Tomás Ojeda G.
@tiojeda.bsky.social
Senior FNS Researcher @ceg-unil.bsky.social. Co-editor of “Transnational Anti-Gender Politics” (Palgrave, 2024) | Researching anti-trans clinical activisms | él/he
https://tinyurl.com/tomas-ojeda
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-54223-7
https://tinyurl.com/tomas-ojeda
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-54223-7
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@tiojeda.bsky.social
· May 13
Last year, Billy Holzberg, @aikoiiris.bsky.social, and I spoke with the team from the podcast "Feminism, Fascism and the Future" about our book. The episode is out 🤩 Tune in to learn more about the volume’s “origin story” and its key takeaways open.spotify.com/episode/7IYL...
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Please read this letter to the Telegraph editor from @tactt.bsky.social about what looks like UKCP supporting conversion therapy (ie psychological torture) targeting children.
Response to Telegraph article
The Telegraph newspaper recently published an article claiming that leaders of membership bodies including the UKCP have been “ousted” for raising safeguarding concerns relating to gend…
therapistsagainsttransphobia.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Please read this letter to the Telegraph editor from @tactt.bsky.social about what looks like UKCP supporting conversion therapy (ie psychological torture) targeting children.
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🧩 CEG-Séminaire 🧩
*Queer Fathers and Parents’ Everyday Parenting Care*
par Carole Ammann (Université de Lucerne)
🗓️ jeudi, 13/11/2025
⏰ 12h15 – 14h00
📍Salle 5799-Géopolis (Unil)
🗣️ : anglais
#GenderStudies #lgbtstudies #parenting #care #lgbtparents #queerfamily
*Queer Fathers and Parents’ Everyday Parenting Care*
par Carole Ammann (Université de Lucerne)
🗓️ jeudi, 13/11/2025
⏰ 12h15 – 14h00
📍Salle 5799-Géopolis (Unil)
🗣️ : anglais
#GenderStudies #lgbtstudies #parenting #care #lgbtparents #queerfamily
November 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🧩 CEG-Séminaire 🧩
*Queer Fathers and Parents’ Everyday Parenting Care*
par Carole Ammann (Université de Lucerne)
🗓️ jeudi, 13/11/2025
⏰ 12h15 – 14h00
📍Salle 5799-Géopolis (Unil)
🗣️ : anglais
#GenderStudies #lgbtstudies #parenting #care #lgbtparents #queerfamily
*Queer Fathers and Parents’ Everyday Parenting Care*
par Carole Ammann (Université de Lucerne)
🗓️ jeudi, 13/11/2025
⏰ 12h15 – 14h00
📍Salle 5799-Géopolis (Unil)
🗣️ : anglais
#GenderStudies #lgbtstudies #parenting #care #lgbtparents #queerfamily
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"They know this is likely to cause suicides. They don’t care! We jumped through every hoop for years and we followed what the government asked of us. I’m in Surrey, her doctor is in Brighton, you can imagine what this is doing to us."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
NHS threatens GP practice over trans care
With NHS reply – a GP practice in Brighton and Hove is under investigation for legally providing gender affirming care to trans teens
northwestbylines.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
"They know this is likely to cause suicides. They don’t care! We jumped through every hoop for years and we followed what the government asked of us. I’m in Surrey, her doctor is in Brighton, you can imagine what this is doing to us."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
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My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
Astro-TERFs - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
In the backlash against trans rights in the UK since the late 2010s,
the LGB Alliance has been implicated as a leading exponent of the new
moral panic, typified by its newspaper campaign against GRA r...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
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Long tails and important outcomes. Finally, it's live - the website for the report, "Conversion Therapy' and the University of Birmingham c.1966-1983'!
There's material about the history, the project, its organisation, and there are resources there too.
#HistPsych #HistSTEM #QueerHist #HistSex
There's material about the history, the project, its organisation, and there are resources there too.
