Ed Davey has written to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson demanding she WITHDRAW official EHRC guidance protecting female-only spaces in toilets and changing rooms.
Let that land.
The Equalities and Human Rights Commission — a statutory body — has produced legally grounded guidance telling employers and public bodies that biological men should not access women’s single-sex spaces.
This is not opinion.
This is not politics.
This is the settled legal position following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the meaning of “woman” under the Equality Act.
And Ed Davey wants it gone.
His stated reason?
The guidance is not “compatible with long-standing British values.”
British values.
He used those words to argue AGAINST protecting women’s single-sex spaces.
The same Liberal Democrats who lecture the country about tolerance, inclusion and human rights are now lobbying a Labour minister to tear up statutory guidance that protects every woman in Britain who walks into a changing room, a refuge or a hospital ward.
This is not a fringe position within the Lib Dems.
Their leader wrote the letter.
The party has chosen its side.
It is not the side of women.
Repost if you think women’s single-sex spaces should be protected.
Who would have thought getting 100,000 signatures would have been this difficult
We have brainwashed so many women into deleting their own language
We have institutions and our MPs who can't say "pregnant women". It's sad 😭
No woman fighting for woman’s spaces is anti anyone … their sole reason for speaking out is PRO biological female reality. Hard won rights, opportunities & safeguards for women & girls in what is very much still a man’s world.
I have to say I have never seen such an important and much needed petition gain signatures so slowly. It doesn't make sense! I don't understand why we wouldn't want an inquiry into increased sexual violence in NHS hospitals. Please sign and share
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I have written an open letter to the young people of Britain who may be considering undergoing the unscientific and mutilating procedure known as “gender-affirming surgery.”
My purpose is to urge them to pause and carefully reconsider their decision.
Open Letter to British Youth Considering Gender Surgery
Dear Young People,
I am Dr. Joseph Chrysostom, a medical doctor who has served in the NHS for over 25 years. I am writing to you out of deep concern and genuine care — to warn you about what I believe to be some of the most harmful and deceptive medical practices currently happening in our country. These include the use of cross-sex hormones and surgeries such as vaginoplasty, orchidectomy, and phalloplasty, offered both within and outside the NHS. What I write here reflects my professional opinion and sincerely held belief based on my knowledge of human biology and surgical practice.
You have been told that you can “change sex.” But biologically, that is impossible. Every one of your body’s trillions of cells carries either XX or XY chromosomes — a genetic signature that cannot be altered by hormones or surgery. To claim otherwise is, in my view, deeply misleading. Any doctor or institution promising to “feminise” or “masculinise” the human body without changing its DNA is, in effect, deceiving you.
I believe this deception began early — in schools, through Relationship and Sex Education materials that claimed gender is fluid and that sex is “assigned at birth.” That is false. Sex is determined at conception, and by the seventh week of foetal development, it is already biologically clear whether a person is male or female. By teaching that doctors might have “assigned” you the wrong sex, these materials planted a dangerous idea — one that could easily take hold during adolescence, a time when self-doubt and confusion are common.
In my view, this was not education but indoctrination. Schools were instructed to hide these matters from parents — the very people best placed to support you through emotional confusion. This isolation mirrors the pattern seen in cult-like ideologies: separating young people from those who love them most. Once detached from parental guidance, vulnerable youth become easy targets for ideologues and, later, for those in medicine who profit from these falsehoods.
Sadly, some doctors, surgeons, endocrinologists and psychologists — knowingly or not — have become part of this system. Cross-sex hormones are being prescribed despite well-documented long-term complications. Surgeons have begun to perform irreversible operations on healthy bodies. When challenged, the professional institutions — Royal Colleges, GMC, NHS England, and the Department of Health — all pass responsibility between themselves. No one will say these surgeries are not deceptive. Yet none will take accountability either.
Let me be clear about what these procedures truly involve:
Vaginoplasty does not create a vagina. It creates a deep surgical slit-like narrow space lined with skin. It is a wound tending to heal and contract, not an organ. It lacks the glands, microbiome, glycogen-rich inner lining, acidic pH (to protect against infections) and natural functions of a female reproductive tract.
