Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Figure skating world championships were considered to be for men only until 1902, when Madge Syers showed up and took home silver and the ISU went "whooooops guess we need to segregate them." It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.

Would you know what to do if you experienced transphobic discrimination at work? Worried about applying for jobs as a trans person? Thanks to The National Lottery we’re running free Know Your Rights at Work Zoom workshops.

I genuinely believe that if Belfast Pride won't ban the executive parties, then queer orgs should pull out from participating in it.

Looking up pubs on google maps that are noted hangouts for gangs or the IRA and then reading the glowing reviews from yanks who wandered in and had a great night

"When it mattered most, Long sided with cis power over trans survival" - My meeting with Northern Ireland Justice Minister Naomi Long to discuss why they backed a puberty blocker ban - open.substack.com/pub/hleehurl...

‘Unite for more rights!’ UNISON’s women’s conference opens with clear calls to champion trans rights, healthcare and childcare

The Stormont parties have failed the LGBTQ+ community for 27 years. ❌ No strategy since 2007 ❌ No funding since 2005 ❌ No LGBTQ+ equality plan in gov strategy ❌ Puberty blockers ban with no evidence or consultation No PR pass at Pride. Petition: www.greenpartyni.org/no_pride...

Do you think most of us wanted to be at odds with the largest progressive party here? God no, we've all grown up watching in-fighting and having it shape our sense of what we don't want from politics here, but this is one of those ethical lines in the sand we can't walk away from.

@hleehurley.substack.com and I had a lengthy meeting with @naomilong.bsky.social and she told us she had already held many other meetings on the subject, at the end of the meeting I asked her if she would, with hindsight, make the same decision about the ban, her response was "I don't know" 🤯🤯

🦌 STAG DANCE GIVEAWAY 🦌 With one month to go until we publish #StagDance by @torreypeters.bsky.social, we're giving away a copy of the book, and an exclusive cap and t-shirt (seen here modified and modelled by Torrey herself!) 💗 To enter, RT this by midday Thursday 20th Feb. UK only.

A cross-party joint statement from LGBT+ Liberal Democrats, Rainbow Greens, LGBTQIA+ Greens, and Out for Independence on Wes Streeting’s engagement with anti-trans organisations and call for his resignation. Read and share the full statement here: lgbt.libdems.org.uk/news/article...

You’re not going to get your creative project off the ground if you’re afraid of being seen as cringe by friends and strangers. Cringe is unavoidable, just do the thing you want to do

Only two orgs were in favour of making the ban permanent: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (adult services)

Was surprised to see this: List of orgs who were against making the ban permanent: Alder Hey children's gender service. The Royal College of General Practitioners The British Medical Association The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Hillary Cass scolding MPs who oppose the puberty blocker ban when her own (debunked and misleading) review didn’t even recommend a ban anyway sums up how disingenuous transphobes are.

ME: [extremely burnt out] I need to take the day off to relax ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive

“Most trans kids will survive. But many of us will have to survive knowing that there are no institutions in Britain that will protect us … We will have to find more ways to protect ourselves and each other.” Listen to the young trans people who are fighting for their lives, freedom and community.

PLEASE, PLEASE. PLEASE sign this new petition asking for an independent review of the biased and internationally discredited Cass Review. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... #CassReview #trans #transgender #TransLivesMatter #TransKidsDeserveBetter #TransHealthcare

But they found time this week to come together to ban puberty blockers.

Reposting this in light of today's appalling ban on puberty blockers by Wes Streeting after the farcical sham of a consultation process. If treatment for one group is denied to another that has nothing to do with patient safety, but everything to do with politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'You wouldn't know the advice. It goes to another school.'

I just can't be dealing with this when we know what will follow this horrendous decision. www.cnn.com/2024/09/26/h...

Labour’s manifesto promised to “remove indignities for trans people”, yet the government’s ban on puberty blockers adopts the Tories’ politicised unevidenced approach. Young people — cis & trans — must have access to healthcare they need. I stand firmly with the trans community.

