BET LYNCH MOB
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I wonder if Labour have really thought through the implications of creating multiple desperate, persecuted underclasses whilst making it clear the courts will not provide justice and there is no peaceful route to change they will accept.
"Forget Andrew Tate, this is the real manosphere. One whose edges we can’t even see because we’re living inside it," @carolecadwalla
"Just protecting women" by *checks notes* forcing two dozen Women's Institutes to close...
Great feminising.
Lots of people questioning whether the King should visit the United States. I think he definitely should; to recolonise it.
Owen you’re a tease - where is this???
I'll be speaking at the US Queer Bibliography conference on why Wales' LGBTQ+ history is constantly ignored in the UK. Free to tune in around 4.15 on Thursday bibsocamer.org/events/calen...
I amazed that they haven’t looked at Reform’s impact on the Tories, and figured out they are in massive danger of being similarly outflanked, but on the left. It’s like they don’t look at British politics at all.
Screenshot of this consultation landing page with these contact details highlighted: Contact NHS England Specialised Commissioning england.scengagement@nhs.net Clinical policy for prescribing of masculinising and feminising hormones for children and adolescents who have gender incongruence or dysphoria Overview NHS England is committed to working with a wide range of patients, patient groups and other stakeholders in developing the services it commissions. In line with NHS England’s published methods for the formation of national clinical commissioning policy, public consultation presents an important step in the process. It allows us to test and get feedback on proposals; check that draft policies are well evidenced; ensure potential impacts have been fully captured, are clearly understood and that appropriate mitigations have been identified; and, consider alternatives before final decisions are taken.
screenshot of consultation detail details, with the following sentence highlighted: “In 2025 a Policy Working Group was formed by NHS England to establish the evidence base for MAF Hormones.” As part of the response to the Cass Report, published in 2024, and alongside the immediate further restrictions put in place, NHS England committed as a priority action to conduct a full review of the MAF Hormones policy through a process of updated evidence review and public consultation. In 2025 a Policy Working Group was formed by NHS England to establish the evidence base for MAF Hormones. NHS England commissioned a third party to undertake a further independent evidence review of published evidence including research that had been published since NICE’s previous review of the evidence in 2021.
Question to hive mind: Does anyone have access to any information about which people/clinicians were part of
i) this NHS England Specialised Commissioning group: www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...
ii) This “Policy Working Group”
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I think water companies need to be put out of OUR misery more than put out of theirs. Grasping, poisoning bastards.
Astounding stories here - I remember a not particularly likeable Hollywood actor’s even less pleasant manager trying to impress me by name dropping Victoria Hervey once. It didn’t work.
Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now).
This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5
The sight of men harassing and attacking a woman in the name of defending women and children is sickening.
This is an attack Gillick Competence, and without a doubt the beginnings of an assault on the supply of birth control to young people.
I was 17 when I started taking HRT. If you’re over 16, then by English law you can legally consent to your own healthcare.
Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X.
Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch.
Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp.
And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO.
Yes, this is oligarchy.
Im really sorry Country Joe has died but bringing this song back to into focus in this week is his final gift to the world.
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This is a feeble excuse. Pixar films prompt much harder conversations about death, grief, anxiety, environmental disaster, betrayal, jealousy, friendships, class, animal rights, etc, etc
Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
We want to hear from all workers who can speak to changes your employer has made to their policies or practices related to trans inclusion following the Supreme Court judgment.
They're so concerned about the plight of Iranians until the ones being persecuted and displaced want somehwere to be.
Like this narrative that the campaigns for equal marriage were a friendly public conversation where everybody respected each other is wild as fuck. It was only about ten years ago and you guys kept implying we wanted to fuck dogs.
Iunno, it's just so weird for me, as somebody who was an out queer in the first couple of decades of this century to see this rewriting of history where the "debate" about gay rights then was this genteel, public spirited conversation. They blamed the gays for hurricanes and earthquakes.
Progressives in the UK who still haven't got the message: the TERFs are now trying to bankrupt the Greens through repeated litigation, with a fresh round dropping now they're demonstrably a credible choice in elections.
Join the dots. "Feminist" transphobia is a vassal of fascism.
Good Friday News: One of my neighbours kindly took a load of stuff that's been sitting in my hallway for months to the tip for me because I don't drive. And next week I'm having lunch with someone I've not spent time with for over 40 years who I ran into last week at a book reading.
That's not fair on Emily - she's always supported trans people, has been outspoken on the issue and has trans family. It's one of the reasons her rise stalled in the party. And if Labour were scared to look migrant-phobic, Shabana Mahmood would not be doing what she is.
Senior Labour MP Dame Emily Thornberry says her party has “ended up in the wrong place” when it comes to transgender people
Press Association comment from Quakers in Britain This evening, for the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Police raided a Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists who were meeting there on the grounds that they were conspiring to commit a criminal act. The room in Westminster Quaker Meeting House was let to Take Back Power to hold nonviolent direct action training. Quakers support the principle of nonviolent direct action, which aims to protest without harming people. Oliver Robertson, head of witness and worship for Quakers in Britain, said: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. “Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. “That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.”
Statement from @quaker.org.uk about tonight's police raid on Westminster Meeting House. Guys, I don't think they're buying the Met's line about it all being a cover for plotting "mass shoplifting"
I particularly liked the bit about their cats. As someone who had a similar dawn raid experience a few decades ago (not spy related) it’s bewildering and disorientating when you know you haven’t done anything wrong.