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Catherine
@memoirwriter54.bsky.social
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Trans, neurodivergent, socialist. Public health & higher ed background. Passionate > striving against inequality. Former Public Mental Health national strategist, now retired. Writing poetry and my evidence-based autobiography: a life lived differently.
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memoirwriter54.bsky.social
We all need to recognise our collective lgbt lessons from history. The fight is never really over.
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
memoirwriter54.bsky.social
Keep up the political lobbying ✊.
philippaeast.bsky.social Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · Sep 4
Success! We delivered our joint letter demanding full scrutiny, meaningful debate & a free vote for MPs on the new Code of Practice.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/02/e...

Many MPs we’ve spoken to are now ready to help.

❗️BUT they’ve advised that they need you—as constituents—to keep writing in❗️
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LGBTQ+ groups have called on the UK government to table a debate regarding the updates to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) single-sex code of practice. More than 80 organisations and groups signed a joint letter calling on equalities minister Bridget Phillipson to stage a “meaningful debate” once the revamped guidance had been published. The UK’s equality watchdog proposed updates to its Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions and Associations, in April, shortly after the Supreme Court ruled on the definitions of “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act.
September 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
memoirwriter54.bsky.social
Well, that was no surprise.
September 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
memoirwriter54.bsky.social
Anyone see this coming😕?
September 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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hleehurley.com
The Northern Ireland Health Minister has asked Cass to do a review of Northern Ireland gender services

www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast...
Assessment of Northern Ireland’s gender identity services ordered
Mr Nesbitt described Dr Cass, who delivered a review into gender identity services for young people across the UK, as “eminently qualified”
www.belfastlive.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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natacha.bsky.social
The Starmer government wants to impose a toilet ban that will result in trans people being assaulted, r*ped and quite possibly murdered.

A group of cis women who oppose him using them as a justification for doing this have set up a petition “Not In Our Name”

Please sign and share…
Sign the Petition
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
www.change.org
July 31, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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humanrightsvicky.bsky.social
Sometimes I post pieces which are recent and which others may not have seen. This is a reminder why groups like GLP, Trans Exile Network, TACC, TLC and so many lovely allies stand up to GCIM ideology and why the UK is literally red flagged for genocide right now.

goodlawproject.org/parliament-s...
Parliament surrenders to anti-trans activists on toilet policy
The UK parliament has thrown trans people under the bus on toilets, abandoning its own policy to placate activists who accosted a trans barrister on the parliamentary estate.
goodlawproject.org
August 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
memoirwriter54.bsky.social
This article is deeply disturbing from so many perspectives and I felt that I had fallen down a rabbit hole only to emerge in a world of hatred and paranoia. I pushed through and read it through to the end but felt violated by the planned and managed cabals out there who are violently transphobic.
July 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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June 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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June 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
memoirwriter54.bsky.social
A helpful analysis of the recent SC ruling and the slippery slope the EHRC is on.
May 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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alicemydaughter.bsky.social
TransLucent are almost half way to an initial target to fund their legal challenge of the EHRC.

They’re seeking a 12 week consultation period and also arguing the EHRC may have already pre-determined the outcome of any consultation.

More info in link.
Bin the EHRC Single Sex Guidance
TransLucent.org.uk are a Trans led Advocacy & Human Rights Organisation. TransLucent are raising £100k to cover court & legal fees for action against the EHRC.
www.crowdjustice.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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tdorinfo.bsky.social
We may already know of some of the young #trans victims of suicide referenced in this report, but without the release of the report it is hard to be sure.

