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The full weight of the UK establishment - NHS, the Times, Baronesses of the House of Lords, all misrepresenting an actual full blown scandal of acute child harm. My research (with @sandraduffy.bsky.social) captures the real situation, centring patient voice journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I'll be in conversation with Susan Stryker next week in Glasgow - and you can join us! Friday 23 October, 2pm-4pm at the University of Glasgow. It's free to attend, but please register if you want to come, so we know numbers and can share more information with you.

It is time to go, and I have hope for a better life for our family. I'm grateful we have the means and opportunity to leave and I'm incredibly proud of Cal who has made this happen as well as our kids who have been utterly brilliant.

My new article, co-authored with @sandraduffy.bsky.social is out today, please read & share: "Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hi! This is out today and it’s awesome! And I am proud to be connected to it! SUPPORT TRANS PEOPLE!!! WE ARE FUCKING MAGICAL!!!!

NEW: Llais, the health watchdog for Wales, is investigating the decision by NHS Wales’ Joint Commissioning Committee to indefinitely pause access to gender-affirming surgeries. If you have been affected - they have asked you to share this with them: www.llaiswales.org/news-and-rep...

Girlguiding should be utterly ashamed of themselves. They are not merely excluding trans girls illegitimately but ignoring the rest of the membership who have campaigned to have trans girls included. Girlguiding does not HAVE to exclude trans girls.

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

A couple of days ago, Australia post started a promo with HBO for the Harry Potter TV series. It you noticed the app logo changed to incorporate an owl, that's why. A bunch of people sent in complaints about the association with that revolting TERF JK Rowling. Today they replied. Partnership ended!

🧵 Joint statement: Bulgaria's Supreme Court backs legal gender recognition Read the full analysis of the ruling on our website: tgeu.org/joint-statem... #TransRights #LegalGenderRecognition #Bulgaria #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Reddit user pkunfcj has collated advice on what people in Wales can do to fight back against the trans surgical ban:: - writing to Senedd members and the First Minister (with an example email) - complain through patient advocacy services - complain to the health board - organise protests

This is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted.

And then, you absolutely guessed it, two separate parents came through the line with their trans children, one father crying about how good and rare it feels to hear his son defended. Speak up, authors, if you can. People are listening.

If anyone who follows me isn't already following @notrightruth.bsky.social then you really need to question your life choices.

🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇

🚨We have written to all MP's expressing our anger at the government. Our rights WILL be restored. Our voices WILL be heard. We will continue to fight 🏳️‍⚧️✊

The French platform Trans Youth Trajectories has published a thorough summary of the research case at Oslo University Hospital. English: trajectoiresjeunestrans.fr/en/news/with... French: trajectoiresjeunestrans.fr/actualites/s... Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DbascKzjYQH/

We are now editing some of our photos. You can catch them here as they are being edited! You can also download them and use them as needed. Credit is not needed but is appreciated! adobe.ly/4pCLcYJ

Today, we will be reporting on London Trans+ Pride. A sizeable crowd have already arrived at Langham Place, including @tacc.org.uk

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

The Scottish Parliament's decision to collect and present data based on 'biological sex' has made it harder for researchers to use data to understand and tackle inequalities. 📝 I've written to the Scottish Parliament requesting information on this change: kevinguyan.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

1/🧵 We do need to talk more about the illegality and lawlessness of the Cass Review. Hilary Cass cited Anne Wæhre's then-unpublished “study” via “personal communication”. It was later published at doi:10.1007/s00787-024-02508-5 and doi:10.1111/apa.17530, and the papers have now been retracted.

🧵Yesterday government published a new version of KSCIE - its safeguarding guidance for English schools and colleges. In broad terms, it is trying to make every school and college adopt the practices of the most unsupportive schools (the schools supportive parents avoid!) tinyurl.com/43rmtczm

Access to gender-affirming care has been restricted, school is becoming more difficult and the proposed Code of Practice could make life less safe. How can we better support Trans+ kids?

We now must fix the law, and the huge backlash you have driven really matters. It will not come into force today, but is set to at a later date to be confirmed. This marks a low point in our country’s history of LGBTQ+ rights, but history is still being made. Trans people aren’t going anywhere.

Anna Waehre subsequently lost a court case over medical ethics for violating patient privacy and mining their records without consent.

For an overly academic take on this concept, see here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ANOTHER frustrating take. TERFDOM in the UK didn't succeed cos 'they' were more successful than 'us' at 'reaching the people who matter'. They were more successful by BEING the people who matter. Bigotry positioned with entrenched power vs trans people holding no power.

They have also started doing protest chants - "HRT, HRT, over the counter and for free!"

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

🧵New report from the @childrenscomm.bsky.social shines a bright light on a broken care pathway for children and young people experiencing gender dysphoria. Most get nothing. Only 15% get referred on to the Gender Service, and only 15% assessed / treated for co-occurring mental health need.

We've had years of 'concerns' about these children plastered all over our media. This is the end point - our society is so 'concerned' about trans children that we've carefully made sure they will spend a third of their childhood on a waiting list to nowhere.

Whilst this is a draft, the government has been advised by many experts leading up to this. I’ve been part of this myself, and choosing to keep loopholes that create room for abuse under the guise of healthcare is the antithesis of what medicine should be Every doctor should be loudly opposing this

Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh applauds the City of Edinburgh Council for voting, by an overwhelming majority, to condemn the transphobic new guidance from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. Zoe Harding delivered a blistering speech on our behalf: rtie.org/2026/06/25/e...

I've spent years working towards a ban on conversion practices, hoping to see a bill published. Today, I just feel so profoundly sad. As many others have noted, the draft has a carve out for "healthcare" so broad it makes a mockery of the idea this is a 'ban'. 1/2 www.gov.uk/government/p...

There will never be a conversion therapy bill from this Government that outlaws the current Government endorsed NHS approach to trans kids, which has conversive practices at its heart. Suggesting 'loopholes' can be closed in a forthcoming consultation is beyond naive, it is dangerously unserious

Under the Government’s draft bill to ban conversion abuse, this tortuous practice will be allowed to continue. transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/06...

Hot Take -The UK LGBT+ sector is weak, ineffective & a large part of the reason why we are in this mess. Self congratulatory, ineffectual & compromised -they welcomed the Cass report & Conversion therapy charter with glee vs total resignation on segregation. Rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic.

TLDR It is not robust or effective. About as useful as a chocolate teapot.

Wow the conversion exception for healthcare providers is a MILE wide. Overt & explicit conversion against trans & gay people is FINE & not a conversion practice, i) when conducted by a healthcare provider ii) so long as doesn't 'fall far below the standards reasonably expected in their profession'

It is an awful bill which does nothing to stop state mandated "conversion therapy" of Trans youth. It does nothing but serve as a thin veneer of cover for the most anti LGBT+ Government since Thatcher.