There's a parliamentary petition for an independent review of the Cass report into gender medical services for young people. It's a highly problematic document commissioned by the previous government and shaped by anti-trans viewpoints.
If you're a Brit, you can sign it, whether you live in the UK or not. Please do.
"SOMEBODY SAID SOMETHING ON THE INTERNET, so we DEMAND you address it, repeatedly!" is from the same drawer as TERFs endlessly demanding "DEBATE MEEEEE!" to rehash the same points.
It's appropriate to evaluate and call out bad stuff when you see it. But in there lies a responsibility to ensure that what you are claiming has a basis in fact, and your primary source isn't an abuser.
Otherwise you just become the abuser too.
It's a point worth making, if your're a European or other technology company looking to hire top American talent, Trump's election represents a golden opportunity.
A huge number of trans people are very anxious to leave the USA right now, and among them are a lot of people in the technology sector. They wouldn't normally be in the international jobs market, snap them up before someone else does.
Curious? Talk to [@trans_rescue](
Ok, a bit of good news from this year.
Dora Richter was one of the first trans women to receive gender reassignment surgery, in Berlin.
She was for years believed to have died in the Nazi raid on the Institut fΓΌr Sexualwissenschaft, the world's first gender clinic, because she disappeared afterwards
This year it was found that she got away from Berlin to her home village in what is now Czechia, survived the war and forced relocation to Germany, and died an old lady in the sixties.
) passenger somewhere else in the world to deal with. Such things have no respect for sleep.
We have more than one passenger directly affected by the war in the Middle East at the moment, and it's straining our resources.
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It's peak UK government, that they agree to hand over the Chagos islands to Mauritius at last, while also completely excluding from the process the Chagos islanders they evicted back in the 1960s.
My mental health is at a low point today. I took yesterday afternoon out to look at trains in the hope it would recover, and sadly it didn't really work.
XFH users beware, there's a new lWM in the TFKW that breaks JT if you don't stick it up your BXRH.
Now, please, if you're going to post initialism laden sentences, please bear in mind that not all readers are in your bubble, and many won't have a clue what you are talking about.
) passenger made this for me, I have it hanging above my bench and I think it's really cool. They seemed surprised when we said "That's awesome, you could make those and sell them!". Would any of you buy a crochet resistor keychain from them if you could?
