What the parents have done to their son is unconscionable. They have destroyed his childhood in pursuit of an ideology.
He could not have understood to what he was "consenting," being far too young to understand what his sex let alone "gender identity" is.
The child does not need puberty blockers but to be removed from his cruel and abusive parents.
And Hilary Cass needs to do some reading up on child development. It is now clear that she believes that some children are born "trans". For a paediatric scientist, to publicly espouse that unevidenced belief, is beyond embarrassing.
@LibVoice4Women@Daniel_J_Martin Does anyone believe TRAs were well funded by the Far Right so, when the time came, the Right could throw them under the bus and claim they "rescued" women from the nasty men in frocks?
Our Chair: “The Lib Dems have taken women for granted for too long. Voters deserve a straight, explicit answer: do the Liberal Democrats believe women have a right to single-sex spaces based on their biological sex, or not?” Thank you @Daniel_J_Martin https://t.co/YFW6zS1rkS
Great thread on mumsnet about the Early Day Motion that some MPs have signed in a seeming effort to stop the new EHRC guidance for service providers being approved. Many posters are writing to their MPs and the thread includes this cracking letter: https://t.co/vCzotb7gbn
I would vote for @greenparty. I love their return to socialism, but I really don't trust them with Women's Rights. Supporting #womanface over actual women's rights make you regressive, not progressive. Fix that and your support base will grow exponentially.
Green Party Hannah Spencer MP, draped in a trans flag and holding a sign that says ‘trans liberation now’, joins students in Manchester to protest against the EHRC guidance that protests women only spaces.
Green Party Hannah Spencer MP, draped in a trans flag and holding a sign that says ‘trans liberation now’, joins students in Manchester to protest against the EHRC guidance that protests women only spaces.
We have released a statement on the EHRC Code of Practice and we call on our elected officials to accept the guidance and biological reality. https://t.co/z274yorjwy
Women are absolutely dependent upon our elected representatives to protect our bodies and our rights, even when to do so is unpopular and abused. I'm very grateful to those MPs who stood firm against the onslaught from the misogynists.
"It says much about the status of adult human females that news that we get to have anything of our own has come with a massive side order of admonishments not to get above ourselves."
🎯 @glosswitch nails it as ever.
https://t.co/x1UNQEEdwS
So! My take from the many, many angry males shouting about Parkrun is - if women have rights, fair competition and a protected female category, the world as we know it will cease to exist, implode, fall into the abyss and get consumed by the fires of hell. Blimey! #XX https://t.co/KmIFI5wnfT
Please remember we don’t want anyone banned from sport, in fact the opposite. However its vital women & girls get sport where males are not allowed to compete in a category they do not belong in. Sports need to think harder rather than just sacrificing fair sport for females.
I've just finished a morning interval session. That's the reason I'm still able to 'battle' for 1st lady at parkrun. I wasn't magically born an Olympian, I worked hard to get there. I was, however, born a woman.
#makeparkrunfairforall#inclusivity
An actual king tells a wannabe king that even he has to obey the 800 year old collective rule of law, as determined by the people, through their elected representatives. King Charles is playing a blinder at the White House. #magnacarta#checksandbalances
Huh, that was unexpected.
Charles pointedly notes that Magna Carta and what follows from it includes the understanding that “executive power is subject to checks and balances.”
I mean, the guy is a hereditary monarch but still.
King Charles III on the Founders and the influence of the Magna Carta on the American Revolution: “The Founding Fathers were bold and imaginative rebels with a cause. 250 years ago, or, as we say in the United Kingdom, just the other day, they declared independence by balancing contending forces and drawing strength in diversity. They united 13 disparate colonies to forge a nation on the revolutionary idea of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They carried with them and carried forward the great inheritance of the British Enlightenment, as well as the ideals which had an even deeper history in English common law and Magna Carta. These roots run deep, and they are still vital. Our Declaration of Rights of 1689 was not only the foundation of our constitutional monarchy, but also provided the source of so many of the principles reiterated, often verbatim, in the American Bill of Rights of 1791. And those roots go even further back in history, the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances. This is the reason why the Stanza Stone by the River Thames at Runnymede — where Magna Carta was signed in the year 1215 — this stone records that an acre of that ancient and historic site was given to the United States of America by the people of the United Kingdom to symbolize our shared resolve in support of liberty and in memory of President John F. Kennedy. Distinguished members of the 119th Congress, it is here in these very halls, that this spirit of liberty and the promise of America's founders is present in every session and every vote cast, not by the will of one, but by the deliberation of many representing the living mosaic of the United States in both of our countries. It is the very fact of our vibrant, diverse, and free societies that gives us our collective strength, including to support victims of some of the ills that so tragically exist in both our societies today.”
First of all - for all those men frothing at the bit about parkrun. If @parkrunUK posts places & times, it’s competitive. Simply add extra categories;Transmen & transwomen, & why not bring back records? Why shouldn’t women, as defined by Uk law, have their own category? And finally 5 million pounds of tax payers money, who by the way, support fair sport for females, went to parkrun, in part to grow female participation, which with no female only category has zero way of showing it is doing so! Simply run in a category of your biological reality. It’s not rocket science. Everyone runs together anyway. But stop letting males displace females. And boys grow up, stop being idiot misogynists! No one wants to stop Parkrun. We simply want fair finishing places for women. Even you can grasp that, surely?
"Female prisoners have rights – and they should not be forced to share a cell with a biological male. It’s time for First Minister John Swinney to respect the Supreme Court ruling and end this shambles." https://t.co/4c0UOhe6LZ
🚨After 12 years of thinking I was born with a male brain in a female body, I now understand that I was born with an AUTISTIC brain in a female body.
I then began to understand that I could cure my own crippling gender dysphoria by better understanding my autism.
Instead of binding my breasts & pretending to be a man, I now meet my sensory needs with mild compression undershirts that don’t actively destroy my lungs, back, ribs, spine, nerves and breasts.
I now intentionally choose to wear bras with a maximum of two textures, and thick straps that don’t twist as I move, in addition to the mild (full upper body) compression shirts because I know this is what I can tolerate.
By managing the sensory needs of my whole body in all sorts of new ways, I no longer focus on the discomfort my breasts and 99.99% of bras cause me.
As a result, my body is now a much more tolerable place for my brain to live.
The only qualms I have now have with that part of my body I used to hate so much, was the destruction I’ve caused myself in the misguided attempt to fix an unacknowledged severe sensory issue (that as a kid caused me to toe walk and to compulsively pull out my eyelashes before it became fixated on gender) with an attempted gender transition.
Happy autism awareness month!
@Reil76 Prostate cancer took my husband too. Cancer is a bitch. Sending love to you and your family. It's the toughest job in the world: being a bereaved parent.