Bristol Leading Against Transphobia 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

Trans & non-binary rights activists & allies campaigning for trans equality & human rights within Bristol 💖🌉 & the wider UK ✊🏳️‍⚧️. Opinions all our own. 🙌

[maria exall @MariaExall]

Pleased to sign this @Lab4TransRights letter as LGBT rep on @CWUnews NEC asking Wes Streeting to reverse the ban on puberty blockers

[Labour For Trans Rights @Lab4TransRights]

14,400 and counting... this issue is not going away @WesStreeting.

Do the right thing: end the ban.
https://t.co/L0YU378k1P

[Labour For Trans Rights @Lab4TransRights]

Your own Trans Officer was unhappy with this statement, but you ignored her and released this cowed half-statement instead.

How can you continue to pretend to represent the LGBT+ community in or out of the Labour Party?

[Anne Trans+ Health @annehealthcare]

🏳️‍⚧️ Following the devastating news of the UK government's indefinite ban on puberty blockers, we want trans youth and their families to know that there is still hope and that Anne Health is here for you. 💙

🏳️‍⚧️ #TransKidsDeserveHealthcare

[Bristol Leading Against Transphobia 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 @TransRightsBris]

Honestly toilet paper has more strength than this statement. 🧻🧻🧻

[LGBT+ Labour @LGBTLabour]

Following the decision taken by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care regarding the indefinite ban on puberty blockers, we have written to him to express our deep concern to this decision and request that he meet with us to discuss this further. (1/4)

[Trans Kids Deserve Better @trans_kids_d_b]

The occupation has now ended, but the space we created for grief and love brought light in this terrifying moment. We showed Streeting that we will not stop fighting despite the horrific treatment we receive from him and his government.

[Georgia Meadows @MsGrgaMeadows]

This is the statement that I, as the only trans person on the @LGBTLabour National Committee asked them to make. They completely and utterly ignored me and will release a shockingly poor statement at 16:00.

LGB Labour have completely lost the confidence of the trans community.

[Labour For Trans Rights @Lab4TransRights]

12,500 signatures before @LGBTLabour has said a word 🙂
https://t.co/iubLkKWW6i

[LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqa_greens]

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;

[LGBT+ Lib Dems 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🔶 @LGBTLD]

A joint statement from LGBT+ Lib Dems, Out for Independence (SNP), LGBTIQA+ Greens, and Rainbow Greens, condemning the Labour Government’s deeply distressing and harmful decision to ban puberty blockers for under-18s.

Read and share the full statement 👇
https://t.co/OfI44nZQuC

[Labour For Trans Rights @Lab4TransRights]

We hit 10,000 signatures 🏳️‍⚧️

@WesStreeting, the labour movement isn't behind you on this - there's still time to row back on this unfair, unfounded puberty blockers ban.

Can we get to 15,000 by the end of the day?
https://t.co/iubLkKXtVQ

[Rep. Zooey Zephyr @ZoAndBehold]

The gender affirming care ban in Montana has been BLOCKED by the MT Supreme Court in a unanimous decision.

Montana has a constitutional right to privacy, including in our healthcare decisions. And today our constitution continues to protect individuals from government overreach.

[Pride in Labour 🌈 🌹 @PrideInLabour]

🏳️‍⚧️ | The Labour Party has betrayed trans people today and you can read our statement on @wesstreeting's announcement this afternoon. Trans people deserve better than this.

https://t.co/NJCE60lxOm

[Labour For Trans Rights @Lab4TransRights]

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

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Labour said they would end culture wars, but this is a clear continuation of them.

This ruling will have devastating consequences for young trans and non binary people. It must be challenged.

[Trans Safety Network @trans_safety]

https://t.co/G5H8xpligB

Council of Europe expert committee say puberty blocker trial might violate rights of the patient, confirming concerns raised in 2022 by the BMA.

[Rep. Zooey Zephyr @ZoAndBehold]

I literally just got out of meetings with members of Congress & used the bathroom on my way out.

Trans women are women—full stop. We're every bit as "biologically female" as cis women & @SpeakerJohnson's statement doesn't change the fact that women's spaces include trans women.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

1. It was never about sports.

Some have argued that Democrats should give up on trans people in sports.

As a leading transgender journalist covering the issue for years, I can say that this is a strategy doomed to fail.

Here's why.

Subscribe to support my journalism.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

Almost every single state that banned trans people from playing sports went on to ban healthcare for trans youth. This issue is a trojan horse meant to codify the otherness of trans people into state law.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

There is a push among some orgs, "moderate" legislators, and even trans people to "give up the sports issue" in hopes that will stop hate.

I have watched moderates try this in 23 state houses.

It doesn't work. There's no amount of give you can offer that stops them from taking.