It has been a long month at the Daily Mail

Ceci n'est pas une French national cricket team. At least, not according to the French government. Yet FRANCE is written across their blue, white and red kit, and FRANCE are moving up and down the ICC official rankings as the tournament goes on. Is this even legal? I found out: f24.my/BqmF

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I think especially because the news media has recently demonstrated what "we think the president is incompetent and that he should not be in office" looks like in how they covered Biden post-debate and don't do the same for Trump

Are cis people aware that a large number of UK journalists don't even call us 'trans' any more, they call us 'trans-identifed'?

1 in 10 is lower than the expected incidence in a population. So that’s missing people out.

It's wild watching them use the anti trans playbook to target adhd etc. It couldn't be more obvious.

Absolutely incredible watching them run the same playbook on children with ADHD and autism that they did on trans youth.

i can't believe a republican president did what every republican president of the last 50 years has done (exploded the national debt)

tired of visibility how about a single day where we stop legislating trans ppl out of public life

if you ban therapists from saying "you should kill yourself", that would be exactly as bad as banning them from saying "you should not kill yourself" i am smart and wise and on the supreme court of the united states of america

Parents who are trans need a day for visibility bc the whole year they're transparent

Cis people: The NHS makes transition so easy and common. Boy looks at a Barbie, and the next thing you know the doctors are removing his tackle. Trans authors: Allow us to present our 'still easier than the NHS' proposals; we call them 'shadowy forcefem basement' and 'brainworm ranked competition'.

The Guardian platforming Sean Ingle to talk about the Olympic trans ban demonstrates that it is still the same old transphobic hate-rag that freely platformed transphobic bigots and no-platformed trans people.

And, as is usually the case when institutions attempt to bring 'clarity' to the topic of sex and gender data, this change risks collecting data that is **less reliable** than before the undertaking of the review!

on the bright side, if marc andreessen really does have the memory of a goldfish, there's still hope that he will decide it's a good idea to get in another wealthy weirdo's tin can to travel to the bottom of the sea

I'm deadly serious with this. A huge reason we're in the mess we're in is because the media treats evidenced policy like housing the homeless and decriminalising drugs as absurd, outrageous nonsense, and "you can't even say blackboard any more because of woke" as serious and meaningful.

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We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.

Banning HRT for trans people is not only immoral. It is dangerous. Post-Op trans women people do not naturally produce estrogen. They receive it through HRT. Estrogen prevents bone degradation (osteoporosis).

this was cliche 5 years ago

Trans genocide is about the genocide of trans people, actually.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

Charlotte is so brave here. As I said earlier: it's very upsetting as a rape survivor to see my suffering weaponised to justify these authoritarian measures. Measures which won't do anything to end sexual violence, but risk great injustice – mostly to cut costs.

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

Hey so just so people are aware, if they do this they will be signing off on killing me. I do not produce hormones since I had surgery and was assured I would have that medication for the rest of my life from them. I have other means, a lot of people like me wont and will be very scared

They're going to exclude all the studies showing benefits and then call the evidence base week and then give the person who gave them the political result they wanted a peerage and then they're going to ban trans adult care.

I can just tell you now what their conclusion is going to be.

So sad, and so unnecessary. We offered a legal indemnity, against all legal risks, to the leadership of Women's Institute, and Girlguiding, so they could continue to include all women. Both declined.

This government does not care about women.

In clear detail, how the Labour government and NHS are deliberately deceiving the British public in order to ban the existence of trans people under 18 And yes, banning existence is genocide 🧵 👇

For non-binary people they were even more tricky - looking for studies that focus ONLY on non-binary people. Of course these do not exist, because clinics divide people based on their hormone they are taking, not by their identity.

Worse than that though, they also excluded EVERY study with a mixed cohort. Some studies of HRT in under 18s looked at everyone on HRT, including some youth who had been on blockers first, and some who had gone straight to HRT. These were all excluded.

First of all they decided that a 16 & 17 year old taking HRT without prior time on blockers is COMPLETELY different from taking HRT without prior time on blockers. Then they decided to exclude from consideration every study that focused on young people who went first to blockers before HRT.

BUT the NHS came up with a clever trick to stop these 16 & 17 year olds from accessing (safe, beneficial, low risk, well evidenced) HRT. They looked at the evidence in a VERY specific way.

Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people. This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists. The study underpinning this played one particular trick. Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5

Can you imagine if we tried to evaluate the effectiveness of a drug for an autoimmune condition by excluding all studies to where participants had previously taken NSAIDs (painkillers)?

There is something deeply funny seeing racist dipshits who try to say there is no meaningful cultural difference between cultures in Africa or Asia turn around and crush down European cultures the same way. "English, Welsh, Scots and Irish people are basically the same" buddy there have been wars.

This is absolutely what will happen when young trans people rationally stop seeking NHS "care" that offers nothing more than conversion therapy appointments.

In order to justify removing the healthcare from trans youth in the UK, 96.9% of studies into trans healthcare treatment were excluded, and no studies on non-binary people included at all.

As dire as it is, it’s incredibly funny seeing the phrase “intervention out of scope (oestrogen + anti-androgen)” in a so-called review of gender affirming hormone therapy. Oh the overwhelmingly dominant intervention for trans feminine people is out of scope, is it?

Gallows humour. Almost everyone has been getting this treatment regime for decades but it's been excluded from the government justification for banning hrt to 16/17 year olds If nothing else shows what a - deadly - farce the ban is, it's this 🤬

This arbitrary and what feels like artificial subsetting of interventions and patient groups, in a manner that does not match the clinical evidence, results in the vast majority of that evidence being excluded. This is feeling like a stitch-up, and yet another case of policy-based evidence making.

The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.

In a competitive field where it is hard to stand out, to truly shine for national transphobia, the UK and NHS are absolutely knocking it out of the park. They looked and looked and only found 1 study on puberty blockers + oestrogen Others try and transphobe but we are world class transphobes

I try very hard not to use the word Orwellian too much but it’s the best adjective for the mauling of language at the start of this BBC News report. “… an anti-hate demonstration that turned violent”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...