Question:

How on EARTH does the Disney animation The Sword In The Stone think Merlin, back in the 500s CE would have sugar, tea, tobacco and glasses?

This morning I woke up to a modicum of better news for once, as it would appear that fhe media, including queer media, has misreported the recent BMA Review into the Cass Report amd is, in fact, highly critical of it. Coming as this does while I am off sick with depression due to the recent eaving through of the EHRC code by Phillipson this offers at least some evidence of the way the media is fudging its reporting to support its anti trans agenda.

As to how much difference this will make in our daily lives? Not much, unless like me you live in a country where trans healthcare is still available, but it is at least another feather in out arrows, ready for fletching. We must take what ammunition we can.

"Exclusive: Reporting about British Medical Association critique of Cass Review was 'factually wrong'

TL;DR: When the British Medical Association's long-awaited review of the Cass Review was published, the media said it had "dropped its opposition" and "vindicated" Cass. But, according to doctors who were on the BMA's review team, that's not what actually happened.

The mainstream media's reporting of the British Medical Association's critique of the Cass Review contained "misinformation" and was "factually wrong", according to members of the doctors union.

When the Cass Review was published in 2024, the doctors union strongly opposed it and called for any implementation of its recommendations to be put on hold while the BMA conducted its own review of the evidence. 

However, the government did not heed the BMA and has used the Cass Review to justify banning puberty blockers for trans young people, hormone therapy for 16- and 17-year-olds, and also closing the GIDS youth gender clinic.

On 6 May, the BMA's own review was published. It said that the government's actions went beyond the recommendations of the Cass Review, and that the Review provided no evidential basis for a puberty blocker ban. 

It goes on to point out that medical bodies could have continued managing prescriptions without the need for government intervention. In short, the puberty blocker ban was an overreach - QueerAF

But this was not how it was reported by the newspapers.

The Guardian headline claimed the BMA "drops opposition to Cass Review", as did The Times, and even LGBTQIA+ media outlets contained the 'drops opposition' line.

The British Medical Journal headline went further, saying the BMA critique "vindicates" the Cass Review.

But, speaking exclusively to QueerAF, Dr Alex Robertson, co-convenor of the BMA's LGBTQ+ network, said this reporting was both "factually wrong" and contained "misinformation".

“I was disgusted but not surprised by some of the reporting of the report," Robertson said. "It was misleading to the point of misinformation and in some places factually wrong. This is distressing to trans people as well as those of us within the profession who continue to support trans patients.”

Robertson said that the report from the doctors union contained "fairly strong criticisms" of the actions taken by NHS England "in the name of Cass", such as the ban on puberty blockers, on hormone therapy for 16- and 17-year-olds, and the abrupt closure of services like the GIDS gender clinic. 

The BMA's review was "intended as a narrow-evidence based review and critique of the Cass review methodology and report" and not the doctors unions' "approach to trans healthcare", they added.

Robertson emphasised that the BMA's position on trans healthcare remains unchanged, and that it continues to have a strong, inclusive policy in support of gender-affirming healthcare for Trans+ patients, as well as supporting Trans+ and gender-diverse doctors.

A doctor who was in the BMA task group that worked on the critique of Cass also told QueerAF that the doctors union remains committed to timely, high quality, evidence-based trans healthcare provision, and that the union's position on trans healthcare is unchanged by the report.

They added that the media reporting also left out vital parts of the BMA review's criticism of the Cass Review.

"One thing I’ve noticed in the media coverage is that what the BMA’s review found about lived experiences involvement in the Cass Review really isn’t being discussed," they told QueerAF.

One such example is that meaningful participation with young people "didn't take place". Another is that the BMA criticised Cass for reframing "peer support" as a "risk".

"Engagement was widely described as late in the process with some groups not feeling it was a genuine listening exercise," they said.

Analysis: Unsurprising, yet still revealing

The way that the mainstream media in the UK reports on Trans+ healthcare has long been rife with misinformation – so it comes as no surprise that facts have again been twisted to support an anti-trans agenda.

In May, Amnesty International UK named both The Guardian and The Times in its report about media coverage of trans lives. Amnesty studied 17,000 articles between 2020 and 2025 about trans people. The report found that media coverage of issues about trans people is excessively high compared to the size of the trans population - QueerAF

The vast majority of the reporting excludes Trans+ perspectives and platforms' anti-trans talking points, the research found. 

