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Cis 💗💜💙
LGBTQAI+++ ally til I die 👊
Liberté, égalité, fraternité is our only way out of this mess.
#SashayAway
#AbolishTheMonarchy
#LFC

[India Willoughby @IndiaWilloughby]

I appreciate trans people are banned from mainstream UK news media, but everyone else needs to bring this up if they find themselves on a show where the host refers to terfs as “Women’s Rights campaigners.” It’s an insult to women.

[pepperpurple @pepperpurple]

@shairnn Less than 2

[pepperpurple @pepperpurple]

@shairnn 48

[Angie 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🟦🧡 @Angie_RejoinEU]

@FullFact @Conservatives @UKStatsAuth Quick reminder of what comes under the ‘welfare spending’ umbrella

It’s not just for the ‘people you don’t like’

[pepperpurple @pepperpurple]

@annemflfc @AndyBurnhamGM Then it follows that you must be delighted to see the back of Starmer 🤔

*am no Burnham fangirl but the irony of Starmer 's ousting can't be lost on you, surely?

[pepperpurple @pepperpurple]

@mikeehlert2 @GOP_is_Gutless What, like locking up a bay number of people who would be less likely to rescind with mental health care in the community rather than incarceration? The kind of idiocy the world ridicules the US for, yeah you're not wrong. All those wasted tax dollars, insane.

[pepperpurple @pepperpurple]

@ms_samldn @I_amMukhtar @antmiddleton Nah it just proves he's engagement farming, that's all the bragardicchio 'next mayor of London' spiel is about.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

A UN commission has found that Israel is committing genocide through a "deliberate strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinians in Gaza by targeting their children".

The truth always comes out in the end — and we must never, ever let it be forgotten.

[pepperpurple @pepperpurple]

@SqSehrish 005

[pepperpurple @pepperpurple]

@jenni_spy @GreenLManston Try this one hon; IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU or IT'S STILL NOT ALL ABOUT YOU. Feel free to choose x

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

Twice Warned: Genocide Prevention Body Says UK’s Trans and Intersex Policy Is “Genocidal in Nature”

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security has named the UK government for a second time in just over a year.

In June 2025, the Institute issued a Red Flag Alert after the Supreme Court’s ruling in For Women Scotland, identifying the UK’s treatment of transgender and intersex people as matching the ninth recognised stage of genocide: denial and prevention of identity.

On 20 June 2026, thirteen months later, it issued a second statement. This one targeted the EHRC’s updated Code of Practice, laid before Parliament on 21 May and currently facing a block motion signed by 135 MPs, 69 of them Labour. The Institute’s statement does not hedge: “in its attempt to erase trans and intersex people from public life, this document is genocidal in nature.”

The detail in the statement is more damaging than the headline.

It points out that the Supreme Court ruling claimed it “would not have the effect of disadvantaging or removing important protection from trans people.” The guidance built on that ruling does exactly that.

It documents EHRC chair Dr Stephenson being asked directly about intersex people and, instead of answering, contesting the word “intersex” itself, despite it being the term intersex-led organisations prefer and the term the UK government formally agreed to use in a Council of Europe recommendation in October 2025.

It identifies a contradiction built into the guidance itself: trans and intersex men could be excluded from both men’s and women’s toilets, while trans and intersex women could be forced into men’s toilets, leaving some people with no facility they are legally permitted to use anywhere in the country. Even the EHRC admits this outcome is “very unlikely to be proportionate.” It offers no fix.

Gender neutral toilets don’t solve it either. The Code states that simply providing one could itself count as discrimination against women, meaning sharing a space with lockable stalls near a transgender person could be treated as unlawful harassment.

The Institute calls this pattern, conditioning the public to treat a group as a separate, problematic category requiring segregation, “a common genocidal tactic.” A population that accepts segregating one group becomes easier to mobilise against that same group later.

As of 20 June, 113 MPs had signed the motion to reject the guidance. The Institute is urging the public to contact their MPs and attend the Trans Solidarity Alliance’s Mass Lobby for Trans Equality on 25 June.

Two formal findings, a year apart, from the same body, using the same framework, about the same government. The first was about a court ruling. The second is about what the government did with it.

“Trans and intersex people have always existed in our world,” the Institute writes. “The true test of civilization is how a society chooses to treat them.”

The UK has now failed that test twice.

https://t.co/uzsZFfb7LP

[LGBwiththeT @LGBwiththeT]

🚨 Worth knowing:

April 2026: Public Order Act s.4B.

Nobody can exclude someone from a sexed space, using threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour - because of their sex, or presumed sex.

Up to 2 years in prison.

https://t.co/DNQSVys2r6

[Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention @LemkinInstitute]

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security condemns the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) updated Code of Practice for services, public functions, and associations presented to the UK Parliament on 21 May 2026. This Code of Practice is emblematic of the increasingly hostile environment in the UK for the trans and intersex communities. In its attempt to erase trans and intersex people from public life, this document is genocidal in nature.

The new Code of Practice follows 13 months after the UK Supreme Court’s (UKSC) 2025 decision in For Women Scotland, which the Lemkin Institute denounced as part of a genocidal process last summer in our Red Flag Alert on Anti-Trans and Intersex Rights in the UK. In that decision, the UKSC found that, for the purposes of the Equality Act, 2010, “sex” referred exclusively to “biological sex.” As we previously pointed out, the decision failed to provide any definition, let alone a cogent one, of “biological sex.” For Women Scotland has the effect of preventing trans people from claiming sex discrimination under UK equality law on the basis of their lived sex or gender.

