In the interests of accuracy, it’s probably worth noting that the news of Hilary Cass leading the review of GIDS was actually announced on 30th January 2020 in the @NHSEngland website…

👉🏻 england.nhs.uk/2020/01/update…
At the time of Hilary Cass’ appointment, Liz Truss was the Minister for Women & Equalities and Matt Hancock was the Minister for Health.

Both of which *could* have had influence over her appointment (which is possible knowing Truss’ ‘gender critical’ transphobic views)…

The Cass Review recommendations have finally been published by @NHSEngland and it’s as dire as you might imagine! 😣

👉🏻

Some highlights…

The NHS says GPs CAN NOT now refer to the youth gender service. Instead going via CAMHS for “assessment” first! 😣 england.nhs.uk/commissioning/…
Once reaching 17 yrs 9m old, any young person not seen by the youth gender service will be dismissed back to their GP to be referred to the GIC (despite the GP not being considered qualified enough to refer them in the first place) 🤷🏼‍♀️

Outraged by the double standards in UK healthcare! 🚨 Why are puberty blockers for trans youth scrutinised for being "off-label" when meds like tricyclic antidepressants & asthma treatments are routinely prescribed off-label to minors without similar outrage?

#CassReview The inconsistency is alarming! Many meds prescribed to minors, like tricyclic antidepressants for ADHD & Montelukast for allergies, haven’t undergone randomised control trials in under 18s. Yet, there’s silence. Why the bias when it comes to puberty blockers for trans youth?

Let’s have a look at why trans pupils might need teachers to keep their confidence and NOT ‘out’ them to potentially ‘gender critical’ transphobic parents…

@aktcharity research shows 77% of young homeless LGBT people believe coming out to parents was the main factor!… 61% of young homeless trans people said that they felt threatened or at risk of violence from family members prior to their homelessness! 😞

Parents aren’t always supportive of their LGBTQ+ children, and there’s no way of telling how they’ll react!

“We’ve been ‘TERFing’ and it’s been such fun”

It’s clear that for many ‘gender critical’ transphobes, being a transphobic bigot is just a recreational activity! 😣

These heartless transphobes clearly have no life outside of their obsessive bigoted campaigning! They spent hours in the rain videoing themselves outside different Costa Coffee’s, all because of a trans-inclusive mural on the side of a coffee van in Brighton 2 years ago! 😣

This isn’t normal behaviour! #TERFCult #RecreationalTransphobia

In the wake of the New York Times being called out for anti-trans bigotry, it’s *entirely* expected the transphobic UK Telegraph publishes a biased article supporting the transphobes.

What you don’t see is they totally rewrote their original article to be more transphobic!.. 😮 THIS was the much more neutral headline published by the Telegraph under exactly the same URL on 15 Feb…

Clearly it wasn’t trans-hostile enough - so much so that it prompted them to rewrite it! This is MUCH more than just adding details to a breaking story!!… 😳

The problem with fitting ‘queer’ people into data systems, is that in the digital age data is binary - Any data point is either a 1 or a 0 - there is no nuance.

However detailed the datacapture, digital systems are always seeking to group data points into ‘absolutes’…

https://twitter.com/kevin_guyan/status/1580144364382453760

For instance, computerised medical systems may ask for ‘sex’ (assigned at birth) and ‘gender’, but that won’t capture the multiple physical variations within the trans spectrum - those of hormones, surgery, and chromosomal difference - and separately forms of address…

Is the @BBC biased in its reporting on trans topics?

While it's difficult to analyse nuanced rhetoric in multiple articles, we can see who the BBC links *to* in their articles on trans topics.

Excluding internal links, The BBC overwhelmingly links to The Times & Telegraph... Although small numbers, it can be seen that the BBC have dramatically increased the number of outbound links to other news media platforms in 2022, With 28 out of 50 links directed towards right-wing news platforms, The Times and Telegraph.

Data & graphs from @Dysphorum Project

We *know* that the UK media has become really trans-hostile over the last decade, both in the quantity and quality of news articles.

But let's have a look at the data...

There have been 21,917 articles on trans topics in the UK media since Jan 2012. At its highest point, 1,142 articles were published in the 30 days from 27/6/2022

@moira_robin @dee_exec @emilymcminn_ms @NEUnion It’s clear that @NEUnion member, Cindy Shanks, submitted this review as part of the review team (she’s also written reviews several times before in ‘Educate’ magazine).

The question is: Why is the editorial team sending out transphobic books to review???

@moira_robin @dee_exec @emilymcminn_ms @NEUnion As editor of ‘Educate’ Magazine, how did @salaam_max think it was a good idea to send out propaganda material from a known anti-trans hate group, to be reviewed for inclusion in the publication?

‘Transgender Trend’ is an anti-trans lobby platform run by an ex-cult member! 😣

https://twitter.com/moira_robin/status/1572443367694540800

Q: What is a woman?

A: There are 3.9 BILLION women in the world. There is not one single definition that includes them all, while excluding everyone else.

Trying to define “woman” in biological terms is regressive, as women are more than just their bodies. Women and men are not binary categories, they are bimodal. There is no singular definition of ‘woman’ that doesn’t exclude some women.