Had the media talked to doctors from within the BMA about the doctors union's review of Cass, perhaps it would have been able to tell a more accurate story. But then, that would go against the media tradition of excluding trans people and our allies from being able to speak for ourselves."

#Trans #Transgender #TransgenderUK

This is absolutely unfathomable. To put this into context:

The descendants of many enslaved people settled in the UK

They paid taxes in the UK

And those taxes paid of debt taken out by the government to "recompense" slave owners for their "financial losses".

In short, the descendants of slaves have paid taxes for their own families enslavement! And this absolute horror of an MP thinks that their descendants across the globe should pay MORE to the UK for the horrors inflicted upon them and their ancestors!? I cannot even begin to parse this 🤦‍♀️

"Reform UK's Braverman believes the UK should be compensated for its colonial pillages

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/07/06/braverman-neocol/

> Reform MP Suella Braverman has said Britain should be compensated for 'effort' to the colonies - funny way of saying 'genocide and atrocities'"

#UKPolitics

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If anyone with whom In am connected promotes TRUK (Trans Radio UK) please note that you will be either:

A) Muted
B) Blocked

This radio station while purporting to support trans folx repeatedly amd persistently puts us at risk by constantly encouraging and pushing us to connect with them via dangerous, corporate, data mining social media sites. They also have a play list that contains some potentially problematic artists who have made somewhat negative comments about trans people, even if said artists have had said comments scrubbed from the public Internet since.

I cannot support this Station
I cannot connect with anyone who does

@TransRadioUK

To all out here in Fedi:

You do not CW or set photos as sensitive for how you as an indivudal poster feel about the post.

You set these for how other users may feel about them, including taking into account disabilities, screen readers, sensitivities etc.

This is Social Media, and we are the society. Please consider others when considering this, as the tools are here, incredibly easy to use, and it is just plain polite.

If you wouldn't piss in someones front garden IRL, or force an autistic person into making eye contact, or talk about uncomfortable topics to people who are triggered by them, why do that here?

A statement by Jolyon Maugham regarding the shocking ruling today NY the High Court :

"Trans lives are real and they matter. The courts must recognise that | Good Law Project

https://goodlawproject.org/trans-lives-are-real-and-they-matter-the-courts-must-recognise-that/

> The High Court’s decision is wrong and we will appeal it"

#Trans #Transgender #TransgenderUK

Several years ago now, DW published an article from a Sports Scientist at Brighton Uni stating exactly this, that transgender athletes have zero competitive advantage when compared with their cisgender peers. Therefore the only reason to exclude is purely ideological and/or transphobic bigotry.

"Trans scientists say bans are unjustified — let women play sport

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2026/02/04/trans-scientists-say/

> Trans panic meets hard science. A major study finds no advantage for trans women in sport — and says bans are pure ideology, not evidence"

#Trans #Transgender #TransgenderUK

When I was a kid:

Don't drink the tap water in Europe! It isn't safe like Britain's!

As an adult:

I wish we had safe reliable tap water like Europe!

Oh how the Brexiteering xenophobic refash voting Kentonese are brought low, and truly hoisted upon their own petards 😈

Further reporting from GCN. It speaks volumes that I have had to gomto Irish Media (thank you Eire!) for some factual reporting 👇🏻

"Human Rights Lawyer and Chief Exec of Trans Legal Clinic, Olivia Campbell-Cavendish, also commented on the judgement, stating: “The Tribunal has in fact found that trans women are women and shouldn’t be excluded from women’s single-sex spaces.

“This judgment exposes the gross misinformation being spread by groups who espouse extreme anti-trans rhetoric. They disingenuously claim that equality law has been rewritten to exclude trans people for political gain, even though this is not a legal reality.

“Today is a victory for Dr Upton and a victory for every trans person who has ever been made to feel unsafe in their own workplace, school or community. You are valid. You are protected. And we will continue to fight for you.”"

#Trans #Transgender #TransgenderUK

Further links to resources have kindly been provided to me below:

The changing rooms case.
https://www.judiciary.uk/judgm…

The toilet access case
https://www.gov.uk/employment-…

Acas Code of Practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures
https://www.acas.org.uk/acas-c…

#Trans #Transgender #TransgenderUK

Good Law Project is planning to fight back against TERF bullies with legal action:

"Jess O’Thomson, trans rights lead at the Good Law Project, said

the only way to stop bullies is to stand up to them. We want to support inclusive organisations who are being threatened, alongside the trans people who are now finding themselves excluded."

