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BREAKING: Judge has refused permission for a judicial review of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's guidance on the Equality Act 2010, gender reassignment and single-sex spaces. It was brought by LGB Alliance co-founder Ann Sinnot who crowdfunded £100k in legal fees.
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i'm at a bit of a loss because although the anti-trans hatred in the media seems quite bad this week, it has seemed quite bad almost every week for the two years i've worked in lgbt+ media. what is missing, as always, are articles written by trans writers. here are some:
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there are hundreds of thousands of trans men and non-binary people in the UK. many of us have cervixes, menstruate and give birth. we are not women. we are not 'a very small number of people'. and we deserve healthcare and advice that includes us.
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'Please leave trans women alone'
in the wake of *that* BBC News article, cis lesbians told me that the BBC is amplifying a 'transphobic campaign', contributing to a 'baseless moral panic' against trans women – and that they stand with their trans sisters
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i've been reporting on the Keira Bell case for 20 months. countless days of transphobic rhetoric in court & a brutal anti-trans media circus, both fighting to deprive trans kids of vital healthcare. today, finally, some sweet relief: the NHS won its appeal
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the UK media is institutionally transphobic & has been for decades. it's also wildly racist, islamophobic, classist and obsessed with using minorities for clicks.
instead of being outraged by the latest anti-trans clickbait, why not amplify trans journalists instead? i'll start:
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what choreographer Rosie 'i was fired for saying biological sex is real' Kay actually said, before she quit:
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tell me you're obsessed with trans women without actually telling me you're obsessed with trans women
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will
@SexMattersOrg
respond to allegations that its Director of Advocacy was seen last night, in public, reading pornographic fanfiction about schoolchildren? this surely must be a serious matter for an organisation professing such concern for child safeguarding.
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there is currently no phalloplasty provision on the NHS and trans men are afraid to speak out about this dire situation publicly because “names go missing off waiting lists”. my latest for
@PinkNews
:
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only if they're cis, though
trans kids under the age of 16 are deemed unable to give informed consent and have to go to court to get medical treatment for gender dysphoria
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full story: Throwing out the attempted judicial review today, Mr Justice Henshaw, sitting in London’s High Court, said Ann Sinnott's case was “unarguable” and that its interpretation of the Equality Act 2010 is “wrong in law”
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it's so predictable i've run out of 'i'm being silenced in the national media again' jokes
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“Puberty blockers have been used for decades in cisgender kids... Their use has been FDA approved, well-studied, well-documented, and well-tolerated for a long time now. And it’s the exact same medication that we use in trans or nonbinary children."
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BREAKING: The UK Supreme Court has released its judgment in the case brought by non-gendered activist Christie Elan-Cane for the Home Office to make 'X' gender markers available in British passports.
The Supreme Court "unanimously dismisses the appeal".
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quite the week at Unison where more than a million women first unanimously voted for trans rights and resources to tackle gender-critical narratives, and have now voted for sex-worker safety
BREAKING: UNISON, the UK’s biggest women’s union representing over 1 million working-class women has just voted to end support for the Nordic Model in the interest of sex worker safety!
@ProstitutesColl
@SexWorkHive
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i don't *identify as* non-binary, i *am* non-binary
new rule: you can only write 'identifies as' if you do it for everyone. 'billy porter, who identifies as a man and has the official pronouns he/him, revealed he's been living with HIV for 14 years'
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yes, this - i support cisgender people being free to live their lives as they wish, without fear of persecution, whilst maintaining the proper checks and balances in the system
every cis person should have to go through the NHS and get a diagnosis, multiple medical reports, prove theyve lived under their name for years etc and also ask their partner's for permission before we accept they are cisgender.
