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An effective ban before the end of the year is highly likely. They won't call it a ban. They'll limit private prescribing by citing safety concerns and then rely on the 25 year waitlists for adult care to effectively make formal access impossible. It'll make legal challenges harder.
The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.
1/🧵 I am reviewing NHS England’s “evidence” papers supporting their ban of GHAT for 16- and 17-year-olds.
It’s hard not to see this as a deliberate and malicious attempt to manipulate the evidence base. Most notably, the scope is restricted to monotherapy or GnRH analogues.
And if I said this is one of my favourite Kesha songs?
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I just wish labour would fuck off now, its not even been 2 years and im exhausted by the continuous flow of heinous shit from them. They make Teresa May look compassionate, competent, and normal in comparison. That shouldn't be possible for someone who is basically human shelob but they've done it.
Wes Streeting isn’t doing this for the Reform vote he’s doing it because he’s a deeply revolting right-wing piece of shit and questions should be asked about the role of his religion in it if we want to be real
Labour are a vile disgusting party that deserves nothing less than totally dying as a party.
And ideally ministers like Phillipson, Streeting and so on would be in prison for all the harm they’ve done to trans people. I hate them so much.
There are two things you can do right now to support young trans people in England.
1) Engage in political advocacy and community support. I've got *loads* of advice on this in my blog post and zine "But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic".
Today's ban on NHS HRT for under 18s formalises a policy that has already been in place - Noone under 18 has received a new prescription for HRT since mid 2024 (I don't know of any since late 2023).
Of course this policy also raises the risk of similar action on private healthcare for under 18s.
Making conversion therapy the official NHS policy for trans youth
these 'reviews' are being conducted by transphobes with pre-determined outcomes.
labour are murdering these children by denying them life-saving care.
@lucympowell.bsky.social and belong in prison.
this stuff is an actual scandal that will eventual break in like 10 years time.
How are you enjoying the game? It's one of my favourites in a long time, I love it
I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore.
If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.
There is “no evidence that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is overdiagnosed in the UK” and the condition could even be “underdiagnosed”, a team of experts has said
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lol. More chance of me getting struck my lightning
We've just learned that the person at the MHRA whose letter caused Wes 'I follow the clinical evidence' Streeting to cancel the puberty blockers trial is Professor Jacob George, the GC who enjoyed mocking trans people on his social media account.
Why did Wes Streeting cover up his name?
Pokemon Pokopia is SO GOOD I want to play more even though I have a thesis to write and I have to go to a musical tonight (I want to, I just want to play more)
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
This article was amended on 5 March 2026. An earlier version said low-skilled workers would “receive immediate access to welfare and social housing” if Labour did not make them wait longer to apply for settlement. In fact, settlement status only gives people the eligibility to apply for welfare and social housing, it does not give them instant or automatic access to such benefits. This has been clarified. From breaking news to huge investigative proje
Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing".
Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.
Deluded. Labour lost about ten points during the course of the 2024 campaign. A strategic triumph it was not.
Opinion Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won't be able to do anything else at all Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don't want extremes - they want a system that is managed and fair Shabana Mahmood is the UK home secretary
This is a hot mess of outright lies and misinformation from the Home Secretary, designed to try and persuade people that a government which is implementing some of the most hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies, in practice, for decades is progressive. 1/
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I’m disappointed in this wording. I don’t see how people can interpret it as anything other than using the language that all politicians use to demonstrate they’re actually a bit anti migrant really.
It’s got no detail to it as said and it kinda goes against what our policy is too.
A screenshot of a post by the Green party leader in the UK which reads - “Migration is part of what makes this country great. We’re not an island of strangers - we’re an island of neighbours. The Green Party will always support fair and managed migration”.
I’m annoyed at this. It simply isn’t our policy.
Like what does “fair and managed” migration actually mean? It’s a set of buzzwords that politicians often use to be more anti migration. But our policy is to be very pro migration and I wish he’d stop freewheeling policy on issues.
A photograph of my Nintendo Switch 2 system playing Pokemon Pokopia. In the picture is the play character and Squirtle also saying “When they do, I bet this whole area’ll become a lot more lively!”
I’m obsessed with Pokemon Pokopia already
Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won’t be able to do anything else at all Shabana Mahmood
There is zero difference between a Labour Home Secretary and a Tory Home Secretary and almost no difference between them and a Reform Home Secretary.
"Oooooo we gotta do border fascism because otherwise we can't do anything good"
Joani Reid is a particularly nasty terf who once described trans people as a “virus” so excuse me if I am very much enjoying/crossing my fingers for her downfall lol
The Guardian is promoting a commercial enterprise the profits from which will be used to harass, exclude and victimise one of the most vulnerable groups in the country.
Polly is so funny because she truly can’t understand why everyone hates her beloved Starmer and keeps having to put out variants of the same article - “they just need to communicate better, Labour are great actually, it’s the dumb voters who are wrong”
The problem wasn't really the negative campaign.
The problem is that it was a smear campaign based on lies.
And still Labour aren't offering any solutions to the highest drug deaths in Europe.
Let's have *that* conversation.
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Apparently 90% of them are on here bleating about “just communicate harder” and other such rubbish.
As if the problem is that Labour is just hiding how amazing they are from us. No, we can see they’re awful