"We judge a society by how they treat the most vulnerable" actual words that just came out of Wes Streeting's mouth.

Abuse of trans people in the UK is becoming so normalised & encouraged you have to wonder what the actual scale of the problem really is. And just how many people are being turned away from cis run services. You can guarantee the govt certainly don't care. www.itv.com/news/granada...

From Instagram - today the Dyke Project shut down NHS England HQ to protest the politically motivated ban on trans youth healthcare.

Mind you, if he didn't write shit like this he wouldn't be paid six figures.

Having looked at the farce of the "evidence reviews" across two threads, here's a third thread looking at the decision made by NHS England to stop hormone therapy for trans people under 18 years old. The start of these threads is here:

"Begrudging tolerance" - That so well sums it up

Even if Rowling were a staunch trans ally I'd still be perplexed at the enduring popularity of some derivative elitist public school fantasy where some kid discovers he was upper class all along & joins the police while the status quo persists forever. Including slavery.

@clairestranstalks.bsky.social thought you in particular would 'like' this. Leeds GIC are offering us the chance of typing a whopping 250 characters to say what we don't like about the Levy Review. Who says they never listen to us eh? www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/news/article...

A common gender critical talking point is that trans people are too complex and fraught an issue to bring up with children. But what I would actually struggle with as a parent would be explaining to my child why they've been banned from an activity they love simply because of who they are.

Germany 1938: "I'm going to have to take issue with calling the school antisemitic for banning Jewish children from attending. You see they're just being told to by actual antisemites" If you want to see the persecution of a minority group rationalised in real time, just look at the UK right now.

As of 2026, the WI and the Girlguides are transphobic organisations in principle and design. Anyone who continues to support the WI and Girlguides is propping up their transphobic leadership. Either you oppose transphobia or you support it. There is no middle ground.

Trans people are so often excluded from decisions made about them. I am concerned the puberty blockers trial has been paused not for clinical reasons, nor because govt listened to trans people's constructive concerns about how it will be run, but as a political decision...

This 1000%

United Nations blocks US attempt to erase trans people.

This is *bonkers*. It's like a caricature of science done totally wrong. It's terrifying b/c it shows how numerous ppl in the NHS have abandoned all pretence of trying to do decent medicine out of ideology or simlpy b/c it's their job to peddle this blatant nonsense.

This will probably be a slow and enraging job, but I'm going to start a thread to examine the documents put together as justifications for removing hormone therapy as a (theoretical) option for under 18s on the NHS They are linked here www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...

The latest episode of Philosophy Tube is about conversion therapy, why it’s still legal in the UK, and the ways the British government is implicated in it making it NHS policy. Proud to expose this stuff ✊ youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

A brief reminder that Jenni Murray dedicated the last almost decade of her life to anti-trans activism, including working alongside Sex Matters on a campaign, and so should be remembered with that full context of who she was considered.

Putting together an analysis of all the anti trans laws over the last few years and there's never been anything like this in US history. The total number of state laws passed in 5 years (300+) approaches the total number of Jim Crow laws (400+) passed over a 100 years.

Then, after much soul searching, he decided to prioritise what was most important to his values. The pay cheque.

"Reset the Labour Party"

Guardian reporting on Leo Varadkar's article on attacks on LGBTQ+ rights. Varadkar mentions trans rights 5 times, but Guardian 0 times. Leo points to the toxicity of US and UK debate, but Gaurdian ignores. Their silence is GC* Ideologically driven journalism. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

wow, this is like a Legion of Doom of anti-trans researchers – spread the word!

Bigotry is intersectional. Always.

Well this is all a bit official / exciting filmsandfestivals.britishcouncil.org/projects/dan...

In half a decade, Labour have abandoned all but one pledge the two seniormost figures in the party have made by the LGBTQ community, and failed on the remaining easy one - to abolish conversion therapy - because they can't figure out a way to do it that doesn't show support for trans people.

