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When Wes Streeting attempts framing like this it reminds me of a marketing campaign for an implement I needed to get when I had a garden flat in West Hampstead many years ago…

1/21 It was literally just two pieces of plastic slightly curved and designed to make it easier to pick up grass cuttings after I had mown the lawn. It just about did that job OK but it was the way it was marketed that I remember most vividly…

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The government is actively harming trans children.

Important THREAD :🧵

This research study, just published as a preprint, details the considerable harm being caused by the government's puberty blocker ban. Harms that are significant and are happening now...

1/21 This study is a preprint because it needed to meet a very tight deadline for a government 'consultation' of Oct 8th.

TW: The evidence is profoundly disturbing; it has caused significant & sudden decline in these children's mental health. These testimonies are typical...

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The gov't schools' safeguarding guidance 2024 published in Sept, has a section on LGBT children, only it uses the transphobic term "gender questioning" place of the T.

It includes the following which recommends coercively outing trans kids to parents...

1/8 The "guidance" includes the claim that outing a trans/non-binary child to parents is "exceptionally rare".

So I decided to check & asked what data the Dept for Education has to support the claim that parents harming trans children is "exceptionally rare" by sending them...

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This is how @wesstreeting claims he and his government is treating trans people.

However you do not treat trans people with dignity and respect by;

1) ignoring our voices, voices that are overwhelmingly condemning The Widely Discredited Cass Review as dishonest, transphobic… …pseudoscience.

2) Treating as “Gold Standard” a Report that excluded trans researchers from its analysis team while including members of groups designated as transphobic hate groups.

3) Implementing a “research” study that, once again, excludes trans researchers from…

So, despite The Cass Review being totally discredited in less than 6 months, @wesstreeting is continuing to follow its irresponsible, harmful, unethical and deeply transphobic “recommendations”.

The “research” he is commissioning based on this will not only be unethical

1. It will be methodologically unsound and consequently of no value. Like Cass it excludes any trans researchers from the inquiry team, a further failing and discrediting factor. Furthermore he has ignored a request from @theBMA to pause it until they have carried out their..

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Media: Excludes trans people,

EHRC: Excludes trans people,

Cass Review: Excludes trans people,

Labour Policymaking: Excludes trans people,

Appleby Review: Excludes trans people,

Streeting & Starmer: Refuses to talk to trans people,

1. …The British Establishment has consistently and persistently excluded trans people from any decision-making about trans people, and, in line with that @wesstreeting & @Keir_Starmer are excluding trans kids from talking about legislation that is about trans kids…

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THREAD:

@WesStreeting's predecessors implemented a policy resulting in the deaths of at least 16 trans children by suicide.

From Matt Hancock to Victoria Atkins at least the Tory health secretaries could plausibly claim that they did not...

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https://x.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1803729360731406489

...know this would be the outcome, despite people like myself (who is a qualified & published and peer-reviewed expert in this area) and parents of trans children warning very clearly that the puberty blockers ban would kill trans children. This time @WesStreeting cannot...

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THREAD: In the aftermath of the election it is too easy to underestimate the implications from the catastrophic loss by the “Party Of Women”, which crashed to the most spectacular of defeats, despite being given a fair wind by our biased media.

1. In effect what Posie Parker set up was a real life experiment to test the theory that “gender-critical” practices represent “women”.

This is something we have heard from JK Rowling and most of the mainstream media; the idea that “gender-critical” practices represent…

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The key dishonesty with everything every “gender-critical”/”sex-realist”/”biology matters” anti-trans activist says about trans people’s human rights is the supposed “conflict of rights with the rights of cls women...

1. In fact there is zero evidence that cls women are disadvantaged in any way by trans people having human rights, & a very significant body of evidence to the contrary. First up is the list of countries & federal states where trans people have the right to self-identification.

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I have now heard of four instances where a trans woman has used a male toilet, at least one of them by accident, others because they were compelled to.

In all four cases they were brutally assaulted.

This is why the “gender-criticals” want to force trans people…

1. …to use the toilets that correspond to their “biological sex”, not because they believe in “the importance of biological sex” but because they want to subject trans people to violence and to make life impossible for us.

So their claim that their rhetoric constitutes an…

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My peer-reviewed research publication on what I call “deferral” confirms how trans kids have usually known, in one way or another, for a long time, that they are trans.

Like Hollyoaks it shows that “ROGD” is, and always has been, just a lie.