bsky.app/profile/good...
May 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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goodlawproject.org
"The stark and needlessly cruel position adopted by the Government humiliates trans people by forcing them to use the wrong toilets and obliges them to reveal deeply personal information about their gender to complete strangers"
✍️ Jo Maugham
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
@goodlawproject.org
Bridget Phillipson ‘breached human rights’ by backing trans lavatory ban
Group of lawyers accuses Education Secretary of ‘humiliating’ transgender people
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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hleehurley.com
Look what Gary Lineker said to Oliver Brown and the Telegraph about trans people...
Full page interview with Gary Lineker. The headline is "Trans people are some of the most persecuted on the planet" When The Rest is Football tried a public question-and-answer experiment last November, Martina Navratilova, Sharron Davies and hundreds of other women asked him what he thought of the FA banning a teenager – revealed by The Daily Telegraph last weekend as Cerys Vaughan – for asking a transgender opponent: “Are you a man?” Even under pressure from a nine-time Wimbledon singles champion and a celebrated Olympic swimmer, he neglected to engage. Why? “Ugh,” he sighs, slumping so far forward in his chair he nearly hits the table. “You can’t cover that subject properly in a post. It’s too nuanced. I don’t actually think, in terms of sport, that it will ever be a real issue. Sport, as it’s already doing, will sort it out and work out rules. Like they did in boxing, when they realised they couldn’t have heavyweights against little fellas.” Is it not blindingly obvious, however, that sport will not simply “sort it out”? It has taken many determined female campaigners a punishingly long time to undo the damage of gender ideology, compelling sports to prioritise fairness for women rather than vacuous mantras about inclusion. Amid broad acceptance that the rights of half the population should trump the view of a small, vocal minority of men that they are entitled to colonise women’s sport, Lineker makes it clear where his sympathies lie. “They’re some of the most persecuted on the planet, trans people. “You’ve got to be very careful not to have bigoted views on that. I genuinely feel really badly for trans people. Imagine going through what they have to go through in life. Is there even any issue? It’s the same swimmer, the same weightlifter, the same boxer. They’re the only people I ever see.” Lineker’s perspective here is myopic. The three examples he raises – American swimmer Lia Thomas, New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, not transgender but permitted to win gold as a woman at the Paris Olympics despite sex tests indicating the presence of male chromosomes – are indeed well publicised. But they are far from the only ones he could cite, with a recent report by Reem Alsalem, the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, documenting how governing bodies’ failures to act have led to more than 600 female athletes around the world losing 890 medals in 29 different sports. In his eyes, only cases at elite level matter. “We’ve got the Women’s Euros in the summer. Let’s see if there’s one issue – I don’t think there is. Are you telling me that there are many people who pretend to be women just so they’re going to be good at sport?” The desire of some males to receive affirmation as female can be a powerful motivating force, I argue. “It’s so complex,” Lineker says. “I see both sides to a degree.”
May 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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rainbowdevils.bsky.social
Fantastic display of solidarity with @chelseapride.bsky.social for the trans+ community at today's Women's FA Cup Final! ❤️💙

We stand by our trans, non-binary and intersex siblings in their time of need. Transphobia has no place in women's football!

#MUWomen #WomensFACupFinal
May 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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alicemydaughter.bsky.social
Is this what’s happened to me on a very small and personal scale?

Woman’s Hour asked me on to talk with Emma Barnett after Alice’s inquest. Emma is GC so I said I’d only do the interview with another presenter. They never got back to me.

Now they won’t have me on to talk about Her Name Is Alice.
May 19, 2025 at 6:56 AM
memoirwriter54.bsky.social
A reflection on the the journeying of the trans community and its uncertain future in the UK.
May 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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dorianlynskey.bsky.social
Thanks to Labour’s cowardice, Britain is stumbling into one of the most cruelly anti-trans regimes in the western world. A bathroom ban is neither workable, ethical, popular nor debated by legislators but they’re just waving it through
April 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
memoirwriter54.bsky.social
A Homer Simpson moment! Duurgh
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Apr 25
Hilarious.

Also, read the judgement. Trans men are specifically excluded from using the women's.

Stop using trans men as a gotcha.
icanseeforever1.bsky.social On a clear day @icanseeforever1.bsky.social · Apr 25
This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
April 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM