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Scottish. Retired GP. Grumpy.
More tossery from the publicly subsidised Scottish Arts sector.https://open.substack.com/pub/pollyclark/p/anatomy-of-a-vanishing?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=clgoj
8 days ago
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Nick Wallis
8 days ago
What happens when you complain to the Met Police about being doxxed.
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“The Guardrails Are Collapsing”
“If I if I get struck off as a psychologist and I’ve got to go and stack shelves in Tesco, then at least I know I did the right thing. I can’t do this anymore.” One of the t…
https://genderblog.net/the-guardrails-are-collapsing/
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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02...
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/24/wes-streeting-has-shown-hes-a-coward/
14 days ago
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Benjamin Ryan
15 days ago
NEWS: Mt. Sinai, the sprawling hospital system, has joined NYU Langone in shuttering its pediatric gender clinic in the face of threats from the Trump administration of cutting off its Medicaid funding.
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NYC parents say Mount Sinai has cut off services for trans kids ahead of federal rule
Mount Sinai would be the second major NYC health system to end services for trans youth amid threats from the Trump administration.
https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-parents-say-mount-sinai-has-cut-off-services-for-trans-kids-ahead-of-federal-rule
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Brap
16 days ago
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Sterilising Children? Not A Good Idea. Who Knew?
The puberty blocker trial called Pathways has been halted in the UK.
https://open.substack.com/pub/suzannemoore/p/sterilising-children-not-a-good-idea?r=2i83kt&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=title
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For Women Scotland
22 days ago
We have written about the cognitive dissonance of certain MSPs, Epstein, grooming gangs, the Nordic Model survivors, and AshRegan's
#unbuyable
bill.
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The Epstein shaped elephant in the room - For Women Scotland
When does the grooming, trafficking, and sexual exploitation of young women and girls become an issue for society? When is a woman making a liberated, empowered choice and when does she become a victi...
https://forwomen.scot/16/02/2026/the-epstein-shaped-elephant-in-the-room/
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Nick Wallis
22 days ago
A thoughtful piece about an appalling crime. After Tumbler Ridge
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After Tumbler Ridge
Last week, a teenage boy in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, shot 35 people, killing eight: his mother, stepbrother, and a teacher and five students at a local school.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahmittermaier/p/after-tumbler-ridge?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Sarah Mittermaier on the recent statement from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
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Some thoughts about the first major US medical association to defect from gender-affirming care
Sorry, my pithy title generator broke this weekend
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahmittermaier/p/some-thoughts-about-the-first-major?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=clgoj
29 days ago
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Third and final day of For Women Scotland vs the Scottish Ministers at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
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FWS day 3: Sex is Semantics
For Women Scotland (l-r): Marion Calder, Susan Smith, Trina Budge The arguments advanced by the Scottish government in court today boiled down to a simple proposition: if banning men from womenR…
https://genderblog.net/?noptin_ns=email_click&nv=5cLc0EjFeAGFVSv5r1Q4OE.pZ1j.WQPEZiJZbCDAeZ86KhlNmFQm73D5KmAGuRI8YJWcrEDycA4T2hr.cLWTxDX656HHt6UwI34Ofjjaf8L4SlrJJnYpMKFn0MM6WQQ4sXTLyde5C7N.y7bf0SGSUlA2a1EghQf9Cwts_53ibn287Sphim1l4jmonRf1G0aH
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Day one of For Women Scotland Vs the Scottish Ministers.
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For Women Scotland back in court
Susan Smith, Marion Calder and Trina Budge posing for photographers and camera crews outside the Court of Session today Ten months after the Supreme Court confirmed trans-identifying men are not wo…
https://genderblog.net/for-women-scotland-back-in-court/
about 1 month ago
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Cathy Devine
about 1 month ago
'They weren’t trying to protect her. They were trying to neutralise her. And in their eyes, she saw not the future of feminism, but the chilling face of its capture.' Must read for academics in women's studies now neutralised & captured as gender studies.
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ISSUE 18: The Frontline
A 21st century feminist publication where women's voices have power
https://frontlinewomen.substack.com/p/issue-18-the-frontline
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K.Flynnx (St.)
2 months ago
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More from Michael Foran…
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Human Rights in Peggie v NHS Fife
An Employment Tribunal has concluded that Sandie Peggie was unlawfully harassed by her employer, NHS Fife, when it failed to revoke permission granted to a male colleague to use the female changing ro...
https://substack.com/@michaelforan/note/p-181527217?r=22bukc&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
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Maria Kelly: another disgraceful ET ruling
Sandie Peggie dominated the headlines but the Kelly judgment is just as bad
https://open.substack.com/pub/helenjoyce/p/maria-kelly-another-disgraceful-et?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=clgoj
3 months ago
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Exclusive: Why Wes Streeting changed his mind on cross-sex hormones
The evidence that shifted the government’s position on providing the treatment to children is revealed here.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/health/2025/05/exclusive-why-wes-streeting-changed-his-mind-on-cross-sex-hormones
3 months ago
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Naomi Cunningham
3 months ago
We really need to start to face up to the implications of autogynephilia for the admission of men who say they are women to women-only spaces.
