The UK Trans Experience: you can be arbitrarily included in a lawsuit that has nothing to do with you, be included in national coverage and have dozens of articles written about you, be found innocent of everything and still have journalists follow you to different countries to call you a pervert

The cis judge who decided it didn't really matter if Dr Upton was outed should have to pay her compensation imo. She's moved to the other side of the planet and she's still being stalked and harassed. He ruined her life because he refused to consider outing and harassment a serious harm.

British hospitals are very gender segregated. On a particular ward there are usually shared rooms for men and shared rooms for women and it's considered a big deal if someone has to be put in the wrong one. I had a procedure recently and they had split waiting areas and recovery areas.

There are so many things about this which are awful but I want to point out that moving trans women to men's prisons "within days" allows no time for the prison service to do a risk assessment of whether a particular placement would put a trans woman at risk of physical or sexual violence.

There was an incident when a staff member of a well-known London university had to attend an immigration tribunal to contest the Home Office's assertion that they weren't a 'genuine' institution. The judge accepted their appeal as the judge had received their own law degree from said institution.

It is almost, almost, impressive just how Labour have taken the massively dysfunctional and incompetent Home Office and managed by dint of policies and rhetoric to make it even more dysfunctional and incompetent. It is a true testament to how hostile they are to migrants. archive.today/07Hdr

Extremely relevant context for understanding the new Finnish study

Being in group training with someone constantly using AI to answer is really annoying. The point of the exercise is to think through the example. Not to post a chatgpt list 5 seconds in and do 0 thinking. Interferes with other people's learning as well, everyone else wants to actually engage.

The methods here are absolutely wild. So any gender appointment before 22 is included, going back to 1996. I'm not sure exactly when Finland started offering any kind of medical transition to under 18s but I'm sure it wasn't 1996.

Welcoming in our beautiful solarpunk future

They say "there are different views" because they can't say "the evidence is mixed" or "the evidence shows risks and benefits". The evidence shows nothing but benefits. But some people think it's bad even though evidence says otherwise! So it's technically true that "there a different views" 🫠

"It's unlikely that he would've been able to, given Waffle House's sealing jutsu," said Hiruzen Sarutobi, who holds the Sandaime Chair of Ninjutsu Studies at Leaf University. "But some Sharingan users have been able to use unconventional space-time techniques, so we can't rule it out."

Who to trust, guy who claims he teleported to a waffle house, or a guy willing to describe himself to the NYT as a teleportation expert

In one of these cases having taken T was considered evidence of intent to deceive. I think a lot about having a body that is considered legally deceptive. Just by looking the way I look I'm halfway to committing a serious sexual offence at all times.

The NHS is "cautious" of some harms but not others. Destroying the mental health of trans youth they are not cautious of at all. This is the harm of approaches which do not accept young people's account of who they are, and aim to change gender identity or transition goals.

I know I keep circling back to this, but I don't think k a lot of well-meaning people realise how much it rankles when the response to Harry Potter funding trans genocide is a focus on "what to read instead to be a Good Person" rather than, I dunno, more directly helping combat the trans genocide.

Media reports are saying Queensland Children's Gender Service state co-ordinator Olivia Donaghy is resigning for reasons that boil down to "I didn't sign up to do conversion therapy, this is malpractice, fuck this noise". Good on her www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...

based on actual interactions

Crossing state borders for HRT. Insurance denials. Missed surgeries. U.S. Catholic bishops imposed a ban on all trans healthcare throughout the church's massive networks. That's left working class trans people struggling even more. Our latest, by @davidforbes.bsky.social are some of their stories:

If your condemnation of an antisemitic arson attack on FUCKING AMBULANCES has a 'yes but' you are a bad person. And probably would have voted for Hitler.

Some things are universally wrong no matter the cause. Violence against civilians is wrong Targeting medical infrastructure is wrong Terroristic attacks against a community are wrong Threatening violence unless people say they agree with you is wrong

There's a LOT of books about being trans or queer on here, a lot of books with gay romance. Alongside a lot of extremely child appropriate manga, fairy tale is aimed at like 10-14 year olds. My question is are there any books about gay or trans people they didn't remove? At all?

