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Feb 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Thread of my peer reviewed publications to pin & add to:

2020 "Thriving or surviving: Raising our ambition for trans children in our schools

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
2021 "It felt like they were trying to de-stabilise us: Parent assessment in UK Gender Services".

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
2022 “I never wanted her to feel shame”: parent reflections on supporting a transgender child

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
The 2020 paper on inclusion in schools is available as an infographic:

…winguptransgender.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/a3-web…

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Feb 9
Another day of rage & despair, with a 12 yr old trans child lost. What is to blame? A short thread:

Firstly, a UK media culture that paints trans people as a threat & a problem. Looking at #BBCTransphobia & today @TimHarford. Trans kids hear how BBC speaks about them.
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@TimHarford Secondly, UK schools that are completely failing a large number of trans kids. I know so many bleak stories.

Too many kids face discrimination, segregation, chronic stress, in unsafe environments.

Of course schools are under a lot of pressure. But so are trans kids. 2/
@TimHarford Thirdly, an NHS that continues to utterly fail trans kids.

Failure to provide essential healthcare. Waiting lists of 3 years+. Hurdle after hurdle. Stupid question after stupid question. Appointments that harm & upset. Trans kids do not have equal access to healthcare. 3/
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Aug 16, 2021
In case anyone is unaware, GIDS have still not put in place any route to receiving blockers since the Bell case in December. For ten months trans children and adolescents, those who were approved to start treatment in late 2020, have been strung along while puberty continues.
Children and pre-teens who were assured of approval for blockers in November 2020, are still waiting in August 2021. The distress, pain and trauma of the past ten months for these children is hard to describe.
This pain and distress is completely avoidable. These are kids who had already jumped through years of ridiculous assessments and who have parental consent. NHS England and GIDS choose to harm trans children and adolescents.
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Jul 8, 2021
This evening I wanted to share some thoughts on what we mean by 'security', and how security interplays with community and with support. Informed by today's ICO fining of Mermaids, as well as years of UK establishment hostility towards Mermaids and parents of trans kids 1/
I know the email group that resulted in the ICO form. I was in it for years and without doubt my data would have been part of dataset the ICO has fined about. As someone who values my own and my child's right to privacy highly, any data insecurity is obviously a concern. 2/
When the email group was set up, many years ago, Mermaids was a tiny volunteer led support group, with no media attention. It had no staff and developed things on the fly. As many informal support groups do. 3/
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May 5, 2021
New article on trans youth clinic from Belgium, a swift summary to follow: nature.com/articles/s4144…
First of all, it provides a useful reference for the Nuffield and Cass reviews that both seem perplexed as to the rise in children coming to Gender Clinics worldwide
"A recent Belgian study found that the average age of self-realization is 12.7 years throughout different generations, but the coming-out age has dropped significantly from 33.2 years in the generation born between 1965–1970, to 27.7 years in the generation born between 1971–1985
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Dec 3, 2020
A pre-teen trans kid who has seen GIDS for years, & is now approaching puberty, was just told by GIDS that there is no possibility of them getting blockers until years into puberty. Saying they will be forced through the wrong puberty. Saying this directly to a scared trans kid.
They are also withdrawing care for 17 year olds. GIDS are voluntarily going beyond the requirements of the court case.
We know GIDS did a terrible job of advocating for trans kids. We know some deeply transphobic GIDS clinicians wanted exactly this situation - for their role to be the psychoanalysis of trans kids for decades, without end, without any route to medical care.
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Dec 1, 2020
UPDATE: Of course GIDS have interpreted the judgement in the worst possible way. No under 16s will get blockers without a court order. Updated GIDS service specifications here. More to follow: england.nhs.uk/wp-content/upl…
Trans kids already receiving blockers via GIDS will either a) go through a court process to continue the current regime if their clinician thinks they will pass the higher standard of consent or b) their current blockers will be withdrawn & they will be forced through puberty.
What they are proposing is beyond cruel. Of course some trans kids are fine with endogenous puberty. But for some it is the end of the world. Some have dreaded it for years, with puberty blockers as a lifeline. These kids go through hell to jump through GIDS assessment hoops.
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