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erikhoffner.bsky.social
Jellyfish & sea anemones lack brains & yet seem to sleep in ways similar to humans

New findings bolster a theory that sleep evolved before centralized nervous systems to repair DNA damage that builds up in individual nerve cells while animals are awake.

“Neurons are very precious”
Jellyfish sleep like humans — even though they don’t have brains
Studying ancient sea creatures’ snoozing habits could shed light on the origins of sleep.
www.nature.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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girlonthenet.bsky.social
I'm so delighted that I complied with the Online Safety Act, blocking an accessibility feature on my site from UK users to 'protect the children' while Elon Musk's site can just generate CSAM with total impunity.
January 7, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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jessothomson.co.uk
The UK Supreme Court has unanimously decided that the definition of sex under the Equality Act 2010 refers solely to biological sex, and does not include people with a Gender Recognition Certificate.
April 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social
Labour MPs need to know it isn’t just about Welfare reforms. Starmer’s Labour have already lost
- Socialists
- Trans people
- Pensioners
- WASPI women
- People with disabilities
- Environmentalists
- Most EU supports
Plus Anyone with a moral compass thanks to the
Borders bill
Gaza genocide
April 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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katymontgomerie.com
I want you to read this thread ❤️
moif-velocita.bsky.social moif @moif-velocita.bsky.social · Apr 13
I'm #intersex. Born with 2 DSDs & ambiguous genitalia. I was treated as a girl by my mother for my first three years until doctors intervened and told her that I was a boy. My parents accepted their authority and agreed to have me surgically 'repaired'.

I've known doctors like this all my life 🧵
waslottie.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · Apr 13
I'm convinced this is Streeting's vision for trans healthcare - wind the clock back 45 yrs.
Tho maybe that's too optimistic regarding what he wants, I dunno.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeBw...
April 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
New guidance tells GPs not to support trans people by providing blood tests. This is under Wes Streeting's political control of the NHS. This isn't healthcare, this is putting people at risk.
April 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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natacha.bsky.social
Attempts to ban “LGBTQ+” books from school libraries are on the increase.

Nb; “LGBTQ+” is Guardian-speak for “mostly trans” but of course the Guardian won’t even use the T-word.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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tiredgenerally.bsky.social
it is interesting how this was totally an elite fabrication. trans rights were on the path to general acceptance on the gay marriage coattails but nearly our entire elite culture including elite liberals decided to run a multi-year op against a tiny minority
tiredgenerally.bsky.social Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · Apr 13
yeah. They basically started the anti-trans movement
April 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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alicemydaughter.bsky.social
Evidence, if you need it, that Labour had already decided to make the PB ban permanent before the sham DHSC consultation on the matter.

In response to the question whether to make the ban permanent, a government genuinely seeking advice would have said ‘neither agree nor disagree’, don’t you think?
Screenshot from the UK government website showing a question “ to what extent do you agree or disagree with making the arrangements in the emergency order permanent? 9 strongly agreed 5 agreed 7 neither agreed or disagreed 5 disagreed 25 strongly disagree Screenshot of the UK government website showing the answer to the question. Government is shown as one respondent who strongly agreed.
April 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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docvivileandra.bsky.social
Hearing "the government can't take away who you are inside!" in response to anti-trans policies us what really made me *hate* "validation" politics.

It's so deeply patronizing, and minimizes our actual problems while painting us as hysterical mental patients one wrong pronoun away from suicide.
taliabhatt.itch.io Talia "Barbara Smith Stan Account" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · Apr 13
When the US began to strip trans people of rights, revert documentation, move trans women to men's prisons, censor research, and move towards healthcare bans, most cis people posted things like "the government can't tell you who you are!"

They think our biggest issue is validation, not actual harm.
April 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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pinknews.bsky.social
Exclusive: Trans athletes to sue England Hockey over female competition ban
Trans athletes to sue England Hockey over female competition ban
PinkNews speaks exclusively with trans woman Rachel Saunders, who has vowed to sue England Hockey alongside two other trans people.
www.thepinknews.com
April 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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alicemydaughter.bsky.social
@theipaper.com please please please correct the error in this otherwise great article. I rang the news desk almost two hours ago.

