Joe
@smthjoedr.bsky.social
GUM/HIV/GIC. Incorrigible rogue. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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"If one actually did a survey on this sort of thing nationally"
This has been done, trans people are disproportionately found in the most deprived areas of the country.
transsafety.network/posts/study-...
This has been done, trans people are disproportionately found in the most deprived areas of the country.
transsafety.network/posts/study-...
May 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"If one actually did a survey on this sort of thing nationally"
This has been done, trans people are disproportionately found in the most deprived areas of the country.
transsafety.network/posts/study-...
This has been done, trans people are disproportionately found in the most deprived areas of the country.
transsafety.network/posts/study-...
I've thought this! In spite of the swirling threats of violence around us, there are more and more of us coming out, all the time. We won't lose this war.
I saw multiple trans women I didn't know on my commute to work today. Unthinkable just a few years ago.
May 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I've thought this! In spite of the swirling threats of violence around us, there are more and more of us coming out, all the time. We won't lose this war.
Yeah - I was in the placebo arm of the Astra Zeneca trial (and subsequently unblinded to receive two doses, and 3x Pfizer boosters since)...
1/ Yesterday, it was announced that RFK Jr. is requiring placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines—potentially delaying this fall’s COVID shots as well as the approval of other vaccines. RFK Jr.’s repeated claims is that vaccines were “never tested against placebos” is simply not true 👇
May 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Yeah - I was in the placebo arm of the Astra Zeneca trial (and subsequently unblinded to receive two doses, and 3x Pfizer boosters since)...
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1/ Yesterday, it was announced that RFK Jr. is requiring placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines—potentially delaying this fall’s COVID shots as well as the approval of other vaccines. RFK Jr.’s repeated claims is that vaccines were “never tested against placebos” is simply not true 👇
May 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
1/ Yesterday, it was announced that RFK Jr. is requiring placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines—potentially delaying this fall’s COVID shots as well as the approval of other vaccines. RFK Jr.’s repeated claims is that vaccines were “never tested against placebos” is simply not true 👇
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“Trans women have never felt like a risk or a threat or a problem. While I can’t speak for everyone I honestly can’t think of an example where our trans-inclusive policy has been a problem for a service user.”
- Katie Russell, CEO of a rape crisis support service.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Katie Russell, CEO of a rape crisis support service.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Trans women have never felt a threat’: women’s refuges grapple with supreme court ruling
UK gender decision ignites debate among professionals working in the domestic abuse and rape crisis spheres
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“Trans women have never felt like a risk or a threat or a problem. While I can’t speak for everyone I honestly can’t think of an example where our trans-inclusive policy has been a problem for a service user.”
- Katie Russell, CEO of a rape crisis support service.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Katie Russell, CEO of a rape crisis support service.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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this is probably super obvious but bears repeating loudly and often: if you’re a trans worker in the UK, you need to join a union STAT.
the workplace is where a lot of the pressure from the Supreme Court ruling is going to hit hardest and first.
the workplace is where a lot of the pressure from the Supreme Court ruling is going to hit hardest and first.
April 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
this is probably super obvious but bears repeating loudly and often: if you’re a trans worker in the UK, you need to join a union STAT.
the workplace is where a lot of the pressure from the Supreme Court ruling is going to hit hardest and first.
the workplace is where a lot of the pressure from the Supreme Court ruling is going to hit hardest and first.
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Sending love and support to all trans, non-binary and gender queer people today (and every day).
💜 💜 💜
💜 💜 💜
April 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Sending love and support to all trans, non-binary and gender queer people today (and every day).
💜 💜 💜
💜 💜 💜
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2. Trans men and non-binary people with a cervix who have M on their medical record can now ask their GP to opt them in to the cervical cancer screening call/recall system. Thank you to the people that worked so hard to make this happen.
April 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
2. Trans men and non-binary people with a cervix who have M on their medical record can now ask their GP to opt them in to the cervical cancer screening call/recall system. Thank you to the people that worked so hard to make this happen.
