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Claire's Trans Talks @clairestranstalks.bsky.social · 1d

Part 2 of the Gender Clinic Files is out, looking at the impact if Cass recommendations for adult services were introduced, affecting more than 32k young trans adults just from the current waiting list.

Huge thanks to @wearequeeraf.com & @whatthetrans.com for their work on this series.

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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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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Tomás Ojeda G. @tiojeda.bsky.social · 2d

“As the borders between science and advocacy blur, fringe ideas with no evidentiary basis or mainstream medical support increasingly carry the potential to drive policy” - Excellent piece by @evanurquhart.bsky.social on Genspect’s recent campaign to repathologise “transgender identification”.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 3d

A fringe group wants the field of psychiatry to regress back to the days when stereotypes and prejudices resulted in mental illness diagnoses for marginalized populations.

In a new reported piece, @evanurquhart.bsky.social examines Genspect's call for the re-psychopathologization of trans identity.

Hate Group Calls for Re-Labeling Transness as Mental Illness — Assigned

A fringe group with no expertise pushes the field of psychiatry to regress to a pre-scientific, prejudice-soaked view of trans people. It coincides with the far-right political agenda.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 3d

Peter Dunne, Emily Grabham and I have edited a special section of feminists@law on the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland. You can find our editorial about this below. The special section has some brilliant critical and feminist takes on the decision journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...

How can critical and feminist scholars respond to the decision in 'For Women Scotland'? | feminists@law

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 4d

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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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4d

Because of the unforgivably appalling decisions of the Charity Commission, these hate groups, Sex Matters and LGB Alliance, are funded from your taxes.

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Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social · 5d

A year and a half ago, @hencarnell.bsky.social and I investigated the movement to resurrect conversion therapy

Now, oral arguments are about to begin in a Supreme Court case, Chiles v. Salazar, that could overturn bans in 23 states.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 5d

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

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GIC Waiting List from Shortest To Longest.

YouTube video by What The Trans?! Podcasts

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 5d

"By enabling policies of mass killing and displacement, and by repeatedly linking everyday Jewish life in the UK and the genocidal actions of Israel, the Government has created conditions of division and mistrust in which racism – including anti-Semitism – flourishes."

Prominent Scottish Jews issue plea over reaction to Manchester attack

As Jews we absolutely reject the weaponisation of the Manchester attack to suppress protests against the genocide in Gaza

www.heraldscotland.com

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 5d

“It is psychologically manipulative."

"A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.”

“A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”

SCOTUS wades back into the war on trans kids—and considers greenlighting conversion therapy

The science is in: The anti-LGBTQ "treatments" are ineffective and dangerous.

www.motherjones.com

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 6d

"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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Tomás Ojeda G. @tiojeda.bsky.social · 6d

“The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, does not give credible evidence‐based guidance. We are gravely concerned about its impact on the wellbeing of trans and gender‐diverse people” 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...

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 6d

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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Centre en études genre, UNIL @ceg-unil.bsky.social · 9d

☎️ Call For Papers ☎️
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne

CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.

👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 8d

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 8d

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

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

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK

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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TransHealthNow @dadtrans.bsky.social · 8d

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Brilliant investigative journalism. Shedding light upon the truly murkey dealings of a group of anti Trans lobbyists cosying up to government departments & spreading misinformation with malice.

Inside the DHSC’s secret courtship of anti-trans lobby groups - tacc.org.uk

An FOI (FOI-1632059) disclosure has laid bare how the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has been quietly opening its doors to anti-rights groups, giving them access, influence, and legitimac...

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Tomás Ojeda G. @tiojeda.bsky.social · 9d

Thrilled to be part of the scientific committee for this amazing symposium on the relationship between far-right politics and gender. Send your proposals and share the CfP with your friends, colleagues, and broader networks! More info here 👇

Centre en études genre, UNIL @ceg-unil.bsky.social · 9d

☎️ Call For Papers ☎️
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne

CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.

👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025

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Centre en études genre, UNIL @ceg-unil.bsky.social · 12d

🎆🎆🎆 CEG-MEMENTO… Save the date ! 🎆🎆🎆

Le Centre en Études Genre de l’Université de Lausanne se prépare pour un nouveau semestre d’automne plein d’événements ouverts à touxtes!

#étudesdegenre
#recherche
#genderstudies
#intersectionnalité
#evenementscientifiques
#socialjustice
#seminaires

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 10d

Sex Matters are trying to force the ponds to operate on a trans-exclusive basis, despite users of the ponds having voted against such an approach.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 10d

If you use, or would like to use, the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds, it is absolutely worth your time to respond to this consultation.

www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds

Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.

www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

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Vagabundo Ilustrado @vagoilustrado.bsky.social · 10d

Es ensordecedor el silencio mediático en los grandes medios en Chile sobre el terrible Caso de Julia Chuñil. En matinales? Hoy silencio absoluto. Y en noticieros de TV? Sólo 1 canal informó sobre la escucha telefónica que hablaría de que quemaron su cuerpo. Fue en CHV y literal fue la última nota…

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Vagabundo Ilustrado @vagoilustrado.bsky.social · 11d

Es tremendo y a la vez horroroso lo de Julia Chuñil...

En una llamada interceptada (autorizada) por Fiscalía al principal sospechoso, el empresario Juan Carlos Morstadt Anwandter, éste habría revelado que la dirigenta ambiental mapuche habría sido quemada: contrapoderchile.cl/diligencia-d...

Diligencia confirmaría que Julia Chuñil habría sido "quemada" - ContrapoderChile.cl

Durante la tarde de este martes 30 de septiembre, la familia de la activista mapuche desaparecida, Julia Chuñil, informó que el principal sospechoso que hostigaba y le ofrecía dinero a la dirigenta, J...

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 12d

Chile is home to the largest Palestinian diaspora outside the MidEast, & Palestinians are present on both the right and the left

I talk to Pablu Abufom, activist with the Coordinadora por Palestina, on what that teaches us about the limits of a national project

fromtheperiphery.com/2025/09/29/2...

206/ The Limits of Palestinian-ness w/ Pablo Abufom

For episode 206, Dana El Kurd is joined by Pablo Abufom, translator, scientist, and organizer with the Coordinadora Por Palestina in Chile. We talk about the largest Palestinian diaspora population…

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 13d

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression

I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 13d

So exhausting..

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 13d

Safety Advice:

I keep seeing young trans people on social media talking about therapists disrespecting their pronouns and parents telling them that the therapist has a right to their beliefs.

I want to be clear: you have a right to the therapy room being a safe supportive space for YOUR growth.

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