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academia.edu/resource/work/…

https://twitter.com/hollyoaks/status/1764734808595341591

My research publication on deferral is all the more significant because it was independently replicated by another piece of research published 7 months later, which also confirmed that young trans people usually do not “suddenly” become trans…

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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33722987/

The result in the Hackney council by-election in Caznove ward is significant & significantly revealing for a number of reasons.

Given the enormous swing to Labour nationally; a poll published on the day this by-election took place put @UKLabour 27 points ahead...

1/n ... and the Tories down to just 20%, @HackneyLabour should have held onto this seat easily and with a greatly increased majority.

Instead Labour lost the seat to the Tories on an 11% swing AGAINST the national trend...

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kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/coul…

Liz Truss is officially the worst Prime Minister ever, (& let's face it) she's up against stiff competition for this title.

However she wants to somehow de-recognise people's gender recognition from other countries where trans people have the right to self-identify...

1/n This is obviously an attempt to hit two of the Tories' target hate-groups with one stone; trans people and immigrants.

Transphobia, xenophobia and racism all in one. However her proposal demonstrates just how ignorant she is about this;

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There is a section in this “report” by @LabourTogether about trans people which is very one-sided and clearly written without any input from any trans/nb people.

I have attempted to contact author @sundersays and LT’s director @joshsimonstweet many times…

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https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1698606601186295959

…about this but have received no response or even an acknowledgement of my communication. So I am asking these two to publicly explain to me why they chose to include a section about trans people without consulting trans people…?

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This week another trans child was driven to suicide by the relentless transphobia in UK mainstream media.

If mainstream media covers this at all and if any blame is apportioned then the amorphous, cowardly and anonymous group of transphobes on social media will be blamed…

1/18 …that is the way mainstream media avoids accountability for its actions. With anti-trans articles being published at an average rate of 600 per month in UK mainstream media - and with trans people hermetically prevented by editors from publishing our perspectives…

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My policy is always to block “gender-criticals” and such like here on MuskTwit because they are repetitive, boring, dishonest and always act in bad faith.

It is pointless to engage with them, they are, literally, not worth the time/effort.

However, sometimes this means…

1/n …that I miss the occasional nugget that unintentionally reveals the way they prosecute their propaganda campaign against trans people. And this one is particularly revealing, but only if you unpick the language deployed at a “micro-grammatical”level…

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The UK is fast approaching a demographic tipping-point. You very rarely get tipping-points in demographics because, outside of wars and pandemics, births and deaths are relatively stable. However IMO we are approaching one which will have profound effects on UK politics.

1… The effect of this demographic tipping-point will be exaggerated by the fact that many people who used to switch from supporting left-of-centre parties around the age of 40, are now not doing so. Indeed the age at which Tory voters start to outnumber Labour ones is…

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The Observer and The Times are two of the most appallingly transphobic “media” platforms in the UK. They both have a clear policy of excluding trans people from writing about issues affecting trans people, they specifically employ deeply transphobic journalists and…

1… …their “journalism” about us is exclusionary, fearmongering, biased hate-filled mendacity often disguised using “reasonable” sounding language to make the hatred of trans people seem palatable to the middle-classes. It is not “journalism” it is propaganda of the…

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This is a refreshing piece of journalism by @Cameron_W_Clark in the @MetroUK.

The issue I have with it is the “educating extremists” as a way out & blaming trans people for Glinner and JKR’s extremism….

When almost the entire UK mainstream media…

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metro.co.uk/2023/04/20/ant… …(@MetroUK being an exception) have editorial policies that;

a) hermetically exclude trans people from presenting our case (when was the last time you read a piece by trans journalist or heard a trans person speaking uninterrupted on TV/radio?)

b) encourage their…

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How establishment oppression works in the UK;

1. The Tories want to publish transphobic 'guidance' for schools during the Easter holidays. (They never introduce nasties for schools during term time.)

2. An opaquely-funded extreme rightwing propaganda group ("think tank")...

1. ...produces a 'report' saying this transphobic 'guidance' is needed, after the entire mainstream media has been clamouring for oppressive measures directed at trans children for many months.

3. That 'report' is published calling for repressive measures targeting trans kids...

.@cambridgeunion There have been two speakers talking about trans people's human rights at Cambridge University this term, both of them cis. Both opposed to trans people's existence.

You platformed one of them.

1/8 If there had been two speakers at Cambridge University speaking about lesbian, gay and bi human rights, both of whom were straight, and both of whom opposed the existence of lesbian, gay and bi people there would have been an outcry, and rightly so.

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