Izzy Kamikaze
@izzykamikaze.bsky.social
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Just another refugee from That Other Place.
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grannies4equal.bsky.social
'Huge waiting times for trans healthcare in the NHS, in children’s & adult services, are by design. Better political & institutional decisions in Spain have removed this waiting list, delivering far better outcomes at a fraction of the cost'

growinguptransgender.com/2025/10/12/t...
Trans health waiting lists are a political choice
I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…
growinguptransgender.com
izzykamikaze.bsky.social
More like Bride of Chucky tbh.
izzykamikaze.bsky.social
Post you from a different era.

1970. The year I realised religious life was not for me!
A 7 year old girl (me) in a communion dress, grimacing at the camera.
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explaintrade.com
This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.
Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.
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trasinscneach.bsky.social
Ireland has a population of 5m and we've a waiting list approaching 15 years. Why? Because their mandatory, archaic and traumatic psychiatric and psychological assessments are a deliberate bottleneck to ensure as few people as possible can access healthcare a nurse can do!
mimmymum.bsky.social
The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!
Trans health waiting lists are a political choice
I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…
growinguptransgender.com
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mikemcgb.bsky.social
"People want to pay for water"

"There is no alternative"

"Power is a drug, it suits me"

#aras25
paddyduffy.bsky.social
If Alan Kelly's opinion meant anything, he'd still be Labour leader. It's easy to forget but he only *became* Labour leader 5 years ago, and it's only 3 years ago since he was Iain Duncan Smithed out of leadership. #aras25
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ikashnitsky.phd
I wrapped up my scattered comments on IHME into a blog post

🔗 ikashnitsky.phd/2025/ihme-bibl

tl;dr: avoid getting unwarranted co-authorship recognition and do apply some sort of contribution-weighted thinking when evaluating someone's publication record based on bare numbers
Beyond Fraud: How IHME Distorts Academic Metrics
Dr. Ilya Kashnitsky is a demographer @ Statistics Denmark.
ikashnitsky.phd
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clairestranstalks.bsky.social
Spain's trans healthcare service, Transit, has a wait time to 1st appt *with treatment* of just 3 weeks.

In contrast the avg wait time for the UK is 25 years without access to medication, for that youd need to wait an avg 8 additional months.

Informed consent *works*.
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧
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samierens.bsky.social
🐸 Frog Team 6 stands up to Fascism! 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸
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risettemd.bsky.social
Like, merely admitting that gender identity is real pretty much is admitting to their own bigotry. They literally cannot acknowledge the existence of it, in order to avoid cognitive dissonance. In much the same way conservatives denied sexual orientation as inherent and immutable.
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risettemd.bsky.social
One of the most irritating things I frequently encounter from transphobes is oddly similar to anti-vaxxer logic. Namely, that scientific evidence which contradicts their opinion is simply dismissed outright. When confronted with evidence about gender identity, the response is always utter denial.