54% of male Republicans under the age of 50 believe "the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe." manhattan.institute/article/the-...

They did the 2020 NICE evidence reviews (Cass chaired), then the 2022 York evidence reviews (Cass chaired with Steensma and Kaltiala), which were then cited by the Cass Review (Cass chaired). Can't wait for another 'independent' evidence review. Ooh, wonder who will chair?

I have a quote taped up on my bathroom mirror: "Motion begets motion." When fear is overwhelming, taking any small action can help - you don't have to be able to see the final outcome (and can we ever actually see the final outcome?). Just doing one small thing to connect with community, to care...

What this also reveals is a common failing of liberal political parties--especially now. Their ostensible "support" for minoritized peoples is based not in any philosophical idea of "rights" or "dignity" or "humanity," but in pretext. The second Cass and the High Court gave them permission? (1)

Bonus link: young trans people are being attacked on all fronts, in education as well as healthcare. My recent post "Labour's Section 28 is here" explains more, and again provides advice on what you can do.

There are two things you can do right now to support young trans people in England. 1) Engage in political advocacy and community support. I've got *loads* of advice on this in my blog post and zine "But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic".

Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now). This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5

2) Directly support young trans people and their families to access private care. They are not getting help from the NHS in England, this is a fact. If you can afford it, donate directly to a young person. I'm already crowdfunding for Isaac (link below). If not, share fundraisers when you see them.

A recent High Court decision relied on a common misunderstanding of a case from two decades ago @jessothomson.co.uk on what courts are getting wrong

Do you reckon the burden of child rearing disproportionately falls on women, and this might affect their willingness to have kids? What a novel insight.

Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones. Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

Just a note, because I'm a stickler for the old accuracy, Gillick Competence doesn't apply to 16 and 17 year olds. It's the Family Law (Reform) Act 1969. 16/17 year olds are presumed competent to consent to medical treatment.

Appalling that NHS England has made this decision – completely contrary to international best practice.

How odd – I thought all of this anti-trans stuff was about women's rights? "The 34-year-old, who won last month's Gorton and Denton by-election, was helped by the police towards a waiting car after anti-transgender activists clashed with women's rights and anti-racism campaigners."

It's worth pointing out that there's more than one step being taken here. Systematic reviews and appraisals of evidence quality can tell you that the quality of the evidence is "moderate," for example. But the judgment that that's "not good enough" relies on additional considerations.

We learned two things more or less immediately after: this was mostly a lie designed to re-acclimate us to the widespread bombing of civilians and secure contracts, and that we did indeed we have weapons so precise that any time, say, a school or a hospital was bombed it was an intended target.

Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

Someday a "center-left" group chat is going to get leaked like the Republican ones do and it'll fully rupture the liberal ecosystem (hopefully for good).

This. It's worth noting that the Senate can simply note vote on this guy, or refuse to appoint him. There's a lot that can be done here. And probably should be.

On one hand, I want to agree. On the other, it immediately brings this to mind and how financially privileged students would exploit it.

Excited to share that Cindy Kam’s and my article is published online! We examine item refusal pre- and post-Dobbs and find a significant increase in women’s refusal to disclose their pregnancy status after the decision, with concerning implications for research, policy, and women’s health.

Yes, this! The SAVE act would absolutely hurt trans people by making it damn near impossible for some to be able to vote. But in his mind, it's all surgery and sports. bsky.app/profile/sara...

