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[Carrie Clark @cwestonclark]

I am begging critics of the puberty blocker trial to stop getting lost in the weeds arguing about research ethics, Gillick competence, informed consent, fertility preservation and the like. The NHS’s refusal to complete the Data Linkage Study (DLS) before proceeding with a new trial is the ONLY argument worth making on this issue. Everything else is a distraction.
The DLS would find out what has happened to all the children who have already taken puberty blockers. There is NO justification for proceeding with a puberty blocker trial before the DLS is complete. The entire programme of future research in this area should be informed by its results. The fact that the NHS is getting ready to run a live experiment on vulnerable children before it has even established the fate of those it has already experimented on is utterly damning.
The deeply disappointing Dr Cass should be widely derided for her ridiculous comments on ‘harm reduction’. The DLS IS harm reduction. Critics of the trial must stop fighting on their opponents turf by quibbling over technical details. We need to relentlessly force the DLS onto the agenda and expose the shameful hypocrisy of the NHS. DO THE DLS.
#DotheDLS
https://t.co/HfdBR3L8tC

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

Language matters. It's the difference between:

A "trans woman breastfeeding her baby" and a paraphilic man—who has spent years masturbating to the fantasy of breastfeeding—using a newborn infant to fulfil his erotic desires.

One sounds progressive, the other morally repulsive.

Talked about this and much more in my latest interview with @peterboghossian.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Girl. Why is it that grown men want to be called girls???

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@stellacreasy But I suspect the changes you want to see are more fundamental. Perhaps to replace "sex" as a protected characteristic with "gender identity"? I would venture that that's not going to be a vote winner. It would be amongst the most regressive anti-woman legislation in history.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

Does @NadiaWhittomeMP realise what it means to “legislate to make the Equality Act trans-inclusive”?

Destruction of the protected characteristics of sex & sexual orientation.

No protection for anything single-sex, from toilets to being gay.

Lesbians at the sharp end, as ever.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

£1.5m in donations from Ferring Pharmaceuticals, makers of puberty blockers, might provide a clue.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@Invisible_TSW @stellacreasy Please for god's sake leave the war out of this.

A post-op TW is a man who has changed his appearance to approximate that of a woman.

Please be considerate of others and use the third spaces that are available. Disabled people manage it without hysterical accusations of fascism

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@tomgordonLD It's the law, Tom.
And as for your disingenuous comments about Mary-Ann Stephenson, I suppose they're at least consistently within the spirit of the disgraceful, legally illiterate performative politicking your Committee subjected her to when she appeared before you.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

When you tell a woman she must pretend a man is a woman, you’re asserting the right to control her speech and perception of reality, while also trivialising and devaluing her female-specific experience. You’re asking her to agree that ‘woman’ is a concept men can embody at will.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@stellacreasy Goodness me, @stellacreasy. It's not "legislation". It's statutory guidance. Very disappointing that a politician of your stature doesn't seem to understand the difference.

[LetsTalk RSE @LetsTalkRSE]

There is growing concern among parents in Wales and across the UK about how RSE (sex ed) is being taught in schools. Parents should engage with schools and ask for clarity on lesson content. Visit our website for guidance and key questions to ask. Link in bio.

[Rob Watson @robwmedia]

I have written to @leicesterliz, Liz Kendall MP regarding the proposed legislation on abusive “conversion practices” announced in the King’s Speech.

I support protections against genuinely coercive or abusive attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation, their capacity to express their orientation, and their ability to choose freely how and in what way they receive any form of therapy they feel they may need.

However, from a sexual orientation and gender-accuracy perspective, there are important legal and civil liberties questions that require careful parliamentary scrutiny before any legislation is introduced.

The April 2025 Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland clarified that, under the Equality Act 2010, sex refers to biological sex and that sexual orientation is understood in relation to biological sex. Any new legislation therefore needs to be compatible with that legal framework and avoid conflating sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in ways that create uncertainty or undermine existing protections.

My concerns focus particularly on whether the legislation will be tightly and objectively defined. There is a risk that poorly drafted provisions could extend beyond preventing coercive abuse and begin to affect lawful exploratory therapy, ordinary clinical discussion, parental guidance, pastoral support, or the expression of lawful philosophical and religious beliefs.

Questions also arise about who will determine what constitutes “legitimate” therapy or acceptable professional practice, especially in areas where medical and psychological opinion continues to evolve. The Cass Review itself highlighted the need for caution, evidence-led practice, and open clinical inquiry in relation to gender-distressed young people.

I have therefore asked what safeguards will exist to ensure that:

lawful speech and gender-critical beliefs remain protected;
non-coercive exploratory therapy is not criminalised;
parental rights and clinical independence are preserved;
the legislation does not drift into adjacent or undefined areas over time;
the proposals are based on clear evidence of harm and are proportionate to that evidence;
existing criminal law, safeguarding powers, and professional regulation have been properly considered before introducing new statutory restrictions.

