Rachael P 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇧 🇦🇺

And, it tends not to appear as "news.bbc.co...." -- so might depend on whether those pages are being indexed correctly.

e.g., www.bbc.co.uk/news/....

They *have* gone relatively quiet, haven't they?

Maybe their lawyers are actually advising them. Or complaining about the complaints workload. Or one of them has a trans kid.

I am deeply conflicted on this. I never had PBs, but if HAD, and if I were ASKED to consent to the data linkage, and if I were CONFIDENT about data protection, then I would think it could only help the argument in favour.

The pscyh's are right: any trial is long term -- so much as to be useless.

Also, it's short, simple, and eternally relevant.

And made on a shoestring, exceedingly funny, and deeply romantic.

So a bit like saying the Mona Lisa or Girl with the Pearl Earring are important commentary on contemporary art. Yes, sort of, but at least as much on what that art *is*.

IMHO

Yes, that's fast enough and you can still enjoy life along the way.

Bonus: as long as you are losing weight, you aren't gaining it. So that puts off the need to adjust to a new and lower steady state.

We are almost the same weight at the moment, and with similar goals it turns out. Good luck.

😊
I managed 10kg over a year a couple of years back (more or less holding it now), but simply through awareness, along with an unwillingness to give up the things I enjoyed most...

Excessive tracking is probably - excessive! - but some is good.

Femininity will always be in question at some level while we have women's sports.

But sex testing as such will end again, as it has on each previous occasion, with simple drug testing (for T), because of the impact otherwise on cis women.

Won't help Caster Semenya though.

I'm not really a beer drinker, but that sounds good. I do like Gunner's Daughter at the Old Cannon, but we went off the food...

Anyway, enjoy. I had my open in case I saw you, but no.

The full piece is quite informative. She certainly blames McSweeney for a level of social conservatism that is (even in my own memory) quite foreign to Labour...

... although it's nice when a few do.

Yes, we are having it tough at the moment. So are the people who just got the 2-child cap lifted. So are some leaseholders and zero-hours workers. And asylum-seekers. If I were a Labour MP I'd have an embarasse des riches of causes to fight. 2/2

The art of the possible and all that?

Problem with party politics is always how to weigh up what is important to you. Do you throw everything at one matter of principle, or keep your powder dry there to defend two others?

I don't *expect* any cis person to absolutely prioritise trans people... /2

I think if Emily T had been primarily worried about votes, then she wouldn't have phrased her justification the way she did. She could have just said that Labour was out of line with the voters, but she went further to say why....

But yes, it's all politics as the art of the possible.

Presumably that was before the deputy leader vote?

Dog & Partridge and Mason's Arms both well worth a visit. And Vespers, since you like Belgian beers. But you may be looking for something more exotic.

to take a slightly detached view, this is a giant "natural experiment", which might find a few women with SRY per 1000 tested(??). If fairly reported those numbers have the potential to change the discourse around trans women.

JKR will crow about catching cheats. SRY girls' mums will be outraged.

But do they do it because they are nearly all transphobic, so that is the way it averages out, or because they are so few and need to defend their bridgehead?

She does have rather more direct experience with autism research than Cass has with trans kids

If you get ma'amed on the phone, in my book you're winning.

I do think that as time wears on, we tend to pick up more female speech patterns anyway, and that is worth almost as much as pitch.

And yes, I don't think you need FFS either (from your posts)! 😊

I had SRS in 1982 but came back much more recently for FFS because (a) the transphobic climate, and (b) an improvement in my finances, bc retired. The voice therapy was another luxury of being retired - low cost, but high time investment.

FFS wasn't a thing in 1982. But wish I'd had both then..

Oh yeah, I forgot electrolysis (I have red hair).

All I mean is, no matter what you do, the doubt/dysphoria comes back, but (in my case) never quite as badly. Some ppl are probably better than others at leaving their past behind. Or maybe shrinks help?

4 me, trans is a life sentence. BUT, I'm ok.

Welcome to womanhood...

I'm thinking of writing an essay on the way my self-perception has moved around along the hormones/SRS/life/FFS/Voice therapy timeline. I'm imagining an ascending sawtooth graph...

fwiw, & imho....

Passing and appearing feminine are not the same thing.
I get it that most of us want to look feminine, and enjoy it as well, but that's not what ticks other people's recognition boxes.

Your figure, face and confidence are. And do.

"we will still be inclusive, but just not by actually including you". Maybe they'll create a new section "Boy guides", to which any trans leaders will also be directed? Hey, still the Guides!

It's like FINA creating an "open" category for swimming, and then being surprised no one entered for it.

What if you floated upwards 1 ft every second? YouTube video by xkcd's What If?

What if you floated upwards 1 ft every second?

What the latest What If? video in collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!

youtu.be/oTzW-mTQd5w

*face!

Odd picture to choose. Are they inviting readers to assume that the attractive woman with the dogs is a man? And the punching in the case is presumably a reference to Imane Khelif. One can only hope they are going all out because they think it's all over.... (for them)

You may be right. Silly me, thinking his strategy would be driven by what is good for his party, even if not for the country.

🫂

I thought he was awfully quiet for a while, but he's been making up for that.

I'm not sure what a party of 5 MPs can actuallly do. Maybe I have low expectations, but at least the Greens are demonstrating that transphobia doesn't help you electorally. That has to be good, no?

IIRC, Windows 11 was needed to enable the TPM security chip, and MS apologised for needing it...

But I don't recall noticing any difference