A good article on why a social media ban on under 16s won’t work. The onus should be on the social media companies to clean up their content, rather than banning millions of teenagers from communicating with their friends after school. politico.eu/article/social-m…

Who shapes children's stories? Lobbyists have taken over children's publishing to serve a trans activist agenda. Books now play an active role in the social conditioning of the youngest children. Read the shocking report out today 👇 @SEENPublishing transgendertrend.com/childre…

Matthew Heath should have been on trial yesterday for the harassment of Stephanie Hayden. Farcical scenes at court mean the trial couldn't even begin. My write up of the events: genderblog.net/legal-gengar-…

Michael Gove - editor of the Spectator, Orwell Prize judge & overseer of the biggest electoral fraud in modern UK history - apparently upset that I called out his boss’s investment in Palantir after he ran a sycophantic pro-Palantir piece

Most gender non-conforming young people grow up to be gay or lesbian. So why are we treating them as though something is wrong with them? This is specifically an LGB issue and LGB Alliance has been saying so for years. The research is consistent and has been for decades: the majority of children who present as gender non-conforming – who don’t fit neatly into social expectations of how boys and girls should be – grow up to be same-sex attracted adults. Happy. Well-adjusted. Gay. That matters because the clinical response to these children has shifted dramatically. What was once watchful waiting, letting children develop naturally, has in many settings become active affirmation of a trans identity. The long-term consequences of that shift are not yet fully understood. LGB Alliance does not oppose support for young people who are struggling. We oppose a system that tells a teenage lesbian she might be a boy and that medical intervention is the answer before anyone has asked whether she might simply be gay. There is a word for the historical practice of telling gay and lesbian young people their identity needs to be corrected and that they need clinical intervention. We fought hard to stop it. We will not accept a new version of it. Gay teens aren’t sick. They don’t need drugs or surgery. They need adults who will tell them the truth: being gay is not a problem to be solved. lgballiance.org.uk/gay-teens…

I can see how it happened, but the why is very weird. Sterilising children with off label drugs without informed consent. Why would any health professional even consider it?

Government asked Portsmouth CC to prove it was not exceeding its functions in relation to elective home education. New page with full story is here edyourself.org/dfe-correspon…

Welcome to Court 92 at the Royal Courts of Justice where I am potentially about to witness a very short bankruptcy hearing involving Stephanie Hayden.

🚨The @NSPCC poses a safeguarding risk🚨 Today, it was announced that there has been a “surge” in the number of children contacting Childline “questioning their gender”. However, this is anything but explorative, ethical counselling. This is indoctrination. As I have documented over the years, this is an organisation that: -Runs message boards in which children advise each other about sourcing cross-sex hormones and genital surgery. -Offers advice to vulnerable children on wearing breast binders. -Tells children that, if they are left infertile after transitioning, they can always get a surrogate to carry a baby for them. -Is run by a CEO who has said that ‘transwomen’ should be “celebrated”. -Has a webpage which reads as a roadmap to transitioning. -Has trans flags flying in its counselling rooms. -Collaborated with Mermaids. -Enlists children to make pride flags for marches. -Sells ideological reading material through its online shop. -Kicked me out, after 5 years of volunteering as a counsellor, because I refused to denounce biological reality. Head of Childline, Shaun Friel, the man who booted me out, has said today that Childline will always recognise children’s “authentic selves”. If our children are not safe contacting the NSPCC, where are they safe?

For home educators

Everyone has missing pieces in their resume. Everyone except Novak Djokovic.

I won’t give any spoilers away, but episode 4 of The Dutton Ranch is one of the most powerful and harrowing episodes I have ever watched on TV. An encapsulation of how hard farming / ranching life can be and the emotional cost that goes with it.

Looking forward to being on @bbcworldservice Weekend tomorrow, 6am-9am GMT, with Julian Worricker and fellow guests - lots of fascinating stories for us to discuss

I went to Ashdown Forest raptor watch point & saw 4-5 Honey Buzzards (1 close male & female). Plus Goshawk. On the way home I popped into Back Lane near Turners Hill. I walked from Scout hut & managed to hear 2 Wood Larks. I couldn’t find any Spot Flys but Merlin heard an Osprey!

This is what happened on our home education journey. My gut instinct told me we had tried & tried within mainstream education & ultimately nothing would change. Everything has changed since we deregistered 7 years ago. #homeeduk

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I’m glad you asked. First of all, let’s outline the hallmarks of a social contagion event: - A rapid exponential explosion in numbers. - The sudden appearance of an entirely new patient group - Adolescent girls mostly affected. - Clusters of friends presenting with the same symptom/behaviour All of these are present in the epidemic of young people identifying as trans in the 2010s. Now, the way society normally responds to such events is with an immediate search for the trigger event and the vectors for the contagion. For example, with the bulimia contagion of the 80s, the trigger was found to be media coverage of the disorder. With the outbreak of anorexia in Hong Kong in the 90s, it was the sensational media coverage of a school girl who had collapsed and died on a busy street. With TikTok tics in the 2010s, a young Tourettes sufferer’s YouTube channel was swiftly identified. There are endless examples. In those instances, clinicians didn’t wait around for decades for someone to conduct a reliable study showing that the event was a social contagion. They recognised all the hallmarks and acted. In the case of bulimia though, not nearly fast enough. In the case of the trans contagion, all researchers had to do was take a glance at the cultural messaging of the era. The inflection point coincides precisely with the dawn of the trans rights movement, with media celebration of trans-identified public figures, and trans influencers proliferating rapidly on social media. And those early YouTube influencers actually documented the social contagion on camera for all to see with the How I Knew I Was Trans genre of video — with each young person describing encountering a trans-identified person online and immediately recognising themselves in it and adopting the identity. That’s the social contagion in action. We don’t need studies to show it’s a social contagion. We just need to open our eyes and look at the evidence that is, and always has been, all around us.

Thread! 🧵 Please read, like, share & send the article to your friends. #TheHarbourneReceipts from @thenerve_news. Important accountability journalism into Nigel Farage & his crypto pals. Follow the money 💰 💰 💰

A deep dive into what is going on at the Welsh Gender Service. Are Welsh people three times more likely to be trans than the UK as a whole? Is WGS leading the way? Or is it causing harm? genderblog.net/welsh-gender-…