Legislation in this area must be precise, proportionate, evidence-based, and compatible with existing equality and human rights protections. Preventing abuse is important, but so too is protecting lawful speech, conscience, therapeutic practice, and sex-based rights within a coherent legal framework.

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

The @MHRAgovuk forced their chief scientist to step back from the puberty blocker trial because he'd expressed the view men shouldn't be able to self-identify into female sport. If you missed it yesterday, you can read why this is so troubling here 👇
https://t.co/OfV2lVfYyt

[Bayswater Support @BayswaterSG]

@threadreaderapp unroll

[Bayswater Support @BayswaterSG]

In any disagreement, the various parties naturally assume that their position is the reasonable one, with everyone else occupying the 'extremes'.

Parents who raised concerns about what was happening at GIDS were dismissed as 'extremists' (and worse) for many years; now their position has been vindicated. The 'extremist' view that something unconscionable was happening is now established fact.
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[Adult_Human_Mother💜🤍💛🦕🦖🍳🦒 @LydiamamaTerf]

@Laura_ltdn18 Thanks Laura! And thank you for all you do.
Here is my full story.
https://t.co/xzvlgRHrl2

[Adult_Human_Mother💜🤍💛🦕🦖🍳🦒 @LydiamamaTerf]

They do it because it's a machine to make money. Sex reassignment industry worth billions. It has been sold as a civil rights movement. Cool edgy. An option of why you hate your body in puberty. Puberty isn't a disease. It is a dis-ease. This Australian woman explains it well. https://t.co/VFL8yBPGTP

[Adult_Human_Mother💜🤍💛🦕🦖🍳🦒 @LydiamamaTerf]

@ReluctantAnonF My wish is for every parent see that they are stronger than they know.
https://t.co/ZfBAK8dalk

[Adult_Human_Mother💜🤍💛🦕🦖🍳🦒 @LydiamamaTerf]

When I became a mom to a girl 18 years ago. I never imagined I’d have had to save my daughter from an ideology. The only way to truly be authentic is the removal of your sexual function and body parts. Transgenderism is rooted in homophobia. It is gay conversion.
My daughter was socially transitioned in secret at her high school then without my consent.
This happened when she was 14 at an age where adults insist students should have “privacy,” yet somehow parents are treated like we’re the problem. But I’m her mother. I was not a threat to my child. I’m the person who has loved her, protected her, and raised her, her entire life.
And I didn’t find out because the school sat me down and spoke honestly.
I found out because I saw her name had been changed by her biology teacher in 9th grade. A teacher whose job is literally to teach biological reality.
That moment shattered something in me. Because it wasn’t just about a name. It was about an entire system deciding it could step in, redefine my child, and push her into an opposite-sex category while excluding me from the conversation.
Let me say this clearly:
Social transition is not neutral.
It’s not “ kind.”
It’s an adult decision that changes a child’s social world overnight name, pronouns, peer groups, school records and it can create pressure to “stay consistent” with the new identity, even when the child is unsure or distressed. They lock them in with no off-ramp.
I tried to address it through the normal channels. I asked questions. I requested meetings. I tried to work cooperatively.
The school principal and with the help of the assistant superintendent, Equity person, teachers and local teacher union president. Shut me out!
I had to do what no parent should have to do just to protect their own kid.
I hired a lawyer to stop the social transition.
And here’s the part the adults thinking they are doing something great for the child don't want to hear.
When the adults stopped, my daughter desisted.
When the outside reinforcement stopped, the confusion settled.
When the pressure stopped, she came back to herself.
That is what reality looks like when a family is allowed to do what families are supposed to do: support a child through a hard season without permanently labeling her as something she isn’t.
Some people assume that if you speak up, you must be “far right” a bigot.
I am a lifelong liberal Democrat, and I’m a California native with deep roots. I love my state. California has always been known for tolerance, compassion, and live-and-let-live.
But it has gone too far! With anti parent laws.
Because tolerance should never mean lying to children, excluding parents, or erasing girls.
In our society we also need to be honest about what this has become. This isn’t just a social movement. There are ideological roots here that deserve scrutiny including older attitudes that stigmatized homosexuality, pushed rigid gender stereotypes, and treated bodies like problems to be “fixed.”
Today, it has become a pipeline that conveniently feeds a massive medical and pharmaceutical industry, where lifelong patients mean lifelong profit.
I am one of the lucky ones who got my daughter back. It has crushed me. I am broken. I have compound trauma and trust issues. I have been shunned. Attacked. Even from the people who I love. Friends and family don't talk to me. I am a cyclone of despair, hope and triumph! Grief hangs over my life. I feel lost and found. Humbled to my core. In the chaos of fighting gender. I have also gained the most brilliant and amazing new friends. Out of difficult times comes silver linings. One thing that I never let go of. It was hope.
But, some are not so lucky.

[🙏🌧🌍 @godblesstoto]

Who could have guessed that less than 30 years later, this would be happening for real 😂😂😂