Dr Christine Mimnagh (she/her)
@christinemimnagh.bsky.social
35 years of Medicine
GP, Gender Specialist,
Sax Player and Nerd
GP, Gender Specialist,
Sax Player and Nerd
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Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
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Some thoughts on the Levy Review:
- it's mostly but not entirely okay
- if you're in England, opt out of data collection
- it avoids confronting the biggest problems
- it ignores 15 years of health research
- there are clear examples of better practice
- move trans health to primary care already!
- it's mostly but not entirely okay
- if you're in England, opt out of data collection
- it avoids confronting the biggest problems
- it ignores 15 years of health research
- there are clear examples of better practice
- move trans health to primary care already!
Some thoughts on the Levy Review
On 18 December, NHS England quietly published the report of Dr David Levy’s review of adult gender clinics. The report’s official title is the massively dry Operational and delivery rev…
ruthpearce.net
December 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Some thoughts on the Levy Review:
- it's mostly but not entirely okay
- if you're in England, opt out of data collection
- it avoids confronting the biggest problems
- it ignores 15 years of health research
- there are clear examples of better practice
- move trans health to primary care already!
- it's mostly but not entirely okay
- if you're in England, opt out of data collection
- it avoids confronting the biggest problems
- it ignores 15 years of health research
- there are clear examples of better practice
- move trans health to primary care already!
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Half Ma’am Half Brisket
December 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Half Ma’am Half Brisket
Just a thought.
How quick the NHS can move when it wants to.
How quick the NHS can move when it wants to.
December 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Just a thought.
How quick the NHS can move when it wants to.
How quick the NHS can move when it wants to.
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Back in 2019, Deborah Cohen and Hannah Barnes ran an anti-trans 'news' laundering scam using their privileged positions as Newsnight journalists, as well as Deb Cohen's position as an editor at the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
THIS is the real 'scandal' - one about BBC journalists as lobbyists...
THIS is the real 'scandal' - one about BBC journalists as lobbyists...
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Back in 2019, Deborah Cohen and Hannah Barnes ran an anti-trans 'news' laundering scam using their privileged positions as Newsnight journalists, as well as Deb Cohen's position as an editor at the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
THIS is the real 'scandal' - one about BBC journalists as lobbyists...
THIS is the real 'scandal' - one about BBC journalists as lobbyists...
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It was used by Hannah Barnes to *manufacture* the appearance of ‘concerns’ about healthcare for trans youth
This ought to be a titanic scandal
This ought to be a titanic scandal
Back in 2019, Deborah Cohen and Hannah Barnes ran an anti-trans 'news' laundering scam using their privileged positions as Newsnight journalists, as well as Deb Cohen's position as an editor at the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
THIS is the real 'scandal' - one about BBC journalists as lobbyists...
THIS is the real 'scandal' - one about BBC journalists as lobbyists...
December 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It was used by Hannah Barnes to *manufacture* the appearance of ‘concerns’ about healthcare for trans youth
This ought to be a titanic scandal
This ought to be a titanic scandal
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Britain’s Equalities Commission continues on its crusade to persecute trans ppl.
It is quoted as saying ‘Nobody is expecting there to be a toilet police.’ In fact members of the so-called gender critical have asked for armed men to police the loos!
The journo writes of ‘controversy and anger …
It is quoted as saying ‘Nobody is expecting there to be a toilet police.’ In fact members of the so-called gender critical have asked for armed men to police the loos!
The journo writes of ‘controversy and anger …
Equality boss expects people to 'follow rules' over single-sex spaces
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson said "things could be sorted out if there is goodwill and recognition that everybody has rights".
www.bbc.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Britain’s Equalities Commission continues on its crusade to persecute trans ppl.
It is quoted as saying ‘Nobody is expecting there to be a toilet police.’ In fact members of the so-called gender critical have asked for armed men to police the loos!
The journo writes of ‘controversy and anger …
It is quoted as saying ‘Nobody is expecting there to be a toilet police.’ In fact members of the so-called gender critical have asked for armed men to police the loos!
The journo writes of ‘controversy and anger …
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"I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career."
An act like this is, in itself, a victory for kindness and empathy.
An act like this is, in itself, a victory for kindness and empathy.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
"I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career."
An act like this is, in itself, a victory for kindness and empathy.
An act like this is, in itself, a victory for kindness and empathy.
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From this infinite monkey, I offer a heart and a mind that is open to so many possibilities of what it is to be human, hopefully other members of the gang will feel similarly #translivesmatter #lgbtq
December 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
From this infinite monkey, I offer a heart and a mind that is open to so many possibilities of what it is to be human, hopefully other members of the gang will feel similarly #translivesmatter #lgbtq
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The thing about all the anti-trans sports panic: people argue this stuff while talking about elite level sports, but because there aren't actually a ton of superhuman trans women blowing away the competition, the people actually affected end up being those who play sports for fun/socialization
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The thing about all the anti-trans sports panic: people argue this stuff while talking about elite level sports, but because there aren't actually a ton of superhuman trans women blowing away the competition, the people actually affected end up being those who play sports for fun/socialization
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Off to bed and thinking about the millionaire comedians who were too poor to say no to Riyadh comedy festival - please spare a thought for ‘free speech absolutist” JIMMY CARR
December 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Off to bed and thinking about the millionaire comedians who were too poor to say no to Riyadh comedy festival - please spare a thought for ‘free speech absolutist” JIMMY CARR
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Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I wonder if the Levy review will drop tomorrow
December 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I wonder if the Levy review will drop tomorrow
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I've forgotten who said it first, but one of the grossest points of our currently landscape is the expectation that we should received clearly disorted and self-serving statements and actions from those in power in good faith and go along with their absurdities
"All I did was embolden a series of anti-queer, right-wing and anti-trans hate groups, and now there are more anti-queer hate crimes! I am appalled"
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
Keir Starmer's fury after niece and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I've forgotten who said it first, but one of the grossest points of our currently landscape is the expectation that we should received clearly disorted and self-serving statements and actions from those in power in good faith and go along with their absurdities
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Even Hilary Cass - who disgracefully called parents terrified that their trans kids would take their own lives if they were denied healthcare "shroud wavers" - didn't go so far as to call for a ban on puberty blockers.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Even Hilary Cass - who disgracefully called parents terrified that their trans kids would take their own lives if they were denied healthcare "shroud wavers" - didn't go so far as to call for a ban on puberty blockers.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
Waiting for the defence of the new puberty blockers trial on #radio4Today following the unhappy nurse therapist giving her opinion.
