Vic Stamp

The only problem with people working illegally in the UK is that them working is deemed illegal

There is, btw, absolutely no evidence of large scale fraud wrt PIP. It's already so unnecessarily difficult to get that I know multiple people with actual trauma in relation to the assessment process.

Interruption of studies or being signed off sick is not actually a solution to inaccessibility.

Time off also won't cure chronic illness, nor necessarily result in improved symptoms once back at work.

Or not at all as it turns out...

It's definitely done locally not by NHSE but still very positive!

I know thats not an approach that works for everyone and I respect that.

But if the meds are benefiting you does it really matter if they are treating ADHD or cPTSD?

The conclusion I have come to as someone who has PTSD & trauma in childhood is that I will never know & it doesn't really matter (at least for me) - drawing on techniques for coping with ADHD & PTSD that work for me has been a lot more meaningful than focusing on labels or causes.

The far right turnout today is much smaller than the number of people who came to protest at London Trans Pride this year, but the far right will of course get infinitely more press coverage.

The adultifying & sexualisation of children because they are Trans is deeply disturbing & harmful. This article is talking about discriminating against 12 and 13 year old girls simply because they are Trans.

Its already disrupted so Im just crossing everything I get there

As a gauge of how tired I am, I just searched 'trans' in my email and was surprised when that did not in fact immediately locate my transpennine express booking confirmation given the rest of my inbox.

I am exhausted to levels of my being that I didn't know existed at this point.

I dont even have my laptop - I was out when he got the call! But yes eduroam is definitely a perk I've used plenty in waiting rooms and when inpatient.

It worked out all good and he's getting the test now thankfully.

(And asked him if I could share this to be clear)

As if it's not enough of an operation to try and converge him, me and our driver friend in one place within an hour to avoid waiting months more for this test, we did that that with no idea if he'd be seen when we got there.

I talk a lot about ways the PhD and my life are inseparable but unexpectedly working from a hospital wait room after my partner got offered a cancellation slot for a test with an hours notice but the number to call back didn't work! And no one picked up when transferred from the switchboard!

As cool at this one it, am extremely grateful to not be lugging it anywhere

You tick a box that says "male" the app will assume you don't have breasts. You tick the box that says "female" it will assume you don't have testicles. Many trans women, of course, have both.

I do not think that a good health triage system would ignore that some of us are trans.

I think it's important that the question gets asked in a way that is sensitive enough that trans people won't just immediately reject it, avoid healthcare, or cover up trans status.

Commissioning an organisation who already thinks this about their tool to review whether their tool works is certainly a choice.

Thanks for sharing!

Studying systemic harms that affect you is weird.

I can stand there and tell you many details about the rock, I can thoroughly analyse the hard place - I can even tell you what machinery would get folk free.

But ultimately I am still stuck between a rock and hard place without any tools.

This is what British “gender criticals” want too.

No NHS gender care, at all.

No ability to change gender markers.

Access to HRT, even privately, criminalised.

“Dignity and respect” as they segregate, dehumanise and criminalise.

Experiences of trans segregation following the Supreme Court ruling. A new report from TransActual shows Trans and Cis people face job loss, violence, vigilantism and wholesale exclusion following the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC guidance. tinyurl.com/trans-segregation -in-practice

A new report from TransActual shows that trans and cisgender people face job loss, violence, vigilantism and wholesale exclusion following the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC guidance.

Read the report at: tinyurl.com/trans-segreg...

#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #EqualityAct #EHRC #TransRights

"I, a trans woman, believed I had to follow the EHRC interim update and was followed into the men's room by a male security officer and told to get out. It is worth noting that before this I was already shaking with fear about the possible confrontation that could ensue. The security man and the two other men in the room circled me. I said I believed, according to what the EHRC and our political leaders have said, that I have to be in there now. Now that he infers I am trans, he starts sniggering at me. The other men in the room join him in laughing at me. I tell him that it isn't funny and please stop laughing at me. He doesn't stop and I say "it might be funny to you but to me this is my life and I am scared, scared about being attacked, please stop laughing, it's not funny'. He tells me he doesn't care what I have to say, that I need to get out. So I do. I leave and talk to the store manager, where again, I have to relay all sorts of intimate and private details, of my background, my trans and intersex statuses, history of being assaulted, my genital configuration. This is humiliating. I felt deeply unsafe, humiliated, hopeless like nobody cares, violated. I don't think the EHRC lets me use the [service of my gender] so I was just denied service." WHITE TRANS WOMAN WHO FACED ISSUES IN A SHOP OR SHOPPING CENTRE IN ENGLAND.

[CN: transphobia, transmisogyny, sexual harassment]

Unworkable rules and impossible situations are the point. They want to make our lives unliveable.

transactual.org.uk/impacts-of-t...

As someone on my third financially unadvantageous degree, I am once again asking politicians to consider there might be something valuable going on in universities that isn't just making money

Autistic students takes university to OIA independent body to complain they punished them for sounding like a AI....

And wins. Take note #Universities. The checkers are bias. ⬇️

Reading studies on women's health that speak to both patients and professionals is wild because you read 20 pages of women explaining that they are worried about engaging with doctors because they think they will judge and belittle them followed by 20 pages of doctors doing exactly that.

"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others"

The Bay Area Reporter front page, 13 August 1998. The headline ‘No obits’ is written in red above the lead story.

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.