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Feminist. Thalassophile. NHS clinician. Politically homeless lefty. No time for pronouns, star signs, flat earthers or biology deniers. XX. 💜🤍💚

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Joined August 2024
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Kein Arzt auf dieser Erde kann ein Geschlecht ändern. Er kann es nur simulieren. Warum wir heute gesunde junge Körper zurechtschneiden, damit sie in alte Klischees passen - und es "Fortschritt" nennen. Man verkauft uns den aktuellen Trans-Boom als grosse Befreiung von alten Zwängen. Ich habe diesen Weg über drei Jahrzehnte lang selbst gelebt - von den ersten Hormonen 1995 und der grossen Operation 1998 bis zu meinem Entschluss zur Detransition im Spätsommer vor zwei Jahren. Doch wer glaubt, man könne einfach aufwachen und alles sei wieder gut, der täuscht sich gewaltig. Im Alltag lebe ich heute zwar endlich wieder authentisch als der Mann, der ich immer war. Aber körperlich gibt es kein vollständiges Zurück. Ein so tiefgreifend operierter Körper kann keine eigenen Hormone mehr bilden. Nach über 30 Jahren künstlicher Hormone stecke ich heute in einer extrem heiklen hormonellen Umstellung - und bleibe mein Leben lang Patient und Abnehmer der Pharmaindustrie. Ich lebe mit körperlichen Formen und Folgen, die für immer irreversibel sind. Man zieht diese Rolle nicht einfach wieder aus. Man bezahlt den Preis ein Leben lang. Gerade weil ich diesen Preis am eigenen Leib kenne, blicke ich mit grosser Sorge auf die heutige Entwicklung. Natürlich gibt es diese Gruppe von Menschen, die seit frühester Kindheit das tiefe Gefühl in sich tragen, sich ihrem biologischen Körper nicht zugehörig zu fühlen, und sich im Erwachsenenalter bewusst für diesen Schritt entscheiden. Deren Lebensrealität spreche ich nicht ab. Aber der heutige riesige Boom bei Kindern und Jugendlichen hat damit fast nichts mehr zu tun. Durch soziale Medien, Freundeskreise und den Zeitgeist wird ein Weg als schnelle Lösung verkauft, der für die allermeisten in eine Sackgasse führt. Das ist kein Fortschritt, sondern ein Rückschritt in die engsten Geschlechter-Klischees, die wir längst hinter uns lassen wollten. Über Jahrzehnte sind wir als Gesellschaft eigentlich immer freier geworden, was die Rollen von "Mann" und "Frau" angeht. Ein Junge durfte sanft sein, weinen oder aus der Reihe tanzen - und war trotzdem ein richtiger Junge. Ein Mädchen durfte kurze Haare tragen, wild sein und Kleider hassen - und war trotzdem ein richtiges Mädchen. Heute sind die Schubladen wieder enger als je zuvor. Wenn heute ein Junge sanft ist oder ein Mädchen sich in der Pubertät im eigenen Körper fremd fühlt, sagen wir ihnen viel zu oft nicht mehr: "Du bist völlig okay, genau so, wie du bist." Wir pflanzen ihnen den Gedanken ein: "Vielleicht steckst du im falschen Körper!" Weil ich mir der Tragweite dieser Entwicklung bewusst bin, erfüllt mich das mit grosser Sorge. Statt die engen Klischees in unseren Köpfen aufzulösen, schneiden wir lieber die gesunden Körper junger Menschen zurecht, damit sie wieder in alte Schablonen passen. Das ist nicht modern. Es zeigt nur, wie sehr wir verlernt haben, junge Menschen in ihrem "Anderssein" einfach anzunehmen. Dazu kommt eine Wahrheit, die man jungen Menschen oft verschweigt. Man nennt das Ganze verharmlosend "Geschlechtsangleichung". Doch sprechen wir es nüchtern aus: Kein Arzt auf dieser Erde kann das Geschlecht eines Menschen ändern. Jede einzelne Zelle meines Körpers war in all diesen Jahrzehnten männlich. Ich bin durch Operationen und Tabletten nie zur Frau geworden - ich habe 30 Jahre lang jeden Tag gegen meinen biologischen, männlichen Körper angekämpft, um nach aussen eine weibliche Hülle aufrechtzuerhalten. Medizin kann ein Geschlecht nicht wechseln. Sie kann es körperlich nur simulieren. Wenn die tiefere Ursache in Wahrheit ein seelischer Schmerz ist, opfert man einen gesunden Körper für eine Illusion, deren Folgen man nie wieder abstreifen kann. Bei mir war es nie der falsche Körper. Ich war damals einfach ein junger, verletzlicher Mensch mit seelischen Wunden, der nicht wusste, wohin mit seinem Schmerz. Ich gebe dafür niemandem die Schuld und trage die volle Verantwortung für meinen Weg. Ich steckte damals in einem solchen Tunnelblick, dass ich mir diese vermeintliche Lösung selbst erzwingen wollte und gar nicht bereit war, wirklich hinzuschauen. Doch genau weil ich