"Many of us like to ask ourselves, "What would I do if I was alive during Slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or the apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?"
The Answer is, you're doing it. Right now."
Aaron Bushnell - RIP
Right, it's time. This app is a lost cause
Musk has decided to promote divisive hatred and authoritarian lies over everything else.
I'm outta here.
if anyone wants to follow a twitter-like account of mine. I'm on threads: https://t.co/6KDL9gmI5R
I recommend you jump ship too.
We are horrified and so, so tired.
An update will come from us in the next couple of days on how our movement will respond to this.
Please stay safe and keep fighting.
'How can we undo the damage that has been done by this rancid rhetoric?'
Natasha Devon dismantles Suella Braverman's claim that children receiving gender affirming healthcare are being 'mutilated in hospitals'.
Puberty blockers have been deemed SAFE for use for kids who aren’t trans.
By the sheer magic of being trans, those exact same puberty blockers have been deemed UNSAFE for trans kids.
And what’s the difference between them?
A word.
An understated point re the puberty blocker discourse:
Puberty blockers are prescribed normally for kids who go through puberty early. They're available, for *cis* kids.
They've been deemed safe, for *cis* kids.
https://t.co/55hOjNYTwF
Regardless of your feelings about Chomsky, you CANNOT understand western political discourse without understanding and appreciating this quote. Until you get this and hold it at the forefront of your awareness, you won't understand western politics, punditry or political debates.
Astonishing. A peer reviewed paper dismantling Cass completely ignored. Cass itself - which isn’t peer reviewed and specifically banned experts - splashed everywhere. Uk Media has played a key role in banning puberty blockers and the promotion of Cass - particularly @BBCNewsnight . They have fanned hysteria. If you watch the episode on the night the Cass Report was published, reporter Hannah Barnes looks manic (maybe somebody can find it) They bear a lot of responsibility for those who are now going to die because of @WesStreeting and @UKLabour https://t.co/7zOh7XWGhS
It's an affront to democracy that cabinet ministers are funded by pro-Israel lobbyists, particularly as Israel is engaged in genocide. Imagine the uproar had ministers accepted funding from Nazi sympathisers in the 1930s, yet the msm is silent.
https://t.co/WdTf4AueCv
Only a small number of young people are prescribed puberty blockers. Those who are often describe them as life-saving.
I know the distress the puberty blockers ban is causing them.
No matter what happens in court, I will continue fighting for the government to scrap it.
Wes Streeting is WAY out of his lane.
Health professionals, doctors & patients must decide what care is appropriate, not politicians.
Cis kids get puberty blockers, banning them for trans kids - without any satisfactory evidence - is pure hate.
Trans youth you are loved❤️
BREAKING.
Happening in Manchester today:
An absolutely massive protest calling for an end to Israel’s massacres of Palestinians.
“Stop bombing Gaza now!”
The peoples of the world stand with Palestine.
Labour's manifesto promised to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition & acceptance".
That entails ending the Tories' ban on puberty blockers.
Young people – cis & trans – must have access to healthcare they need. I'll always stand with the trans community.
one fascist’s ear grazed by a bullet evoked more sympathy from the Democratic Party within two hours than the innumerable Palestinian deaths from decades of settler-colonial violence and months of genocidal warfare that they directly enabled
A permanent ban on puberty blockers will devastate the lives of so many trans people.
So many trans people, and their families, are terrified right now, with very few journalists even willing to hear them.
And that terror has been caused by a Labour government. Shameful.
Labour are gambling being cruel to trans people won't create a huge outrage because there aren't enough trans people to speak out & make a difference.
But the way they treat one minority group is a demonstration of how they'll treat any of us for Daily Mail fodder eventually.
Trans people need to be able to exist safely as themselves with respect & dignity, and with equal access to adequately funded healthcare.
I support & stand in solidarity with the trans community —including young trans people — for whom puberty blockers are a life-saving measure.