#HistPsych #HistSTEM #QueerHist #HistSex
‘Conversion Therapy’ and the University of Birmingham c.1966-1983 - University of Birmingham
Between c.1966 and 1983, the University of Birmingham employed researchers who orchestrated so-called 'conversion therapy' for same-sex love
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Long tails and important outcomes. Finally, it's live - the website for the report, "Conversion Therapy' and the University of Birmingham c.1966-1983'!
There's material about the history, the project, its organisation, and there are resources there too.
#HistPsych #HistSTEM #QueerHist #HistSex
There's material about the history, the project, its organisation, and there are resources there too.
#HistPsych #HistSTEM #QueerHist #HistSex
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🌈 Do you know anyone passionate about researching LGBTQ+ suicide, suicide prevention and suicide bereavement, experienced in qualitative methods, and looking for work?
Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Research Fellow (Rain within the Rainbow)
Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Rain Within the Rainbow) working on the Rain Within the Rainbow: Understanding LGBTQ+ suicide and suicide prevention in the UK through the life course project using qual...
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🌈 Do you know anyone passionate about researching LGBTQ+ suicide, suicide prevention and suicide bereavement, experienced in qualitative methods, and looking for work?
Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
“Sudan’s war is described as forgotten, but in reality it is tolerated and relegated. Because to reckon with the horror in Sudan is to look into the abyss of regional and global politics. It is to see the growing imperialist role of some Gulf powers in Africa and beyond”
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
“Sudan’s war is described as forgotten, but in reality it is tolerated and relegated. Because to reckon with the horror in Sudan is to look into the abyss of regional and global politics. It is to see the growing imperialist role of some Gulf powers in Africa and beyond”
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🚨 1/ SCOOP We all know Pamela Paul is not a good journalist. But in her (poorly argued) WSJ screed on the alleged "growing divide" in LGBTQ circles abt trans rights, she reports ESPECIALLY badly—including abt Jose Arango & his boyfriend who dumped him.
Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend.
I did.
Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend.
I did.
November 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🚨 1/ SCOOP We all know Pamela Paul is not a good journalist. But in her (poorly argued) WSJ screed on the alleged "growing divide" in LGBTQ circles abt trans rights, she reports ESPECIALLY badly—including abt Jose Arango & his boyfriend who dumped him.
Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend.
I did.
Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend.
I did.
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This is the real legacy of For Women Scotland: mass harassment of women, overwhelmingly cisgender women, from people embolded by transphobia.
A new report from TransActual looks at the impact of the 2025 EHRC interim update on access to, and experiences within, gendered spaces in the UK.
Read the full report here: transactual.org.uk/gendered-spa...
#TransRights #EHRC #ScrapTheBathroomBan #EqualityAct
Read the full report here: transactual.org.uk/gendered-spa...
#TransRights #EHRC #ScrapTheBathroomBan #EqualityAct
October 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is the real legacy of For Women Scotland: mass harassment of women, overwhelmingly cisgender women, from people embolded by transphobia.
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What does it mean to speak of joyful passions in an era of reactionary politics? 'in conversation' w/ leading feminist & reproductive justice scholars on messy, magical, political feminist activism in Latin America. 10th Nov, 1830-1930 GMT: www.outsavvy.com/event/31065/... @kings-sga.bsky.social
In Conversation: Feminist Joys, Magic Pills, and Decolonial Praxis in Latin America. Tickets - London - OutSavvy
What does it mean to speak of joyful passions in an era when reactionary politics thrive on resentment? How do feminist movements across Latin America navigate these tensions while fighting for reprod...
