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[luke @lukefna]

saying you couldn't tell I'm autistic isn't the compliment you think it is

[Jasper 🦡🤟 @QueerCantHear]

Wedding photos 🥰🤟🏼🏳️‍🌈♿

[luke @lukefna]

@My_Metro Longbenton platform displays are still saying the monument lift is out of service

[Jasper 🦡🤟 @QueerCantHear]

You cannot write on your access page that you have "track matting for wheelchair users" and only have it in the paid area. That is discrimination. Not to mention the horrific hill with no mention.

I've never had to turn around from a Pride event before, and I felt very excluded

[Jess Madden @JessMadden19]

@TheLastLeg #IsItOK that Northern Pride wasn't accessible for people using wheelchairs, with even the "accesible" toilets being unreachable

[Dr Cal Horton @FierceMum]

New government guidance is rumoured to include barriers to social transition at school.

As a researcher with multiple evidence-based peer reviewed publications on childhood social transition, here’s what you need to know: 1/

[Grace Lavery @graceelavery]

people have told me they think i’m making this up, but no, Prof. Kathleen Stock really does conflate “performative” with “is a performance.” a mistake that undergraduates often make, but rarely publish. this is MATERIAL GIRLS (London: Fleet, 2021).

[Grace Lavery @graceelavery]

I have just learned that a major British university has intervened to prevent a house journal from publishing a juried essay of mine, on the importance of academic freedom. They are scared that they will be sued—I presume by either Kathleen Stock or Alice Sullivan.

[luke @lukefna]

@BernieTranders At my primary school netball was mixed but in matches you were only allowed a maximum of 2 boys on the court at any time, our coach was the mum of a boy in my class who played

[luke @lukefna]

@natachakennedy delighted to report that the phd i'm about to submit after 4 years, on pathways and barriers to teachers treating trans kids equitably, is about to be rendered somewhat pointless by tory guidance that mandates oppression instead

[pokey pup @Whatapityonyou]

The Onion has had it lmao

[Enrique Anarte (he/him) @enriqueanarte]

🇩🇪 Today’s a big day for LGBTQ+ history in Germany: for the first time, the Bundestag has dedicated its Holocaust memorial commemoration to the queer victims of the Nazis.

They also remembered Malte, a 25yo trans man murdered last year.

➡️ https://t.co/0HSlSKWyjz

#WeRemember

[Ryan Ken @Ryan_Ken_Acts]

The New York Times covering trans issues (parody)

[- @RoseSchmits]

From the gov’s statement on issues with the grr. Here we have the government saying people should be able to expect spaces that exclude and discriminate against trans people

[Vagina Museum @vagina_museum]

This week in 1939, the British papers reported on a human interest story from a Norfolk town about two brothers returning from school. Oh, and both brothers had been assigned female at birth: in present-day language, the brothers were transgender.

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

Whatever your views on the issue Braverman has got the law wrong. Discrimination against transgender pupils is illegal under the 2010 Equality Act and schools should most definitely ignore this advice from her.

[luke @lukefna]

@hamsterxwheels @DanLonsdale_ I particularly enjoyed the CIS help desk

[Cardiff University Libraries @cardiffunilib]

Staff overhearing students attempt to reach a book from a high shelf, then... excitedly - "look, you can use this little dalek".