RT @IndiaWilloughby: THIS. 🏳️‍⚧️

Alongside colleagues, I have tabled a motion to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. We cannot support it, and we have a responsibility to our trans constituents to resist it. This motion is currently the only available mechanism through which Parliament can reject the EHRC’s Code of Practice; if it is debated and passed within the 40-day scrutiny window, it would prevent the Code from being issued by the EHRC and coming into force. Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240.  The Code will exclude trans people from services and facilities that they have long used without issue, putting them at increased risk of harassment and violence, and effectively pushing them out of public life.  It ushers in an era of enforced segregation for trans people, the policing of which will be outsourced to service providers, including businesses, charities and public bodies.  In the statement to the House of Commons yesterday, the Minister even suggested that where members of the public are unsure of someone’s gender within a single-sex facility, “most people will have the common sense to step in where necessary or, if they are concerned, to alert a member of staff.” Meanwhile, this guidance does not give clarity and confidence to organisations that want to be trans-inclusive. Its impact also extends beyond the rights of trans people. The government’s own Equality Impact Assessment warns that “women who are considered masculine may face greater scrutiny” and that disabled people could face adverse impacts. The Code represents a profound rollback of rights, which will affect trans people directly and erode the principles of inclusion, dignity and equality upon which all our rights depend. This guidance must not become statutory; the government should withdraw it and instead legislate to clarify and protect trans people’s rights, privacy and inclusion. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-…

RT @mealdealtruther: It is farcical to claim that they intended for the Equality Act to render the Gender Recognition Act useless, and that…

RT @DisRightsUK: 🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is tra…

🚨 BREAKING It has been confirmed by the folks over at Translucent, that a study in to complaints regarding transgender women using single-sex public facilities operated by all the unitary authorities in England amounts to: 0.0000059% of the population. 1 complaint.

Exactly this tho!

🚨 Opposing the EHRC guidance – we need your voice MPs will decide on the guidance in the next 30 days — and we need to show them the reality We need you to tell us why it's unworkable and the real life impact it will have on you in the workplace 📩 Email us: out@unison.co.uk

We’re at the ‘women aren’t safe alone in locked cubicles with floor to ceiling doors’ stage of the campaign to drive trans people out of public existence, I see.

RT @OakesMarianne: Sorry if I’m being ignorant, where are the figures that demonstrate trans women pose a threat to anyone in single sex sp…

RT @IndiaWilloughby: This was me getting invited to Number 10 Downing Street in 2017 to meet Prime Minister Theresa May, who was about to b…

RT @beatami_: i need cispeople to start wearing trans pride pins and im not kidding

It's really important that we don't use soft language to make things more 'palatable' or less 'alarmist'. What the UK government is currently committed to is a programme of social murder against both trans people and disabled people. And we need to name it for what it is.

The contempt Labour has for LGBTQ people is staggering

Weird that within a decade we went from issuing travel warnings about US states with bathroom bans To implementing our own here Things have really gone backwards when it comes to Trans rights

RT @crystalbepis_: article from 2016 btw. really wish someone would set trans rights back 10 years already

the entire basis of the EHRC code is that specific kinds of cis discomfort - even imagined discomfort, fantasised-about potential discomfort - outrank the rights of trans people to public life within the eyes of the law

if you are trans, you must stay alive. please.

RT @miffythegamer: In the 80s, laws were enacted which directly persecuted gay people like me. In this decade, the same thing is happening…