Judge Tinnion should be ashamed of allowing tribunal to become a circus of harassment
The bigot press have been hyping up the story of an NHS Nurse taking her employer to court over the existence of trans people and…
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My Doctor Emailed Me Back
In 2022 I made a video about my attempt to get gender-affirming care from the NHS entitled “I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times.” I showed that Britain operates a discriminatory healthcare system in which trans people have to beg permission to transition whilst the same medicine is available to cis people much easier. This results in years-long delays that have contributed to the deaths of multiple patients. I compared my odyssey through the system to the Joseph Heller novel Catch-22.
The Trans Agenda #33 Kemi Badenoch delivers a trans smoking gun
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The Trans Agenda #28 More performative cruelty from the government
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The Trans Agenda #22 – 4 days, 3 papers, 20 anti-trans articles
News you need, the perspective you won’t find anywhere else. The trans community’s guide to UK news, media and politics and our place in it.
NHS & puberty blockers: Former GIDS patients reflect on long wait times, invasive assessments
Earlier this month, NHS England confirmed its plans to end the ‘routine’ prescription of puberty blockers to trans kids. To most former GIDS patients, the idea that the use of puberty blockers was ever routine is laughable.
The Trans Agenda #18 Police violence against trans protestors confirmed as GC MSP threatens legal action
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Is Maya Forstater the world’s foremost trans expert? The week in Trans 28/08/22
Unlike the first week of this trans media watch, which mostly centred around one story about JK Rowling, how she was the real victim of…
Have we got it wrong on dysphoria? Abigail Thorn discusses trans healthcare
I would prefer to centre desire and will when talking about transition. To me, transition is more than meeting a medical need, just like crossing the Rubicon was more than Caesar getting his feet wet. It’s taking your life in your hands and shaping it yourself. I think that’s beautiful. I didn’t transition to “alleviate my dysphoria,” I transitioned because I fucking wanted to. Who is the state, or a doctor, to tell me I can’t?
UK Health Secretary, Sajid Javid; “it’s important that words like women and men are used” in healthcare
The fact that transgender men and nonbinary people exist (and in the case of the former can have legal recognition of that fact) is enough to warrant the use of inclusive language. It’s not about beliefs or about ideologies, its about ensuring that people get the care they need and that requires going beyond primitive views of ‘basic biology’.