Let’s do a quick fact check on Freddy McConnell’s latest piece for the Guardian. Quick 🧵 1/6 theguardian.com/commentisfree/… l

"Basically these boys are now castrated drag queens who will be chained to the medical industry for the rest of their lives." Link 👇

Nope, the campaign to embed a minority belief system about gender identity, misnamed "trans rights", is the campaign to let men - including straight men who cross dress as a sexual fetish - self-identify into women's spaces and sports. It quite rightly lacks public support.

This may give other sports bodies some confidence.

This thread is outstanding on today's court judgement in favour of the English Blackball Pool Federation. The reasons why the claim against them (for banning males from the female category) failed are quite fascinating. And not what I expected.

“We have seen too many instances where those on campus have had their voices silenced and the chilling effect that has taken hold in some institutions cannot continue,” well said ⁦Jacqui Smith⁩ 👏 🌹 telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/0…

This is, I’m afraid, a middle-class giveaway that does nothing to facilitate access for poorer students. It tightly caps places, and leaves Scottish Unis even more in need of overseas fees than counterparts in England & Wales.

WPATH is a dead man walking – staggering on with no credibility, kept alive by inertia. Genspect is following them worldwide – not to emulate, but to outgrow, and show a better way forward. My latest: genspect.org/why-genspect-i…

NHS England has launched an urgent investigation into Brighton WellBN clinic because it "may have been operating outside of the national NHS guidance." Makes no sense that private clinic Gender Plus can operate a similar model and get CQC registration. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/0…

"The moment therapy felt like nonsense was when I realised parents had become enemy #1. We were coerced into believing lies, told our daughter was simply 'waiting to show her real self,' and offered no real help, just an ideological script." Erin Friday, Esq. speaks candidly

NB: Aware I've banged on about it a fair bit, but this is the first time it's been set out in black and white that, yes, there was an active decision to discriminate, and that's perfectly fine, despite Scotland being the site of the UKs most vociferous, aggressive genderist

This strikes me as important. It goes to the heart of the issue of employers compelling a particular belief (or actions that suggest agreement with a belief). It’s a really shocking example and suggests some employers are not yet, even still, aware of the Forstater decision.

Will be interesting to see how this proceeds. There is a line between ‘honest opinion’ and harmful lies. Stella O’Malley files defamation case against IACP and a Leonie O’Dowd over trans healthcare article | Irish Independent archive.ph/2025.08.03-043…

Brutal, but accurate, on the state of The Green Party from Shahrar Ali. Somewhere along the way they swapped a focus on the environment for trashing women’s rights, advocating dangerous medical interventions for kids, & suspending anyone who disagrees.

How to lose friends and alienate people. via Robert Jessel.

A quite brilliant 🧵⬇️ from Ursula Doyle on just how badly wrong Edinburgh International Book Festival has gone. It’s not just who isn’t there, but who has been give multiple platforms.

New episode! How did we end up with a case like #SandiePeggie? Because standards have collapsed inside HR's industry body. At their recent conference, a senior CIPD staffer: - Said 'trans inclusion rights [are] potentially being eroded' (!) - Claimed the 'Equalities Act' would

Two things these men (& very occasionally women) have in common when offering these 'insights' are: 1) Ignorance (perhaps chosen) of the policy leads them to criticize a straw man or fiction 2) They never offer a solution of any kind for women's benefit 🧵 theconversation.com/world-athletic…

Absolutely. Basic subbing errors from The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand in that Sinclair-DSD-screening piece. Seemingly overlooking the blindingly obvious: that the author had not read the policy he was critiquing.

Congratulations to King's College London on the first university Sex Equality and Equity Network. I'm sure other universities will follow suit soon.