Sorry, but cis led organisations need to work to show trustworthiness actively to the trans community these days. You don't get free passes for "this was handled clumsily" when everyone knows you're on the fence already.

New FoI request from Department of Health: - Streeting documented seeking a ban on puberty blockers since at least 12 July. - DoH holds no information supporting Streetings claims that puberty blockers for cys kids have passed stringent safety tests. Cont.

The Labour Government’s attacks on trans people have reached a new low. With this new guidance (inaccurately dubbed ‘new legislation’), pharmacists are threatened with a criminal offence for distributing GnRH’s to under 18s for gender affirming care. feministgenderequality.network/is-the-governm…

✍️ Our Founder & Director, Susie Green, has written an open letter to Wes Streeting, urging him to lift the puberty blocker ban that is devastating trans youth and their families. 💔 #ProtectTransKids 🏳️‍⚧️ 👉 anne.health/articles/anne-…

This is an important read; Labour needs to come off the fence and support trans kids, its current position is actively HARMING trans kids. As usual LGBT+ Labour is complicit by its failure to do anything about this.

Petition to save Leeds LGBTQ+ bar from closure: 'Heart of our community' thepinknews.com/2024/09/26/pet…

Yes, I agree, there are serious barriers to women and girls safe and fair access to sport. 🧵

If a Gender Critical published writer calling homophobic, misogynist, right wing Republican Vance ‘humble’ and ‘endearing’ doesn’t underscore all we have been saying about the virulent gender and sexual conservatism at the heart of the GC movement, then you are truly captured

This is key. The ‘belief’ that gender criticality is based upon is from the offset-in its initial conceptualisation-perjoritive. It is not a belief ‘in’ something/someone but a stance against. It is a belief in negativity and denial.

THREAD;🧵 The gov't schools' safeguarding guidance 2024 published in Sept, has a section on LGBT children, only it uses the transphobic term "gender questioning" place of the T. It includes the following which recommends coercively outing trans kids to parents... 1/8

HORRIFIED to see this The REAL challenge we are facing here in the UK. Cass Reviewers & NHS staff involved in the care of Trans adolescents at the openly gender critical conference SEGM - yet not one of them attended the WPATH symposium As reported by Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky

Gender critical organisations Sex Matters and For Women Scotland have launched a witch hunt to identify and map the identities of trans women participating in women’s sport around the United Kingdom.

This is starting to look like a stitch-up. This is exactly what happened in the Keira Bell case.

Since 2020 the publishing industry has been churning out titles promoting gender critical views. night gardener discusses this underexplored trend and what it means for the book industry's friendly, apolitical veneer. vashtimedia.com/books-transpho…

NEW RESEARCH PUBLICATION: Children of Omelas: The Effects of the UK Puberty Blocker ban. Important new evidence demonstrating the harm caused by the puberty blocker ban in the aftermath of the Cass Review. Preprint now on Academia. academia.edu/124722434/Chil…

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