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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 10h

Ireland has a population of 5m and we've a waiting list approaching 15 years. Why? Because their mandatory, archaic and traumatic psychiatric and psychological assessments are a deliberate bottleneck to ensure as few people as possible can access healthcare a nurse can do!

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 15h

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 15h

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 21h

New short blog: Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

growinguptransgender.com/2025/10/12/t...

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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TransHealthNow @dadtrans.bsky.social · 20h

The success of Barcelona shows us how a broken system can be replaced through strong community advocacy. There is a better way than the failed NHS.

Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 21h

New short blog: Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

growinguptransgender.com/2025/10/12/t...

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 1d

‘Doublethink*’ alive and well in the U.K. Government.

Given the U.K. Government’s statement to the United Nations on 10 October 2025:

www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 1d

Gender Clinic Files: Two-thirds of adults waiting for transgender healthcare in UK are under 25 👇

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clinic-files-two-thirds-of-adults-waiting-for-transgender-healthcare-in-uk-are-under-25/

Majority of adults waiting for Trans+ healthcare are under 25

Two-thirds of Trans+ people would lose care if all Cass Review recommendations implemented

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 2d

"Laura described the blocker ban as ‘forced detransition’ and ‘inhumane’. The impact of the ban on her child has been severe."

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

MP fails to support suicidal constituent

A mother pleaded with her MP to help her suicidal15-year-old daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’

northwestbylines.co.uk

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Trans Pride Brighton @transpridebrighton.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 1/7 Last night, a trans-led direct action group, Bash Back, damaged windows at the Brighton Centre in response to it hosting the Filia Conference. To be clear: TPB had no involvement in this and doesn’t coordinate with Bash Back. Our organising centres community safety and collective empowerment.

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Galop @galopuk.bsky.social · 2d

The newly released Official Statistics for Hate Crime in 2024-2025 do not accurately reflect the true prevalence of anti-LGBT+ hate in England and Wales. This misrepresentation matters.

Read our full statement ⬇️
bit.ly/3J6BNYr

Galop's Statement on the 2024/25 Official Statistics for Hate Crime in England and Wales.

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Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 4d

The programme is a vital act of solidarity, safety and self-determination. Read 👉 buff.ly/AQih5bL #GCNnews

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TransHealthNow @dadtrans.bsky.social · 4d

Please remember suicide is complex & preventable:

If you are having suicidal thoughts there is always help available:

Papyrus (prevention of youth sucide) - 0800 068 41 41 (Text 07786 209697)

Childline - 0800 1111#

Samaritans - 116 123

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TransHealthNow @dadtrans.bsky.social · 4d

I've tracked death by suicide of Trans youth in the UK since 2017. Leia's is the 25 death of Trans youth age 18 & under.

- Feb 2017 to November 2020 9 deaths.

Following Bell v Tavi (Dec 2020) & removal of access to healthcare

- December 2020 to June 2024 16 deaths.

Our Government is culpable.

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TransHealthNow @dadtrans.bsky.social · 4d

At the time of her death she was waiting for a first appointment for Trans healthcare. The coroner's prevention of future deaths report found the "wait for treatment" was a factor in her death & that the risk remains for others. www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...

Leia Sampson-Grimbly: Prevention of future deaths report - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary

Date of report: 25/07/2025 Ref: 2025-0482 Deceased name: Leia Sampson-Grimbly Coroner name: Andrew Walker Coroner Area: North London Category: Suicide (from 2015) This report is being sent to: Depart...

www.judiciary.uk

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TransHealthNow @dadtrans.bsky.social · 4d

My heart grieves for Leia Dorothy Pandora Sampson-Grimbly.

"Leia was 17 years old at the time she died a beautiful person inside and out, complex, kind, fair, intelligent, determined, dedicated and talented with a great future ahead of her and greatly loved by all who knew her".

Remember her.

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TransHealthNow @dadtrans.bsky.social · 5d

Oslo University Hospital accused of illegal research on 1,700 children after data which was collected for quality assurance of healthcare services has been mined for research study without consent of children or their families.

The UK NHS is doing exactly the same - data harvesting without consent.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 5d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner

Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

www.forskning.no

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 5d

The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has adopted a groundbreaking recommendation to the organisation’s 46 member states on equal rights for intersex persons👇

🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/porta...

@coe.int #Consent #Equality #NoDiscrimination

Council of Europe adopts landmark Recommendation on equal rights for intersex persons

<p>Historic milestone calls for prohibition of non-consensual medical interventions and for full equality and non-discrimination against intersex persons across all areas of life</p>

www.coe.int

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 5d

Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get their first appointment at an NHS gender clinic, and some will never receive care, QueerAF can reveal 👇

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 5d

A decades-old psychiatric study is influencing current debates over transgender youth healthcare.

A must watch #Trigger warning discussions about conversion practices.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... via @ABCaustralia

Decades-old study influences modern trans youth healthcare debate

Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs journalism and interviews that hold the powerful to account. Plus political analysis...

www.abc.net.au

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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 6d

If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...

Australian report says UK’s Cass review should not guide transgender healthcare

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

qnews.com.au

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 7d

"Conversion therapy is harmful & shouldn't inform NHS Practice - New Insights from Clinical History" A short blog on an important new article:

"An autoethnographic critique of a past report of inpatient psychiatric treatment for gender diverse children"

growinguptransgender.com/2025/10/05/c...

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 7d

A major new peer-reviewed Australian report warns that the UK’s Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide care for trans young people — and should not be adopted as a benchmark in Australia www.starobserver.com.au/news/new-rep...

New Report Says Cass Review Should Not Be Benchmark For Trans Healthcare in Australia - Star Observer

A major new peer-reviewed report warns that the Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide Australia's care for trans young people.

www.starobserver.com.au

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 7d

New Report Says Cass Review Should Not Be Benchmark For Trans Healthcare in Australia

New Report Says Cass Review Should Not Be Benchmark For Trans Healthcare in Australia - Star Observer

A major new peer-reviewed report warns that the Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide Australia's care for trans young people.

www.starobserver.com.au

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TransHealthNow @dadtrans.bsky.social · 7d

Decades after a much cited study which claimed to 'prove' conversion therapy works for Trans youth, & which underpins claims made in the Cass Review, a now 60 year old Trans person has spoken out about the trauma she suffered during institutionalisation at 10 years old. Another nail in Cass.

Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 7d

"Conversion therapy is harmful & shouldn't inform NHS Practice - New Insights from Clinical History" A short blog on an important new article:

"An autoethnographic critique of a past report of inpatient psychiatric treatment for gender diverse children"

growinguptransgender.com/2025/10/05/c...

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 7d

An excellent new article outlining all that is wrong with the Cass Review, condemning its harmful impact on UK policy and practice, and calling it a failure of evidence-based medicine. Written by those involved in trans children's healthcare in Australia.

www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people

Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...

www.mja.com.au

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