Fantastic long overdue motion posted by @MandyLindsayMSP at Holyrood today praising @jk_rowling 's essential work for women's rights in Scotland and beyond. Encourage your MSP to support it - you can read more from Mandy at thereformer.scot/2026/10/def…

🚨Today, Texas Children’s Hospital has officially launched their Detransition Clinic 🚨 Under the settlement, TCH must provide multidisciplinary detransition-related care FREE OF CHARGE for five years, including endocrinology, surgery, primary care, fertility counseling, mental health services, social work, and speech pathology. I extend my heartfelt gratitude once again to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and my attorneys at the Burke Law Group for their extraordinary dedication, sacrifice, and tireless efforts throughout this fight. Their commitment helped turn a painful and difficult chapter into an opportunity for meaningful change. @KenPaxtonTX @BurkeLawTweets I think of all the detransitioners who have suffered in silence, been dismissed, and fought desperately to have their voices heard. This win is for them. I hope TCH’s admirable effort to fund and launch Americas first detransition clinic becomes a turning point for the entire country. That this clinic is not the exception, but the first of many. Today’s a good day. ❤️ Link⬇️

Andy Burnham must ditch the Conversion Practices Bill. It is bad law, rooted in ideology, likely to inflame the gender wars, undermine free speech, and create chaos for parents and professionals alike. Burnham should show political courage and bin it. jamesesses.co.uk/p/8-good-re…

Thank you @hannahsbee for your superb journalism and reporting on the huge harm being caused to children. It looks like it is no longer being swept under the carpet and those showing massive courage raising the alarm, will be no longer bullied‼️⏰🔔

For the avoidance of doubt (since some have been asking), the 800 on the Scottish public payroll without proper jobs does NOT include the 129 MSPs in Holyrood 🤣🤣🤣

This exposes the problem with list MSPs who are accountable to no-one but their party. Kate Nevens (Green MSP) uses public money to hire a migrant justice officer - immigration is a reserved issue. Surely a deeply cynical use of public money for purely political purposes. (Free to read) thetimes.com/article/ed8743e…

I've just had my ninth (I think) "no further action" letter from the BSB. Give over, chaps. You don't get to control my language.

Remember. Not a single one of these disgraceful people are every going to be punished, other than by being embarrassed via a live tweeted Employment Tribunal. It will sadly remain probably the only time they have ever had to make themselves accountable in their entire careers. Given their apparently unassailable belief in their own righteousness, I am sure the embarrassment will be fleeting, and more than made up for by their lovely NHS pensions. Something is very, very wrong here.

Walker: "I nearly bought a wool jumper in town. £140. Nice work if you can get it." Farmer: "I got about £2 for the fleece." Walker: "£2?" Farmer: "Per sheep, per year. Clipped it off her in two minutes, rolled it, bagged it, drove it to the depot. The cheque for the whole flock didn't cover the diesel." Walker: "Then who's getting the £140?" Farmer: "Not me, not the shearer. He costs me more per sheep than the wool fetches. I pay to have it taken off." Walker: "So you lose money shearing." Farmer: "Every year. And I can't not shear, or she cooks in July and the flies eat her alive. The wool's a welfare job that used to be an income." Walker: "Sell it yourself, then. Cut out the middleman." Farmer: "Not allowed. By law it goes through the board. Has done since 1950. I can keep a fleece for the wife to knit with, and that's about the extent of my freedom." Walker: "So where does it go?" Farmer: "Washed in Bradford, if we're lucky. Shipped to China, spun, knitted, shipped back, and sold to you with a label about heritage. By the time it's in the window there are eleven people between us and I'm the only one who met the sheep." Walker: "That's mad." Farmer: "My grandfather paid the rent on the wool cheque. I pay a man to take it away. Same sheep, same hill, same jumper in the window. Only the price of the farmer went down." Walker: "What would fix it?" Farmer: "You buying the jumper. And asking them where the other £138 went."

I am astonished to read that Hall has not already been suspended. If not suspended, where is she now and what diagnostic and clinical functions is she effecting and to/for whom? What, if any, restrictions have been placed on her? If none, why & how are there none?

At some point it would be helpful if the Hillary Cass who has roundly condemned the use of puberty blockers as unevidenced pseudo science had a word with the Hillary Cass who thinks the puberty blocker trial is a great idea actually.

I've written to the tribunal about access to documents.

I think all the documents referred to in the hearing should now be fully and permanently in the public domain. There may be a case to be made for limited redaction of some of them, but any redaction is itself a derogation from open justice, requiring justification.

All this means that the power of litigation to force the details of gender lunacy, the extent of its capture of our institutions, and the harms it does into the full light of day is important.

Staff networks and external activist organisations wield undue influence in private.

Alberta once again showing the rest of Canada how it's done. As of January 4th, only the Alberta flag and the Canadian flag will be permitted outside schools. It's incredible that the flag representing the most atrocious medical crime in history was ever flown outside Canadian schools. Far from signalling that the school is a "safe space" for vulnerable youth, what flying this flag actually says is that students are at risk of having their heads filled with a dangerous, incoherent political ideology that could confuse them into thinking they need healthy body parts amputated. How long before the rest of Canada wakes up to the danger this ideology poses to children?

NHS England accepted that Dr Sam Hall had "no formal training in gender-identity medicine" but argued that he'd "acquired expertise informally through self-study, experience" and "from talking with other gender specialists." This is what NHSE "accepts" for the treatment of vulnerable children. These children weren't being treated for colds. They were being given life-changing blockers and hormones for feelings that hadn't been explored. Cass is right. This goes much deeper than just one clinic. Full independent inquiry is needed now. Excellent reporting as always from @hannahsbee. thetimes.com/article/cfde7b4…

The PSIR is here: surreysussex.icb.nhs.uk/ipsi…

Dr Warshafsky concluded that Dr Hall was practising within the applicable guidance. This was wrong, as subsequently found by the Patient Safety Investigation Report into Prescribing Practices at WellBN.

The courts and tribunals are one of the most important arenas in which the gender wars are being fought out. And one of the most important aspects of litigation is that it happens in public.