The increase in anti trans media articles between 2012 and 2022 is 12,400% not 400%
March 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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hleehurley.com
This is just the NHS admitting they are denying treatent to trans children
‘Holistic’ care not hormones for children’s gender treatment on NHS Ben Spencer - Science Editor Camilla Kingdon, a paediatrician, says the subject has been “toxic”. No new prescriptions for cross-sex hormones have been issued to children since the controversial Tavistock gender clinic in London was replaced a year ago, NHS leaders have said. The new NHS children’s gender service prioritises “holistic” care for children with gender dysphoria rather than fast-tracking them on to hormones, an accusation that was levelled at the Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) before it closed in March last year. The service, which is running at Great Ormond Street in London, Alder Hey in Liverpool and Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, has also prescribed no new puberty blockers, which are banned until a clinical trial starts later this year, pending ethical approval. It marks a fundamental switch in approach to the treatment of children with gender dysphoria, with doctors slowing down the route to prescribing hormonal drugs. Between April 2018 and December 2022, a fifth of patients referred to Gids were put on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones or both. A year ago, a review of the Tavistock service by the paediatrician Baroness Cass criticised the “greater readiness” to use hormones for gender dysphoria despite “remarkably weak evidence” for their use. Her report said: “Some practitioners abandoned normal clinical approaches to holistic assessment, which has meant that this group of young people have been exceptionalised compared to other young people with similarly complex presentations. They deserve very much better.” Cross-sex hormones induce physical changes to allow patients to develop bodily features that align with a different gender identity. Those born male take oestrogen to develop breasts and redistribute fat and muscle mass; those born female take testosterone to deepen the voice, increase muscle mass and develop facial and body hair. Children prescribed the drugs at the Tavistock are continuing to receive their prescriptions. James Palmer, NHS England’s national medical director for specialised services, stressed that the door for the new prescription of cross-sex hormones was still open. “There may be a circumstance where it is important for care,” he said. “The services need the option of taking someone into masculinising or feminising hormones, if that really is the most important thing to be done. But the services have not identified an individual yet for whom it would be a really important bit of their care pathway.” If doctors decide there is a case for hormones to be prescribed, the decision must be agreed by a national multidisciplinary team of experts, chaired by Camilla Kingdon, the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. She said the new service was about more than hormones. “This is not just about endocrinology. It’s about a holistic assessment of a child or young person within the context of their family. “That means very detailed assessments looking at the child’s wider physical health, mental health, thinking about the child in the context of their school and so on. It involves psychologists, psychiatrists, paediatricians, clinical nurse specialists, speech therapists, occupational therapists.” Recruitment has begun to open a fourth gender centre at Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge, with eight planned across the country, each seeing 25 new child patients a month. Kingdon, who also chairs the provider network of new NHS gender clinics, said finding staff has been a struggle. “That’s due to the politicised and sometimes toxic nature of this topic,” she said. “It’s not necessarily the sort of environment that has people queueing up to work in it.” Palmer said a particular challenge had been navigating “a hugely divided lobby of stakeholders”, adding: “There’s the very liberal end of the spectrum that think [we should focus purely] on access to a transitional arrangement. At the other end, people say NHS resources should not be spent on this area at all.” Great Ormond Street and Alder Hey children’s gender services opened in June and Bristol started seeing patients in November. So far, 250 children have been seen, with a waiting list of 6,000 that is coming down after peaking in February. “When we started, we had some individuals waiting for more than six years to be seen,” Palmer said. “By the summer, if our maths is correct, no one will be waiting for more than four years to be seen, but it will take another three or four years to get to ... something much more manageable.”
April 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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jessicaharriet.bsky.social
Far too many NHS staff that are responsible for turning it into a conversion therapy center can be found on the SEGM 2024 conference speaker list...

The NHS is actively detransitioning young people and with the Sullivan Review they have been branded a digital pink triangle

