🏳️⚧️💪🏼🏳️🌈 Professor, Woke, anti-growth, lefty lawyer, Proud out trans guy, transitioned 1975, he/him. Only responds to anonymous accts to show them up
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May 20 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. When did you knowingly, last, sit down & have a proper conversation (not online or by text) with a trans woman , or man
These are not special rights
TW have a right to use loos etc provided they have transitioned & intend for that to be permanent, & they use them …
2. … several TW who (stupidly) thought they would be accepted as women into this ‘new movement’ of women - albeit they were to be trans women happy to be called men.
Within weeks most were were disillusioned & sensibly walked away.
The 1 who stuck out the abuse longest…
May 15 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
1. The small number of detransitioner I have met do not come to support groups but they do call helplines, & have been very vocal, with no qualms about speaking to me directly. at conferences (academic & other), & public events eg Trade Union & public lectures
2. … of ‘fitting in’ to a gender role with an attached identity somewhere between 3 & 4.
Parents whose child insists they are the other sex & announce they want a new name, are always distressed. They mostly seek help but the advice given is exactly the same…
May 12 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. In 2023 a group of TM, all over 60, some with their wives, who attended the funeral of their friend Mark Rees (author of “Dear Sir or Madam” ) who died in his sleep aged 80.
They were all wearing suits & ties, & indistinguishable from local gents
2. At the wake, (as I gave an homily about Mark’s work to gain our rights & dignity) an older couple asked me:
“do you know if any of the other transgender men he helped attended”
I pointed to the large group of guys filling a 1/4 of the hall …
1. @Hilary_Cass - until the early 2000s genital surgery wasn’t a realistic option for UK based trans men - the only surgeon was crippling trans men with appalling surgery - so 99% of us didn’t even attempt to have genital surgery
Now Trans Men can choose from none to minimal…
2. … intervention metoidioplasty w/out scrotoplasty/ urinary hook-up to an all singing & dancing phalloplasty w/ vaginectomy, scrotom, ‘testes’, an erectile device & pump, & the ability to stand & pee
That requires 5 or in some cases more surgeries & still carries some …
May 9 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
@Hilary_Cass 1. I believe you need objective measures of the success of gender reassignment treatment.
I transitioned in 1975. At that time repeat discrimination & no legal protection meant after numerous dismissals. I took to renovating semi-derelict property, creating …
2. … good quality affordable housing for 💯’s
1985, already had a degree, but went to night school to do law. I have a BA, LLB, MA & PhD & am about to receive a 2nd honorary degree
Since I993 I have taught ‘000’s of law students about why we become lawyers, the purpose…
May 6 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. Because I fainted at the theatre in London. I hit my head & the theatre called an ambulance.
Being a cooperative 20yr old person I agreed to go to hospital. The hospital said they would like to keep me in overnight.
Again I agreed - partly as it was 3am by then & I’d …
3. … missed the train home.
I was taken to a ward. When I woke up I got dressed & feeling ok thought I’d get a newspaper. It was then I discovered it was a locked psychiatric ward with plastic utensils.
My consultant was John Randell, the psych who ran the Gender Identity..,
May 6 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. Having seen family, friends, students be victimised, & as a former victim, I will never be a rape apologist
This allegation was made under Parliamentary privilege so saying ‘it is a liar’ is not possible.
Almost 3yrs later no actual evidence of this has turned up.…
They say that for the last 70yrs somehow society went badly wrong by treating us in hospital wards that reflect our appearance, & that somehow the 6,400 sex assaults on women in hospital is down to that.
So we do the work …
May 4 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
1. Following Cass, gender incongruent kids now can’t get anything in the UK until 18
@NHSEngland has instructed all local CAMHS to give all 6k on the GIDS waiting list a mental health assessment by the end of June ‘24.
But how? Local CAMHS have 2-3yr waiting lists as it is. …
2/ So @NHSEngland has found money for new staff. But exactly where are new qualified & experienced staff to come from - the ether?
Over many, many years when (as Cass reports) any & every child with any gender issue was being pushed straight to GIDS by local CAMHS - who …
Apr 20 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. Two things
a) I’m sorry Dr Cass feels unsafe on Public Transport - that isn’t acceptable. If trans people are responsible, no matter how angry you feel, the only response that will get us anywhere is to behave as the grown ups in this discussion
But the toxicity of this…
2. …debate over the last 8 yrs has meant many trans women don’t feel safe leaving their homes.
b) the article refers to 9000 previous patients of GIDS. The Times has done its usual exaggeration of 6000, but how many received puberty blockers?
It was 8% (approx 435) at…
Apr 16 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. Can you explain to me why if it isn’t us - as people - when we are constantly misgendered, mis-named, called paedophiles etc, nobody on the GC/SR speaks up against that.
TP are abusive but there are those of us saying ‘I understand your anger but it’s going to get .,,
2. … us nowhere’.
We are faced with fighting a rear guard action to try & maintain the rights we fought so hard for:
For what little gender reassignment healthcare we have,
our access to core NHS healthcare - I will never have treatment if required to be on a women’s ward, …
Apr 11 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
1. (a) Patient data is patient data. It is not the Health secretary’s data, nor even NHS England’s data.
Clinics were correct in not disclosing data without having the express permission of the patient.
(b) In a letter to Adult GIC’s this week, NHS England’s National & ..,
2. … Medical Directors (John Stuart & James Palmer’ stated:
“In her final report, Dr Cass has also expressed significant disappointment and concern that it had not been possible during the lifetime of the review to progress a key plank of its research programme due to a…
Apr 10 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1. Trans peeps & allies. I recommend listening to Dr Cass on the Today programme
There are problems with Cass, but it has, at least, acknowledged a need for a properly funded service - something we have called for, for 25 yrs.
Download Chrome here.apps.apple.com/app/id53588682…2. Personally I will not be responding to gloating posts by GC/Sex Realist/T E R F’s & their transphobic reactionary allies. Doing so just gives oxygen to their flames.
Let them have their imagined moment of glory.
We would better spend our time co-ordinating to improve…
Apr 9 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
1. Jon, the people who follow you will say “no - don’t respond, she lies, is a bad faith actor, is stupid” etc.
They dismiss 50 yrs of my adult life & 30yrs of my professional training, experience & skills with their keyboards because they are bad faith actors.
2. … 30 yrs studying the trans community here & abroad.
Some will say I have a vested interest & so cannot be objective when I study TP - but that’s the equivalent of saying an African-American academic cannot study the experience of African-Americans, or a gay academic …
Apr 8 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
1. My ‘angry’ last question to Jon Pike @runthinkwrite was “how you are going to deal with our permanent existence”
(which is as non-angry as it is possible to be) is not banal.
The people, Jon wishes to discuss with the IOC so as to have them placed in some sort of side…
2. … We know Sex Offenders mat claim to be trans - thinking
— it will reduce their libido
— it will make it easier to access women & children in a safer way
When the NHS ran the prison medical system, expert clinicians used to weed these out with expert treatment. …
Apr 3 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. According to Office for National Statistics, in the year ending March 2023, in England & Wales (E&W) 191,186 sexual assaults (including rapes) (SAs) were reported to the police.
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2. Let’s look in depth - the crime survey for E&W showed that fewer than 1 in 6 victims of SA by penetration reported the crime to the police.
On that basis probably ONLY 1 in 6 of all SAs were reported which would mean 1.2million SAs took place in 22-23.
Apr 2 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. 200k sexual assaults are committed each yr by men - of 28million adult men that means 1 in every 140 men commits a SA annually
4k SA by women are reported each year, so in a population of 28million adult women, 1 in every 7000 commit a SA annually
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