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Year after year NHS Scotland ready to fulfil 98% of all ops on time with less than half the cancellation rate of NHS England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/01/13/yea…

If, after reading this article, you continue to pretend that it is ‘hate’ to question the advisability of surgically and chemically castrating/sterilising troubled teens, you’re either malign or dangerously stupid. newstatesman.com/politics/healt…

@AllianceLGB The effects of PB’s followed by cross sex hormones are life long. The idea that you can follow them for 2 years and reach conclusions is a joke. What about when they’re in their 20’s and realize their sex life is limited? Or in their 30’s and decide they want to have children?

We are horrified by the announcement of the PATHWAYS trial. As a charity representing lesbians, gays and bisexuals we are outraged that the lives of mostly LGB teenagers are held in such contempt that blocking their development has been given ethical approval. We are supporting increasing numbers of detransitioned LGB people who are appalled that more children will be subjected to a trial of drugs we already know to be harmful. They now know they had difficulty accepting their homosexuality. They can attest to the effects of these drugs but have not been asked. All the evidence shows that lesbians, gay and bisexual young people make up the majority of those who will suffer. Every detail of this planned trial is a disgrace. Recruiting children for a trial of drugs now known to be harmful, while more countries are banning them, is indefensible. The follow-up time is laughably short, the self-evaluation by the children is ridiculous and the expectation of “reasonable prospect of benefit” flies in the face of everything we now know about puberty blockers. Puberty is an essential stage in human development. Recruiting children who have been led to fear it, in the current online and social climate, verges on a criminal enterprise. It is profoundly shocking that 9,000 children passed through the Tavistock GIDS - again, most of them lesbian, gay or bisexual - and their data have been lost or suppressed. This ill-fated trial must be cancelled. It is unworthy of a civilized society.

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A year ago today, Scotland lost one of its greatest sons, Alex Salmond. A lot of changed in a year yet so much of what he said still rings true to this day. He will always be remembered 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Dream Shall Never Die. 12.10.24 🖤

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points. I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days. Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them. However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created. When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said. The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness. Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison? I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges. The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest. Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

Seen in Journalism is horrified and dismayed at the murder of Charlie Kirk. It is a rare activist who says: let’s talk, I will listen to your argument, come and criticise my ideas. It is sickening that he was murdered for his openness, his trust and his beliefs.

The UK’s new deputy prime minister btw 🤡

Reposted in anticipation of media claiming Scot Gov not doing enough to reduce drug deaths: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/03/04/dru…

Exactly this. Every single word.

Alex Salmond’s family turn on Nicola Sturgeon over memoir attacks thetimes.com/article/b8f4b8…

So sorry to read this. Scottish politics particularly the SNP is badly in need of more people of Kate’s integrity. I might not agree with her about gay marriage but I respect her rights to hold different views owing to her religion & I admire her greatly. What a loss.

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The misrepresentation in certain sections of the media of what the UK Supreme Court's recent ruling actually means is outrageous. The ruling clarified that women and girls have sex-based rights under British law, and that those rights haven't changed since women gained them. Trans activist lobby groups lied about what the law said. They claimed trans-identified men were entitled to everything women were entitled to, under the law. This false interpretation, which removed sex-based rights from women and girls and gave trans-identified men additional rights, may have been imposed upon large sections of society, but it was always illegal, as countless legal experts and grassroots women's groups fought to have recognised. The Supreme Court restored to women rights they'd lost in practice. Trans-identified men lost nothing in law, because they'd never had the rights they claimed they had. The media types now hyperventilating in print because trans people's rights have been 'reduced' are still lying. Nothing has been taken from trans-identified people except a false belief, and women have simply regained what they should have had all along.

We have had to pay for the change to unisex and now will need to pay to change them back however it hasn't gone unnoticed that when campaigning for sutable toilet provision and changing facilities for disabled people costs and older buildings were excuses given, yet these were suddenly not issues when creating unisex spaces. Councils need to hold those who gave wrong guidance financially responsible not the tax payer the costs to change them back

Since the DfE is refusing to advise schools on this till 'later this year' we have prepared this. We recommend all schools take urgent action so they're not next in court. Waiting for government guidance is an unacceptable excuse when the law is so beautifully clear. We suggest that schools: Immediately align policies with the Supreme Court ruling and Equality Act, ensuring single-sex facilities and no social transition. Publish PSHE curricula and remove trans-affirming content or providers. End ties with Stonewall, Jigsaw, and similar groups, and withdraw from Rainbow Awards. The law and evidence are clear: schools must prioritise biological reality, protect sex-based rights, and safeguard children from ideological harm. We urge all schools to act swiftly to ensure they meet their duties and avoid the severe consequences of non-compliance. protectteach.co.uk/supreme-court/

Blaming women for the violence of men is one of the oldest tropes in the book. If you do it, you are not a feminist. 2/2

Fallon Fox, a cross dressing man, beats a woman up in the ring This is what @iamjohnoliver supports #JohnOliverIsAMisogynist #SaveWomensSports