Mastodawn

#BridgetPhillipson's track record on #trans rights is atrocious. If #Phillipson wanted to support trans people, the simple remedy would be to pass a one-sentence amendment to the #EA2010 making a GRC define sex in the EA as it does elsewhere. The #UKSC ruling in #FWS would be redundant.

This intervention marks a useful but small retreat from the #EHRC's extremist #transExclusion agenda. Phillipson just wants to crap on us less crudely.

Christie Elan-Cane Nov 4

Interesting that #Phillipson appears to rebuke #EHRC as rabid outgoing chair #Falkner urges government to go faster in further undermining #trans rights.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/04/bridget-phillipson-public-debate-ehrc-gender-recognition

Phillipson calls for ‘less public debate’ from EHRC on gender recognition rules

Minister responds to calls from watchdog’s chair to approve new guidance on transgender rights ‘as soon as possible’

The Guardian

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Claire McNab Nov 4

Yesterday, #UK Equalities Minister #BridgetPhillipson issued a sharp public rebuke to #EHRC chair #KrisherFalkner's aggression. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/04/bridget-phillipson-public-debate-ehrc-gender-recognition

It seems that govt-EHRC relations have almost broken down. I don't want to read too much into this. I believe that the #Starmer crew still intends to sacrifice #trans people to the rightwing lynch mobs.

But there is now some small hope that #Phillipson may draw back slightly from the most exteremist #TERF demands. But this may just be optics 🤔

Stingray's Badger Friend Oct 25

<Breathes a small sigh of relief> that #LucyPowell not #TERF #Phillipson was chosen by #Labour members... Makes me hope that #transphobic #Starmer might be coming to the end of his leadership.

Let's hope Powell sticks to her word to demand a parliamentary debate on single sex spaces...

...but maybe I'm too hopeful?

Isabel Ruffell May 21

@grayface_ghost

I can see #Starmer throwing #Phillipson and #Falkner under the bus and trying to walk it back a little, claiming he was nisinformed. It might be the least embarassing move. But then again he does have the political instincts of a wombat.

#EHRC #discrimination #segregation

AutisticMumTo3 Oct 16, 2024

Ministers vow crackdown on rip-off nursery fees | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nursery-free-childcare-fees-parenting-b2630393.html

#Labour
#Morgan
#Phillipson
#Funding
#NurseryFees
#FreeNurseryHours
#Nurseries
#Childcare

Ministers vow crackdown on rip-off nursery fees

Exclusive: New Labour education minister Stephen Morgan tells The Independent the problem is an issue ‘up and down the country’

The Independent

AutisticMumTo3 Jul 6, 2024

BBC News: Who's in Keir Starmer's new cabinet? - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0veg88g7jyo

#Starmer
#Cabinet
#Rayner
#Reeves
#Lammy
#Cooper
#McFadden
#Mahmood
#Healey
#Streeting
#Phillipson
#Miliband
#Kendall
#Reynolds
#Kyle
#Haigh
#Reed
#Nandy
#Benn
#Murray
#Stevens
#Powell
#Smith
#Campbell
#Jones
#Hermer

Who's in Keir Starmer's new cabinet?

Prime Minister Keir Starmer appoints Labour MPs to cabinet positions after landslide election victory.

BBC News

AutisticMumTo3 Apr 1, 2024

Childcare places ‘fall by 1,000’ as Labour accuses ministers of ‘botched’ expansion | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-childcare-nursery-places-expansion-b2521315.html

#Childcare
#Tories
#Labour
#ChildcareCrisis
#Ofsted
#Phillipson
#Hunt
#Keegan
#EarlyYearsAlliance

Childcare places ‘fall by 1,000’ as Labour accuses ministers of ‘botched’ expansion

Sir Keir Starmer’s party accuses Conservatives of risking a crash in the childcare system ‘just like (they) crashed the economy’

The Independent

AutisticMumTo3 Jan 8, 2024

England’s secondary schools are Dickensian. No wonder children are staying away | Simon Jenkins | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/08/englands-secondary-schools-are-dickensian-no-wonder-children-are-staying-away

#Schools
#SecondarySchools
#Truancy
#PersistentAbsenteeism
#Keegan
#Phillipson

England’s secondary schools are Dickensian. No wonder children are staying away

Gillian Keegan’s war on truancy should start with a little self-reflection, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian

AutisticMumTo3 Oct 19, 2023

Raac: Number of schools and colleges with crumbling concrete rises by 25 per cent | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/raac-concrete-found-schools-colleges-b2432535.html

#RAAC
#Schools
#SchoolSafety
#SchoolBuildings
#Keegan
#NAHT
#NationalEducationUnion
#Phillipson
#NEU
#Wilson

Raac: Another 40 schools and colleges found to have crumbling concrete

Government accused of ‘sneaking out’ latest figures, as unions say teachers and pupils still waiting for help

The Independent