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.
As Michael Gove joins the nearly quarter of Tory MPs standing down at the election, the joke that 'would the last person leaving the Tory party please turn off the lights' seems to be ever more apposite.
For many Gove's departure will be welcome, but it also reinforces the notion that the post-election Tory party may be very different from its most recent manifestation.
The Q. will be, will they swing further to the right, shift to the 'centre', of collapse into fragments?
@ChrisMayLA6 The membership, which will be selecting the replacements with indecent haste, have already shown us which way they lean. Imagine an intake of trussalikes. The generation of members that sought and valued steadiness, a moral compass and one-nation values has already been buried, and with them any prospect of swinging back where Conservatives once stood.
Happy twentieth birthday to the Gender Recognition Act — once groundbreaking, now overdue for an update to catch-up with legislation that overtook it, but hopefully at least safe from the unhinged extreme right of the Conservative Party. Read how we forced Labour to pass it on 25th May 2004. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00PB84AUM
The New York Times sticks its thumb on the scale in the matter of Dr Cass’s review, burying a response letter from US paediatricians whilst issuing a push notification to readers for its interview with Cass.
TOMORROW: It’s twenty years since Parliament overwhelmingly passed the Gender Recognition Act. That means it’s been law for longer than many young trans people have been alive. This is the foreword to Volume 2 of my book series about achieving that landmark, Pressing Matters.
NB. The reason Commons passage was the definitive vote stage was because the Bill had started life by being debated and voted by the Lords and then moving to the Commons.
We’ll shortly discover whether the people of Islington are inherently Corbyn voters or Labour voters. If there are any significant numbers of the former the vote will be split.
19 years ago today Stephen Whittle and I had a day out at Buckingham Palace having medals pinned on us by the now-King for services to trans people. Afterwards my daughter and I had afternoon tea with my MP, Sir Gerald Kaufman in the Commons tea room. I’ve always thought Stephen really suits formal attire. Hard to reconcile the state’s performance of respect for trans people then with what the Tories have done in the last 6-7 years.
This is how a chaos agent like Marjorie Taylor Greene, overseen by a weak committee chair, throws a congressional committee into chaos. She’s not there to do work in any conventional sense.
I can’t believe Amazon are paying me £0.01 for pages of my self-published stuff that someone read with Kindle Unlimited in March. I’ve had some paltry payments in the last 11 years but 1 penny from Kindle UK is a record low 😂 My bank is going to just love processing that.
“Dr. Kellan Baker, Executive Director of Whitman-Walker Institute, and an expert in transgender health, says transgender people — like all people — deserve access to necessary medical care that’s backed by decades of scientific and medical evidence. “
“He noted that the May 15th committee hearing featured extensive and intentional distortions of this evidence base in an attempt to mislead the American public and further advance the medically unsound and discriminatory bans on this care that are currently on the books in more than 20 states.”
This Friday, 24th May, will be the 17th anniversary of when I first set up a social media account. I wouldn’t venture onto Twitter till late 2008. In those days Facebook had a chronological timeline and asked me to complete the sentence ‘Christine is…’. And when I first joined 160 character Twitter, people took the piss and I really couldn’t say what the point of it was. We’ve certainly all been on a journey.
@pluralistic@ChrisMayLA6 I’m wearing a very basic plain colour T-shirt from M&S. some bright spark decided to print branding direct on the fabric where a neck label would usually go. It’s obviously the save money. The trouble is that after one wash at 40 degrees the white printed lettering printed itself as a whitish smear on the outside of the fabric at bust level, meaning that after one wash it couldn’t be used as smart wear. That’s a new low in enshitification.
... The complete disregard for how an institution's actions & inactions impact on those at the bottom of the 'pyramid' & the subsequent attempt to evade responsibility for the harm caused when publicised.
(you'll have other you'd like to add to the list, I'm sure)
A damning picture of misused power & disregard for others.
I sometimes thought my father thought he could't die while he still had books on his pending pile (a stab at immortality I seem to be replicating)... so, it was strangely touching to see Tom Gauld has had similar thoughts.
@jrbee@ChrisMayLA6@bookstodon Just remember that some books you lay down for the future may ultimately turn out to be the literary equivalent of corked!