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2025/12/05/trans-ban-good-law-project/

#Trans #Transgender #TransgenderUK

A new study shows that Hormone Treatment leads to a reduction in suicidality in trans youth, meanwhile, in TERF Island trans youth and children will have to wait while a deeply unethical study is undertaken to access this potentially life saving and well understood medication, all while politicians across the political spectrum are calling for a total ban, and forcing trans kids to live as genders they are not aka state enforced conversion.

"The researchers, led by Luke R. Allen, PhD, wrote that hormone therapy was “associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality over time, extending prior findings with a larger sample and longer follow-up”.

The report states that the findings “provide clinical evidence supporting the mental health benefits of timely access to hormone therapy in this population”."

#Trans #Transgender

https://gcn.ie/hormone-treatment-reduction-in-suicidal-tendencies-trans-youth/

“Patient-centred and user-led services are the foundation for improving health outcomes; we believe a Cass-led review in Northern Ireland will struggle monumentally to have the trust and confidence of trans communities, and will indeed worsen an already broken system.”

After the deplorable state of trans healthcare that has resulted from the Cass Reported in Great Britain, we know what the result of her review in Northern Ireland

#Trans #Transgender #TransgenderIreland #TransgenderUK

“Patient-centred and user-led services are the foundation for improving health outcomes; we believe a Cass-led review in Northern Ireland will struggle monumentally to have the trust and confidence of trans communities, and will indeed worsen an already broken system.”

Another success this weekend! This is a moto g42 which I absolutely bricked some time back, and now it is working seemingly flawlessly again. I have managed to get the latest CalyxOS installed onto it which comes with Android 15, so for a reasonably dated device it has a nice and relatively new kernel, which it wouldn't have if it was stock (it shipped with 12 when I purchased it, later upgraded by moto to 13).

Sometimes perseverance pays off!

#CalyxOS @calyxos

Good Grief!

The BBC in reporting that Zara Sultana is forming a new party with Jeremy Corbyn has decided to put up a picture of Ash Sarkar!

Can you possibly get more racist than THAT!?

👇🏼🛑

This is my daily life. Every day I wake up and find my own government is trying just that little bit harder to exterminate me.

Thankfully I am out of their reach. Thankfully I live in another country. Thankfully the CEO of the company I work for has my back, and has made sure to tell me to my face. Thankfully I have residency outside of the UK.

But for my siblings who live there still? For them I am FUCKING TERRIFIED.

And to all the cis in the UK who are not out there screaming to reverse this inhuman barbarity I say the following, you are complicit!

And some are now at he stage where he Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has labelled the UK as Red Alert for Genocide and has defined the UK as meeting fully Stage 9 of the 10 Stages to Genocide. Stage 10 really only applies Post Genocide when the perpetrators are brought before tribunals or courts.

Somfoe ALL LGBTQ people I advise the following:

GET OUT! GET OUT NOW! GET OU BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE TO GET OUT!

#TransgenderUK #TransGenocide

https://www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-alerts/red-flag-alert-on-anti-trans-and-intersex-rights-in-the-uk

"Rowling wrote on X/Twitter: “It is a great mistake to assume that everyone who claims to have been a friend of mine was ever considered a friend by me.”"

Indeed Arch TERFvert and alleged writer of fiction, we know that nine of us are your friends.

But a spat between two TERFs who hate the site of trans folks, oh, that is too delicious 😋

#Trans #Trandgender #TransgenderUK

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/23/jk-rowling-stephen-fry-trans-rights-row/

After an afternoon watching the absolute transphobic shitshow that was the Women and Equalities Committee, I am now watching something far more uplifting:

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

This reminds me that no matter what the Gencritter cishet christofash try to do to us as a trans community, we will endure. And I say this as a former evangelical Christian. The portrayal of the Pentacostals in the mini series is quite accurate, as is their seething spitting hate of LGBTQ people.

Confirmation from Strive via PN that Lush has pulled it's collaboration with Download Festival over its trans exclusionary toilet policy?

#Trans #Transgender #TransgenderUK

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/03/lush-download-festival-toilet-policy/

Fuck me! A trans DJ at a trans radio station, @TransRadioUK , played a track from a known fucking TERF Debbie Harry!

Well that was me switching stations to give my ears a deep cleanse from even those first few bars!

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