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Nov 22

A Pathway To Hell

The Pathways trial — which will give puberty blockers to vulnerable children, is a pathway to horrific lifelong harms and litigation which could cost taxpayers millions of pounds.

No child can give informed consent to an experiment which carries significant and well documented risks which include sterility, loss of sexual function, bone loss and possible cognitive impairment and increased cancer risk.
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There is a large body of research which shows adolescence is a period of neurological changes which govern decision making, our response to rewards and our assessment of risk.

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That’s why we protect children and teenagers from harm by criminalising the provision of tattoos, alcohol, and cigarettes to under 18s.

Yet this trial expects children as young as 10 to demonstrate their understanding of the risks of taking puberty blockers, a ‘persistent’ desire to delay their own puberty, and assent to ‘treatment’.

This cannot be a realistic ask, especially when it comes to children who may be very emotionally vulnerable. It is bewildering that any parent, legal guardian or ethics committee could give consent to this pathway to hell.

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Nov 19

All our unions, including the three largest in the UK, seem heavily invested in Transgender Awareness Week with not a thought for the dignity, privacy and safety of their women members.
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The unions publish guidance and model policies which are unlawful. The Supreme Court ruling in FWS was clear that trans identified men are not permitted to use women's facilities and yet the trade unions dictate otherwise putting female members in harm's way.
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The GMB go further highlighting how stressful it can be to switch from using one 'gendered' facility to another. Our hearts bleed for the cross dressing, gender fluid men who have to decide on a daily basis what facility they feel like using.
❌No consideration for the women who might not want to share with a man.
❌No recognition of our legal right to single sex spaces.
❌No thought for the health issues women might suffer as a consequence of avoiding mixed sex toilets.
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Oct 22

Yet another report of voyeurism in a unisex changing area. This kind of offending is now commonplace because providers and councils enable offenders with easy access in mixed sex 'changing villages' or similar. Single sex spaces are a vital safeguard against such activity and yet we see more and more women only facilities being replaced by mixed sex provision 1/4

We know these convictions will be the tip of the iceberg and many more victims will be unaware of their images being shared and their privacy violated in such an extreme manner. So why do our councils continue deliberately putting women and girls in harm's way?
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This startling data from 2017-18 shows how stark the risk is in mixed sex changing areas which are far more commonplace in 2025 than they were in 2017. So why are our councils ignoring the overwhelming evidence that such spaces are not only unpopular but dangerous?
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Sep 14

While police officers are busily investigating people for tweets, rapes are being reported to the @metpoliceuk at the rate of ONE every HOUR - and we know that’s only a fraction of the real rate.

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dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Less than 2% of these rape reports will lead to a conviction.

This is an abject failure by every aspect of the justice system.

Shockingly, a quarter of the incidents reported in London concern a victim under the age of 18.

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bbc.com/news/articles/…

The @metpoliceuk and @CPSUK are failing women and girls in London.

The problems of misogyny in the Met’s own ranks are well known, highlighted in Baroness Casey’s report, and by the multiple scandals of perpetrators from within the force’s own ranks.

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Aug 16

Women in prison are amongst the most vulnerable groups in society. More vulnerable still are the tiny number of girls under 18 held in prisons.

Yet @hmpps’s Youth Custody Service maintain that girls should NOT be held in single sex institutions.

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Secure Training Centres, Secure Children’s Homes and the Secure School all incarcerate girls alongside boys.
There is not one single option for female only accommodation for girls under 18 in the prison estate, despite ample evidence that girls who go to prison have almost always been serially abused and exploited by males.

penalreform.org/issues/women/k…

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And nearly all of these institutions are failing. This week we heard of the Secure School, a private prison run by the Christian charity Oasis Trust, having to close because violence is out of control and children are making weapons to protect themselves.

This is because, astonishingly in a prison on which £40 million of taxpayers money was spent on refurbishment and each child is funded at £250,000 each - the doors don’t close properly.
Keeping any girl in this facility is an astounding failure of safeguarding.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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Jul 25

It’s 100 days since the Supreme judgment. 100 days during which @Girlguiding could have looked at their dreadful ‘inclusive’ policies and changed them.

Reader, they have not.

This thread 🧵 may distress you if you thought your daughter’s welfare and safeguarding were a priority.
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Their section on what the law says makes no mention of the Supreme Court judgment of 16th April.

The Equality Act is referred to, but if there is any review of policies since the judgment, it’s not apparent.
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girlguiding.org.uk/information-fo…

It’s hard to know where to start when it comes to their policies. Let’s start though with their approach to who can occupy a ‘woman only’ role.

Their current policy still online (link in thread) permits men to identify in.

Who can forget this particular ‘woman’?👇
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