alan_b
alan_b
@alan-be.bsky.social
Scottish.
Retired GP.
Grumpy.
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My blog post on the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial:

"Ten million pounds and two hundred childhoods, spent not to discover whether puberty blockers “work”, but to postpone the moment when the NHS finally has to admit they never did and never could."

www.quackometer.net/blog/2025/11...
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Has anyone else been following the employment tribunal in Northern Ireland of Sara Morrison Vs Belfast Film Festival? It all got a little heated yesterday. Nick Wallis explains. (Links to the previous days on his blog.)
genderblog.net/tribunal-bia...
Tribunal bias claim: Panelist steps down
Professor Deborah Boyd A member of the panel convened to decide the outcome of Sara Morrison’s discrimination claim against Belfast Film Festival has stepped down after Morrison’s legal…
genderblog.net
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The UK government's attempt to delay the EHRC's guidance following the For Women Scotland Supreme Court ruling. Analysis from Naomi Cunningham.
www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2025/10/31/c...
Cracking the Code -
The Times has reported that “it has emerged” that ministers have demanded a regulatory impact assessment of the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice before it can be laid before parliament and brought into f...
www.legalfeminist.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Helen Joyce on the BBC
open.substack.com/pub/helenjoy...
Why the BBC deserves to be defunded
It’s degenerated into a propaganda machine
open.substack.com
August 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Sue Evans is appealling the judicial review of the registration of the GenderPlus clinic.
www.crowdjustice.com/case/protect...
PROTECT TEENAGERS FROM HARMFUL AND IRREVERSIBLE MEDICAL TREATMENT
I was in the NHS for nearly 40 years & I am now a psychotherapist in private practice. I have worked psychologically with people who present with issues around their gender identity for over 20 years
www.crowdjustice.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Naomi Cunningham describes the issue clearly.
July 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Michael Foran going live on Substack shortly to discuss today's hearing. I'm anticipating a lively discussion.
knowingius.org
I assume you need a subscription to listen live, but the recording will be available later.
Knowing Ius | Michael Foran | Substack
Writing and podcasting about law for a public audience. Quite a bit about discrimination law, sex, and gender identity. Sometimes about other areas of law. Click to read Knowing Ius, by Michael Foran,...
knowingius.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Michael Foran
"Sandie Peggie has requested nothing more than what she is entitled to under law: a single sex changing facility at work."
thecritic.co.uk/the-truth-ab...
The truth about work, single-sex spaces and the law | Michael Foran | The Critic Magazine
Last week an Employment Tribunal heard evidence in the case of Peggie v NHS Fife and Dr Elizabeth Upton, who is male but identifies as a woman. Sandie Peggie, a nurse of thirty years’ experience…
thecritic.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
open.substack.com/pub/knowingi...
When Michael Foran started these updates, he thought they'd be about 15 minutes. The Friday update, done last night, ran for almost two hours, at which point his phone battery ran out.
A month's subscription to his Substack is well worth the price of admission.
open.substack.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"Lia Thomas wasn’t barred from female sports for being “transgender”; he was barred for being a male... Trans-identifying males remain fully eligible to compete in UPenn athletics—on the men’s team."
open.substack.com/pub/colinwri...
UPenn Bans Men from Women’s Sports
The school has reinstated the records of female swimmers who lost their titles to a male competitor.
open.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Not more charges, more allegations. Which if they lead to charges, would prevent discussion of the quality of the previous evidence in the media. Tactical? That would be an ecumenical matter.
archive.is/ZZkxB
July 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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“The trans movement claims … That Americans turned on them before they had a chance to connect. But I contend the opposite: America did meet the movement—and what they saw disturbed them.”
June 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
On the BBC's analysis of the UK Supreme Court judgement.
seeninjournalism.substack.com/p/we-told-bb...
We told BBC Politics about the errors in its Newscast
It took seven pages to list the problems with its Victoria McCloud Interview
seeninjournalism.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
June 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The controversy surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has finally reached its predictable conclusion. After months of heated debate, media misdirection, and legal posturing, the truth has emerged—again.
substack.com/@colinwright...
Imane Khelif Is Male—And the Evidence Was Always Clear
The leaked DNA test didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know. Had we put truth before ideology from the beginning, this wouldn’t have been a controversy at all.
substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM