Editor of Trans Britain. #Author of Pressing Matters. Lifetime Achievement Award PrideOfManchester 2021. Drove an 8 year old #EV called Peggy and now drives Olga who is one year old.
Posts about #climate mitigation, #trans moral panic, #books. Was #retired. Checked out but unable to leave. She/Her.
Gemma Collins says doctors advised her to terminate her pregnancy because tests indicated it might be intersex.
If that’s the full background then that’s a horrible reason to terminate a foetus. The way this story frames it makes it a ‘poor me’ story about a minor ‘celeb’ but I’m thinking ‘poor child’
Just a tip: If NHS England succeeds in shutting down alternative routes for trans people to buy cross sex hormones that are legal to buy over the counter in other countries then they will have completed a proof of concept of the means to shut down unofficial ways of buying oral contraceptives and morning after pills. They’ve already tested how to shut down a crucial one of its kind clinic by painting it as scary…
…You may think a British government wouldn’t do that to things cisgender people have had for sixty years but the right’s politics have shifted so dramatically that the possibility is now there. As we’ve told folks many times, they practice first on the trans people in the belief that nobody cares enough about us to step in.
There’s something sick about threatening the desperate families of trans youngsters with a safeguarding referral when pulling the rug on their lifeline and gearing up to do actual harm with the full force of the state. At times like these, faced with officially mandated harmful practice, people need to get organising among themselves for self-protection from irreversible harm. Keep it simple. Keep it distributed. Don’t rely on one potential point of failure. Above all, look after each other.
@mloxton Oh definitely. And vote for what is capable of winning, not just to ‘send a message’ or make your principles feel better. Sending futile messages is a luxury nobody can afford right now. Be cynical as hell, determined to at least ensure the Tories and their ‘think tank’ buddies are nowhere near the levers of power. Do that even if it means voting for the party you also don’t like.
Advance warning. The Gender Recognition Bill was passed in an overwhelming majority on a free vote in Parliament on 25th May 2004. That means the twentieth anniversary will be two weeks today. If you wonder how we achieved that back then read Volume 2 of my insider history, ‘Pressing Matters’. It’s about teamwork and single mindedness — crucial skills that need to be reapplied today. You can read Volume 2 stand-alone if you prefer. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0753GPBLK
This is the site of the place in Islington where trans people used to meet, socialise and swap advice back in the 1970s, long before search engines and online pharmacies. There were groups like this around the country as described in my book Trans Britain. These were places you could rely on finding someone with the contacts to get you the hormones you wanted — at a price. #TransHistory is the manual for when the trans present gets tricky. Sad if we have to go back there.
After the Armistice of 1918, immediately it was safe to travel to Europe, the mother of the child who grew up to become Ewan Forbes-Semphill, took them to see the foremost experts on transgender people at the time and sourced the early form of drugs that would help avert the irreversible effects of female puberty and allow them to grow up a young man. Transgender hormone therapy is really that old #TransHistory
I foresee a lot of trans people taking a sudden interest in VPNs. It’s that or a return to the physical black market of the pre-Internet era. Trans people have always sourced the medications they need and the only thing officials will do by attempting to stifle access is push people underground. You’d think that free market libertarians like the Tories would understand that markets always respond to unmet needs.
There are various reports that some kind of parasitic worm got into antivax presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy’s brain, ate some of it and died there. The remains of the worm show up on brain scans.
The part that grabbed my attention is that the worm — evidently a species used to getting into bodies and living there — died from eating part of RFK’s brain. Has there ever been a more open and shut case of a toxic mind?
The message of this Trans+ History Week is disarmingly simple but vitally important. Here it is in today’s Metro — the free newspaper for London’s commuters.
Fun fact: 90% of the 1 million EVs on Britain’s roads were registered in the last four years. The next million seem likely to appear in the next two years, with 300,000 in 2024 alone. https://newautomotive.org/ecc
Detailed new car registrations in Britain for April are now published by the SMMT industry body. EV sales are up by 10.7% compared with April 2023 and by up 10.6% in Jan-Apr (107K vs 97K). Diesel sales are down 25.3%. BEVs are the second largest sales category next to petrol. Yet the media want you to think EV sales are somehow slumped.
