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crapcerealandpills.bsky.social
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/numb...

Remember how The Times claimed there was a 1,000 family class action against the Tavistock clinic?

We got a FOI out of them, it never happened.

"The Trust confirms that it has not received any complaints which have been persued by law firm Pogust Goodhead"
Number of complaints by families about Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS). - a Freedom of Information request to Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
With regards to the former Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS). For the period between 2012 and 2022 please provide the following information. 1) Total number of complaints made about this cl...
www.whatdotheyknow.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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stephaniejane.bsky.social
Every. Single. One. Of. Them.
Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org Many so-called GC feminists just don't care. I had drinks last summer - with someone very prominent - and I told her of those trans kids who *to my knowledge* had killed themselves and she said, casually, 'well, I'm not surprised, they are all mentally ill.' This is not a movement of kindness. /7 17:55 • 16 May 2025 Helen Joyce: "In the meantime while we try to get through to the decision-makers we have to limit the harm. And that means reducing or keeping down the number of people who transition, and that's for two reasons: one of them is that every one of those people is a person who's been damaged. But the second one is, every one of those people is basically you know - a huge problem to a sane world. Like if you've got people that - and whether they've transitioned, whether they're happily transitioned, whether they're unhappily transitioned, whether they're detransitioned - if you've got people who've dissociated from their sex in some way, every one of those people is someone who needs special accommodation in a sane world where we re-acknowledge the truth of sex. And I mean the people who've been damaged by it, the children who've been put through it those people deserve every accommodation we can possibly make. But every one is a difficulty." Helen Staniland: "Yes." Joyce: "I mean I know that sounds heartless. I'm trying to say exactly the opposite of sounding heartless. I'm saying every one of those people for 50, 60, 70 years is going to need things that the rest of us just don't need because the rest of us are just our sex. So the fewer of those people there are, the better, in the sane world that hope we will reach."
January 23, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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twinfold.bsky.social
@mmasnick.bsky.social at @techdirt.com highlights studies that expose how @albomp.bsky.social & @australianlabor.bsky.social got the #SocialMediaBan dead wrong.

The ban was never about protecting kids. Ever. #auspol

www.techdirt.com/2026/01/21/t...
January 23, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
It's incredible how effective transphobia is as a litmus test for SO many issues. Every time I find a new pro-surveillance tech stooge, they're transphobic. I think people need to understand how tightly the belief that the internet is turning everyone trans is bound up w mass surveillance efforts
Jonathan Haidt Promoted a Fringe Theory on Trans Youth — Assigned
The author of “The Anxiety Generation” told Margaret Hoover for PBS that young people become trans due to peer contagion effects. There is no evidence for this claim.
www.assignedmedia.org
January 23, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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reactiveashley.cat
I’ve seen drafts of this guidance several times before, but I’ve only just come across it in its published leaflet form.
A dark blue and red leaflet, titled A GUIDE TO THE SEX DISCRIMINATION gender reassignment REGULATIONS 1999, with gender reassignment in larger stylised letters. Logo of the DfEE, Department for Education and Employment. Page 14 Section. Flexibility regarding Dress Codes Many employers operate a Dress Code system. It is good practice to allow enough Rexibility in the dress code to accommodate the process of transition from one sex to the other. Good practice example: M was working as a sales assistant when she began her transition to female. Her employer discussed the possibility of temporary redeployment out of the public gaze, but M preferred to remain with her team. The company dress code was therefore relaxed along similar lines as for Muslim women and other groups, giving M flexibility over hair length and style, jewellery and makeup, prior to the point at which she felt comfortable in a skirt rather than trousers and without reference to any specific point of change of social gen-der. For a period some customers perceived her as female and others as male, but M felt happy to accept this, and indeed used the perceptions of customers as an indicator of when to begin presenting as unequivocally female. Section. Use of Single Sex Facilities The employer and employee should agree the point at which the use of facilities such as changing rooms and toilets should change from one sex to the other. An appropriate marker for using the facilities of the employee's "new" sex may, for example, be the point at which the individual begins to present permanently in the sex to which they identify. It is not acceptable to insist for the long term on a transsexual employee using separate facilities, for example a disabled toilet. Transsexual employees are entitled to expect support from their employer including any necessary discussions and explanations with other members of the workforce or members of the public. Similarly, a transsexual employee should be granted access to "men only" or "women only" areas according to the sex in which they permanently present. New page Section. The role of the Equal Opportunities Commission
January 22, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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gsoh31.bsky.social
So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
How Badenoch’s meeting with Mike Johnson led to Trump’s Chagos deal rant
A brief encounter set off a chain of events that culminated in a public rebuff to the US president from Keir Starmer
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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goodlawproject.org
"The harms young people experience online are not separate from the harms they face offline. Bullying, racism, sexism, coercion, exclusion and body image pressures all pre-date social media. Online platforms can amplify these problems, but do not create them from scratch": @emilysetty.bsky.social.
I research the harm that can come to teenagers on social media. I don’t support a ban – Emily Setty
The UK government has launched a consultation on introducing an Australian-style ban on social media for under-16s. The proposal is framed as a bold response to rising concerns about young people’s…
inforrm.org
January 22, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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sloanelysbeth.bsky.social
australia: our review in to gender-affirming care found the complete opposite of the cass review

labour: pfft

australia: we are banning under-16s from social media based on no evidence at all

labour: sounds amazing

notice how in both cases labour have gone with the option that harms lgbt+ kids
January 21, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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xlr8harder.bsky.social
If you liked what Twitter used to be, you could do a lot worse than logging over to give @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com article a boost in Nikita's dumb writing contest.

