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Feb 9, 2023 11 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Our public conversation about LGBTQ+ rights, and trans rights in particular has skipped the rails in recent years. Deadly boring, centrist positions are now commonly denounced as ‘radical’ and ‘going too far’. Yes, this mega🧵is a love letter to Theresa May’s LGBT Action plan.
In 2018, the government published an LGBT Action Plan, based on a major survey, consultation with the movement and collaboration with the community. It was pretty good! Here are just some of the things it included:
A commitment to publish ‘comprehensive guidance for schools on how to support trans pupils’. Just listen to that framing! Now there is widespread *fear* about whether guidance (when it comes) will support trans pupils or those who seek to marginalize them further...
A commitment to ban conversion practices for the whole community. Several U turns and years of delay later we are still waiting, while every day more LGBTQ+ people, particularly QTIPOC and trans people are abused.
A commitment to invest in reducing hate crime, supporting LGBTQ+ victims and encouraging reporting. Hate crime against our communities is, of course, skyrocketing now, and has been for several years.
A commitment to ensure that “the needs of all LGBT claimants are met in the asylum process, regardless of whether their claim was lodged on this basis”. Now we have the Nat & Borders Act, the Rwanda project, and negotiations with Uganda and Ghana.🤯
A commitment to reform the Gender Recognition Act. Yet here we are with the UK government sparking a constitutional crisis in order to *prevent* Scotland reforming it through the #GRRBill
A commitment to modernize the gender affirming care system. This system is utterly *broken* now. Every single GIC has waiting lists that are years and years long, and GIDS is in crisis. The pilots are ✅, but they are a tiny drop in a very big ocean of trans people’s misery.
The LGBT Action Plan said “We are committed to tackling the burning injustices that LGBT people face in their everyday lives. The commitments we have made in this action plan help us to start to do that.” Just reading it makes me weep.
Only five years ago, there was cross party consensus on LGBTQ+ rights in the UK, and we had a Conservative government with a powerful vision for LGBTQ+ people and our place in society. These are sensible, centre ground policies, all of which had (and have) public support.
So if you find yourself thinking that LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ organisations, and human rights organisations have ‘gone too far’, consider if in fact it is you who have changed. We still agree with 2018 Theresa.🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Jul 10, 2023
I’m sad to share that I’ll be leaving @stonewalluk at the end of this month. Sad, but so SO proud of what we’ve achieved in the last three years, working as part of the incredible LGBTQ+ rights movement (BIG 🧵incoming!)
We got through the pandemic, working hard to respond to the escalating needs of LGBTQ+ people across the UK and to adapt to new ways of working.
We rebranded and rebuilt with pro-bono support from the brilliant JKR and Revolt (thankyou!)
Read 18 tweets
Apr 5, 2023
🧵Every reasonable quality survey I have seen shows trans hostile views are more common amongst men than women. Cis/het men to be precise. This is the group that is most likely to think that trans rights have 'gone too far', and is most concerned about single sex spaces 1/4
If over recent years the media had simply reflected this fact, instead of persistently adopting a frame that positions cis women, and particularly feminist lesbian cis women as deeply concerned about (and at risk from) trans women, we would not be where we are today.
Where are we? Well we have our NHRI recommending restricting the protected characteristic of sex to 'biological sex', both rolling back trans rights and making sex protections for ALL women practically unworkable. While using *LESBIAN BOOK GROUPS* as one of their justifications.
Read 4 tweets
Jan 13, 2023
The idea that the Scottish Gender Recognition Reform Bill was ‘rushed through’ is complete nonsense. Here, in excruciating detail is *why* it is nonsense, and why this is something no serious person should be saying: 🧵
Consultation 1 on #GRRBill ran from 9 November 2017 to 1 March 2017. There were 15,697 responses. 60% of respondents supported proposals to introduce a self-declaration system for legal gender recognition.
Consultation 2 was on a draft #GRRBill. This ran from 17 December 2019 to 17 March 2020. 17,058 people responded. The majority of respondents were in favour of the draft bill.
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May 12, 2022
🧵One of the things that gets in the way of us *actually* treating all LGBTI people with respect in the UK is our absolute *conviction* that we already are. That we are already a completely progressive and rights respecting society. Reader: we are not.
When you have this conviction, anyone asking for further human rights protections is seen as unreasonable, even extreme. There is no problem you see? The UK is a leader in human rights across the globe surely? (we are not)
We need to start listening. Listening to the people who are pushed to the margins of our society. Listening to those who want to protect and extend human rights rather than dismantle them. Listening to global leaders who are horrified by what we are becoming.
Read 4 tweets
May 26, 2021
A short thread on founders. No tea, just charity wonkishness😊You may have noticed that we’ve had *a lot* of media covering the fact that a couple of our founders think we shouldn’t advocate for the rights of trans people (or bi people ). In charity world, this is NORMAL. 1/7
Founder syndrome is A WHOLE THING in charity world and founder-led charities often crash and burn in the tension between founding vision and the changing world we live in. Often organisational infrastructure hasn't professionalised - many charities just don’t make it. 2/7
Where founders *do* step away, they can be the trickiest customers on the Board, or in the wider community. The baby grew up, you see, and it didn’t grow up into *quite* the person they imagined. 3/7
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