Awful loss to Scottish politics with the passing of @sinead1988.bsky.social this week. One of the kindest people I had the pleasure of meeting through ScotPol online. Always saw the best in others and was first to offer solidarity and sympathy to those who needed it.

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The Forstater judgment kind of broke equalities law. What do you mean transgender people have to accept that some of their colleagues might not "believe in" them?

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It was never extreme for trans people to want to be treated like human beings in whatever spaces we entered. It did not go too far, and no amount of historical revisionism will make the simple request for equal access to safety in public spaces unreasonable.

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Absurd outcomes happen when the ideological claim that changing sex is impossible makes contact with the biological reality that every single aspect of sex that could be visible to an observer is in fact changeable.

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Obviously it's not only trans people who've had full access to medical transition who are at risk with this, but it is important to note that very deliberate effort from transphobic quarters to pretend that transition isn't actually real. Reminds me of Ormrod's verdict against April Ashley in 1970..

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