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January 21, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Appalled to your core by what Trump's fascist henchmen are doing in the United States? Well, read for yourself: Nigel Farage wants to repeat it in the United Kingdom.
Farage, who had previously said mass deportations were a "political impossibility", said his party had now come up with "a credible plan, so that we can deport hundreds of thousands of people over the five years of a Reform government". During the news conference, Farage asked Reform UK chair Zia Yusuf whether it was realistic to deport 500,000-600,000 people within the lifetime of the first Parliament under a Reform UK government, to which he replied "totally, yeah". Reform, which currently has just four MPs although it is leading in many opinion polls, has not specified what proportion of this number would come from future arrivals, or people already in the country.
January 21, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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owenboswarva.bsky.social
I see peers also supported Lord Nash's amendment to prohibit provision of VPN services to kids in the UK votes.parliament.uk/votes/lords/... + bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909/s...

Completely unworkable but that would be Ofcom's problem I guess?

#CWSBill #censorship #openweb #techpolicy #childrights
January 21, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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owenboswarva.bsky.social
Lords back UK #socialmediaban for under-16s www.bbc.com/news/article...

Transcript of today's "debate" in the UK House of Lords hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-0...

Lord Nash's Amendment 94A (agreed) bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909/s...

#CWSBill #censorship #openweb #techpolicy #childrights
January 21, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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alecmuffett.bsky.social
The UK is fucked. Stupid, stupid, stupid…

> Lord Nash moved amendment 92, after clause 27, to insert the new clause Action to prohibit the provision of VPN services to children in the United Kingdom.

votes.parliament.uk/votes/lords/...
January 21, 2026 at 9:02 PM
vampireviolet.bsky.social
Tory government in 2021:
petition.parliament.uk/archived/pet...
"restricting all users’ right to anonymity, by introducing compulsory user verification for social media, could disproportionately impact users who rely on anonymity to protect their identity."
Archived Petition: Make verified ID a requirement for opening a social media account.
Make it a legal requirement when opening a new social media account, to provide a verified form of ID. Where the account belongs to a person under the age of 18 verify the account with the ID of a par...
petition.parliament.uk
January 21, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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sheg7.bsky.social
Lets be very clear, the ONLY reason the government is banning social media for under 16s is to attempt to curb the Greens' popularity among young voters at the next election.

1/3
January 20, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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esqueer.net
Eithan Haim, according to the indictment, used false pretenses to access Texas Children's Hospital's EHR management system to access the medical records of trans youth and hand it to Christopher Rufo in a blatant violation of HIPAA. Now Elon is bankrolling his lawfare against the hospital.
Screenshot of a post on X/Twitter by Eithan Haim, MD (@EithanHaim). In a long text post, he thanks Elon Musk, X Corp, and the legal teams at Schaer Jaffe and Burke Law Group for supporting him. He says he was able to fight back against what he calls an unjust prosecution by telling the truth, and that X allowed people to see that truth, calling the platform an “incalculable force for good.” He gives special praise to his lawyer, Marcella Burke, describing her as a “guardian angel” who took great personal risk, sacrificed for two years, and made it possible for him to remain with his wife and daughter. Below the text is a linked news article preview with the headline: “EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk Funds Suit Against Texas Children’s For ‘Malicious Prosecution’ Of Eithan Haim,” credited to Mary Margaret Olohan, dated January 21, 2026. The subheadline says a tech billionaire backs a doctor who blew the whistle on secret transgender surgeries at Texas Children’s Hospital. The preview image shows Elon Musk smiling on the left and Eithan Haim speaking into a microphone on the right. The post shows a timestamp of 8:51 AM on Jan 21, 2026, and approximately 46.2K views.
January 21, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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princesscore.meangirls.online
this is just actually evil. an indictment on the entirety of the uk's medical ethics. i wish i could say on this website what these researchers deserve
According to The Guardian, one of the two studies, the Pathways Trial, will randomly divide some 226 participants between the ages of 10 and 16 into two groups. One will receive puberty blocking medication immediately, while the second will receive the medication after a year. Participants' quality of life, emotional well-being, and physical development will be compared to those of a third group, which will not receive puberty blockers.
January 21, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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sexabolition.blog
prospect.org/2026/01/14/i...

You don't need to share Pink News' regurgitation of a story broken by other outlets, you can share original reporting instead.
January 20, 2026 at 7:48 AM
vampireviolet.bsky.social
Why is trending hidden near the bottom? I can barely notice it.
January 20, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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taliabhatt.itch.io
Brianna Ghey was targeted by classmates who knew her offline. Online, she made friends and a community, and was making content to help other trans kids like her.

This is a grieving mother pushing for legislation that would have further isolated her trans child, that is supported by transphobes.
January 19, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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sloanelysbeth.bsky.social
brianna ghey wasn't murdered by social media.

she was murdered by kids from her school.
January 19, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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hleehurley.com
Front page of today's Times - "Baroness Cass backs ban on social media for under-16s".

She has an article in today's Times which I shall clip and post below
January 19, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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hleehurley.com
"Trans zealots" - it was one trans woman who'd worked without issue for 4 years until this lot came along
Celebrating with a cheeky Nando’s (and a few glasses of wine) the nurses hailed as ‘heroines’ by JK Rowling for vanquishing the trans zealots The Mail on Sunday18 Jan 2026 By JENNY JOHNSTON
January 18, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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mikestabile.bsky.social
Iowa has introduced a head-bangingly idiotic bill that would mandate facial scans and IDs in order to access ISPs, cloud services, wireless services, search engines, cable and seemingly any other telecommunication that might traffic in "obscene" content.

www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/...
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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jessothomson.co.uk
Still not seen the full judgment, but notably the ET dismissed the harassment claim against Rose Henderson, the trans woman in the Darlington Nurses case.

Yet another trans woman who has been publicly demonised after doing nothing wrong.
January 16, 2026 at 11:58 AM