The EHRC Code of Practice is not set in stone and needs to be approved by Parliament. As of this writing, 113 British Members of Parliament have signed an Early Day Motion calling for the EHRC Guidance to be rejected. The Lemkin Institute encourages the British public to write to their MPs asking them to sign the Early Day Motion to prevent this genocidal document from being adopted. We also encourage all who are able to attend Trans Solidarity Alliance’s Mass Lobby for Trans Equality on the 25th of June.

Trans and intersex people have always existed in our world. The true test of civilization is how a society chooses to treat them.

Read: https://t.co/uIeeKb0nfh

[Just another HCW @OldHCW]

@RmSalih @glaisian United Nations damning report today confirmed genocide

Circulate it to every MP whether they attended or not. Link in BBC News report

BBC News - UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children
https://t.co/ONWP6NzCJ5

[Jamboree de Peckham @HasVulcan]

@DamianLow3 @OperaSocialist My issue with Starmer stems from his lack of integrity, the spiteful way he dispatched Corbyn, his betrayal of international & humanitarian law over Palestine & misuse of the law in proscribing legitimate protest, jury trials, dehumanising the disabled, pandering to Islamophobia.

[pepperpurple @pepperpurple]

@HasVulcan @HughJaeger @DamianLow3 @OperaSocialist Same. He did a little good but he did a good deal more harm, he won't be remembered kindly.

[Gadget @Gadget440]

🚨 BREAKING: Andrew Tate appears to have accidentally helped REOPEN the UK criminal investigation into himself.

Court documents show Tate's lawyers asked Hertfordshire Police to hand over evidence from the original investigation so they could use it against the women suing him in civil court.

But when Detective Superintendent Sally Phillips reviewed the material, she became "increasingly concerned about the quality and completeness" of the original investigation.

The result?

Hertfordshire Police decided to launch a full CRIMINAL REINVESTIGATION into the rape and sexual assault allegations.

An amazing legal own goal.

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

Richard Dawkins Built His Career on Variation. Then He Decided Sex Was the One Exception.
Eye colour is on a spectrum. Height is on a spectrum. Skin colour is on a spectrum. Hair colour is on a spectrum. According to Richard Dawkins and the argument now circulating in his name, sex is somehow the one trait in human biology that breaks this pattern entirely. Binary. Fixed. No variation allowed.

This is a strange position for an evolutionary biologist to take, because variation is the entire foundation of his life's work.

The Man Who Wrote The Selfish Gene Forgot About Genetic Variation - Dawkins built his reputation explaining how variation drives evolution itself. Mutation, recombination and chromosomal variation are the raw material natural selection acts on. He has spent decades explaining this to the public. Yet when it comes to sex chromosomes specifically, the argument suddenly becomes that there are exactly two configurations and nothing else exists.

That is simply not true. XX and XY are the most common configurations in humans. They are not the only ones. XXY, XYY, XXYY and X0 all occur naturally and produce living people, some of whom go their entire lives without ever learning their own karyotype. These are not edge cases invented by activists. They are documented chromosomal variations that have been in medical literature for over a century.

The Body Does Not Read From the Same Script Dawkins Is Using

Around 1.7 percent of people are born intersex. That is roughly the same proportion of the population born with red hair, a trait nobody describes as a hoax or an ideology.

Some intersex people are born with ambiguous genitalia. Some have internal reproductive organs that do not match their external anatomy. Androgen insensitivity syndrome produces people with XY chromosomes and a fully female body, because their cells cannot respond to testosterone at all, regardless of what their chromosomes say. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia produces the reverse pattern. None of this fits into two boxes. It was never designed to.

The Brain Was Never Part of His Argument. Why? The biggest gap in the binary argument is the brain, and it is the part that gets skipped every time.

The genitals differentiate in the first two months of pregnancy, under one hormonal cascade. The brain differentiates separately, in the second half of pregnancy, under a different hormonal environment entirely. Two distinct biological processes, on two different timelines, that do not always produce matching outcomes in the same person.

This has been documented in Nature, in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, across more than two decades of peer reviewed research. Zhou et al found brain structure differences in transgender women as early as 1995. Kruijver et al confirmed it in 2000 using neuron counts rather than volume. Garcia-Falgueras and Swaab confirmed it again in 2008. None of this is fringe. None of it is recent. It has simply never been part of the argument Dawkins is making, because it falls outside the field he is actually trained in.

An Evolutionary Biologist Talking Outside His Lane… Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist. His career has focused on natural selection, gene-centred evolution and population genetics, largely studied through birds and insects. Developmental biology, embryology, endocrinology and neuroscience, the specific fields that actually study how sex develops in the human body, are not his field.

That does not make him wrong by default. It does mean his authority on this specific question is borrowed rather than earned, in exactly the same way a heart surgeon's opinion on astrophysics would carry intellectual weight without being the right person to ask. The actual specialists in this question, the embryologists and endocrinologists and geneticists who study human sex development for a living, have published findings that directly contradict the binary he is describing

[pepperpurple @pepperpurple]

@robi71269 @PopBase Recommend the AEG air filtration for 600 hundred quid, not only keeps the place cool, gets rid of my tobacco & cannabis smoke, all dust particles & germs.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

.@jeremycorbyn is NOT antisemitic

He is a leading antiracist campaigner of his generation

He stands up for the rights of Palestinians and THIS IS WHY he has been falsely accused of antisemitism

SHAME on all those weaponising antisemitism to protect Israel from criticism