ASquared

Former RAF techie, now a lowly paper shuffler. Can’t be doing with dramz & snowflakes 🤦🏻‍♀️

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@JeanHatchet That is so sad to watch
The boy was straight in front of his mum and the girl too
The way the boy jumped straight back up as well
You’re so right - they are used to this
It’s so clear when you see it

Poor kids & poor woman

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@UKJTI Don’t tax them so much & people wouldn’t seek alternate sources 🤷🏻‍♀️

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@SickOfEverythi6 The only one who was really irritating was the stupid white woman who started banging on about flags as a tool of intimidation 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

People like her are half the problem

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@BBCBreaking They had 14 fucking years to prepare
Starmer personally had 4 years to prepare

What the actual fuck did he think the job was?
Freebies & speeches?

Wanker

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@BBCNews US Supreme Court upholds bans on *males* in female school and college sports

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@NathanFitzUK @LeeAndersonMP_ Free speech isn’t just egregiously lying about someone though, is it
The two are not the same thing

Also, wtf does class have to do with it?

I’m working class - I know the difference between truth & lies
Should I be shielded from consequences due to class?
Ffs

[Read some Piaget please! @prof_curiosity1]

An open letter to Baroness Cass ref the case of this child, whose situation needs to investigated by social services. This indeed is not a political matter but one of child protection.
https://t.co/XOTCtPq8tZ

Dear Baroness Cass,
I am writing in response to the case you described of the eleven year old boy socially transitioned by his parents at two and a half, now living stealth, afraid to attend school as either sex, and increasingly withdrawn and physically deconditioned as a result. I wanted to set out why I think this case illustrates something more specific than the question you posed about whether politicians or doctors should decide what happens to children like him.

The case is, on its own terms, a clear demonstration of premature identity foreclosure. A child of two and a half has no capacity for the kind of abstract, exploratory self reflection that genuine identity formation requires, on any developmental account from Piaget through Marcia. What happened to this child at that age was necessarily a decision made on his behalf and then sustained around him, not a discovery he himself reached. Bronfenbrenner's ecological model describes exactly the mechanism by which that early decision then becomes self perpetuating: once a social transition is established in the home, it is carried into school, peer relationships, and eventually clinical contact, each system reinforcing what the previous one had already settled, with no point at which the original premise is revisited. By the time this child reaches adolescence, an identity adopted before he could speak in full sentences has become something he now actively conceals and fears having questioned, which is a strange and telling outcome for an identity supposedly discovered rather than constructed.

The detail you raise of weakened bones from inactivity rather than from medical intervention is, I think, the most important part of the case, because it shows the harm operating through an entirely social pathway. A child too afraid of being outed to attend school is a child whose ordinary developmental environment, peer contact, physical activity, the everyday testing of self against the world that Erikson and Marcia both treat as necessary to identity formation, has been closed off by the position he has been placed in. This is not a side effect of any drug. It is the direct consequence of a foreclosed identity that has left him with nowhere safe to be a child.

I would push back on framing the central question as one of medical versus political authority over decisions like puberty blockers. The decision that produced the harm you describe was not a medical one at all. It was a parental and social decision taken years before any clinical pathway became relevant, and the clinical system he now exists within is managing the consequences of that earlier decision rather than the cause of his distress.

Given that he is now isolated, school avoidant, and showing physical signs of neglect of his basic developmental needs, I think it is also worth asking plainly whether this is a case that ought to have come to the attention of children's social services on ordinary safeguarding grounds, independent of any question about gender identity at all. I would suggest the more pressing question your case actually raises is what support and recourse exists for a child in his position now, given how early and how thoroughly the foreclosure already occurred, and what should change about how social transition in early childhood is approached so that fewer children arrive at eleven in a position this difficult to unwind.

Yours sincerely,

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@viewershiplost @UberFacts This is my favourite one 🤩

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@roseveniceallan He needs to be removed from his abusive environment asap & given lots of therapy to come to terms with the confusion he has had infused into him since he was a toddler

2.5 years old & ‘socially transitioned’??
What the actual fuck

All of the people involved should be prosecuted

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@Scott_Wiener You helped to create the monster 🤷🏻‍♀️

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@matt_dathan What the actual fuck?

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@GBNEWS ‘French’

[Geoff Banks @geoffbanksbet]

I would cheerfully vote for this lady and her honest approach

@KemiBadenoch

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@Steven_Swinford @hiltonholloway Free Gear Keir living up to his name til the bitter end then…
Waiting to get his freebie seats to watch England win the World Cup 👀

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@MrHarryCole @ShippersUnbound This is an exemplar of why those on the left truly think that stereotypes are what constitutes sex & gender

Silly ladies’ pretty little heads don’t have the capacity to be trifled with manly stuff!

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@BBCPolitics Good
Because she was correct

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@KayBurley Except that’s not what she’s saying at all

Kemi is right

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@____Foxtrot____ @TruthSignalUK Dear God he is insufferable

He’s either pretending not to understand or he’s actually thick

Either way, why the fuck would ANYONE want him as their economic advisor?!
Let alone PresidentKing Burnham 🤦🏻‍♀️

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@GuidoFawkes Actual lol at the thought of Liz & Bridget all puffed up & swaggering like a pair of mean girls & Kemi wiping the floor with them
Again
😂😂

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@Georgia_Gould @bphillipsonMP Don’t think she is, mate