Today the Government has published a "Review of suicides and gender dysphoria at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: independent report" by louis appleby. It is published in the context of a public discussion on suicide in relation to access to puberty blockers. 1/

I’ve been told that apparently Labour candidate Jovan Owusu-Nepaul who stood in Clacton, has said today is his last day at the Labour Party.

Forgive me for not trusting Professor Appleby’s review of trans youth suicide. I emailed the GIC to tell them Alice had taken her own life. I never got a reply. No acknowledgement. No sorry to hear this. Nothing. No reason to believe GIDS is any better at record keeping or caring

🚨 BREAKING: Green co-leader Carla Denyer MP has called on Health Secretary Wes Streeting to scrap Labour's ban on puberty blockers. In a joint letter with Sian Berry MP (Green), Denyer says the Greens want the ban to be scrapped, and urged Streeting to meet with trans people.

My favourite tweet from Jolyon’s extensive 🧵with full receipts. louis appleby needs to show his working because when trans researchers made FOI requests for the same data, NHS England said there wasn’t any. It’s a conundrum how he analysed data NHS England said they didn’t have.

It concerns me this review by Professor Appleby has already been weaponised to demean & villify a highly vulnerable group of children & young people & will increase burden of minority stress & victimisation of a group of youth regularly subjected to dehumanising media 30/

Who wrote this @NHS independent report? The Ruuska study doesn’t run a single analysis looking at the impact of gender-affirming care on suicide deaths. This description of the paper is entirely made up.

👇🏼🧵Extremely important read

Excellent to see Jo keep up the pressure on this. Wes Streetings ban on puberty blockers will have severe consequences for young trans people.

Thank you for the messages of support. This, from a major figure, moved me very much. Before finding myself, to my slight surprise, an honorary outsider I could not have begun to imagine what real solidarity was.

Right. Am off walking in the mountains for a fortnight and am deleting twitter 'til I get back so shan't be reading DMs. Champagne for my real friends and all that.