Notices by Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)

I don’t normally give advice to fossil car drivers (other than ‘get an EV’) but now seems like a very good moment to go and top up your tank.

Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe – pv magazine International

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/

Disabled M&S shopper 'humiliated' after overhearing 'cruel staff comments' - Manchester Evening News

Marks and Spencer toilet vigilante delivers a masterclass in how to commit disability discrimination and transphobic discrimination (by perception) all against one cisgender female customer. This is what the EHRC has encouraged with their unlawful interim “guidance” for toilet terrorisation.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/disabled-ms-shopper-humiliated-after-24002075

Good Law Project forces EHRC to backtrack…

A Dance of Identity by Alison Rooper — Kickstarter
‘Trans life in a hostile world’

I promised the producer of this documentary about a trans ballerina that I would share her kickstarter, raising funds to complete production. It’s currently half way to its fundraising target so anything anyone can contribute will be much appreciated. Watch the trailers here…

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1717205959/a-dance-of-identity-trans-life-in-a-hostile-world

LGBT Foundation launches national campaign with support of JCDecaux Community Channel | JCDecaux UK

“This is what a woman looks like”

https://www.jcdecaux.co.uk/news/lgbt-foundation-launches-national-campaign-support-jcdecaux-community-channel

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The Scottish Parliament must retract its transphobic toilet rules | Good Law Project

Please take a few seconds to add your name to a letter to the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood. It is not enough for officials to say they won’t enforce the humiliating rule they’ve created.

https://action.goodlawproject.org/stop-scottish-parliament-toilet-police

@Infoseepage He’s being wired up so all the lights in Highgate Village can be lit from his spinning

Thought I’d come and explore Highgate cemetery. Karl Marx must be so delighted that there are fees to get in and see his grave

Given the great interest that I got yesterday for my post about a low carbon day on Britain’s electricity grid I thought I’d share a post emphasising just how much wind power has to be wasted because the system doesn’t yet have the configuration to be able to use it all. This month alone the grid operator has had to pay wind farm operators £41.5 million to turn down their output. This process of ordering generators to turn down their contracted output is called ‘Curtailment’. Cont…

…What this means is that their power electronics are designed to mimic the frequency and voltage stabilisation the the old spinning turbines produce mechanically. Massive batteries being built around the country will do the same. That means that soon, on a day like this, we will see the grid run exclusively on renewables and nuclear.

Right now, mainland Britain has got almost enough wind and solar power to meet our electricity demand. Add in the power from nuclear and a small dash of gas (used solely to maintain enough mechanical inertia to stabilise the grid) and we are having to export 4.4GW to neighbouring countries. The need for that safety inertia will fall away with new renewable sites like Dogger Bank, whose inverters are capable of ‘grid forming’ as opposed to merely grid following…
https://grid.iamkate.com

Trump: “The EU has rules and sales taxes and the people don’t want our bloated cars or crappy adulterated food.”

What a whiny man baby.

The Supreme Court refused to listen to trans voices. We brought them to the Supreme Court. | Good Law Project

The Good Law project took a lesson from ‘Led by Donkeys’ and projected trans people’s faces and voices onto the walls of the Supreme Court.

https://goodlawproject.org/the-supreme-court-refused-to-listen-to-trans-voices-we-brought-them-to-the-supreme-court/

@goatsarah I think this is going to turn into one of the things England has always specialised in: there is the rule and then there is the practice. We’ll do ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ hypocrisy till the country works out how to elect serious people (if it ever does). This is how it was for generations before we started achieving legislation in the nineties.

LBC presenter says the quiet part out loud. [Youtube short]

“Where are trans women supposed to go then?”
“I don’t know, that’s for them to work out”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xMoTD9rAng0&si=UM9GTFxiq1Wj6K1s

A Guide On How To Write A Letter To Parliament - TransLucent

As a colleague of Stephen Whittle for fifteen years, and having helped utilise the approach he describes here (along with my other key colleague Claire McNab) I thoroughly endorse the step-by-step advice he lays out here for really getting key messages across to your MP.

Writing physical letters may seem awfully retro these days but they’re vital.

https://translucent.org.uk/a-guide-to-how-to-write-a-letter-to-parliament/

Since this is Trans History Week and trans people desperately need people to understand and ‘know’ us right now, please buy yourself a copy of my book ‘Trans Britain’, conceived, compiled and produced BEFORE the world went absolutely mad against us. It tells the history of half a century of slow, careful progress before we became a populist political football. Get it wherever you prefer to buy your books. Hive is a great alternative to Amazon. https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Ms-Christine-Burns/Trans-Britain--Our-Journey-from-the-Shadows/23931110

@Natasha_Jay God, the amount of my earlier life that was used up getting the curly cable on the telephone to lie ‘just so’ around the base. I thought people who overstretched the curly cable were a special sort of evil.