Has half the legislation planned for NI this year failed to appear? Leader of the Opposition and SDLP MLA Matthew O’Toole claimed that the Executive will not deliver on the legislative programme for 2024 that was presented to the Assembly and that barely half of the 18 Bills scheduled will appear

The Alliance Party may want to reconsider citing the proposed clinical trial for access to puberty blockers This Council of Europe report (UK member) states the total withdrawal of access to healthcare outside of this research trial may breach “the fundamental ethical principles governing research”

For those following the Trans Kids Deserve Better protest in Ilford, a group of men who have now left arrived to harass the young trans people camping outside Wes Streeting's constituency office. The men have now left. Trans kids are fighting for their health rights and are asking for support.

I share concerns of experts at the Council of Europe that removing access to #PubertyBlockers except through clinical trials may breach “fundamental ethical principles governing research”, amounting to coercion and a breach of young people's human rights. I asked Wes Streeting about this today... 🧵

Happy to see a pledge to release the advice as given by the CMO. I don't believe Nesbitt will agree, but I hope I'm wrong.

I absolutely do not understand why Streeting has gone BEYOND the recommendations of the Cass Report. Making puberty blockers available only under research protocols would not only have allowed them to still be available in dire need, but also amassed the missing data on their effects and long-

From the link:- opposing the permanent order - 59% supporting the permanent order - 27% neither for nor against - 14% So they had major opposition to a permanent order, but still chose to implement one. Starmer and Streeting are ignoring their own consultation *shocked pikachu*

He voted for the bill.

As recently as October, @allianceparty.bsky.social policy was that they didn't support a puberty blocker ban and decisions should be made by clinicians. I'm astounded that they voted against their own policy without any notification. Why criticise the Health Minister to begin with?

After the news that the NI Executive will ban puberty blockers 'indefinitely', Trans Pride NI are organising a silent protest at Stormont on Thursday 12 December at 5pm. Please share widely as we need to get as many people there as possible. Thanks

TransActual is excited to launch our 2024 trans lives survey to capture what it is like to be a trans person in the UK today. This is an important survey, updating our 2021 survey that is widely used used to advocate for trans people. UK trans people over 18: https://buff.ly/3ZNjAnh #Trans

Paving the way for a UK-wide ban to be announced later this week. Whatever their excuses, the Executive parties have voted to make thes of an already vulnerable minority of young people worse.

Sinn Fein & Alliance Party claim to be progressive parties working to protect LGBTQ people from harm. What is progressive about making decisions that potentially put the lives of young Trans folks at risk whilst refusing to publish evidence leading to that decision? Trans rights are human rights.

Micky Murray was screaming in our defence but the rest of his party turned a blind eye. SF have turned on the LGBTQ community AGAIN, PBP and the Greens are the only consistent allies!

BREAKING: Northern Ireland Executive unanimously backs health minister's plan to ban puberty blockers in Northern Ireland. It is an 'indefinite' ban. It was supported by Sinn Fein and Alliance, who raised no objections.

whenever you hear about an athlete having their sex questioned you don’t even need to see a photo before being near-certain that the athlete in question is a Black woman

The DUP will be pleased the Palestine mural outside the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast has been painted over. They may not be so enthused with what has replaced it. 😄🇵🇸

British trans people! I just filled in this survey about accessing trans healthcare. It took like 5 mins Have a look if you can!

John O'Dowd's Stormont department is pretending that it's spending £2.6m on a cycle lane, but most of that money is funding a road for cars and lorries - and the department is refusing to say if this has been happening more widely.

It’s #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance, when we remember all those lost to violence due to being Trans, and for people around the world help raise visibility for transgender people and address issues the community faces ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

Only a few more days left to respond to our IMTAC survey about how easy it is for Deaf, disabled and older people to travel to access health services. Take the survey surveymonkey.com/r/5BDHBH3 Please share.

@scumbelievable.bsky.social hey so I know you're planning to shutter your twitter, and I completely understand. Seen others reflecting on your bangers and wanna say I've always found this thread really touching and I've been thinking about it a lot recently given how terrible this month has been.

St Aidan’s school Tallaght delightfully undermining the far right.

These are the simple demands of the QUB Palestine Assembly group that were protesting tonight. After a year of the US arming and assisting in a genocide that has seen tens of thousands of children alone murdered, the University has continued to refuse these demands.

The PSNI had to be forced into providing one car to watch over Belfast Islamic Centre when it was openly targeted for arson and only did so cause ordinary people were there in their place. They had 100s of officers deployed today to ensure nobody could shout at some Yanks during a panel event.