Surely a programme as pro trans as the Today programme will have someone? #sarcasm
Surely a programme as pro trans as the Today programme will have someone? #sarcasm
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Waiting for the defence of the new puberty blockers trial on #radio4Today following the unhappy nurse therapist giving her opinion.
Surely a programme as pro trans as the Today programme will have someone? #sarcasm
Surely a programme as pro trans as the Today programme will have someone? #sarcasm
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The trail will involve 220 children.
Meanwhile 3000 another children seeking health care for their gender dysphoria will be placed on an ‘observational’ study.
The old ‘watch and wait’ is how Alice was treated. Although this time there might be someone actually watching, this is not health care.🧵
Meanwhile 3000 another children seeking health care for their gender dysphoria will be placed on an ‘observational’ study.
The old ‘watch and wait’ is how Alice was treated. Although this time there might be someone actually watching, this is not health care.🧵
Puberty Blocker clinical trials to begin
on the NHS
- The trial will involve around 220 children under 16
- Young people will “undergo intensive medical and psychological screening”, including Gillick competency evaluation
- Trial: Group 1 will get PBs straight away vs Group 2, 12 months later
on the NHS
- The trial will involve around 220 children under 16
- Young people will “undergo intensive medical and psychological screening”, including Gillick competency evaluation
- Trial: Group 1 will get PBs straight away vs Group 2, 12 months later
New puberty blockers clinical trial to begin after UK ban - BBC News
Those taking part in the study will be children under 16 who are going through puberty.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The trail will involve 220 children.
Meanwhile 3000 another children seeking health care for their gender dysphoria will be placed on an ‘observational’ study.
The old ‘watch and wait’ is how Alice was treated. Although this time there might be someone actually watching, this is not health care.🧵
Meanwhile 3000 another children seeking health care for their gender dysphoria will be placed on an ‘observational’ study.
The old ‘watch and wait’ is how Alice was treated. Although this time there might be someone actually watching, this is not health care.🧵
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I see 80s hairstyles are making a comb back.
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I see 80s hairstyles are making a comb back.
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Ed Davey is Starmer's conscience.
Lib Dem Leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk:
"A great British institution is under attack from a foreign government. President Trump is trying to destroy our BBC... Trump has undermined press freedom in America. Now he's trying to do the same here, disgracefully egged on by the leader of Reform."
"A great British institution is under attack from a foreign government. President Trump is trying to destroy our BBC... Trump has undermined press freedom in America. Now he's trying to do the same here, disgracefully egged on by the leader of Reform."
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Ed Davey is Starmer's conscience.
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Wes Streeting as prime minister would be devastating for trans rights
Wes Streeting as prime minister would be devastating for trans rights
As Wes Streeting denies rumours he is trying to overthrow Keir Starmer as Labour leader, here's a reminder of his track record.
www.thepinknews.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Wes Streeting as prime minister would be devastating for trans rights
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@alastaircampbell.bsky.social speaks openly about SENIOR members of the BBC being “so far over in the JK Rowling (read: ‘gender critical’ obsessive transphobe) camp”
Let’s just stop and think about this for a moment…
Let’s just stop and think about this for a moment…
November 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
@alastaircampbell.bsky.social speaks openly about SENIOR members of the BBC being “so far over in the JK Rowling (read: ‘gender critical’ obsessive transphobe) camp”
Let’s just stop and think about this for a moment…
Let’s just stop and think about this for a moment…
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What's fascinating here is that as she rhymes off the list of gender critical people at Newsnight pursuing an explicitly gender critical agenda, in the context of a discussion of ideological capture at the BBC, she doesn't recognise that she was part of the ideological capture of the BBC by GCs.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
What's fascinating here is that as she rhymes off the list of gender critical people at Newsnight pursuing an explicitly gender critical agenda, in the context of a discussion of ideological capture at the BBC, she doesn't recognise that she was part of the ideological capture of the BBC by GCs.
Fascinating. So you can’t trust @BBCPanorama - unless it’s about trans people in which case they’re solid.
Must admit- I’m struggling to see pro trans bias
Must admit- I’m struggling to see pro trans bias
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Fascinating. So you can’t trust @BBCPanorama - unless it’s about trans people in which case they’re solid.
Must admit- I’m struggling to see pro trans bias
Must admit- I’m struggling to see pro trans bias
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This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men.
This will be used to abuse.
This will be used to abuse.
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men.
This will be used to abuse.
This will be used to abuse.