Well, isn't that interesting? Regardless of financial security, Labour's support amongst social conservatives is in the single figures. It's almost as if their rabid transphobia is driving away decent human beings in droves while bringing in basically no votes at all. Who'd have guessed?

Hammer-beating row "took over my life", whines person who beat coworkers with hammer.

I just marked this year's Trans Awareness Week in the best way I could think of.

This is a) terrible, and b) hugely better than the UK. Not sure what the % is over here - @hleehurley.com probably has a rough idea, at least - but we would kill for fully 30% of all stories about trans rights quoting trans people. And 30% is abysmal! It ought to be 100%!

This is more than just denial of reality; it's an accusation. It's claiming that trans adults are lying about their own childhoods, in order to trick children into transitioning. It's why glinner loves the "groomer" lie. It's a blood libel intended to portray us as a threat that needs to be stopped.

"I am not competent to continue a prescription provided by a specialist, order 1-2 blood tests a year, and compare some numbers to reference ranges" is the kind of admission that should lead to a GP being struck off for gross incompetence. And yet!

Some good news for trans people for once. Reid is the UN Independent Expert on protection from violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. He was one of the UN experts who criticised the supreme court ruling and urged parliament to act to protect trans rights.

Even if it were true that reducing suicidal ideation did not reduce actual suicides, having experienced suicidal ideation, I can confirm that it fucking sucks! Reducing it is still very obviously a strongly positive outcome in and of itself.

It's also just plain wrong. Three studies found statistically significant reduction in suicidality. The fourth, and smallest, with only 19 subjects in the treatment group, found reductions that fell just short of significance. No competent statistician would describe that as "inconsistent".

IOW, the government thinks it's right and proper that trans people be excluded from "hospitals, refuges and sports clubs", and intend to make sure that stays the case. But don't worry, everyone, they hear our concerns! They're just not going to address them in any substantive way. Fuck Labour.

More of this tone please 😏

This is an excellent article, but I disagree with the excerpt below. In my reading, the supreme court's decision has done far more damage to the Gender Recognition Act than many people have realised, rendering it fundamentally unfit for purpose. CAVEAT: not a lawyer, this is just my opinion. [1/n]

Well that's a hell of a thing to admit to a tribunal. "No, see, our film was about *spreading* transphobic lies, not *fact-checking* them!"

Excellent statement. I particularly liked the fact that they were willing to clearly call out the ruling as transphobic, as well as highlighting the part allowing us to be excluded from both men's and women's spaces simultaneously. And, of course, referencing the ever-fantastic @jessothomson.co.uk

"My view is that despite the law being very clear, actually, a few very determined transphobes have crawled their way to the heart of the law like maggots in an apple. A system that has been working perfectly well since 2010 has now been unnecessarily tampered with..." Hell yes.

Perhaps that august body could protect its own standing by not throwing people's rights in the bin to suit its own prejudices. Respect for the court is important, when the court is worthy of that respect. It has breached that social contract, and politicians and legal people should make that clear.

Trans people have been excluded from every single step. From Cass. From the Supreme Court. From the EHRC. From politics. From the media. And still, trans people will be blamed when this explodes in everyone's faces despite trans people warning, for years, that this is what would happen.

Is...is this a thing? Because to my non-lawyer eyes it reads like the kind of transparently sophistic horseshit a debate club nerd throws out when asked to defend an untenable position and is hoping to at least score some points for cleverness. It reads like "the card says Moops" cranked up to 11.

Losing ground to transphobes would hurt ever so slightly less if they weren't all so fucking STUPID.

Just imagine if an MP or a political party were willing to speak this clearly and forcefully in defence of our rights.

This is worth expanding on a bit. It's the logic of conversion therapy. It's the logic of corrective rape. It's saying "we know you better than you know yourself, and we're going to make you conform to our view of you". Seeing it in a supposedly scientific report is absolutely chilling.

