The EHRC guidance does not apply to workplaces, and trans people are not criminalised for using any toilet in the UK. But the whole point of this - as with Section 28 back in the 1980s - is to intimidate people. Don't give into that fear.

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 14h ago

Just a reminder that: - this isn't for workplaces and if your work is trying to implement it scare them over discrimination claims - the onus is on the service provider, not the service user to comply - the code *itself* says enforcement of toilet facilities is unworkable and low priority

Amnesty UK just excluded “A Growing Threat – the Anti-Rights Movement in the UK” from Internet Archive. "Like a Snowball: The Growth & Impact of the Gender Critical Movement in the UK" is still up. I've added alternate archives of all five pages & documents. www.transgendermap.com/issues/group...

Neuroscience in Chile, and across Latin America, does not lack talent or ideas, but the systems that make science visible—prestige journals, conferences and networks—increasingly price its researchers out, argues @medelero.bsky.social. #neuroskyence

Scientific talent is global. Access is not.

Neuroscience in Chile does not lack talent or ideas, but the systems that make science visible increasingly price its researchers out.

thetransmitter.org

"It’s unbelievable to subject kids to these kinds of invasive medical exams that have no basis in health or safety. One of my daughters is a rising fourth-grader, and she played a sport last year. Are you going to ask a fourth-grader to undergo this?” s/o @momsrising.org

The Push to Force Genital Exams on Student Athletes

In just a few months, Washington could become the first state to require sex-verification tests for girls playing sports in K–12 schools.

thecut.com

1/🧵 We do need to talk more about the illegality and lawlessness of the Cass Review. Hilary Cass cited Anne Wæhre's then-unpublished “study” via “personal communication”. It was later published at doi:10.1007/s00787-024-02508-5 and doi:10.1111/apa.17530, and the papers have now been retracted.

OUT NOW!!! with Cambridge University Press: The Far Right in Latin America, co-edited with Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Carlos Meléndez, Talita Tanscheit & me. @ceudeminst.bsky.social Open Access on Cambridge Core. www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

The Far Right in Latin America

Cambridge Core - Latin American Studies - The Far Right in Latin America

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Sexual violence is not incidental to the colonial project. It is its grammar. The many official reports on sexually tortured Palestinians are not aberrations. They document a system – recorded and cross-corroborated by the very organizations Israel’s defenders routinely cite when it suits them.

"Much of the escalation no longer requires secrecy – it is photographed, filmed, and disseminated by its own perpetrators, turning the thousands of members of Israeli society who daily consume and share the footage into co-participants." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...

“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide

The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.

thekeymagazine.com

Retracted! Today the first article was retracted in the research misconduct case at Oslo University Hospital where 1700 trans minors had their mental health info used for research without consent.

David R. Banos@davidrbanos.bsky.social · 7d ago

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Ethics first, research second. One of the two articles found to involve research misconduct due to gross negligence at Oslo University Hospital has now been retracted. The second will follow shortly.

Our second letter to the editor about the Finnish study on trans people and the effect of gender affirming treatment on mental health (Ruuska, Kaltiala et al.) is out now. This time, we request that the authors disclose their data. 💻⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

David R. Banos@davidrbanos.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our letter of concern about the Finnish study is now published in Acta Paediatrica. The Finnish study has received a total of 5 letters/commentaries, so far. Most of the overlapping concerns are statistical/methodological. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The French platform Trans Youth Trajectories has published a thorough summary of the research case at Oslo University Hospital. English: trajectoiresjeunestrans.fr/en/news/with... French: trajectoiresjeunestrans.fr/actualites/s... Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DbascKzjYQH/

Without consent: the scientific misconduct scandal at Norway’s national centre for trans youth - Trans Youth Trajectories

Illegitimate research on trans minors

trajectoiresjeunestrans.fr

Estudio derriba mito sobre la píldora del día después: Acceso gratuito no aumentó las conductas sexuales de riesgo No incentivó el inicio precoz de la actividad sexual ni el aumento de parejas sexuales. Además, se asoció a una disminución de embarazos no planificados

Estudio derriba mito sobre la píldora del día después: Acceso gratuito no aumentó las conductas sexuales de riesgo | Diario Usach

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“The repeated pattern shows that claims of widespread, systemic problems around trans women’s use of single-sex spaces in British public life are not borne out by the evidence available through the approved channels created for exactly this purpose” translucent.org.uk/four-years-s...

