Portfolio GP. Ethics and Law MA. Care about problems of overdiagnosis and too much medicine. Feminist. One of: @biologyinmed https://xitter.cf/t.co/3K3TOnBV6s

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This approach makes one a maverick. We need more mavericks in medicine.
“I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgements.” ― Carl Sagan
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Read the committee's questions committees.parliament.uk/sub… You might want to focus on: - Does the draft bill meets the Government’s stated aims? - Does it address a gap in existing legislation? - Are the concepts and thresholds clear and appropriate? - Are CP protection orders a good idea? - Does the bill strike the right balance with privacy, freedom and family life? - Is the healthcare exemption adequate?
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Delighted and honoured to have been invited to appear on Thursday before the joint committee scrutinising the draft Conversion Practices Bill.
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Need help please! An independent bookseller in Bath have agreed to list Pat Carlen's and my book (quite a coup given that they also stock Grave Lavery and Susan Stryker) If 10 people can order it, I might be in with a chance of getting it stocked. The book is about my fight against OU. It is straight up GC and recounts feminist and lesbian lives in UK in 80s onwards. If you know someone near southwest / Bath, please get them to order the book. mrbsemporium.com/
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SEEN in Health are supporting @BinTheBill_ , as a staff network we recognise the perils the Conversion Practices Bill in it's current form will bring to the freedom of thought and speech for all healthcare professionals Conversion Therapy is wrong, we already have many laws in place to prevent and prosecute such practices. Healthcare professionals must remain free to pursue evidence and follow safeguarding guidance. The Bill in it's current form treats contested belief as settled fact and places those who dissent at legal risk We will be sharing resources and supporting the call for evidence submissions from healthcare professionals on how this bill may affect your practice We recommend the following links for further reading and information Battle of Ideas panel recording xitter.cf/BinTheBill_/status/211… Sex Matters Briefing - Who is at risk? xitter.cf/SexMattersOrg/status/2… Gay Mens Network xitter.cf/MensNetwork1/status/21…
1/ We’ve written to the Secretary of State for Equalities concerning misinformation that appeared in an article she wrote over the weekend. It’s important that the debate around the draft conversion bill is accurate and the Minister should promote this. gaymensnetwork.co.uk/letters
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1/ We’ve written to the Secretary of State for Equalities concerning misinformation that appeared in an article she wrote over the weekend. It’s important that the debate around the draft conversion bill is accurate and the Minister should promote this. gaymensnetwork.co.uk/letters
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The parliamentary committee on the draft Conversion Practices Bill has issued its call for evidence. Read our briefing on who is at risk from criminalisation by this legislation and start thinking about responding. sex-matters.org/posts/update…
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How to submit evidence to the parliamentary commitee on the draft Conversion Practices Bill. Step 1: Put the deadline in your diary - 16th November 2026 Step 2: Read this guidance from Sex Matters sex-matters.org/take-action/…
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This is as shocking as ignoring the child safeguarding concerns themselves - attack the person whose job it was to raise those concerns! Cowards.
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Two Tavistock whistleblowers warned about its gender clinic long before it closed. Now they are raising the alarm about the draft Conversion Practices Bill. Watch therapists Marcus and Susan Evans explain why it poses serious risks to children, parents and families.
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True. My best mate has gone private for her HRT because there's none to be had on the NHS. It's all being used up so that AGPs and transvestite psychopaths can go on Hormone Falsification Treatment (HFT) and grow fake breasts. And they are taking massive doses too. Some of which by the way, is being excreted into the wastewater system, with a proportion inevitably ending up in our drinking water. Think about this the next time you say that adults have the "right to do what they want" with their own bodies. And when you're next drinking a glass of water, or making a cup of tea.
There’s a HRT shortage in the UK 🇬🇧 Women are once again left hunting pharmacies for HRT while the same estradiol is handed out so men can grow tits and pretend they’re women. Real women’s hot flushes, bone density and sleep come second to male entitlement. Every. Single. Time.
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Do @UKLabour really want #LabourLegacy to be a law which isn’t based on reliable evidence, criminalises staff safeguarding children and locks children into a fantasy of ‘sex change’? #BinTheConversionPracticesBill
If the # ConversionPracticeDraftBill for England & Wales becomes law a headteacher or designated safeguarding lead could face 5 years in prison for saying ‘no’ to him. He could claim alarm/distress & report them for an abusive conversion practice. #LabourLegacy #BinTheBill
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This absolutely needs to be looked at very urgently. Yet Dr Cass is supporting a further trial of puberty blockers on children. Which the Government is going ahead with.. That cannot be ignored either. If clinicians have concerns already about the treatment of children-they must be heard and the evidence they already have be urgently looked at and not ignored. @joymorrissey @DamianHinds @drcarolinej
🚨Hilary Cass has called for an independent inquiry into how Brighton GPs were allowed to prescribe cross-sex hormones to children as young as 12.“There urgently needs to be an investigation of why every system that should have protected children, young people, and indeed young adults has failed,” she told me. The employment tribunal between Dr Sarah Redvers and NHS Sussex has highlighted how regulators and the NHS collectively failed to stop prescribing of puberty blockers and hormones against national guidelines - for years - and how instead the person raising concerns was accused of transphobia and herself investigated. Dr Redvers sat down with me for her only newspaper interview about her treatment in a scandal which, Cass now says, “dwarfs” that of the Tavistock’s GIDS. Me for the Sunday Times… thetimes.com/article/cfde7b4…
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I’m getting DMs from Barnsley GPs telling me that they don’t trust the PA’s assessments and requests for treatment, therefore they rarely use the home visiting service . #Barnsley GPs and patients DM me . Tell me what is going on please. @HealthCareBNSLY @BarnsleyHF
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Cass calls for an independent inquiry. “There urgently needs to be an investigation of why every system that should have protected children, young people, and indeed young adults has failed. Clearly it goes beyond NHS Sussex to other regulatory bodies.” thetimes.com/article/cfde7b4…
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Dr Robin Warshafsky's report is one of the many profoundly shocking things to come out of Dr Sarah Redvers' claim against NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board and Adam Doyle.
