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@VitaminVVisions Oh. That was a short one. 6 2, double fault, match abandoned.

@VitaminVVisions Coming from someone so fanatically devoted to being both dull and boorish, I will accept that compliment.

No, next question

@sheawilliamsy @GussieGrips @CanSG_org If Elaine, as an experienced AHCP, is fantasising about the paucity of treatment pathways and the absence of clinical guidelines in gynae and pelvic health, then it would be an amazing first that gynaecological harms have been anticipated and provided for in medicine.

@sheawilliamsy @GussieGrips @CanSG_org Well, which comprehensive guidelines would you direct a clinician towards? Because if females have a specific health need, I’m most familiar with the medical establishment expecting them to ‘just cope’ until decades later, the disabling effects are impossible to ignore.

I wrote a thing about doing better to meet the health needs of people who have had gender interventions. Link below, come to the @CanSG_org conference in July and work it out? Links to that below too.

Every time a German Messerschmitt pilot wanted to escape a Spitfire on his tail, he did the same thing. He pushed the nose down. In a dive, the German engine kept running — it used fuel injection. The British Spitfire's engine cut out. For one and a half seconds the Merlin went dead, the aircraft shuddered, and by the time it caught again the German was gone. Worse: if a German was behind a British pilot and the British pilot dove to escape, the German could follow and keep shooting while the British engine was silent. Pilots were dying because of a carburetor. The engineers at Farnborough knew about the problem. They were working on a long-term solution — a redesigned carburetor that would take years to perfect and manufacture. A woman named Beatrice Shilling fixed it with a washer. She was born in Hampshire in 1909 and was the kind of child who spent her pocket money on Meccano sets and tools. At fourteen she bought her first motorbike. Her mother, with the inspired instinct of someone who understood what her daughter actually was, found the Women's Engineering Society and arranged an apprenticeship at an electrical firm. She went to Manchester University — one of the first two women ever to study engineering there — graduated with a degree in electrical engineering, stayed another year for a master's in mechanical engineering, and in 1936 joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough as a scientific officer. By the late 1930s she was one of the best carburetor engineers in Britain. She was also one of only three women to hold the British Motorcycle Racing Club's Gold Star — awarded for lapping the Brooklands racing circuit at over 100 miles per hour on a motorcycle. She had reportedly told her future husband, an engineer named George Naylor, that she wouldn't marry him until he earned his own Brooklands Gold Star first. He earned it. They married in 1938. The problem with the Merlin was specific and lethal. The SU carburetor used a float chamber to regulate fuel flow. Under negative g-forces — the forces experienced in a sudden dive — the fuel flooded to the top of the float chamber and starved the engine for 1.5 seconds. Just enough time for a German pilot to turn the tables entirely. The RAF had known about this since the Battle of France. The formal solution — a redesigned pressure carburetor — was in development but wouldn't be ready for years. Shilling was thirty-one years old, working in carburetor research, and she designed a fix in weeks. A brass thimble with a precisely calibrated hole in the center — later simplified to a flat washer — fitted inline in the fuel line just before the carburetor. It restricted maximum fuel flow to just enough to prevent flooding without cutting off power. The key breakthrough: it could be fitted without taking the aircraft out of service. No downtime. No factory return. The old guard at the RAE looked at it and called it a plumbing fix. They called her a plumber. The first batch of 5,000 units was made by a Birmingham firm that normally manufactured plumbing fixtures, which they found embarrassing. The RAF pilots who flew Spitfires with Messerschmitts on their tails called it something else. They called it Miss Shilling's Orifice. With deep affection. By March 1941 she had organized a small team and was personally touring RAF fighter stations across England — traveling between bases on her old racing motorcycle — fitting the device to every Merlin engine they could reach. Squadron leaders all over the country were demanding installations. The word spread faster than the official channels could keep up with. The Germans noticed. They couldn't explain why British fighter pilots had suddenly started following them into dives. They were baffled by the new aggression. They didn't know about the washer. (More story replies)

@sheawilliamsy @GussieGrips @CanSG_org I’d agree that her article has an evident bias. But it isn’t misrepresentation to say that T therapy commonly causes issues for trans men. The NHS should investigate how best to mitigate pelvic pain, atrophy, and other frequent undesired outcomes. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10…

You're a physio, Elaine. Not a specialist in endocrinology, epidemiology, or health policy etc yet you're confidently misrepresenting hormone therapy, claiming 'no data,' when there obviously is, inventing menopause comparisons, and speculating about mass long term harm. Why are you doing that, Elaine?

@JohnAspinall4 @MikeyCycling @EdinburghPicker All very new age. I’d say a greater cause of hostility is getting caught in the commission of an offence, or fear that one may be caught out. Also, let’s not forget that hostility is generally exhibited by complete berks.

