“The Supreme Court of Ukraine has upheld the legality of recognizing a same-sex couple as a family based on their factual relationship, despite the absence of legal recognition of same-sex partnerships in Ukrainian legislation…”
Encouraging news for some same-sex couples in Ukraine.
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This is incredible reporting by 404 media.
This rightfully, brings attention that so called AI is another Western capitalist construct driven by the untold labor & exploitation by Africans. (What's old is new again)
Solidarity with my Africans & the Data Labelers Association.
A local bus
The protest has yet to start, because the organisers are waiting for the adjacent Bristol Cathedral to stop continuous ringing of the bells.
There was a scheduled Bell Peal from 09:00 to 12:00, but it is still ongoing.
Really significant, I think, that the leaders of the Greens and Lib Dems were very visible at Transmission, very happy to publicly demonstrate a commitment to the dignity of trans people. But the Labour frontbench, which still likes to cosplay respect for human rights, was nowhere to be seen.
I went by a few used game stores after my interview today (turns out Limited Run Games also sells used games, which rocks!) and at one of them I found this amazing copy of Contra for NES:
Today's tune is a new release "Her Name" by Crissi Cochrane.
Very listenable, lo-fi energy - wonderfully enriched by the tension in the lyrics
youtu.be/w2ikEQNTbs0
Just incredible shoebill awareness-raising from this Hong Kong teens' magazine
Ok hear me out, if we're doing British wildlife on banknotes:
£5 - Rock Pigeon
£10 - Wood Pigeon
£20 - Collared Dove
£50- Turtle Dove
There are two things you can do right now to support young trans people in England.
1) Engage in political advocacy and community support. I've got *loads* of advice on this in my blog post and zine "But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic".
The UK government's consultation on a digital ID system is now live! And – GOOD NEWS – the government does not intend to include sex or gender information in the digital ID.
"Information about sex and gender is not necessary for the intended purpose of the digital ID."
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Consultation on digital ID out.
Still does not answer the questions "Why this and why now?"
And statements like these in the foreword are patently false and insulting.
*cough* Capita.
It also contradicts itself by saying ID will be voluntary but also compulsory.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Across the 8 studies on HRT, they excluded any circumstances where a young person had taken blockers prior to HRT.
Even where the study was on the combined effects of blockers and HRT.
Personally I think that’s unduly narrow, tho a better designed study could maybe justify something similar.
It takes some serious wrangling to produce findings like that.
And multiple people signed off on these studies.
Really hard to imagine how this could be done by accident.
It's inexcusably poor work, right from its foundation
Not an exaggeration!
The NHS produced four papers saying there's no evidence oestrogen has a feminising effect.
And another four saying there's no evidence testosterone produces a masculinising effect.
1/🧵 I am reviewing NHS England’s “evidence” papers supporting their ban of GHAT for 16- and 17-year-olds.
It’s hard not to see this as a deliberate and malicious attempt to manipulate the evidence base. Most notably, the scope is restricted to monotherapy or GnRH analogues.
Today Ekko Astral is unveiling our second album “the beltway is burning” will be out on April 22 (earth day if you even care).
The lead single “lil xan goes to washington” is available on all platforms now. Watch the video to enter the world we’re building…
@topshelfrecords.com
Trans healthcare needs to be led by trans people, to be accountable to trans communities and trans youth.
Folks who don't believe in the existence of a trans child cannot continue to hold the reins of healthcare policy and governance.
This is where we start.
Through this method, and some other chicanery, smoke and mirrors, they were able to claim NO EVIDENCE for a healthcare that is well understood, safe, cheap, beneficial and hugely important.
This claim of NO EVIDENCE is enough for a full ban.
Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.
This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.
The study underpinning this played one particular trick.
Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5
NHS consultation on raising minimum age for HRT includes over two dozen documents and over 1000 pages of text.
Got 90 days to process that and figure how to respond
www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...
I created one of the merch tshirts for this fantastic event, check it out if you go!
It's normal to restrict or move away from treatments when evidence of harms starts to outweigh evidence of benefits.
It's not normal to restrict or move away from treatments when there is evidence of benefits and none of harms, even if the evidence of benefits is "low quality."
A new report from TransActual shows that trans people in the UK are being catastrophically failed.
Read the full report here: transactual.org.uk/trans-lives-...
Donate to support our work to push for the change that’s needed: tinyurl.com/DonateTransA...
#TransLives25 #TransLives #Trans
"...these arguments have become implausibly detached from the legal & factual context in which [I/Goodwin] were decided. They fail to take seriously the increasingly serious incursions on the privacy rights of trans people that are likely to occur if the trans-exclusionary interpretation prevails"
I can’t find the reviews either, nor can I find the announced consultation
In 1987 Diane Abbott became the first Black woman elected to Parliament.
Ten years later, Oona King.
In 2005, I became the third.
That was the pace of progress until then.
International Women’s Day I reflect on the barriers Black women still face.
My article in The Voice👇🏾
Tomorrow MPs face a choice:
Give Ministers a blank cheque to impose digital ID checks across any part of the Internet, or protect our rights.
They must say no to powers that’ll restrict our access to information unless we all prove we’re over 16.
Join over 570 people who’ve written to their MP ⬇️
