The media erupted in a flurry this week as Health Secretary Steve Barclay announced his intention for the NHS to exclude trans women from female wards. Understandably, this has shocked and concerned the trans community.
The UN Special Rapporteur for Violence Against Women and Girls, Reem Alsalem was vocal opposition to Scotland’s GRR bill in 2022. So why has Reem Alsalem been so silent as other UN member states across Europe introduce self-ID policies of their own?
The former comedy writer turned keyboard warrior has had a gig cancelled prompting a write-up where the BBC attempt to launder reputation of horrific bigot, Graham Linehan.
In the recent days UK Labour has spoken more about trans people than it has basically across the entire last decade of the slowly generated…
Justin Webb of BBC Radio 4 recently posted on Twitter regarding the BBC’s decision to back out of Stonewall’s Diversity Champions and Workplace Equality Index Schemes. He claimed that the BBC and “responsible organisations” cut ties with Stonewall over claims they had made in a 2017 School Report. The BBC response to a Freedom of Information request I sent does not corroborate this.
Tribunal Judges Griffin and Neville have ruled on a case regarding a group widely described as an anti-trans hate group who became a charity. Ruling in their favour, LGB Alliance are to retain their charity status.
The latest out of Elon Musk’s Twitter is just as absurd and ridiculous as the rest of it; he has stated he believes the word “cisgender” to be a slur and that saying something like “Elon Musk is cisgender” could be harassment.
In a bizarre anti-trans rant it is claimed we see JK Rowling agree with Nazis that support for trans people is “degenerate, foolish, immoral and authoritarian”. She calls it their “we told you so” moment during her defense of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull.
Disclaimer; Images of these tweets will be linked to but not shown in this article. The contents will be discussed sensitively. It is important to report that Twitter is censoring trans people like this, but we want to do that without adding to the harm such open calls for violence has on marginalised communities.
We soft-launched Trans Writes on #TransDayofVisibility in 2022 to an honestly incredible and overwhelming reception. Today we say Happy 1 year of Trans Writes and have a quick look at the work we’ve achieved.