In 2021, NHSE commissioned Dr Robin Warshafsky to investigate concerns about Dr Sam Hall's prescribing practices. Dr Warshafsky's full report is to be found at page 653 of the hearing bundle, but has not to my knowledge been released in downloadable form.
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It’s been one of the privileges of my life to support Sarah Redvers over the last few years. A travesty she was punished for safeguarding & seeking the best care for gender distressed children. If they listened to her not castigate her, harms at a huge scale could’ve been avoided
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Pausing there. "The investigator was made uncomfortable by the amount of probing by this individual." Probing by an individual whose concerns about the excessive medicalisation of gender-distressed children were subsequently completely vindicated.
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ALLES OPERIERT. NICHTS GEHEILT. Die Flucht vor der eigenen Seele. Viele junge Menschen, die unter einem diffusen Unwohlsein im eigenen Körper oder seelischer Not leiden, finden heute schnell eine scheinbar klare Antwort: Das Unbehagen wird als Beweis für eine Transidentität gelesen – und die medizinisch-chirurgische Transition als der eine Weg, der endlich Frieden bringen soll. In einer Zeit, in der diese Deutung auf Social Media, in Peer Groups und in weiten Teilen des therapeutischen Systems dominant angeboten wird, entsteht ein fatales Muster: Was komplex und vielschichtig ist, verdichtet sich rasch zur scheinbar einzigen Lösung. Natürlich gibt es jene, bei denen nach sorgfältiger Abklärung eine medizinische Anpassung tatsächlich zu innerer Ruhe führt. Doch für einen grossen Teil der Betroffenen wird der operative Weg zu einem gefährlichen Ersatzschauplatz. Sobald jemand diesen Weg einmal beschritten hat und die ersten Operationen hinter sich hat, verändert sich die innere Logik. Die erhoffte Erleichterung bleibt aus oder ist nur kurz spürbar. Statt den Weg zu hinterfragen, verschiebt sich die Erklärung: "Es ist einfach noch nicht fertig. Noch eine Operation, noch etwas mehr Perfektion – dann wird alles gut." Genau dann wird ein Satz zum Mantra: "Wenn erst die nächste Operation vorbei ist, fängt mein echtes Leben an." Er klingt nach Hoffnung, ist aber ein Schutzschild. Solange man die nächste Operation in Aussicht hat oder noch ein Dokument fehlt, hat das Unbehagen eine Adresse: Einsamkeit? Liegt am falschen Körper. Keine innere Ruhe? Liegt an den fehlenden Hormonen. Beziehungen scheitern? Liegt daran, dass noch etwas fehlt. Selbstzweifel? Liegt daran, dass man noch nicht "vollständig" ist. Die Transition wird zum mächtigsten Ablenkungsmanöver: Sie gibt dem seelischen Leid ein klares Projekt. Man ist im Tunnel. Und dann kommt der Tag, vor dem kaum jemand warnt. Der Tag, an dem der letzte Schnitt verheilt ist. An dem kein Arzttermin mehr ansteht. An dem alle Papiere geändert sind und die Aussenwelt einen genau so liest, wie man es wollte. Alles ist erreicht. Man steht vor dem Spiegel – und es ist still. Keine Fanfaren. Keine Erlösung. In dieser Stille trifft einen die nüchterne Wahrheit: Der Körper ist verändert, aber die Seele ist dieselbe geblieben. Plötzlich gibt es keine Ausreden mehr. Das Unglück lässt sich nicht länger auf ein fehlendes Körperteil schieben oder am vermeintlich falschen Geschlecht festmachen. Viele erkennen erst hier, dass sie jahrelang vermieden haben, den wirklichen Ursachen ihrer inneren Konflikte und ihrem realen Leben ins Auge zu blicken. Ich kenne diese Situation aus eigener Erfahrung. Und ich sehe sie heute bei vielen jungen Menschen, deren Ursachen im affirmativen System nie wirklich hinterfragt wurden. Wer an diesem Punkt ankommt, steht vor einer Wahl: Entweder man klammert sich weiter an die Hoffnung, dass ein weiterer Eingriff die ersehnte Erlösung bringt, oder man findet den Mut, innezuhalten und sich der eigenen Wahrheit zu stellen. Denn man kann den Körper bis zur Unkenntlichkeit verändern – aber man nimmt sich selbst immer mit. 🙏 #Transition #Detransition #Transidentität #Transgender #MentalHealth
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In light of the Redvers tribunal. I rewatched my own speech to CAN SG in 2024. Worth your time if I say so myself! It’s a 12 minute tour de force of how the WellBn scandal manifested and what was happening in precise and clear terms. Hate to say I told you so 🤷‍♀️
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How could this scenario play out if #ConversionPracticesDraftBill becomes law? Man rejects transwoman as he’s not gay Transwoman is distressed claims man is trying to convert him Boom! Man accused of an abusive conversion practice Brings a new element to dating #BinTheBill
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