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What Is Autogynephilia? | Helen Joyce
YouTube video by John Anderson Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC6Mm7WKWjo
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Sanity and the Peggie tribunal ruling.
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Aboard the Good Ship Sanity
Shared reality and the Judge Kemp ruling
https://pollyclark.substack.com/p/aboard-the-good-ship-sanity
3 months ago
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Michael Foran on some of the legal flaws in the Sandie Peggie tribunal ruling.
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Peggie v NHS Fife: The Judgment
A recording from Michael Foran's live video
https://open.substack.com/pub/knowingius/p/live-with-michael-foran-942?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=clgoj
3 months ago
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Helen Joyce on (some of) what's wrong with the Sandie Peggie tribunal ruling.
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The Peggie judgment: an unholy mess
Just how can an employment tribunal produce something so muddled and wrongheaded?
https://open.substack.com/pub/helenjoyce/p/the-peggie-judgment-an-unholy-mess?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=clgoj
3 months ago
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More on the Sandie Peggie tribunal ruling.
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The Valley Of The Dolls
The first and most important thing to note about yesterday’s judgment in the Sandie Peggie tribunal is that it’s a very big victory. The tribunal found that Sandie Peggie was gravely an…
https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-valley-of-the-dolls/
3 months ago
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Malcolm Clark on BBC self satisfaction.
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The BBC's Defenders Will Be the Death of it.
The refusal of BBC defenders to take its bias seriously will end up destroying an institution they think they're defending. It's a toxic attitude my old colleague Alan Yentob perfected.
https://open.substack.com/pub/malcolmrichardclark/p/the-bbcs-defenders-will-be-the-death?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=clgoj
3 months ago
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3 months ago
My blog post on the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial: "Ten million pounds and two hundred childhoods, spent not to discover whether puberty blockers “work”, but to postpone the moment when the NHS finally has to admit they never did and never could."
www.quackometer.net/blog/2025/11...
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Has anyone else been following the employment tribunal in Northern Ireland of Sara Morrison Vs Belfast Film Festival? It all got a little heated yesterday. Nick Wallis explains. (Links to the previous days on his blog.)
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Tribunal bias claim: Panelist steps down
Professor Deborah Boyd A member of the panel convened to decide the outcome of Sara Morrison’s discrimination claim against Belfast Film Festival has stepped down after Morrison’s legal…
https://genderblog.net/tribunal-bias-claim-panelist-steps-down/
4 months ago
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New piece from SEEN in Journalism.
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The BBC - what next
Yesterday’s Telegraph story confirms the worst - systemic bias favouring pro-trans narratives over a decade. Change is happening, but is it fast enough?
https://open.substack.com/pub/seeninjournalism/p/the-bbc-what-next?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=clgoj
4 months ago
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K.Flynnx (St.)
4 months ago
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Myths about For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers
Since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers in April 2025, there has been an avalanche of misinformation about the what the ruling says, what is men...
https://knowingius.org/p/myths-about-for-women-scotland-v?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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The UK government's attempt to delay the EHRC's guidance following the For Women Scotland Supreme Court ruling. Analysis from Naomi Cunningham.
www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2025/10/31/c...
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Cracking the Code -
The Times has reported that “it has emerged” that ministers have demanded a regulatory impact assessment of the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice before it can be laid before parliament and brought into f...
https://www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2025/10/31/cracking-the-code
4 months ago
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LS
6 months ago
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No Fear. No Favour. Episode Two: Nick Wallis
Journalism should be fearless - and free of favour. We talk to investigative journalist Nick Wallis about his journey into covering sex and gender
https://open.substack.com/pub/seeninjournalism/p/no-fear-no-favour-episode-two-nick?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1mvbvr
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Helen Joyce on the BBC
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Why the BBC deserves to be defunded
It’s degenerated into a propaganda machine
https://open.substack.com/pub/helenjoyce/p/why-the-bbc-deserves-to-be-defunded?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=clgoj
6 months ago
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Gwinnie
7 months ago
www.jkrowling.com/opinions/the...
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The twilight of Nicola Sturgeon J.K. Rowling reviews Frankly - J.K. Rowling
Warning: this article contains adult content and is not appropriate for children. I know I’m stating the obvious, and I’ll probably be one of countless reviewers making the same point, but it’s imposs...
https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/the-twilight-of-nicola-sturgeon-j-k-rowling-reviews-frankly/
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Sandie Peggie and the struggle for single-sex spaces | Michael Foran | The Critic Magazine
One of the most high-profile employment tribunal cases of this century finished hearing evidence this week. The case, brought by nurse Sandie Peggie against NHS Fife and Dr Beth Upton…
https://thecritic.co.uk/sandie-peggie-and-the-struggle-for-single-sex-spaces/
7 months ago
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Sue Evans is appealling the judicial review of the registration of the GenderPlus clinic.
