Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️

Read Ruth’s post and then take action by 22 April

Utterly extraordinary that Hilary Cass on the BBC this morning said if some young people had "taken more time" they might not have pursued medical treatments, when her own report last year found that children routinely faced multi-year waiting lists for gender services.

UK Government). SR2 presents adherents to a binary model of sex as possessing 'ordinary mainstream views about the reality of sex' (SR2, 32) that align with 'scientific and scholarly norms which are essential to the production of knowledge' (SR2, 12). SR2 construes 'some aspects of gender-identity theory [as lying] outside of truth-seeking norms', and it describes 'threat[s] to the norms of the reality-based community'— which it contrasts with the 'norms of propaganda and disinformation'—as a 'threat to democracy' (SR, 31). SR2 also recommends universities consider 'paring back the scope and power of ethics committees' in various ways (SR2, 16-17).

City St George’s VC spoke at event last week www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... focused on 2nd report of Sullivan Review (SR2).

@jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I want everyone to be clear about who & what SR2 positions as “threats to democracy” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

City v-c backs Sullivan Review on gender question in research Failure to use biological sex as 'basic variable' will make research 'weaker and less reliable', says City St George's head Anthony Finkelstein Published on February 13, 2026 Last updated February 13, 2026 Jack Grove

The vice-chancellor of City St George’s, University of London has publicly lent his support to the Sullivan Review.

Read @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical article to understand the full stakes of this Review rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

(Covered by the THE)

It’s very exhausting Cal. X

I assume the government is delighted that the Supreme Court has brought clarity to this situation

A review of public data collection and research that recommends ensuring that data about ‘sex’ is prioritised over data about ‘gender’ or ‘gender identity’ has been criticised in new research The Sullivan Review, which was widely viewed as skewed towards gender-critical biases, has been criticised in a new report that warns that if it is adopted it will "undermine the quality of public institutions’ research, erode academic freedom, and threaten the rights of trans and gender diverse people".

“Streeting’s view that the Sullivan Review ‘will lead to better, more inclusive and fairer outcomes for everyone', is wrong,” @jaytoddgla.bsky.social

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Being trans is not a medical condition nor is it an unwanted life outcome to be guarded against, it is a healthy way that many people choose to express themselves.

Being trans is not a medical condition nor is it an unwanted life outcome to be guarded against, it is a healthy way that many people choose to express themselves.

It’s absurd for this Government’s proposed guidance to suggest that schools need to seek clinical advice if a young person wants to change their name, uniform or hairstyle.

It’s absurd for this Government’s proposed guidance to suggest that schools need to seek clinical advice if a young person wants to change their name, uniform or hairstyle.

There's a lot going on - bear with us as we take the time to understand the ruling on the EHRC's guidance on the Equality Act, but in the meantime...

Our statement on Government 'guidance for gender questioning children':

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264. Schools and colleges should take a very careful approach in relation to social transition. The Cass Review acknowledged that there is a lack of good evidence on the long-term impact of social transition on young people, but it is clear that social transition should be viewed as an active intervention that may have significant effects on the child or young person in terms of their psychological functioning and longer-term outcomes. Primary schools should exercise particular caution, and we would expect support for full social transition to be agreed very rarely.

This explicit transphobia is spelled out in excruciating detail. Direct from Cass again.

Again, this is transcribed direct from Cass. And *why* do we need to be careful? Because Cass doesn't like the idea that a child could turn out to be trans. Because bigotry.

Of course NOT accommodating social transition if requested is EQUALLY an active intervention. A transphobic punishment.

261. The Cass Review is clear that outcomes for children and adolescents are best if they have a supportive relationship with their families and, in the vast majority of cases, we would expect schools/colleges and parents/carers to work together to establish what is best for the child. Involving a child's parents/carers will enable schools and colleges to promote a child's wellbeing and protect them from harm.

Did they consult with a single LGBTQ+ organization?

This view that parents are saintly, that being outed to them is automatically some kind of safety measure, is just fucking wild.

