That's the new model?

In the context of the British government trying to pass more laws which will restrict free speech, particularly targeting Irish Republicans in the UK (Northern Ireland). I think it is worth nothing what 30 years of violence refered to as "the troubles" were about. And what they achieved.

But what about reliability of supply? *Points at strait of Hormuz*

this is where all navel gazing about falling birth rates leads and you're deluding yourself if you think it's not fundamentally misogynistic

it’s incredibly blackpilling to me that it takes rising gas prices and rising gas prices alone to have people turn against the war in iran, and not the american government murdering thousands of children and civilians in iran. americans are incredibly selfish

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Sex is a social construct. No I don't mean gender. Sex, as defined by biology, is made up by soical animals (biologists) to describe to other social animals (biology students) how to understand and further that science. It is part of the map which we used to describe reality. It is not reality.

Let’s all be honest, Trump is really trying to bomb public interest in the Epstein files. But it’s a hard target.

Feeling childishly happy that Maya Forstater and Julie Bindel were in the crowd when I ad libbed both my TERF comment and @transparentaction plug for affirming parents. Full speech here with subtitles. There was a palpable shift in the room. A kind of hushed roar for Alice. It was very special.

"The workers in Kenya describe video material showing bathroom visits, sex and other intimate moments. 'I saw a video where a man puts the glasses on the bedside table and leaves the room. Shortly afterwards his wife comes in and changes her clothes,' one of them says."

In other words, there will never be a "safe and effective" vaccine. It's the same for GAC. There is no burden of proof that can be met that will satisfy them. The goal posts will always move. Everyone else suffers for their poor understanding of science.

To impose a ban on hormones for under 18s with this ridiculously low level & quality of evidence is completely unjustified, on every level. And as my own research has shown, none of them take into account the effects of banning them, something that was absent from Cass.

Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now). This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5

The NHS say this flows from the Cass Review but this is a distortion. Cass’ conclusions say the evidence for trans kids’ HRT is “inconsistent” but if you actually read the Review’s own evidence it shows positive outcomes! That’s 1 reason Cass was rejected by international medical authorities. 3/5

Trans people will never vote Labour again

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Seems to come naturally to plenty of Labour MPs, including most of the cabinet

In the 1997 dystopian scifi film Gattaca, rapid DNA testing is used to determine social class and job eligibility. In 2026 UK, women wanting to participate in athletics must pay a £185 gender tax to take part in a genetic lottery where some will be ineligble due to previously unknown chromosones.

Well fuck, if this doesn't sound contrary to the basics of research ethics...

Poor Labour. If only Reform hadn't split their vote.

1. Its been a week since NYU Langone ended its trans youth care program. Then Sinai followed a few days ago. There are immediate steps Mamdani can take, and he refuses to do so. When asked about those steps, his office has chosen not to comment repeatedly. Subscribe to support our journalism.

This was our landlord in Dublin - they bought our entire housing estate in 2021, started ignoring our maintenance issues and we had to take them to the RTB to get our security deposit returned.

Wish people would stop conflating 'social transition' with hair cuts. The government are not policing hair styles. This take risks dismissing & minimising what is happening to trans kids. What they are policing & denying is the social recognition & affirmation that trans kids desperately need.

You are born that way. There is no trans ideology, because it is not an ideology. It’s as human as having red hair or size 10 feet. Additionally if you look up the crime data it’s fascinating. Despite being presented as aggressive, violent & predatory trans ppl are significantly less likely to..,

The Ponds patrons are overwhelmingly supportive of trans inclusion, and yet still Sex Matters keep pusing there idealogical agenda. They say they defend women's rights, but continue to ignore the voices of women; how very misogynistic.

Wait, if there is no such thing as a "wrong puberty", why are we even discussing puberty blockers, we could just give 12 year olds cross sex hormones (GAHT) when they ask. That way they can be happy and grow into health trans adults!

I have friends being threatened by their workplaces over the use of toilets they've been using for years without problem.

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Very important THREAD. This is why the Starmer regime is failing to implement its promised Bannon conversion therapy; the “new” GIDS and the transphobic school “guidance” produced by Bridget Phillipson, together constitutes state-mandated trans conversion therapy.

Worth noting that this risk of outing was one of the features that won Goodwin v UK in the European court of human rights. It's treatment institutionally that can cause outing that resulted in the UK losing against Christine Goodwin and being forced to implement the gender recognition act.

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Micheál Martin to declare: "we may not like it, but we NEED pedophile billionaires to INVEST in the market."

🏳️‍⚧️ SECOND THOUGHT OF THE DAY… Fabled ”Bological sex“ is just certified sex in the same way that a GRC certifies sex. It merely certifies sex after a cursory examination of external genitalia. However, sexual identity is defined by the most complex organ in the human body, the brain... /cont.

Our government have consistently treated disability as a charitable issue rather than a rights-based one. We are horrifically failing the disabled community in Ireland, and their families. We need to do a lot better and fast.

I wonder, are they also fundamental to human minds, do we have filtered which supress the wilder hallucinations? Are these very filters turned off by certain recreational drugs (at least that was a theory on how LSD works?) and if so, how would we trains a neural net to filterout BS from LLMs...

It took a hot minute, but I can finally share my new paper on evidentiary pragmatism in transgender health care! In it, I propose a new principle for evaluating scientific evidence based on the best reasonably achievable evidence, avoiding the ‘catch-22’ where trans care can never be justified.

BBC celebrating having helped harass a woman out of her job.

Huh, apparently “many” are walking away with TRT prescriptions on the NHS. I had no idea we could do that! I was a little confused though as to the real genders of the interviewed people as there was no “biological female” or “biological male” attached to any of the names.

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It is ridiculous that we let free market economics determine what gets researched. We have. Publicly funded basic research, and we should have public owned and patented vaccines being created by the same research and then allow private companies compete to deliver them....

We are all Radium Girls now.

Publicly funded gender-affirming care is great for the economy, says new study https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/12/gender-affirming-care-economy-benefits/?utm_content=1770913653&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

The entire Tavistock scandal was over 8 complaints. They've fucked the entirety of trans and non binary peoples, because of 8 complaints, all of which have not materialised into anything as far as I can tell.

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Trump makes the mistake of mixing it with @ilhanmn.bsky.social and instantly regrets it… FAFO in action.

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After WWI they introduced passports and hard borders, "to protect against foreign agents" entering countries. Now we have people drowning in the English Channel and Mediterranean to protect those borders. Little kids being abducted in the US.

this is literally going to strongarm every queer user into giving info after they declared every single lgbtq+ server to be "adult servers" years ago. so now it's literally give us your info or lose access to your communities and resources. fuck you discord.

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