A.R./Ryan Vale (he/them)

BREAKING -

Translucent has begun the process of taking legal action against the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

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Barclays confirms trans women to be barred from using ladies’ toilets Group chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan said the move follows the recent Supreme Court ruling that the term woman is defined by biological sex.

Another reason to boycott Barclays (as if their support for genocide wasn't enough) uk.news.yahoo.com/barclays-con...

I do hope you enjoy it when it's ready! 💜

That's so nice! Let me know if you do 😊

Also Extraterrestrials: Another Autistic Trans Anthology but I feel like that's cheating as I'm currently editing that book 😅

Thank you for featuring Changelings! I recently read Model Home by Rivers Solomon and was obsessed. I also will never stop recommending Too Bright To See by Kyle Lukoff and Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve 💜🏳️‍⚧️💜🏳️‍⚧️💜

An illustration of a woman with long hair in a plait reading a book and holding a cup of coffee. There is a trans flag behind her and black text that says "read more trans books!"

Let's share our favourite books with trans chacters and written by trans authors, so we can all find our next reads.

I'll share mine in the comments.

#BookSky #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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Breaking news

Trans Kids Deserve Better have climbed the telegraph office building and hung a banner saying "the daily smellograph"

Its looking like I may need a new laptop sooner rather then later, so commissions are open to help with the payment.

Remember $5 off for Sapphic themed commissions!

#commissionsopen #commissions #artcommissions

I love the original cover but this is stunning! 💗💜💙

My Experience of Attraction as an Asexual Person 6th April is International Asexuality Day, and as someone who identifies as ace I always look forward to the conversations that are inspired by this day. Even so, I didn’t quite expect to be …

Oh look, Queen Bigot is out in force today.

So for those who do not understand that sexual attraction is just one form of attraction, here's a post I wrote about it.

www.aspiraldance.com/my-experienc...

🌈 🖊 💻 #asexual

Good news: it fixed itself. Bad news: ow.

I dislocated my knee and can't get it back into place and I can't use or put weight on my leg at all right now 😭

Decided to start using Blusky again after finally remembering my password 😅
Also pronoun update: he/them

‘Holistic’ care not hormones for children’s gender treatment on NHS Ben Spencer - Science Editor Camilla Kingdon, a paediatrician, says the subject has been “toxic”. No new prescriptions for cross-sex hormones have been issued to children since the controversial Tavistock gender clinic in London was replaced a year ago, NHS leaders have said. The new NHS children’s gender service prioritises “holistic” care for children with gender dysphoria rather than fast-tracking them on to hormones, an accusation that was levelled at the Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) before it closed in March last year. The service, which is running at Great Ormond Street in London, Alder Hey in Liverpool and Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, has also prescribed no new puberty blockers, which are banned until a clinical trial starts later this year, pending ethical approval. It marks a fundamental switch in approach to the treatment of children with gender dysphoria, with doctors slowing down the route to prescribing hormonal drugs. Between April 2018 and December 2022, a fifth of patients referred to Gids were put on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones or both. A year ago, a review of the Tavistock service by the paediatrician Baroness Cass criticised the “greater readiness” to use hormones for gender dysphoria despite “remarkably weak evidence” for their use.

Her report said: “Some practitioners abandoned normal clinical approaches to holistic assessment, which has meant that this group of young people have been exceptionalised compared to other young people with similarly complex presentations. They deserve very much better.” Cross-sex hormones induce physical changes to allow patients to develop bodily features that align with a different gender identity. Those born male take oestrogen to develop breasts and redistribute fat and muscle mass; those born female take testosterone to deepen the voice, increase muscle mass and develop facial and body hair. Children prescribed the drugs at the Tavistock are continuing to receive their prescriptions. James Palmer, NHS England’s national medical director for specialised services, stressed that the door for the new prescription of cross-sex hormones was still open. “There may be a circumstance where it is important for care,” he said. “The services need the option of taking someone into masculinising or feminising hormones, if that really is the most important thing to be done. But the services have not identified an individual yet for whom it would be a really important bit of their care pathway.” If doctors decide there is a case for hormones to be prescribed, the decision must be agreed by a national multidisciplinary team of experts, chaired by Camilla Kingdon, the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. She said the new service was about more than hormones. “This is not just about endocrinology. It’s about a holistic assessment of a child or young person within the context of their family. “That means very detailed assessments looking at the child’s wider physical health, mental health, thinking about the child in the context of their school and so on. It involves psychologists, psychiatrists, paediatricians, clinical nurse specialists, speech therapists, occupational therapists.”

Recruitment has begun to open a fourth gender centre at Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge, with eight planned across the country, each seeing 25 new child patients a month. Kingdon, who also chairs the provider network of new NHS gender clinics, said finding staff has been a struggle. “That’s due to the politicised and sometimes toxic nature of this topic,” she said. “It’s not necessarily the sort of environment that has people queueing up to work in it.” Palmer said a particular challenge had been navigating “a hugely divided lobby of stakeholders”, adding: “There’s the very liberal end of the spectrum that think [we should focus purely] on access to a transitional arrangement. At the other end, people say NHS resources should not be spent on this area at all.” Great Ormond Street and Alder Hey children’s gender services opened in June and Bristol started seeing patients in November. So far, 250 children have been seen, with a waiting list of 6,000 that is coming down after peaking in February. “When we started, we had some individuals waiting for more than six years to be seen,” Palmer said. “By the summer, if our maths is correct, no one will be waiting for more than four years to be seen, but it will take another three or four years to get to ... something much more manageable.”

