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.

@kevinmckenna.co.uk this needs bring up in the house. This can not be ignored any longer. @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social this should be major news on a podcast. @zackpolanski.bsky.social the greens should be screaming from the rafters about this too. You too @libdems.org.uk

Any attempt at centralisation without significant investment will cause serious harm to trans patients. We are also concerned that some GPs and other practioners may misuse the review as an excuse to unnecessarily withdraw longstanding care – especially bridging and shared care provision.

The long-awaited Levy Review is out. This is tinkering around the edges of a failing system. Until trans people can access our healthcare based on informed consent, from the same doctors in the same communities as everyone else, issues will remain unsolved. www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...

Not every country’s going down the same path as the UK – the High Court of New Zealand has ruled that a ban on puberty blockers for young trans people should not be enforced ahead of a legal challenge from a trans health body: https://goodlaw.social/6pig

Vital piece on how the OfS Sussex fine and the Supreme Court ruling have created an even more hostile environment for trans people in UK universities. As Chris Parkes says: if the expected EHRC guidance is adopted, "people are going to get hurt". 1/2

The exclusion of trans people from public and academic spaces, removal of protections by human rights institutions, dehumanising language used by state news media, judicial tolerance of trans directed hate crime, withdrawal of medical care: all of this is very familiar to genocide scholars.

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

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

An important point to come out of the Sandie Peggie case is that 'gender critical' employees can't take matters into their own hands and confront trans employees. If they do that it is likely to be harassment/ bullying/ a hate incident.

One of the first cases following the Supreme Court’s decision on the definition of sex under the Equality Act has found it didn’t decide which changing room a trans person should use. Reflections on the Peggie case by a specialist discrimination law KC: https://goodlaw.social/32xs

I received exactly the same answer. Since when is ‘trans woman’ an obscure and unclear way of referring to a person?

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. 🧵👇

Remember: the EHRC's Interim Guidance, and we understand the draft statutory guidance too, recommended a trans bathroom ban. Two tribunals have now disagreed.

The judgement on the Peggie v Fife Health Board and Dr Beth Upton tribunal case has been announced. Here's what has actually been said... Full Judgement: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u... 🧵 See thread for summary....

Taking the latest GP Patient Survey’s estimate that 0.88% of the population is trans, we would expect to find approximately 4,500 trans people working in UK Higher Education. In fact, data from Advance HE finds there are only 1,525 out trans people working in the sector.

Happy Advent! !!!🎄✨ Welcome to a new edition of the Research Integrity Advent Calendar. Each day brings a small challenge: spot the problem, detect inconsistencies, and sharpen your skills. Enjoy the season and the daily puzzles! Day 1. papermills.tilda.ws/advent2025

Funded collaborative PhD opportunity on contested memory with me in @oupolitics.bsky.social and Arthur Dudney at Arcadia: granduniondtp.web.ox.ac.uk/contested-hi... Deadline 7th Jan, please share!

Oh, I like this much better than Whamaggedon! Will mostly be substituting hot Ribena but it still works!

TW: Suicide and transphobia A trans woman died in Scottish prison after spending *nine weeks* in isolation as discussions over being transferred to a women's prison "dragged on" in 2019. The inquiry ended this month. insidetime.org/newsround/tr...

1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999. * the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers

NEW ESSAY for Trans Awareness Week! hopefully it will make ppl aware about how bad actors manipulate transgender statistics & that "social contagion/ROGD" are disproven: on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...

Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames *** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *

Dr Sam Hall tells us how WellBn helped trans people over the past five years, and that it is okay to be trans. By Sophie Molly northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

They must be proud with this endorsement, they worked hard for it.

I do hope those sensibles telling me that Labour's new policy was fair and sensible are enjoying Tommy Robinson's endorsement of it this morning. That's who you've joined. Tommy Robinson.

Excellent overview of the Good Law Project vs EHRC legal case. It makes it clear that the EHRC - pushed by a few ‘gender critical’ transphobes at board level - has gone rogue… Even the Equalities Minister seems to be recognising it now!

We launched our new report in the Houses of Parliament last week. Report author Dr Jack López presented the report to MPs. Read the report here: transactual.org.uk/gendered-spa... #ScrapTheBathroomBan #EHRC #TransRights

"Laura fears all will be lost if ICB Sussex forces her child off the medication. If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life." northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

✈️ NEW ✈️ A large proportion of UK trans people are looking to emigrate within the next 10 years, with almost 40% of younger people considering a move abroad, according to a new YouGov poll: https://goodlaw.social/t2h8

At #UKCGE EDI conference. Just been hearing about Black PhD Collective which looks like a great resource for Black PGRs. @ougradsch.bsky.social www.blackphdcollective.com

👻 This Halloween, while the media is intent on whipping up fear of a tiny group of trans+ people trying to live their lives - we're saying 'Not in our name!' If you agree and want to see the focus move back on to the real challenges all women face, sign our letter here: notinourname.org.uk

Brilliant, brilliant letter in The National from the parent of a trans teenager. www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

An inciteful article. www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...

The EHRC has sent a new draft Code of Practice which would lead to the exclusion of trans people from public life. The decision now is up to this government, will they sign a trans bathroom ban in secret? Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-ba... #ScrapTheBathroomBan

Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social

MPs are rightly concerned about the economic impact of the EHRC's Code of Practice. Businesses up and down the country have made clear that it's unworkable. It's time for the Minister to send it back 🚮 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Gender Clinic Files: Two-thirds of adults waiting for transgender healthcare in UK are under 25 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clinic-files-two-thirds-of-adults-waiting-for-transgender-healthcare-in-uk-are-under-25/

Unprecedented, potentially unlawful retrograde proposals made by @solentuniversity.bsky.social If you have a vested interest in HE, this concerns you. We must stand together to resist these outrageous proposals. #HE #TPS #LGPS #Pension #post-92 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.

It's crazy that both the supposedly moderate right leaning AND the supposedly left wing major parties in the UK are both more right wing than the BNP was on immigration.

1/🧵 I am viewing a never-before-seen file on “gender reassignment” or trans inclusion policy at the National Archives, Kew. The Supreme Court should start sweating. A bagful of receipts!

Starmer and the Met Chief Constable interfered in this case. That's a major red flag and public scandal, abuse of public office, and a collapse of the rule of law. When transphobes from Graham Linehan to JK Rowling and others are effectively granted immunity that's a problem.

🚨We need your help. The NHS CYP gender service is consulting on the draft specification. This is, sadly, horrifically being driven by people who aren't trans or experts in the field of gender incongruence and based upon the much-discredited Cass Review 1/ www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...

We have written this handy guide to help you fill out the consultation. Please respond to the consultation. The younger generations are relying on us to stand up for them in this fight. The deadline is 2 Nov 2025. /2 docs.google.com/document/d/1...