1/  The NHS has released interim plans for blocking puberty in children & adolescents with “gender incongruence/dysphoria”. Some are celebrating this policy, thinking it recommends caution. A closer look reveals it’s actually a commitment to experimental gender medicine for kids. 2/  The plan is supported by an equality impact assessment revealing multiple loopholes that make high numbers of kids eligible for blockers. It also lacks clarity in its definitions of the “gender” conditions for which blockers will be prescribed off-label.

🧵1/ Has the National Union of Journalists given up on free speech?

Not only has it rejected calls to support members writing on gender & sex from diverse perspectives, but it wants to make journalists personally responsible for their publications’ editorial positions. A thread. 2/ The NUJ voted 62 to 28 to reject a call for it to support journalists’ right to cover “the debate on sex & gender” and to state that “journalists should not suffer professionally for doing so if they have acted responsibly and according to the Code of Conduct”.

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1/ Safe Schools Alliance released a harrowing report this week, evidencing ideological links between UNESCO’s and WHO’s international standards for “sexuality education” and the ideas promoted by the 1970s pro-paedophilia lobby group Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE). 2/ Pressure group PIE tried to influence UK politicians in the 1970s to legalise sex with children.

Similarly, UNESCO and WHO are now arguing for the existence of “childhood sexuality” and are claiming that children are “sexual beings”.

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1/ Wales’ government has made an LGBTQ+ Action Plan to inform all policy areas.

It’s riven with ideology & terminology that erases women & same-sex attraction. It pays safeguarding little heed.

And it was written by a biased panel, compounded by failure to consult properly. 2/ Ideology is the blatant starting point of the LGBTQ+ Action Plan.

It states baldly: “The Welsh government’s position is clear: Trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary identities are valid.”

How can such a disputed, evidence-free claim be a basis for policy?

🧵To celebrate Lesbian Visibility Week as we head into the weekend, what do you plan on watching or reading?

Here’s some suggestions for books, films and TV.

Vote on our top choices or recommend your own!

#LesbianVisibilityWeek What’s your favourite lesbian film?

Sexy, stylish crime thriller Bound (1996); warm, uplifting romcom But I’m a Cheerleader (1999); forbidden love in a Jewish Orthodox community, Disobedience (2017); Pariah, butch first love in Brooklyn (2011)? Or comment with a recommendation!