Author of A Month with Starfish, Founding member of GLF. Co-founder of @AllianceLGB. Views expressed are my own.
Joined October 2012
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You may not immediately realize what you’re looking at, 👇 since it’s so gruesome.
It is a company - Lush - glorifying the practice of self-harming among girls and young women and Chelmsford City Council enthusiastically endorsing it.
There is something really sick at the heart of our society. Please join our fight against this abomination.
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Jun 13
This deluded MP is so wrong. Nobody should be voting for him in any upcoming elections. He is putting all biological women in danger and he does not care.
Jun 12
LGBT people deserve to be able to live freely and safely.
I don't believe the EHRC's guidance is helping to make that possible.
My statement on why I've signed EDM 240 to stand up for trans people in my constituency and across the UK.
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Jun 13
I am so sick of people tacking LGB onto their vacuous gesture about men who want the law to treat them as women.
1. There is no point in objecting to the Code of Practice. It simply helps people to stay within the law.
2. If you want to change the law to self-ID — terrible for women and girls, terrible for lesbians and gay men — be honest and say so.
3. Leave LGB people out of your performative antics.
Jun 12
LGBT people deserve to be able to live freely and safely.
I don't believe the EHRC's guidance is helping to make that possible.
My statement on why I've signed EDM 240 to stand up for trans people in my constituency and across the UK.
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Jun 12
What a loss to the world is the death of David Hockney, who gave so much of himself in his art and in his passion for depicting gay desire when it was truly courageous to do so. He was much loved and will be sorely missed.
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The BBC has reported the facts accurately for once!
Dozens of children put at risk after gender care failures at GP clinic, inquiry finds
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c932…
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Jun 12
Lesbians, gay men and bisexuals, in the UK and globally, don't consent to being force-teamed with individuals and groups whose views and actions may harm us. Read our letter to the BMA.
lgballiance.org.uk/lgb-inter…
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Jun 12
This man goes from bad to worse. He is now going to pay for medical interventions on children that have been shown to cause harm. Will no one intervene to stop this insanity?
Jun 11
"We are going to fund access to gender-affirming private healthcare for at least ten trans minor patients."
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Jun 12
What an embarrassment this woman has become.
Jun 10
I've joined more than 120 colleagues in signing this EDM to reject the EHRC Code of Practice.
Trans people deserve love and equality. I’m worried these new rules won't achieve that.
We need a proper debate in Parliament on them, and what they mean for our trans constituents.
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Jun 11
With a completely straight face, a young man who “identifies as non-binary” explains his plight as a member of a “marginalized minority”.
And the Herald simply goes along with it.
I think so often these days how much I miss Monty Python. What do you think, @JohnCleese? Can we not get people to laugh at this nonsense?
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As satire, it might have been moderately entertaining.
Jun 11
'When people see people in positions of power who belong to the marginalised identities that they've only seen in quiet corners, there is an element of pride there'
Scotland's first openly non-binary MSP has said they hope more transgender people will seek election 👇
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Jun 11
Every single systematic review that has examined the evidence for paediatric gender medicine thus far has found it to be low to very low quality.
Then along came a review out of Utah that identifies as a systematic review but is nothing of the sort.
But because facts don’t matter to proponents of paediatric gender medicine, the fake systematic review is now being cited as proof that this mad medical experiment is supported by evidence.
Excellent analysis of all the flaws, inconsistencies, and failures of the Utah review by Zhenya Abbruzzese of @segm_ebm with the brilliant @LeorSapir
Jun 11
NEW: Zhenya Abbruzzese (@segm_ebm) joins me for a special @CityJournal podcast to discuss pediatric transition advocates' leading piece of evidence: the Utah review.
Conflicts of interest, omission of harms, failure to conduct formal synthesis, and more. Full interview 👇
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Jun 11
California’s anti-women, anti-girls, anti-LGB and above all anti child safeguarding agenda has just gotten even worse.
No decent therapist will want to try to help distressed teens by providing traditional exploratory psychotherapy after this - the risk of being sued is too great.
California seems determined to be a basket case - but the consequences for all those affected are devastating.
Jun 10
Just when I think California’s political class cannot push further to the edge on gender policy, it manages to surprise me.
Senate Bill 934 just cleared the Assembly Judiciary Committee 7-3 along party lines. It would allow former "gender conversion therapy" patients to sue their therapists for monetary damages — with a statute of limitations of 22 years if the patient was a minor at the time of therapy, and 10 years for adults.
