So the Levy review is out. As expected, it proposes another "holistic comprehensive assessment" framework instead of informed consent. The exact gatekeeping bullshit we predicted, wrapped in "quality improvement" language. 🧵

This isn't about fixing wait times or improving care. It's about systematizing gatekeeping while patients wait half a decade. It's medical conversion therapy with bureaucratic efficiency.

Now, will the newly appointed EHRC Chair Mary-Ann Stephenson apologise for funding her witch hunt against Stonewall?

I’m unmasking with you if I 1) can’t shut up 2) have no desire to talk at all And it means I’m comfortable bc one I’m super excitable and infodump and the other is that I don’t have to be “on” or “entertain” 🤭❤️

With £1,000,000 now spent Allison Bailey loses again.

Looks like Levy may be dropping at 2pm. 1) Dont panic 2) Itll take some careful analysis so beware people jumping the gun 3) put your own mental health first. If youre posting stuff, be responsible and mind other mental health. Use warnings etc as appropriate. Looks like a busy weekend for me.

Ken Paxton, the Texas AG has created a bathroom snitch line to report suspected trans people in bathrooms. Please don't spam this form that lacks a captcha code and definitely don't create a script to automate it. That would be very very wrong to do. www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...

Cycling UK have recently stated that their annual 100 Women in Cycling award won’t include any trans women or non-binary Over 50 current nominees and previous winners have rejected or returned their awards. I know many of them personally I’m proud of my cycling sisters. All of them

This is deeply troubling. The silence of so much of the mainstream. That this should be happening when a former human rights lawyer is Prime Minister… Peace is a greater threat to the powerful than war.

It seems that the terfs are outnumbering TKDB. If you're around London and available, please come down and support them if you can.

Trans Kids Deserve Better are outside DHSC protesting the puberty blocker ban

New Zealand's libertarian/ populist/ right wing coalition Government is trying to follow Wesley Streeting's lead in banning puberty blockers. This is what the New Zealand High Court has just decided (www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...).

Being trans isn’t a choice. Living authentically is.

Draft Guidance on Toilets and Changing Rooms OUT for consultation. No, not THAT guidance - but mine. I got fed up with waiting for this government to get on with the guidance that’s really needed especially after the Kelly and Peggy cases. translucent.org.uk/toilets-chan...

Incredible to hear my research and hard work between myself, @wearequeeraf.com & @whatthetrans.com referenced in Parliament today. Tganjs to @serenadtyl.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention!

@clairestranstalks.bsky.social I'm not sure if you've seen it/are aware but your research was just used today in a Westminster Hall Debate on the 'provision of healthcare for transgender people'.

How gender critical was Nazi Germany? Let’s find out & compare some top gender critical “beliefs” with evidence from historical Nazi Germany. Each post has a GC position + a picture from a historical source or modern research paper. English translation & the source are in each picture’s alt-text.

Hannah Barnes wearing a hot dog suit "we're all trying to find the person that did this."

After ten years of sustained campaigning against trans people, years of absolute hatred pushed through all media channels, untold millions sloshing around in gender critters gofundmes and they've still only convinced 1 in 4 people to hate us. Doesn't seem like a great return on their investment

Sussex. You know, where they are forcibly detransitioning trans kids...

When transphobic “academics” complained about a “chilling effect” on their “research” they meant people describing their transphobic “research” as transphobic. Now there is a REAL chilling effect for trans academics of top-down establishment measures like fines & toilet bans. archive.is/oYqXS

So, Laura Kuenssberg's introduction to her interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson is just hideous. Let me count the ways. 🧵

I had a meeting with my Labour MP the other day. He said to me it's going to get so much worse now with the new Chair in place. I have no hope left that things will get better or that my son will ever be safe here, so we are leaving the country.

Bridget Phillipson knew her history, was told by MPs not to appoint her, insisted on appointing her, and in her first interview the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has ignored super clear and explicit human rights law that trans people are not a third sex. What a disgrace.

