“For me it’s just common sense, that there should be any suggestion that people aren’t allowed to live the life they want to live & to be with who they want to be with & to express themselves whole heartedly, I mean as long as you’re not hurting anyone else & everyone else just

Kindness is a wonderful thing, but the truth comes first or you don’t know if your actions actually are kind. I firmly don’t concede the ‘be kind’ point. We *are* being kind.

Why do endocrinologists bother treating hyperthyroidism? It's just a thyroid producing 'natural' hormones, so no need to be alarmed according to Helen Webberley.

Nobody is particularly invested in questioning someone else's self-perception. It would have been great if it was understood that us having rights, spaces, political causes, was a separate thing to protecting others from discrimination for their personal beliefs about themselves>

Very few of us want to say "that thing you think about yourself - it's not literally true, you understand?" We would have been happy to leave it. To "let people be". But it turns out our rights depend on it.

Ladies, Ed Davey thinks we need to address this question with more compassion & maturity. And agree with him that ‘quite clearly’ some women have a penis. Quite clearly off his head, in case you were thinking the Lib Dems are harmless.

If you need body modifications to alter the appearance of certain physical characteristics in order to live authentically, does that mean that before those modifcations you were living inauthentically? And what's the difference between that and being in/born into the wrong body?

Suspect I'm in a minority here but I'm actually most depressed about the Lib Dem campaign, because of what it says about levels of scrutiny in our politics. (1/?)

This report criticises Cass because: "Of note, Tordoff et al was excluded due to scoring low on the authors’ adapted NOS. However, this study shows statistically significant reductions in depression and suicidality" So I had a look: cdn.jamanetwork.com/ama/content_pu…

So many of us know the feeling that the body is "no longer a clear expression of our individuality" because of how others respond to it. How dare adult males tell us that those who feel this way do indeed need help in escaping their bodies?

I’m collecting stories of people who’ve been negatively affected by this for a project. Have you/your child been unable to get a driving test? Has it prevented you from working or ended up costing you more than it should? Etc. Please reply or DM me - stories can be anonymous :)

🧵Before any trial for puberty blockers goes ahead post-Cass, there are other clinical questions that need answering: 1) Which children are going to persist with trans identities into adulthood and beyond? We should only contemplate radical treatment on this cohort. 1/x

BREAKING: The NHS's Dept. of Health and Social Welfare review refutes claims by Jo Maugham of Good Law Project of suicide surge in gender-distressed minors referred for treatment at GIDS This review, by By Professor Louis Appleby, University of Manchester Department of Health

EXCEPTIONALLY IMPORTANT: Good Law Project’s claim of ‘surge’ of suicides of gender questioning children roundly rejected by Government suicide adviser, Prof Louis Appleby. “The way that this issue has been discussed on social media has been insensitive, distressing and dangerous”

... It's difficult to know what to say about this, except that the IOC appears to be intellectually and morally corrupt. All four arguments are hopeless. And this corruption amounts to the IOC licencing men punching women as sport.

When women physically attack men (often men who've subjected them to years of abuse) they are much more likely to use weapons than when men attack women. Because we can't just use our bare hands. Everyone knows this, yet it is still used against women in courts.

Males: Faster, Taller, Stronger. 👎

Simone Biles is now the most decorated US Olympics gymnast, so here is a thread of her as functions y = x

I am so, so cross about the conflation of women not being as physically strong as men with "femininity" and "conforming to gender norms". This is not least because when men assault you, it is is both humiliating and terrifying. >

1 / "TERFs are all so f***ing ugly" says mary beth My reaction to her 'comedy' routine about women who won't validate men's magical lady feelz 💅 What do you make of her 'jokes'? #fail