Very good to see from Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls Reem Alsalem. It’s disproportionately girls - especially same-sex attracted girls - harmed by unevidenced gender services in UK

UK: Implementation of ‘Cass report’ key to protecting girls from serious harm, says UN expert shar.es/ags7bG

Yup, Private Eye Magazine knows the score

I'll be reviewing PMQs on BBC Radio 5 Live with Naga Munchetty & Annabel Denham in around half an hour - tune in!

Ben is 100% right.
Numbers used in describing increase in defence spending are impenetrable, misleading & internally inconsistent.
Committing to 2.5% of GDP on defence is big and important. There is no need for this profusion of overblown and inconsistent numerical claims.

📢 there's a fake post pretending to be from me circulating online, which says I'm working on an article about DIY HRT and seeking interviewees. This is entirely made up and false! Thank you.

Parliamentarians need to be able to discern which organisations they can trust to provide them with factual briefing from those which they can’t. There’s been plenty of evidence of Stonewall spreading harmful misinformation eg on the law so quoting them here was a bad call.

Great thread

It’s lesbian visibility week. I stand with my many lesbian friends who are fighting to maintain the boundaries of female single-sex attraction - which by definition exclude men however those men identify - in the face of everyday lesbophobia.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Really good letter in today’s Observer relating to the role of the psychology profession in relation to how badly gender questioning children have been failed by the NHS.

theguardian.com/theobserver/co…

Next time you hear a politician avoid addressing the content of the #CassReport due to the “toxicity” of the debate read this & understand which side of the debate is putting Dr Cass in fear for her safety & spreading disinformation.
thetimes.co.uk/article/3121a2…