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Zack Polanski, "I think we need to make racism unacceptable again"

"People acknowledge that our problems are about inequality"

“The worst thing I’ve ever experienced” – comparing experiences of affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare provision for trans adolescents in the UK Within trans youth healthcare two fundamentally different models of care persist, with a significant difference between affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare services. To date there has been l...

Last week I had a new article published, comparing trans adolescent and family experiences in different UK healthcare services. 1/4

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🚨 NEW | Starmer set to lose seat to Greens

🟢 GRN: 32% (+22)
🔴 LAB: 26% (-23)
➡️ REF: 18% (+12)
🔵 CON: 7% (=)
🟠 LD: 5% (=)
🟥 YRP: 2% (-17)*

MRP estimate via @ElectCalculus, 1-8 Dec

Hilarious!

This is why so many ‘gender critical’ transphobes keep pushing their malicious bigotry… it rakes in the cash (especially when they’ve made themselves unemployable because of their obsessive transphobia!)

Julie Bindel hawking her confected outrage articles, Kellie-Jay Keen and her hate merch! #Grift

hi, cis folks!

so, when they release the US cass review that makes the cass review look like a trans liberation manifesto, i think you should

• ask who’s making the case against transition

• answer whether they have trans people’s best interest at heart

• listen to actual trans people instead 🧵

It was a lovely sight to see Sydney University fly the trans flag for Transgender Day of Visibility. At a time when academic institutions are ignoring trans voices and countenancing transphobia because of political and other pressures, small gestures of symbolic support like this feel significant. 🏳️‍⚧️

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and wife found dead at Santa Fe home with their dog Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to a request to do a welfare check on Wednesday around 1.45pm local time and found Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and a dog dead.

"Gene Hackman, his wife, and their dog found dead - police do not suspect foul play."

So the police figure the couple AND THEIR DOG were in a three-way suicide pact?

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Linking LGBTQ+ inclusion to paedophilia is a toxic and dangerous trope.

Please take action to urge Sky to pull their ads from GB News: actionstorm.org/petitions/cu...

Well we do know:
1 Rowling made a series of posts/etc v hostile to Labour for not being sufficiently anti-trans
2 She then had a PRIVATE MEETING with Starmer where what they discussed has never been properly revealed
3 Rowling then laid off attacking Labour
#SoundsLike #Transphobic #BackRoomDeal

It was almost certainly a back-room deal with the likes of JK Rowling and the Daily Mail.

The puberty-blocker ban was not subject to any discussion or debate in the Party at all and especially not with trans members.

Labour is dismantling regulatory protections for consumers and the environment with far greater vigour than the last Government. If you attacked the Tories for doing it why are you biting your tongue now?

So on the pardon front, we have a day when an outgoing president feels the need to pardon lots of people who haven’t committer crimes, and an incoming president who will likely pardon lots of people who definitely have (Jan 6th insurrectionists).

They say the third Monday in January - so-called "Blue Monday" - is the "most depressing day of the year".

Not sure if that's always true but it's DEFINITELY true this year.

I really thought Labour were just playing the game during the election and wouldn’t keep up this shit when they got in. I was wrong.

BRITAIN BANS BLOCKERS FOR SOME The Sun Times (Owen Sound)12 Dec 2024 The British government on Wednesday indefinitely banned puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria after independent experts found there was an unacceptable safety risk in prescribing the medication. The decision, which will be revisited in 2027, effectively bans a common approach to medical gender transitions for youths. It also goes against standards held by medical groups elsewhere, including the European and World Professional Associations for Transgender Health, as well as the American Medical Association. The announcement comes after a judge this summer upheld an emergency ban in a ruling that said the treatment was potentially harmful. The ban applies across the United Kingdom after consultation with the Scottish and Welsh governments, and an agreement with Northern Ireland. It does not apply to those already receiving puberty blockers for gender dysphoria, to their use in clinical studies or in treatment of children with precocious puberty, an uncommon medical condition that causes puberty to begin abnormally early. “We need to act with caution and care when it comes to this vulnerable group of young people, and follow the expert advice,” Health Secretary Wes Streeting said. The Associated Press Article Name:BRITAIN BANS BLOCKERS FOR SOME Publication:The Sun Times (Owen Sound) Start Page:B1 End Page:B1

In a story sent out to newsrooms around the world, AP calls puberty blockers a 'common approach' to treatment for trans kids and highlights how the UK ban goes against 'standards held by medical groups elsewhere, including the European and World Professional Associations for Transgender Health'

How do you fix a world where Musk can spend $44bn buying and using up Twitter? And even turn a profit after the election result? What is left of the media - or democratic politics - given influence can be bought at this scale?

Is there any alternative answer to super progressive wealth taxes?

Trans youth 'languishing' while waiting six years for healthcare 'Trans youth deserve better.'

🏳️‍⚧️ "No child should have to wait years for the healthcare they need to thrive." - Anne Health co-founder Susie Green.

This moving piece in the Metro highlights the heartbreaking six-year wait trans youth face for gender-affirming care in the UK.

#TransKidsDeserveBetter
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