well, "growing up" and being browbeaten into pulling the lever for labour in the uk certainly worked out well for the trans people there, given how so many in labour were torygraphing about how they hated trans people "but the other party would be worse"
'course, the end result was identical for us
it's a great day to #DestroyLabour
So sad, and so unnecessary. We offered a legal indemnity, against all legal risks, to the leadership of Women's Institute, and Girlguiding, so they could continue to include all women.
Both declined.
i'm actually shocked. i'm sure Sex Matters are appalled. 😉
absolutely in my mind. "It says 'Labour must be destroyed'"
"No it doesn't."
... and off we go...
(i believe the eventual consensus was "factio laboris delenda est"...)
you can't reason them out of a policy position they didn't reason themselves into. therefore Labour must be destroyed. 😉
i don't think it's ever been provable that their anti-trans stance has been good for them electorally. at *best* (from their POV) it's been irrelevant, as it has low-salience for most voters.
which is why we end up believing it's a truly ideological project. they just want to do this.
on further thought, i didn't do it properly. the test is clearly which one do you *prefer* but i couldn't help but make it a test of "which one is the AI"... and then got nearly all of them wrong.
If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job
The second civil war has already begun. One side doesn't want to admit it, is all; it's like they believe if you don't say its name it can't hurt you. But as long as they don't admit it, they'll keep losing it.
wonder what the overlap is of labour MPs we'd want and ones that are "looking at" it. And what the chances are that @greenparty.org.uk is going to let another bunch of transphobic cuckoos into the nest for a good headline day.
same; non-sub, accepted cookies and ran it just fine.
(I thought I - more vaguely - recognised some of the AI ones too.)
bloody hell. you (that is, I) comfort yourself thinking - haha - "you can always tell" and then pick the AI four times out of five. The only one I picked right was the fantasy one because I happened to have actually re-read Earthsea recently and recognised it. Which is cheating.
That we reject ON PRINCIPLE any review that does not have trans leadership and trans accountability steeped in its design.
The cis people who have been put into positions of authority across trans youth healthcare do not have our trust & continue to demonstrate they do not DESERVE our trust.
EVERYBODY should sit up, take notice, and get shouting about this. Everybody. Yes. You!
Nobody is safe in a country that bans life saving healthcare with no evidence, just because some people dislike a demographic.
What Streeting has done is disgusting and murderous. He should be jailed for this.
i've got a feeling a non-AI culture is going to have to go offline, to even begin to avoid being harvested for content anyway. and that's going to be a total pain in the arse. (seen how expensive postage is these days?)
0.08s on phone. i'm appalled. am clearly falling into decrepitude.
Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.
This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.
The study underpinning this played one particular trick.
Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5
Oh they CAN find the regret. They just don't like that it's the wrong kind of regret. The only regret I've ever seen regarding hormones?
"I regret not taking them sooner."
Every single time.
sports was always the wedge, you prat (newsome that is). all you're doing is leaving the wedge in there so anyone can start tapping on it again later.
the thing is that if you actually think that trans people in sports are a Real Issue, you are dangerously stupid, and I'm not voting for anybody dangerously stupid for any leadership role, ever. that simple.
The reason the middle-class media has not reported Hannah Spencer being attacked by right-wing transphobes is that it needs to preserve the nice, coffeee-round-the-kitchen-table, middle-class view of transphobia, not the thuggish fascist reality.
Still no Labour MPs on here justifying their party's transphobic policies. Come on, explain why the harm & death you are causing is good for us...!
Maybe to start with instead of complaining they should read these 14 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review plus two other authoritative ones.
(of course, they're singularly failing to do any of that, which is a shame as it's one of the reasons for the labour party to exist...)
oh i don't know, not so much laws as economic policies to make it so starting a family and bringing up children is a viable lifestyle for the young?
and i don't mean stupid-ass incentive schemes either.
and for most people of any faith apart from the real GC fanatics, it's just not a high priority.
All movement towards greater equality in matters of race, gender and sexuality, across the modern West, was achieved by simply taking no account of the views of the very many people who didn't want it to happen.
We should get back to this.
I blame Labour MPs most of all for what's happening, I think. Until the next GE, they're the only people with - collectively - the power to stop Streeting, Starmer, Phillipson and Mahmood.
Yet they do nothing. Shameful.
