Badgers on tenners and otters on fifties,
Ferrets on fivers, yeah that'd be nifty,
Weasels on twenties, much better than kings,
Mustelids are just my favourite things
As dire as it is, it’s incredibly funny seeing the phrase “intervention out of scope (oestrogen + anti-androgen)” in a so-called review of gender affirming hormone therapy. Oh the overwhelmingly dominant intervention for trans feminine people is out of scope, is it?
The reviews searched over 12,000 references. They screened 547 full-text papers for inclusion. They included 17. That's a 96.9% exclusion rate at full text. 530 studies were relevant enough to survive initial screening, then rejected by the review criteria. 6/10 reviews found 0 included studies.
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
I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.
From following @reactiveashley.cat I think a number of the GRB records are correspondence/submissions from trans members of the public, as suggested by the exemption reason.
This is what ecocide looks like.
Read my accessible analysis of Goodwin v UK – why it still matters, and what the courts are getting wrong – here:
A street sign reading union lane formerly mad lane
When you realise HR are never going to help you
Because this really could have been a relational database.
Has anyone made "this could have been a relational database" stickers?
Image shows a doctor in a white coat with a stethoscope round their neck sat talking to a patient with pink hair. Text reads: Doctors at Barts Health are developing new education course to improve sensitive communication with trans patients using role play scenarios. This will be rolled out to medical students at Queen Mary University of London and doctors at Barts Health NHS Trust. To ensure the scenarios are driven by lived experience, we are inviting trans and gender diverse people to take part in co-design focus groups.
Text Reads: Who can take part? We are looking to recruit six people who: • Identify as transgender or gender diverse • Are aged 18 or over • Have experience using NHS services What taking part involves? • Two online focus groups, each lasting 2 hours, in the evening • The focus groups will run in February and March • We are ideally looking for participants who are able to attend both sessions, to help with continuity • At these groups we will: - Ask you to talk about your experiences of healthcare -Give ideas for how three healthcare scenarios could unfold - Review the finished scenarios and give feedback Will my information be kept private? The focus groups will be run as a confidential and respectful space, and anything shared during the sessions will be kept confidential. Further details about participation will be provided during the sign-up process.
Text reads: What will I get out of it? Participants will be paid £27.50 per hour, plus an additional £5 per focus group to cover internet costs. Your ideas and experiences will help improve the care of patients in the future. How do I sign up? Please complete the Google Form linked below to: • Indicate which dates you are available • Share optional demographic information (such as age, ethnicity, disability, etc.), to help us ensure a diverse range of voices are included Sign up form here: https://forms.gle/ENPq1LB7jK5makj5A If you have any questions, please email us at: transhealthsimulation@gmail.com
Doctors at Barts Health are developing new education course to improve sensitive communication with trans patients using role play scenarios. This will be rolled out to medical students at Queen Mary University of London and doctors at Barts Health NHS Trust.
I ration my ADHD meds to days I 'really' need them (not weekends or holidays) because it costs me thousands per year to stay on them on private. £150 per mandatory checkup. £125 for a month's supply.
I can't work properly without my meds - the difference is incredible - but they're so expensive.
Little image I made of the Transit Adviser from SimCity 2000, but it says: "YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON SELF-CARE! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"
Lancaster University researchers are leading a national consultation to identify research priorities for healthcare interventions for adults experiencing gender incongruence and gender dysphoria.
They're asking for responses to an initial screening survey here.
wp.lancs.ac.uk/transadultsp...
This was due to it being state policy at the time to punish unmarried young mothers with the same drug which was used to chemically castrate Alan Turing. It is scary how few people know about this. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/02/t...
zack polanski and hannah spencer eating vegan sausage rolls
Wholesome content
Age verification?
I can pulse dial on the hanger.
Does anyone have anything on the casting of transness as a sexuality?
The Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus is not allowed to make soup again, we've been over this.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…
The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
“The Supreme Court ruling on the definition of ‘woman’ under the Equality Act 2010… has instead opened up a series of contradictory court decisions and litigation that is dragging individual trans+ workers into the limelight and chewing them up in the process.”
We must resist legalised transphobia.
A wall of pingu model heads, hundreds of them, each with a different expression
A side close up showing the variety of eye beak and mouth expressions / movements
For Penguin Awareness Day, a Typology of Pingu expressions.
Source: instagram.com/p/CKa390dD4TC/
Part of a 40th anniversary exhibition in Japan the other year.
The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...
They have such _excellent_ faces. Just 10/10 snoots.
So. 2025 has been the most significant year of my life so far. And it's not even particularly close.
Trans rights came under attack this year in the UK. I have been trying my best to help fight back.
I've been a little busy. Here's a thread of some of what I have been up to 🧵
I know it's Twixmas but I'm frustrated to see this case study from 2023 being regurgitated without any evidence of actual impact. We should expect better.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I have not read it. I have not had the time 🤷🏻
