Lillian Charles

There’s money in giving children trans hormones Private clinics are still able to prescribe cross-sex treatments, and indulgent parents are paying for them The Daily Telegraph11 Mar 2026JOANNA WILLIAMS Wealthy parents have a new flex: the transgender child. With the NHS ban on puberty blockers now being matched by a pause in prescribing cross-sex hormones to children aged 16 and 17, it is now only rich kids with access to private health care who can afford to transition. While social justice activists complain about inequity, we should reserve our sympathies for the apparently privileged. Taking cross-sex hormones in the hope of achieving the biologically impossible – to change sex – is no walk in the park. Within weeks of starting medication, youngsters might experience mood swings, acne, fatigue, fluid retention and increased sweating. Boys taking feminising hormones could suffer from nausea, headaches, dizziness and changes in fat distribution as well as reduced libido and decreased frequency of erections. Meanwhile, girls who want to become boys may have a sore throat and a cracking in their voice, and with an increased appetite, rapidly gain weight. Taken over a longer period, these powerful chemicals can lead to irreversible changes like a deeper voice, breast growth, impotence and infertility. It is hardly surprising, then, that an independent review commissioned by NHS England found that there is not enough good medical evidence to support prescribing cross-sex hormones to teenagers. Doctors cannot say with certainty that these drugs will benefit gender-confused young people more than they will hurt them. So no new prescriptions will be issued while a consultation is underway.

"There’s money in giving children trans hormones" [Telegraph]

In this article, Joanna Williams talks about children getting erections, the size of their breasts, and their fertility.

"Stroppy young people can complain all they like"

Reform MS Laura Anne Jones's children identifying as cats speech labelled misinformation The Welsh government described Laura Anne Jones's comments as "irresponsible" during a speech on gender identity.

I'm sorry, but this is clearly two cats pretending to be humans.

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Public notice regarding the direction of NHS policy on transgender healthcare ⚠️PUBLIC HEALTH WARNING The Trans Advocacy & Complaints Collective is issuing this public notice because of escalating concerns about the direction of NHS England and Department of Health and Social C...

⚠️ PUBLIC HEALTH WARNING: We believe NHS England and DHSC policy on transgender healthcare shows signs of ideological capture by the gender critical movement. Current decisions risk serious harm to trans people and undermine evidence-based care.

tacc.org.uk/2026/03/10/p...

@annehealthcare.bsky.social have produced a very useful guide about what to do if your GP stops your hormones prescription or refuses care. Remember you have rights and options, and they have legal, ethical and professional obligations.

it's "funny" that this article is going to be used by the most annoying people in the world as proof that human translators go too far and should all be replaced by AI when the complaint is specifically about word-for-word translations that don't go far enough

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

I just… What are we doing? What the fuck is wrong with these people.

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Kitkat, a tabby cat, laying on a green blanket on his side. Pic is taken from above looking down. He's bent in a perfect curve like a croissant

Kitty croissant

The UK's Trans+ healthcare system isn't broken, it's working exactly how it was supposed to: For gatekeepers - not Trans+ people.

Tomorrow, @ludovicparsons.bsky.social will deliver a brief UK history of Trans+ healthcare to 10K readers 🏳️‍⚧️

Join them 👇
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We didn't ruin the economy.
We didn't get you laid off.
We didn't replace you with AI.
We didn't raise gas prices.
We didn't foreclose your home.
We didn't cause your divorce.
We didn't get your kid snatched by ICE.
We aren't in the Epstein files.

Leave us the fuck alone.

Yes. I kicked off a thread last night expecting it to be lengthy, but ten minutes into reading the “evidence” review, I just couldn't bring myself to continue past post three.

You don't engage with abuse, you distance yourself from it.

Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models.

Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵

There's also the fact that Rowling has been fairly explicit that the money she earns through Harry Potter she's putting into anti-trans lobbying efforts.

There's a difference, IMHO, between an artist with a shitty private life, and an artist using their money to fund regressive social change.

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Remember that new women's gym owner in London last year who decided to exclude trans women at the last minute? According to this, 5 personal trainers quit within a month, the machines are crap, it smells, sometimes there isn't even water, and it is often empty. 1/

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If everything is stolen, even from Nintendo, how're they getting Nintendo to release it?! Do they not know, or care?

clothes missing

Where can I find some of these hump plumping injectables? 👀

A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”

Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.

Y'all Millennials can't have houses. Can't have affordable college. Can't have pensions. Can't have retirement. Can't have healthcare. Can't have a cup of fucking coffee.

But by golly you'd better not put us in a nursing home. - Boomers, probably

Same!

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

A trans person drawing on a statue with chalk got comment from the Home Secretary and coverage on TV and in all the main papers.

A female Green MP being harassed and abused in the street by transphobes gets nothing...

#JustProtectingWomen

When Rowling and co were having their infamous Terf brunch, there was an abortion rights protest going on outside. Did they care? They did not

People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason

Note the "under-18s" framing here, as an attempt to make it sound like it's not just 16 and 17 year olds, who are old enough to make their own medical decisions based on the Gillick Competence test.