Labour is what happens when the nominally "center-left" party stands for absolutely nothing and just shifts more and more to the right in a foolish attempt to woo voters to their right: a massively unpopular party that's going to get absolutely crushed... and right-wing policies.

i think there is a very simple explanation for this, at least in 2026. the cultural apparatus orbiting around Trump lives in a world entirely governed by short feedback loops. gambling social media meme stonks junk cryptocurrency LLMs

but more seriously have you ever wondered why DoD, cough cough DEPARTMENT OF WAR PR now seems to largely consist of killcams

a lot of critiques in aughts alleged that pentagon was influencing video games and in truth the relationship seems to be the other way around

I distilled some of my work on masculinity and finance into a post for LSE Business. Men are using finance knowledge and risk seeking as way of performing gender: so it’s insecure men who are the most prone to bad, risky investment. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

Yes, and if useful here's extra ammo olivia.science/before

Right in line with my recent paper on partisan selection of entertainment TV: effects thought to be generalizable to all partisans are really just driven by white people. And the biggest gap was between Black vs. white Republicans. Imagine what we could learn if we listened to non-white people.

As someone who has survived multiple jaw bone infections and needed several endodontic treatments for tooth infections, let me tell you that this man died in one of the most painful ways possible They tortured him. An untreated tooth infection is torture.

Massachusetts to secede

Was chatting to someone about some crappy research that the NHS is tied to, and mentioned I did a blog on that exact study years back. Checked my blog and it was 9 years ago to this exact date! Being a researcher in this country is like being stuck in a time-warp - bad research never dies

Here's @adambonica.bsky.social on the hilarious ways the NY Times determines who is "moderate" and who is "progressive" data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

For the third time in as many days: this is only early 1934 in the re-run. Accessing trans health is being made illegal. Kansas criminalised not just drivers licenses w/ a trans person’s gender marker: even a name change is grounds enough. Conversion therapy is torture & banned in many countries.

On social media, this woman publicly hurls all sort of abuse at her ex, who is apparently a trans woman: "porn-soaked sissy", "autogynephile" etc. All the usual slurs. But, of course, The Guardian, along with the rest of the UK media, won't quote her, because they are upholding her victim narrative.

It's also just plain counterfactual. The same people who advocate conversion therapy now would have thrown effeminate gay boys into anti-trans conversion therapy just to be safe back then, too! We know because THAT'S WHAT THEY FUCKING DID, LOOK: xtramagazine.com/health/drop-...

77% of Democratic voters support abolishing ICE. Any Democrat running for office who doesn’t call for abolishing ICE is wildly outside the mainstream.

This I'm white, but I was a queer "woman" scientist who was literally harassed out of my science writing career by naming names with an Epstein associate (Krauss) When you're a grad student threatened with lawsuits, stalking, rape, and death, you shut up I'm never shutting up again

It doesn't even need to be true. But this is how the relationship between Trump and Netanyahu works: Netanyahu gets an easily manipulated fool to undertake anything he wants, while Trump gets a convenient, widely hated patsy he can blame the fallout on (Jews generally and Netanyahu specifically).

Something else about Vanderbilt's capitulation: VUMC said it would only offer “nonsurgical gender-affirming care for adults 19 years and older.” But 18-year-olds are adults. Tennessee law bans this care for people *under* 18, so VUMC is once again overcomplying

I want you to imagine yourself standing three feet away from someone's family. Someone just died, or was horribly maimed, or lost their job, and you say "It's just a distraction." If you wouldn't look them in the eye and say that, don't say it here either.

This is the part where I point out that the original Nazis also blamed transness and gayness on Jews, specifically because one Jew in particular was ahead of his time on the matter, whom Hitler referred to as "the most dangerous Jew in Germany." This is not new, but it's still dangerous.

Protocols for new NHS Trans Kids study released under FOI, reveal a shocking return to 1960s conversion therapy methodology.

The number of people who will just write off the significance of pharmaceutical manufacture regulation because they don't understand why it exists is one of the reasons we need informed consent over the counter transition medicine. We need a better alternative to DIY trans healthcare.

🔝🔝 Thread Memes function as guerrilla psychological operations — resistant to debunking because they operate on the affective rather than the rational register, most devastating when they tap into pre-existing coded vocabularies. ⬇️⬇️

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Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

A reminder that puberty blockers never had any real use for most trans youth, they were just yet another gatekeeping step forced upon us by cis people to help them deal with their own emotions at us existing.