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The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳 It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

I wanted to talk a bit more about this yesterday but was a bit under the weather for anything detailed or coherent, so lets have a go today. I want to expand upon some of the analysis around potential impacts for a bit of a deeper dive. 🧵 [1]

A mother and her transgender daughter on what Coming Out Day really means www.out.com/voices/n... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Hey @teamlabouruk.bsky.social !!! This is what you were supposed to do when you said you wanted trans people to have ‘dignity and respect’ in your manifesto. Instead, you LIED to us.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

If you can't come out right now, please don't hate yourself. One day, the meaning of labels will disappear. Please love yourself as you are. The one who can cherish yourself the most is yourself. Because that is your strength and beauty. Chiitan loves you

“They are threatening social service referrals and taking our legal NHS repeat meds off us. The ICB must have broken every data protection law. They asked to look at what meds our children are on. We refused access to our NHS data, they broke it anyway.”👇

got the right help they needed are being harmed by this government who care more about power and control and pandering to the far right than the safety and lives of our children. This is a political investigation, not based on evidence or fact. Cruelty is the aim not safety.

My child was a patient there also and the ICB have put us through hell in the last few months. They released a public statement at the exact moment they knew we were being told about the investigation, stating that our children would be having their medication "safely withdrawn"....

#UK #TransRights #Suicides Just in case anyone had any doubt, this happened under the "new service specification". Endless waiting lists which aren't addressed and being denied healthcare, all based on an ideologically driven report riddled in bias and basic methodological research errors.

In the last three days we've seen three trans related stories. 1) the preventability suicide of a trans girl 2) @bashback.bsky.social 's action 3) this story about an MP ignoring a suicide trans girl. Which do you think the health sec. Condemned?

A mother pleaded with her MP to help her 15-year-old suicidal daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’ northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

"Laura found an NHS Dr in Brighton who helped support her daughter for 6 months. Laura described it as ‘six months of support bliss’ before NHS ICB Sussex (Integrated Care Board) began investigating them." northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

sherman, for the love of god!

Part 2 of the Gender Clinic Files is out, looking at the impact if Cass recommendations for adult services were introduced, affecting more than 32k young trans adults just from the current waiting list. Huge thanks to @wearequeeraf.com & @whatthetrans.com for their work on this series.

If Baldur's Gate 3 made Withers look like this, the game would've sold a million copies by now smh

This is an amazing defence of trans people against one of the country’s worst transphobic bigots by @zackpolanski.bsky.social

People surprised that some formerly sensible left-leaning or liberal women are now apparently full of admiration for white supremacists, rapists and genocide might note that their entry point for far right radicalisation was invariably a belief that transphobia is ‘feminist’. Just saying.

1/🧵 As a trans lawyer, I say that @zackpolanski.bsky.social gave the legally and politically perfect answer. “Of course they’re wrong. Their job is to look at what has been legislated for. The legislation is wrong and we should get back to parliamentarians who actually stand by trans people.”

From a presentation by Dr Hamnvik at the Oslo Trans Health Conference. The column on the left is the diagnostic guidelines for gender incongruence. The middle & right columns are the diagnostic criteria for depression. If a GP can diagnose depression they can diagnose gender incongruence.

Well, Dr Mengele, you have your evidence now!

TW: child suicide. . . The NHS continues to fail trans kids. This child’s suicide was preventable, the coroner said, but not by the NHS as it is currently operating.

So much comes to mind when I read this. So many emotions. So many words I want scream and shout. But right now I'm just heartbroken.

Gender clinic waiting list 'far too long' says coroner after teen's death www.mylondon.news/news/health/...

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

NEWS! Irony-free Reform supporter who's spent nine years telling people 'You lost, get over it!' now demanding another general election after 15 months newsthump.com/2025/10/07/i...

Just wow! @zackpolanski.bsky.social absolutely kills it in the @greenparty.org.uk party political broadcast. "Let's make hope normal again" www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxt4...

We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?

Commissioner of the EHRC is doing a panel about why DEI should die. Alongside a bunch of people best known for hating trans people. Could someone explain to us all why the EHRC still has its rating?

If you see this, QTP with your top 4 Final Fantasy games 🎮

If you hide your gender identity to fit in, never feel like you've betrayed yourself🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 It's proof that you have a beautiful and kind heart. Chiitan will continue to send out messages until the world becomes a place where you can live with confidence and be yourself.

Let's be clear: this is the result of deliberate political choices to make accessing trans healthcare substantially impossible. It's what Streeting and his ilk want.

The gender clinic files is out now! www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini... Check out our podcast on Monday for our coverage on this.

Around 1 in 5 of the entire trans+ population is on an NHS waiting list, up from 1 in 8 two years ago.

Gender Clinic Files: Some people in Scotland will never get a gender clinic appointment on a 224-year waitlist “More than 48,000 people in the UK were waiting for their first NHS gender clinic appointment as of March 2025, a 12.5% increase since the previous year” cc @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

🚨 UPDATE 🚨 The news is in, and it’s good 🚫 GWD, the anti-trans lobby group led by four disgraced expelled members, has been denied a platform at Autumn Conference They tried to strong-arm the party with legal threats in order to spread their transphobic agenda But the party stood firm 1.

This Saturday after painstaking research and FOIs by @clairestranstalks.bsky.social with @whatthetrans.com, we'll publish 'The Gender Clinic Files' in our newsletter: A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare Sign up 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

An FOI seen by QueerAF shows the anti-trans organisation included in a consultation that led to RSE guidance that will introduce what has been widely described as a 'Section 28 2.0' https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-rse-consultation-featured-four-explicitly-anti-trans-groups-foi-reveals

This is important. The Government is introducing a new "Section 28 2.0" for trans kids and is listening to anti-trans groups, including representative of a group whose members actively support and encourage torturing children (through conversion therapy) to try and make them cis.

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Emma Watson and JK Rowling is a perfect example of why you can't have a civil debate with transphobes. They laugh at your display of kindness. They are filled to the brim with hate for trans people. You cannot reason with them.

Free speech advocates at this weekend's "Protect Our Women" rally in Hull...

#UK #TransRights An FOI has just confirmed what all of us have feared: for the Youth gender services, since July 2024, not a single patient has been referred to commence HRT. And 22 have been moved from youth to adult services , also without treatment. This is scandalous.

"Most violence happens in the home, not on the streets. [We had] a strategy to address it around four pillars: prevention, engagement, the victim’s journey, and rehabilitation. That serious, practical work has now been pushed aside in favour of fearmongering and scapegoating." goodlaw.social/hudg

My right to marry was won through decades of campaigning by queer folks. Trans people were there fighting every step of the way. How 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘦 you try to use our hard won rights to virtue signal while your party persecutes trans people. They have done more for me than your government 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 has.

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights. sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

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