Category: LGBTQ+

  • Symbols mean whatever we want them to mean

    I’ve just been to pick up my Christmas food order. It was too early to bother with putting on my face or worrying about wigs so I did the lazy-tran thing of slapping on a beanie hat to hide my hairline before jumping in the car. At the checkout, the man on the till and…

  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Bigots

    Today’s story of JK Rowling and an anti-trans tweet is a good example of how lazy reporting reinforces bullshit. If you missed it (and you probably didn’t; it’s been all over the media today): last night, the author tweeted in support of the anti-trans activist Maya Forstater, claiming that her defeat in a tribunal was…

  • It’s not what you believe. It’s how you behave

    One of the many similarities between anti-trans activists and anti-LGBT evangelicals is their belief that they have an absolute right to be nasty to anybody they disapprove of. Inevitably, that means some of them lose their jobs for breaking the terms of employment or find their employers unwilling to renew their contracts when those contracts…

  • Gender recognition reform: here we go again

    The Scottish Government has published its draft gender recognition reform bill. It’s here. The consultation closes in March 2020. The Scottish Government does not wish trans people to go through procedures which are demeaning, intrusive, distressing and stressful. That is, quite simply, not right for our citizens. The draft bill goes into great detail about…

  • Here comes the flood

    The Scottish Government will announce its proposals for and open its second consultation on gender recognition reform this week. This is the second consultation because the first one did not get the result that bigots wanted: of the 15,532 individuals and 165 organisations who responded to the months-long, widely publicised consultation, 60% respondents were in favour…

  • Won’t get fooled again

    Last night, the Hallmark Channel decided not to drop wedding adverts that featured two women getting married. It’s just the latest example of a business discovering that while evangelical and/or intolerant pressure groups can be very vocal, so can the people they hate. Being intolerant is rarely a good look, PR wise, and LGBT+ people,…

  • We are family

    In the US, the Hallmark channel has pulled a series of bridal adverts because they featured a lesbian couple. Of the six adverts submitted, only two – the only two featuring heterosexual couples – will be aired. The ads were pulled because of pressure from One Million Moms, a far right, anti-LGBT+ evangelical hate group.…

  • Behold the awesome power of the sinister trans lobby!

    Despite the valiant efforts of many trans candidates in the General Election, the number of transgender and non-binary UK politicians remains zero. As PinkNews notes, there are now more UK MPs who believe that there is a Muslim conspiracy to make people transgender than there actually are transgender MPs. The zero MPs elected by the…

  • Bad form

    I’ve been living full time as me for two years now. I’ve been undergoing hormonal transition throughout that period; I’ve changed my passport, my driving licence, my NHS gender marker (at my GP surgery’s request) and changed my name with every organisation imaginable. The world knows me as female. But there are still some exceptions.…

  • It gets better for misfit reindeer too

    This, by the ever wonderful Jennifer Finney Boylan, made me cry. It’s ostensibly about a kids’ Christmas movie, but it’s about so much more. I don’t want to spoil it for you so I won’t quote any of it here.