Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Figure skating world championships were considered to be for men only until 1902, when Madge Syers showed up and took home silver and the ISU went "whooooops guess we need to segregate them." It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.

Thomas G. Atkinson@darthmarmalade.bsky.social · 2y ago

A reminder that women’s sports are kept separate from men’s not to protect women from always losing to men, but rather to ensure that no man ever loses to a woman. I’m not making this up; that’s literally the reason.

Would you know what to do if you experienced transphobic discrimination at work? Worried about applying for jobs as a trans person? Thanks to The National Lottery we’re running free Know Your Rights at Work Zoom workshops.

I genuinely believe that if Belfast Pride won't ban the executive parties, then queer orgs should pull out from participating in it.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2y ago

Missed this last week, Mid & East Antrim Pride have also banned political parties who agreed to ban puberty blockers for trans kids. So, that's MEA, Foyle, and Causeway Prides. Come on Belfast Pride...what are you waiting for?

Looking up pubs on google maps that are noted hangouts for gangs or the IRA and then reading the glowing reviews from yanks who wandered in and had a great night

"When it mattered most, Long sided with cis power over trans survival" - My meeting with Northern Ireland Justice Minister Naomi Long to discuss why they backed a puberty blocker ban - open.substack.com/pub/hleehurl...

Exclusive: Naomi Long tries to explain why Alliance backed puberty blocker ban

After a month of anticipation, I left my meeting with Northern Ireland’s Justice Minister Naomi Long feeling deeply frustrated and ultimately deflated.

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‘Unite for more rights!’ UNISON’s women’s conference opens with clear calls to champion trans rights, healthcare and childcare

'Unite for more rights!' | Article | News | UNISON National

UNISON's women's conference opens with clear calls to champion trans rights, healthcare and childcare

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The Stormont parties have failed the LGBTQ+ community for 27 years. ❌ No strategy since 2007 ❌ No funding since 2005 ❌ No LGBTQ+ equality plan in gov strategy ❌ Puberty blockers ban with no evidence or consultation No PR pass at Pride. Petition: www.greenpartyni.org/no_pride...

Do you think most of us wanted to be at odds with the largest progressive party here? God no, we've all grown up watching in-fighting and having it shape our sense of what we don't want from politics here, but this is one of those ethical lines in the sand we can't walk away from.

@hleehurley.substack.com and I had a lengthy meeting with @naomilong.bsky.social and she told us she had already held many other meetings on the subject, at the end of the meeting I asked her if she would, with hindsight, make the same decision about the ban, her response was "I don't know" 🤯🤯

🦌 STAG DANCE GIVEAWAY 🦌 With one month to go until we publish #StagDance by @torreypeters.bsky.social, we're giving away a copy of the book, and an exclusive cap and t-shirt (seen here modified and modelled by Torrey herself!) 💗 To enter, RT this by midday Thursday 20th Feb. UK only.

A cross-party joint statement from LGBT+ Liberal Democrats, Rainbow Greens, LGBTQIA+ Greens, and Out for Independence on Wes Streeting’s engagement with anti-trans organisations and call for his resignation. Read and share the full statement here: lgbt.libdems.org.uk/news/article...

You’re not going to get your creative project off the ground if you’re afraid of being seen as cringe by friends and strangers. Cringe is unavoidable, just do the thing you want to do

luna@imlunahey.com · 2y ago

people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?

Only two orgs were in favour of making the ban permanent: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (adult services)

Was surprised to see this: List of orgs who were against making the ban permanent: Alder Hey children's gender service. The Royal College of General Practitioners The British Medical Association The Royal College of Psychiatrists

ME: [extremely burnt out] I need to take the day off to relax ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive

“Most trans kids will survive. But many of us will have to survive knowing that there are no institutions in Britain that will protect us … We will have to find more ways to protect ourselves and each other.” Listen to the young trans people who are fighting for their lives, freedom and community.

We are young trans people occupying Wes Streeting’s office

Following the Health Secretary’s decision to permanently ban puberty blockers for young Trans people, activists from Trans Kids Deserve Better have…

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PLEASE, PLEASE. PLEASE sign this new petition asking for an independent review of the biased and internationally discredited Cass Review. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... #CassReview #trans #transgender #TransLivesMatter #TransKidsDeserveBetter #TransHealthcare

Petition: An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services

We believe that trans healthcare should be based on unbiased research that is peer reviewed. We think that the Cass review's findings have led to restrictive practices that are being directly felt by ...

petition.parliament.uk

But they found time this week to come together to ban puberty blockers.

FactCheckNI@factcheckni.bsky.social · 2y ago

Has half the legislation planned for NI this year failed to appear? Leader of the Opposition and SDLP MLA Matthew O’Toole claimed that the Executive will not deliver on the legislative programme for 2024 that was presented to the Assembly and that barely half of the 18 Bills scheduled will appear

Reposting this in light of today's appalling ban on puberty blockers by Wes Streeting after the farcical sham of a consultation process. If treatment for one group is denied to another that has nothing to do with patient safety, but everything to do with politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I treat transgender children – banning puberty blockers is not a decision for politicians to make | Aidan Kelly

Decisions around the tiny minority for whom the option could be helpful should be made by clinicians, not Wes Streeting, says clinical psychologist Aidan Kelly

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'You wouldn't know the advice. It goes to another school.'

Naomi Long MLA@naomilong.bsky.social · 2y ago

I can only speak to the advice which we received.

I just can't be dealing with this when we know what will follow this horrendous decision. www.cnn.com/2024/09/26/h...

Suicide attempts increased among transgender teens when states passed anti-trans laws, study says | CNN

People in the United States who identify as transgender or nonbinary make up only a tiny fraction of the population, but they’ve been the targets of an outsized share of negative attention from lawmak...

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Naomi Long MLA@naomilong.bsky.social · 2y ago

I can only speak to the advice which we received.

Labour’s manifesto promised to “remove indignities for trans people”, yet the government’s ban on puberty blockers adopts the Tories’ politicised unevidenced approach. Young people — cis & trans — must have access to healthcare they need. I stand firmly with the trans community.

Has half the legislation planned for NI this year failed to appear? Leader of the Opposition and SDLP MLA Matthew O’Toole claimed that the Executive will not deliver on the legislative programme for 2024 that was presented to the Assembly and that barely half of the 18 Bills scheduled will appear

The Alliance Party may want to reconsider citing the proposed clinical trial for access to puberty blockers This Council of Europe report (UK member) states the total withdrawal of access to healthcare outside of this research trial may breach “the fundamental ethical principles governing research”

For those following the Trans Kids Deserve Better protest in Ilford, a group of men who have now left arrived to harass the young trans people camping outside Wes Streeting's constituency office. The men have now left. Trans kids are fighting for their health rights and are asking for support.

What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️@whatthetrans.com · 2y ago

I share concerns of experts at the Council of Europe that removing access to #PubertyBlockers except through clinical trials may breach “fundamental ethical principles governing research”, amounting to coercion and a breach of young people's human rights. I asked Wes Streeting about this today... 🧵

Happy to see a pledge to release the advice as given by the CMO. I don't believe Nesbitt will agree, but I hope I'm wrong.

Naomi Long MLA@naomilong.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy to and will seek Health Minister's approval as it would be helpful. The ban is not permanent: that phraseology is mischief from some reps. It is indefinite, pending the outcome of clinical trials in teens which NI kids will be able to participate in. If safe, I support reinstatement.