David Allsopp
@doublehelix.bsky.social
Scientist turned software engineer. He/him
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David Allsopp
@doublehelix.bsky.social
· Nov 17
“Sex-based rights” are contradictory nonsense
The term is a dog-whistle slogan, coined just to exclude trans people, with multiple meanings — none of which make sense.
medium.com
A short thread of my essays on Medium - mostly debunking anti-trans disinformation and other bigotry
1) "Sex-based rights" are contradictory nonsense
The term is a dog-whistle slogan, coined just to exclude trans people, with multiple meanings — none of which make sense
medium.com/@davidallsop...
1) "Sex-based rights" are contradictory nonsense
The term is a dog-whistle slogan, coined just to exclude trans people, with multiple meanings — none of which make sense
medium.com/@davidallsop...
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A brilliant podcast with world renowned primary researchers and endocrinologist’s.
They crucify the CASS non peer reviewed essay.
open.spotify.com/episode/4OeW...
They crucify the CASS non peer reviewed essay.
open.spotify.com/episode/4OeW...
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February 18, 2026 at 7:09 AM
A brilliant podcast with world renowned primary researchers and endocrinologist’s.
They crucify the CASS non peer reviewed essay.
open.spotify.com/episode/4OeW...
They crucify the CASS non peer reviewed essay.
open.spotify.com/episode/4OeW...
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I am 100% sure that have been more articles about youth gender surgeries than actual youth gender surgeries in 2026. When is someone going to reckon with the fact that ‘pivoting’ on this issue means signing on to a moral panic?
Lakshya Jain and the Argument fled this website because they couldn't take the criticism and now he's advocating for Dems to abandon trans issues with polling about 'gender surgery for minors' a thing that is not real
February 17, 2026 at 8:41 PM
I am 100% sure that have been more articles about youth gender surgeries than actual youth gender surgeries in 2026. When is someone going to reckon with the fact that ‘pivoting’ on this issue means signing on to a moral panic?
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The EHRC has met regularly with transphobic hate groups over the last five years but not once with any trans-led organisations.
It is neither an equalities nor a human rights organisation, it is a transphobic hate group.
It is neither an equalities nor a human rights organisation, it is a transphobic hate group.
FOI reveals the EHRC holds zero minutes of meetings with trans-led organisations in the past 5 years.
This is the UK’s 'equality' regulator.
Trans voices are not important enough for the EHRC to keep a record of what was said. This should be a headline in all the papers.
This is the UK’s 'equality' regulator.
Trans voices are not important enough for the EHRC to keep a record of what was said. This should be a headline in all the papers.
February 17, 2026 at 10:28 PM
The EHRC has met regularly with transphobic hate groups over the last five years but not once with any trans-led organisations.
It is neither an equalities nor a human rights organisation, it is a transphobic hate group.
It is neither an equalities nor a human rights organisation, it is a transphobic hate group.
My civil rights shirt has Trump-appointed judges asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
The judge has officially declared a mistrial due to the defense lawyer's shirt depicting Jesse Jackson. This sends the case back to the pre-trial stage. The federal government is almost certain to make another attempt at prosecuting the case.
www.keranews.org/criminal-jus...
www.keranews.org/criminal-jus...
Judge declares mistrial in Prairieland ICE shooting trial over lawyer's 'politically charged' shirt
The shirt, which appeared to show civil rights protestors, led Judge Mark Pittman to halt jury selection.
www.keranews.org
February 17, 2026 at 10:34 PM
My civil rights shirt has Trump-appointed judges asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
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FOI reveals the EHRC holds zero minutes of meetings with trans-led organisations in the past 5 years.
This is the UK’s 'equality' regulator.
Trans voices are not important enough for the EHRC to keep a record of what was said. This should be a headline in all the papers.
This is the UK’s 'equality' regulator.
Trans voices are not important enough for the EHRC to keep a record of what was said. This should be a headline in all the papers.
February 17, 2026 at 9:56 PM
FOI reveals the EHRC holds zero minutes of meetings with trans-led organisations in the past 5 years.
This is the UK’s 'equality' regulator.
Trans voices are not important enough for the EHRC to keep a record of what was said. This should be a headline in all the papers.
This is the UK’s 'equality' regulator.
Trans voices are not important enough for the EHRC to keep a record of what was said. This should be a headline in all the papers.
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Every honesty history of psychiatry and psychotherapy acknowledges that everything transphobes want to experiment on trans people with to fix us has already been tried and proven harmful.
Every clinician who insists on correction has to deny that history to keep going.
Every clinician who insists on correction has to deny that history to keep going.
