🏳️⚧️ NEW 🏳️⚧️
We don't think the interim guidance published by the EHRC and pushed by Bridget Phillipson is lawful.
So today we've started legal proceedings against them.
To all those that are working during the holidays, running our essential services, I thank you from the bottom of my heart!
To all those that celebrate, I wish you a very merry Christmas for tomorrow.
To all those that don't I wish you a very restful holiday season.
#Andrea4GS
A Joint Statement from LGBT+ Lib Dems, Out for Independence, LGBTIQA+ Greens and Rainbow Greens on the Labour Government's ban on Puberty Blockers for under 18's;
UNISON and Unite members rejected the latest offer from Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) by 76% & are going ahead with their first strike this Thursday.
strike dates, pickets and protests are at https://t.co/bXvkUyOIpP.
strike funds at https://t.co/6TsUuZi4Hj
I share concerns of experts at @coe that removing access to #PubertyBlockers except through clinical trials may breach “fundamental ethical principles governing research”, amounting to coercion and a breach of young people's human rights. I asked @wesstreeting about this today...
If you are a Labour Party member or part of a trade union, it’s crucial that you add your voice to this open letter calling on Streeting to reverse the puberty blockers ban.
We’re so close to 10,000 signatures already👇
https://t.co/NdGDdF5Q6h
Literally the entire trans community have told you the Cass Report is a stitch up and we don’t want it @wesstreeting - but you stubbornly ignore. We have zero agency over our own healthcare. Disgraceful. In fact we were specifically BANNED from advising on Cass - along with actual Gender Specislists. Instead, the Kemi-commissioned report was written by US Religious Right conversion therapists. You know all this. You know it’s a fraud. That’s the worst bit. You know it does not stack up (PBs banned for trans kids, but not c i s kids). You have now condemned some young people to taking their own lives with this decision. By forcing them to go through puberties they explicitly do not want, in the hope they stop being trans. Horrific. As bad as anything Alan Turing endured. Your God will be your judge. @UKLabour@NHSEngland
@jeremycorbyn An activist member of Unison who knows how to stand up for workers rights.
I will be voting for https://t.co/mtCUygczbL and I will be urging all Unison members in my Branch to vote for her.
Andrea Egan is committed to making UNISON a member-led union that wins the pay and conditions its members deserve. That’s why I’m backing her to be UNISON’s General Secretary.
Get involved at https://t.co/BYQsEcEn6y
Wes Streetings decision to ban puberty blockers should be called out for what it is.
He's playing culture wars where trans & non binary youth are collateral damage & Labour dance to Reforms tune.
An attack on trans people is an attack on our LGBTQ+ community. We must say no.
@UNISONSteve Well spoken Steve.
I totally don't agree with Wes Streeting on this.
Puberty blockers are given to children who aren't trans, and considered safe.
The UK will be one of the few places in Europe that doesn't allow them for trans children.
2.8% is an insult to our health workers. Health care assistants have been striking up and down the country and winning regrading and improved pay. Winning pay for our members and putting resources into our branches will be my top priority if elected Gen Sec
Month after month, the world has watched as Israel treated Palestinians in Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them.
The Ice Is Melting
The Land Is Flooding
The Ocean Is Dying
The Trees are Burning
The Living Planet Is Unraveling
It's happening on our watch.
We can't solve this emergency if we keep expanding the problem. #ActOnClimate#Climate#energy#renewables#go100re