Katie Pybus

I used to be an economist. Unconvinced about institutional life especially institutional learning. Pokemon Go. Collector of Poole Pottery. PT marshal

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

🚨The @NSPCC poses a safeguarding risk🚨

Today, it was announced that there has been a “surge” in the number of children contacting Childline “questioning their gender”.

However, this is anything but explorative, ethical counselling. This is indoctrination.

As I have documented over the years, this is an organisation that:

-Runs message boards in which children advise each other about sourcing cross-sex hormones and genital surgery.

-Offers advice to vulnerable children on wearing breast binders.

-Tells children that, if they are left infertile after transitioning, they can always get a surrogate to carry a baby for them.

-Is run by a CEO who has said that ‘transwomen’ should be “celebrated”.

-Has a webpage which reads as a roadmap to transitioning.

-Has trans flags flying in its counselling rooms.

-Collaborated with Mermaids.

-Enlists children to make pride flags for marches.

-Sells ideological reading material through its online shop.

-Kicked me out, after 5 years of volunteering as a counsellor, because I refused to denounce biological reality.

Head of Childline, Shaun Friel, the man who booted me out, has said today that Childline will always recognise children’s “authentic selves”.

If our children are not safe contacting the NSPCC, where are they safe?

[Fiona Nicholson @fionajnicholson]

For home educators

[Danny @DjokovicFan_]

Everyone has missing pieces in their resume.

Everyone except Novak Djokovic.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

I won’t give any spoilers away, but episode 4 of The Dutton Ranch is one of the most powerful and harrowing episodes I have ever watched on TV. An encapsulation of how hard farming / ranching life can be and the emotional cost that goes with it.

[Kathleen Stock @Docstockk]

Looking forward to being on @bbcworldservice Weekend tomorrow, 6am-9am GMT, with Julian Worricker and fellow guests - lots of fascinating stories for us to discuss

[Garry Bagnell @GarryBagnell]

I went to Ashdown Forest raptor watch point & saw 4-5 Honey Buzzards (1 close male & female). Plus Goshawk. On the way home I popped into Back Lane near Turners Hill. I walked from Scout hut & managed to hear 2 Wood Larks. I couldn’t find any Spot Flys but Merlin heard an Osprey!

[Educational Freedom @edfreeuk]

This is what happened on our home education journey. My gut instinct told me we had tried & tried within mainstream education & ultimately nothing would change. Everything has changed since we deregistered 7 years ago. #homeeduk

[West Sussex Highways @WSHighways]

⚠️Planned Works: A29 London Road, Pulborough⚠️
We will be undertaking repair works to New Swan Bridge, Pulborough from 1 June to 12 July. To allow for this to take place there will be multi way lights in operation, please allow extra time for your journey through the area. 
Further details at https://t.co/fq6HFUdraV

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

I’m glad you asked.

First of all, let’s outline the hallmarks of a social contagion event:

- A rapid exponential explosion in numbers.
- The sudden appearance of an entirely new patient group
- Adolescent girls mostly affected.
- Clusters of friends presenting with the same symptom/behaviour

All of these are present in the epidemic of young people identifying as trans in the 2010s.

Now, the way society normally responds to such events is with an immediate search for the trigger event and the vectors for the contagion.

For example, with the bulimia contagion of the 80s, the trigger was found to be media coverage of the disorder.

With the outbreak of anorexia in Hong Kong in the 90s, it was the sensational media coverage of a school girl who had collapsed and died on a busy street.

With TikTok tics in the 2010s, a young Tourettes sufferer’s YouTube channel was swiftly identified.

There are endless examples.

In those instances, clinicians didn’t wait around for decades for someone to conduct a reliable study showing that the event was a social contagion. They recognised all the hallmarks and acted. In the case of bulimia though, not nearly fast enough.

In the case of the trans contagion, all researchers had to do was take a glance at the cultural messaging of the era. The inflection point coincides precisely with the dawn of the trans rights movement, with media celebration of trans-identified public figures, and trans influencers proliferating rapidly on social media.

And those early YouTube influencers actually documented the social contagion on camera for all to see with the How I Knew I Was Trans genre of video — with each young person describing encountering a trans-identified person online and immediately recognising themselves in it and adopting the identity. That’s the social contagion in action.

We don’t need studies to show it’s a social contagion. We just need to open our eyes and look at the evidence that is, and always has been, all around us.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Thread! 🧵

Please read, like, share & send the article to your friends.

#TheHarbourneReceipts from @thenerve_news.

Important accountability journalism into Nigel Farage & his crypto pals.

Follow the money 💰 💰 💰

[Nick Wallis @nickwallis]

A deep dive into what is going on at the Welsh Gender Service. Are Welsh people three times more likely to be trans than the UK as a whole? Is WGS leading the way? Or is it causing harm?

https://t.co/L8TaZDhtup

[Katie Pybus @KatiePybus]

@GarryBagnell 97/98

[WhatsApp @WhatsApp]

we love you @arsenal, we do 🏆

[TransgenderTrend @Transgendertrd]

Parents must be alert to this happening. Make sure you see your child's school RSHE policy in September and challenge anything that presents 'gender identity' as fact 👇

[Garry Bagnell @GarryBagnell]

Running got dropped shortly after my radiotherapy several years ago. I’ve been putting on weight but I would like to be a bit slimmer & get a new suit for my sister’s wedding in July.

I’m thinking if Arsenal win the league this week, I’m going to try couch to 5K again. #LetsSee

[Katie Pybus @KatiePybus]

Support holbrook animal rescue's planning application - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/0yVrel2KdV via @UKChange

[West Sussex Highways @WSHighways]

⚠️Planned Works: A29 London Road, Pulborough⚠️
We will be undertaking repair works to New Swan Bridge, Pulborough from 1 June to 12 July. To allow for this to take place there will be multi way lights in operation, please allow extra time for your journey through the area. 
Further details at https://t.co/fq6HFUdraV

[Nick Wallis @nickwallis]

Tribunal Tweets are doing a fantastic job of describing the cross-examination of a workplace investigator whose evidence is turning into a car crash.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I knew what I was getting into when I entered this debate and compared to what others have suffered, I've got off lightly. Even so, it continues to astound that Kemi Badenoch remains the only UK political leader offering unequivocal solidarity to women defending their rights.