February 17, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Every honesty history of psychiatry and psychotherapy acknowledges that everything transphobes want to experiment on trans people with to fix us has already been tried and proven harmful.
Every clinician who insists on correction has to deny that history to keep going.
Every clinician who insists on correction has to deny that history to keep going.
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The largest group protected by the Equality Act is cis women. The far right has used “gender-critical” transphobes to attack the Equality Act. So the group principally responsible for women having their human rights removed it is these transphobes who claim to be “feminists” “protecting women”.
Braverman is now lambasting equalities policies, saying Reform would scrap the equalities brief and repeal the Equality Act. Giving her this role - any role, in fact - does feel like quite a risk for Reform.
February 17, 2026 at 3:20 PM
The largest group protected by the Equality Act is cis women. The far right has used “gender-critical” transphobes to attack the Equality Act. So the group principally responsible for women having their human rights removed it is these transphobes who claim to be “feminists” “protecting women”.
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Reform’s new “head of policy” has said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a “regional Slavic conflict”.
He added: “It is a conflict happening in the world that I don’t care very much about.”
He added: “It is a conflict happening in the world that I don’t care very much about.”
February 17, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Reform’s new “head of policy” has said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a “regional Slavic conflict”.
He added: “It is a conflict happening in the world that I don’t care very much about.”
He added: “It is a conflict happening in the world that I don’t care very much about.”
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ICE agents crashed directly into a 19-year-old refugee's car, pulled him out from the wreck, threw him on the ground, then rushed him off to detention before he could locate the immigration papers in his car that proved he's here lawfully. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
February 17, 2026 at 8:15 PM
ICE agents crashed directly into a 19-year-old refugee's car, pulled him out from the wreck, threw him on the ground, then rushed him off to detention before he could locate the immigration papers in his car that proved he's here lawfully. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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Raided the camps to confiscate the letters from the kidnapped kids.
Classic Good Guy behavior.
Classic Good Guy behavior.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Raided the camps to confiscate the letters from the kidnapped kids.
Classic Good Guy behavior.
Classic Good Guy behavior.
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Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.
before antibiotics did people just die all the time from everything?
February 17, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.
What loser wrote this code? 😡
...oh, it was me 😳
vs
What hero documented this code properly? 😍
...oh, it was me 😂
...oh, it was me 😳
vs
What hero documented this code properly? 😍
...oh, it was me 😂
Thank goodness I commented my old code reasonably well. Was able to modify an extremely complicated simulation I wrote ages ago and get it running with new capabilities within about 30 minutes.
February 17, 2026 at 6:51 PM
What loser wrote this code? 😡
...oh, it was me 😳
vs
What hero documented this code properly? 😍
...oh, it was me 😂
...oh, it was me 😳
vs
What hero documented this code properly? 😍
...oh, it was me 😂
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Going by what’s been publicly reported over the last few years, this paper is well placed to just ask them directly via WhatsApp
February 17, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Going by what’s been publicly reported over the last few years, this paper is well placed to just ask them directly via WhatsApp
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They’re announcing that they plan to strip women and girls (the main beneficiaries of the Equality Act) of their rights and protections next.
We told you so.
It was always transphobia.
Hate all the way down:
We told you so.
It was always transphobia.
Hate all the way down:
Braverman is now lambasting equalities policies, saying Reform would scrap the equalities brief and repeal the Equality Act. Giving her this role - any role, in fact - does feel like quite a risk for Reform.
February 17, 2026 at 2:42 PM
They’re announcing that they plan to strip women and girls (the main beneficiaries of the Equality Act) of their rights and protections next.
We told you so.
It was always transphobia.
Hate all the way down:
We told you so.
It was always transphobia.
Hate all the way down:
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"The behavioral treatment of a “transsexual” preadolescent boy"
That was the official title of the paper known as the Sissy Boy experiment. This is it. The basis for all modern conversion therapy, the fraudulent paper that launched an entire conversion abuse industry, was for anti-trans conversion.
That was the official title of the paper known as the Sissy Boy experiment. This is it. The basis for all modern conversion therapy, the fraudulent paper that launched an entire conversion abuse industry, was for anti-trans conversion.
The behavioral treatment of a “transsexual” preadolescent boy - Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
Behavioral treatment procedures were developed to suppress feminine sex-typed behaviors and to increase masculine sex-typed behaviors in an 8-year-old boy with “childhood cross-gender identity.” The b...
link.springer.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"The behavioral treatment of a “transsexual” preadolescent boy"
That was the official title of the paper known as the Sissy Boy experiment. This is it. The basis for all modern conversion therapy, the fraudulent paper that launched an entire conversion abuse industry, was for anti-trans conversion.
