forms.office.com/pages/respon... #CofEpeeps Use your voice, sign and/or share, don’t let your queer siblings down,

To all those we have lost, we say: We remember them. To all those who survive, we say: We cherish them. To all those who fight on, we say: We protect them.

maybe the closest I’ve been to God in a long time <3

Maybe the real exposure was of me, as a try guys enjoyer

First ever set of nights start this evening…I fear I may look worse than half the patients by the time we hit 4am

BREAKING 🚨 The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared. It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating. But politicians still have time to stop this.

All of my (3!) @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social wristbands attached to my hodgepodge crochet lap blanket made from the last bits of yarn from many different projects, all come together for one creation stitched at this year’s festival. Feels quite apt really.

it’s been decided THIS MORNING that I can be at @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social this year and quite frankly I cannot wait The @scmbritain.bsky.social Trans Theology Group are running a session for all 4pm saturday at the Franciscan chapel- we’d love to see you! Now, where’d I put that sleeping bag?

And let me be clear -- I wish on JK Rowling everything that she wishes upon trans people.

The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.

8 years of debilitating pain, never taken seriously, called uncooperative for refusing hormonal birth control (I quite like not going psychotic), told ‘we won’t find anything’, told ‘there is no treatment’ MRIs showing endo and adeno later and I am now on a med licensed specifically to treat these.

So the government really are just targeting trans people now. The board rejected her appointment because of her obvious bias against trans people & connection to anti-trans organisations. This makes a mockery of the whole idea of the EHRC. www.gov.uk/government/n...

I spent 6+hrs on my response in the run up to my medical final exams. Fuck the lot of them.

Congratulations to Bishop Cherry Vann, Bishop of Monmouth, who has just been elected to be the new Archbishop of Wales! Llongyfarchiadau i Esgob Cherry Vann, Esgob Mynwy, sydd newydd gael ei ethol yn Archesgob newydd Cymru! #ChurchInWales #EglwysYngNghymru #ArchbishopOfWales

Regulation must not blur the lines between doctors and non-doctors. We’ve written to the GMC following the Leng review 👇 We've also been granted permission to appeal our judicial review case against the GMC. The court says our appeal raises important issues for public safety.

I spent a week at Hilfield Friary recently, visiting a very cool and lovely friend, and I would like you to appreciate the lovely trans altar flowers I put together

If you were solely going by the headline, you'd be under the wrong impression that this was a trans nurse that did this. In fact, the trans person at the center of this is a doctor who was harassed by this nurse who constantly spouted racist, transphobic stuff to her colleagues. Way to go BBC.

Welcome to day 2. Today resident doctors across England strike again to show the Government that we’re not backing down until we have a credible offer. Stick Together. Strike Together. Win Together. #PayRestoration

Finals passed, onto my last year of medical school before being a DOCTOR!

Impeccable health and safetying at the friary this week

Issues being scrapped by #synod is a small reminder that progress can be made. Tears for my friends who are exploring ordination and will no longer have to agree to this document and for those I love who have had to do so in order to proceed with their god-given, life-giving ministry #cofepeeps

'Sometimes the sofa of bemusement becomes the sofa of tears, and sometimes vocations fall before they even reach the sofa of a DDO' Dean of Women's ministry @stalbansdiocese.org Lucy Davis speaking on the issues created by Issues in Human Sexuality #synod #GeneralSynod

I’ve entered my national trust era and I love it. Except ofc having to take out a small loan to afford a scone.

According to The Times, the Women and Equalities and Human Rights Committees have written to oppose Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson being appointed as the new chair of the EHRC. Well done to everyone who has written to them!

TIL (on mastodon) that the US National Park Service has crochet patterns! www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Mary-Ann Stephenson's appointment as replacement Chair of the EHRC is opposed by BOTH the Women and Equalities Select Committee AND the Joint Committee on Human Rights. Will Starmer ignore MPs and further undermine the EHRC's independence by forcing through Bridget Phillipson's transphobic pick?

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

Following yesterday’s strike ballot result, the Resident Doctors Committee met with Wes Streeting. It’s clear: the Government is refusing to negotiate on pay. We are now preparing for a full 5 day walk-out, beginning on Friday 25 July. Our door will always be open to constructive talks.

