Anna-Jayne Metcalfe 🏳️‍⚧️🙏🏳️‍🌈

@thenicestbird I'm a C++ dev who started a software company (Riverblade Ltd) with my partner. I also run tdor.translivesmatter.info [TRIGGER WARNING], a #TDoR support resource to remember #trans folks lost to violence, suicide etc. I'm also addicted to #aerialyoga. 🙃 twitter.com/thenicestbird/…

This is a commissioned piece I did for a trans pastor who feels very vulnerable right now, even when they're just trying to protect their own people as well.

This is the West Coast Main Line, the UK's primary route from London to Scotland and the north of England. Without HS2, there are no plans for climate resilient sustainable infrastructure linking the UK north-south into the middle of the century.

Today is the #TransDayOfRemembrance. Please join with our community as we #SayTheirNames, and remember not only the #trans people we have lost in the last year, but also those they leave behind. #TDoR2024 #TDoR There is more info on many of them in this thread:

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump (Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)

Jailed for 31months for race hate post calling for asylum hostel to be set on fire which didn’t break the rules of X bbc.com/news/articles/…

Only 21 more days until the Self ID Act goes into effect in Germany. This is HUGE bc malicious assaults (including verbal ones) on TG people become a CRIMINAL OFFENSE, punishable with up to €10k in fines! GCunts & TERForists can finally be brought to justice! ✊🏳️‍⚧️✊

As I’ve been saying, the UK objective is to wipe trans people out. No transitioning, no healthcare for adults or young people. It’s a soft, quiet genocide by @WesStreeting @UKLabour @NHSEngland . Hundreds are going to die. Meanwhile, the exact same puberty blockers and HRT will continue to be prescribed to non trans people. It’s blatant in your face bigotry and discrimination.

Any GP practice that refuses to give care to a patient should be stripped of its funding.

We're hearing increasing reports of GPs refusing to prescribe HRT for trans people, even when they have a letter from an NHS gender clinic. If this happens to you or has happened to you in the past year let us know: tinyurl.com/TransActualHRT #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary

The anti trans movement is made up of people looking for an excuse to feel virtuous while they bully literal children

You're the reason it needs to be displayed. It's an indication to LGBT+ people that good people in those institutions will build a wall of support around them to protect them from the likes of you. You can change your opinion. LGBT+ people won't change who they are for you.

What bollocks Many of us now in our 50s, 60s & 70s had wished PBs had existed. We were not taught any trans ideology (because it only exists in the minds of GCs) Some were lost. But many of us survived, and went on to have gender reassignment surgery & live our best lives

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In January of this year, TONIC, a UK-based public consultation and social research specialist organisation, published the results of a public consultation (commissioned by NHS England) regarding puberty blockers (PB's). Conveniently, the results seem to have been "forgotten". Just three questions were asked of the respondents, and 4040 responses to the consultation were received. 32.2% of respondents were either trans patients or trans adults, with the residue respondents mainly coming from parents or members of the public - that would include, for example, people like the non-experts Joyce, Forstater and Rowling. Question 1 asked. "Has all of the relevant evidence into PB's been taken into account." [to promote clinical trials] Question 2 asked. "Does the equality and health inequality impact assessment (EHIA) reflect the potential impact that might arise as a result of the proposed changes" - [clinical trials]. Question 3 asked. "Are there any changes or additions you think need to be made to this policy." Not surprisingly, responses fell mainly into two distinct camps - the anti-gender movement (Group B) and the trans-supportive (Group A). Group A: Believed that PB's have been shown to be harmless and beneficial, and that they should be made available to gender dysphoric children and young people without the requirement to enrol in a research trial. This group made up the majority of responses to the consultation, with 3,492. Group B: Those who believed that that evidence tended to show that PB's are harmful, unproved, unsuitable or unnecessary, and that therefore, PB's should not be made available to gender dysphoric young people. There were just 180 responses from this group! In this thread, I am looking specifically at Question 2, as, in my view, we are simply not thinking of the benefits PBs afford to children suffering from gender dysphoria/gender incongruence. Just under 2,900 respondents provided details about why they felt the EHIA did not fully reflect the potential impact that may arise due to the proposed changes. The most commonly raised themes presented by Group A respondents were: • That the EHIA fails to sufficiently assess the potentially serious impact on the physical, emotional and mental health of transgender children who will be denied PBs • That the policy discriminates against transgender children because other NHS treatments do not require a patient to be part of a research protocol and PBs will still be available to non-transgender children and young people. • The protected characteristic of gender reassignment was insufficiently addressed, with the EHIA misinterpreting the breadth of the characteristic and being at odds with the Equality Act 2010. • The EHIA fails to acknowledge that children and young people from low-income homes who are unable to afford private care will be discriminated against. • The EHIA fails to address the future impact of transgender children and young people having developed secondary sexual characteristics. • It fails to recognise the impact and risk of driving patients to access treatment from unregulated sources. • It fails to properly address the protected characteristic of disability, given that the policy will disproportionately impact on autistic and neurodivergent children and young people. • The EHIA does not address the potential impact on those who are currently receiving PBs treatment but who may be forced to stop. • The EHIA does not address transgender children and young people whose families are unsupportive Overall, many Group A respondents believed that decisions about PBs should be informed predominantly by the experiences and perspectives of #transgender individuals and experts in the field, expressing concern that the voices of those who have first-hand experience of PBs have not been adequately included in the decision-making process. Respondents believed that social studies and qualitative data should be used to balance the clinical and quantitative evidence predominant in the current review. Respondents suggested it would be particularly important to engage with transgender adults who had been denied access to puberty blockers during their youth, as this would offer valuable insight into the impact of such denial. Respondents believed such studies either did or would show deterioration of mental health, increase in suicide rates, and decrease in overall quality of life – particularly in the cases of biological males who experience more pronounced and difficult to reverse physical changes at puberty. [Side note, I have regularly made this point] Respondents suggested that in order to better understand the effects and results of PB treatment future evidence reviews should include comprehensive comparison studies between those who use PBs and those who opt instead to undergo purely psychological treatment. Many Group A respondents believed that @NHSENGALND [and NICE] should have drawn upon work already undertaken by international bodies such as WPATH, ASIAPATH, EPATH, PATHA, and USPATH, highlighting their exclusion and apparent dismissal of international guidelines such as WPATH’s Standards of Care (SOC 8) as limiting the insight into effective and safe treatment pathways for transgender youth. So, the bottom line of this thread? For goodness sake @wesstreeting listen to trans voices and not the anti-gender movement and in particular the named hate groups like SEGM and Genspect! This post is a quick overview of the TONIC report - you can see the full report via the link below: LINK: england.nhs.uk/wp-content/upl…

No matter your views on her stated reasons for quitting, Rosie Duffield has made a political career out of dehumanising one of the most marginalised groups in society. She should never have been allowed the privilege of resigning. Labour should have withdrawn the whip long ago.