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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France: First court case over death linked to hospital-acquired COVID-19 infection.
Awarded €8,000 for the harm suffered by the victim; €15,000 for the widow’s emotional distress, €4,000 for funeral costs, and €4,000 each for the 4 children’s emotional distress.
www.francebleu.fr/nouvelle-aqu...
Awarded €8,000 for the harm suffered by the victim; €15,000 for the widow’s emotional distress, €4,000 for funeral costs, and €4,000 each for the 4 children’s emotional distress.
www.francebleu.fr/nouvelle-aqu...
February 17, 2026 at 4:08 AM
France: First court case over death linked to hospital-acquired COVID-19 infection.
Awarded €8,000 for the harm suffered by the victim; €15,000 for the widow’s emotional distress, €4,000 for funeral costs, and €4,000 each for the 4 children’s emotional distress.
www.francebleu.fr/nouvelle-aqu...
Awarded €8,000 for the harm suffered by the victim; €15,000 for the widow’s emotional distress, €4,000 for funeral costs, and €4,000 each for the 4 children’s emotional distress.
www.francebleu.fr/nouvelle-aqu...
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Hospitals will stop killing people with preventable infections only when they - and their infection control leaders personally - are held to account.
This is hopefully the first of many. While the hospital itself wasn't found guilty here, repeat enough times and the question will start to be asked.
This is hopefully the first of many. While the hospital itself wasn't found guilty here, repeat enough times and the question will start to be asked.
France: First court case over death linked to hospital-acquired COVID-19 infection.
Awarded €8,000 for the harm suffered by the victim; €15,000 for the widow’s emotional distress, €4,000 for funeral costs, and €4,000 each for the 4 children’s emotional distress.
www.francebleu.fr/nouvelle-aqu...
Awarded €8,000 for the harm suffered by the victim; €15,000 for the widow’s emotional distress, €4,000 for funeral costs, and €4,000 each for the 4 children’s emotional distress.
www.francebleu.fr/nouvelle-aqu...
February 18, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Hospitals will stop killing people with preventable infections only when they - and their infection control leaders personally - are held to account.
This is hopefully the first of many. While the hospital itself wasn't found guilty here, repeat enough times and the question will start to be asked.
This is hopefully the first of many. While the hospital itself wasn't found guilty here, repeat enough times and the question will start to be asked.
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“The harms young people experience online are not separate from the harms they face offline… A ban treats social media as the problem, rather than asking deeper questions about why certain behaviours – harassment, shaming, misogyny, exploitation – occur in the first place.”
Youth deserve better.
Youth deserve better.
I research the harm that can come to teenagers on social media. I don’t support a ban – Emily Setty
The UK government has launched a consultation on introducing an Australian-style ban on social media for under-16s. The proposal is framed as a bold response to rising concerns about young people’s…
inforrm.org
January 22, 2026 at 2:40 PM
“The harms young people experience online are not separate from the harms they face offline… A ban treats social media as the problem, rather than asking deeper questions about why certain behaviours – harassment, shaming, misogyny, exploitation – occur in the first place.”
Youth deserve better.
Youth deserve better.
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the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state
Kevin Roberts, President of The Heritage Foundation, claims that evidence suggests a correlation between undergoing Trans Medical Care and acts of violence.
He states Heritage's public policy solution is to ban it for all ages and they're willing to work towards this goal on an incremental basis.
He states Heritage's public policy solution is to ban it for all ages and they're willing to work towards this goal on an incremental basis.
February 18, 2026 at 9:08 AM
the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state
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Appalling: During Trump's effort to indict Dems for the video warning against carrying out illegal orders, one of their lawyers asked prosecutors to say what statute was allegedly violated, I'm told. They failed to name one. Then they tried to indict anyway.
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
February 18, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Appalling: During Trump's effort to indict Dems for the video warning against carrying out illegal orders, one of their lawyers asked prosecutors to say what statute was allegedly violated, I'm told. They failed to name one. Then they tried to indict anyway.
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
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Profs, Grammarly is NOT the benign writing assistant you may have thought it is, but a powerful cheating machine that includes tools explicitly designed to help students hide the cheating done with it...
Grammarly Is a Cheating Machine - Daily Nous
Grammarly is sometimes thought by instructors to be a relatively benign writing tool app, akin to a sophisticated spelling and grammar checker. That may have once been true, but as Kieran Barker, an e...
dailynous.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Profs, Grammarly is NOT the benign writing assistant you may have thought it is, but a powerful cheating machine that includes tools explicitly designed to help students hide the cheating done with it...
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Crucial - and generally totally overlooked part of this story - is *what* the journalists that Labour Together smeared were reporting on
How Labour Together used £730k in illegal political donations to boot strap Keir Starmer’s political rise
That’s why they were targeted
How Labour Together used £730k in illegal political donations to boot strap Keir Starmer’s political rise
That’s why they were targeted
Starmer needs to commission an independent inquiry into Labour Together- or he too becomes implicated in an increasingly unsustainable cover-up
New by me in @theguardian.com on why PM needs to act on Labour Together hiring a PR firm to smear journalists
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
New by me in @theguardian.com on why PM needs to act on Labour Together hiring a PR firm to smear journalists
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Labour Together scandal goes right to the heart of No 10 – Starmer has nowhere to hide | Peter Geoghegan
He can sack who he wants to protect himself, but all roads currently lead back to the prime minister, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Crucial - and generally totally overlooked part of this story - is *what* the journalists that Labour Together smeared were reporting on
How Labour Together used £730k in illegal political donations to boot strap Keir Starmer’s political rise
That’s why they were targeted
How Labour Together used £730k in illegal political donations to boot strap Keir Starmer’s political rise
That’s why they were targeted
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In its more horrific method of retribution, the mob will sometimes dress victims as mimes, place them in glass
boxes, and let them perish slowly in full view of the public.
boxes, and let them perish slowly in full view of the public.
February 18, 2026 at 12:21 PM
In its more horrific method of retribution, the mob will sometimes dress victims as mimes, place them in glass
boxes, and let them perish slowly in full view of the public.
boxes, and let them perish slowly in full view of the public.
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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...
Spotify – Web Player
open.spotify.com
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.