www.outsavvy.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
What does it mean to speak of joyful passions in an era of reactionary politics? 'in conversation' w/ leading feminist & reproductive justice scholars on messy, magical, political feminist activism in Latin America. 10th Nov, 1830-1930 GMT: www.outsavvy.com/event/31065/... @kings-sga.bsky.social
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🚨 Call for papers 🚨
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop - a one-day in-person event focussing on the ethical commitments of academic research, scholarship and teaching 🎉
Send in your papers now 👉 https://ow.ly/nUy250XjIZw
niharika pandit Sarah Gharib Seif
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop - a one-day in-person event focussing on the ethical commitments of academic research, scholarship and teaching 🎉
Send in your papers now 👉 https://ow.ly/nUy250XjIZw
niharika pandit Sarah Gharib Seif
Call for papers: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop- Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) | BISA
- Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) Working Group
ow.ly
October 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
🚨 Call for papers 🚨
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop - a one-day in-person event focussing on the ethical commitments of academic research, scholarship and teaching 🎉
Send in your papers now 👉 https://ow.ly/nUy250XjIZw
niharika pandit Sarah Gharib Seif
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop - a one-day in-person event focussing on the ethical commitments of academic research, scholarship and teaching 🎉
Send in your papers now 👉 https://ow.ly/nUy250XjIZw
niharika pandit Sarah Gharib Seif
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☎️ Call For Papers ☎️
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
October 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
☎️ Call For Papers ☎️
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
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Qld top court overturns puberty blocker ban. The court agreed that there was too much political interference. The judge found in our favour on 3 grounds - in particular it rules that consultation was inadequate & that irrelevant factors were taken into account.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Mother says Queensland's puberty blocker ban fight was 'harrowing and traumatising'
Queensland Health placed a freeze on puberty blockers for adolescents in January, prompting a legal challenge by the mother of a trans teenager.
www.sbs.com.au
October 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Qld top court overturns puberty blocker ban. The court agreed that there was too much political interference. The judge found in our favour on 3 grounds - in particular it rules that consultation was inadequate & that irrelevant factors were taken into account.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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Over 300 writers so far are boycotting NYT Opinion until the NYT calls for an arms embargo on Israel, conducts a review into anti-Palestinian bias, and retracts 'Screams without Words.' Find out more here: www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc... Then join us: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Over 300 writers so far are boycotting NYT Opinion until the NYT calls for an arms embargo on Israel, conducts a review into anti-Palestinian bias, and retracts 'Screams without Words.' Find out more here: www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc... Then join us: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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📣 Next week is the deadline for submitting your abstracts to our international Colloquium on far right, gender, and femonationalism. Don’t leave it until the last minute! All the information is in the @ceg-unil.bsky.social post below 👇
☎️ Call For Papers ☎️
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
October 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📣 Next week is the deadline for submitting your abstracts to our international Colloquium on far right, gender, and femonationalism. Don’t leave it until the last minute! All the information is in the @ceg-unil.bsky.social post below 👇
📣 Next week is the deadline for submitting your abstracts to our international Colloquium on far right, gender, and femonationalism. Don’t leave it until the last minute! All the information is in the @ceg-unil.bsky.social post below 👇
☎️ Call For Papers ☎️
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
October 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📣 Next week is the deadline for submitting your abstracts to our international Colloquium on far right, gender, and femonationalism. Don’t leave it until the last minute! All the information is in the @ceg-unil.bsky.social post below 👇
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We have a fantastic line-up of panel speakers - Christina Dragon, Fernanda Fortes de Lena, Onikepe Owolabi, and Kristopher Velasco - for our November FemQuant online event: Feminist Research and Data Activism in Political Turmoil. Sign up to join us on 5 Nov femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
October 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
We have a fantastic line-up of panel speakers - Christina Dragon, Fernanda Fortes de Lena, Onikepe Owolabi, and Kristopher Velasco - for our November FemQuant online event: Feminist Research and Data Activism in Political Turmoil. Sign up to join us on 5 Nov femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Trans Safety Network have written to Healthwatch regarding their concerning recommendations in their trans health report. We fear if this report is not withdrawn, it will lead to significant deterioration in trans people's ability to access NHS care. transsafety.network/posts/danger...