Rachel, you're trying to make it illegal for a decent percentage of your tech talent to go to for a piss, and threatening to report the families of another decent percentage

If you're not on the other place, there's a TOOL just been launched (offsite) to check which accounts MPs are following site.mpfollowers.workers.dev Pretty good, ngl

Fascinating thread..

If he had actually listened to trans kids, he wouldn’t have taken away their healthcare btw, no trans young person went to that meeting and said “this medication that’s enabling me to be my authentic self? Ban it please”

Oh yeah? How about this @lizzicollinge.bsky.social : YOU meet with the trans kids Wes met with and see if they think he 'listened' to them. I'll set up the meeting myself. We'll even video it and put it online so you can show everyone how 'listened to' trans kids feel by Labour. I dare you.

Anyone who believes Streeting 'followed the evidence' about puberty blockers is either too ignorant and naive to understand what a con job looks like or is in on it themselves. Even for Labour transphobia, this is embarrassing.

If the "wes set aside his own beliefs to follow the evidence" version involves trans kids losing all healthcare and the threat of outlawing all trans meds for everyone this is absolutely chilling about what Wes Streeting *actually* wants to do to trans people

You can tell yourself whatever you need to to sleep at night, but Wes Streeting has personally ensured trans kids will die, many already have. He promotes a woman who calls that reality 'shroud waving'. History will remember every person who played a role in this for the monsters they are.

He's a Christian Concern crank who is able to fool cis people with his language because so many cis people are ignorant. Trans people despise him. Those trans kids he met, they despise him. They cried in front of him and he took their medication away. He has covered up rising suicide rates.

Speaking as one of the families Streeting is supposed to have listened to, this is bogus. Wes ignored all evidence he didn't want to hear. He has criminalised supportive families & directly harmed wellbeing of Trans kids. Whether religion or bigotry the result is the same. A generation betrayed.

What beliefs did he set aside, Lizzi?

Sorry, the only way I can read a Labour MP defending Wes by saying he's "setting aside" his own beliefs and "following the evidence" is that he is deeply transphobic and hasn't completely banned all trans healthcare yet because he's waiting on another two sham reports to provide the "evidence"

This is the thing. Our so-called 'allies' in Labour will always close ranks to defend Labour's disgusting transphobia, even to the extent of defending total scum like Streeting - someone is is *blatantly* a particularly extreme transphobe The terms "Labour MP" & "trans ally" are mutually exclusive

LGBT Labour Scotland's site at the beginning of the year vs today. Internet archive would suggest it was still up in January, even though the group has been inactive online for a few years now.

Today's Daily Mail is lashing out at (checks notes) *empathy* - and suggesting that Britain's "ruling elite" has too much of it 🤔 With advertising from LloydsBank, Lidl, The Range and Lotto

What is the Labour Party for? I know there are still some residual Labour supporters on here, so I’m Asking you people specifically… why? Why does the Labour Party exist? What is it for? What is its offer? What does it believe? Genuine questions, looking for non-boilerplate answers.

FYI to trans people: HRT Cafe has apparently shut down after too much media attention. Please, take advice from an old trans woman: Take those discussions underground. All of them. Anything that discusses what we need to survive & where to get it. Word of mouth and private forums only!

These two things do not go together. Cheering on support for trans rights calling out our oppression, next day go out campaigning for the party doing said oppression

Court cases, think-tank connections and opaque funding streams reveal how a Christian pressure group has become a central player in the UK’s culture-war politics. @kdenkwrites.com investigates.

The American Export of Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Worldwide globalextremism.org/reports/proj...

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Real banality of evil stuff Bland pen pushers indifferently ruining children's lives without even really noticing what they're doing really is the most terrifying part of all this.

I recall before the BBC turned full transphobe a decent BBC3 doc where a teenage trans lad on T privately was told by GIDS he had to come off T & go on PBs for a year or two before they'd give him T. Which ofc made no sense. But it was THE LAW. GIDS LAW.