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RT @Woke_66: Below is a letter sent by Tom Hayes, Labour MP Bournemouth East to the Mary-Anne Stephenson at the EHRC, with Bridget Phillips…

It's so the BBC can show the desk moves up and down

No, it is YOU who are wrong Daily Telegraph. The Gender Recognition Act 2004 - actual law - very clearly states that trans people must be fully treated as the sex they transition to “FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES.” We are legally recognised as the sex we transition to. The norm across Europe. @TheGreenParty is correct. The idea Labour passed the GRA 2004 and then just six years later passed a Bathroom Bill banning trans people - with no public announcements and in contravention of the court case they’d just lost - is ludicrous. Carry on using your preferred loo , trans community ✌️🏳️‍⚧️ #Pride

Love Costa Brava

Are we forgetting 2002 the BBC also covered the world cup from a studio with one exception being the final

As soon as the EHRC guidance dropped, the media was fully of headlines about trans women being excluded from toilets. It's never been about rape crisis centres or refuges. It's always been about making everyday life impossible for trans people. Stop pretending.

Almost 100 MPs and Peers are urging Ministers to prevent the 'Great Israeli Real Estate Event' taking place in London this weekend. The govt has an opportunity to uphold obligations under international law and take action against Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.

Ireland has dramatically INCREASED it's exports to russia since the full scale invasion. This has to stop

The EHRC Code of Practice. This Is Not New. We Have Seen It Before. @EHRC @UKLabour @LGBTLabour @bphillipsonMP The new EHRC Code of Practice promotes exclusion rather than inclusion. It creates a situation where transgender people, non-binary people and many intersex people can be excluded from spaces they have used safely for years. It places employers, businesses and public services under pressure to abandon inclusive policies that have worked successfully across the United Kingdom for decades. History does not look kindly on policies that separate people from public life based on who they are. We have been here before. Multiple times. The pattern is always the same. A group of people is identified. A reason is found to exclude them from certain spaces, certain rights, certain protections. The language of safety, order and common sense is applied. Institutions enforce the division. Years later the people who built those walls are remembered for exactly what they were. Jim Crow laws in America enforced the separation of Black and white people in public spaces. Separate bathrooms. Separate drinking fountains. Separate seats. The language used to justify it was the language of natural order, of protecting certain people, of common sense distinctions. The EHRC guidance telling transgender people they may be excluded from spaces corresponding to their identity uses remarkably similar language. Proportionate distinctions. Legitimate aims. Protecting certain spaces. The framing has changed. The logic underneath has not. Apartheid in South Africa built an entire legal architecture around the classification of human bodies. Pass laws. Designated areas. Separate facilities. People were required to carry documentation proving their classification and to use only the spaces assigned to them. The current situation where transgender people face questions about their documentation, their bodies and which spaces they are permitted to occupy echoes that architecture in ways that should make everyone paying attention deeply uncomfortable. Nazi Germany began not with extermination but with exclusion. Laws removing Jewish people from public life. From professions. From spaces. From legal recognition. Step by step. Each step described as reasonable. Each step justified as protection of something. Each step building on the last. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issued a formal Red Flag Alert about the conditions facing transgender people in the United Kingdom. This is not a casual warning. This is a formal assessment from an institution that exists specifically to identify the conditions that precede mass human rights violations before those conditions become irreversible. The United Kingdom is the only country in Europe on which this alert has ever been placed. The Institute’s analysis identifies the interaction between legal exclusion, healthcare removal and social marginalisation as compounding conditions that follow a documented historical pattern. That pattern has a name. We know what it looks like. We know where it leads. The British government’s position on transgender healthcare, legal recognition and the EHRC Code of Practice should not survive serious scrutiny. Not political scrutiny. Not media scrutiny. Scientific and legal scrutiny. The kind that requires evidence to be placed in front of a judge and defended honestly against the full body of research that the government has chosen to ignore in producing these policies. The Science They Are Refusing to Defend in Court Transgender people exist because of documented biological processes that occur before birth. The genitals and the brain develop in separate windows on different hormonal timelines in the womb. When those environments differ the result is a person whose neurological identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. This is embryology. It is peer reviewed. It is published across decades of independent research in multiple countries.

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.

What's with the shit VHS effect

What's with the shit VHS effect

Today we celebrate 40 years since the first appearance of the greatest #EastEnders character of them all so giving my edit another outing.

ITV's closest stadium is the New Jersey/New York stadium, and yet the BBC is showing 3 games from that stadium, that being the first 2 games there, and in fact is showing one more group stage game from the stadium than ITV, as the BBC has 3 games and ITV has 2

RT @EmilyThornberry: I've joined more than 120 colleagues in signing this EDM to reject the EHRC Code of Practice. Trans people deserve lo…

"Crowds of masked thugs.. were knocking on doors.. and asking people which of the houses [were] occupied by foreigners and by ethnic minorities.."

Where were the far right radicals, hypocrite scum?

So there is no requirement to have a DBS check if you are an MP, but Emily Darlington MP is seeking the Electoral Commission to change that inews.co.uk/news/politics/cr…

It didn't get any better as later on they got asked about exceptions (on bringing children into mens or women's toilets/ changing rooms) and who decides where the exceptions end and where in law does it allow for those exceptions and they couldn't provide it