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Critics claim gender clinics are seeing an excess of trans boys. But new data suggest otherwise Some claim ‘social contagion’ is driving teenagers who were assigned female at birth to identify as transgender and seek medical care.

In The Anxious Generation, Haidt falsely claims 1) gender dysphoria is like eating disorders 2) "social contagion" can be blamed for the 2010 rise in gender clinic referrals and 3) trans boys are overrepresented at these clinics when, as shown here, there is an underrepresentation of trans girls

Free speech rules to protect academic freedom come into force New legal duties on universities and colleges come into force, as government delivers Plan for Change to restore integrity of higher education.

Free speech rules to protect academic freedom come into force

Guess which ones they are designed to protect...

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“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”

#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

The person getting caned here is John Boyne, author of one of the most misleading, sugar-coated works on the Holocaust ever published; who, when this was rightly critiqued, wrote a sequel that was exactly the same. Because he's a ****.

#Transrights #NHS Hilary Cass has decided to show her full hand. She had Anna Hutchinson publish a paper titled "Cass informed psychotherapy for gender distressed children". Hutchinson submitted for publication with Taylor & Francis online, not surprisingly a publication which has had plenty of

This has gone quite wide, here & on insta. I’m talking about John Boyne and the Polari Prize. Boyne said in his paean to Rowling last week in the Irish independent that women who support trans rights are “complicit in their own erasure” and “ready to pin down a handmaiden as her husband rapes her.”

You can't call yourself "a prize for LGBTQ+ literature" and longlist a self-proclaimed terf. Anyone can give any prize to anyone they like, of course. But don't pretend you're a prize for my community when you're platforming someone who's actively fighting against it.

3 Aug 25 - New study shows vast "over-representation of trans boys" turns out to be vast _under-representation_ of trans girls bec. they: a) come out ~10 years later; b) start puberty later; & c) delay transitioning longer because of deep social animus towards AMAB femininity.
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Gaza Starvation Photos Tell a Thousand Lies Hamas propaganda exploits seriously ill children, and Western media go along.

The editors who published this should go straight to The Hague. I mean literally, according to the terms of international law such as it exists.

Imagine these headlines about photos of Jews during the Holocaust. It's really unbelievable how low humanity has sunk. Germany, by the way, had multiple articles like this all week

Sometimes the way a nurse, midwife or nursing associate conducts themselves outside their professional practice can be serious professional misconduct and will require us to act. We will take action when a professional’s conduct: either indicates deep-seated attitudinal issues which could pose a risk to the public in professional practice, or is capable of undermining public trust and confidence in the profession, raising fundamental questions about the nurse, midwife or nursing associate’s ability to uphold the values and standards set out in the Code.

A screenshot of Sandie Peggie's entry on the NMC register. Name: Sandie Walker Peggie Geographical locations: Fife Expiry date: 21/12/2025 Registration status: Registered- no restrictions on practice

Sandie Peggie has unequivocally and repeatedly violated the Nursing and Midwifery Council's Code of Conduct and yet they've failed to take action. She should not remain on their register.

EU Commission reverses course on anti-discrimination directive | ILGA-Europe The European Commission has revived its draft Equal Treatment Directive after public outcry and a 33,000-signature petition.

Some REAL good news;

The EU is backtracking on its earlier decision to abandon stronger anti-discrimination protections, following a campaign by @ilgaeurope.bsky.social.

Now there will be stronger protections and rights in the EU for LGBT people.

What you're hearing is the popping of champagne across the Scottish left.

Kate Forbes is stepping next year, ending her long influence of anti-LGBTQ+ pressure and conservative economic policy at the height of Scottish Government.

An academic, an arrogant minister and a fight for equality that has gone horribly wrong Mary-Ann Stephenson has been appointed – with “utmost confidence” – as chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission

"For what is the point of a state watchdog if it simply serves as a government poodle? And why continue with an equalities quango if it ignores some of the most marginalised groups in society while driving open toxic divisions?" liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/384...

Novelist Nicola Dinan has withdrawn as a Polari Prize judge, after self-described 'terf' John Boyne was longlisted for the LGBTQ+ book award

www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article... (£)

A handful of recent Thames mudlarking finds - from the top; some haberdashery with three buttons, copper nails from barge building, handmade brass dress pins, a musket ball, part of a medieval floor tile.

A handful of handmade brass dress pins seen posed against my black-gloved hand on the Thames Foreshore

From a quick Thames mudlark last week, a handful of little river treasures spanning over six hundred years of London’s history. Buttons, copper nails from old barge building/repair, hand made brass pins, a musket ball (not fired) and a fragment of Medieval floor tile.

The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

Barclays follows HSBC in exit from banking industry’s net zero alliance US banks have already pulled out of NZBA, the UN environment programme’s finance initiative

If it used to feel like we were moving in the right direction, but too slowly – it now feels like we’re going in the wrong direction altogether:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

WHEN IS IT NOT SMALL BOATS WEEK THO??
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When is it wealth inequality week, eh?? WHEN DOES THAT COME AROUND?

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

London Trans Pride: A Montage

Why is a former Murdoch exec set to run government comms? Ex Sun editor David Dinsmore has been given the task of truth-teller in chief over the machinery of government. It feels like magical thinking

“For more than 50 years Rupert Murdoch has loomed like a media shaman over British politics. Installing one of his
executives to preside as truth-teller in chief over the machinery of government feels like magical thinking.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Labour, The Genocide Party

I still can't get over how much hatred there is for trans people in the Labour party. How has it got this bad? It's not just the policies, it's the extreme dehumanisation and just utter disregard for us in any way at all.

Nigel Farage appearances on Sky News spark thousands of complaints It comes after Reform UK set up its own broadcast studio to pump out slick, TV-style videos online

Thousands of people have complained to Sky News about “excessive” coverage of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

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Beth Upton has not had her say. Sandie Peggie has had countless coverage At no point did we hear from Beth Upton in the media, at no point was her story told, at no point have we heard about the effect this has had on…

I have this in the Herald today (archive version in comments)

‘When context is missing, minds are easily swayed, and humanity often forgotten.’

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

the funniest thing Robert Webb has ever done is become a bigot and then get absolutely fucking humiliated by the parent of a trans kid on a podcast he showed up to thinking he'd get some easy promotion.

fuck anyone who is excited for this mans dead career to come back.

🎉 40,000 women have signed - and we’re not stopping here.

We’re united in rejecting discrimination against the trans and non-binary community. We refuse to let our voices be used to divide. This is our moment — and we’re heading for 50,000...and beyond! 🚀💥

📢 Here’s how you can help us get there...

Beth Upton has not had her say. Sandie Peggie has had countless coverage At no point did we hear from Beth Upton in the media, at no point was her story told, at no point have we heard about the effect this has had on…

This is a really good article which highlights how the UK media uses biased framing (which is as much about which trans-supportive narratives it EXCLUDES as much as the trans-hostile ones it INCLUDES)…

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Archive version here: archive.ph/GARXz

39,511 Individual Signatures from 160 Countries

Not In Our Name NION Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community 2 Sign petition 40,057°

Two petitions one supporting the total elimination of trans people, the other signed by cis women opposing transphobia

No 1. took SIX YEARS to get 39,500 signatures.

No 2. took just 10 weeks to get 40,000 signatures

Now tell me transphobia is more popular than trans people’s human rights.