What we really need to protect the effeminate gay boys from is becoming one of these "I'm alright" Vichy collaborators constructing useful nonsense for the bloodthirsty liberal-conservative episteme. Because there's no coming back from that and it ultimately contributes to their own marginalisation.
Also when the Cass Review says it relies on the York studies for its systematic review of evidence, how clear is it that Cass herself chaired the advisory group for the York studies
First I've seen it confirmed. Both Steensma and Kaltiala, two figures prominent in bad science re trans kids, advised the Cass Review's York Studies.
What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.
This gives away the whole game, as people have been warning for years and years. This is identity erasure of a whole class. the precedents for having documents revoked by group…are not good.
Every trans woman I know has had "why not be an effeminate man?" shoved in our faces for ages and yet thus piece suggests that even once suggesting an effeminate boy might be trans is some sort of crime against humanity.
This is transphobia.
This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
A garda sergeant spied on two adult men having sex. But he wasn’t prosecuted. They were
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
When my doctor refused to do blood tests he justified it by saying private gender services don't do due diligence, followed by a pretty Incoherent monologue about transition risks like "increased risk of cancer" which is not true. Then, having not done due diligence, he sent me off. Absolute toss.
🚨 The final number of dead at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, is 108 school girls, a spokesperson for the Iranian Red Crescent Society said — more than half of the roughly 170 students who attend the school.
It remains unclear whether the strike was carried out by...
For consideration, as you read Trump's statement of victory
dear foreign intelligence community of nations hostile to the united states,
Updated:
UK: Puberty blockers now completely inaccessible for trans youth after NHS trial paused
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
We’ve tracked the cases Sex Matters has intervened in since the Supreme Court ruling - including the recent High Court challenge brought by @goodlawproject.bsky.social
This is what the anti-Trans+ machine looks like in practice.
Help us hold them to account👇
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So the BBC promised Davidson and StudioCanal (who made I Swear) that any swearing tics would be edited out from broadcast, and instead they left them in despite a two hour delay, and even put a fucking microphone right in front of him to ensure they picked it up - he was sat at the back of room.
The amount of racism that black creatives in Britain ALREADY have to wade through is awful and this incident reinforces the message that institutions like BAFTA and the BBC don’t have their backs. They’ll edit out “free Palestine” but not the literal n-word?!
the Broadcasters absolutely 10000000000000% knew better
they *CHOSE* not to bleep it. because they knew it would become online drama. they straight up slapped both black people and people with tourettes around the face for the sake of generating a talking point.
never let them forget that.
I have to laugh at proposals to ban social media for teenagers, when it's very clear that a lot of adults are getting radicalised by being on social media currently.
This isn't a problem with a lack of maturity, it's a society-wide issue, that banning teenagers won't fix.
Well now…
A screenshot of an upcoming article on The Journal. The headline reads 'Tusla has referred five emergency child care providers to Gardaí over vetting concerns'
Tonight, a new investigation reveals that Tusla has referred five providers of Special Emergency Arrangements (SEA) to the Garda National Vetting Bureau over significant vetting concerns.
The Children's Ombudsman said our findings were "a shocking revelation".
Read after midnight on thejournal.ie
New Philosophy Tube just dropped on Nebula ⭐️
A complete history of conversion therapy from 1849-now, including an exposè of groups trying to keep it legal in Britain and enforce it on the NHS with the apparent blessing of Health Secretary Wes Streeting
nebula.tv/videos/philo...
Remember this when the government starts going on about banning u16s from social media instead of forcing them to clean up their algorithms.
There needs to be far more scrutiny of the model of care that the NGS advocates for. Effectively they wish to make transition impossible in Ireland. They must be stopped!
The National gender service currently has 7.25 staff with an 18 year waiting list. At current trends that waiting list will be 40-50 years within 5 years. To bring the waiting list down to 6 weeks like it was a decade ago in 2 years would require them hiring 96 staff...
AI is the “asbestos of the internet”
Content warning for conversion therapy, suicide.
One thing I'd like to add to this is that not only does conversion therapy not work, the academic work that launched an industry of abuse was based on fraud; Rekers and Lovaas' "Sissy Boy" experiment, the child subjected to it later took his own life
"The behavioral treatment of a “transsexual” preadolescent boy"
That was the official title of the paper known as the Sissy Boy experiment. This is it. The basis for all modern conversion therapy, the fraudulent paper that launched an entire conversion abuse industry, was for anti-trans conversion.
Europeans may think that this is the US and it won’t happen in Europe. But e.g. the German CDU is regularly meeting with the Heritage Foundation and the organization is paying millions of dollars every year for lobbying in Europe. And it will start with the UK…
