Steve Bradbury: SEND Specialist, Left Wing & Autistic.
Struggles for justice have to be led by people with that characteristic, not swamped by 'allies'.
What proportion of UK autistic girls get referred to GIDS each year?
The UK Gender Identity Development Service has stopped collecting data on autism for their children (judge was shocked at this!) but in a recent year they identified 35% with moderate to severe autism 1/3
Being biologically female means having a body that is observably organised to produce large gametes (eggs), as opposed to a body organised to produce small gametes (sperm). A woman is female whether her eggs have been fertilised or not. A man can never be female.
@MaeveHalligan significant minority of ALL autistic girls, maybe 1/4, maybe a bit less but those are only the referred ones.
60-80% of those are Lesbian so that could be more than half.
And if you are an autistic young lesbian under the care system, basically you ARE GOING to gender clinic.
@MaeveHalligan Excellent speech. For children at gender clinic, 70% were/are female, over half are autistic (see Karl Neff, head of Ireland's service, as well as GIDS stats): whatever you estimate for the number of UK autistic girls born each year, those at gender clinic each year are a...
I have written to Mark Rowley, the Met Police Commissioner, urging him to retract his baseless claims about our demonstrations for Palestine.
Our marches are made of people of all faiths and none — and we will never stop campaigning until Palestine is free.
So for Labour to have any chance in the future, we need a new leader this summer, ways for those on the left who were excluded to rejoin, then a real leadership contest hopefully before 2029.
Laura Pidcock would be good.
Starmer’s job was to extinguish socialist left organising in Labour, to block any future prospect of a left fightback, to ensure there could be no socialist left leader in the near future & to create distance from the trade union movement- irrespective of the electoral consequences.
The Prime Minister says his government has got "the big political decisions right". Let's go through them.
The government chose to cut welfare so it could spend even more on weapons and war.
The government chose to demonise the sick and disabled.
The government chose to keep children in poverty until it was dragged kicking and screaming to finally scrap the two-child benefit cap.
The government chose not to bring water into public ownership, not to tax wealth and not to implement rent controls.
The government chose to arm Israel and participate in genocide.
The government chose to let the US use British air bases for its war crimes in Iran.
The government chose to let Palantir get its hands on our NHS.
The government chose to scapegoat migrants and refugees for its own failures.
Poverty, inequality and genocide. Those are the government's big decisions. And that is how this government will be remembered.
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It isn’t humiliating at all, it’s to be completely expected: testosterone is very powerful.
It doesn’t mean women are bad or less capable or unskilled. It just means that men & women’s sport is very different, based on biology, and so is played separately.
The Farage Feckers have been heading down since last summer, in polls & by-elections.
They'll do some damage tomorrow & sorry for the people who will for a while be represented by useless Nigel-clones with no spine to disobey him to attend hustings.
But they are on the way out.
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Men and boys have participated in at least 19,243 "women's" events, placing first 6,251 times and in the top three 10,706.
Apparently our local Council have said that if any Reform councillors actually get in this week, then they will make sure lots of HMOs get approved just in that ward.
OR am I getting that mixed up?
@sharrond62 Sharron please correct your major error here, there are about 80 trans males in prison for sexual offences (which is at least equal to male offending rates), NOT 24,000 of them! :
https://t.co/tSat97yyxC
2021 census data is out, so we can recheck the risk level for trans males in female spaces, using UK sex offender prisoner stats:
13,234 men out of 29m = 1 in 2200
125 women out of 31m = 1 in 250,000
78 TW out of 48,000 TW = 1 in 615
TW: FOUR HUNDRED times the female rate.
@sharrond62 Sharron it is over half of all trans identifying male prisoners who are in for sexual assault, NOT half of all trans identifying men!!!
Ofc they commit sexual offenses at at least male rates, but it is still a tiny minority of them who are in prison, like it is for men overall.