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after a section of a Guardian interview in which Judith Butler compared 'gender critical' activists to fascists was deleted, Judith Butler has written a whole Guardian piece comparing 'gender critical' activists to fascists. hats off to whoever did this
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the Women's Human Rights Campaign wants MPs to scrap the Gender Recognition Act and "eliminate transgenderism"
every UK anti-trans group supports this org. their goal, if anyone still had *any* doubts, is to try to erase trans people entirely
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if you're being tipped for a Tory-backed peerage having accepted an OBE then i've got news for you: you're not fighting patriarchy, you're upholding it
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there were at least three other journalists in the hearing yesterday. can't seem to find their stories on this positive ruling for trans lives today though? weird
BREAKING: Judge has refused permission for a judicial review of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's guidance on the Equality Act 2010, gender reassignment and single-sex spaces. It was brought by LGB Alliance co-founder Ann Sinnot who crowdfunded £100k in legal fees.
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did you know that:
🏳️⚧️60% of trans people earn less than £20k
🏳️⚧️1 in 3 employers wouldn't hire a trans person
🏳️⚧️1 in 5 trans people had to claim government financial support during pandemic
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as a trans journalist, today feels like a real lose/lose:
MF wins. i'm covering a ruling that gives transphobes legal backing to harass us at work
MF loses. she's been bullied/silenced by the 'trans lobby' - and/or the mainstream media spin it as if she won
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imagine if men wrote 324 articles in one year about why women's rights were a bad idea
In 2020, The Times (incl. the Sunday Times) wrote 324 articles about trans people & ‘trans issues’. Zero of which were written by trans people themselves.
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one person's regret shouldn't deprive a whole group of healthcare. see also: divorcees not banning marriage; new and disappointed blondes not banning hair dye.
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in my day-to-day life my transness is mostly inconsequential to strangers, aside from the odd person confused about what gender i am, yet when i go online i find out i'm part of an extremist group waging a War On Women. what's the lifespan of a moral panic?
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BREAKING: Maya Forstater has won her appeal against the Center for Global Development at the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
she argued her 'gender critical' views should be a protected belief under the Equality Act 2010.
confirmed by CGD via email. piece to follow.
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"The suggestion that someone could change legal sex on a whim is quite patently nonsense; the process takes years"
and there it is: from
@carolinenokes
, who listened to hours of "women's rights" groups arguing that men will abuse self-ID to attack women.
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it took a month but my transphobic followers have now realised i’ve left PinkNews and found my freelance email. i’m sadly too busy to respond but wanted to say that i’m charmed by the messages & glad to maintain my connection with these readers, whose devotion is truly impressive
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so we're two-thirds of the way through another transphobia cycle, which started with media transphobia (the BBC debacle) and moved into celeb transphobia (JKR, Brian May)... usually the final part is political transphobia -- have i missed it or is it yet to come?
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'Queer and trans students united, never to be defeated!!'
LGBT+ students at the University of Sussex have been victorious in their peaceful protest against the employment of philosophy professor and LGB Alliance trustee Kathleen Stock
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that's really it, isn't it. Kathleen Stock was "the victim of a poster campaign". meanwhile, violent anti-LGBT+ attacks are skyrocketing in the UK. Stock's org the LGB Alliance will address this with a conference where straight people talk about being cancelled.
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my colleague
@lilylwakefield
is doing really excellent, thorough reporting on the
#BBCCoverUp
– really recommend reading her coverage.
@PinkNews
is often alone in calling out transphobic mainstream media & as such, has got quite good at it, in my opinion
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imagine if genuinely major trans-related news got half the attention that random transphobes get :(
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'I’m dedicating this to the resilience of the trans community - The community that took me in when I had no hope, and showed me that it’s better to be visible and free, than live in self imposed exile'
Erin Parisi made the top of Antarctica!
@TranSending7
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a hatred of trans people so overwhelming that your only 'friends' are anti-abortion homophobes:
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we've put out 3 stories today on the Christie Elan-Cane ruling – a huge trans civil rights case, the first to reach the Supreme Court, could have paved the way for non-binary legal recognition. by my googling, this makes PinkNews' output about 50% of all UK media coverage (1/2)
imagine if genuinely major trans-related news got half the attention that random transphobes get :(
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a very happy
#TransDayOfVisibility
to all trans and non-binary people, including everyone else who, like me, would rather be invisible right now. i hope we can achieve our goals.
but first! some lush trans stories for your reading pleasure <3 (thread!)