The real-world effect? Exactly what Sen. Scott Wiener, the bill's author, wants: a total chilling effect on "watchful waiting" — the careful, evidence-based approach most appropriate for gender-confused minors. Therapists will rush kids into the medical pipeline rather than risk a lawsuit two decades later for practicing... traditional psychotherapy.
Clinical psychologist Joseph Burgo said it plainly at Tuesday's committee hearing: "In supervising therapists today, I constantly hear their anxiety over their legal exposures or risks to their license if they do just that — practice traditional exploratory psychotherapy. These are not conversion therapists. These are honest clinicians who want to practice traditional psychotherapy with gender-distressed young people, but they're afraid to do so."
This Senate Bill will now bake that fear into the law. This isn't protecting vulnerable kids. It's using the legal system to enforce a single medically contested ideology on every therapist in the state, under penalty of ruinous litigation. And it will hurt the children it claims to protect.
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Jun 11
It is crystal clear:
Every MP who has signed the foolish EDM calling on the government to disapprove the Code of Practice is pledging allegiance to the principle of self-ID.
Even though that ship sailed several years ago, they want another run at it. Against the wishes of the UK electorate.
All this fuss about the CoP is just a clumsy smokescreen.
The signatories know it, and so does everyone else.
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Please follow developments on sex and gender in the EU and get involved if you possibly can.
Self-ID is being pushed by fanatical activists. Most politicians know next to nothing about these issues and think they should simply defer to “the experts.”
The people they think are “the experts” are the fanatical activists.
Most politicians steer clear of the issue and simply give in to the activists for a quiet life.
Meanwhile, the rights of women and LGB people are being trashed and measures recommended that cause serious mental and physical harm to children.
Looking away is not an option.
Jun 11
European citizens were shocked to find out last year that the EU was instructing member states to allow children to change their legal sex markers. Many didn't even realise that this is already allowed in a number of countries already.
Why didn't they know? Because #NoDebate. Now @ILGAEurope want people to know about the laws they lobbied for in secret, because the ball is rolling and nobody can stop it. @khugendubel
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Jun 10
It makes me so angry that gay teens and young adults have been encouraged to ruin their physical and mental health in pursuit of a fantasy - because of internalized homophobia. Clinicians acted without even enquiring about their sexual orientation. Please listen to Joe Burgo explain the devastating consequences.
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When will this homophobic industry be stopped?
Incredible testimony from @drjosephburgo : “These young men live with surgical changes that they can't reverse, including the removal of their testicles, the inversion of their penises into a neo vagina, and often the loss of sexual function or pleasure, and that's for life. They're also trapped in a body that requires ongoing medical care due to surgical complications, again for life.”
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Bans on what are falsely termed “conversion practices” perpetuate this medical scandal.
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Jun 9
Unmissable thread by the inimitable @Jebadoo2 on a hearing of the “Women and Equalities Committee”, with three adults exercising enormous restraint in the face of improbably silly juvenile antics.
1/ I went to Parliament to watch the Women and Equalities Committee. The chair of the EHRC Mary-Ann Stephenson (MAS) and CEO John Kirkpatrick were giving evidence, the other adults in the room were Rosie Duffield and Rebecca Paul MP. Other than that it was the slow kid's table.
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Girls are not boys.
Whenever you hear opinions or recommendations about puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and “gender”-related surgery, ask what relevance it has to teenage girls and young women.
And when I say “girls”, I am of course including girls who don’t want to be seen as girls - those who call themselves “non-binary” or “trans boys/men”. Their physiology is female.
I am not saying, of course, that I think there is any justification for applying these interventions to boys. I don’t believe there is. But it is noticeable that these interventions are frequently discussed without any distinction being made between the sexes.
That is part of the discourse that glosses over or denies the differences between male and female bodies - and between male and female experiences of adolescence.
The pernicious effects of exogenous testosterone, for instance, are well documented. They set in rapidly and are largely irreversible.
Boys are not girls.
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Now that Michael Foran’s lectures are to be rescheduled, we can make up the balance. What did the activists achieve?
— They have ensured that far more people will attend the final lectures and watch those available on video than before their antics;
— They have cemented the impression that “trans rights activists” are intolerant and unwilling to engage in debates;
— Their behaviour will now lead to a well-overdue reassessment of Oxford’s policy on protests.
Well done, chaps!
Jun 8
The activists who disrupted the talks given by @michaelpforan may have had a little short-term success in stopping him carry on. In the longer term, however, they can be sure that more people will now hear and read his talks than before. That’s how these things work.
Furthermore, every action of this kind is counterproductive in a broader sense. In displaying the belligerence and intolerance of the gender identity zealots, it bolsters the movement that promotes freedom of speech and the restoration of sex-based rights worldwide.
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