4/ So today, and every day, I love my trans siblings and I am so grateful to have so many of them in my life. I won’t ever stop fighting or speaking up for you. 🫶 #transdayofvisibility

3/ but many trans people fought for my rights, I won’t ever stop fighting for theirs.

We should all be bound by a common humanity to protect and include everyone in our society. Right now we are letting trans and non binary people down.

2/ The dehumanisation of our trans community is exactly the same cut and paste job of bigotry and predjudice we saw against gay and lesbian people back in the day.

I wasn’t out as a lesbian when equal marriage passed (partly because of the societal discrimination),

1/ Today is #transdayofvisibility and I am sending so much love and solidarity to my trans siblings and friends 🫂 🩷🩵🏳️‍⚧️.

I’m sorry that our society and so many of our politicians, media and others with power and money seem so hell bent on demonising and attacking you.

Very encouraged by the report and draft Resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for a ban on conversion practices, which aligns with #HumanRights standards. @kateosbornemp.bsky.social

Now we see the President flouting international law and sanctioning state killing of his own people - whilst still continuing to participate in international sports…

As a global community, it is vital that we send a clear message that Trump's actions will not go unchallenged

I have signed my name to the motion demanding FIFA expel the USA from this year's World Cup.

Last year I led a successful campaign to stop Trump speaking in UK Parliament because of his misogyny, racism and xenophobia and his previous comments on women, refugees and torture.

A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).

Edinburgh is getting a brand new concert hall, the Dunard Centre - for the first time in 100 years, supported by SNP Scottish Government funding.

What a delightful rendition of Caledonia by Dougie MacLean with pupils from Broughton Primary to mark the moment we broke ground. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Me on a candlelit vigil for AIDS in 1987.

Me last week. Looking pretty healthy for 58 (28 years living with HIV).

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay

Broadcaster John Stapleton dies aged 79 after battle with Parkinson’s — The Standard Stapleton presented on programmes including the BBC’s Watchdog and GMTV’s News Hour

Such desperately sad news, John and his wife Lynn, were an iconic pair that I looked up to when I started my career at GMTV. John was a phenomenal journalist and presenter. Much love to his friends and family.

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The grim salivating of our press at the prospect of spreading more hate about trans people. Has there been an uglier moment in Britain's modern history?

I’ve signed this letter calling for full parliamentary scrutiny of the EHRC’s guidance.

Trans people deserve clarity, dignity, and safe access to services - not uncertainty and exclusion. Parliament must ensure that any guidance reflects lived experience and protects everyone’s rights.

The draft is cruel; there is no evidence it will better protect women, cis or trans; it breaches Labour's manifesto commitment to trans people; it is unenforceable; encourages vigilanteism; and it is clearly inconsistent with the UK's obligations under the ECHR. We will challenge it in court. 2/2

We are aware of the EHRC's briefing to The Times about its draft statutory guidance. The draft is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's explicit assurance (from para 248) that its "interpretation would not be disadvantageous to or remove protection from trans people with or without a GRC." 1/2

While bills rise and Westminster sits back, I am focusing on your priorities.

We ended peak rail fares to make your commute cheaper - putting more money in your pocket.

That’s the difference the SNP makes. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Yes just DM’ed you!

There's a realistic chance we get to a position where Wikipedia is blocked while official government accounts are posting on a site that created MechaHitler AI

Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada-U.S. trade.

My statement on Canada-U.S. trade:

EXCLUSIVE: NHS Fife nurse Sandie Peggie mocked victims of Pakistan floods in series of racist posts The offensive messages emerged in an evidence bundle seen by The Courier at the tribunal in Dundee.

Goodness me this is utterly grim reading.

www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

Protect the Right to Protest - from the EHRC Good Law Project fights for a better, fairer and greener future.

We now know that, pending any appeal, the EHRC's support for its landlord's application to criminalise protest was not just an act of monumental hypocrisy by Kishwer Falkner - it was also legally flawed. www.crowdjustice.com/case/protect...

We will be at parliament today reporting on the mass lobbying day.

And we will try to keep you updated on the events as they unfold.

This judgment has implications for many organisations, including: workplaces services that are open to the public, such as hospitals, shops, restaurants, leisure facilities, refuges and counselling services sporting bodies schools associations (groups or clubs of more than 25 people which have rules of membership) In workplaces, it is compulsory to provide sufficient single-sex toilets, as well as sufficient single-sex changing and washing facilities where these facilities are needed.

This judgment has implications for many organisations, including: workplaces services that are open to the public, such as hospitals, shops, restaurants, leisure facilities, refuges and counselling services sporting bodies schools associations (groups or clubs of more than 25 people which have rules of membership) In relation to workplaces, requirements are set out in the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992. These require suitable and sufficient facilities to be provided including toilets and sometimes changing facilities and showers. Toilets, showers and changing facilities may be mixed-sex where they are in a separate room lockable from the inside. Where changing facilities are required under the regulations, and where it is necessary for reasons of propriety, there must be separate facilities for men and women or separate use of those facilities such as separate lockable rooms.

We served our claim form on the EHRC yesterday and it has just changed its interim statement.

Snip one is what its statement was. Snip two is what its statement now is.

*They now accept there is no need for employers to provide single sex toilets.*

Short thread on Yvette Cooper's decision to ban Palestine Action. 🧵

In the world Labour is creating you can be as enthusiastic as you like about genocide but it will be a criminal offence to express support for Palestine Action's attempts to stop it.

Ask your MP to put reproductive rights into law The right to make decisions about our families and bodies is not protected by law. The 1967 Abortion Act allows people to seek abortion under certain circumstances but abortion otherwise remains a cri...

There's a rare moment - with abortion rights increasingly under attack - to decriminalise abortion. Please use our easy tool to write to your MP asking them to support NC20, Stella Creasy's amendment. Please use and share in your networks. action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...

Here is the UK losing on Article 8 in Goodwin (from the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights). I can't show you where the Supreme Court didn't deal with it in For Some Women Scotland because it didn't deal with it.

Why did Labour reappoint as Chair someone so woefully equipped?

Wild stuff from Kishwer Falkner: the UK lost on Article 8 in Goodwin and the Supreme Court in For Some Women Scotland did not agree that Article 8 didn't apply - it didn't address Article 8 at all.

In fact, funnily enough, this judgment just issued today

"The applicant also complains that he was forced to repeatedly and involuntarily disclose his gender identity every time he had to present his identity documents:

Violation of Article 8"

(T.H. v Czech Republic, no. 33037/22)