While collections of traits might be common, they’re not absolute.

There are 3.9 Billion variations of ‘woman’ on the planet!

Maya Forstater, Transgender Trend’ and ‘gender critical’ transphobes are ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT in their interpretation of “safeguarding”…

@NSPCC are CLEAR that #teachers should keep confidentiality of pupils, if telling parents may put them at risk.

This includes trans pupils!
The @NSPCC cite Article 16 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that all children have a right to privacy.

This INCLUDES trans kids talking in confidence to their teachers.

Teachers should NOT be sharing these “personal details” without EXPLICIT consent

Watching ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ it’s noticeable how the insidious linguistic techniques used in religious conversion therapy on LGB kids is IDENTICAL to narratives used by ‘gender critical’ “therapists” on gender-questioning and trans kids! 😳

#BanConversionTherapy Just like in this Christian Evangelical gay conversion therapy camp, ‘gender critical’ transphobe parents & therapists don’t recognise trans kids identity, and seek to ‘uncover’ reasons *why* they might be trans - autism, trauma, puberty, misogyny - all to invalidate & gaslight.

Here's a thread of articles & investigations as a source of initial research on 'dark money' & far-right funding for anti-trans hate groups...

"Cash from the US Christian Right is funding movements against women’s and LGBTQ rights"... opendemocracy.net/en/5050/eu-urg… .@openDemocracy has done a huge amount of investigation into the funding of anti-gender (LGBT/women/abortion) movements across the globe.
While it's impossible to track specific transactions, it's clear from mass money movement it's come to the UK.
opendemocracy.net/en/5050/specia…

@Womans_Place_UK WPUK founder, Judith Green, describes how the group was founded here: feministcurrent.com/2017/11/28/jud…

And later WPUK confirm it here: socfem.net.archived.website/2017/12.html

The event was called “What Is Gender” on 13 Sept 2017, run by transphobe Venice Allen, who now works with Posie Parker.
@Womans_Place_UK I’d hazard a guess that the “Ruth” Julia Long is thanking at the beginning of her deeply transphobic speech is Ruth Serwotka - founder of WPUK…

Mumsnet is trending again, as yet another ‘gender critical’ transphobe tries to deflect from its transphobia.

Here’s a thread of articles citing Mumsnet’s transphobic credentials…⤵️

“MUMSNET AND THE FOSTERING OF ANTI-TRANS RADICALIZATION”

lux-magazine.com/article/the-ro… Why is British media so transphobic?

“The other path through which many British women have taken up a particularly transphobic ideology is, somewhat incongruently, the parenting website Mumsnet.”
theoutline.com/post/6536/brit…

While Alex Salmond is criticised for appearing on Russia Today, and OFCOM are investigating the Russian State propaganda arm, let’s not forget UK ‘gender critical’ transphobes have been writing for them for YEARS!

Debbie Hayton has their own page & has written 26 articles!!! 😳
RT is a Russian State propaganda and disinformation platform that is ACTIVELY anti-LGBT… Yet Debbie Hayton and other British anti-trans lobbyists have been happily writing transphobic stories for them (and taking their money?) for YEARS!!!

rt.com/op-ed/authors/…

‘Gender critical’ transphobes often infer that trans women shouldn’t be allowed to work with children because of one person’s bad behaviour.

Here’s a thread of cis women teachers who’ve abused children.

Should cis women be allowed to work with children?
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9… It would seem as though cis women teachers abusing children is a worldwide issue! 😳

Should we ban cis women from teaching children?… Of *course* not!

…So why should EVERY trans person have to repent for the actions of one?
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

"How does stochastic terrorism unfold in the course of real-world events? We propose a practical description of stochastic terrorism as an interactive process between the originator of a message, its amplifiers, and one or more ultimate receivers...

jstor.org/stable/2707343… A charismatic public figure, or perhaps an organization, lobs hostile rhetoric against a targeted out-group or individual into the public discourse to further some political or social objective...

Following Liz Truss appointing Baroness Faulkner as Chair of the EHRC to enact her personal “anti-equality” ideology, Oliver Dowden is parachuting in his favoured “anti-woke” candidate to Chair the Charity Commission.

This is incredibly concerning!!!😣
➡️ archive.is/0KXLm
It’s clear the Conservatives have a strategy to implant “sympathetic” people in senior positions in key oversight bodies like the EHRC & Charity Commission in order to suppress minority ‘uprising’ that might challenge their privileged status quo!
archive.is/0KXLm

‘Gender critical’ transphobes realise that they can’t actually change the law / policy in their favour, so have taken to misrepresenting it instead.

These days it doesn’t matter what the truth actually *is*, it matters what people *say* it is!

Communication is KEY!

https://twitter.com/notCursedE/status/1411266143147409409

Notice how when @GoodLawProject won the case against the Tavistock, ‘gender critical’ bigots and the transphobic media ignored it and just kept pushing anti-trans narratives around the Bell v Tavistock case?

Because they don’t want the truth known, just their #AlternativeFacts