People who catastrophise about Gillick having been thrown out are going to sew a lot of confusion about the law in the UK. It's really important to listen to legal experts on these topics and not panic.
Conservatives do desperately want to destroy Gillick but the court of appeal isn't about to.
Has anyone thought about a die in at the Xmas day mass of wes's church?
Just putting it out there
GPs cite “lack of expertise”. Then bloody learn. At Alice’s inquest Dr Barratt Tavistock GIC lead clinician said he could teach GPs how to treat trans people in a couple of hours.
It’s not lack of knowledge. It’s lack of will to treat. Any doctor who won’t treat any patient shouldn’t be a doctor.
Good morning, friends and fiends!
It's Friday, which means I can FINALLY share my interview with the incredible @pennyblake.bsky.social! I've been fighting the urge to hit the publish button early all week because this one is just so so good.
What are your weekend plans?
#dnd #ttrpg
This incidentally is why I am always wary of "stranger danger" stuff posing as feminist: Bc when you imagine "A strange man in an alley" you picture him as unalike the men you know as possible- Which often means if you're white, the man you see as the danger, is a man of colour. It gets racist fast.
Transphobes holding "HASHTAG WE CAN ALWAYS TELL, MA'AM, SIR, MA'AM" in their left hand and "If you don't tell us what your genitals looked like when you were a baby, we might forget and accidentally fancy you" in their right, and trying to fit them together like a neanderthal screwing in a lightbulb
Great explanatory thread about the new CPS guidance on "sex by deception". The key is, it's hard to know whether or not someone else knows you're trans, and many trans people just don't talk about it much, or at all. Not to mention, this adds a whole legal layer of risk to gloryholes and darkrooms.
Even the threat of this reduces trans people's quality of life: If you know it's coming, you reduce your dose, trying to save a few days' worth at a time so that you have a buffer for when the prescription inevitably is delayed. Meaning your hormone levels are chronically low, which is bad for you.
If every one of us put a drop in the bucket every day, we'd fill so many buckets. The unsung heroes are just as important.
pretty much my final big piece @huckmag.com is this from @travellerpride.bsky.social on their incredible work and their amazing plans for the future (which you can help realise by donating!) give it a read + donate here!
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