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“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”
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This is extraordinary and it needs to be seen.
Jolyon Maugham KC of the Good Law Project has just published a WhatsApp message sent to Wes Streeting on 11 July 2024, days after Labour won the general election.
The message reads: “Promise I won’t make a habit of messaging. But we are going to have to decide today how hard to slide in on your decision to defend Atkins’ regulations. There is a world in which we coordinate and don’t slide in very hard at all, indeed protect you politically. But we can’t do it unless your team coordinates with us.”
Read that carefully.
This was sent in the context of a High Court challenge to the puberty blocker ban. Streeting was being asked whether he would make Victoria Atkins’ temporary ban permanent. According to Maugham, Streeting prevaricated and then announced he would make it permanent the morning the hearing started.
Maugham says he and colleagues who knew Streeting tried on multiple occasions to reach out to him. They were all blanked. Every single one of them.
His conclusion was clear. By refusing to even speak to the Good Law Project on an issue of huge importance to trans people, Streeting was telling them loud and clear that they could have no influence over the government. There was no point even trying to be critical friends to Labour.
Wes Streeting is now on LBC saying he fears the clock being turned back on LGBTQIA+ progress.
The man who made the puberty blocker ban permanent. Who blanked every attempt to discuss trans healthcare with the people challenging it in court. Who ignored WhatsApp messages from one of the country’s leading human rights lawyers.
Now ‘fears’ the clock being turned back.
The record is the record. And now it is public.
@wesstreeting is a transphobic bigot
@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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
📢 "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]
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.
🚨 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.
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. 🌈⚖️
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
🚨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
@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
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