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'Why are cis people so bothered about gender-affirming healthcare for trans people, when they themselves get gender-affirming healthcare all the time?'
making the case for being able to pick up testosterone at Tesco's :)
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🚨 London: trans rights protest @ Downing Street tomorrow 1PM 🚨
i'll be there covering for
@PinkNews
. come say hi!
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bit of a *pinch me* moment to share that i interviewed Munroe Bergdorf for the cover of
@CosmopolitanUK
's 50th anniversary issue !
we talked about cancel culture, dual pronouns, and platforming trans voices:
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a ~personal~ response to
@shonfaye
's book:
"There isn’t always space for talking about the intricacies of trans men and non-binary people’s relationship to, and need for, feminism. But there should be."
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spot the difference(s): 'gender critical' supporters having a demo now in Glasgow v London Trans+ Pride on 26 June.
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every time a 'gender critical' campaigner says that trans activists 'refuse to debate', remember that trans people spent decades discussing trans rights with those who oppose them. the reason so few trans people will debate now is because that avenue is exhausted, and toxic.
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Dr Kathleen Stock OBE claims LGBT+ charity Stonewall is “a threat to freedom of speech” and – without irony, apparently – demands the organisation is removed from universities and schools: "Get them out"
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trans history was made today, regardless of the outcome. amazing to hear Supreme Court judges consider the rights of non-binary, non-gendered and intersex people in such detail.
@ChristieElanCan
asked the government for an accurate passport in 1995. what a journey.
And here they are!
Outside the UK Supreme Court today with my wonderful legal team and my wonderful partner
@davidb327
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“With independent trans media, you’re getting the actual voice from the community. We tell it how it is”
🔥i spoke to
@WhatTheTrans
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@Trans_Writes
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@transradiouk
and
@oestrogenration
about how they are resisting the UK’s transphobic mainstream media ✊
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spent today reporting on London Trans+ Pride. not sure if thousands or tens of thousands of people were there so checked the news. BBC reporting thousands were out on London’s streets today: NHS, anti-lockdown, Palestine, climate change... no Trans Pride?
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"I’ve felt driven to end my life because of the transphobic hate in the newspapers, and the way society takes up that hatred"
trans people on why they were protesting outside
@guardian
HQ in London yesterday
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“There is nothing controversial per se about having a passport where the sex is unspecified,” said Kate Gallafent QC, barrister for
@ChristieElanCan
. “The appellant has a right to live as a non-binary, or more particularly a non-gendered, person.”
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the UK has never had an openly trans or non-binary MP - now, the Greens’
@tamsinomond
is running to be the first out trans leader of a UK political party
i spoke to them this week about their bid, alongside
@Amelia_Womack
, to be Green Party co-leader
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funny how the people who said "judges aren't always right" when Maya Forstater lost and the people now saying "judges are always right" are the same people, isn't it
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"in thrall"?
Rosie Duffield has been making anti-trans comments for a whole year. two women quit her team publicly citing her 'overtly transphobic' views. Keir Starmer has never directly addressed this. Duffield is still: an MP, in Labour, chair of the women's PLP, in the media.
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can we not waste energy arguing that 'they' is grammatically correct as a pronoun, the people arguing that it isn't don't care about grammar, they just don't like or don't 'believe in' non-binary people. please, it's only wednesday
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comments like these about 'Big Trans Pharma' from people donating to the LGB Alliance show how well its misinformation campaign is doing
there's only one NHS gender clinic for trans under 18's in England & Wales. the wait for a first appointment is currently more than 3 years.
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the papers over the weekend said that the Keira Bell ruling will "protect children". that's not what i'm being told by transgender youth themselves, like this devastated 17-year-old girl. think about who you listen to on the impact of the judgment.
