I f*cking hate what @jan_murray continues to do, attacking disability charity @scope because her objectionable transphobic views didn't align with the charity & they didn't feel like funding her vanity project. so I've set up a regular donation: donate.scope.org.uk/ - join me!

JK Rowling wants you to think she is being silenced. That she is the lone voice of reason. That by defending biological sex she is defending women. I have read her essay. I have looked at the science. Here is what is actually true. Her arguments are dishonest. Her concerns are manufactured. Her legacy is not empowerment. It is harm. She says sex is real. Nobody disagrees with that. But she presents it as a simple binary when biology has never been a simple binary. Intersex people exist. Chromosomes vary. Hormones and anatomy do not always align in the way she describes. She paints the world in two colours because the full picture does not serve her argument. She says trans people using bathrooms is a threat. The data says otherwise. When Massachusetts introduced trans inclusive public accommodation nothing changed. No increase in crime. No spike in assaults. The only thing that changed was that trans people could use a toilet without being in danger. The people getting assaulted in bathrooms are trans people, particularly when forced into the wrong ones. She does not mention that. She mocks inclusive medical language as if public health should centre her comfort rather than reach everyone who needs care. That language exists so trans men and non-binary people are not excluded from menstrual health services. It does not erase women. It means more people get the care they need. She cites rapid onset gender dysphoria as though it is a clinical diagnosis. It is not. The study that coined the term was based on parent reports from online forums, not clinical interviews with the young people being described. Every major medical body rejects it. She keeps repeating it because it sounds alarming. Because if you say social contagion often enough people stop asking for evidence. She says youth healthcare is dangerous. Puberty blockers are reversible and have been studied for decades. The evidence shows they improve mental health outcomes in trans adolescents. Suicide rates are higher in young people who are refused care. If she had read the literature honestly she would know this. The question is whether she has read it and chosen to ignore it. She says most people regret transition. They do not. Regret rates after gender affirming surgery are around one percent. Most people who detransition do so because of external pressure, family rejection, housing loss or job loss. Not because they were not trans. She knows what the research shows. It does not fit her narrative so she leaves it out. She says trans women in prison endanger other women. Trans women placed in men’s prisons are significantly more likely to be raped or assaulted. The US Supreme Court addressed this decades ago. She says she is protecting women. She ignores the ones her logic puts in danger. She says trans women in sport are categorically unfair. The science does not support a categorical position. Hormone therapy reduces muscle mass and strength. Effects vary by sport. That is why most sports bodies are developing nuanced sport-specific guidance rather than blanket bans. She does not want nuance. Nuance does not generate the response she is looking for. She says she is asking questions. But questions have consequences. Every concern she raises has a downstream effect. It shows up in legislation. In bathroom bans. In protest signs outside hospitals. In children being denied healthcare. Her words are not neutral. They travel. They arrive somewhere and that somewhere has a body count. The woman who built her legacy on a story about love defeating hatred is now building a new legacy on fear. She has aligned herself with organisations listed as hate groups. She has become a figure celebrated by people who do not care about women, do not care about children and do not care about anyone who is not useful to their immediate political goals. She is not standing up for women. She is standing on trans people to elevate herself.

oh and: — it’s not part of a marketing campaign, it’s an art trail to celebrate pride month — it’s in support and celebration of trans people, but its message of body positivity can be relevant to anyone, regardless of ur journey — if you don’t like it, don’t look at it 👍

What's horrifying is that tech like this is going to be used by malicious states to gender police their populace. Gilead may appear to be science fiction, but it's rapidly becoming a reality, and it's due to right wing Christian groups funding transphobia and associated tech.

Haven't you grubby bigots been boycotting Lush for years? Of course, you're boycotting so much of the High Street, it must be easy to forget.

Yup

Quick get the defibrillator, NO not the blue one, the pink one!

Haha

EHRC openly saying they want to remove the protected characteristic protections for trans people. I mean we know they do, but I did sort of assume they'd wait til their fascist friends in Restore / Reform were in power to openly say it x.com/akuareindorf/status/20…

RT @DefundSexM: EHRC: "use the toilet you want to, there's nothing legally to stop you"

131 MPs have now signed my motion to stand up for trans people and stop the EHRC's Draft Code of Practice coming into force. For it to succeed, the motion needs to be debated and voted on, so I asked the government if it will allocate time. Unfortunately the Leader of the House did not make that commitment. We will continue to press for a debate and a vote. Please encourage your MP to sign EDM 240.

SPOTTED in Times Square this morning: A brutal depiction of Elon Musk and Grok’s child p*rn problems ahead of the SpaceX IPO tomorrow. WOW

The people behind the anti trans panic are the evangelical Christian Nationalists who want to take women's rights away. Reproductive rights, voting, employment, no fault divorce. These same people in Texas right now are voting on if their platform should be charging a woman with murder if she has an abortion. These are just some examples of what's going on

Is the claim being made here that a police officer (or anyone else) can not sexually assault a detainee of the same sex as themself or otherwise behave improperly when searching them? If so, that's not only quite extraordinary, but it's quite clearly wrong.

Saying the quiet bit out loud - @SexMattersOrg don't believe in consent, they think that heteronormativity means that people of the same "sex" can never assault someone of that "sex". Sex Matters is a pro rape culture organisation.

The vast majority of us support our Trans friends and family 💚🐝

again, the only response they have is 'uhhh common sense' because they want to legitimise the harassment of visibly trans people and gender-non-conforming people and the precarity of cis-passing trans people. if they name what they want to do they look insane, so they don't

She shoots, she scores! @SarahForRuncorn’s face 🤣🤣🤣 *chef’s kiss* Well done, Hannah Spencer! @McrGreenParty

So the "lesbian greens" have finally admitted they aren't lesbians Don't believe a single terf that claims to be gay This is just homophobic

As grotesque as the rest.

The EHRC Code of Practice risks entering an unacceptable era for LGBTQ rights and encourage gender policing. MPs can still oppose it. Ask your MP to support EDM 240: equalrecognition.eaction.org…