Similarly, young people with mental health conditions applying for PIP. Did we lock up teenagers at a pivotal stage of their lives, keep them in a state of heightened anxiety, and legally remove almost all basic coping mechanisms? Might that have had some affect on their functionality now? Maybe?

Stonewall's new short strategy is out. Not one specific mention of trans people. Not one specific mention of mass segregation and persecution. Not one specific mention of trans children. Not one specific mention of mass oppression and healthcare criminalisation. 1/2

LONDON PRIDE As we take to the streets for London Pride 2025, we remember all those who fought for our rights. Amid the growing anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and legislation, especially attacks on the trans community, we are reminded our histories are shared and none of us is free until all of us are.

OSCEs OVER! And on the saint day of St Thomas the Apostle (ie my favourite apostle)

Day one of osces down and all I have to say is that I walked into a station and I thought the SP was my gf’s mother. Spoke, look and acted the same. I would say less than ideal given our relationship is predominantly me having to try and prove I make her child happy 😭

'I would be respectful. All while segregating them, taking their basic rights away, making their lives unlivable. I would do all that. But respectfully'.

With 38 hrs to go to the EHRC consultation deadline I'm seeing posts from people feeling bad they're too stressed to engage. The GLP⬇️has removed all but the last step, a general comment box. This is a far easier task. I hope it helps those who want to, to get their voice heard without too much pain.

Well I've just spent a dismal hour or so, more or less telling the Equality and Human Rights Commission why they aren't worthy of the name. You won't enjoy it. But please respond to the consultation. transactual.org.uk/equality-act...

So, experts determining that a complaint of stalking and harassment against someone employed by the Diocese of Leicester is credible and should be upheld is apparently not enough to terminate that person’s employment as a lay minister?? What absolute BS. www.leicester.anglican.org/news/a-state...

I generally don’t take a stance on the question of leadership in the Church; I’m not Anglican and it’s not for me to have an opinion. But the position of Archbishop of Canterbury affects every person in England, Christian or no. And this is a massive failure when the church needs… not that

And to be clear - everyone, EVERYONE- deserves protection from abuse and deserves justice, but we know that the powerful quite often just compound abuse If the Bishop will treat one of his own Church wardens like this, what the fuck is he doing to people who dont regularly appear on the BBC?

‘Anyone who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, is guilty of sin’ when will this church stop failing to protect their people? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've added FOUR new peer-reviewed academic articles to my round-up post, "What's wrong with the Cass Review?" Together, these highlight serious ethical issues with the Cass Review's design, recommendations, and implementations. It's important to keep this story live! ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...

It’s my birthday! I’m 22 today and I currently try to stay relatively anonymous on here but if you’d like to know a little more about me just know this is what my housemates got me and they know me VERY well.

AKT COMPLETE (hopefully!) Only 3 mornings of OSCEs stand between me and 5th year medicine now

4th year medical finals are A-GO

If you’re a UK student/SCM friend/SCM alumni come join Trans Theology Group online to fill in the EHRC consultation this Wednesday evening! Email [email protected] for more details and the zoom link.

#tinyjoys Went to a wedding in a suit for the first time last weekend! Read for 3 hours in the evening warmth last night! Wrote a poem about trans joy that included verses about having sex and receiving communion straight after each other!

People who abstained from voting to decriminalise abortion: -Wes Streeting (health secretary) -Bridget Phillipson (women and equalities minister) -Rosie Duffield (top feminist and woman defender)

Reminder for those of us on SSRIs that were more likely to get dehydrated in this current weather! Drink more water! Keep cool! Don’t push it! This PSA is brought to you by someone who forgot this, despite being a medical student, and passed out in the shower!

Currently at 3+ hours of responding to the EHRC consultation. Come on allies, if I can give this much time and emotional labour in the run up to my finals you can give 10 mins to tick ‘strongly disagree’ and give a trans-supportive statement in the final text box.

Turns out having full time placement, prepping for med school finals, coping with a chronically ill body and fighting for your right to live on public is all a bit much for one little bean so I’m off to paint a wooden hot air balloon and write poetry about trans joy