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Elliot Page made Oprah watch
@Disclosure_Doc
before doing his first TV interview since coming out as trans 💘
Elliot Page 'opened Oprah's eyes' to the heinous way trans people are treated in Hollywood
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please, more cis men to explain 'the transgender controversy' to me, i'm begging you
I also wrote an article for the
@thetimes
on the transgender controversy, explaining some key issues, from the meaning of sport to biological advantages (it’s not like height!), and why a “T fix” doesn’t work. Thanks
@martynziegler
for the invitation:
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this excellent
@freddymcconnell
piece from March -- if you're cis and waking up to the reality of anti-trans hate in the UK, this goes a little deeper into what trans and non-binary communities are up against atm
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so nice to see so many people at the trans rights protest outside Downing Street today!
write-up here:
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.
@freddymcconnell
is a journalist and dad. he writes a column for Vice about pregnancy as a trans man and did a *very* cute BBC Sounds podcast called Pride & Joy exploring how queers have families
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as Kathleen Stock continues her 'i've been silenced' media tour, a reminder of what LGBT+ students – whose voices have been almost wholly absent from the media – said when she quit Sussex Uni:
"Trans and non-binary students are safer and happier for it"
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if only there was shock at the hatred that trans people, especially trans women & trans people of colour, receive every day – without the security team and safety that a millionaire can buy.
what could have driven three people to take signs supporting trans rights to JKR's house?
I'm so shocked that anyone is subjected to this amount of hatred.
Disagree with someone, by all means.
To threaten their safety & security?
What on earth is going on that it has got to this?
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how very feminist it is to support this poor maths teacher, who also told pupils that gay marriage is wrong and whose legal case is supported by homophobic anti-abortion group Christian Legal Centre
Maths teacher accused of "misgendering" could lose license.
I was an expert witness in this case
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seems that the CPAC speech calling for trans people to be eradicated has alerted some people to where we're at.
reminder: two years ago, in the UK, a transphobic group wrote to MPs calling for "transgenderism" to be "eliminated" 🧵
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lol, the first results are in from my annual 'is twitter taking anti-trans abuse/harassment/threats seriously yet' check
it's looking like a 'still no'
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wrote about my experience of having top surgery with
@TransClinicUK
, trans joy, and healing
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the High Court's controversial ruling against young people being able to give informed consent to puberty blockers was based on 'clearly partisan' evidence and must be quashed, the Court of Appeal heard today
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'At a traditional barbershop the cis het men working there often don’t understand queer and trans culture.'
i spoke to trans men & trans barbers for
@MensHealthUK
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all BRIT awards categories are open to people of all genders – except best solo artist, which has been split into two genders, male and female, since the awards began in 1977
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goodbye and good riddance to Fred Sargeant, another transphobe and LGB Alliance supporter who has ~finally~ been banned by Twitter (though not for these tweets)
when will we include trans people in conversations about online abuse by men? i'm not the only who's sick of it.
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gender-critical columnists have attacked trans women in pieces about climate change, the war in Ukraine, Sarah Everard’s murder and now abortion laws. tbh i’d like to see them challenge themselves - where’s the travel feature on summer holiday destinations ruined by trans women?
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stoked to say i've been nominated for Journalist of the Year at the Drum Awards for Online Media! v happy to see my work for
@PinkNews
about transgender lives and rights recognised alongside this stellar line-up of reporters
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something to brighten a dreary Monday - proud lesbians are using the 'how it started v how it's going' meme after a bizarre claim from anti-trans lobby group LGB Alliance that lesbians are going to “become extinct”
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i wrote about the transphobic backlash to Costa Coffee's illustration of a person with top surgery scars, the harms of trans visibility and why top surgery is good, actually, for
@EveningStandard
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@DisabledJess
to be fair he has correctly ID'd my gender as 'a mass of indeterminate confusion'
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it is beyond frustrating how the media's avid interest in 'trans issues' dies when it's not a story about a cis transphobe. i'm hardly the first to notice or say this, obviously, but it's just so stark, working in this industry as a trans person, how hate-driven it all is. (2/2)
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if you are trans and feeling totally overwhelmed right now, then a) hard relate! and b) read this v v good piece by
@HJosephineGiles
, it really helped me regain some optimism and i come back to different sections of it as and when i need them
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instead of dissecting the latest transphobic article line by line, why not read, share and promote the work of trans and non-binary journalists?
today and every day 🌈
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to argue that we are a 'very small number' is evidently incorrect and shows a worrying lack of basic research, especially from an MP.
arguing not to include us in conversations about healthcare isn't feminism, it's exclusionary gatekeeping. grim.