This is absolutely disgusting. Stephenson still believes proselytising to remove human rights should be tolerated at work. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

TACC Exposé : In 2023, a number of LGBTQ+ stakeholder groups, including TransActual and TransLucent, were invited to a dedicated meeting with the EHRC’s evidence team.  Given the high stakes of the meeting and

Please take the time this weekend to make a complaint to the BBC. This is getting intolerable.

One really interesting thing i noticed from the chat with Chay from TransActual re: Levy is that the report was written early this year. Which begs a couple of curious questions. Like who has it / why hasnt it been released? Theres another curiosity too. 1/

'One parent told me that she was hearing reports of Dr Hillary Cass (of the Cass Review) teaching staff at NHS Sussex on how to detransition trans children.' northwestbylines.co.uk/opinion-corn...

“I reached out to NHS Sussex for comment on this and I got no reply, just a cold wall of silence. Silence is how NHS Sussex have conducted their investigation.” We’ve always known that there is a concerted effort by the NHS to erase trans kids from society. One day, we will have our public enquiry.

Shame he chose to ignore them the first time around when they overwhelmingly advised him not to pause the treatment. Every single clinician in the consultation group voted against the pause... every single one.

News flash for you Wes, it doesn't matter if it gives you the ick, unless you're the one taking PBs, it's literally nothing to do with you. Also the Secretary of Health thinks PBs "stop" puberty? How many parents and trans kids has he talked too and obviously never once listened to them

Hang on, what did i miss? JK Rowling, pioneer of gender confirming cis white women and girls everywhere, invited WHO onto the set of the new Harry Potter? I'll give you a clue - she tweeted her condolences to his most known victim when she died.

This is from the Irish Labour Party, the SDLP and Irish Labour Women. A full-throated condemnation of UK Labour’s ban on trans women at its women’s conference. “In the current climate, the trans community is the canary in the mine for the growing wave of anti-LGBTQIAP+ rhetoric.”

No one can be surprised by the rank hypocrisy of Murdoch's 'Trump is a feminist hero' and 'Ending Roe v Wade was right' Times. But worth noting the difference between when it gets what it wants from the judiciary and when it doesn't.

Fucking state of this. Acting like they are completely powerless to do anything since the SC judgement. Any new way of including people without amending the Equality Act will just be all-new segregation, now with added ‘dignity and respect’.

“Transgender and nonbinary youth (ages 13 to 24) whose pronouns are respected were 31 percent less likely to attempt suicide in the past year than those whose pronouns are not respected, according to a new report from The Trevor Project” www.advocate.com/exclusives/p...

Baroness Falkner questions “veracity” of a judge’s judgment. In a possibly unique statement the immediate former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Baroness Falkner is reported by the BBC as having questioned the ‘veracity’ of the Judgment of the Judge in Peggie v Fife and Upton.

Some comments by myself on the rather unattractive media campaign now being run by Baronrss Faulkner. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In conversation with Shon Faye. Premiering now: 👇🏼 youtu.be/3qkAGseHe3I?...

The Scottish charity Equality Network (@scottishtrans.bsky.social) has produced this excellent explainer on Peggie v NHS Fife. www.equality-network.org/a-short-summ...

One more to add to the set…

Harassment, 'untruthful' evidence, and 'unusual' legal questions. Our reporter Xander Elliards looks at nine points from the Sandie Peggie ruling that the rest of the media has left out

I spoke in Parliament today to challenge the misinformation from those claiming this tribunal as a 'win' for the anti-trans agenda. In fact it found Ms Peggie harassed a colleague for being trans, and it dismissed almost all her claims. It also found that trans segregation is not supported in law.

Always remembering Lucy Meadows. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o...

The only person to come out of the SPeggie/NHS tribunal vindicated and with a completely untarnished reputation is Dr Beth Upton. Not SPeggie, Not the NHS management, Not Four Women Scotland, Not the media, Just Dr Upton.

In her evidence, Dr Upton said she was comfortable not using that changing room and having her own room. The tribunal considered this fact, concluding that it might be the least discriminatory option during part of the suspension and until alternative work hours arrangements are put in place.