In December 1934 the Nazis passed a law that made it illegal to criticise the Nazi party or political regime, significantly quashing political dissent. Three months later, the Gestapo arrested the entire leadership of the 'illegal' KPD opposition party in Berlin... buff.ly/C2SgX3Z

This & the ex-Apprentice dickhead threatening to sue the BBC because no one voted for him on Strictly are the exact same story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Finally saw Harold and Maude today What a wild, lovely film with some lovely, wild fashion choices… and a super Cat Stevens soundtrack.

“There’s never been a moment when someone’s like ‘oh, I didn’t want to let you know I really want universal child care.’ … When you say ‘I’m a moderate,’ or ‘I’m a centrist’ I immediately know you’re right-wing, and I also think you’re a coward.”

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.

“Spray I do not alter it any further”

“Oh my critics just say stuff like (obvious strawman) and (misrepresentation of criticism). It’s all because of (conspiracy theory)” Nope, at this point there are multiple detailed takedowns you’ve not addressed. Outside of the UK and US this thing has been roundly rejected.

Just watched Jet Stream (1959), an utter fever dream of a film feat. Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Harry Secombe, Marty Wilde, Paul Eddington, Sybil Thorndike, Hermione Baddeley etc. in a film about a bomb on a plane, although mostly spent with everyone getting blotto in the downstairs bar...

BITE IT

Leaked audio from Cass talking to NHS Sheffield. drive.proton.me/urls/EPMR96E... Leak is thanks to Trans Kids Deserve Better www.instagram.com/reel/DSf3rqb...

Holy moly this is some *mind meltingly* heavy funk, not the jazz odyssey I was expecting but something miles beyond. #vinyl #NowSpinning #RotateyDiskers

Instead, we get this framing where Cass is the final word, and where anything but obsequious adherence to its recommendations (or even recommendations ascribed to it but not actually in the text) is cast as "ignoring" it.

Slimming World Christmas

Meanwhile in the middle of Lidl

A friend has sent me this photo from the website of the Sandringham Estate. That fireplace looks *remarkably* familiar, doesn't it? bsky.app/profile/jame...

There’s a whole sequence of murders in “The One-Armed Swordsman” accompanied by a rather close analog to The Rite Of Spring, nice

Absolutely this. Another example is the “transing the gay away” trope of transphobia, which hinges on the idea that changing the *label* you use to describe your sexual orientation in line with your gender identity actually changes your sexuality.

I like how it's clear this wasn't published by the UK side of the grain basically instantly. Can you imagine the UK one noting Cass wasn't peer reviewed + has faced significant criticism.

the darvo flip from "she uses false equivalences" to "there is no difference between this and legalizaing heroin" a beautiful example of how these people have completely casseroled their brains

Important thread containing steps to opt out of your data being used for unknown audit and research purposes by the anti-trans riddled "National Research Oversight Board" for gender dysphoria.

A mother and a son will finally be reunited for Christmas – six years after he was taken away on the recommendation of an unregulated psychologist www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

So everyone is understandably focused on Levy right now but there’s a bunch of other stuff sneaked into the accompanying NHS England letter which I’m gonna flag up 🚩

1/3 It didn't seem too terrible to me on first read but I think there is a worrying move to put power in one central board to control all clinics. That board seems primed to become terf controlled.

🚩 Heads up - I’m in the pub two glasses of wine down and have not read the Levy report, so, correct me if I’ve misunderstood. May I repeat: for a health issue NOT classified as a mental health condition, why are psychiatrists and psychologists the first line of assessment for trans patients? 🚩

My first reaction on skimming through Levy is a big sign of relief. This is not a hatchet job like Cass (in fact seems to ignore the absurd anecdotal “concerns” that Cass flagged up in her letter) and the recommendations do seem like they are genuinely directed towards improving things.

Time is a flat circle

Now, will the newly appointed EHRC Chair Mary-Ann Stephenson apologise for funding her witch hunt against Stonewall?

Public consultation about the BBC’s Charter for the next 10 years is now open.

Duel To The Death

If Levy follows the recommendations of the Sullivan Report along these lines it is going to be an *absolute shitstorm* for trans healthcare. And given that Streeting already removed ability to change gender marker for under 18s, on the basis of Sullivan, this is a really really bad sign.

Also pissed off at Steeting going off on "biological sex is immutable for screening and healthcare" in parliament, if ignoring that we very much should be treated according to our current anatomy and hormones, and that treating us as our birth assigned sex will cause serious healthcare failures.

Wes Streeting "hopes to report before the Christmas recess the work that's been undertaken by the Levy review" Said in parliament today at approximately 13:59½. Parliament recess begins after tomorrow (end of Thursday 18th December 2025). parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

'Milkweed make recognisably folk music but dragged through all sorts of post-production mangles so the vocalist and her bandmate’s acoustic accompaniment are forced to reckon with wow, flutter, flotsam and jetsam' Milkweed - Remscéla is No 16 in tQ's AOTY 2025 Chart buff.ly/ybd91AH

Streeting was very carefully using the term “gender incongruence” instead of “gender dysphoria” today. I wonder if moving to ICD-11 is going to be a significant factor in Levy, and I note the fact that I have to wonder this indicates how disengaged from community engagement that whole exercise is.

Saw Jonathan Hinder MP talking for the first time today and even in a crowded field of clueless yet pompous arseholes he stands out as one of the most extremely gender-demented bampot fucks. He’s the one who called Ann Widdecombe “woke” if you want evidence of his total disconnect from reality.

CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their boss’s anti-woke “university” in Austin. Via @ngluckman.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...

Streeting confirmed in parliament today that the "data linkage" study is still underway and will be completed.

Utterly shameful that UK politicians of all stripes are still clinging to "what Cass said" when the Cass Review has been repeatedly dismantled as an fundamentally flawed exercise in pseudoscience ruthpearce.net/cass-review/

Bonus 3: a e s t h e t i c s

🌈 12 Days of Consortium- July 2025 Our July highlight looks back on London Trans+ Pride, where 100,000 trans+ people and allies marched through the city in a historic show of solidarity. 1/3

BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:

Ah, another "progressive" organization being used as a trojan horse for anti-trans manoeuvering. Great stuff.

I’m so tired of cis clinicians playing judge and jury over who gets to be “genuinely” considered Trans while describing their encounters with Trans+ folk in ways that erase all humanity Trans healthcare has to change - starting with putting Trans voices, not cis authority or comfort, at it's centre

Rare snapshot of a punk with “occasionally heterodox views” in its natural environment

The True Meaning Of The Season

Been a while since I dug any ECM zingers out of a charity shop, but this is just awesome. No drums, just soundscapes with Weber’s fretless bass taking centre stage. Perfect. #vinyl #RotateyDiskers #NowSpinning

Finally acquired a copy of “A Moog Mass” by Caldara, the precursor of Tonto’s Expanding Head Band. Another weirdo gap filled. Deliciously delirious cover art. #vinyl #RotateyDiskers #NowSpinning

"Nobody is expecting a toilet police" - Mary-Ann Stephenson, EHRC chair