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NEW: thousands of people are demanding the UK government equally recognise LGBT+ families, saying that the current birth registration policy is "outdated and discriminatory"
@freddymcconnell
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this
@kathy__odonnell
piece is one of very few about trans healthcare written by a trans person and featuring the people impacted by legal rulings on trans healthcare
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@ShivaniDave
is a presenter and producer. they make
#TheLogBooks
podcast, about Britain's LGBTQ+ history, and present Mermaids' weekly pop culture podcast, 'She said, they said'
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new from
@TransActualUK
:
🤕 70% of trans & non-binary people have experienced transphobia in healthcare settings
🤧 57% don't go to their GP when they are ill
🤒 29% have been refused healthcare by gender-specific NHS services because they are trans
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a judge in Australia said he was “satisfied on balance” that Mhelody Bruno – who died after being strangled – “not only consented to the act of choking but actually instigated it”
...
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more than 50 senior NHS leaders demand the Health Service Journal apologise for a "harmful" anti-trans editorial it published on 11 June, which claimed the NHS “has been well and truly captured by [...] an extremist trans lobby group”
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happy Non-Binary Awareness Week to all those who observe 🎉
to celebrate, I’ve rounded up non-binary politicians, celebs, activists and performers who are out, proud, and working to make the world a better place for their siblings - first bit of this week's
#content
(
#thread
)
28 non-binary figures who are proud, visible and making the world a better place – and who you need to know about this
#nonbinaryawarenessweek
#nbweek
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trans healthcare in Ireland:
❌no provision for trans youth
❌no access to gender-affirming surgery
😧 1 gender service that can handle <3 patients a week
😑a lead doctor who wrote about all this in the Irish Times, breaking the
@transwritersu
boycott?
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@MeeshSnowDoes
is a journalist and presenter. she is co-founder of What The Trans!?, a news outlet for trans communities in the UK, and writes freelance pieces on the side (commission her! she's great!)
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would also really recommend reading this
@MeeshSnowDoes
piece that delves into why the British media is so relentlessly transphobic and sets out the background of the last few years as to why we're in the position we're in now
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did my first IN REAL LIFE (YES, NOT ON ZOOM) interview in over a year and it was only with the dream duo
@TheMaeMartin
and Charlotte Ritchie. spoilers*: season 2 of Feel Good is really, really good (*no actual spoilers)
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puberty blockers are an amazing feat of modern medicine. so happy we could publish this beautiful piece, full of parenting insights from the mum of a trans kid, by
@girlpodcast
– please give it a read!
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after the Supreme Court ruled that the UK shouldn't bring in gender-neutral passports, pointing to the "substantial costs" of adding an X marker, non-binary people describe the impact of the verdict on their lives
nb - blue Brexit passports cost £290m
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‘Being trans is not a sickness, but the way society treats trans people often makes us sick’
i wrote about the myth that trans people are mentally ill for
@Refinery29UK
’s new ‘Don’t Use Me’ series — guest edited by Charlie Craggs 🥰
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@notCursedE
is a writer whose beat is the rise of anti-trans campaigning in the UK. she writes for Indy Voices and on Medium, and is best-known for revealing the stupidity of transphobes in an easy-to-follow way
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there is no robust estimate of the UK's trans population and we are not included in most datasets that consider gender. however, in 2018, the government 'tentatively estimated' there are 200,000 to 500,000 trans people in the UK
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