It really did do what Nintendidn't.

If this were a cut away in a 90s dystopian scifi I'd be calling it ridiculously heavy handed.

Yeah, that's pretty much how I'd react to that.

Fanon wrote about the psychological damage that colonisers acquired from inflicting their horrors on the colonised. His conclusion wasn't that colonisers needed more sympathy from wider society, funny that.

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@ilyarabbit.bsky.social and Chloe F outline how the policies of NHS integrated Care Boards and inadequate equality impact assessments are leaving trans patients at risk of serious medical harm. transsafety.network/posts/defini...

The right realised a long time ago that if they keep screeching about being persecuted and unheard it gives centrist wanks who basically agree with them an excuse to give them everything they want.

So the thing about the psychic violence that oppressors inflict on themselves is that, while real, it is self-inflicted and there's only so much sympathy I can have.

"Oh for fucks' sake... what's the Elvish word for friend?"

"Are menopausal cis women trans", the greatest discourse in BlueSky history. Finally closed after 12,486 quote skeets of heated debate.

This is it for me, I think. Transness is relational; are you outside of patriarchal expectations of gender in a way that causes you to experience transphobia?

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The moral panic about estrangement is all about shoring up patriarchal power over youth. Which is why gender criticals are so eager to join in.

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The curse of find and replace strikes again.

If you are a student at the same uni as this loser it is not only your right but your duty to bully the living fuck out of her.

New definition of cis just dropped.

Referring to myself as a "shimbo" in order to make the maximum number of people want to kill me with hammers.

Alice Sullivan tells universities to suppress pro-trans research to protect GC staff. However, HER OWN DATA shows pro-trans research is already more suppressed. When I told the BBC this, they edited out any reference to the data. They have now corrected the record. www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedb...

"as republicans continue their obsession with trans youth, millions of americans will lose their ACA plans!" is there anything else happening in the context of ACA plans, HRC? anything in your specific wheelhouse, maybe? possibly something impacting trans people of all ages?

"X is a distraction from Y" in politics is usually wrong but also distracts from both X and Y because everybody who cares about X (or is X) is now really fucking annoyed with you.

the trans panic, legislation of transmisogyny, etc. is not "distracting from the epstein files", it entrenches the sexual abuse. transphobia towards trans kids always entails sexual abuse, by families & states. one of epstein's first victims was a trans girl, ava cordero, who was not believed

To the best of my knowledge, nobody is arguing that mothers taking their young children into the loo with them could or should lead to court cases. I guess that's as good a way to dodge a gaping hole in your own legal arguments about the need for single sex spaces to be tightly policed as any though

There's also an Anna Ramsbottom of Sheffield children's hospital who appears to be openly advocating for conversion therapy in the teams chat.

The idea of me giving anybody dating advice is just so fundamentally comical tbh. "Yeah I dunno mate. I guess you just sort of hang out and eventually somebody will let you know they're dtf? Also try not to be a nob if somebody rejects you?"

In light of the Levy Review potentially giving transphobes oversight of medical research on trans healthcare, Trans Safety Network recommend English trans people OPT OUT of their healthcare data being used in research. Information on how to do this can be found in the quoted post and thread.

Emails should include your name, DOB and NHS Number to assist your GIC admin in finding your record. If you have been referred but not been seen by a GIC, you can still contact the GIC you were referred to.

I do not give my permission for any aspect of my patient data to be submitted to, or collected for, the purpose of any research or non local audit without my express permission in writing being obtained in advance.

We also suggest you email your GIC the following to ensure your opt-out is clear and ask to have a note of this added to your care record.

This can be done via the following links, the first to stop GP records being shared and the second to stop secondary care records being shared: www.nhs.uk/using-the-nh... digital.nhs.uk/services/nat...

In light of this, Trans Safety Network strongly suggests all transgender people in England consider opting out of their healthcare data being used for research.

As such, its unclear why they have been chosen to audit and choose research priorities for transgender adults. We believe it will be hard for patients to feel their best interests will be considered during audits and research recommendations due to the associated baggage and lack of expertise.

www.transgendermap.com/wp-content/u... Beyond this, to our knowledge no members of this group have experience working with adult transgender people.

and a 2025 FOI asking for minutes + associated documents for the CYPGS Research Oversight Board revealed a communications strategy that suggested CYP clinicians should “possibly participate” in conferences hosted by SEGM + CAN-SG, whilst only mentioning WPATH and BAGIS conferences “for awareness”.

... and SPLC listed hate group SEGM (www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...), ...

Other members of the board are associated with anti-trans groups CAN-SG (www.transgendermap.com/issues/regre...), ...

We have previously raised concerns about its chair, Simon Wessley in this article.

Trans Safety Network are concerned to see that NHS England have committed to expanding the role of the National Research Oversight Board for Children and Young People’s Gender Services to cover audit and research for adult patients too.

Hate when I call up what I can't put down.

The singular "egg crack" always feels weird to me because there wasn't a moment? I can think of signs and indicators and things I was thinking about as I went through the process of realising I needed estrogen instead of 8 cans of premium lager every evening, but no "Oh shit, I am girl" moment.

Our health secretary is so willfully ignorant about health in ways that are going to kill people.

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The reason trans people don't want to be automatically treated as our assigned sex in healthcare isn't just because it is hurtful, it puts us at measurable risk of serious harm.

I remember the times pissing and moaning about cis men having to check a form saying they aren't at risk of pregnancy and then 2 years later pissing and moaning a trans man had an x-ray without being checked after they had been hostile to the fucking safety practice

And everyone should be assumed to have the potential for pregnancy and checked r.e. this if it is relevant for a test (e.g. xray) Which is... The system we literally have but the papers piss and moan about it because it's "woke" and "ridiculous"

We need screenings that can be opted in/out as needed regardless of registered sexgender (Did you know that many UK breast screening clinics can't handle someone with an 'M' in their record being booked with them?) We need test ranges as appropriate to our bodies as they are, not as were.

And yes I chose GFR rate because it used to be assumed this was ~immutable~ but oops! Turns out it isn't actually. Standard calculations also not appropriate for non meat eaters btw. Same story for cardiac troponin- it was assumed this wouldn't change on HRT except... It does!

If you treat a trans man on T like a cis woman looking at haematocrit you're going to be ignoring anemia until it is severe! That's a healthcare failure. If you assume a trans woman on Es GFR rate should be the same as a cis mans you're going to ignore kidney failure until it's severe!