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13 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
All the schools guidance will need to be revised.

Education authorities should ask themselves who they've been taking advice from?

Do they understand safeguarding and consent?
Organisations that sent out BEWARE! signs about those raising concerns about consent and safeguarding
Telling them to shred their publications

transgendertrend.com/our-statement-…
Telling them not to tell parents.

This should be a big warning sign!
Do these organisations hold the best interests of the child in paramount importance?

In light of Bell v Tavistock they will have to be asking these Questions

judiciary.uk/judgments/r-on…

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15 Dec
This is incredibly shoddy work @TRF @hugo_greenhalgh @rachelmsavage @antozappulla and does not stand up the @Reuters principles of integrity, independence, and freedom from bias

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My case is not "pushing back against transgender rights" it is case about belief discrimination.

It is about the right of people not to be discriminated against at work & by service providers for holding or not holding a belief about the nature of sex and gender identity.
Adding up some numbers in the public domain is not much of an investigation.

It is the work of a pocket calculator and 15 minutes.

The rest of the time was spent looking for the fabled shady right wing money... none was found Image
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15 Dec
Good report from Fawcett on gender stereotypes and children

I wish they had been more courageous in looking at the disconnect between these recommendations and what schools are telling children about children being "trans" Image
They stick to the safe ground of saying children experiencing mental distress should get specialist support, but avoid saying anything anything about what schools do

Eg telling pupils that a boy experiencing mental distress relieved by wearing a dress & long hair "is a girl"
Challenging sex stereotypes in school is incompatible with promoting the idea of gender stereotypes.

I wish they had quoted @AbigailShrier instead of Stonewall.
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13 Dec
This from the Tavi study is shocking

In their data collection they dropped two tracking measures on how children feel about gender, because 1) they weren't robust tools 2) some kids found the ref to binary gender challenging and 3) some kids were distressed talking about it Image
This in the context where they are selling puberty blockers as a "pause button" and a chance to think.

They say the treatment enables a period of exploration of options, chosen by children able to consent, but also that talking about it is too distressing for these children. 🤔
The fact that some of the children are shying away from male and female binary further undermines the whole rationale.

Why does identifying as possibly "non-binary" justify extreme medical intervention?
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10 Dec
Baroness Barker in the HoL on Keira Bell case "The legal team has brought several cases designed to oppose LGBT rights & restrict reproductive rights, actions consistent w orgs such as the Heritage Foundation & the Alliance Defending Freedom, extreme evangelical US orgs"
She then goes on to ask an unrelated question parliamentlive.tv/event/index/be…

Legal team? Does she mean Jeremy Hyams QC and Alistair Henderson. No I think she is having a pop at Keira for using Paul Conrathe as solicitor.

So much guilt by vague association.
This brave young woman has suffered an unnecessary double mastectomy and hormone treatment that has altered her voice and may have damaged her fertility.

Baroness Barker has no compassion, erasing her agency and smearing her as a puppet of US religious right
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10 Dec
Rape Crisis Scotland is taking a break from social media to protect staff wellbeing after they have experienced an "onslaught of abuse" on social media, citing intimidation, harrassment and intimidation
They've received quite a lot of criticism over the last few days - but i'm not sure what they are classing as abuse.

If anyone sees any could you post it below the thread

twitter.com/search?q=(%40r…
I've seen the word "bullshit"
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10 Dec
Kate Scottow has won her appeal and her conviction under s.127 of the Communications Act is quashed

On valentines day last year she was convicted for a dozen tweets of using a public communications network to “cause annoyance, inconvenience and anxiety”

spectator.co.uk/article/i-stan…
You can only imagine the "annoyance, inconvenience and anxiety" for this mother and student being arrested, locked in a police cell for 7 hours, having her computer and phone impounded for months, then being tried, convicted and fined.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…
This is how the whole thing started...



From here the criminal justice system was used to harass and terrorise a woman for mildly annoying tweets.
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