'“It’s a sad reflection on the sector as a whole when the Russell Group is unwilling to present a robust defence of UK higher education in response to a shoddy political hatchet job,” said Andrew McRae, a former dean of postgraduate research at the University of Exeter.'
Well said. 1/3
Following the shameful decision of NHS England to forcibly detransition trans kids under the care of Brighton WellBN Good Law Project is funding gender affirming private healthcare for at least 10 young trans people whose treatment has been withdrawn and whose financial need is greatest.
I’ve yet to meet a single male supporter of trans exclusion who has the slightest interest in or familiarity with women’s spaces or asks a single question about why trans inclusion is way more popular with women than men. Because you’d have to be interested in women’s opinions to ask that question.
When I meet people in the real world, they have 0% - and I mean zero - knowledge of the disaster unfolding in British HE. Even if their kids are actually at uni. They look at me as if I've gone mad. This is why. 👇
“Sex-based protections” are a made up buzzword by people with zero interest in women’s or queer people’s welfare, and the idea that trans kids have to be denied medical care for *my* sake is unbelievably offensive. How DARE you.
YES.
This week, the families of trans kids receiving gender-affirming care at a Brighton medical practice were notified that their children’s treatment would be withdrawn in a matter of weeks.
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I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.
This is horrifying. These young people are being failed by the NHS, by @ukgovernment.bsky.social, by @labouruk.bsky.social & every @ukparliament.parliament.uk MP who doesn’t stand against this. Will @zackpolanski.bsky.social & @eddavey.libdems.org.uk speak out about this appalling abuse of children?
Irish people and historians watching the Americans call the rioters in Belfast 'Irish loyalists'...
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