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Dr Martin Roberts
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Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
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I referred to it in my publication, Harming Children. TBF it included all anti-trans measures including social & legal oppression, not just puberty blockers.

Now however the government is introducing Section 28 for trans kids, it is doing pretty much everything these Republican states did.
Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban
This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...
www.tandfonline.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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It highlights how much people misunderstand how research works. It’s much more ruling out what doesn’t work than the eureka moment and coloured liquid in curly glass tubes that people are led to believe.
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Yes, definitely. This idea of ultra concentration and specialisation is naive about the way that research is done and how we achieve good outcomes from it.
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Also the incremental way within any project that 'excellent' research emerges, with waystations that may not be 'excellent' enabling publications that are.
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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For years, anti-trans activists have campaigned to stop children from receiving gender-affirming care because "there's just not enough evidence" that puberty blockers are safe (even though there is: www.thepinknews.com/2024/09/10/p...).
Puberty blockers are 'safe, effective and reversible', study finds
Puberty blockers are safe, effective, and reversible according to an independent review commissioned by the NSW government in Australia.
www.thepinknews.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Thanks for cheering up those of us over 60!!!!
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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I don't know the criminal standard specifically but Linehan did say *in court* that he was motivated by the victim's status as a trans person. If a clear statement of explicit prejudice isn't enough then you need a new standard.
news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM