In a bizarre tweet by the beloved Harry Potter author where she refers to trans rights advocates as “rapist rights activists”, all JK Rowling said was “compelling a woman to call her rapist or violent male attacker ‘she’ in court is state-sanctioned abuse” right? Wrong! — I just wish she would shut up for five seconds but while she simply refuses to do that I am going to continue using her name recognition to talk about bigotry, propaganda and how it all works. Such as the extremely common tactic of transphobes massively playing down what was…

In an Observer Editorial piece the publication outlines its pro conversion therapy position claiming that criminalising the practice “poses risk to children’s welfare”. — The article has been widely criticised on Twitter by the trans community for being misleading, leaving out facts or intentionally just pretending not to know things to make its argument sound at all coherent. …

The anti-trans crusade wages on in the media with multiple different talk shows having chimed in to debate whether JK Rowling should go to prison. This following a misleading story in the Daily Mail. — So lets just rehash all of this really quick. Right now talk show presenters in the UK are absolutely incensed about the idea that JK Rowling should go to prison for misgendering someone. Such as the ever-animated Jeremy Kyle who frothed wildly about “forced ideologies” and “gender neutral parenting”.

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. — Its the Conservative party conference 2023; transphobic mithering edition. Their conference last year featured some transphobia, sure — this year however it appears to be the headline event. …

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? — As Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform was being debated and voted on in Holyrood there was one name that kept being repeated around anti-trans circles. Reem Alsalem. …

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. — Right, let’s get this over with; I don’t want to write about him — you don’t want to hear about him. But the BBC are our state broadcaster and it once again needs pointing out how extremely different their “impartiality” is when applied to trans people vs transphobes.

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 moral panic. Sadly none of it is good and many are saying UK Labour is outright lying to justify it’s anti-trans position. — Many being me specifically — amongst others. Because UK Labour is outright lying and it is doing so to justify a blatantly anti-trans position which, from where I’m sitting as a trans person, is absolutely no different to the anti-trans position served up by our current Conservative government.

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. — This isn’t going to be the final piece in this Justin Webb BBC Stonewall saga as I have already sent a follow-up FOI request to the BBC for further probing, but we’ll get to that. …

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 case was brought before the court by Mermaids UK, a charity for supporting families with a transgender young one. Their argument was that as a charity for transgender people the existence of a charity that opposes transgender people materially affects them.