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frankly the deep cut gay misogyny paralysis of standing there in the kitchen holding a dishcloth like a revolver, each trying to decide if the bottom is also responsible for doing the dishes is toxic relationship fuel enough for an entire TV series
April 6, 2025 at 7:32 AM
frankly the deep cut gay misogyny paralysis of standing there in the kitchen holding a dishcloth like a revolver, each trying to decide if the bottom is also responsible for doing the dishes is toxic relationship fuel enough for an entire TV series
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How far the overton window has shifted?
March 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
How far the overton window has shifted?
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I said to my 7yo tonight that the most important question in the world is "What if?" & that since the only thing we can actually (kinda) control is ourselves, that makes, "What if I ...?" the best starting point for any thought process.
"What if I was awesome?"
"What if I respected myself?"
"What if I was awesome?"
"What if I respected myself?"
What are some words you use to motivate yourself?
As someone who's working on no longer engaging in negative self-talk, I'm moving away from "I want to be proud of myself."
But, I'm having trouble replacing that phrase.
"I want to _______."
I don't know what goes in the blank.
As someone who's working on no longer engaging in negative self-talk, I'm moving away from "I want to be proud of myself."
But, I'm having trouble replacing that phrase.
"I want to _______."
I don't know what goes in the blank.
April 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I said to my 7yo tonight that the most important question in the world is "What if?" & that since the only thing we can actually (kinda) control is ourselves, that makes, "What if I ...?" the best starting point for any thought process.
"What if I was awesome?"
"What if I respected myself?"
"What if I was awesome?"
"What if I respected myself?"
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Wrote this in 2021 - visibility means danger for trans people, but we cannot underestimate the power of seeing and connecting with one another.
Trans Visibility, Modelling Possibility
Lost for words The first time I knowingly met someone who was almost certainly trans I didn’t have the language to understand what was happening. It was pretty awkward for us both. I must hav…
ruthpearce.net
March 31, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Wrote this in 2021 - visibility means danger for trans people, but we cannot underestimate the power of seeing and connecting with one another.
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Proposal:
Bro = masculine
Brah = feminine
Bruh = gender neutral
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
Bro = masculine
Brah = feminine
Bruh = gender neutral
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
March 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Proposal:
Bro = masculine
Brah = feminine
Bruh = gender neutral
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
Bro = masculine
Brah = feminine
Bruh = gender neutral
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
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The votes are in from the 2025 BHIVA elections 🗳️
Our new Chair will be @tristanjbarber.bsky.social - our first Chair with lived experience of HIV.
Nicky Mackie will continue in her role as Vice Chair - using her experience to recruit and develop further BHIVA officers.
Congratulations both! 🎉
Our new Chair will be @tristanjbarber.bsky.social - our first Chair with lived experience of HIV.
Nicky Mackie will continue in her role as Vice Chair - using her experience to recruit and develop further BHIVA officers.
Congratulations both! 🎉
March 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The votes are in from the 2025 BHIVA elections 🗳️
Our new Chair will be @tristanjbarber.bsky.social - our first Chair with lived experience of HIV.
Nicky Mackie will continue in her role as Vice Chair - using her experience to recruit and develop further BHIVA officers.
Congratulations both! 🎉
Our new Chair will be @tristanjbarber.bsky.social - our first Chair with lived experience of HIV.
Nicky Mackie will continue in her role as Vice Chair - using her experience to recruit and develop further BHIVA officers.
Congratulations both! 🎉
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I’m at a trans history exhibition and someone who has had top surgery has actually donated their old chest to the museum.
How fucking hardcore is that? Legend.
How fucking hardcore is that? Legend.
![A photograph of two jars with chest tissue in them. The accompanying exhibit sign says:
E-J'S CHEST TISSUE
Museums have acquired, stored, researched and displayed human remains since the 18th century. [1]
These tissue samples facilitate the future study of trans medical history. They also record the sociopolitical context within which they were preserved.
This includes a five year wait on the NHS for first
296 people on London's Gender
Identity intes waiting list alone (Faising for, priza!
[2], and a frenzied culture of fundraising for private treatment within the trans community that's spawning club nights, social media networks, zine fairs and fashion collabs.
Importantly, preserving and displaying these samples by consent, highlights a radical departure in museum practice away from the use of human remains collected non-consensually amidst widespread calls for their repatriation by Indigenous communities across the globe.