So deeply sad that the family of a dead young person are having to go through legal battles for basic respect for their child

Any medical professional encountering a pregnant teenager will already be seeing this as a potential safeguarding concern and asking questions like "how old is your boyfriend" and "do you feel safe in your relationships" and an obligation to escalate if there are concerns.

An Emma Thomson #Oscars anecdote for your day

Someone who is having to do active "setting aside" of their personal beliefs, to the extent it's a part of the conversation should not be making critical decisions about minority healthcare. If he was making decisions purely on his religious beliefs what would look different?

The UK is trying to argue in multiple areas, that denying trans people the right to transition medically and socially is not discrimination against trans people. If this is held to be lawful and not discrimination then our supposed human rights protections are worthless.

I agree that this is...not good. Curious even.

Complete failure of duty of care to both allow this to happen (why aren't there adults paying enough attention to intervene earlier) and also to allow it to get into the papers. A child worker under stress shouldn't have to deal with the prospect of being labelled a bully in the papers.

That we reject ON PRINCIPLE any review that does not have trans leadership and trans accountability steeped in its design. The cis people who have been put into positions of authority across trans youth healthcare do not have our trust & continue to demonstrate they do not DESERVE our trust.

Feeling like the bad trans news is just relentless

Where this subsetting of patient groups breaks down entirely is in the review for non-binary interventions. All six of the reviews on non-binary interventions have 0 publications included.

So, those hormone reviews are out www.england.nhs.uk/publication/... They've split evidence for feminising and masculinising treatment, binary and non binary treatment, and e monotherapy Vs blocker plus e.

"...these arguments have become implausibly detached from the legal & factual context in which [I/Goodwin] were decided. They fail to take seriously the increasingly serious incursions on the privacy rights of trans people that are likely to occur if the trans-exclusionary interpretation prevails"

"not enough good quality evidence" this is the same bullshit game as Cass, there's evidence showing benefits and none showing harm but there's not enough/it's not "high quality" enough to meet some arbitrary standard.

This means that 9-year-old Lucy can deadlift me.

Please share - and donate if you can! I'm helping to raise money for Isaac - a Black trans kid seeking vital healthcare in England. Isaac is lucky enough to have a very supportive family, but they have all been screwed time and time again by the NHS and UK authorities. Any contribution will help!

NHS conversion practices. The main references they are using are from 1950-1981. An era where anything other than being cishet and gender confirming was deeply pathologised

Plenty of people with views exactly like his are allowed to be in positions making decisions about trans people's lives. Just as long as they are a bit more careful about what they put on twitter.

“It’s weird,” he said. “I just did something that I would think anyone would do. What do you mean you would watch a stroller and a baby just sink?”

Worth reading their letter in full, but would particularly like to draw attention to this paragraph, following the High Court decision. Routinely outing trans people at work is not compatible with their human rights.

underappreciated but very funny gorton and denton sideplot: the conservatives nominating literal sex matters (uk terf group) trustee charlotte cadden, only for her to get the worst result for the conservatives in by-election history and lose her deposit

Kansas is engaging in incredibly severe legal persecution of trans people. People got a letter today and aren't allowed to drive to work tomorrow. This is absolutely terrifying, solidarity to trans people in kansas

Freedom of association is a human right. I think organisations shutting after being told by the chair of a government human rights body that they are not allowed to run on a trans inclusive basis is tragic. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.

Read this and remember that this is the effect size found in just seven weeks. Maybe people are just slightly more conservative in every seven week period but that adds up over a year and doesn't switch off when they stop. Really scary results

Genuinely not sure most cis people understand how severe a trans rights crisis this is. If you are openly trans you face discrimination and daily humiliation. If you are not openly trans you risk being fired if your workplace finds out. That's a huge blackmail vulnerability.

Nearly a year into many trans people in the UK being forced to use disabled toilets or asked to work from home pending legal advice and stuff and I haven't seen a single "Izzy's boss told her she has to use a disabled toilet, here's how she feels about it" piece in the papers.

"Yes, it would be wrong to tell a child, just because they’re GNC, that they need to transition. But nobody is doing that. It’s just a lie."

We did it? We actually arrested him? The evidence must be the most damning on a scale we can't imagine.