In the past hour an Israeli drone fired a missile into a group of children in a playground. 11 children have been killed with more injured.

Hani Mahmoud reporting.

WaPo report calls bullshit on IDF denials of responsibility for this heinous attack. Readers shouldn't have to wait six paragraphs to find that out, but otherwise: Bravo. wapo.st/4aCoCqA

I'm so exhausted with debates about this care that pretend we're all participating in a med school seminar while a movement explicitly devoted to erasing transgender people from public life is allowed to run roughshod over our bodies and our families based on lies and half-truths

~Interesting~ to see the 🇬🇧parliament reenacting a scene from the 1933 Reichstag today. Half expecting most opposition Labour & SNP MPs to shortly be arrested and imprisoned, in line with demands from some government-backing MPs in the debate who the minister thanked
#Terrifying

On Cass the English government minister, as with many TERFs/GCs/priests parrots the line that a 'very small number of children are gender dysphoric & deserve the help they need' that they won't give any & experts on helping them should be punished.

#CassReview House of Commons statement by England Health Secretary Victoria Atkins today 14APR2014 at 17.00 live on BBC Parliament & on the parliamenttv website.

The Cass report dismisses the decades of happy adult life we've spent as living proof of successful outcomes for the administration of Puberty Blockers in young transitioners. We were anything but 'let down' by this service. #IWasATransChild #ListenToTransKids

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🚨personal news🚨I’ll be leaving the BBC at the end of May. Newsnight in its current format will end then, so most posts will go. I decided not to apply for other BBC jobs. Working there for 35 yrs has been life defining: an eyewitness to history collaborating with such brilliant…

So, according to Murdoch's Sunday Times today, women protested against Gillick Competence (which can provide access to medical care such as birth control & abortion to under 16s) outside a Brighton GP's on Saturday
#AntiFeminism
#TERFIsland
#ADF

Neil Henderson So how exactly were the less than 400 patients who received the treatment at GIDS 1989-2023, none of whom have any regrets, 'let down by lack of evidence', & how does that justify talk of 'ideological capture', draconian bans on treatment & acceptance of such children?

Prof Hannah Fry, 'Where does Rishi Sunak like to go for breakfast... Wetherspoons' #HIGNFY

Ian Hislop, 'Oh he doesn't'

Prof Hannah Fry, 'He says: We have one at home in Northallerton. I think I still have the app on my phone.. Which is interesting, because, the Wetherspoons…

12 year old trans girl was about to get puberty blockers before they were cruelly snatched away by the NHS & transphobic politicians! 😣

She now needs £20k for private treatment to 18! 🙏🏻

#SaveChloe #LetTransKidsLive 🏳️‍⚧️💕

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American Jewish writer Phyllis Bennis says Israeli forces violate international law during their arrest of children

Bennis described how Israel subjects children in the West Bank to late night arrests & interrogation in Hebrew, a language they don’t speak

The world's media breathlessly live webcamming dawn over a sparkly, undamaged Israeli capital when, if they rotated it 180 it would show Israeli explosions in the bleak darkness of the pulverised strip in which Israel holds 2,000,000 humans captive & in famine…
#MediaFail

While the EBM model relegates evidence for clinical interventions for which double-blind, placebo-controlled RCTs are unethical or not feasible to low/intermediate quality, note the obvious double standard exercised by self-proclaimed EBM mavens like Cass regarding evidence.

Here's my article on why the Cass review is bad science but suits the politics of a desperate Conservative government - at the expense of vulnerable children. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the-c…