*Please* take the time to respond - just three questions relate to trans and nonbinary children and young people, and you can use the @allsortsyouth.bsky.social @thekitetrust.bsky.social @theproudtrust.bsky.social guidance to help : tinyurl.com/4xue9u4a. Let trans youth learn.
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🚨There are just two days left to respond to the consultation on Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026. If passed as it is, this guidance risks causing significant harm to trans and non binary students in schools and colleges. You can respond here: tinyurl.com/38uc2rdv. Please share for reach.
Trans and pride flags at protest in London
One year ago today.
Our small, skilled, volunteer team hasn’t stopped since the FWS judgment, and we need your help.
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Most of what we do is behind the scenes, but here’s how we have used your funding so far:
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
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Riley doing the hard yards of tge afternoon shift
Little long legged black and tan pug dog, sleeping in a sun patch on the sofa (with blanket for extra snuggle)
Want a timeline cleanse? Peggy is helping me work from home today by sunbathing on a blanket 🌞🐶❤️
Useful assessment of the most recent research paper out of Finland (on gender affirming meds and trans youth).
This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣
🧪 #MedSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military.
The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him.
Words aren't enough - it's time for action.
“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪
“Girlguiding has taught her values of kindness and compassion, and now she’s being told those values have limits and that limit is your younger sister. It’s very difficult.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
“I am the Lord your God. It is time that you start using my correct pronouns. Which are They/Them. Capitalized.”
The people were distraught and cried out, “My Lord, My God! ... What?”
And God frowned, for They knew this was going to be a whole thing.
YUP. Didn't vote Labour in the last election, wont do so *ever again*. And was raised Labour from the cradle (as you know very well!).
There is an imagined working class, that largely no longer exists and a modern working class that the political class rarely interact with outside of service provision.
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Thats great to hear @Anja, and thanks for the share!
📣Trans+ guides in Sussex please know that @allsortsyouth.bsky.social is always here for you. We have youth groups, summer programmes and 1:1 coaching, as well as a parents support service. You can find us here: allsortsyouth.org.uk.
Pls share for reach❤️
www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe.
www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/
Hi there. I feel you, I really do. In this case there is a decent chance that feedback from teachers and local authorities in particular could shift this. Mostly because it is a v big deal to put it into KSCIE.
The consultation is here: tinyurl.com/38uc2rdv .
@allsortsyouth.bsky.social, @thekitetrust.bsky.social and @theproudtrust.bsky.social have produced response guidance to help you: tinyurl.com/2xbx899e. Responses from teachers, youth workers, parents and carers are particularly important.💪
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The government's draft of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 sets out proposals that would have a profoundly negative impact on trans, non binary and gender diverse children in schools and colleges. Please respond, and speak up for trans+ children's right to learn (links in comments)🧵
As with almost everything Labour has done regarding immigration and asylum since coming to power, reducing asylum protection times poses massive risks not only to individuals directly affected, but also wider communities. The whole lot needs scrapping.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.
🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@martamiori.bsky.social and I have been writing, since 2024, about why Labour's 'Reform' challenge and emphasis was based on a misunderstanding of Labour's vote. Here for anyone interested: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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This is *super* fun. I tapped out at the end of 1200, despite my very trad English degree (complete with Middle English and Anglo- Saxon). Have a go!
Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps.
I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.
The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting.
A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!
Instead, anyone raising concerns about rising suicidally has been dismissed and monstered. I cannot express the depths of sorrow and of anger I feel about this.