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PROTECT TEENAGERS FROM HARMFUL AND IRREVERSIBLE MEDICAL TREATMENT
I was in the NHS for nearly 40 years & I am now a psychotherapist in private practice. I have worked psychologically with people who present with issues around their gender identity for over 20 years
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/protect-children-from-experime/
7 months ago
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Lillard says IMPEACH & REMOVE
8 months ago
Naomi Cunningham describes the issue clearly.
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Michael Foran going live on Substack shortly to discuss today's hearing. I'm anticipating a lively discussion.
knowingius.org
I assume you need a subscription to listen live, but the recording will be available later.
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Knowing Ius | Michael Foran | Substack
Writing and podcasting about law for a public audience. Quite a bit about discrimination law, sex, and gender identity. Sometimes about other areas of law. Click to read Knowing Ius, by Michael Foran,...
http://knowingius.org/
8 months ago
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Michael Foran "Sandie Peggie has requested nothing more than what she is entitled to under law: a single sex changing facility at work."
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The truth about work, single-sex spaces and the law | Michael Foran | The Critic Magazine
Last week an Employment Tribunal heard evidence in the case of Peggie v NHS Fife and Dr Elizabeth Upton, who is male but identifies as a woman. Sandie Peggie, a nurse of thirty years’ experience…
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-truth-about-work-single-sex-spaces-and-the-law
8 months ago
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When Michael Foran started these updates, he thought they'd be about 15 minutes. The Friday update, done last night, ran for almost two hours, at which point his phone battery ran out. A month's subscription to his Substack is well worth the price of admission.
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https://open.substack.com/pub/knowingius/p/peggie-v-nhs-fife-part-2-day-3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=clgoj
8 months ago
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"Lia Thomas wasn’t barred from female sports for being “transgender”; he was barred for being a male... Trans-identifying males remain fully eligible to compete in UPenn athletics—on the men’s team."
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UPenn Bans Men from Women’s Sports
The school has reinstated the records of female swimmers who lost their titles to a male competitor.
https://open.substack.com/pub/colinwright/p/upenn-bans-men-from-womens-sports?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=clgoj
8 months ago
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Not more charges, more allegations. Which if they lead to charges, would prevent discussion of the quality of the previous evidence in the media. Tactical? That would be an ecumenical matter.
archive.is/ZZkxB
8 months ago
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Sigrid of the LeftGCF💜🤍💚
9 months ago
“The trans movement claims … That Americans turned on them before they had a chance to connect. But I contend the opposite: America did meet the movement—and what they saw disturbed them.”
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It’s Stephen Fry, not JK Rowling, who’s been radicalised
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It’s Stephen Fry, not JK Rowling, who’s been radicalised
My youngest son has audio versions of all of the Harry Potter books. Given the public pronouncements of a certain artist, I’ve started to find this problematic. True, one can separate the art from the...
https://unherd.com/newsroom/its-stephen-fry-not-jk-rowling-whos-been-radicalised/
9 months ago
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Joan Smith on Casey report on grooming (i.e. rape) gangs.
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Grooming gangs report lays bare generational cover-up
Britain has yet to fully get to grips with the scale of violence against women. Today, the spotlight has rightly been on the failure to properly investigate the activities of “grooming gangs” which ha...
https://unherd.com/newsroom/grooming-gangs-report-lays-bare-generational-cover-up/
9 months ago
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On the BBC's analysis of the UK Supreme Court judgement.
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We told BBC Politics about the errors in its Newscast
It took seven pages to list the problems with its Victoria McCloud Interview
https://seeninjournalism.substack.com/p/we-told-bbc-politics-about-the-errors?triedRedirect=true
9 months ago
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Amanda Guinzburg
9 months ago
You wanna see something really scary?
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The controversy surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has finally reached its predictable conclusion. After months of heated debate, media misdirection, and legal posturing, the truth has emerged—again.
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Imane Khelif Is Male—And the Evidence Was Always Clear
The leaked DNA test didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know. Had we put truth before ideology from the beginning, this wouldn’t have been a controversy at all.
https://substack.com/@colinwright/note/p-165143270?r=clgoj
9 months ago
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Brap
10 months ago
www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/l...
❤️ Naomi Cunningham
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I'm sure Strathclyde Law School will be posting a link to Naomi Cunningham's thoughts on this blog any moment now.
www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/l...
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10 months ago
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Rather sinister chatbot documented by Eliza Mondegreen
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"You but genderswap"
Just a quick public-service announcement: I haven’t been receiving Substack comment notifications for a couple of weeks, so forgive me if I’ve missed questions or comments.
https://open.substack.com/pub/elizamondegreen/p/you-but-genderswap?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=clgoj
10 months ago
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From Twitter (formerly X), without comment. Harry Potter and the Sellotaped Willy.
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10 months ago
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Excellent post from
@kathleenstock1.bsky.social
over on Twitter.
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