Alex Ashman
@alexashman.bsky.social
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Over 6000 signatories in just a few hours. I am hoping we could make a massive statement with this. This is the kind of thing you need to get your mum to sign 👇
Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 3mo ago🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?
As I’ve said before, any serious attempt to ban conversion practices in Britain has to confront the fact that the NHS never stopped doing it. This draft bill not only fails, it explicitly gives “healthcare providers” permission to continue.
Nancy Kelley@nancymk.bsky.social · 4mo agoI've spent years working towards a ban on conversion practices, hoping to see a bill published. Today, I just feel so profoundly sad. As many others have noted, the draft has a carve out for "healthcare" so broad it makes a mockery of the idea this is a 'ban'. 1/2 www.gov.uk/government/p...
This was the @prismsurgery.bsky.social statement on conversion practices. No exemptions for consent, adults, or religion. But I'd add no exemption for applying conversion practice torture on the NHS. That was done historically, and will be done more and more in the present following Cass.
We now know that research on trans patients in Norway has involved ethical violations and that Cass is saying the harms of puberty blockers are overstated, yet trans kids are being forced into a research trial to access them. How about treating trans people as humans, not involuntary test subjects?
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4mo agoA major scandal has broken out in Norway at NBTK, the national gender clinic that has notoriously limited access to care. Researchers, including SEGM affiliate Anne Wæhre, engaged in substantial misconduct and ethical violations in their research on trans people. www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/43RE...
Petition: Disapprove the draft Equality Act 2010 guidance laid on 21 May 2026 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
Petition: Disapprove the draft Equality Act 2010 guidance laid on 21 May 2026
I want the House of Commons to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations, 2026 laid on 21 May 2026.
petition.parliament.uk
I don't think that. I wanted to take some time to properly understand what the EDM is asking for and what it would mean in practice, before deciding whether or not to sign. Having done that this week, I will be signing, and my name will appear as a signatory shortly.
Can't see that @ollyglover.bsky.social has signed EDM 240, presumably he thinks it's good for businesses to have to spend money on extra facilities and be sued over who gets segregated from their toilets?
Alex Ashman@alexashman.bsky.social · 4mo ago@ollyglover.bsky.social please sign this EDM to reject the EHRC Code of Practice. Have emailed you to explain how damaging the Code is, both to trans people and to anyone who doesn't match the ideals associated with their gender.
88 signatures so far - if you live in the UK PLEASE email your MP about adding their name - it will take you less than 5 minutes with the form below. Yes, even if your MP is a transphobe - it's good for them to know how many of their constituents disagree with them.
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance@transsolidarity.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨 NEW: 27 Members of Parliament have signed a motion to reject the EHRC Code of Practice edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... Ask yours to join them: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
@ollyglover.bsky.social please sign this EDM to reject the EHRC Code of Practice. Have emailed you to explain how damaging the Code is, both to trans people and to anyone who doesn't match the ideals associated with their gender.
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance@transsolidarity.bsky.social · 4mo ago🧮 80 MPs have now signed the motion to reject the EHRC guidance. This motion alone would not stop it, it would have to be put to a vote. The best way to get that is for it to have an overwhelming number of signatures. Whatever happens, it sends a strong message. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...
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Ok, so here's the real headlines from the newly-published BMA critique of Cass: 1) the evidence being weak means it does not clearly support treatment withdrawal either; 2) the policy decisions by NHS and government went beyond what Cass recommended;
DHSC and Streeting strongly oppose trans kids accessing puberty blockers, but: - the evidence doesn't support a ban - Cass Report didn't support a ban - BMA critique depicts it as political overreach - non-trans kids are still receiving blockers DHSC is discriminating against trans kids.
QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 5mo agoThe escalation of language is another piece of the puzzle in governmental opposition to gender affirming care www.wearequeeraf.com/dhsc-escalat...
DHSC and Streeting strongly oppose trans kids accessing puberty blockers, but: - the evidence doesn't support a ban - Cass Report didn't support a ban - BMA critique depicts it as political overreach - non-trans kids are still receiving blockers DHSC is discriminating against trans kids.
QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 5mo agoThe escalation of language is another piece of the puzzle in governmental opposition to gender affirming care www.wearequeeraf.com/dhsc-escalat...
Reposting this THREAD 🧵 by @alexashman.bsky.social as an image because it is probably the most accurate summary of the BMA findings; includes alt text so use that if you want a tidied-up text version. This is what it REALLY said without all the editorialising.
I'll just put it out there - For the BMA to critique and negatively criticise a government-commissioned review and its implementation in this way and to this extent is quite something in itself.
You’ll be hearing a lot about Cass being vindicated by the BMA. It’s not that simple 👇🏻
Alex Ashman@alexashman.bsky.social · 5mo agoOk, so here's the real headlines from the newly-published BMA critique of Cass: 1) the evidence being weak means it does not clearly support treatment withdrawal either; 2) the policy decisions by NHS and government went beyond what Cass recommended;
The BMA report on Cass is out imminently and, as Alex says, do be cognisant of the fact that the BMJ is not the same as the BMA The media is going to cherry pick the report findings to support Labour cruelty towards trans children regardless. We have to wait and see what it actually says
Alex Ashman@alexashman.bsky.social · 5mo agoOk, so here's the real headlines from the newly-published BMA critique of Cass: 1) the evidence being weak means it does not clearly support treatment withdrawal either; 2) the policy decisions by NHS and government went beyond what Cass recommended;
Ok, so here's the real headlines from the newly-published BMA critique of Cass: 1) the evidence being weak means it does not clearly support treatment withdrawal either; 2) the policy decisions by NHS and government went beyond what Cass recommended;
good move here by Labour, people love it when you look really petty and spiteful to NHS doctors because they didn’t do what you wanted
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 6mo ago"Resident doctors defy the PMs 48hr ultimatum to call off strikes. The govt is now to cancel plans for an extra 1,000 doctor training places for them this year" The party of organised labour punishing workers for going on strike.
And this is coming from someone whose entire personality in middle school was based on those books.
It’s never been about ‘protecting women’s sports’ or ‘protecting kids’ or whatever other nonsense anyone tells you. It’s about misogyny, control, and the patriarchal hold on the country.
Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 7mo agofrustrating to have to re-up this again, but this essay has all the necessary facts to counteract today's news: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...
i read the policy document and it is baaaaaaaaaad. like, *bad* bad. as in ‘theyre defining “Biological Male” as “has an SRY gene and not *Complete* Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome”’ bad
Great article. I particularly liked(?) this part, about the way manosphere talking points were used to justify the shooting of Renée Good at the very highest levels of the US gov. Reactions that say "duh, the right was always misogynist!" while not untrue, miss the point. This is escalating
New York Magazine@nymag.com · 7mo agoFemale defectors say the MAGA movement has dropped the pretense of protecting women and now demands submission while ‘advertising it will be cruel and fickle.’
I don’t know, if I spent all my time online claiming that a group of people were so terrifying and dangerous that they should be excluded from public life and any space I am in, I wouldn’t spend money to willingly go to a concert with up to 10,000 of them
Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people. This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists. The study underpinning this played one particular trick. Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5
