Cal Horton (they/them)

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....

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/...

It analyses the shocking & persecutory NHS actions targeting trans adolescents and supportive families at the WellBN GP practice, through a lens of cis-supremacy and moral panic. It listens to and centres the voices and experiences of those whose GP prescribed healthcre has been forcibly removed

When I chat to people in my area who know my kid is now out of school, who know why, I'm yet to find a single cis person who will say anything like: 'I'm sorry' 'It's really unfair' 'It's terrible what she's experiencing' Not one For everyone else persecution is All Just Fine.

Anyone here know python and can help me with some home school coding help please. How to convert any number into hexidecimal form using code in python without using the hexidecimal function 1/2

I know GLP are up against a very hostile legal context but this is absolutely a depressing read. Highlighting minor ways in which schools can flex that still leave trans kids in a horrendous & harmful position. These flexes are no where near enough to protect trans kids.

Maybe better brains than mine can square the circle of how to get lawyers to talk about discrimination in a way that recognises unjust laws do not define what is and is not discrimination.

I know GLP are up against a very hostile legal context but this is absolutely a depressing read. Highlighting minor ways in which schools can flex that still leave trans kids in a horrendous & harmful position. These flexes are no where near enough to protect trans kids.

GLP, as lawyers, sometimes write as though their audience is lawyers. I'd like GLP guidance to be useful beyond law courts. Discrimination means a different thing to a general public, or teacher, than in a court of law. We need to call out discrimination even where it is not 'illegal'.

I know GLP are up against a very hostile legal context but this is absolutely a depressing read. Highlighting minor ways in which schools can flex that still leave trans kids in a horrendous & harmful position. These flexes are no where near enough to protect trans kids.

Where a trans girl is banned from using the girl's bathroom, we should not be labelling it 'discrimination' if she is forced to use the boys and 'less discrimination' or not discrimination if she is 'allowed' to use the disabled or other spaces. Both are discrimination, whatever our laws say

I know GLP are up against a very hostile legal context but this is absolutely a depressing read. Highlighting minor ways in which schools can flex that still leave trans kids in a horrendous & harmful position. These flexes are no where near enough to protect trans kids.

Let's not pretend there is any dignity or safety in these minor tweaks. Let's not pretend that a school avoiding these minor accommodations is what constitutes 'discrimination'. The whole approach is discrimination & abuse by design, even if it is currently 'legal'.

I know GLP are up against a very hostile legal context but this is absolutely a depressing read. Highlighting minor ways in which schools can flex that still leave trans kids in a horrendous & harmful position. These flexes are no where near enough to protect trans kids.

Anyone at the mass lobby today. You can tell them about my kid. Supported at school for years. Now out of school - driven out by hateful segregationist school policy introduced by Labour. Trans kids are being persecuted by this government

As one of few trans scholars receiving a PI grant from UK RI, I would really like the context underpinning the need to leave the UK, and the consequent need to leave this important research grant, to be noted".

Anyone at the mass lobby today. You can tell them about my kid. Supported at school for years. Now out of school - driven out by hateful segregationist school policy introduced by Labour. Trans kids are being persecuted by this government

I just submitted a termination request for my UK research council project. There are not many trans researchers to have been funded as Primary Investigator on UK research. I asked them to note the context of me terminating the research project:

Ecuador "makes a parent’s 'promotion' of gender-affirming medical care for a transgender child grounds for the loss of their parental rights". So many places in this world are using state violence to do everything they can to stop trans kids finding support.

For many, today is the last weekend before school restarts. Sorting uniform, finding books, preparing to be reunited with friends. For my kid, who won't be returning to school, it is a time of huge uncertainty. We don't yet have a clear path forward. English schools are no longer a viable option.

We are working towards alternative options but those options haven't yet worked out. It's really scary and stressful. Most of all it's deeply sad. She has actually been happy at school. That happiness has been stolen from her.