Stonewall have now removed this element:

'build understanding of what can be drawn from the extensive number of studies that have been classified as low quality, bearing in mind that low quality evidence does not mean it cannot lead to recommendations.'

New versus old:

The start of this tweet is a complete lie. The selection methodology was published some years before the review was completed! The process was always public and transparent and nothing was ever hidden from critics or supporters.

Your periodic reminder that England, a windswept nation with more potential for onshore wind power than almost anywhere else in the world (other than Scotland), banned new onshore wind farms in 2017.

The screenwriter of the new Dune (2021), Eric Roth, wrote the entire script for the movie in Movie Master version 3.09 in MS-DOS.

#UK : It's vital that #FreedomOfExpression is protected & that experts, such as paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, never have to fear abuse for their work.

People who wish to challenge academic work must never cross the line into threats & abuse.

standard.co.uk/news/health/dr…

I wrote about The Cass Review for The Dispatch

For various institutional reasons, the American era of youth gender medicine being “SETTLED SCIENCE!!!” has reached its sunset.

thedispatch.com/article/the-ca…

Interesting essay on the ethics involved on the use of puberty blockers in children, which settles on the view that delaying medical transition best protects a child’s 'right to an open future'.

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

BBC More or Less are in fact better than BBC verify.

And BBC News should inculcate these values across the board.

I'm in this piece at the Telegraph on prescribing puberty blockers off-label, the dangers of groupthink on oversight of such prescribing, and making the point that we have to be careful not to over-correct.
archive.ph/AvJ2i

timeless

After 3 years of failed attempts, Leonardo Sens finally managed to take this fantastic shot of Christ the Redeemer holding the moon. 🌙

People are surprised the Greens are unscientific when it comes to the Cass Review?

They are unscientific when it comes to the solutions to climate change!

They oppose high speed rail. They oppose nuclear. They are vibe-based.

‘epistemological violence’

The choice of language like this by activists is deliberate to make it easy to enable authoritarian controls of speech in the name of ‘safety’.

So in 2018, Exeter University had inadequate respect for freedom of expression or belief, private life or expectation of privacy. Perhaps their well respected law department could offer some advice?

Might be an idea for the HCPC to conduct a review about this:

‘Whether intentionally or not, and many were doing their best in an impossible situation, it was clinical psychologists who promoted an ideology that was almost impossible to challenge’ theguardian.com/theobserver/co…

Carnegie Libraries are genuinely inspiring places.