Phalloplasty does not create a penis. It forms a mound of skin and fat from another part of the body. It cannot perform erection, emission, or ejaculation — the defining functions of male sexual anatomy.
Mastectomy cannot make a female chest into a male one. It leaves irreversible scars and removes healthy breasts permanently leaving you incapable of lactation.
These are not restorative surgeries — they are destructive ones. In my opinion, they have the potential to turn healthy young people into lifelong patients, dependent on the medical system for repairs, revisions, and mental health support.
What you truly need is not surgery, but psychotherapy — compassionate, skilled counselling to help you understand and accept your biological reality. You deserve truth, not ideology. You deserve to be treated with honesty, not with the promise of impossible transformations.
I believe that within a few years, many of those who underwent these surgeries will express deep regret — but by then, it will be too late. Lost organs cannot be replaced. The physical and psychological scars are permanent.
I urge you: step away from the conveyor belt that starts in classrooms and ends in operating theatres. Parents and professionals across the world are now awakening to the dangers of gender ideology. Within the next few years this conveyor belt will be empty due to the alertness of current generation of parents. Accountability is coming. I believe, those who performed, assisted, promoted, or profited from these procedures will one day have to answer for them.
Thank you for reading this letter with an open mind. I write not to condemn you, but to protect you — before irreversible harm is done.
With sincerity and concern,
Dr. Joseph Chrysostom, MBBS, MS (Gen Surg), FRCSEd
GMC 5199143
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A Brexit MEP (Former Reform UK leader for Wales and long term Farage friend and ally) pleaded guilty to corruption and working for Russia.
Why is this not bigger news?!
Sky News Australia’s ratings surged in 2024
Who is surprised - it’s the only outlet managing this public interest story, and specifically Sall Grover’s story, with any kind of aplomb and breadth
Morning everyone 😀
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A trainee surgeon who was suspended from North Devon District Hospital following a sexual assault allegation went to work in a neighbouring county and raped another woman.
In 2023, Salil Korambayil, 33, was jailed for 14 years for raping two women and given a further 12 months for misuse of patient data last month.
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust said it suspended Korambayil in September 2020 after it learnt of a rape allegation.
A month later he rotated to the Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust (RCHT) in Truro which said it had been aware of an allegation and a "full set of employment checks were carried out and satisfied when Dr Korambayil transferred".
'Concern over health records'
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust said "he never returned to work for the trust" after he was suspended as his rotation ended on 6 October when he transferred to Cornwall on a pre-planned rotation.
It said: "We also notified the police, the GMC [General Medical Council], and the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust."
The RCHT told the BBC when Korambayil joined the trust he had been "designated a responsible officer to monitor and evaluate his fitness to practice throughout his employment".
It said: "The police file was closed soon after Dr Korambayil’s transfer to the Royal Cornwall Hospitals, due to insufficient evidence at that time, and no further formal concerns were raised until March 2021 when one of his victims raised a concern about inappropriate access to health records."
The BBC has been made aware of complaints by hospital staff about Korambayil before March 2021, which included one of inappropriate touching and others around inappropriate messaging.
Hospital trusts 'appalled'
In May 2021 the General Medical Council interim suspended Korambayil from the medical register, external.
In 2023 Korambayil was convicted and jailed for raping two women in their Devon and Cornwall homes after he pursued them online.
The trial heard how he had targeted women over a sustained period and exercised power over them, abusing his position of trust.
In August 2024 he admitted three charges related to accessing patient records without authorisation at hospitals in Truro and Barnstaple.
After both sentences could be reported, statements from the hospital trusts said they were "appalled" by Korambayil's actions and welcomed the sentences for both the rapes and data breaches.
The RCHT said: "Our focus throughout has been on being open and transparent and supporting the victims, both those we are aware of and anymore that come to light."
A spokesperson for NHS England South West said: "We are so sorry for the harm caused by Salil Korambayil’s crimes - his abuse of his position of trust and authority was completely abhorrent.