Dr Addi Haran Dimam
addihd.bsky.social
Dr Addi Haran Dimam
@addihd.bsky.social
Scholar, activist, relentless optimist / Former President of the Oxford University Students’ Union, OULGBTQ+ Society / Previously researched and taught political behavior at Oxford / she/her 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌱🟣✡️
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I know cruelty is the point but… man this one is just especially ghoulish. They say they’re doing this to “protect the kids” but it’s always been so painfully obvious what the truth is. The want trans kids to die, to disappear, to be erased.
February 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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There are monsters among us: The politicians doing this. “It’s not ethical to stop treatment in any patient, whether it’s hormone treatment or anything else, without measuring the consequences of what you’re doing. You can’t just stop medication and say, ‘Good luck.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/n...
Trans Youth Are Rattled by Efforts to Ban Gender Care. So Are Hospitals.
President Trump’s executive order threatening hospitals’ funding if they provide gender transition care for youth has caused chaos in the transgender health landscape.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Reposted by Dr Addi Haran Dimam
Almost everything you hear about the Government is filtered through the framing of the British press.

But what is already clear after six months of Keir Starmer’s administration is that they don’t treat all governments equally...

My latest in an occasional series:
Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Reposted by Dr Addi Haran Dimam
This care worker was bitten by a patient and nearly lost her finger. But because she was on a zero-hours contract, she didn’t get a single penny in sick pay...

🚨 It's time to ban zero-hours contracts and deliver the New Deal for Working People in full.

metro.co.uk/2025/01/22/w...
Being attacked at work made me realise how little I was valued
My attempts to force him off me were met with resistance, and all the while his teeth stayed clamped around my finger.
metro.co.uk
January 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM