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very 😭
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Scotland heh
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erm, you could say that 🫣🤭
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hehe, true, the evening is young. 🍹🌈
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hehe, my puppy insisted I send you a picture
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had so many people commenting on just how clean it was during and after
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ooooh I've a photo we took last week about this that I forgot.
ty for the alt, I struggle to do them when I'm out.
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www.lcrpride.co.uk/2025/05/08/l...
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docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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We therefore also ask that the Society publish its communication with EHRC and the UK Government, in addition to a public statement with regards to its ongoing commitment to the inclusion of its trans and gender diverse members.
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It is important at this moment that there is publicly accessible evidence of how organisations and individuals are refusing these increasingly bold and discriminatory attacks on trans and gender diverse people.
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* Make clear that members of the RGS and wider geographical community have expertise in relation to research and teaching relating to trans and gender diverse people – and noting that our research can inform policy and legislative change in related areas.
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* Publicly re-affirm the Society’s commitment to trans inclusion and equality.
* Actively engage with higher education leaders to encourage the protection of trans staff and students’ rights and dignity in the workplace at this worrying time for trans communities.
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and its commitments to “communicate and promote the role geography and geographers have in promoting equality, diversity and inclusion” and “maximise our convening power across core networks to promote EDI objectives”, we also ask that you:
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In line with the Society’s principle of working “towards greater equality, diversity and inclusion within its practices and activities as well as across the wider geographical community”,
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* Request that trans and gender diverse people are involved in every stage of developing statutory guidance in light of the Supreme Court ruling.
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risking trans and gender diverse people’s segregation and removal from public life in the UK, noting that both ongoing and peer reviewed published geographical research shows that trans people are already extremely marginalised within UK society.
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* State that the EHRC’s interpretation of the Supreme Court ruling, evidenced via its interim update, if implemented, would have a devastating impact upon trans and gender diverse individuals and communities,
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The EHRC is moving at speed: its consultation will open in mid-May and last for only two weeks. We therefore ask that you write as soon as possible to the UK Government and EHRC to:
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if implemented – would prohibit trans and gender diverse members of the geographical community from being able to carry out and deliver their research, teaching, and wider everyday lives in dignity and with freedom.
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Members of the geographical community, including RGS members, are undoubtedly experiencing significant concern about how their dignity and rights will be secured. Indeed, the EHRC’s interim update –
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Over the last two weeks, we have witnessed how the ruling and the EHRC’s interim update have already intensified transphobia and other forms of hate.
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Indeed, the EHRC’s interim update – if implemented – would prohibit trans and gender diverse members of the geographical community from being able to carry out and deliver their research, teaching, and wider everyday lives in dignity and with freedom.
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Members of the geographical community, including RGS members, are undoubtedly experiencing significant concern about how their dignity and rights will be secured.
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Over the last two weeks, we have witnessed how the ruling and the EHRC’s interim update have already intensified transphobia and other forms of hate.
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establish an unprecedented, legitimised exclusion of trans people from participation in public spaces and public life, and contribute to a crisis of mental ill health within trans communities.
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With our expertise, we are able to say with confidence that this interim update – if implemented – would enormously exacerbate existing inequalities between trans and gender diverse people and cisgender people,