diesen blinden Tunnelblick - und den hohen Preis danach - von innen kenne, weiss ich heute: Ich brauchte damals kein Skalpell und keinen neuen Namen. Was ich, und was die meisten jungen Menschen heute in Wahrheit gebraucht hätten, ist die Erkenntnis: "Du bist liebenswert, genau so, wie du bist. Du musst dich nicht ändern und nicht "abschaffen", um geliebt zu werden. Du darfst ein sensibler, suchender, zweifelnder Mensch sein - und bist genau richtig so." Wenn wir unsere Jugend schützen wollen, müssen wir wieder genau hinschauen, statt jede Flucht vor sich selbst blind als "Mut" zu beklatschen. Fortschritt heisst nicht, gesunde Organe wegzuschneiden, weil jemand nicht ins Raster passt. Echter Fortschritt heisst, jungen Menschen zu helfen, in ihrer eigenen, unverletzten Haut ein Zuhause zu finden. Bevor sie einen Preis bezahlen, den kein Mensch mehr rückgängig machen kann. 🙏 #Detransition #Jugendschutz #Transgender #Zeitgeist #Gesellschaft
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🎯 No one cared when women were put in danger, but now that men are being removed from women's hospital wards to make women safe again there is a huge outcry from men. Hypocrisy much?
Replying to @labourlewis
You never asked to publish the ‘full impacts’ not having single sex provision on the female community did you Why not ?
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Here we go again with the mob screaming 'fascist' and 'n*zi' at women and having to be held back by the police. I really don't want to hear a single word again from politicians about 'marginalised, oppressed minorities' or 'toxicity on both sides'. They really make me sick.
Last night, our members made history. We stood together in #Nottingham for the first female-only #ReclaimTheNight march the city has seen in well over a decade. In fact, this was likely the only explicitly female-only #ReclaimTheNight march in the entire country this year. 1/11
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As the world emerges from the chaos wrought by the trans movement, the monstrous incongruity between what well-meaning people thought they were supporting and the reality of what has occurred is becoming clear. Every day, more people wake up to the fact that trans rights was never an ordinary civil rights cause. It was never about equal rights or an end to the discrimination of a long-marginalized group. It was a total rewrite of reality—a movement intent on bending the world around the false belief held by a tiny number of people who didn’t recognise themselves as mentally ill. What was sold as medically necessary, life-saving care has turned out to be an atrocious medical crime committed by true believers blind to the brutality of the procedures they perform. And what the unsuspecting masses thought was a progressive quest for equal rights has instead resulted in the obliteration of women’s rights, the suppression of scientific scrutiny, the erosion of free speech, and the dismantling of child safeguarding. Read my latest essay in @genspect’s REPATH series on the madness of how we got here.
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Beldame retweeted
The American College of Pediatricians just put out a 🔥🔥🔥 statement calling out all the major medical associations by name for pushing the gender transition craze on kids. They ask for these groups to "IMMEDIATELY stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex." The full @ACPeds statement ⬇️ "Therefore, given the recent research and the revelations of the harmful approach advocated by WPATH and its followers in the United States, we, the undersigned, call upon the medical professional organizations of the United States, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the  Endocrine Society, the Pediatric Endocrine Society, American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to follow the science and their European professional colleagues and immediately stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex.  Instead, these organizations should recommend comprehensive evaluations and therapies aimed at identifying and addressing underlying psychological co-morbidities and neurodiversity that often predispose to and accompany gender dysphoria. We also encourage the physicians who are members of these professional organizations to contact their leadership and urge them to adhere to the evidence-based research now available.”