'Dangerous Recommendations': Trans Safety Network write to Healthwatch
Trans Safety Network was shocked by the dangerous recommendations of Healthwatch's recent trans healthcare report. We find it hard to believe that any trans organisations or persons were involved sign...
transsafety.network
October 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Trans Safety Network have written to Healthwatch regarding their concerning recommendations in their trans health report. We fear if this report is not withdrawn, it will lead to significant deterioration in trans people's ability to access NHS care. transsafety.network/posts/danger...
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The fight against female genital mutilation is being co-opted by anti-trans activists, hindering urgent laws from being passed.
And as the White House and Republicans falsely conflate FGM with gender-affirming care, it’s only getting worse.
New reporting from @jazzmyth.bsky.social and myself
And as the White House and Republicans falsely conflate FGM with gender-affirming care, it’s only getting worse.
New reporting from @jazzmyth.bsky.social and myself
Anti-trans policies aren't preventing genital mutilation — they're disrupting efforts to stop it
The bipartisan movement against female genital mutilation and cutting is being co-opted by anti-trans activists, hindering urgent laws from being passed.
19thnews.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The fight against female genital mutilation is being co-opted by anti-trans activists, hindering urgent laws from being passed.
And as the White House and Republicans falsely conflate FGM with gender-affirming care, it’s only getting worse.
New reporting from @jazzmyth.bsky.social and myself
And as the White House and Republicans falsely conflate FGM with gender-affirming care, it’s only getting worse.
New reporting from @jazzmyth.bsky.social and myself
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So much bad stuff is happening. The Cass Review feels like it got lost in the noise. Yet this incredibly biased £3m project continues to warp discourse around trans healthcare.
I've therefore updated my megapost with 6 new major critiques from clinicians, researchers, and a child abuse survivor.
I've therefore updated my megapost with 6 new major critiques from clinicians, researchers, and a child abuse survivor.
What’s wrong with the Cass Review? A round-up of commentary and evidence
[last updated 15/10/25] Wednesday 10 April 2024 saw the long-awaited publication of the final report of the Cass Review. This report was commissioned by NHS England, and provides a review of eviden…
ruthpearce.net
October 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
So much bad stuff is happening. The Cass Review feels like it got lost in the noise. Yet this incredibly biased £3m project continues to warp discourse around trans healthcare.
I've therefore updated my megapost with 6 new major critiques from clinicians, researchers, and a child abuse survivor.
I've therefore updated my megapost with 6 new major critiques from clinicians, researchers, and a child abuse survivor.
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Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int
Strasbourg 14/10/2025
www.coe.int
October 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
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Who could have guessed that demonising trans people would impact on their rights?
The moral panic was never about 'legitimate concerns' or protecting women or children, it was always about vilification, oppression and the mainstreaming of reactionary politics
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The moral panic was never about 'legitimate concerns' or protecting women or children, it was always about vilification, oppression and the mainstreaming of reactionary politics
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says
Council of Europe commissioner voices concerns after April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Who could have guessed that demonising trans people would impact on their rights?
The moral panic was never about 'legitimate concerns' or protecting women or children, it was always about vilification, oppression and the mainstreaming of reactionary politics
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The moral panic was never about 'legitimate concerns' or protecting women or children, it was always about vilification, oppression and the mainstreaming of reactionary politics
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Part 2 of the Gender Clinic Files is out, looking at the impact if Cass recommendations for adult services were introduced, affecting more than 32k young trans adults just from the current waiting list.
Huge thanks to @wearequeeraf.com & @whatthetrans.com for their work on this series.
Huge thanks to @wearequeeraf.com & @whatthetrans.com for their work on this series.
Majority of adults waiting for Trans+ healthcare are under 25
Two-thirds of Trans+ people would lose care if all Cass Review recommendations implemented
www.wearequeeraf.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Part 2 of the Gender Clinic Files is out, looking at the impact if Cass recommendations for adult services were introduced, affecting more than 32k young trans adults just from the current waiting list.
Huge thanks to @wearequeeraf.com & @whatthetrans.com for their work on this series.
Huge thanks to @wearequeeraf.com & @whatthetrans.com for their work on this series.
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.