Sean Morley, writing for Now Then Magazine:

Every major political party seems to be operating under the belief that Reform UK supporters have five votes each and everyone who doesn’t want to pneumatically press disabled people into an impacted cube is unable to fill out a ballot card. We live in the (disenfranchised back of) the imperial core. Here, bigotry is always on the menu. Every policy dogwhistles pied piperishly at sunburnt pink-faced pint goblins who would sink the Titanic with a nuclear warhead if they heard there was a refugee on board. The culture is scarred with ancient ley lines of intolerance and conservativism.

I am astonished by the UK media/politicians who are seemingly desperate to placate the view of people who essentially have the intelligence and disposition of a someone who was kicked in the head by a horse.

They really exist. They have always existed. Trans people, just like gay people and short people, are just one of the types of people any person can turn out to be. And just like the gays and the shorts, they cannot be legislated out of existence. The most you can do is fearmonger them into retreating from public life.

But there’s always hope. This small, angry little island isn’t completely full of small, angry little islanders (although I am 5ft 6).

Messages of solidarity have poured in nationwide from feminist academics, musicians, writers, the film and TV industry, archaeologists, historians and geographers. The trans advocacy group TransLucent are taking legal action against the EHRC for inadequately scrutinising the supreme court decision. The Good Law Project are launching a legal case against Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson. People are clogging the inboxes of MPs and staffers to combat the excessive influence of a tiny handful. If you haven’t done so yet, there is guidance for writing to your MP here and to the Prime Minister’s office here.