Kindly acknowledge and we will be grateful @rachelblakemp.bsky.social

Antivaxer to lead US study of link between vaccines and autism — The Times and The Sunday Times A researcher who claims that there is a link between vaccines and autism in children has been asked to lead a US government study on the issue. Much of David Geier’s work has been discredited and he w...

apple.news/AbjsAeGbTSeu... What’s wrong with America? This is utterly insane #medicine #quakery #autism #neurodivergent #vaccine

Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.

Time for Sky to get its head out of the clouds Pressure mounts on Ofcom and Sky to take action to end GB News’ campaign of hate.

“Sky can continue to fund GB News to perpetuate dangerous lies about the LGBT+ community or it can claim to value those communities. But it can't do both.” www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/time...

"A whole new level of cruelty": Health experts decry "devastating" cuts to HIV treatment programs The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation said the latest cuts will deprive 350,000 people of HIV treatment.

“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action.

www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...

Not condemning Putin is the ONLY thing that Trump has ever been consistent with #standwithUkraine

Might save a life.

The Evidence for Gender-affirming Medical Interventions for Adolescent Gender Dysphoria Research suggests gender-affirming medical care results in better mental health. Here are the studies.

Since Psychology Today no longer lets you update articles, people have been asking for a new live list of the studies examining the impact of gender-affirming medical interventions for adolescent gender dysphoria on mental health.

Here you go in my latest subtack!
open.substack.com/pub/jackturb...

LGBT people have always existed. It will be foolish to think we are free of history #LGBT+historymonth #LGBTQhistorymonth

Blimey - the most aggressively right wing and hateful network in the UK being funded by Marks and Spencer!

I often talk about how Good Law Project tries to speak the only language that politicians understand: that of political pain. We are now trying to speak the only language that GB News understands: financial pain. This is how you help. 👇🏻

Infant mortality increased along with births in most U.S. states with abortion bans in the first 18 months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to new research. Babies who were Black, lived in Southern states or had fetal birth defects died at the highest rates.

Getting under the skin: How research helped E45 engage with the trans community | Feature | Research live E45 set out to engage with and support the trans community with a research project focused on skincare through the transition. By Liam Kay-McClean.

www.research-live.com/article/feat... it was a privilege to be involved in this research project,co wrote a systematic review on skin conditions in trans & gender diverse people . Thank you E45 #dermatology#E45

Inside 100 Days Of Kemi Badenoch — PoliticsHome As leader of the opposition Kemi Badenoch has what is often regarded as the worst job in politics, and for that her party is giving her the benefit of the doubt. But she faces an uphill battle to turn...

apple.news/AEuOSdFaTTje... “All the things we thought she’d be good at, she’s not. And all the things we thought she’d be bad at, she is,” Well, she’s good at screaming& shouting about stuff that don’t matter to most voters @toryparty.bsky.social

Several years ago, in an interview the Guardian censored, Judith Butler predicted that "Terfs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism."

Janice Turner and The Times have proven Judith right.

(Thanks to @2damntrans.bsky.social for the reminder).

DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."

He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

Thank you Royal College of Anaesthetics to invite me a s speaker this afternoon , raising awareness about trans healthcare @rcoanews.bsky.social @rcgp.bsky.social @bma.org.uk #transhealth #LGBT

This is good to see, but also feels a little hypocritical given @bmj.com recently desk-rejected a "letter to the editor" by myself and colleagues responding to significant disinformation and bias in its journalistic reporting on trans healthcare.

Here’s a shocking finding, gen Z: democracy isn’t perfect | David Mitchell According to a new poll, half of our 13- to 27-year-olds can’t see the point of all those time-wasting elections and parliaments. Why do they not know that authoritarianism is worse?

This Govt has raised tuition fees, won't reopen Erasmus, is killing their trans friends, isn't serious about climate change, won't tax the rich, and has done nothing on housing. And it's elected and pretends to be left. And you ask why Gen Zs don't like democracy? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

HIV, transgender care and other federal websites go dark Several CDC pages were taken down Friday afternoon. Some redirected users to other sections of the site.

This is a digital book burning of vital and critical data and information.

www.axios.com/2025/01/31/h...

Revealed: Streeting met with and expressed sympathy for pro-conversion therapy parents group Bayswater QueerAF has uncovered video footage of the Health Secretary Wes Streeting saying he’d met with Bayswater parents and expressed his sympathy for the “traumatic experiences” families with trans children...

“having met with Bayswater Parents, I think that's been a – I'd go so far as to say – traumatic experience for some of those families, and that's really stuck with me.” Wes Streeting

I can tell Wes a few things about trauma, but it’s as if I, and Alice’s story, don’t exist to him. Transphobic ass.

Revealed: Streeting met with and expressed sympathy for pro-conversion therapy parents group Bayswater QueerAF has uncovered video footage of the Health Secretary Wes Streeting saying he’d met with Bayswater parents and expressed his sympathy for the “traumatic experiences” families with trans children...

I would like to be explicit here. Bayswater as not *just* a conversion therapy group. They are explicitly a child abuse enabling group.

In the Bayswater discord, parents talked about destroying their kids possessions and blocking access to childline.

www.wearequeeraf.com/revealed-str...

This is what Trump’s cruelty and chaos has unleashed.

Kemi Badenoch is bad at PMQs. Again While her choice of topics has narrowed, her inability to land blows on a PM with a current approval rating of -42 is mindblowing

While her choice of topics has narrowed, her inability to land blows on a PM with a current approval rating of -42 is mindblowing

White House $50m condom claim doesn't hold up under scrutiny A former Biden administration official called the claim of having blocked $50m in condom shipments to Gaza a ‘feverish dream’

Spreading fake news and undermining the suffering of millions of people in Gaza. Another new low in the ongoing cruelty by the Trump government. #Gaza #cruelty #FreePalestine

Peter Mandelson calls past remarks about Trump ‘ill-judged and wrong’ — The Guardian Labour peer says president has won ‘fresh respect’ ahead of expected confirmation as ambassador to the US

It’s totally pathetic as Trump is going to think less not more of him for it and it keeps lowering the Overton window for monsters and dictators. Mandelson’s words won’t do the UK and the world any favours .It’s his personal ambition he did this for, not Britain. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Today was my 2nd teaching session for GPs in 2025. Last week was GP trainees in Peterborough and today University of Nottingham GP surgery. GPs showing a lot of interest in improving health care to trans people is encouraging to see & feedback was positive #GP@RCGP@LMC#transhealthcare

Wow, after a salute and now an appearance to propagate fascism

Elon Musk makes surprise appearance at AfD event in eastern Germany Tycoon tells 4,500 people at campaign event in Halle to be proud of German culture in speech via video link Elon Musk made a surprise appearance during Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) election campaign event in Halle in eastern Germany on…

Elon Musk makes surprise appearance at AfD event in eastern Germany