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Screenshot of the QueerAf newsletter. Text that reads: Details of a puberty blocker trial, hailed by the NHS as the first of its kind, have now been revealed. Participants will either immediately start puberty blockers or have to wait a year to start, and the effects will be measured alongside "a wider package of care and support" - The Guardian The details have not inspired confidence in either those opposed to the use of puberty blockers for trans youth or those who are advocating for them. Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch called for the trial to be scrapped altogether, while many Trans+ organisations set out how the 50+ tests that make up the program go beyond a clinical trial. NION’s Caroline Litman called it "cruelty". TransActual health director Chay Brown said, "This research is not about the safety of these medications, which have been used for this very purpose since 1989. It is the result of an ideological view at the very top of the NHS that being trans is a ‘less desirable outcome.'" In other revelations, the Trans Safety Network have set out how the Department for Health and Social Care solicited feedback on a “puberty blocker risk form” from Bayswater Support Group and other anti-trans groups in September 2025. QueerAF has repeatedly shared investigations that show the Bayswater group, who Health Secretary Wes Streeting has expressed sympathy for, brag about abusing their children with the Department for Health.,

Puberty blocker clinical trial for Trans+ youth “is not about the safety of these medications.

"It is the result of an ideological view at the very top of the NHS that being trans is a ‘less desirable outcome," says @transactualuk.bsky.social Health Director Chay Brown👇

This government needs urgently to rectify the situation before more beloved charities and national institutions are forced into applying discriminatory policies which go against their values. This is harming Britain's institutions greatly at a time when they are already stretched to breaking point.

This government needs urgently to rectify the situation before more beloved charities and national institutions are forced into applying discriminatory policies which go against their values. This is harming Britain's institutions greatly at a time when they're already stretched to breaking point.

Statement on new membership policies from WI and Girl Guiding. This Government must be held responsible for the long-lasting damage they are doing to a generation of LGBTQ+ people. This is mere cruelty to exclude trans people from doing the things they love with the people who love them. This is the outcome of the EHRC's decision to propose a blanket ban on trans inclusion in private as well as public organisations.

This is mere cruelty to exclude trans people from doing the things they love with the people who love them. This is the outcome of the EHRC's decision to propose a blanket ban on trans inclusion in private as well as public organisations.

#veganism

such wonderful news :)

BREAKING NEWS 🥳📢

The removal of plot 9 from dairy farming has now been legally completed! 🥳

This area of land is now safe & will become a protected haven for many wildlife species including otters whose markings had been witnessed at the riverside of this plot of land 🦦🦦

@dalevince.com

in these very dark times it feels nice to know somebody cares :)

Wolf Alice, Beth Ditto, Adam Lambert, Sugababes and more for huge 'Trans Mission' charity Wembley gig Wolf Alice, Beth Ditto, Adam Lambert, Sugababes and more for huge 'Trans Mission' charity Wembley gig. See how to get tickets.

Wolf Alice, Beth Ditto, Adam Lambert, Sugababes and more for huge ‘Trans Mission’ charity Wembley gig

The concert is "a statement that trans people are loved, valued, and celebrated, and that the entertainment industry stands proudly with them." www.nme.com/news/music/w...

The Fredville ancient oak tree called Majesty who is up to 1000 years old

Did you know?

That a single oak tree can be a haven for a colossal 2,300 wildlife species, providing vital spaces to eat, shelter and breed🦇🦋

woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-...

Meet the Fredville oak 'Majesty,' estimated to be between 600 and 1,000 years old 😮
monumentaltrees.com/en/gbr/england

Image of different saplings growing on VLM land removed from dairy farming

#NationalTreeWeek

Did you know?

The UK has a total woodland cover of about 13% of its land area & only about 2.5% of the UK's old forests remain. 70% of ancient woodlands in the UK have already been lost😔

The VLM is trying to reverse this. #PlantTrees 🌳

wwf.org.uk/learn/fascin...

My Favorite Vegan Memes November 28, 2025

We do not need to harm animals to survive, and we certainly do not need to harm them to enjoy food, strength, or vitality.

My Favorite Vegan Memes November 26, 2025

When we remember who they were before the machinery took over, the truth becomes impossible to ignore. We can choose something kinder. We can refuse a system built on suffering. Compassion becomes a form of resistance.

A lone Cormorant perches on a ledge at dusk, silhouetted against a golden sky. In the background, a blurred view of Westminster’s clock tower and nearby bridge structure rises behind it: politics and power in soft focus, nature sharp in the foreground.

In today's Budget, the Chancellor spoke about building the economy “brick by brick” but left out the very foundation that underpins it all: nature.

The same Government that promised to restore our natural world appears instead to have wiped it from their agenda.

Top EU court mandates same-sex marriage recognition across borders The Luxembourg-based court said a decision by Polish authorities infringed on a same-sex couple’s freedom of movement.

The EU’s top court ruled today that when a same-sex couple is legally married in one member country, any other member country where they move or reside must recognize that marriage.

Calling a being a thing makes it easier to ignore the harm done in our name. Yet every animal has a personality that is as real as ours.