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Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 3h

That dress looks awesome on you sweetie! I wish I could rock a clingy dress like that! I used to be able to but ill health meant gaining weight annoyingly and a tight dress would just show off my fat belly!

Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 5h

And yet as I have stated multiple times that that person wouldn't be a trans woman as blockers plus HRT makes arousal and the ability to obtain or maintain an erection impossible and is permanent and irreversible. Once again you have no point.

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Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 5h

Perhaps you are new to the internet - the mix of upper and lower case symbolises stupidity of an idea. As the U.K. doesn't have 'self ID' then your whole point is entirely flawed. The only means to change sex recorded at birth legally is via GRA, a legal process.

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Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 5h

You can however live as the opposite sex, legally change your name, change your title even sex recorded on government ID such as passport or driving licence with or without a GRC and in most circumstances it is unlawful to be asked if you are trans or your sex recorded at birth.

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Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 5h

Law is already clear that you can't have sexual activity in a publicly accessible space whether trans or not, so again another non point. Do better.

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Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 5h

No idea what you mean by 'sElF iD'. The U.K. doesn't have 'sElF iD' as the only means to change sex recorded at birth is via the Gender Recognition Act which requires medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, evidence of irreversible medical and surgical interventions to be able to get a GRC.

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Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 5h

... space, business etc to add 6 new bathrooms for:
- Trans men
- Trans women
- Non binary
And then the same all over again for disabled people of the same classes. You'd have to make law punitive on businesses and fine them if they don't have 6 extra bathrooms!

Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 5h

... purely to humiliate and degrade them. You treat them like they are subhuman. You treat them as criminals when in fact they are the victims of sex crime more so than cisgender females. If you don't want trans women in female single sex spaces then law would need to compel every single public..

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Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 6h

Again you are just making up entirely fictious claims to support your beliefs. The real facts are that trans people are more than 3x more likely than cisgender people to be the victim of sexual assault and rape. Reality is that you want trans people to use single sex spaces based on birth sex...

Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 6h

Law is already clear that it is unlawful to discriminate on the basis of gender identity as per the protected characteristic of 'Gender Reassignment' in the Equality Act and Sex Discrimination Act (Gender reassignment provisions) also sex changes for all purposes under the Gender Recognition Act.

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Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 6h

...
Effects of hormone therapy:
- Long term the ability to achieve or maintain an erection is lost and permanently
- Sex drive reduces to near zero due to the absence of testosterone
- Long term the penis and testicles shrink substantially m
- Long term fertility is lost and that's irreversible

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Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 6h

I've already answered that and you still desperately clinging on to a point that simply has no validity shows your dishonesty in this conversation. Do you even know what suppressing testosterone and taking estrogen does to someone born with male genitalia?? Do you? I very much doubt it!...

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Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 6h

.. to achieve or maintain an erection. Your immediate assumption that all trans people are definitionally some sex craved monster rather than just someone who needs to use the toilet, someone who post surgery is exposed to the same risks of being a victim of rape as any other female.

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Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 6h

More laughable nonsense from you! You've made a daft and unsubstantiated idea that anyone is in the toilet for 'autoerotic' reasons and ignored the biological facts and consequences of suppressing birth sex hormones and replacing them with cross sex hormones and that destroys sex drive and ability..

Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 6h

Again all nonsense arguments, all entirely unsubstantiated and bigoted and clearly you haven't the first clue about how gender affirning care works nor the effects of suppressing birth sex hormones or cross sex hormones. If you had the tiniest idea you'd realise it a near impossibility for...

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Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 7h

Good to see! I hope many more school districts do the same! When Trump finds himself powerless and his bigotry and hate is achieving nothing he'll appear weak and feeble.

Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 9h

So pleased to finally see action pinning the U.K. to the original scope and purpose of the Goodwin judgment. The UKs back door attempt to erode the meaning of legal gender recognition has to be stopped otherwise GRA becomes irrelevant.

Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 4d

ANNOUNCEMENT
This evening, 14/10/25 the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network have taken the next step in the struggle to restore the human rights, dignity & safety of UK trans people.

Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 9h

I get a degree of gatekeeping to the process as I would hate it if the GRC process were abused in some way but we have to find a balance where it's only used legitimately and for the benefit of trans people without making it unduly difficult.

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Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 9h

It's effectively taking powers away from the panel and sets the legal precedent that courts can take decision making powers away from the GRA panel and make decisions for them. It's both good and bad as while it meant a GRC was granted it could also mean the inverse.

Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 9h

... however reproductive capacity and gender identity are two distinctly different things. There are trans men who either choose to have a baby before transition or even pause transition to do so before resuming and that should be their choice and right!

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Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 9h

So pleased with the judgment! It's abhorrent that the panel would otherwise be effectively making it policy that trans people be sterile to get a GRC. Why shouldn't a trans person who can conceive choose to do so! I agree that pregnancy is a thing that only someone who was born a female can do...

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Stand up on No Kings Day

A parade of sorts with a Trans flag that says "share if Trans people are safe with you"

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Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 10h

It's abhorrent that it stretches into adults! The argument of 'pRoTeCtInG mInOrS' falls apart when you're removing choices from adults too! The daft scenario when a 16 year old could radically change their life by getting pregnant but a trans person can't access affirning care!

Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 10h

... a near impossibility, both blockers and cross sex hormones both reduce/stop male libido and taken in the longer term will stop the ability to obtain and maintain an erection and is usually irreversible. It's why even just hormones alone require extensive therapy due to irreversibility.

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Dr Isobel @drisobel.bsky.social · 10h

Ludicrous nonsense argument! Are there trans people who have the same genitalia from birth still? Yep, not out of choice however, it takes 2-3 years to get diagnosed and finally reach surgery, not all want surgery and that's fine. Thing is even with just blockers and hormones an 'erection' is...

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