NHS Healthcare for Trans+ people "was not built to help trans people, but to limit the number who can medically transition, and to give power over this to cis people."
A grim but fascinating read.
100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride.
Mainstream media: nothing
Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes.
Mainstream media: nothing.
This is what extreme media bias looks like.
This is absolutely fascinating.
It taught me so much about the history of medical gender transition and why it is still so controlled.
Long, but utterly brilliant. Please read.
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We have written to Wes Streeting over the fact that his decision to pause the trial seems to have been based entirely on a letter whose author has now been recused due to bias.
Yes they hate us and see our obliteration as their holy mission but to the most devout Terfs like Forstater, Linehan, Joyce, Rowling, we are an Obsession. We are all that makes any meaning for them in the world
1/4 century post-op living and working a woman in a male dominated field. Working contracts up and down the country, spending most of my time in digs. Looked after my old mother on carers allowance pittance during a career break. Paid many, many tens of thousands £ in taxes…
Now they want me dead 🏳️⚧️
if anyone can’t see that, this is the direction of travel that the UK NHS is heading in, then I suggest you remove the blinkers…
This is genocide of the trans community‼️
And yet every time you see a picture of the same 23 terfs looking miserable in a field somewhere, we're told they're the majority opinion
Really hoping we can get Hailey out of debt soon and help her to get back to work.
Hailey is doing incredible work on transness, feminism and liberation, and her mom's cancer has derailed her a lot.
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Seems like a new boycott just dropped. Let's see who ends up being the CostCo to their Target.
Gotta say that this is some extremely creepy language. And the argument basically is... that if the prevent people from treating gender dysphoria (adults, in this case), that they'll just... stop having it? That's not at all how any of this works.
THIS PART THO "To destroy, to create, to tear out, to establish are yours, Inanna. / To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inanna."
You cannot tell me that shit isn't BADASS
A screenshot from an article featuring a photo of a stone carved artwork, showing ancient writing and depicting the Goddess Inanna. The Goddess has wings, she holds a scepter in one hand and has one leg bent and resting on a lion's back. The text reads "of people living outside the gender binary in ancient Mesopotamia. The words of Enheduanna, Inanna’s High Priestess in the city of Ur in the 23rd Century BCE, attest to this. In her Passionate Inanna she writes: ‘To destroy, to create, to tear out, to establish are yours, Inanna. / To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inanna.’ (115-131). The exact meanings of the original Sumerian cannot be known for sure; the passage could instead relate simply to gender stereotypes, but this is not the only instance of ancient references to people living outside the gender binary. "
A screenshot from an article, the text reads "In Sumerian times, priests for Inanna known as the gala were said to have been created by the god Enki to sing laments for her, one of their central roles in her temple. From the beginning of the Old Babylonian Period, their role was heavily expanded, and mourning rites originally sung by women replaced over time by members of the gala. Men who joined the priesthood in devotion for Inanna became women for all intents and purposes, adopting female names and singing in the Sumerian eme-sal dialect, reserved for feminine speakers to render the speech of female gods. The gala were heavily involved in her temples, performing elegies and lamentations, presiding over religious rites and healed and looked after the sick and poor. They were respected members of the community, closely related"
Trans people have always existed and always will, in every culture, since the beginning of the human race. We will always be here, they cannot stop us. (From Ancient Mesopotamian Transgender and Non-Binary Identities - by Morg Daniels ) www.academuseducation.co.uk/post/ancient...
If any news outlets are covering this and want to talk to a trans Genomics PhD who specialized in human genetics and the evolution of sex, please reach out to me
This is complete nonsense scientifically. It's fascist eugenics, not biology
Setting a horrifying precedent for genocide
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sometimes i wonder if i get passed over for jobs because i'm trans and i think "nah i live in a blue state and the employment gap isn't as bad for trans guys as it is for trans women" but this in fact happened to a transmasc person in a blue state
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The great & the good in the UK have been pretty anti trans nice before American conservatives even noticed trans people too,
I remember the UK Guardian newspaper & their crusades against any doctor who operated outside the restrictive gender clinic system
Why IS the UK so anti trans?
I know this is an old, old question & maybe has a lot to do with an entrenched class structure!? Maybe...!?
& Having grown up in the UK I've always observed a strong streak of nastiness in British culture but is it just bad luck that they're so focused on this?
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""I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state for your wedding and need to use the restroom at the venue ..."
@annehealthcare.bsky.social have produced a very useful guide about what to do if your GP stops your hormones prescription or refuses care. Remember you have rights and options, and they have legal, ethical and professional obligations.
That the NHS is quoting sections of the EA2010 as justification for attacking trans kids, makes me think there’s an obsessive, ideologically driven ‘gender critical’ transphobe directly behind this! 😖
The ONLY way this is “proportionate” is if eradicating trans people is your “aim”! 😣
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“Social murder” is a term created by Friedrich Engels to describe the premature death of marginalized people due to political, social, or economic oppression.
What is happening right now in America is the premeditated, calculated, & planned extermination of children who are trans. This is genocide.
Fantastic interview yet again with solid commitments to the trans community:
💚 The UK govt SETS the laws by which the Supreme Court operate
💚 Fixing the EA and GRA to resolve the issues created by recent court cases
💚 End to conversion therapy
💚 LGBTQ+ people in the room when making policy/laws
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I generally assume that political parties know what their constituencies think better than the rest of us do: they spend so much money on polling and focus groups.
But I would be *amazed* if they understood how viscerally they are loathed by young progressives for pushing trans people under a bus.