@LauraON72 @MikeyCycling @EdinburghPicker I've already said what I think: those who radiate hostility tend to attract it.

If you're going to shout "Tosser" out of your van window at me for no reason, then I'm sure I can help you get the attention you so clearly and desperately wanted, J Murphy Property Services. A one man band perhaps?

@JohnAspinall4 @MikeyCycling @EdinburghPicker who contact the authorities when their pupils make disclosure of abuse? Or at security guards who communicate with police about shop lifters? Perhaps it’s just the people who may take a life, instead of mere innocence or goods, that you think deserve leniency.

@JohnAspinall4 @MikeyCycling @EdinburghPicker Let us envision the scene: you’re driving along and spot a middle aged man on a bike. You decide to shout ‘tosser’ at him. Why?Because he’s a man on a bike? Or because you recognise him as someone who regularly informs authorities of criminal acts? Might you scream abuse at staff

@LoinDuTribu @MrMennoTweets You could simply listen to lesbians.

@MrMennoTweets Why would I pretend this is a good faith discussion when you are peddling conspiracy, authoritarian logic, and metaphysical contempt for an entire minority?

She always does this. She recasts minority rights as a debate for everyone except the minority in question, then pretends that excluding them is what makes society “pluralistic” and “democratic.”

@DeputyGrocott Yes, but I’ve worked in schools where if I tried to enforce the ban, I’m faced with a stand up argument that ruins my lesson for ten minutes, and my authority. I was even pushed to the floor by one furious, vengeful pupil. The vibe from SLT is ‘Seriously? This is your hill?’.

Dear government, just a heads up, schools have pretty much banned phones well before now. You’ll be saying that turkey twizzlers are banned next.

@thhaze @jk_rowling I see no evidence that JKR is opposed to trans rights; she’s voluble on the importance of EQUAL rights for trans people. But few believe that trans people deserve additional rights not available to the general population. Which rights do you believe they should have?

@jk_rowling I've been pondering for a while, @jk_rowling, and have an honest Q for you. How can you stand opposed to trans and, at the same time, support gay rights? Don't trans fall into the "homosexual" category? Are there degrees of homosexuality? Again, honest Q.

No, I don't think 'all people should have the right to decide their own rights', because a pluralistic democratic society can't function that way. Which rights are trans women and 'fans of Pride' missing?

@theglassfish13 @jk_rowling Only if one is antisemitic enough to associate money with Jewishness… Men are more likely to be victims of violence than women. But because they are also most likely to be the perpetrators of violence against women, we keep them out of women’s spaces.

@jk_rowling You are a master of stereotyping. Your only Black wizard: Shacklebolt. Your Gringott's goblins: antisemitic imagery most foul. Trans people are 100x more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators. You indirectly promote that violence through your rhetoric.

@theglassfish13 @jk_rowling I’m not allowed in the electricity substation, but I still exist…

@jk_rowling Trans people exist. Trans women are women. When you tell them which bathroom to use, not based on the reality of their gender, but on the check-box on their birth certificate, you deny their existence. Your version is, "they exist, but..." and that is the path to annihilation.

@VitaminVVisions You’re proving to everyone that you couldn’t even spell ‘wit’ without the aid of a dictionary.

@LauraON72 BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! NAH...you're just a run of the mill dimwit... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Final warning...

@frank6669996669 @MikeyCycling You kiss you MOTHER with that mouth?

@MikeyCycling It was a calculated business decision. Since you are a jerk off and everyone thinks you suck cock he is demonstrating his good sense for people and business

@JohnAspinall4 @MikeyCycling It would be sheer cowardice to witness behaviour that puts others at risk and say nothing. Most are quite craven, but Mikey has a strong personal reason to challenge such fools as this. He’s not rude, unless people are rude to him. What exactly do you find unacceptable?

@JohnAspinall4 @MikeyCycling A truly bizarre response. I was injured by an inattentive driver (who overtook me then turned left through me), and I know many bereaved families. If one drives a potentially fatal machine, safety is of paramount importance. Care and attention is NEVER silly.

@Mufcye @MikeyCycling If a man isn’t prepared to stand by his behaviour and account for it, he has better change it. He has right of reply, doesn’t he?

@MikeyCycling Trying to ruin a hard working man’s business over a hurty word, says it all about you, doesn’t it?

@VitaminVVisions @PennStRealist @MrDanielBuck @RussCote My dear chap, I am an accomplished player of idiot tennis, and you haven’t even managed a full set so far.

@LauraON72 @PennStRealist @MrDanielBuck @RussCote BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Doll...your incoherence is showing... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I already told you once that you're dismissed...don't make me tell you again... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!