Dread to think what wheelchair users are meant to do in this situation… especially if this happened to be an unstaffed station - who’s gonna get the ramp out to get the wheelchair user off the train?
Another reason for needing Level Boarding…
It’s happening now. A petition to remove LGBT content from the education curriculum.
To all those who deny the homophobia arising from the trans moral panic: WAKE UP.
They want Section 28 all over again. When our trans siblings suffer, the entire LGBTQ+ community suffers.
Instead of taking pictures of strangers in public without their consent and posting them, this is what everyone should do! This is honestly so much funnier than taking a picture of someone you don’t know.
A few weeks ago, Manal Issa, star of @netflix "The Swimmers", reached out. She wanted to talk about her disheartening experience with the film but insisted that the interview would not go out until it streams so that her testimonial wouldn't overshadow the work of her colleagues
People are being offered SURGERY rather than transvaginal ultrasounds. This is terrifying - and this is why expansive and inclusive sex education, moving on from hymen misinformation and patriarchal concepts of virginity, is so bloody vital
This has been one of the most "you're kidding me" stories I've ever worked on. But it happened – and is happening – around the UK.
Women in the UK are being denied healthcare because they're 'virgins' 🧵
https://t.co/iekTT448lw
Scarlet fever is getting a lot of media attention at the moment, because of an increased number of cases and sporadic antibiotic shortages. I know parents are worrying. So, here's another set of photos of what it looks like on darker skin.
#MedTwitter#scarletfever#BLM
I was sexually assaulted when I was 16.
this summer, @PenguinRandomCA published a memoir by one of my assailants claiming my rape was consensual.
now I'm ready to share my story:
https://t.co/ALuZWaepr8
#MeToo#leahmclaren#nonfiction#survivorvoices
Before Twitter gets taken over with Christmas-spam, let it be known that if a child in Year 11 with a Sept-Nov birthday goes into care tonight, there’s now a 50/50 chance they’ll end up in unregulated accommodation. That’s because according to this gov, 16 & 17 year olds don’t
🏳️🌈LGBTQ+ rights don’t matter if you might get told off on a football pitch.
As a community we’ve always known we only get support when it’s easy. THIS is when support matters most and they drop it as quickly as possible.
Pathetic.
https://t.co/gRIxW4iZoO
also if we’re charging people with murder because ambulances can’t get to people maybe a better place to start would be every tory and lib dem mp that has played a part in slashing the nhs to the point that people are waiting 12 hours for medical assistance to arrive to them!