❤️TeamGender she/her🧜🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Proud Mum to a diverse family. LGBT+ ally. Love. Kindness. Equality. Social Cohesion. Vegetarian. Enjoy music. She/her 💜 BSc (Hons) HSC MA (UoM) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

[❤️TeamGender she/her🧜🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TeamGender]

“Kindness in thought & action toward others, even when we disagree or are hurting is one of the strongest and most humane characteristics any person can strive for”

Me

[❤️TeamGender she/her🧜🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TeamGender]

@ThatEricAlper Yes this is so much more important than people could imagine. Show you care. I wear an ally badge all the time. There are some superb ones available online like: https://t.co/mREd2VXm2I

[John O’Sullivan #FreePalestine #neveragainisnow @JohnOSullivan36]

When I told my Dad I was gay in 1995 he said something that will always stay with me. He told me about his best friend in the army that was in the closet and had children and was from a deeply religious family where the “Gay was prayed away.” My father started crying (he has only ever cried twice in my presence) and said that he found his friend hanging from the rafters in the barracks. Suicide at aged 29, three kids, an oblivious wife. He said “As long as you are safe, happy and loved that is all I want for you son. I would prefer an alive gay son to one that kills himself because he is gay.” #PrideMonth2026

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The UK believe 20% of population is black (3%); 15% is Muslim (4%); 5% transgender (0.6%); 15% gay and lesbian (1.8%); 20% of the country is vegan or vegetarian (4%)

Misinformation from the Media

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

One of the grimmest political tricks of the last 15 years has been convincing the public that disabled people are a bigger economic threat than tax avoidance, private outsourcing failures, or housing costs.

[India Willoughby @IndiaWilloughby]

IMPORTANT: The UK LGBT+ community/allies need to start writing to the department within the @EU_Commission to STOP Labour hosting next year’s International Day Against Homophobia Biphobia and Transphobia. There is very obviously a major Gov ‘Pink Washing’ campaign underway internationally at the mo to distract from the fact the UK is now ranked alongside Russia on trans rights. 50+ dead kids due to conversion therapy, trans apartheid laws. Trans women flying in from Europe for the event will be forced to use the Gents on a day dedicated AGAINST transphobia. Farcical ! @bphillipsonMP @transalliance25 @AttitudeMag @ZackPolanski @NadiaWhittomeMP @Lord_Collins @CarlaAntonelli @sanchezcastejon

[David Paisley @DavidPaisley]

I support trans rights because I look at what's happening, the moral panic, the fear and disgust, the media manipulation, the toxic political climate, the legal restrictions on people just trying to live - and I hear section 28, I hear Thatcher, I hear 80s/90s tabloid homophobia.

[Just Being Human ❄️💙💛 @Woke_66]

NION Women Head to Parliament

Over 100,000 women signed our letter supporting trans inclusion. Now we’re taking that message to Parliament and asking supporters to invite their MP to attend.

https://t.co/sapQyhXdbR

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

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[City of London @cityoflondon]

Our elected Members have agreed that Hampstead Heath’s Bathing Ponds will remain trans-inclusive spaces under a future access policy.

Upgrades to toilets and shower areas will also improve facilities, privacy, and changing areas, with more private cubicles for swimmers.

➡️https://t.co/KoQYVI0oT7

[UNISON - UK's largest union @unisontheunion]

📢 "Your voice is needed."

UNISON general secretary @AndreaEganGS is calling on members and trans allies to oppose the EHRC guidance.

MPs will decide on it in the next 30 days.

Tell us why it's unworkable in your workplace.

📩 [email protected]

[SpeakOutSister @speakoutsister]

IMPORTANT: please share widely and contact your MP.
Not only is the EHRC draft code hostile to trans people, it's based on the questionable premise that a trans inclusive gendered facility will always be unlawful discrimination.

The code is slso practically unworkable l.

[LGBwiththeT @LGBwiththeT]

🚨 BREAKING

It has been confirmed by the folks over at Translucent, that a study in to complaints regarding transgender women using single-sex public facilities operated by all the unitary authorities in England amounts to:

0.0000059% of the population.

1 complaint.

[Rainbow Toffees @RainbowToffees]

European Parliament has taken a clear stance affirming recognition of trans women as women. This resolution highlights the importance of respecting gender identity in law, policy, and daily life, marking an important step toward equality, dignity, and inclusion across Europe. 🌈⚖️

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

Alongside colleagues, I have tabled a motion to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. We cannot support it, and we have a responsibility to our trans constituents to resist it.

This motion is currently the only available mechanism through which Parliament can reject the EHRC’s Code of Practice; if it is debated and passed within the 40-day scrutiny window, it would prevent the Code from being issued by the EHRC and coming into force.

Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240. 

The Code will exclude trans people from services and facilities that they have long used without issue, putting them at increased risk of harassment and violence, and effectively pushing them out of public life. 

