Cassandra M Day

@BlokeWorking @TitaniaMcGrath "The comedians outside looked from parody to reality, and from reality to parody, and from parody to reality again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. 'Fuck it,' they said. And went for a pint.”

@JustStop_Oil A missed wedding? Cressida perhaps should have thought about that before being such an idiot. Actions have consequences. Cressida is an example of FAFO in action. Whose wedding did Just Stop Oil try to sabotage, as well? Weddings are patriarchal vestiges of the past.

🧡 "Our politicians, our judiciary and our energy companies should be shocked and deeply embarrassed with how the court has dispensed it's version of justice today." ⚖️ Listen to Cathy, Cressie's mum, speaking, outside court after 22 year old Cressie was sentenced to 4 years in prison. ✍️ Sign the petition — actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-p…

My Election Day Monologue on @TimesRadio. In praise of British democracy. It’s election day in the United Kingdom, a seminal event we too often take for granted. We also do it in a very British way.  There will be no armed guards at the polling stations. No intimidating mobs. Just paper and pencil, trusted tellers and friendly canvassers.  If the British people decide it’s time to change governments, that will happen quickly and without fuss. The military will not be mobilised. Barbed wire will not be arranged around public buildings. Defeated candidates will not be fleeing the country. Riot police will not be assembling on side streets.  But a removal van — something we’ve all had to use at some stage in our lives — will turn up sometime Friday morning to help the incumbent move out. Another will bring the belongings of the new prime minister and family.  A few words from the winner outside 10 Downing Street, a round of applause as he goes through the famous door — and the business of government continues as before. Even with a new broom there will be a sense of continuity. And calm.  Nobody will contest the overall integrity of the result, whatever minor challenges there are at the margins. The loser will concede defeat and wish the winner well. The winner will try to be magnanimous.  Nobody will be exiled. There will be no talk of being cheated, of a rigged election, or lawyers getting rich on endless court challenges. No mob will descend on the Palace of Westminster determined to overthrow the result. The pigeons will continue to peck away, undisturbed, on Parliament Square.  However people voted the result will be accepted. Folks will just get on with their lives and wait to see what the next government has in store for them.  Such a peaceful, uneventful, very British passage of power is to be treasured. It is perhaps THE distinguishing hallmark of democracy that power is passed in this way, without upheaval or protest, at the behest of the people.  Democracy requires a winner to be gracious and a loser to accept that they’ve lost, without quibble. That is the British way. It is not now true of that great democracy across the Atlantic.  It is also the case, if today heralds a change, that a centre right government will give way to a centre left one. Whatever the result the numbers in Parliament who might be deemed hard right or hard left will be de minimis. Pretty much irrelevant.  There is something quite British about that too. It will not be the case when that great democracy across the Channel votes on Sunday, where the extremes on both sides of the political divide are likely to make up almost two thirds of the National Assembly.  We broadcasters don’t do British party politics on election day. That can wait until you’ve voted and we know the result sometime after 10 o clock tonight.  So we will spend the next hour looking at elections in France and America, two countries with their own strong democratic traditions.  Also two countries, as we shall see, with democratic challenges we don’t face, whatever else may confront us.  They are our allies — fellow democrats in a world threatened by autocrats — and we must wish them well in overcoming their problems, as we tackle ours. While taking some comfort and pride from the fact that there is something quite special about our own British democracy.  So let us savour this important day.

@afneil They're just so boring. @MattChorley on @TimesRadio is killing it: music, good guests, news as it happens and I can lie down and listen!

So what do folks make of the various TV results shows?

democracy has never been sweeter #GeneralElection2024

@MMYang434 Me? 10.

On a scale of 0 to 10 0 = no problem at all 10= really fearful How fearful are WOMEN of getting a Labour Govt on Friday morning? Please leave a number and repost. Thanks for your time. Please do repost.

rcp.ac.uk/events-and-edu… The grandparenting route...

@coachblade Can you blame them? The difference in power and range of throwing events is immense: if they're aiming to be the best girl athletes they can, it's wrong to put a mediocre boy in there. It skews the figures.

Here you go... Girls have no problem doing this if they are aware and they are pushed to the limit. Thank you, girls! #SaveWomensSports

Children as "lab rats": 75 out of 122 children attending one school between 1974 and 1987 have died of AIDS or hepatitis C after they were enrolled in clinical trials without consent. The infected blood scandal is part of our recent history. bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

After a lacklustre response from govt at the 10,000 mark, we need more signatures to push this to a full debate. In the light of the Cass Review, it might finally get the discussion it deserves. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6431…

@HazelAppleyard_ The angle does nothing to make his hands appear woman-sized, while those bias cut dresses really need a certain shapeliness to work properly. Although, the thought did occur to me that he's a 1960s fashion designer's dream. More twig than Twiggy.

@Mira_Segler Do they not read English well enough to see how public opinion and professional attitudes are changing here? Or is this German exceptionalism at its worst?

4. On a side note, the quacks who are in charge of butchering eeer.. treating children in Germany have drunk WPATH's kool-aid and removed all the age restrictions in new quide lines. #CassReview #NoSelfIDforGermany ▶️genderclinicnews.com/p/crime-scene

1. Hello, international women's rights campaigners. Our enlightened German government will likely provide us with a #SelfID law #Selbstbestimmungsgesetz tomorrow, April 12. It contains that children, if they are over 5yo, have to confirm if they want to "change legal sex/name".

transactual.org.uk/whats-happenin… Hopefully this is only happening to adults, but of all the trans surgery available this is the one that gets me. The failure rate is crazy, the results patchy and I really do not think a surgeon can recreate properly effective and responsive organs.

@faintlyfalling Indeed. J Harper's study flashed across my brain when I read someone complaining how Dr Cass had ignored 'quality studies'.

Joanna Harper's study of 8 self-selected transwomen with self-reported times - "Amazing. Let's allow men compete in women's sports in the Olympics". Hilary Cass's 4 year review with teams of researcher-assessors and transparent methodology and reports - "This is obv trash".

@judgejules75 ... they don't need the pills or surgery or more than fake boobies and high heels to transition. Hopefully Cass opens people's eyes to them as well, especially if they rage about the measures suggested.

@judgejules75 The script is real. And the middle age men have one as well... the teacher's tights, or Mummy's nail varnish, or slipping on some silk petticoats. And always, always the insistence that they 'knew something was different when I was about 3 or 4'. They're okay, though, because...

‘Dr Anna Hutchinson..& colleagues began seeing patterns emerging among youngsters wishing to transition. “A lot of kids had chosen the same names from some of their favourite YouTubers. Some..were coming into the consultation room with the same script’ thetimes.co.uk/article/cass-r…

@beyerstein Placing absolute faith in any one date as the End of Time is not good, whether that's by the Mayan, Christian or New Age calendar. God didn't say it, but should have: Live every day like it's the last day and laugh and dance like you have eternity ahead.

From astrology influencer to family annihilator. And nobody saw it coming.

I'm a soft idealist, but if we never set out our dreams and ideal futures, how will we get there? What would your wish list be going forward? Where would you like us to be in 10 years time? 10/10

other opinions if you can. Put pressure on TV/film companies to tone down sex and violence. Why not? We don't need to see the world is a hard and dangerous place, we know that. Perhaps escapism should come on the screen and not in a child trying to leave a body behind. 9/

What would I like to happen next? * Children and adolescents get properly integrated services, where bodily and mental health are considered. *Society stops with the boys stuff/girls stuff crap. Children are children and need a wide range of experiences, including sometimes... 1/