This highlights the way in which the Museum of Transology's co-curatorial ethics contribute to the field of museum studies beyond the trans agenda. (ris of cs,/AU) Crity SY: Routled Romains in Museum Collactions: The
[21 GiC Fultuary, 2023 AN Rods June, 2023.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hy5oozdsk27yctrzp4zuoqic/bafkreiaxcklne42s2xxww6ovwa2ouhfvjgg7zfyy7jol76g4madhzxfeia@jpeg)
March 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I’m at a trans history exhibition and someone who has had top surgery has actually donated their old chest to the museum.
How fucking hardcore is that? Legend.
How fucking hardcore is that? Legend.
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I like my gay men like I like my portraits of gay men:
March 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I like my gay men like I like my portraits of gay men:
Wow!!! 😱😱
March 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Wow!!! 😱😱
Oh! Now, I'd like to see an RCT where the control group's men have to wash their hands and genitals thoroughly with a bit of Hibiscrub.... 👀👀
Male-Partner Treatment to Prevent Recurrence of Bacterial Vaginosis 🤔 #IDsky @nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Male-Partner Treatment to Prevent Recurrence of Bacterial Vaginosis | NEJM
Bacterial vaginosis affects one third of reproductive-aged women, and recurrence is common. Evidence of sexual exchange of bacterial vaginosis–associated organisms between partners suggests that ma...
www.nejm.org
March 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Oh! Now, I'd like to see an RCT where the control group's men have to wash their hands and genitals thoroughly with a bit of Hibiscrub.... 👀👀
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Today, a group of my friends are doing a presentation night where we all pick a topic to talk about for ten minutes.
I have decided to spread the trans agenda.
I have decided to spread the trans agenda.
March 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Today, a group of my friends are doing a presentation night where we all pick a topic to talk about for ten minutes.
I have decided to spread the trans agenda.
I have decided to spread the trans agenda.
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Country is short of GPs.
We need more GPs.
Lack of money to recruit GPs
Focus on primary care is how we sustain the #NHS .
GPs spend years training.
My email and WhatsApp inboxes are full of many GP trainees concerned about job opportunities after qualification
We need more GPs.
Lack of money to recruit GPs
Focus on primary care is how we sustain the #NHS .
GPs spend years training.
My email and WhatsApp inboxes are full of many GP trainees concerned about job opportunities after qualification
February 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Country is short of GPs.
We need more GPs.
Lack of money to recruit GPs
Focus on primary care is how we sustain the #NHS .
GPs spend years training.
My email and WhatsApp inboxes are full of many GP trainees concerned about job opportunities after qualification
We need more GPs.
Lack of money to recruit GPs
Focus on primary care is how we sustain the #NHS .
GPs spend years training.
My email and WhatsApp inboxes are full of many GP trainees concerned about job opportunities after qualification
Can imagine @miriam-margolyes.bsky.social, in character as Professor Sprout, slipping this one in
February 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Can imagine @miriam-margolyes.bsky.social, in character as Professor Sprout, slipping this one in
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No amount of woke scolding from the most annoying people imaginable has ever made me consider abandoning my core principle of seeing all people as equal human beings
February 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
No amount of woke scolding from the most annoying people imaginable has ever made me consider abandoning my core principle of seeing all people as equal human beings
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✨My essay in @thelancet.bsky.social this week has made the front page!✨ (I didn’t know about this 🤗)
‘Reflect, Collaborate and Listen’ looks at why doctors don’t listen and the urgent need to rebalance the power dynamic in the patient - doctor relationship.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
‘Reflect, Collaborate and Listen’ looks at why doctors don’t listen and the urgent need to rebalance the power dynamic in the patient - doctor relationship.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
February 14, 2025 at 6:48 AM
✨My essay in @thelancet.bsky.social this week has made the front page!✨ (I didn’t know about this 🤗)
‘Reflect, Collaborate and Listen’ looks at why doctors don’t listen and the urgent need to rebalance the power dynamic in the patient - doctor relationship.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
‘Reflect, Collaborate and Listen’ looks at why doctors don’t listen and the urgent need to rebalance the power dynamic in the patient - doctor relationship.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...