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It’s really not ‘they just want to pee’ . They don’t want 3rd spaces. It’s a demand for total capitulation, that women have no single sex spaces at all. Narcissistic men like this demand access to women’s spaces for validation and to support their fetish 🚩🚩🚩
Why should trans people fight for 3rd spaces? It's you that wants them not us, so why haven't you advocated for them? Cos you don't actually care do you? Trans people have been happy using the spaces that already exist for generations & they're gonna continue doing so.
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Systemic, institutionalized misogyny is declaring women's boundaries an act of hostile aggression against male interests. Exclusion is not persecution. Exclusion protects legitimate interests in privacy, dignity, safety and autonomy. Disappointment is not victimization. Men and boys being denied access to women and girls is not a human rights violation. A boundary is not an act of violence. Disagreement about a boundary does not constitute hatred. The most insidious misogynistic propaganda recasts the physical limits of what men may demand of women and girls as acts of hostility against men who claim to be women. Women defending their rights are not aggressors and the men challenging women's rights are not victims.
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This is a poisonous move on the part of the City of London. "If you won't let us run it in an unlawful way, we'll destroy it."
Replying to @tribunaltweets
must change it is likely that the Ponds will become fully mixed, and the LP will cease to exist. The Cs have said they don't have a preference but not true, look at letter before action. It says 'confirm the policy withdrawn', 'statement on line, will comply with FWS and operate
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I personally know of 4 male health care professionals who have been struck off & charged with sex crimes. Trusted people in positions of responsibility. No man is above suspicion. Same sex care for vulnerable women needs to be the default, not just an option
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Meanwhile, trans activists tell women they have no right to speak about themselves and their own bodies in any way that might trigger narcissistic rage in trans-identified men, apply the ideological term 'cis' to people who neither describe themselves that way nor believe in gender identities, assert the right to redefine 'woman' not by the observable characteristics of biological sex but by sex stereotypes, and seek to dictate what rights women and girls should surrender to men.
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“Some women have congenital chromosomal differences from the norm, therefore I, a chromosomally normal male with no such disorder, can be a woman too” is the most absurd, not to mention exploitative & colonising, argument of the lot.
Replying to @yallweekly
I have Turner’s syndrome. I can assure you we are not trans, you f’ing moron. We are adult human females. Otherwise known as women.
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"Well, c1s is Latin for the same side." "Well, woman is English for adult human female." "Oh, that doesn't count." "So Latin counts and English doesn't?" How many people here speak Latin as their full time language?
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Well done @Telegraph for reporting on the #ConversionPracticesDraftBill Talking to people it is obvious the public are totally unaware of the Draft Bill and its power to stifle free speech Imagine if all MSM were as brave as the Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/gift/97a1140… #BinTheBill
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Beldame retweeted
Replying to @rerutled
Because of access, Robert. Women and girls are more likely to be assaulted by men they know because those men have access to them. Why do you want to increase the number of men who have access to women and girls?
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Beldame retweeted
“Why do transphobes always talk about wolves in sheep’s clothing, and never sheep in wolves clothing?”
