It ended the practice 30 years ago after its own internal report said was scientifically flawed, discriminatory, and a cause of emotional trauma www.wearequeeraf.com/olympics-end...

This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event). However.... apnews.com/article/ioc-...

Anti-trans legislation and the architecture of a coordinated campaign of elimination: a data-driven analysis of the most sustained legislative assault on a minority population in modern American history. www.thedissident.new... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

When you finally wonder if maybe you’ve contributed to a moral panic that has led to the most extreme assault on minority rights since Jim Crow

This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵

Trans folks desperately trying to warn everyone that the so-called gender critical movement was coming for reproductive rights for years, I'd been detailing links between them and US anti-abortion groups only for it to be ignored and it burned me out, but look, it's exactly what we all warned about:

Perhaps. But those party strategists are the same ones who previously dismissed the idea the Greens were a threat, then mocked Polanski and advocated “only Labour can beat Reform” messages which have repeatedly failed. We might wonder if they are the most credible analysts of this problem.

Skrmetti has no binding authority over NY state law which has explicit protections for trans patients. The DOJ coming in and overriding a state AG's enforcement like this is an incredible overreach and shows just how far this admin will go to target trans youth.

"And then we got Keir Starmer, and he’s pretty much in the same place as the Conservatives were – if not arguably worse, under Wes Streeting," says Polanski www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...

doge really did select hires on the basis of "too young to understand that they will likely have personal legal liability" didn't they

I know many of you already know this because it’s obvious but you can absolutely take a survey of an opinion desk’s output over time and pretty accurately surmise the views—or at least the intentions—of the people who are in charge of deciding what gets published. I thought we were all adults here

In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.

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"Trying to compete with Reform not only feels inauthentic... but a betrayal of what Labour is supposed to represent. We must address the concerns and fears of voters, not play on them." Damning stuff from Sadiq Khan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wars can only be declared by Congress. Taxes can only be levied by Congress. Spending can only be appropriated by Congress. Laws can only be passed by Congress. Any President who refuses to work with Congress is an enemy of the Constitution and the rule of law.

Can’t blame this on Morgan McSweeney.

Suspect May is going to be a happy time to be Green. Or Plaid. Or SNP. Or LD. Or anyone on the left except Labour really

The Iranian regime is objectively hideous. It murders & incarcerates innocent people, threatens & attacks sovereign neighbours, routinely breaks international law, outlaws dissent & crushes free speech. Can you see the problem with *Donald Trump & Benjamin Netanyahu* leading the attack on them?

Worth reading in full. The UK is for the present operating outside of what could be considered to be upholding human rights and legal norms on trans people

arxiv.org/abs/2602.14740 for kenneth's paper Yeah....

This will not age well. From my experience wit FOI requests and the UK civil service, they are not prepared to answer even the most simplistic questions about the use of AI much less have a thoughtful approach to mitigating AI's biases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

FOI reveals the EHRC holds zero minutes of meetings with trans-led organisations in the past 5 years. This is the UK’s 'equality' regulator. Trans voices are not important enough for the EHRC to keep a record of what was said. This should be a headline in all the papers.

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Vote Green and give this bigoted fascist, and the bigoted fascists-lite in the Labour Party, a reality check

When Musk said the "cumulative sum of human knowledge has been exhausted" for training AI, what he was really saying is that he would not pay for digitisation, and had reached the limits of useful data he could scrape for free. The GenAI house is built on sand.

The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.

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If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.

A UAE investor secretly gave Trump $187 million and his top Middle East envoy $31 million. And then Trump gave that investor access to sensitive defense technology that broke decades of national security precedent. Brazen, open corruption. And we shouldn't pretend it's normal.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

imagine if we had to follow the Constitution

Sadly time to re up this (from 2021!) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Never turn the page, throw the book

Flood the streets

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Abolish ICE. Really.

"One Whitehall source told The Telegraph there is a growing belief that if the Good Law Project wins its case, Ms Phillipson will tell the EHRC to reconsider its guidance." Well, yes, because it will be unlawful.

Incredibly brave. Imagine the faceless bores the BBC will have making their programmes if they continue down this path.

I think politicians, political operatives, and pundits should read *more* political science, not less, and in particular enough to understand that empirical patterns (e.g. loss of presidential party in midterm years) are equilibrium outcomes but not self-executing laws of nature.

If you wanna know why bands struggle to leave Spotify… 75% of Los Campesinos total streams were Spotify, 60% of their streaming rev was Spotify. Artists are trapped where the listeners are.

This page is worth its weight in gold for anybody considering travelling to the United States, eg Scottish football fans. Read it carefully, understand the content, bookmark it, and print out a copy. Preparation to enter the USA is going to take time and patience. You *must* plan. #TartanArmy

Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether. He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors

The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media). Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc. I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber) 1/2

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How can Glasgow need a mayor to tackle a supposed productivity gap when its productivity is steadily growing and outstripping all but one English city, all already with mayors? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/03/h...