247. Schools and colleges should keep in mind that it is common for children to engage in activities that are less typically associated with their sex. For example, at primary school age, girls may play with trucks, or boys may dress in clothes that are perceived as feminine. Sometimes young children also go through a period of questioning their gender but for the majority this will not continue into adulthood, while a small proportion may continue to question their gender and this feeling may intensify into puberty.

Rewind a bit, we can see that the transphobic assertions from Cass, based on repeatedly debunked pseudoscientific work and opinion pieces, have been directly transcribed into this as "fact".

259. Schools should keep in mind the emphasis in the Cass Review on early clinical involvement when families are considering social transition for pre-pubertal children, including how to support their children in a non-directive way, whilst also keeping options open and flexible. The Cass Review emphasised that clinical involvement in the decision-making process should include advising on the risks and benefits of social transition as a planned intervention, referencing best available evidence. This is not a role that can be undertaken by staff without appropriate clinical training.

This draft guidance reproduces Cass insisting that clinicians must be involved in decisions about *social transition* which actually should be none of their damn business

They take the line that this "non-directive" intervention should force things to be "keeping options open and flexible"...

Also noticeable in this guidance is how it reinforces gender stereotypes, you know exactly the type of messaging used, as in US, but obviously elsewhere, to attack women's rights. This may seem minor, but why is girls playing with trucks treated as something to "grow out of"
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Don't hold back there, Stonewall...🙄

Keeping children safe in education: proposed revisions 2026 We are seeking views on proposed changes to the statutory guidance 'Keeping children safe in education' with a view to making changes for September 2026.

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Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.

'Vast majority' of parents should be involved if children question gender, schools told School leaders welcome the

If you were trying to come up with more harmful guidance towards trans and non-binary young people you would be hard pressed to find it. The fact it is backed by Cass shows how wrong it is.
We are already seeing an increase in suicide rates among trans young people.

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This goes further than Section 28 ever did.

Compulsory outing of children to their parents.
Referral of children to medical interventions for straying outside the norm.

Those are threats being wielded against trans kids that weren't even in the demands of Section 28.

This schools guidance is nothing but transphobia directing and enacting policy. It should be strongly, strongly contested and resisted.

Involving parents and carers - calling for schools to act as informants on young people who dare to transgress or experiment beyond gender norms - is so large a safeguarding issue, putting the everyday wellbeing - and in some cases the lives - of trans youth at risk. Because of transphobia.

Social transition “requests” aka subjecting to trans youth to authoritarian control over almost everything they do because they’re trans. Flying in the face of existing best practice for supporting social transition and all published work on young trans people’s autonomy and experiences.

Just imagine, today, if children got referred to "clinical support" if they expressed any interest in "gay feelings" with the Government saying that approval for them to be allowed to express being homosexual at school would only be likely in very limited circumstances.

That's what this guidance is

The ZDF announcer said her outfit looks like Jean-Paul Gaultier, who will presumably sue for defamation.

QueerAF newsletter text that reads: Questions over Sullivan review A review of public data collection and research that recommends ensuring that data about ‘sex’ is prioritised over data about ‘gender’ or ‘gender identity’ has been criticised in new research The Sullivan Review, which was widely viewed as skewed towards gender-critical biases, has been criticised in a new report that warns that if it is adopted it will "undermine the quality of public institutions’ research, erode academic freedom, and threaten the rights of trans and gender diverse people".

The review "implicitly promotes the systematic exclusion and erasure of trans and gender diverse people from research,” says @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and @felicitycallard.bsky.social

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the whole thing is of course completely revolting. 20 YEARS to settlement for refugees? no settlement if you’ve ever had a criminal conviction or a tax debt? 10 YEARS added if you’ve ever received benefits? partners and children on their own routes to settlement? What are you even TALKING about

Thank you @wearequeeraf.com for covering Jay’s @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and my peer-reviewed critical response to the Sullivan Review rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...