 46 of those were trans - this is disproportionate

I spoke to Ludovic about how action needs to be taken⬇️
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Hampstead Ponds: we have filed our case! Donate now Sex Matters has filed its claim to the High Court seeking permission for a judicial review of the decision to continue to operate the men’s and

Sex Matters crowdfunded £66,411 to try to bring the JR.

sex-matters.org/posts/single...

Consultation results published on Hampstead Heath bathing ponds More than 38,000 people responded to the consultation86% felt the ponds should remain trans inclusive spacesResults will help inform an updated access policy for the pondsThe results of a consultation on future access arrangements at Hampstead Heath bathing ponds have been published, with 86% of respondents favouring keeping the current trans-in...

Sex Matters lose twice: its judicial review is refused AND public opinion about trans swimmers is firmly against the 'gender critical' position

90% of 38,000 people oppose requiring trans swimmers to use separate changing rooms or swim in separate sessions
news.cityoflondon.gov.uk/consultation...

Screenshot of Guardian Website, with headline and deck that reads: EHRC’s guidance on single-sex spaces being adapted under ‘constructive’ new chair Exclusive: Mary-Ann Stephenson said to have more pragmatic approach in trying to limit impact on trans people and on businesses With picture of Mary-Ann Stephenson, a white woman with brown and red tinged hair, wearing glasses

🆕 Reports say, Equality watchdog the EHRC's code of practice is being "adapted" to:

👉 Lessen its impact on business
👉 Balance single-sex spaces with lives of Trans+ people

This comes ahead of a critical ruling about the watchdog's actions, under it's previous chair.

This is what we know 🧵

Screenshot of NHS website with text: Date published: 18 December, 2025 Date last updated: 18 December, 2025 Gender identity, Specialised commissioning Operational and delivery review of NHS adult gender dysphoria clinics in England

The Levy Review into adult gender services - commissioned following the Cass Review - is now out.

We have a rapid response TLDR by @vic-parsons.bsky.social out this afternoon. Plus a larger, analytical look this weekend in the QueerAF newsletter.

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Looks like Levy may be dropping at 2pm.

1) Dont panic
2) Itll take some careful analysis so beware people jumping the gun
3) put your own mental health first.

If youre posting stuff, be responsible and mind other mental health. Use warnings etc as appropriate.

Looks like a busy weekend for me.

This isn't a criticism of the hunger strikers: it's a reflection of genuine fear that unless Labour has plans to add a 'Cat and Mouse Act' amendment to its Crime and Policing Bill, ministers are likely to let people die.

We have to raise public awareness for the demand that the state blinks first.