The government explicitly addressed this point during the committee stage. The speaker here is David Lammy, and the word "gender" was clipped off the end of the last sentence. Too many laws to name all of them, and they were of the opinion that the existing text was clear. More fool them, I guess.

More frequent?! PIP reassessments are already every two years, which is a colossally stressful waste of time and energy for most claimants. Assessments also cost money, so this isn't likely to make savings, except by making the process even more miserable and driving people away. Fuck Labour.

This is a great poem by Danielle Coffyn. IF ADAM PICKED THE APPLE

VALJEAN AT LAST WE SEE EACH OTHER PLAIN

One obvious problem Republicans have here is that many of the arguments SciAm make against Trump apply more or less equally to the party as a whole. They can't very well say "yes, we should absolutely reject candidates who are climate deniers", can they?

That last screenshot is...just...I'm losing my fucking mind here. "No doubt this hospital is held to a lower standard - but this is largely because they so frequently kill their own patients". THAT'S WORSE, YOU CLOWN.

Oh so now a woman has been done the injustice of being called trans suddenly there is mainstream pushback against gender policing in sport ey now its undeniably affecting ~Real People~

Me trying to fall asleep every night

More than four months in the making, a story I've been calling my "Big Finland Piece" is finally here. It describes the efforts of Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala to export Finland's deeply dystopic version of transgender healthcare to the wider world.

May Hillary Cass not know a moment peace as long as she walks this earth. Blood on her hands. Blood on her hands. Blood on her hands.

To all trans folk. It's really hard right now, but we've got this and we'll get through it. We are an AMAZING community and we look after each other as much as we can. We also have some great allies watching our backs. Remember, you ROCK! You're WORTH IT, and you're LOVED!

“It’s actually the transgenders who are homophobic”, I scream, as I continue to insist that gender/sex is defined by an innate and immutable relationship to natural roles in heterosexual reproduction

Kind of love it when a cis person goes “there’s no simple solutions here“ and you get to reply “no there really is a simple solution and it would be accepting trans people instead of appeasing bigots“

The history of transgender medicine is the field was dominated by eugenicists and abusive quacks for much of the last century and the moment trans people had succeeded in throwing most of them out liberal media and conservative politicians said "now wait just a goddamn minute"

The biggest DARVO in trans issues by far is pretending that trans healthcare has been captured by "gender ideologues", when what's really been happening is the slow grueling process of removing the influence of weird abusers who shouldn't be practicing medicine on anyone

“I saw a really floofy dog” should be a completely acceptable reason to be late to a meeting

In fairness, Jesse is a terrible judge of whether or not to keep posting garbage takes like this one, so I can sort of see where he's coming from here.

Today in Parliament we have seen the culmination of how the right wing attacks science directly. A single speech legitimises the disregarding of decades of studies and research instead imposing an ideologically driven set of recommendations that will lead to deaths.

In light of how difficult a week its been, I'll just say this: I intend to survive the rough few years to come. You should get it firmly in your head that you will too. Every one of us who survives this will be a gift and a blessing to the world.

Bringing back this one thats been goin around tumblr cause it’s relevant again

If an organisation was set up with the sole purpose to attack people because of their Race, Age or Religion, the government would act to stop them, in the UK, with the full endorsement of the Charity Commission and the EHRC they grant them charity status. 🤦‍♀️

Fascinating: regret rates for trans surgery are so low compared to other surgeries that researchers are asking whether informed consent model used for trans people could help reduce regret for other medical procedures. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

When the question is "what's wrong with men" the answer is always that society is failing them; when the question is "what's wrong with women" the answer is always that they're failing society.

this is fucking foul

[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: i have a new ssstory for you tonight Rowling: a new ssstory of cormorant ssstrike Jesse Singal: wow mommy it's great! Maya Forstater: the greatest story ever told Rowling: Rowling: well i haven't told it yet

Absolutely infuriating that the NYT had a real story on their hands - proof an anti-trans activist lied in a sworn affidavit - and decided to go with this garbage instead.