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Like the 2024 briefing document, the “exploring their sexual orientation or gender identity”, which is a well-known formula for a loophole, is presented in a positive light. The 2026 version specifically added that this is a “balance”. It is obvious that NHS are going run conversion therapies.

Conversion Therapy will be banned except… - In any location where it is done - By anyone who does it - By anyone who believes it is right to do it - On anyone, regardless of whether they consent to it or not

LGB Alliance concerned abusive conversion practices will be banned. From their own mouth.

Also, this weird attempt to rationalize the decent into authoritarianism erases the fact that for trans people, immigrants, and a lot of academics fully fledged authoritarianism is already here. A lot of people have already had their lives completely ruined. They're not only halfway to it.

The trans-inclusive ban on Conversion Therapy basically exempts all forms of conversion therapy from any source, and whether it is "sought" (ie the victim has asked for it) or "received" (ie it is being forced on the victim whether they want it or not.) This is a ban in name only.

For further context: almost everyone in the Faculty of Arts is at risk of redundancy. Music, Modern Languages & American & Canadian Studies courses to close completely. History will not close but staff numbers will be significantly reduced. This is what 'right-sizing' looks like, apparently.

Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.

We will fight and we will win to prevent these devastating cuts, not just to jobs but to the soul of what a University is and should be. @uonucu.bsky.social

Universities are now the largest employers in many areas. If a University shuts it will decimate the local area as thousands of people lose their jobs and all the businesses that rely on students close. The University sector needs more money (and not through higher fees)

I was graduating from college the last time we had this kind of pull-up-the-ladder economy, and this is going to materially affect an entire generation in ways people are going to be so eager to ignore.

In two years Keir Starmer’s government has tried to rob Disabled people of help, kept children in poverty, trashed nature protection, restricted peaceful protest, helped arm genocide, and moved to scrap jury trials. He says that Greens exploit despair. He has created it. We offer only hope.

There were chances aplenty to "get this right", Labour didn't take them and are now bellyaching about how they deserve another chance despite repeated, insistent, and bluntly arrogant miscalculations. You legitimised the agents of your own demise! You did not have to do that!

This is so meaningless. I've been struggling with my instinctive revulsion to this kind of invocation of "working class background". I think the thing that I struggle with isn't that he's not prole enough, but he's using this statement to erase the differences between him and the general public.

and as trans people have already pointed out... It is literally just recycled "same sex attracted" or whatever. It's just some kind of shit euphemism where they avoid just calling gay people gay or trans people trans. Why? cos conversion therapists don't believe you can really be those things.

Some of y'all really lack critical thinking skills. "We're not going to beat fascism by voting" is not the same as "Don't vote." If I told you that you should take chemo instead of trying to defeat cancer through diet alone, would you say, "Oh, so I should just eat garbage and die???"

Yup, he sure did. Shameless dishonesty, in the middle of the biggest university crisis in - well, ever? 10,000s of jobs lost or under threat, and a labour minister is misleading the public about uni investment on primetime TV on a flagship politics programme. (And no-one challenges.) #ucu #ukhe

A second trans MSP had been elected

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Labour is being decimated in Manchester. Council control could never be changed in this election because 87/96 seats were Labour and only 1/3 up for election. So far Labour are down 17 seats with most going Green

I’m told my acceptance speech upset some of the BBC journalists who were in the room. I said what I said and it’s the truth 🤷‍♀️

i think one day we'll wonder why this technology was dangerously rushed into every consumer facing product instead of quietly developed to fruition in academia or industry and the answer will be that the tech CEOs didn't know what to do with it so they asked the chatbot and did whatever it said

Bring back the ancient knowledge

Oh for fu—

i keep thinking about this more and more with each passing day

Plumbert is saddened by your response. Plumbert hungers for a chance to make amends. Plumbert hungers.

While it’s really important to challenge the transphobia inherent in the framing the key point is that this will open all “gender questioning”, trans and gender non-conforming kids to a higher risk of abuse at home and school with no safety benefit to cis kids. Just the comfort of adults.

My "I'm not a god botherer who has issues with trans people" shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

An anti-trans coalition has threatened legal action against a series of sporting bodies, including Park Run - credited for helping thousands build communities Read more: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-the-lgbtqia-news-28/#%F0%9F%94%B4-park-run

It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook

I cannot over emphasise how important this action is. Most MPs don't know this is going on, and by the time the guidance is laid it will be too late. Make sure you email your MP now – and encourage others to do the same.

Apologizing to Sid Meier for my previous claims that Axeman units defeating jets in combat was "unrealistic"

This is a periodic reminder that one of Scotland's most prominent TERF campaigners turned out to be a predator who in at least one case molested a child specifically because she presumed the child was trans. The only newspaper in the country to even report on it was the Scottish Sun.

Those currently coming for trans rights will not stop with us. If they succeed they'll move onto equal marriage, LGBTQ+ parenting, abortion access and anti-discrimination. We must unite for trans rights to protect trans rights AND to protect so much more.

If you were to Google whether the journalist who wrote this article has written about trans issues and the angle she's taken in them, the results would not in any way shock you.

I’m not defending Farage here but to clear up some confusion. You don’t have to be a UK citizen to vote in UK elections. If you are from a commonwealth country and on any residency visa (both temporary and permanent) you can vote in any UK election. EU citizens can vote in locals as above

Can't really describe the economy of the Lancastrian boom in cotton production by just talking about harnessing new sources of power: eventually you'll have to get round to the destruction of fabrics production in India, the link between markets and empire, tiny child-based maintenance systems.

So cool that we had Ed Milliband downplaying the environmental impact of these things as some nebulous unknowable

Happy Earth Day.

Can we talk about how harassment and borderline stalking of trans women by gender critical activists has become entirely normalised? Why can’t a trans woman do a bloody Parkrun without having her privacy violated and her data amassed on a website?!

I’m not anti-AI because I’m anti-tech, I’m anti really fucking stupid wasteful destructive tech. That’s a pro-tech position.

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If you do do this (I gave up tbh) please read the process instructions: it's three-stages and you don't have to accept their first response (which is almost always terrible), you can go back for a second one and then to the hallowed Executive Complaints Unit for a third response then to Ofcom.

If you feed birds in your garden the RSPB has some new guidelines, as there’s an illness that’s killing off loads of finches that’s spread at bird feeders and birdbaths:

Handy Guide: ✅ Free Speech: When GCs who had no relation to my University complained to try and get me kicked off my course ❌ Not Free Speech: Exercising one's right to peaceful protest against those advocating your exclusion from society – on the campus you have to live and work in

But it is tho…chatting with ai should be considered like chatting with a malevolent demon that may seem like it can help you but you can never trust it and it may well drive you into madness