Four Years, Seven Surveys, Four Complaints: What Our FOI Data Actually Shows

Four Years, Seven Surveys, Four Complaints: What our FOI data actually shows about trans women using single sex spaces.

translucent.org.uk

spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas... The United Nations Special Procedures rapporteurs and working group on cultural rights and right to the highest attainable standard of physical health have reached out to the International Olympic Committee to condemn exclusion of intersex and trans athletes.

I wrote about the re-arrest of the Tate brothers, and the political opportunities that are being wasted by Democrats too eager to re-masculinize their party. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why are Democrats so quiet about the Tate brothers? | Moira Donegan

The party’s silence shows how broadly male supremacist thinking has seeped into the conventional wisdom of political strategists

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"What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority" great piece from Allison Morris in the Belfast Telegraph. Please support Allison as she will no doubt be targeted now. Archive link below. archive.ph/oQ2Cs

Others have said this but this is the exact same argument around trans healthcare right now - some people (Hilary Cass) saying that you can't prove that affirmation doesn't cause trans people to continue to be trans and therefore we should try conversion therapy on kids

The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m sorry what

Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

science.org

Riittakerttu Kaltiala is a central figure in globalizing the current anti-trans movement. What used to be local or national is increasingly a regional and international anti-trans movement. First-rate reporting by the Assigned Media team. My Kaltiala profile: www.transgendermap.com/issues/psych...

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 2w ago

A Finnish psychiatrist holds increasing influence over youth gender care worldwide. At home, the inpatient mental health facility she oversees has been repeatedly cited for excessive restraints, invading patient privacy, and other acts of neglect and mistreatment of (cis) adolescents).

As I've learned more about Riittakerttu Kaltiala I've come to form a sense of her overall approach to psychiatry. She views her patients primarily through their deficits. She treats them harshly and expects her word to be law for them. She is not as much anti-trans as broadly anti-autonomy.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 2w ago

A Finnish psychiatrist holds increasing influence over youth gender care worldwide. At home, the inpatient mental health facility she oversees has been repeatedly cited for excessive restraints, invading patient privacy, and other acts of neglect and mistreatment of (cis) adolescents).

Having read through some of it (still need to find the time to read through the full document), it is one of the most thoughtfully written documents of its type. It points out the societal influence on healthcare, specifically noting discrimination can cause regret (as Turban found too).

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2w ago

1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Theory 101: “gender is a framework that’s been developed through the social sciences. A framework is not subjective. A framework is a way of framing knowledge and a mode of inquiry”. www.currentaffairs.org/news/judith-butler-explains-the-gender-panic

Judith Butler Explains the Gender Panic

The leading scholar and philosopher responds to critics of “gender ideology,” both from the right and left.

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The daily fail has doctored an image from a queer positive book to do transphobic and homophobic fear-mongering: Daily Fail. Vs Original

The UK Government's #KCSIE 2026 guidance retains serious human rights concerns, especially for trans, non-binary, and intersex young people. We urge the UK Government to ensure compliance with equality and human rights obligations https://bit.ly/3T6kjAc

whenever you here someone saying the UN backs something anti-trans, it's really just this one person.

David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social · 3w ago

this U.N. special rapporteur is using their position to attack trans rights. It’s an abuse of the position, an anti-rights agenda, and it’s condemnable. boo.

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

Trans people are banned from everything and can barely name their oppressors lest they are monstered by the media and in parliament. Never mind the threat of jail for not disclosing being trans before a sexual encounter or even for saying some shit. It's surreal being trans in the UK right now.

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

Really delighted to say that our article critiquing the Cass Review from Archaeological, Historical, Mythological, and Heresiological perspectives has been published in the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. You can freely read it below 👇 bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/5/1-...