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When I started blogging a decade or so ago the way I'd write about gender stereotypes and kids probably *was* warmer and fluffier than it is now. Because it was stuff like "why I let my sons dress as Elsa from Frozen" not "why we shouldn't sterilise boys who like dresses"

I did a thread on the harm to children caused by the insanity of believing prevention of natural development was ever appropriate. I said to not blame the parents who believed the lie. This new trial? I'm OK with it if you want to blame those parents 💁‍♀️

While these literary ‘lynchings’ were going on in the UK, the Taliban were retaking Afghanistan, trapping my student F. 2 of my other students were involved in trying to get her out. We needed a large sum of money. So we asked Philip Pullman and he gave it to us. Now F is a

Oh all of this. And now, well it's plain for all to see. Our government would rather appease the abusers than prevent the abuse. As a society we failed these children. Now we are about to fail again. It's heartbreaking 💔

“The cruelty of gender activism is a feature, not a bug. The cause is so nonsensical, it can only survive in a climate of fear.” Never a truer word was written and as true in publishing (especially children’s publishing) as in academia.

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What are puberty blockers for? To delay the inevitable puberty? Children need to grow up; they cannot remain Peter Pan forever. It is unconscionable to give cross sex hormones to children. They must be allowed to go through their natural puberty.

This is pretty funny 😂

Well said that woman

The fact that Hannah Barnes & Sonia Sodha were not allowed to be present at the press briefing for this stupid & dangerous "trial" speaks volumes. Difficult, informed questions would have been asked and the fear was that piss poor, troubling responses would have been made public.

If you have read TIME TO THINK by Hannah Barnes and published by Swift Press , you know every time the NHS faced a crossroad between protecting children and scandal, they chose scandal. Let's hope this time, the pause/stop button is pressed on this scandal-in-waiting.

That's that then. No harassment. And I mean he did break the phone. Although I can't say I might not have done the same in the circumstances. BBC News - Linehan cleared of harassing trans activist but guilty of damaging phone bbc.com/news/articles/…

No child is born in the wrong body. I cannot believe we are back to square one, with NHS England backing an experimental trial of puberty blockers on healthy, vulnerable children, ignoring the damage already done. The No1 rule of medicine is "do no harm". This is activist

We are asking everyone to tag their MP here & also email them requesting that they sign this letter from Kemi Badenoch along with the one from Rupert Lowe MP Wes Streeting ““You are no longer Head of Education for Stonewall. You are the Health Secretary. That change of job title

Well of course encouraging people to drink less milk will fix everything 🙄 Give us our sugary drinks Wes there's a good fellow and toddle off and fix something important. Like, say, preventing unnecessary experiments on children.

"This trial continues the shameful habit of treating normal childhood challenges as illness, or that psychological conditions are signs to young people that their healthy bodies are somehow wrong and must be corrected with drugs or surgery" Kemi Badenoch independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Gosh. Let's not let them have too much sugar with the risk they might get hyperactive for a while or maybe lose a tooth, get a little overweight Also LETS INJECT THEM WITH DRUGS THAT STOP HEALTHY NATURAL DEVELOPMENT cos THAT won't be bad for them at ALL 🙄

But hang on, if sugar is proven to be harmful but some children nonetheless really want it, isn’t your department’s approach to give it to kids for two years first then ask them if they feel “two spirit”?

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