This will cost lives
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Apr 6
This is just the NHS admitting they are denying treatent to trans children
‘Holistic’ care not hormones for children’s gender treatment on NHS Ben Spencer - Science Editor Camilla Kingdon, a paediatrician, says the subject has been “toxic”. No new prescriptions for cross-sex hormones have been issued to children since the controversial Tavistock gender clinic in London was replaced a year ago, NHS leaders have said. The new NHS children’s gender service prioritises “holistic” care for children with gender dysphoria rather than fast-tracking them on to hormones, an accusation that was levelled at the Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) before it closed in March last year. The service, which is running at Great Ormond Street in London, Alder Hey in Liverpool and Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, has also prescribed no new puberty blockers, which are banned until a clinical trial starts later this year, pending ethical approval. It marks a fundamental switch in approach to the treatment of children with gender dysphoria, with doctors slowing down the route to prescribing hormonal drugs. Between April 2018 and December 2022, a fifth of patients referred to Gids were put on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones or both. A year ago, a review of the Tavistock service by the paediatrician Baroness Cass criticised the “greater readiness” to use hormones for gender dysphoria despite “remarkably weak evidence” for their use. Her report said: “Some practitioners abandoned normal clinical approaches to holistic assessment, which has meant that this group of young people have been exceptionalised compared to other young people with similarly complex presentations. They deserve very much better.” Cross-sex hormones induce physical changes to allow patients to develop bodily features that align with a different gender identity. Those born male take oestrogen to develop breasts and redistribute fat and muscle mass; those born female take testosterone to deepen the voice, increase muscle mass and develop facial and body hair. Children prescribed the drugs at the Tavistock are continuing to receive their prescriptions. James Palmer, NHS England’s national medical director for specialised services, stressed that the door for the new prescription of cross-sex hormones was still open. “There may be a circumstance where it is important for care,” he said. “The services need the option of taking someone into masculinising or feminising hormones, if that really is the most important thing to be done. But the services have not identified an individual yet for whom it would be a really important bit of their care pathway.” If doctors decide there is a case for hormones to be prescribed, the decision must be agreed by a national multidisciplinary team of experts, chaired by Camilla Kingdon, the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. She said the new service was about more than hormones. “This is not just about endocrinology. It’s about a holistic assessment of a child or young person within the context of their family. “That means very detailed assessments looking at the child’s wider physical health, mental health, thinking about the child in the context of their school and so on. It involves psychologists, psychiatrists, paediatricians, clinical nurse specialists, speech therapists, occupational therapists.” Recruitment has begun to open a fourth gender centre at Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge, with eight planned across the country, each seeing 25 new child patients a month. Kingdon, who also chairs the provider network of new NHS gender clinics, said finding staff has been a struggle. “That’s due to the politicised and sometimes toxic nature of this topic,” she said. “It’s not necessarily the sort of environment that has people queueing up to work in it.” Palmer said a particular challenge had been navigating “a hugely divided lobby of stakeholders”, adding: “There’s the very liberal end of the spectrum that think [we should focus purely] on access to a transitional arrangement. At the other end, people say NHS resources should not be spent on this area at all.” Great Ormond Street and Alder Hey children’s gender services opened in June and Bristol started seeing patients in November. So far, 250 children have been seen, with a waiting list of 6,000 that is coming down after peaking in February. “When we started, we had some individuals waiting for more than six years to be seen,” Palmer said. “By the summer, if our maths is correct, no one will be waiting for more than four years to be seen, but it will take another three or four years to get to ... something much more manageable.”
April 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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whatthetrans.com
New Article:
Why I left the NHS LGBT Sounding Board Group
By @clairestranstalks.bsky.social

whatthetrans.com/why-i-left-t...
2 people in the frame. One holding a sign and the other not holding a sign. 3 or 4 people behind them. The sign is a trans flag with the text on it saying "Gender affirming care saves lives".
April 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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natacha.bsky.social
Brilliant patient and defiant article by Monroe Bergdorf in Vogue.

This needs to be shared far and wide. Every cis person needs to read it.
Munroe Bergdorf: “Gender Affirming Care Is The Reason I’m Still Here. It’s Also Under Greater Threat Than Ever”
“Gender affirming care isn’t the controversial, understudied or farfetched luxury it’s painted as by those invested in a relentlessly anti-trans agenda,” writes Munroe Bergdorf. “For those who are wai...
www.vogue.co.uk
April 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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maxboot.bsky.social
This is like a caricature of what happens when a right-wing billionaire takes power. What next? Legalizing the clubbing of baby seals? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging
An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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sexabolition.blog
Please help Suaad
April 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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bylines.scot
Refugee camps are a last resort for desperate people forced from their homes, but for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, there is no safe haven there | | Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social
Nowhere to go – the refugees who are not even welcome in camps
Refugee camps are a last resort for desperate people forced from their homes, but for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, there is no safe haven there
bylines.scot
April 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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charlemac.bsky.social
Hands Off is having a virtual rally tomorrow for disabled people besides the in person events. The virtual rally is from 2 to 4 pm Pacific time. If anyone plans on attending, I would suggest logging in early.
callingupjustice.com/april-5-prot...
April 5 Virtual Protest - Calling Up Justice!
🚨 Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. We are fighting back! 🚨 They’re grabbing everything they can—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and daring the world to ...
callingupjustice.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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g--0.bsky.social
people totally ignore that the very ecological crisis that will destroy our current modes of food production will also make returning to any sort of pre-industrial modes impossible, they depended on ecological abundance that we have already utterly destroyed
alexpetrovnia.bsky.social #StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · Apr 4
bc getting enough food is so difficult its been the primary struggle for all organisms for all of time, very much including almost all humans past and present!

farming is fucking hard, yall

white suburban folks thinking they can do it with no prep no problem is peak hyperindividual arrogance ngl
April 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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dorianlynskey.bsky.social
Makes you wonder where we would be if large swathes of the media weren't dedicated full time to making people more fearful and hateful and politicians weren't obsessed with appeasing the most reactionary sector of the electorate
April 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM