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BlueSky : @clairestranstalks.bsky.social Education & Awareness about Transgender & Non-Binary People. Views my own. Co-Founder of NDA 2022 winners @PlaceSteph
Aug 16 25 tweets 10 min read
I promised you a parting gift - so here it is.

Ive been seriously data gathering around adult GICs across the UK for the last year, all obtained under FOI.

I have 5 years of comparative data, pre covid, 18/19 to 22/23.

Link at end of thread.

Buckle up.

1/? In it you will find data around referrals, waiting lists, staffing, budget, and lots of other stuff.

Ive focussed on GICs as at this point the pilot schemes were not tendered as live services.

This is for the whole of the UK.

Lets dive in

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Apr 25 20 tweets 4 min read
My response to the @EHRC following their unsolicited letter last night.

Dear Baroness Falkner

I thank you for your completely unsolicited letter of 24th April 2024.

I am indeed fully aware of your upcoming special review by the UN Sub Committee for Accreditation, as well

1/? as the events that have led the EHRC to this point.

I note that you include a number of supposed 'achievements' that are anything but. To address some of your points, although I strongly suspect you will not agree with my positions :

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Mar 14 4 tweets 1 min read
The laundry list of unethical behaviour at @thecassreview gets longer.

Thanks to some outstanding research from @FierceMum, we now know that the NICE review on PBs later used by Cass was also chaired by Cass - a major conflict of interest.

This is on top of...

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Excluding trans people from the governance process, but including conversion therapy advocates, having known anti-trans bigots deciding what research is valid, Cass herself following multiple anti-trans groups prior to the review, the SI which effectively tried to out every

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Mar 3 14 tweets 4 min read
Found something rather interesting today in regards to the 'investigation' into the EHRC Chair (Kishwer Falkner) and her bully of staff & transphobic comments.

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In short it seems to reveal that Badenoch is indeed running the EHRC as a puppet organisation,

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in direct contravention to the UNs requirement under the Paris Principles to be independent from Government.

We all know that Badenoch is anti-trans, and has stocked the EHRC to the gills with anti-trans commissioners.

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