Chris(tyn) Parkes
@parkesland.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in history. Views my own. Historian of US politics and sexuality, especially Sumner Welles. Canadian. Non-binary (they/them). Fabulous.
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I wrote this piece about Trudi Warner and why juries are an important part of our constitution in April last year. I think particularly worth reading today.
goodlawproject.org/high-court-s...
goodlawproject.org/high-court-s...
High Court slaps down ‘fanciful’ prosecution of Trudi Warner | Good Law Project
Judge rules that the solicitor general ‘mischaracterised’ the evidence when he charged Warner with contempt of court for holding up a placard.
goodlawproject.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I wrote this piece about Trudi Warner and why juries are an important part of our constitution in April last year. I think particularly worth reading today.
goodlawproject.org/high-court-s...
goodlawproject.org/high-court-s...
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Briony Clarke now identify as a bent judge.
“she found Graham Linehan was a ‘generally credible witness’ and appeared to be ‘genuinely frank and honest’.”
“she found Graham Linehan was a ‘generally credible witness’ and appeared to be ‘genuinely frank and honest’.”
They keep fucking editing the article, but it's not any better. And this addition about why the judge referred to her as "them" is like a parody of impartiality
![An excerpt from the linked article that reads:
[The judge] explained that the prosecution used female pronouns to refer to the complainant during the trial, while Linehan's defence used male pronouns. The judge said she had chosen to refer to Brooks using "gender neutral pronouns and as 'the complainant'" in her ruling.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:umokacyt44veykd6qw5zokyi/bafkreifcuteahuy7btte3q77evxfatrh7ddbi676sw4squ6hrpshakcszm@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Briony Clarke now identify as a bent judge.
“she found Graham Linehan was a ‘generally credible witness’ and appeared to be ‘genuinely frank and honest’.”
“she found Graham Linehan was a ‘generally credible witness’ and appeared to be ‘genuinely frank and honest’.”
Nothing is fun about this fact, but the thread it starts will shock even the most battle hardened trans people/allies.
What the UK press and political class - especially Labour - have allowed to metastacize over the past 10 years is nothing short of a moral panic.
What the UK press and political class - especially Labour - have allowed to metastacize over the past 10 years is nothing short of a moral panic.
Fun fact I couldn't mention until now: At the time Graham Linehan was harassing Sophia Brooks online, I was contacted by her former teachers and School Safeguarding Team to get her latest contact details, as they were worried sick about her being publicly stalked by an abusive alcoholic celebrity.
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Nothing is fun about this fact, but the thread it starts will shock even the most battle hardened trans people/allies.
What the UK press and political class - especially Labour - have allowed to metastacize over the past 10 years is nothing short of a moral panic.
What the UK press and political class - especially Labour - have allowed to metastacize over the past 10 years is nothing short of a moral panic.
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Complaining to the BBC about anti-trans reporting
Another day, another attack on trans people. This time, in how the BBC described the teenage victim of Graham Linehan’s crime. So here is my complaint to the BBC:
owen.blacker.me.uk/posts/blog/2...
Another day, another attack on trans people. This time, in how the BBC described the teenage victim of Graham Linehan’s crime. So here is my complaint to the BBC:
owen.blacker.me.uk/posts/blog/2...
Complaining to the BBC about anti-trans reporting — Owen Blacker
In reporting about Graham Linehan’s conviction for criminal damage, the BBC used offensive language to describe the 17-year-old victim of this crime
owen.blacker.me.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Complaining to the BBC about anti-trans reporting
Another day, another attack on trans people. This time, in how the BBC described the teenage victim of Graham Linehan’s crime. So here is my complaint to the BBC:
owen.blacker.me.uk/posts/blog/2...
Another day, another attack on trans people. This time, in how the BBC described the teenage victim of Graham Linehan’s crime. So here is my complaint to the BBC:
owen.blacker.me.uk/posts/blog/2...
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Join Ella Sbaraini, Dan Matlin, Adam Sutcliffe and Lena Ferriday, to hear how King's academics work with the emotions in their own historical work followed by a chaired panel on the nature of studying these slippery but important histories.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/getti...
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/getti...
Getting Emotional About History? A Panel Discussion | King's College London
Want to learn more about what studying emotions in the past entails? Interested in how historians manage their own emotional relationships with their source material?
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Join Ella Sbaraini, Dan Matlin, Adam Sutcliffe and Lena Ferriday, to hear how King's academics work with the emotions in their own historical work followed by a chaired panel on the nature of studying these slippery but important histories.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/getti...
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/getti...
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Very excited to share that today is publication day for my first monograph!! Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration is published as a part of Bristol University Press's Law, Society, Policy series.
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/queering-uk-...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/queering-uk-...
