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"When the EHRC claim women’s spaces are being decided by the facts alone, they are acting in bad faith, treating their decisions, historical decisions, which are at once restrictions, as if they had been made for them and not by them."

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"It has been my experience – even travelling across four continents at different times since my transition – that an overwhelming majority of people will take you as you are, not as any government imagines you to be." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

Interesting letter from the Joint Committee on Human Rights chair to the EHRC on their 'interim statement'

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

“We might liberate women from the very need to be defined. Or at the very least we would make it harder, not easier, to define women, loosening the hold of that history.” Predictably good piece by Sara Ahmed

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

How to diagnose dystopia: “To be part of a feminist project would be not to define women (that patriarchal instruction) and certainly not to turn to the dictionary as if our truth is to be discovered in old trails and tales of past use” - excellent piece by @saranahmed.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Genuinely unbelievable how blatant the ongoing trans rights scandal is in the UK

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

1/8 Though the bigots and the haters and the fascist newspapers try and make it feel so, we are not alone… Thread ⬇️ People ARE speaking out. Geographers (the Royal Geographical Society): docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Very happy to see members of the scientific community come out to oppose the misrepresentation of biology by politicians and others with transphobic aims. If you are a scientist, healthcare professional, or anyone with relevant experience, please consider reading & signing.

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

Hundreds of historians, including many high profile ones, sign a letter condemning the government's attacks on LGBT people and warning how we are in danger of repeating history docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Absolutely insane. Uneblieveable. "Sex Matters", one of the hate groups responsible for removing trans people's rights via the Supreme Court are arguing that trans people shouldn't be allowed to transition because they don't have rights and not having rights is bad. Fucking hell

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

“The assumption that biological sex is ‘self-explanatory,’ and that biological men and biological women are adequate terms that can be used without explanation in law or to make policy, makes sex meaningless in order to obscure how sex is given a narrow and moral meaning.” | @saranahmed.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

“Here’s the diagnosis: When the EHRC claim women’s spaces are being decided by the facts alone, they are acting in bad faith, treating their decisions, historical decisions, which are at once restrictions, as if they had been made for them & not by them.”

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Indeed. @saranahmed.bsky.social And when you pose a problem you expose yourself.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

An exceptional analysis of some of the 🤯 errors in the Supreme Court Judgment. Something has gone very wrong indeed. (Published by kind permission of @translegalproject.bsky.social). goodlaw.social/nid3

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

I shared some thoughts on the supreme court, EHRC's interim guidance and the feminist dystopia some call 'gender critical' feminism yesterday. feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/meaningles...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

"We are louder together, all of our letters, living and loving, not without tension, with exuberance." Thank you @saranahmed.bsky.social for the most inspiring newsletters, they are a breeze of fresh air in my inbox.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

From barrister @crash-w.bsky.social. Powerful critique of the Supreme Court's work... ‘The Court’s comments about single-sex spaces appear to place trans people in a worse position than they were even prior to the passage of the Gender Recognition Act 2004’. www.translegalproject.org/post/for-wom...

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

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submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The fabulous @saranahmed.bsky.social being brilliant as usual: feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/patriarcha...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

“Defining women as a biological group is a disaster for feminism. The many feminists who have argued against the biologisation of sex have been so routinely ignored that if you picked up a mainstream paper in the UK, you would not even know they existed.” Important piece by @saranahmed.bsky.social.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

"The idea that there are two sexes, that we can always tell them apart, is the patriarchal hammer, used to flatten so many of our differences and to direct us in often violent ways down narrow routes." Brilliant analysis by @saranahmed.bsky.social feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/patriarcha...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

“Biology is all the more political because of how it is used as if it isn’t” @saranahmed.bsky.social in her usual uncompromising form: feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/patriarcha...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent analysis by @saranahmed.bsky.social of the UK ruling "So, when you see “gender critical” feminists congratulating each other on their latest legal win, just remember, they are giving the patriarch more tools, turning biology into his hammer" feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/patriarcha...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

#mustread "It is only because 'gender critical feminists' have so dominated the British media that this judgement could be referred to as a 'victory for women’s rights. I call the judgement a patriarchal hammer." @saranahmed.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Somehow only just caught this. Brilliant from Sara Ahmed (@saranahmed.bsky.social) as always. feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/patriarcha...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments