The 'trans child' is a very recent social creation. So too is 'the child exploring their gender.' Being 'trans' is a learned condition. It's taught in schools. Essential thread 👇

Edinburgh City Council has joined Children In Need in confirming it has axed financial support to LGBT Youth Scotland. #DefundLGBTYS sundaypost.com/fp/children-in… via The Sunday Post

Edinburgh Council and the BBC, which have donated £340k to LGBT Youth Scotland to deliver programmes in Scottish schools, have both ended financial support, after the charity's CEO and a senior volunteer were both convicted of child sexual abuse offences sundaypost.com/fp/children-in…

"This is social contagion, not a statement of the child’s “true self”. The term “transgender” has no real meaning...Transgender is a rebranding of transsexual: an adult male fetish. It has nothing to do with children." -Carolyn Brown educational psychologist thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

It took two paedophiles to stop BBC Children in Need funding LGBT Youth Scotland. The first one was the CEO. How much effort did BBC Children in Need make to assess the organisation as completely safe two years after his conviction? Clearly not enough. sundaypost.com/fp/children-in…

I wonder how many of the long term sick developed mental illness along with a trans identity at UK universities like my offspring thetimes.com/article/e28f32…

Our winner of the 2024 #MJAAwards Science Explained is Hannah Barnes and Sean Clare. That makes it a hat-trick for Hannah with this BBC Newsnight item which revisited the scandal of Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust gender services — which she and Deborah Cohen were among the first to spotlight

I am shocked, and utterly over the moon, to win four #MJAAwards this evening, including the Outstanding Contribution to Health Journalism. It’s a complete honour. Thank you to the judges and all those who have helped and supported me with these stories.

⭐️ Hannah Barnes wins Outstanding Contribution to Health Journalism Award! ⭐️ Barnes sent her book proposal to 22 publishers. Several publishers praised the proposal, but declined to publish it; one of them on the basis that it was too controversial.

A review into Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, commissioned because it lost an employment tribunal, has found its cross-dressing CEO "failed to behave professionally and did not understand his authority", after the centre refused to provide women-only spaces bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

BREAKING: Gender identity census figures decertified. Office for National Statistics (ONS) census figures lose status as official statistics. 👏 to Professor Michael Biggs whose work highlighted the problem with the methodology. osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/osr-publi…

The terfs were right, part 2,979.

100s of academics + 7 Nobel Laureates call on the govt to rethink dropping the Freedom of Speech Act. Among the harms they cite: censoring "matters of legitimate debate, like gender identity" The GIDS scandal proves they are right. thetimes.com/article/a44c40…

Show solidarity with our German sisters in the face of the insane new self-ID laws being brought in. Protests will be held outside various German embassies & consulates worldwide. #SelfIDHarms #NoToSelfID #FrauenSagenNein ♥️beautiful little stones by Terf_Rocks

Absolutely delighted to be welcoming Hannah Barnes to LEH to discuss her award-winning book, Time to Think. It's important for schools to discuss these complex issues, and we're looking forward to hearing more about Hannah's important work. LEH School

There was a surge in self-referrals to the Sandyford gender clinic just before the rules changed to stop this pathway in August. The youngest was a child of seven. From August only doctors can refer. thetimes.com/article/5c746f…

Research Study Announcement: Adolescent and Young Adult Gender Dysphoria Outcomes Study (AYAGDOS). Seeking volunteers for a research study about youth with gender dysphoria. Both gender dysphoric youth (13-21 years of age) and parents of gender dysphoric youth of those ages are

I am a head of department at a major UK university and happy to state publicly that biological sex is a real and meaningful concept and necessary in many contexts including medical, social & sporting.

This paper is a devastating careful tracing of citations which shows that the often stated "evidence" for the persistence of childhood dysphoria is non-existent. Anyone thinking of legislating to "ban conversion therapy" should read it.

Big win in Wales. This was bill was self-ID by the back door. nation.cymru/news/welsh-gov…