Anyone following from a distance would think trans people have been winning lots of new rights lately.

The depressing thing is we’ve spent the last 4 years burning ourselves out because of an organised assault on our meagre rights. Our “win” is that nothing’s changed. GRA Reform - we succeeded because we fought against groups using it as a wedge issue to roll back on trans access to frontline services and public spaces. But there was basically no reform.

🚨 HUGE NEWS 🚨

Anti-trans groups tried to abuse the Judicial Review again and set new precedence for interpretations of the Equality Act and they LOST the case.

Read more about what it was and why it mattered here: bentbarsproject.org/news/high-cour… From Bent Bars Statement:
"Today the High Court of Justice has handed down a judgment rejecting claims that the Ministry of Justice’s policy on the care and management of trans prisoners discriminates against women" /1

A thread 🧵
TL:DR
- the media want to present the Forstater ruling as a win for free speech & anti-trans views because it serves them
- they intentionally polarise this as win/lose because it’s a tactic of a wider strategy
- we all won today because there aren’t “two sides” /1 Today’s Maya Forstater is a win for everyone; we are all entitled to our personal philosophical beliefs and none of us are allowed to use those beliefs to discriminate against or harm others /2

Trans allyship: a thread.

I've been asked to speak on panels about trans activism a lot the last few years, esp through pride month. One question I *always* get asked is: what can people do to be in solidarity/allyship. I've been asked it year on year on year: 1. Remember Trans ppl are many &not the same: This is true in v.many ways; the spectrum of trans men, women, agender, nb, genderqueer folks. But Trans people are also Black, PoC, disabled, autistic, poor etc. Don't centre white non-disabled transness &add the rest of us on later.

When I’m not on twitter I spend my life training activists, campaigners and change-makers on how to make effective, strategic and regenerative social change. In movement theory there is a concept of a “movement lifecycle” which I think is really important for ppl to know about rn When looking at movements throughout history they have a typical cycle of energy and activity. Most people think of a movement as existing in its “uprising” and it’s “peak”. These are stages when there’s been a “trigger moment” that kicks of rapid change and attention

1. JK Rowling is out here saying that trans ppl are trying to erase sex as a concept and that her life experience is as a female. Here’s a thread on why she’s confused.
Firstly, She’s dog whistling that trans ppls very existence denies the existence of sex 2. This is partly based on transphobia-specifically the idea that if a trans woman is a woman it erases&attacks all other experiences of womanhood (as opposed to understanding that groups of women experience different intersections of oppression. She should read some bell hooks)

Yesterday I did a takeover of @travisalabanza's Instagram to talk about Trans activism in the UK. Thx to everyone who engaged. I thought I'd do a little thread to share headlines on here including 5 things you can do to support trans folks in the UK now: 1/10 Some context and further reading on the situation in the UK for trans people within a wider political landscape from: Juliet Jacques nyti.ms/2zyBtO2, @Chican3ry bit.ly/3fPG2nB, @MichelleOToolee bit.ly/35X8Oy8 and myself bit.ly/3dGS0yf 2/10