NHS cancelling surgeries for adults even after they’ve already paid for travel + accommodation and waited years to get there. Some were about to be wheeled into theatre! Every manager responsible for this decision must be sacked and every patient paid compensation.

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · last mo.

🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...

Worth noting: 8 out of 11 members of the Women and Equalities Select Committee have signed the motion to reject the EHRC guidance and fix it.

Nadia Whittome MP@nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Despite more than 1 in 4 MPs signing my motion against the Code, it is due to come into force without any debate or vote in Parliament. I have written to the Minister for Women and Equalities urging her to withdraw it now. 2/2

Under the Government’s draft bill to ban conversion abuse, this tortuous practice will be allowed to continue. transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/06...

This is correct. They are arguing that because trans people have now had so many rights taken away (thanks to them) no-one should be allowed to transition because they'd then have fewer rights.

The Newromancer@tehsamantha.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I believe Sex Matters are already using that exact logic to push further restrictions on our rights. Like saying that because trans people are inherently excluded from everywhere we shouldn't even be given pathways to transition because we transition into a state where we have less rights

Oh fun, the postgres docker image changed the default directory in v18 from `/var/lib/postgresql/data` to `/var/lib/postgresql/18/docker`... RIP my internal homelab wiki

Planning on posting on my website more, so here is my first proper post where I talk about how I rooted the "Loop 5G speaker" and got NSG running on it! robyn.zip/posts/2025-1...

Rooting a 5G speaker I got for £1

Answering life’s important questions, like: can I run Network Signal Guru on my speaker?

robyn.zip

The #RainbowMap 2025 is live! Find out how 49 European countries rank on LGBTI human rights and see which ones are leading, or falling behind. Check it out now! rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org

1/🧵 The Cass Review final report was quietly amended in December 2024, just before the permanent ban was announced, and it seems to have gone unnoticed. While most of the changes were minor and clerical, two of them were significant. Both changes relate to informed consent.

Ban on puberty blockers for trans under-18s ‘is unconscionable’, campaigners say “Banning medicines with no evidence of serious harm, only for trans people, using powers designed for contaminated and life-threatening drugs, is discrimination plain and simple.” metro.co.uk/2024/12/11/p...

Ban on puberty blockers for trans under-18s 'is unconscionable', campaigners say

The ban is 'discrimination, plain and simple,' they added.

metro.co.uk

hello Bluesky :)