Meanwhile there is some small cause for optimism. The Green Party’s policy positions on trans healthcare are better and last I checked also include a trans-led public inquiry to hold people accountable.
Trans kids: stay alive
Everyone else: keep the receipts! 5/5
In my opinion, Labour are failing to deliver their promised ban on conversion therapy because any legally robust definition of it would show that the NHS are doing it to trans people, and implicate this government in the practice. 4/5
The NHS say this flows from the Cass Review but this is a distortion. Cass’ conclusions say the evidence for trans kids’ HRT is “inconsistent” but if you actually read the Review’s own evidence it shows positive outcomes! That’s 1 reason Cass was rejected by international medical authorities.
3/5
Labour’s healthcare bans are shameful and have already harmed British kids. Wes Streeting’s normalisation of conversion therapy is a stain on the country. Every NHS doctor and admin who went along with this has undermined public confidence in the profession.
2/5
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Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now).
This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5
The US military is a cowardly, pompuous, and evil force.
Are Labour MPs starting to realise just how badly they’ve messed things up for LGBTQ people?
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Every bsky staff member keeps talking about how the goal is Nice Social Media but then the second they're even remotely pushed back against for something shitty, and they immediately crash out for multiple days crying about their subhuman userbase.
If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
🧵 1/5
This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.
It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever
If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
tcpipeline.org
The group Elevated Access can fly you for free to a provider that is further away. Help is out there, you’re not alone. There is still time.
www.elevatedaccess.org
Israel's most moral army in the world just can't stop bombing hospitals, and they're out of hospitals in Gaza because of their continued genocide.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
So now we know A03 is a pillar of the internet and .. bots and scrapes are so high now it’s tanking the site
"Defensive strikes" in the country that was attacked first, because of nuclear weapons that don't exist.
I know it's a joke at this point but we're basically in 1984 doublespeak right now.
The plan, quite obviously, is to restrict the age to 14 when it's too late for puberty blockers to do anything and then use that as evidence that they are ineffective. Transphobic policy based evidence making.
a trans woman i know is being deported back to the USA due to the Home Office messing up paperwork.
her wife is desperately trying to raise the funds to prevent this. they have 48 hours before she’s put on a plane and might never be able to return.
please, help if you can. they’re both terrified.
Gorillaz are back so time to resurrect the greatest of all music tweets. We're all out here tryna be The Quietus and she just walks up and zeroes in on the essence.
IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN A WEEK!
Given Badenoch's boast that she stuffed key positions in the NHS with TERFs I want to know who signed the letter from the MHRA. Why the (still further) cover up by Wes Streeting?
@graemedowniemp.bsky.social
We need to have this answered. Badenoch is indeed on record saying this
"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"
If you have a problem with Newsom doing this, you should have a problem with Mamdani doing this.
I don't give a fuck how cute or charming or adorable he is. This is unconscionable.
the uk famously drove trucks around cities telling asylum seekers to go home and routinely raid neighborhoods with high migrant populations for deportation.
Annexing the West Bank is the Western 'red line' on Israel after it crossed red lines of genocide, forced starvation, war crimes, destruction of infrastructure, massacring children in incubators, gang rape, solo rape, torture, execution of medics, kidnapping, aparth
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Can this myth please die already? Take it from a therapist who works with tons of trans youth (and has many colleagues who also do so), kids aren't ending up in our office because they're mistaking normal gender-nonconformity for being trans.
I heard about a killing of a Black man in DC by US marshals on a call from someone in the neighborhood then saw it confirmed by the organization @harrietsdreams.bsky.social & here. A Black man in DC was killed by the state today. Make the same noise for him as for anyone else when we have his name.
It was closed because of EIGHT complaints over care.
At least five of which were complaining about the fear that it could be suddenly closed.
So at most THREE patients complained out of 12000.
=> 0.025%
It resulted in an increase in suicides among trans youth
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Ethel’s lowlights of the guidance show this for what it is.
A rolling back of already inadequate support with harming children the policy goal:
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