That was the official title of the paper known as the Sissy Boy experiment. This is it. The basis for all modern conversion therapy, the fraudulent paper that launched an entire conversion abuse industry, was for anti-trans conversion.
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Content warning for conversion therapy, suicide.
One thing I'd like to add to this is that not only does conversion therapy not work, the academic work that launched an industry of abuse was based on fraud; Rekers and Lovaas' "Sissy Boy" experiment, the child subjected to it later took his own life
One thing I'd like to add to this is that not only does conversion therapy not work, the academic work that launched an industry of abuse was based on fraud; Rekers and Lovaas' "Sissy Boy" experiment, the child subjected to it later took his own life
The problem of conversion therapy is, as ever, not that conversion therapy doesn't work (although that's true) but that it constitutes an act of violence to suppress almost exclusively vulnerable people's core psychological development and that is devastating.
February 17, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Content warning for conversion therapy, suicide.
One thing I'd like to add to this is that not only does conversion therapy not work, the academic work that launched an industry of abuse was based on fraud; Rekers and Lovaas' "Sissy Boy" experiment, the child subjected to it later took his own life
One thing I'd like to add to this is that not only does conversion therapy not work, the academic work that launched an industry of abuse was based on fraud; Rekers and Lovaas' "Sissy Boy" experiment, the child subjected to it later took his own life
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🧵What is going on with Measles in England?
UKHSA has reported 96 confirmed measles cases since 1 Jan 2026, concentrated in London (64% of cases) and the West Midlands (26% of cases).
But what does this all mean? Is 96 a lot? Why is it happening? And what can we do about it? 1/8
UKHSA has reported 96 confirmed measles cases since 1 Jan 2026, concentrated in London (64% of cases) and the West Midlands (26% of cases).
But what does this all mean? Is 96 a lot? Why is it happening? And what can we do about it? 1/8
February 17, 2026 at 3:33 PM
🧵What is going on with Measles in England?
UKHSA has reported 96 confirmed measles cases since 1 Jan 2026, concentrated in London (64% of cases) and the West Midlands (26% of cases).
But what does this all mean? Is 96 a lot? Why is it happening? And what can we do about it? 1/8
UKHSA has reported 96 confirmed measles cases since 1 Jan 2026, concentrated in London (64% of cases) and the West Midlands (26% of cases).
But what does this all mean? Is 96 a lot? Why is it happening? And what can we do about it? 1/8
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Excellent from @chrischirp.bsky.social on the current measles outbreak in London and what this says about vaccine uptake and what we can do to address it
What’s going on with Measles in England?
An explanation of where we are, how we got here and what we can do
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Excellent from @chrischirp.bsky.social on the current measles outbreak in London and what this says about vaccine uptake and what we can do to address it
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One in five children infected in the recent London measles outbreak were reportedly hospitalised.
Don’t believe the anti-vaxxers when they say “it’s a mild disease” or “it’s better to get immunity naturally”.
It isn’t.
Don’t believe the anti-vaxxers when they say “it’s a mild disease” or “it’s better to get immunity naturally”.
It isn’t.
February 16, 2026 at 8:00 AM
One in five children infected in the recent London measles outbreak were reportedly hospitalised.
Don’t believe the anti-vaxxers when they say “it’s a mild disease” or “it’s better to get immunity naturally”.
It isn’t.
Don’t believe the anti-vaxxers when they say “it’s a mild disease” or “it’s better to get immunity naturally”.
It isn’t.
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Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement. Here’s the result of another evil and stupid act from the Trump regime. 🎁🔗
Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement. Here’s the result of another evil and stupid act from the Trump regime. 🎁🔗
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I will probably get told off for sharing this - but it does give some perspective on why I was under so much pressure to leave Monkey Cage - I accept my career is dead so….
skepchick.org/2026/01/the-...
skepchick.org/2026/01/the-...
The BBC Chose Transphobia over Science
Transcript: Over the holidays, there was some news out of the UK that I wanted to highlight, lest it be lost in the news black hole that is Christmas and New Year: the British Broadcasting Corporat…
skepchick.org
February 1, 2026 at 12:37 AM
I will probably get told off for sharing this - but it does give some perspective on why I was under so much pressure to leave Monkey Cage - I accept my career is dead so….
skepchick.org/2026/01/the-...
skepchick.org/2026/01/the-...
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Matt Walsh whose followers sent repeated bomb threats to multiple children's hospitals has thoughts on violence
The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.
February 17, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Matt Walsh whose followers sent repeated bomb threats to multiple children's hospitals has thoughts on violence
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