Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there. Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.

Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.

🎄 Just getting my last Xmas cards out there. ✍🏼 Dear cabinet....

19 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- In bizarre British Med Jrnl intertiew, Hilary Cass suggests that 5 or less trans kids seen by NHS should get GAMT, compares its mild side effect to those of chemotherapy & radiation, and equates withholding GAMT from them with "helping" & "supporting" them.

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.

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.

Take note UK. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Highly recommended reading on actual working Trans Healthcare - nobody needs to despair or, as in the UK, die waiting. That is a politicians choice and we need to see them for who they are.

Most alarmingly, research and *audit* for adult services gets taken over by the Youth research oversight group. That seemingly would mean Wessely, Cass and other CAN-SG/SEGM aligned folks are going to be in charge of evaluating services and deciding what “research” to commission.

They are manipulating (crappy) diagnoses to keep everyone defined under mental illness. In Levy 'Gender Incongruence', the less pathologising WHO diagnosis is equated to 'being trans', while 'Gender Dysphoria' the DSM psychiatric disorder is defined as being distressed enough to need medical care.

It is a sign of how fundamentally abused and traumatised trans communities are in the UK that many folks are responding to Levy with relief and cautious welcome. It could have been a lot worse. But it fundamentally fails to deliver meaningful improvements to trans healthcare. 1/4

I know there are many valid critiques of Sarah McBride within Trans+ communities - and for good reason But every UK politician should listen carefully to what she says here and ask themselves, are they personally doing anything close to enough to protect Trans+ children and young people? 1.

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

Brilliant news from Aotearoa New Zealand, where trans health professionals have won an interim halt to the country's politically-driven puberty blocker ban. Wishing them all the best for further legal action.

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...).

BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:

Via Shon Faye on ig: Notice how they’re being “complimentary” but also completely and utterly dehumanising at the same time? Daily life as a trans person.

A genuinely held belief (that I would love to have proven wrong): I don't think Stephenson is assuming that trans people have no legal rights as trans - I think she is assuming (correctly) that stating a lie as a fact converts the lie into a fact for many in this current climate

It's not illegal to use the right toilets and no one should adhere to Mary-Ann Stephenson's headmistressly call to "follow rules" that serve no good purpose, breach the UK's human rights obligations, will be bad for all women, and debase trans dignity. Make her appoint her sodding toilet police.

Two parliamentary committees recommended against appointing the now chair of the EHRC, not because of her obvious transphobia but because of her lack of experience on race and disability. She also doesn’t seem that up on LGB+ issues either. There are 9 protected characteristics, she’s shit at 4.

'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...

Also slow hand clap for Stonewall appearing as the only voice in support of the harmful and unethical trial. With allies like these...

This whole thread from Sarah, plus all the auxiliary bits. (Love from your resident cissexual theyfab*) (*if you ever call me these things, we are not friends)

Overnight, past 2 a.m., the Alberta United Conservative Party passed Bill 9, a bill to **strip away the right to life of trans youth** in order to impose on them a gender-affirming care ban. We’re assisting to the beginning of a humanitarian crisis, in Canada, in real time.

Of course they put this behind a pay wall. “There are moments when I catch myself wishing she would just discover she wants to live as a boy,” says Ruby’s mum, “not because I doubt her identity but because I fear for her future in the UK." Please share. archive.is/newest/https...

Being able to recognise I am autistic and non-binary helped me make sense of who I am. It allows me to recognise why my brain works the way it does, why I feel the way I do. Not being able to do that left scars, mental and physical. It's a good thing being able to have a frame for your life. 1/

Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".

🧵 Between 2024 and 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the EU's highest Court, issued four important judgments on the rights of trans people in the EU. 🔗 Read the whole toolkit on our website: tgeu.org/tgeu-publish... #cjeu #eu #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights

Mini thread on the ET decision in Peggie Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law. 🧵👇

The line our disgraceful press NEVER quotes from the For (Some) Women Scotland decision finally gets its day in the sun.

This is the key paragraph in the Sandie Peggie decision.

In the puberty ban consultation, before it was made permanent, academics like me told the Gov this was happening. We noted the risk of youth who are self-meding avoiding engagement with routine healthcare, leading to wider healthcare inequalities. Our testimony was dismissed as 'anecdotal evidence'

The overlaps between trans health and reproductive health are evergreen. In reproductive care regrets about negative experience/harms of 'natural birth' are entirely dismissed, while regrets of 'intervened birth' are heavily analysed & used to restrict choice-based options.

Great Britain, banana republic.

We are hearing that those few who were on NHS GIDS prescribed puberty blockers before GIDS closed, who were transferred to a small legacy clinic at Nottingham, are now being told all referrals for MDT panel approval to start hormones have been stopped. 1/2

Last week I was invited to give a key-note speech at AUSPATH (Australian Professional Association for Transgender Health). It wasn't recorded but I'm sharing some of my presentation content in my blog here: growinguptransgender.com/2025/12/08/a...

Here we go

The man in this video is the same man shown below who refused to engage with community members and walked away when they attempted to hand over a letter at a protest at the NGS last week: gcn.ie/transgress-t...

Blog post: Reflections from Auspath. growinguptransgender.com/2025/12/06/r... If anyone else has written up about their experience at Auspath, let me know so I can link.

PATHA has significant concerns about the UK’s PATHWAYS clinical trial protocol. These trials are unethical, dangerous, and won’t even give Simeon Brown the evidence he claims he’s looking for. Aotearoa shouldn’t endorse these trials, and it remains unethical to withhold necessary care.

Very suspicious of articles that are actively trying to manufacture & reinforce a very narrow definition of conversion practices, focusing on electric shock treatment. Banning electric shock treatment is not going to impact on the extensive conversive therapies in use today, including in the NHS.

Blog post: Reflections from Auspath. growinguptransgender.com/2025/12/06/r... If anyone else has written up about their experience at Auspath, let me know so I can link.

@tgeuorg.bsky.social calls it. As an academic I have been consistently saying this all along. The “Pathways” “study” is totally unethical. And it won’t even address the main pretext used to justify it; the issue of long-term negative effects (of which there is no evidence whatsoever).

This is part one of my series on what it's like to be involved in the ICB Sussex investigation. unsilentmum.substack.com/p/part-one-l...

Thanks UK for more terrible news. New legal case says non-binary people aren't protected under 'gender reassignment' in the Equality Act which covers only those moving between binary 'biological sex' categories 1/2

In some good news, today PATHA has finally been able to release the 2025 Guidelines for Gender Affirming Care in Aotearoa New Zealand. You can read them here: patha.nz/resources-an...

Absolutely fantastic statement from PATHI and a number of other orgs in Ireland. Aotearoa is drawing international ire because this ban is real bottom of the barrel stuff pathi.ie/news/joint-s...

A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly. Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.

18 months since the Cass Review and I'm still seeing folks say "The Cass Review didn't recommend a ban". Come on folks - I know it was a long report - but it literally did recommend using legislation to prevent private prescriptions. Here that fact is confirmed by Streeting.

Real questions in the puberty blocker study: How happy are you with your nose? Would like like to change it by surgery? How happy are you with your shoulders? Would like to change them by surgery? How happy are you with your hips? Would like to change them by surgery? Continued...