Megan

It is 1954, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 1981, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 2002, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 2017, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 2026, gender-affirming ca

4 frame comic. A woman with a long purple scarf is waiting for the subway. a street journalist approaches her and asks : miss! do you think we're approaching a moment when the public will recognize that allowing children to be transed was a terrible idea? She replies : considering that with each passing day, the public sees how much of the anti-trans movement was engineered by the wealthy to fuel culture war hate on the back of a vulnerable community, I'd say we owe massive apologies to trans people. just this week, we learned that a decade ago, epstein suggested using trans rights as a wedge issue, and that jk rowling's team was courting him. we also learned that what we were told about the closure of the tavi- stock clinic, the only youth clinic in the u.k. for gender-affirmative care, was nothing but lies. rowling's pal hilary cass forced the clinic to close after reports of 1000 complaints from families. we learned this week that it only received eight over 10 years, mostly about delays. in the meantime, the health dep't has been concealing trans children suicide numbers, which we now know rose dramatically following the closure. The terrible idea was always to scapegoat trans kids.

We owe it to these kids to keep fighting for truth to prevail.

A reminder that if you live in England or Wales & were born between 1970-1990 – or even before 1970 – you can help protect your community by getting the MMR vaccine free from your NHS GP now. I did last year. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

New Riders cycle training Oxford logo featuring a handlebar with a polka dot bell.

Know anyone who would like to get going on a bike but need a bit of help? avanticycling.co.uk/newriders/ offer support for adults who are new to cycling or want to build confidence.

Ok, let’s do this🙄

We’ll start with an explainer covering:

🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from

And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article

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Happy Black History Month 🖤✨

Libraries and books are from perfect. The Dewey Decimal System is imperfect. But we will never forget the work of Dorothy B. Porter. She decolonized the Dewey Decimal System. She helped us belong in libraries, in books.

We celebrate and thank you, Dorothy B. Porter 💜📚

2008: Epstein is convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution

2018: Despite that conviction, [files indicate] he was invited by Rowling’s team - along with a guest of his choosing - to the Broadway opening of Harry Potter and the private after-party

Protecting women and children, is it?

I stumbled across this some time ago and have followed his blog ever since. It's such a great analogy

Mandelson resigning now to 'save embarrassment' is like me suddenly remembering that I should tell my partner "I'm keeping the baby" on my way to taking the child to school lol

@oxfordclarion.bsky.social are you aware of this?

Judge blocks charity’s challenge over trans people’s use of Hampstead ponds single-sex facilities Judge says claim brought by Sex Matters should be made instead by individual who says they have faced discrimination

Also, yah boo sucks to Sex Matters and their mysterious bottomless pockets of their anonymous backers. You're weird! Nobody likes you! Go away and find a hobby that isn't picking on a marginalised community, and get some therapy while you're there. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

This thread is a good breakdown of what the much-trumpeted Government AI courses actually are. Clearly no end-user testing of any of these materials, and they seem to be just more methods of getting your personal data. Don't waste your time.

Tom Gauld cartoon Panel 1: YOU JOIN US JUST IN TIME FOR THE ANNUAL BOOKSELLERS VERSUS LIBRARIANS TUG OF WAR Panel 2: TWO VERY STRONG TEAMS THIS YEAR. THEY’VE BOTH BEEN IN TRAINING SINCE FEBRUARY. AS ALWAYS, THE REAL SKILL IN THIS IS NOT TO START CHATTING ABOUT BOO- Panel 3: TOO LATE!! ONE OF THE LIBRARIANS HAS BROUGHT UP THE NEW MARGARET ATWOOD! A CROWD IS FORMING! A CROWD IS FORMING! THE BOOKSELLERS ARE JOINING IN!!! Panel 4: THE ROPE IS UNTOUCHED. THE DISCUSSION HAS MOVED TO THE PUB. WE HAVE A NO-SCORE DRAW FOR THE 325th YEAR IN A ROW. TUNE IN AGAIN NEXT TIME!

Good morning to my colleagues and my enemies.

Biographies of J.R.R. Tolkien and Angela Lansbury

Mordor she wrote

#LibraryShelfieDay

if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good

The difficulty is, the carrot and stick are to encourage behaviour change. If you're already doing the behaviour, they think there's no impetus for them to reward you. But it wouyld definitely help reinforce the behaviours if they did

7,934 of 10,000 messages have been sent.

If you haven't already it takes 30 seconds less than.

I shall start crossing my fingers now that it's not too much of a fight! it might be worth looking around to see if there are any papers or anything about it you could take along to support the idea? Not that you should have to 😠

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence

hope that helps

I've been given a pill called Slynd (recommended by the Menopause Clinic at the John Radcliffe) - it's not a recommended use, but it has enough progesterone to keep me safe and little enough to reduce the issues from it. It definitely helped me

All of the above?

Apparently I have a progesterone sensitivity, plus I need quite a high dose of oestrogen for it to do anything - figuring it all out has been 'fun', but I'm getting there now. I've gone from oestrogen gel to patches and have a workaround for the progesterone

Petition: Ban the use of smart glasses with recording capability in public spaces We ask the Government to ban smart glasses with cameras in public spaces. We believe they allow secret filming, and undermine privacy, safety and the public’s right to know when they’re being recorded...

I found a petition to ban smart glasses in public spaces that needs a bit of a boost, if anyone else feels strongly about this: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

🚨WOW! The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has almost 75,000 signatures! Let’s get it to the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Looking After the Archivist: Reducing Risks of Secondary Trauma Join Anna Sexton's talk on Looking After the Archivist: Approaches to Reducing the Risks of Secondary Trauma

Well this looks excellent! Having traumatised myself with an element of work I was doing with records, I'm now VERY conscious of the risk to myself and others when dealing with these materials. Sadly I have a meeting clash for this, but you should all book!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/looking-af...

I'm very lucky in that my train nerd is my husband, who I'm very liekly to be on the train with! He is very much in charge of working out our train travel as a result

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

One again begging everyone to go into settings (via 3 horizontal lines top left of app), and then "accessibility" and then switch on the "remind me to add alt-text" button. And then don't just write "image" or whatever, actually DESCRIBE the image. Please. At least try to keep bsky accessible.