Lancaster University researchers are leading a national consultation to identify research priorities for healthcare interventions for adults experiencing gender incongruence and gender dysphoria. They're asking for responses to an initial screening survey here. wp.lancs.ac.uk/transadultsp...

This was due to it being state policy at the time to punish unmarried young mothers with the same drug which was used to chemically castrate Alan Turing. It is scary how few people know about this. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/02/t...

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Age verification? I can pulse dial on the hanger.

Does anyone have anything on the casting of transness as a sexuality?

The Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus is not allowed to make soup again, we've been over this.

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

“The Supreme Court ruling on the definition of ‘woman’ under the Equality Act 2010… has instead opened up a series of contradictory court decisions and litigation that is dragging individual trans+ workers into the limelight and chewing them up in the process.” We must resist legalised transphobia.

For Penguin Awareness Day, a Typology of Pingu expressions. Source: instagram.com/p/CKa390dD4TC/ Part of a 40th anniversary exhibition in Japan the other year.

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

They have such _excellent_ faces. Just 10/10 snoots.

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So. 2025 has been the most significant year of my life so far. And it's not even particularly close. Trans rights came under attack this year in the UK. I have been trying my best to help fight back. I've been a little busy. Here's a thread of some of what I have been up to 🧵

I know it's Twixmas but I'm frustrated to see this case study from 2023 being regurgitated without any evidence of actual impact. We should expect better. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The Levy Review doesn't engage at all with non-binary or gender diverse experiences of gender dysphoria clinics? It uses the term five/three times in definitions but then says absolutely nothing in relation to those definitions.

Read some of the stuff written by Irish hunger strikers who survived. These people will suffer the impact of this on their bodies for the rest of their lives, if they survive and, at this point, that is getting increasingly unlikely.

But the end-users, through the Fisker Owners Association, did ensure that their cars remained drivable through the insolvency process— they're still on the road. The FOA now control and develop the software platform and work with parts manufacturers for service and repair. youtu.be/hD0HOUCqLJo?...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Does this mean trans folks with private diagnoses will be able to enter the surgery pathway without having first also gone through the GIC pathway?

The reality is that most of the healthcare needs of trans people are entirely straightforward and routine and there is no medical reason why they cannot be met by their GPs like everyone else's are.

Look at this!! A Clarion article on the Cable Car... should we have one in Oxford? I think we should look at the feasibility at least.

This is actually very gender affirming

A tentacle pot isn’t just for the holidays its for life adopt one now and give these critters their forever home x

🚨 Lunchtime reading, because a load of you asked us to write about Oxford’s billionaire donors…. So we started from the very beginning. Enjoy.

once you sign up for the free tidal trial it let's you run a thing called tune my music or something that automatically recreates your playlists on tidal and tells you what songs you were missing. across like 2,000 my wife and I were missing 12.

There's a research paper in correlating reports of flags at roundabouts on FixMyStreet with the STATS19 collision data to see whether they have had an effect on road safety.

Trans children denied participation in society because of the Supreme Court and EHRC. To attack us adults is one thing but to attack children is another. The UK needs to lose its GANHRI A accreditation. #LeaveTransKidsAlone www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

That email must have a chain of at least ten "Received ... for ..." headers and at least three RCPT TO rewrites before it finds me. It should have had a hard time finding me at all.

I was once present in a magistrates court before a trial where the prosecution and defence barristers and the clerk were discussing the case without the defendant or the judge/mags present, deciding between them that a charge shouldn't be pursued when the hearing started.

I actually think it's bad that the law thinks that calling a 17 year old a "sissy porn-watching scumbag", a "groomer" and a "disgusting incel" in public is not a crime, and indeed I do not think criticising this would constitute "[picking] sides in the debate about sex and gender identity".

Just trying to find some lunch and then get hit sideways by the news. Not even the substance of the news, but how it's reported.

On today's #TransDayOfRemembrance I'm reminded of this scene from Celeste (a game which draws heavily on trans themes). I was brought to tears when I first played it. So many names every year, it hits hard.

This would be great, but it's a missed opportunity if it doesn't also connect up to the new stadium. And it should be step free ;-) (also amused that the station in this pre-feasibility concept image looks nothing like that, and there really isn't a big green spae in the middle of the P&R car park)

Trans Awareness Week is the week in which it's acceptable to ask people whether they're aware that they're trans.

I must’ve been a postdoc at MIT or a new-ish engineering professor when I first heard the story of how Ben Barre overheard colleagues talking about how his research was so much better than his ‘sister’ Barbara’s.

As coroners continue to issue PFD reports citing delays in accessing gender affirming care as contributing to the preventable deaths of trans people, our government forcibly chooses to detransition trans youth. What’s happening in Brighton is unconscionable. It puts children in danger. Meanwhile…

Just one week left to register for my book launch event at the University of Oxford. 📖🎉 This study drew on queer method and theory to explore casual forms of sex work in the digital era. 💷📲 While focusing on post-identity, I highlight overlaps between movements for LGBTQ+ and sex worker rights. 🌈☂️

It is entirely the equalities regulator's function to push an equalities agenda that the Government doesn't like and publicly call them out when the Government drags its feet… … it's just generally assumed that the equalities agenda they'd be pushing is not a regressive one.

Lex has been doing some of the moment's best, clear-eyed and forceful journalism. a major loss.

Cue the song!

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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!

This morning's AWS outage prompted reflections in NHSE towers that "disaster recovery" and "inclusive services" directly overlap. For instance, the Record a vaccination service have designed a paper-only data capture process for when the internet is unavailable

Delighted at the GPEW member surge happening in the context of @zackpolanski.bsky.social's positive messaging on trans rights + inclusion. I hope it means there are now even more trans-inclusive folks in the party who can get active in @greenpartywomen.bsky.social to fight for liberation for all ❤️

⚖️🏳️‍⚧️ WIN: High Court rules that a trans man cannot be denied a gender recognition certificate because he is trying to conceive, in an important win supported by Good Law Project. https://goodlaw.social/5k9b

I have been truly envious of Leontien Talboom’s digital preservation related knitted jumpers but now she’s released the charts, and more about their origins on Cambridge University Library Blogs #digitalpreservation digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-thr...

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“We write, we scream, we plead; but it seems our words fall into a void. There are no aid planes, no humanitarian airlifts, no real international movement and no ground efforts to break the siege." War crimes alert as food runs out in el-Fasher, Darfur: www.bbc.com/news/article... #KeepEyesonSudan

Read my two letters to the #UK: 1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly. 2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches 👇#HumanRights www.coe.int/en/web/commi...