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The current proposals include a politically motivated, highly dangerous and medically unjustified exclusion of the provision of puberty blockers and gender-affirming healthcare. This is totally unacceptable and WILL cause a very high level of harm to children and adolescents.| UnCommon Sense
Stripping any group of people of their human rights is a big deal, when that group is a small and misrepresented group like trans people t...| uncommon-scents.blogspot.com
It seems to me that the widely discredited Cass Review has just been revealed as even more dubious than before, as Hilary Cass went back on the recommendation that young trans people should have access to puberty blockers if they need them. In an extraordinary intervention, reported in the extreme-right propaganda rag the Daily Mail she accused people warning of deaths of trans kids as "shroud-waving". (The amazing campaigner and journalist, Lee Hurley is naming it "The Cass Fraud" seems ...| UnCommon Sense
The Cass Review excluded any involvement from any trans people whether academics or clinicians. Today the mainstream media continued that exclusion. | UnCommon Sense
Unsound methodology, unacceptable bias, problematic and unsupported conclusions. As academics we regard The Cass Review as dangerous and potentially harmful to trans children.| UnCommon Sense
Information made available to me by whistleblowers last week, and now confirmed by other sources, has cast doubt on the integrity of some of the Guardian's reporting, especially of issues that relate to trans people. Here I report and give my opinion of these revelations.| UnCommon Sense
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Today the Tories will almost certainly decide to implement more anti-trans policies in the UK. Through their puppets they have already started to implement a dangerous and deadly policy of denying healthcare to trans children, something that is, in my view, child abuse. What they will announce later today is anyone's guess but it is likely to be deliberately and needlessly nasty like fascist governor of Florida Ron DeSantis, who they admire greatly.Doubtless the media will make a great deal o...| UnCommon Sense
The IPSO "consultation" is, of course not a consultation since it attempt to phrase its questions in such a way that the core assumptions and issues cannot be challenged. That has not stopped me from doing so however. I have only answered three questions, the others are, in my view pointless.| UnCommon Sense
My opinion of the new NHS Service Spec for trans children| UnCommon Sense
The Labour Party permitting an anti trans event at its Conference in Liverpool is something most Party members and members of the wider trade union movement will find appalling. This article is about why I believe it is problematic. | UnCommon Sense
All bullies are cowards, as the well-known maxim goes, and Suella Braverman, her cronies in the media and the "gender-critical" transphobes (Trans Actual 2018) are no exception to this. Let’s examine the deliberate misinterpretation of the Equality Act by Suella Braverman the “Attorney General”, what is intended, and is it a new Section 28 for trans children...?| UnCommon Sense
Throughout the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th century the “Jewish Question” was “debated” in much of Europe. In essence the “Jewish Question” was a polite term for antisemitism. It culminated, in the 1930/40s in the holocaust in which 6 million Jews were murdered. The “Jewish Question” was about non-Jewish people debating what to do with Jews, how they should be forced to live, how their lives should be restricted, what human rights, if any, they should have. ...| UnCommon Sense
This article analyses and contextualises the tweet by JK Rowling in response to Katy Montgomerie's observation (left). It is worth analysing on a number of different levels, because it is more revealing than it appears superficially. And it certainly deserves to be examined closely because it stands out as one of the few times that a GC has expressed anything that can be construed as opposition to the horror being inflicted on people who can get pregnant in the US. | UnCommon Sense
Today's elections have shown a somewhat mixed picture, with a hung parliament the most likely outcome. Labour have made big gains in London and the south, the Lib Dems and Greens have also made gains across the country and the Tories and Alba have had extreme setbacks, with the right-wing Alba Party getting no more than a laughable 274 votes in any ward.| UnCommon Sense
(Translated from The Norwegian from the NRK website | UnCommon Sense
Note: As always this blog uses the TransActual Definition of Transphobia.| UnCommon Sense
The rightfully-angry furore over the BBC’s dishonest transphobia has had to highlight the appalling actions of the UK’s ‘public service’ broadcaster in painting a target on trans people’s backs while also targeting its hate-mongering at Brazil. Brazil is the country where the largest number of trans people are murdered. This can only be regarded as a terrorist act by the BBC, and one for which the Director-General, Tim Davie must ultimately be held accountable. Stochastic terrorism ...| UnCommon Sense
I have to admit to not being a fan of IPSO. In my view IPSO was established to protect the interests of the owners of large mainstream media platforms, who own them in order to manipulate public opinion. It is a fig-leaf of accountability which enables its widespread abuses of power. Since 2017 trans people in the UK have been subjected to a tsunami of transphobic output from mainstream media, from the Times and the Spectator to the Guardian and the BBC. IPSO has stood by and allowed this to ...| UnCommon Sense
"...those who oppose trans people having access to the facilities consistent with how we identify know that all the things they claim don’t actually happen. It’s really about us not existing — about erasing trans people.”| UnCommon Sense
"A newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred. “Propaganda”, so called, by this means is hateful. The voice of opponents no less than that ...| UnCommon Sense
This blog post deals with transphobia as an ideology, an organised ideology of hatred and exclusion directed at trans people. | UnCommon Sense
Opinion: The exclusion of trans people from inquiries about us is not only morally wrong, dangerous and systemic, I argue that it is the result of anti-trans ideologies, and needs to stop.| UnCommon Sense