Rachael Hodges
rachaelllh.bsky.social
Rachael Hodges
@rachaelllh.bsky.social
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it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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With so much abuse from cis men still covered up , with so much misogyny rife , with anti trans activists starting to turn towards abortion rights - well done to all the bigots who decided relentless abuse of trans kids was the solution #translives
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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📈New data from the ONS shows for the first time, more adults in GB vape than smoke.
👀5.4 million people now vape compared to 4.9 million who smoke.
Vaping, while not risk-free, is less harmful and helps many people to quit for good.
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Adult smoking habits in the UK - Office for National Statistics
Cigarette smoking habits among adults in the UK, including how many people smoke, differences between population groups, changes over time and use of e-cigarettes.
www.ons.gov.uk
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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📢 We’re recruiting members to the FFFAP Scientific advisory group.

Help drive new research, champion quality improvement, and shape national work using falls and fragility fracture data.

🔗Apply now: ow.ly/lL9850X63ge
October 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Goodbye Matt Beard: the Del Boy of women’s football who took Liverpool to two WSL titles
Goodbye Matt Beard: the Del Boy of women’s football who took Liverpool to two WSL titles
Popular coach who believed in the women’s game when few did and cared for his players like they were his daughters On a tour around Liverpool’s revamped women’s training site at Melwood in 2024, of all the grand improvements to the building that Matt Beard could have pointed out with pride, one specific addition meant more to him than any other. It was a painting of his late father, done by a close friend, attached to the wall in his corner office, and his affection for that gift summed up his deep love for family, which is just one reason why the thoughts of so many people in women’s football turned immediately to his wife, children and all of his loved ones, after the shock news of his death at the age of just 47. The Beard family’s loss is being felt all across the sport on a deeply sad weekend for the women’s game, as he is remembered for his ability to make people laugh and his ability to win football matches. Straight-talking in press conferences, but then charming off the microphone, he made time for fans, for fundraising events and for the pub. Some saw him as the “Del Boy of women’s football”, good at finding a bargain in the transfer market and fiercely proud of his London roots, but as a coach he was certainly no plonker – his achievements as a manager make him the most successful women’s-team coach in Liverpool’s history and undoubtedly one of the best of the Women’s Super League era. Even before the division was founded in 2011, he was already a key figure in the development of the women’s game and he fiercely championed its growth long before it entered the mainstream. Continue reading...
dlvr.it
September 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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What we're dealing with is the results of collapsing Sure Start, punishing local austerity, an exodus from mainstream schools with no adequate funding of specialist settings, a mental health crisis that ballooned on their watch , and more. Not 'overdiagnosis'. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Young people being ‘overdiagnosed’ with mental ill health – Hunt
The former health secretary argued that society has ‘lost sight of the fundamental reality that child development is a messy and uneven process’.
www.independent.co.uk
August 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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behold: a woman
August 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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This is the end result of anti-trans bigotry: more harassment of girls and women, more policing of gender roles, more gender McCarthyism.
July 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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So basically just sort of banning people who enjoy a sport for fun really?
May 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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slegendary performance for arsenal here
April 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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horrible horrible horrible horrible! horrible! inhuman and petty and cruel! horrible!
Asked if Keir Starmer still believes that a trans woman is a woman, his spokesman replies "no".

Says that trans women must now use men's bathrooms
April 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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An important reminder as the Supreme Court makes its judgement - not a single trans person was heard from at any point during this case before them, even a trans judge who applied was refused.

This is, as usual, the British state acting as cis people to impose their will on trans people.
April 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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The reshaping of NHS national bodies has only just started. How will it finish?

Following the announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Siva Anandaciva considers the implications and why at the moment there are more questions than answers.

www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
The Reshaping Of NHS National Bodies Has Only Just Started. How Will It Finish? | The King's Fund
Following the announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Siva Anandaciva considers the implications and why at the moment there are more questions than answers.
www.kingsfund.org.uk
March 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM