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As the genital-obsessed weirdos demand a boycott of M&S for having a trans employee in a shop – I think this is their fourth M&S boycott, or maybe the fifth; it’s hard to keep track – it’s worth revisiting this HR News report from seven years ago, before the anti-trans industry started to demand illegal… [more]
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From the Daily Telegraph: Marks & Spencer has apologised to a mother for causing her teenage daughter “distress” after she was asked if she needed help by an Asian employee in its bra section. The retailer said it was “truly sorry” after the mother complained that her 14-year-old daughter had felt uncomfortable when they were… [more]
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Marcus Daniel has written a damning summary of how the Equalities and Human Rights Commission has been poisoned: what was created to promote equality has been cynically and deliberately infested with people who are bigoted not just against trans people, but against all kinds of marginalised groups. The result? An equalities body that’s actively hostile… [more]
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Journalism pretends to be fair and independent, but much of it isn’t: you can easily shape a story by choosing to include some things and exclude others. And there’s an excellent example of that in today’s newspapers, or rather there isn’t an excellent example of that in today’s newspapers. The ongoing employment tribunal of the… [more]
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I’m proud and honoured to be part of One More Tune, a celebration of and fundraiser for the legendary JD Twitch, aka Keith McIvor, of Optimo/Espacio. It’s a 41-track compilation album spanning all kinds of genres and featuring artists big and small, and all proceeds are going to JD’s healthcare and to his favourite good… [more]
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Jessica Harriet writes about Labour’s new Section 28, which is designed to dehumanise and harm trans kids. Clause 72 is an ambiguous mess, purposefully leaving headroom for the removal of LGBTQIA+ books should they include a representation of transgender people, family members, friends, or history. Granting schools and parents enough plausible justification to censor inclusive… [more]
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We’ve been told repeatedly by the Labour government that the Supreme Court judgement that reversed decades of equality law, threatening trans people’s rights and safety, is final and must be respected: any Supreme Court judgement is carved in stone, permanent, impossible to change. Today, Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves “is considering overruling the Supreme Court over… [more]
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There’s a good piece on the higher education site Wonkhe by Anna Bull: Safety must shape policy on single-sex spaces. And pushing trans and non-binary people into the wrong toilets and changing rooms is not the way to do that. The focus here is on educational institutions but the point is true more widely: we’re… [more]
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There’s a good piece in Assigned Media: “A Shameful Chapter”: How Anti-Trans Disinformation Drowned Out Science and Gripped the Mainstream. It’s about the US but relevant to the UK too: our media is just as captured, and their reporting is helping the right-wing attacks on trans people’s human rights and healthcare. It takes one pseudoscience… [more]
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One of the anti-trans groups favoured by health minister Wes Streeting is the Bayswater Support Group, some of whose members advocate child abuse in order to make children “accept biological reality”. And in a new, heartbreaking report by Trans Safety Network, some of those kids describe how the group radicalised their parents into increasingly cruel… [more]
Read me in books
My debut memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was a Scotsman book of the year and Damian Barr’s Literary Salon book of the week, and it was shortlisted for the 2023 British Book Awards book of the year in the Discover category.
My latest book, Small Town Joy, is a celebration of queer influences on and queer artists in Scots music and is out now.
I’m also a contributor to the excellent anthology Fierce Salvage, which is also out now.