It ushers in an era of enforced segregation for trans people, the policing of which will be outsourced to service providers, including businesses, charities and public bodies. 

In the statement to the House of Commons yesterday, the Minister even suggested that where members of the public are unsure of someone’s gender within a single-sex facility, “most people will have the common sense to step in where necessary or, if they are concerned, to alert a member of staff.”

Meanwhile, this guidance does not give clarity and confidence to organisations that want to be trans-inclusive. Its impact also extends beyond the rights of trans people. The government’s own Equality Impact Assessment warns that “women who are considered masculine may face greater scrutiny” and that disabled people could face adverse impacts.

The Code represents a profound rollback of rights, which will affect trans people directly and erode the principles of inclusion, dignity and equality upon which all our rights depend.

This guidance must not become statutory; the government should withdraw it and instead legislate to clarify and protect trans people’s rights, privacy and inclusion.

https://t.co/odTmOAIejk

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice

"We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights."

Full statement👇
https://t.co/2eZAsJXdzV

[❤️TeamGender she/her🧜🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TeamGender]

@PompeySteph @LittleBatFangs There are many allies standing by the trans community. It’s time to rally round. If you’re an ally please speak up. Connect with organisations challenging this & write to your MPs. Take just a little time from your busy day to support their human rights #TransRightsMatter

[Steph Richards: (She/her) - Say NO to hate. @PompeySteph]

I AM NOT GOING QUIETLY: The EHRC’s New Draft Code is erasing my human rights.

I am 74 years old, and I am watching my human rights being stripped away in real time.

After a long, arduous journey, I underwent gender-affirming surgery in 2019 and finally obtained my Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) in 2023.

My birth certificate says “girl”

That milestone felt like the ultimate legal recognition of who I am (and who I have always been). I believed it marked the end of a lifelong struggle for dignity.

I was wrong.

On May 21, 2026, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) @EHRC laid a new Draft Code of Practice before Parliament.

This statutory document treats my legal identity as if it does not exist!

It openly confirms that trans women like me can now be legally excluded from women’s toilets, changing rooms, hospital wards, and other single-sex spaces based solely on our assigned sex at birth.

The EHRC is meant to protect our #humanrights.

Instead, they have drafted a manual for exclusion and harassment -one that explicitly admits it will have profoundly negative impacts on many transsexuals' lives at every level.

Stripping Away the Power of the Law

This Code leans heavily on last year's Supreme Court ruling, which determined that "sex" within the framework of the Equality Act 2010 refers strictly to biological sex. In doing so, the EHRC has made my hard-won legal recognition meaningless in daily public life. This judgment must be challenged....it must be changed!

The draft code is a direct, systematic violation of my ECHR Article 8 right to respect for private and family life under the Human Rights Act 1998.

The law is meant to protect personal autonomy, privacy, and identity. Yet by instructing service providers that they may disregard a GRC to bar trans people, the EHRC is creating an environment in which a "discordance" between my position in society and my status in law is not only tolerated, but forcibly exposed.

As the landmark European Court of Human Rights judgment in Goodwin v UK made clear, imposing such discordance on an individual is a serious, intolerable interference with human dignity.

What does this Code look like in practice?

It is a license for public humiliation and makes violence towards me far more likely.

The guidance explicitly states that I could be questioned about my eligibility to access spaces solely on the basis of my appearance, voice, or physique.

At 74, after surgery and with a government-issued GRC, I am still expected to submit to the scrutiny of strangers!

My medical transition and my GRC status are special-category health data under data protection laws. Yet this Code actively encourages the public "policing" of gender presentation - effectively "outing" me in public.

This is NOT dignity.

This is NOT equality.

By reducing my existence to my "biological sex" at birth, the EHRC has validated the idea that trans women are an inherent threat to be managed and quarantined, not people to be protected.

The EHRC's Code of Practice now sits before Parliament -a statutory update that codifies discrimination, state-sanctioned harassment, and the erasure of privacy.

I have fought too hard, for too many decades, for my right to privacy, safety, and basic human dignity to let a bureaucratic document strip them away.

My rights, my identity, and my legal status are NOT optional extras to be discarded.

I am angry, I am violated as are thousands of others, so please write to your MP!

AND NO .....I AM NOT GOING QUIETLY!

@StephenMorganMP @AmandaMartinMP @bphillipsonMP @KateOsborneMP @tomgordonLD @NadiaWhittomeMP @stellacreasy @RachelTaylorMP @JacobCollierMP @DavidBSampson

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

[India Willoughby @IndiaWilloughby]

Ok - here it is. The petition to RESTORE TRANS RIGHTS in the UK to what they were under the original Equality Act 2010 - which was NEVER a “bathroom bill.” And to quash the ridiculous UKSC ruling. Share, share, share! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️https://t.co/cJTlwGQa3g https://t.co/IbkpVMgtUk