Why do transphobes only talk about trans women (~32.3%) and not trans men or non binary (~66.7%)
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This level of stupidity allegedly from a nurse, has to be rage bait. Surely?! 😱
And what would be the mechanism that would prevent a male body from doing it versus a female body? Is it some magical power that is granted to you upon being born? Or is what's more likely is that a human body does it regardless. And it's such an idiotic argument anyways
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I find myself using the word ‘Orwellian’ quite a lot these days. Unfortunately, it’s not hyperbole. Anyone who’s read Nineteen Eighty-Four will know that Orwell foresaw a future in which all of our lives were under constant scrutiny and obedience to the state was mandatory. We’re not quite there yet. But Covid showed us just how easily, and willingly, the state could reach into our lives, deploying every manner of psychological pressure, backed by the force of law, to make us comply with whatever arbitrary rule had been dreamt up that week. Since then, we’ve seen people imprisoned for things they’ve written on social media. Just expressing ‘wrongthink’, even stating something as straightforward as ‘sex is immutable’, can potentially end your career. And, right now, Parliament is scrutinising a truly Orwellian piece of legislation - the draft Conversion Practices Bill, which threatens to see the state reach even further into family life, potentially criminalising parents. Which parents? Parents who love their children and don’t want them going down a medical pathway because they’ve become convinced, as so many vulnerable young people have, that they were somehow ‘born in the wrong body’. Parents who simply want to take their time, reassure their children that they’ll be okay and who quite rightly don’t believe that pumping minors full of hormones, or putting them on a pathway towards having parts of their healthy bodies removed, constitutes a compassionate response to a condition that most children grow out of. These parents could find themselves getting a knock at the door. And who is presiding over all this? @andyburnham, with his easy banter, ready sense of humour and reputation for straight talking. Yet his government is proposing what I regard as one of the most dystopian pieces of legislation this country has seen in modern times. I urge everyone who’s unfamiliar with this Bill to look into it. And to be afraid. Write to your MP. Write to Andy Burnham. Make your voice heard. Because this Bill must be stopped, or Orwell’s vision may prove not to have been fiction after all.
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The Conversion Practices bill “makes it a crime to say to your teenaged daughter: I want you to love your body, I want you to grow up to be a happy lesbian. I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU ARE A MAN!” 💔 @Jebadoo2
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🚨Hilary Cass has called for an independent inquiry into how Brighton GPs were allowed to prescribe cross-sex hormones to children as young as 12.“There urgently needs to be an investigation of why every system that should have protected children, young people, and indeed young adults has failed,” she told me. The employment tribunal between Dr Sarah Redvers and NHS Sussex has highlighted how regulators and the NHS collectively failed to stop prescribing of puberty blockers and hormones against national guidelines - for years - and how instead the person raising concerns was accused of transphobia and herself investigated. Dr Redvers sat down with me for her only newspaper interview about her treatment in a scandal which, Cass now says, “dwarfs” that of the Tavistock’s GIDS. Me for the Sunday Times… thetimes.com/article/cfde7b4…
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One of the most disturbing aspects of this unfolding scandal is how successfully the public has been kept in the dark. If people understood the full extent of what has been happening to vulnerable children, I believe the outrage would be overwhelming. What the ideologues driving this agenda have achieved, with the willing connivance of progressive political parties and much of the media, is extraordinary. They’ve managed to dress up a child harming scandal as an emancipation movement, and present potentially devastating, irreversible interventions on vulnerable children as acts of kindness and compassion. And this is where I believe my own employer, the BBC, bears enormous responsibility. Had it subjected these claims to robust scrutiny from the outset, rather than actively promoting gender ideology, how many vulnerable children might have been spared life-altering harm that can never be undone? There have, of course, been notable exceptions at the BBC: a handful of journalists who have asked the difficult questions. But the occasional investigation on Newsnight or Panorama hardly has the same cut-through as the stories the BBC relentlessly promotes across its platforms. Consider how much attention Meghan Markle is receiving right now, compared with the scrutiny devoted to vulnerable children undergoing puberty suppression or irreversible surgery in the name of so-called progress. The BBC knows perfectly well how to make an issue impossible to ignore. The question is, why hasn’t it? Well, we know why: institutional capture. When the reckoning comes, as it surely will, and the children harmed by these interventions grow into adults forced to live with the devastating, irreversible consequences, those who were supposed to protect them must be held accountable for their betrayal. So too must the political and media establishment that put progressive virtue-signalling ahead of safeguarding vulnerable children, and ideological conformity ahead of confronting the harm being done. And I fear that the BBC, which has failed a generation of vulnerable young people so comprehensively, will find itself engulfed in the greatest scandal of its history.
Extraordinary testimony from Baroness Cass yesterday on the profile of children who will be part of the *Puberty Blockers Trial*. Little kids who have been 'socially transitioned' from early childhood. Harmed by their parents - reinforced by the State... @Transgendertrd 1/
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