This is just the NHS admitting they are denying treatent to trans children

Not Quite Out Amazon.com: Not Quite Out: 9781916337367: Willingham, Louise: Books

It's international asexuality day!!

All my love to my fellow aces 💜

The love interest in my debut novel is ace and I'd protect him with my life.

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The book Changelings, an autistic trans anthology. The cover has a blue/purple background with an open purple door leading to a pink/yellow space. In front of the door looking in are 5 people of varying heights, races, and genders. One is a wheelchair user.

It's #IndieApril and this is my current read (edited by @arvwriter.bsky.social and Ocean Riley).

It's been on my TBR for too long, and I have a whole load more indie reads to get to after this one.

Tell me - what's your current read? And do you have any favourite indie books?

Amazon.com: Changelings: An Autistic Trans Anthology eBook : Vale, A.R., Vale, Ryan, Riley, Ocean: Tienda Kindle Amazon.com: Changelings: An Autistic Trans Anthology eBook : Vale, A.R., Vale, Ryan, Riley, Ocean: Tienda Kindle

The Kindle edition of Changelings: An Autistic Trans Anthology by @arvwriter.bsky.social is on sale for $1.99!

Bookish/publishing plans for Q1 of 2024:

🔵 Finish sending out backer rewards for Changelings
🟣 Officially announce Changelings 2
🔵 Open submissions for Changelings 2
🟣 Complete the 31K in 31 days challenge in January!
🔵 Probably read something too... idk

Anyone else find social media over Christmas totally overwhelming? I never reply to anyone on Christmas because I am already exhausted from socialising

On a similar note: audio-only books are ableist as they are exclusionary toward people who are Deaf, hard of hearing or who have auditory processing issues
Making books available in the widest variety of formats benefits all readers

Once again repeating that audiobooks are an accessibility feature. Saying audiobooks aren't really reading is ableist - people with visual impairments and dyslexia deserve access to books too!

I am getting way to excited for Changelings 2 for someone who has yet to send all the backer rewards for Changelings 1 😅

Graphic with text Books with Autistic Characters by Autistic Authors. Published November 2023. Displays the book covers for: - The Worst Saturday Ever by Kala Allen Omeiza - Ink Girls by Marieke Nijkamp. Illustrated by Sylvia Bi - Changelings: An Autistic Trans Anthology. Edited by Ryan Vale and Ocean Riley - Honey Bee Murder by Dahlia Donovan - NeurodiVeRse by MJ James @mj_james_writes At the bottom is the text The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project @AutisticBooks. In the bottom corner is a small logo with colourful books and a small plant either side.

Books with Autistic Characters, written by Autistic authors.
Published November 2023.

Graphic with text at the top stating Autism Books by Autistic Authors. Published November 2023. In the centre is a collage of book covers, tilted on an angle. Each book is listed in detail in the subsequent graphics and text. At the bottom is the text The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project @AutisticBooks. In the bottom corner is a small logo with colourful books and a small plant either side.

November 2023 Book Releases Recap!

Here are the books about autism, or with Autistic main characters, written by Autistic authors, published this month!
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Disabled people are approximately 25% of the population.

Civil rights will never be complete until there are disability rights.
Justice will never be complete until it includes Disability Justice.

Books for Palestine Silent auction 'Books for Palestine' hosted online at 32auctions.

I have once again done the thing where I impulsively bid on too much stuff on a charity auction, and now I am waiting for someone to outbid me on the stuff I am winning so that I can bid on other stuff I saw later that I want more....

GO BID ON STUFF, PLEASE. There is lots of awesome stuff here!

Thank you!

Book cover with the text: Changelings: An Autistic Trans Anthology. Edited by Ryan Vale and Ocean Riley. The cover contains a colourful drawing of 5 young adults of mixed races, and appearances, one of whom is sitting in a wheelchair. They are peering through a purple door. Behind the door is a yellow and pink glow. The wall surrounding the door is blue with stars - like a magical night sky. The book cover is centred in a graphic with text at the top stating Happy Book Birthday! At the bottom is the text The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project @AutisticBooks. In the bottom corner is a small logo with colourful books and a small plant either side.

Happy Book Birthday!
 
Changelings edited by @arvwriter.bsky.social & @biblioqueer.bsky.social
 
A YA anthology about trans autistic characters by trans autistic authors. It aims to explore autistic trans joy and challenges and to show all the autistic trans people out there that they are not alone.

We are having a half price sale on all our PDFs, with 50% of all sales going to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, the primary humanitarian organisation in Palestine. The sale will continue until the end of November.

➡️ quindriepress.com/pdfs