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23 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
"Doctors and experts all over the world agree on the healthcare that I and other trans people need. But in this country, it is impossible to get access to this care." goodlawproject.org/update/nhs-dut…
I was really moved by this conversation I had with Susie, about how different her life would have been had she been able to access treatment that is available throughout the progressive world (except the United Kingdom). nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…
Here is the interview with Reece - but without the dark money funded political hate groups the BBC chose to legitimate. bbc.co.uk/news/av/health…
The really revealing thing about this response from the NHS is that they don't - because they can't - seriously contend that our understanding of the law is wrong. You can even read their response as tacitly admitting we are right.

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25 Nov
Two utterly remarkable facts from Part II of the NAO Report.

PPE Prices went up by 500%... Image
... and we bought at those high prices more than twelve times as much PPE as we used in the whole of the first wave. Image
All of our warehouses are full and that PPE mountain is clogging up the port of Felixstowe. bbc.com/news/business-…
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24 Nov
We have good news - and rather a lot of it. rebrand.ly/good-news-ppe
We have permission in three of our twelve procurement judicial reviews (and are very likely to get permission in the other nine).
We also have issued a further five judicial review challenges to the Government's favourite VIP PPE supplier, the tiny Pestfix.
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24 Nov
When the future history of the rise in England of hatecrime, antiscience and lietelling comes to be written the finger will be pointed squarely at the BBC for its failure to engage in a thoughtful way with what "impartiality" requires.
The BBC's intellectually flabby conflation of that which is properly contestable with that which is contested by marginal interests both confers legitimacy on the illegitimate and is antithetical to its charter obligation to "act in the public interest."
It shouldn't matter, right? We should be tackling the illegitimate ideas rather than the media that promotes them. However, the BBC's monopolistic voice makes it the only arbiter that matters of legitimacy. And it consistently arbitrates wrongly.
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23 Nov
I've been on a journey on trans issues - and I have ended up a long way from some or even many in my tribe - and I wanted to set out some things I've learned along the way. THREAD
If you find yourself constantly at odds with younger generations (who as a rule are totally cool with being trans) the thing you swore would never happen probably has. Perhaps the process of becoming your parents - out-of-touch know-it-alls - is subtler than once you credited?
If you are a man and the reality of your engagement with equality issues is that you do little more than default to the views of a significant woman in your life that doesn't make you woke it makes you lazy.
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23 Nov
On a case about the lawfulness of waiting lists approaching four years to access *triaging* for a time-sensitive treatment, the BBC chose to go, not to an expert doctor, but to the LGB Alliance. Goodness knows why, but here is some stuff you need to know about the LGB Alliance.
One of its founders says LGBT+ clubs – a safe space for many LGBT+ schoolchildren to accept their sexuality – shouldn’t exist because of “predatory gay teachers”. pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/23/lgb…
Another of its founder/activists - Gary Powell - has links with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative, anti-abortion think-tank in the US that opposes same-sex marriage. pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/03/lgb…
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23 Nov
We waited some weeks for the BBC to be ready to cover our legal action to protect the legal rights of trans children. And the piece is up and is quite extraordinary. I'm not going to link to it because it is inaccurate and gives space to a transphobic hate group.
First point. One of the real problems bedevilling trans teenagers is ignorance. So if you believe the media you're like some foie gras goose having pills forced down your throat and a crazed surgeon chopping away at six year olds.
However the stages of treatment are below. This case is about accessing psychological evaluation. That precedes fully reversible puberty blockers. You can't have partially reversible cross-sex hormones until you are sixteen and surgery until eighteen plus. gids.nhs.uk/puberty-and-ph…
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