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.

Again, the business of British newspapers is in large part just recruiting and exploiting the most bizarre cranks you can find for your horrible, unrelenting reactionary projects. IIRC the one on the right here is the daughter of a Times arts columnist, who is also a committed Gender War wacko.

This is antiwar infrastructure.

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

"Agree with us or else" is very much the theme of this anti-trans movement. Or else you will be sued. Or else you will be harassed. Or else you will suffer violence.

David Lammy announces a new plan that will "clamp down on extremist influence in institutions, such as charities & universities" From an authoritarian govt thats attacking our basic civil rights this is clearly just another vehicle to target critics of the state.

CUM ON MY MAM?

Happy International Women's Day

omg, nailed

Suede’s best lineup: Brett Anderson (vocals), Bernard Butler (guitar), Mat Osman (bass), Simon Gilbert (drums), Stephen Fry (euphonium), Ian McKellen (kazoo), Pam St Clement (vibes).

ian huntley is dead. i'll always remember how the british press attempted to incite hatred against the trans community by reporting he was transitioning, then apologised to him for incorrect reporting instead of apologising to trans people

Let me start a belated thread of Aotearoa New Zealand silvan birds. To lead things off, a New Zealand Bellbird photographed on Kapiti Island.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Someone should be sending all of his posts to Richard Ayoade and Jonathan Ross, every fucking one

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BOB! YOU HAVE A DAY!! btw if the rescue place lists a "history of biting and scratching", it just means a "history of shitty owners". Bob's just the softest little boo.

Every man who cannot and will not believe that trans women do not obviously have an innate superiority over cisgender women, whether physical/intellectual/whatever, would shit himself if faced with a cis women's rugby player or the average cis woman software developer. Which is nice.

Resting 3rd war crime, 2nd genocide and the only place you can holiday in from now on is Israel face.

Massive Bisexual Orgy, Chepstow, 3pm, 16-1

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

Procedural liberalism on display. We support the murder of innocents, the immoral and demonic violence, but the President didn't fill out the right paperwork. The same logic that calls for higher police training budgets and more diversity among prison guards. Polishing the bars of the cage.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

On social issues specifically, Labour have shifted so far to the right that they could "move to the left" by adopting Theresa May's positions on immigration and trans rights, which is an absolutely unreal thing to be able to say of the architect of the Hostile Environment, and yet

Pretty sure this is word-for-word one of the news reports in Threads

Hell yeah, brother

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Once again Reform are spreading misinformation & smears, and the press & the media seem to repeat them.. its really important that the media.. take responsibility so when Reform or Farage says something they don't just keep repeating it"👏👏👏

underappreciated but very funny gorton and denton sideplot: the conservatives nominating literal sex matters (uk terf group) trustee charlotte cadden, only for her to get the worst result for the conservatives in by-election history and lose her deposit

Labour's swing toward racism is perhaps the biggest unforced error in British political history; burnt their base to ashes and won them not a single vote on the right.

Luke Akehurst can eat shit too

It's been a rough few years, allow me the all-too-brief respite of schadenfreude... HAHAHAHAHAAAA UP YOURS FARAGE

‼️ BREAKING: Greens WIN Gorton and Denton by-election in a landslide victory 🟢 Grn: 41% (+27) ➡️ Ref: 29% (+15) 🔴 Lab: 25% (-25) 🔵 Con: 2% (-6) 🟠 Lib: 2% (-2) Green GAIN from Labour (+/- vs GE2024) ‼️First-ever Green win in an MP by-election

RIP Rob Grant. Truly one of the greatest British sitcoms of all time and a massive influence on getting sci fi onto the telly.

This is the biggest act of cultural and political vandalism in the UK in recent history. It will lead to unprecedented damage. Unnecessarily but ideologically committed against one of the few sectors in which UK remained world leading. Labour have deliberately allowed this to happen.

So the actual universities aside I find it baffling that no one in government is considering what happens when a few of them fail and take out the economy of entire towns with them.

The UK university sector is world-leading but it’s also tangentially connected to immigration so i guess we’d better kill it

Such a wanton, deliberate, vicious and bipartisan act of sabotage.

3000 redundancies at my university in just 3 years

33 of the people pardoned by Trump for January 6 have committed more crimes including molesting children and killing people while drunk driving.

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

So, Roisin Murphy makes the statement that 'no one used the term "queer" unless it was to hurt someone who was gay'. I'm unable to ignore this. The following isn't about making personal comments about Roisin and it's not about the merits of the word, it's about challenging a lie.

Some info here I wasn’t aware of apple.news/AXt_CPg6nQia...

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

This thread thoughtfully sums up the Bafta situation. Social media has trained us to react to events by 1. immediately picking a side and 2. screaming at the other side. But a lot of things are more complex than 2 opposing sides with goodies and baddies.

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