Queering UK Refugee Law
Queering UK Refugee Law - Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration; In the context of a global backlash against migrant and LGBTIQA+ rights , this book examines the experiences of LGBTIQA+ people in...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Very excited to share that today is publication day for my first monograph!! Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration is published as a part of Bristol University Press's Law, Society, Policy series.
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/queering-uk-...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/queering-uk-...
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A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
Changes in Suicidality among Transgender Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An Extended Study
To examine changes in suicidality following hormone therapy (HT) among transgender and gender-diverse adolescents and young adults.A retrospective cha…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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Just two safe days left to vote.
Zack and Cara from the Greens have already backed us, have you voted yet?
Have you checked your colleagues have?
We can do this. Get it in. Get it done. @carladenyer.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Zack and Cara from the Greens have already backed us, have you voted yet?
Have you checked your colleagues have?
We can do this. Get it in. Get it done. @carladenyer.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Just two safe days left to vote.
Zack and Cara from the Greens have already backed us, have you voted yet?
Have you checked your colleagues have?
We can do this. Get it in. Get it done. @carladenyer.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Zack and Cara from the Greens have already backed us, have you voted yet?
Have you checked your colleagues have?
We can do this. Get it in. Get it done. @carladenyer.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Streeting is admitting that the Pathways “trial” already has a predetermined outcome. Stuffing it with SEGM placeholders is evidence of this.
The only way we are going to end state-mandated torture of trans kids is to get Labour out of government completely.
The only way we are going to end state-mandated torture of trans kids is to get Labour out of government completely.
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Streeting is admitting that the Pathways “trial” already has a predetermined outcome. Stuffing it with SEGM placeholders is evidence of this.
The only way we are going to end state-mandated torture of trans kids is to get Labour out of government completely.
The only way we are going to end state-mandated torture of trans kids is to get Labour out of government completely.
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It's not my place to tell other people how to get their children the care they need.
However, it seems to me that the evidence against this trial being conducted in good faith is *so clear*, that IMHO it would be better not to take part.
I can't see any good outcome from participating.
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However, it seems to me that the evidence against this trial being conducted in good faith is *so clear*, that IMHO it would be better not to take part.
I can't see any good outcome from participating.
/end
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
It's not my place to tell other people how to get their children the care they need.
However, it seems to me that the evidence against this trial being conducted in good faith is *so clear*, that IMHO it would be better not to take part.
I can't see any good outcome from participating.
/end
However, it seems to me that the evidence against this trial being conducted in good faith is *so clear*, that IMHO it would be better not to take part.
I can't see any good outcome from participating.
/end
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The stacking of the puberty blocker trial with SEGM-adjacent clinicians, its dreadful design and now Wes Streeting's public admission that its purpose is to collect evidence to *back up* the ban... are all MASSIVE red flags.
Parents of trans kids in the UK are in an impossible bind.
1/
Parents of trans kids in the UK are in an impossible bind.
1/
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The stacking of the puberty blocker trial with SEGM-adjacent clinicians, its dreadful design and now Wes Streeting's public admission that its purpose is to collect evidence to *back up* the ban... are all MASSIVE red flags.
Parents of trans kids in the UK are in an impossible bind.
1/
Parents of trans kids in the UK are in an impossible bind.
1/
Not coincidentally, I'm reminded of Trump's 2016 pledge to shut down all immigration from Syria, Somalia, etc. so he could 'figure out what the hell was going on' (or words to that effect).
None of this is about policy efficacy or medical veracity. It's bigotry rendered into a statute book.
None of this is about policy efficacy or medical veracity. It's bigotry rendered into a statute book.
Even Hilary Cass - who disgracefully called parents terrified that their trans kids would take their own lives if they were denied healthcare "shroud wavers" - didn't go so far as to call for a ban on puberty blockers.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Not coincidentally, I'm reminded of Trump's 2016 pledge to shut down all immigration from Syria, Somalia, etc. so he could 'figure out what the hell was going on' (or words to that effect).
None of this is about policy efficacy or medical veracity. It's bigotry rendered into a statute book.
None of this is about policy efficacy or medical veracity. It's bigotry rendered into a statute book.
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Have your say on Hampstead Heath’s swimming ponds
We’re consulting on future access at Hampstead Heath’s swimming ponds to ensure arrangements remain fair, lawful & respectful.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Their shit approach to endocrine care might well show worse outcomes for those on blockers than those not on blockers, especially if those on blockers are too late to get many of the benefits whilst put into menopause by terrible endocrine care.
Keep your loved ones away from this nightmare study
Keep your loved ones away from this nightmare study
November 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Their shit approach to endocrine care might well show worse outcomes for those on blockers than those not on blockers, especially if those on blockers are too late to get many of the benefits whilst put into menopause by terrible endocrine care.
Keep your loved ones away from this nightmare study
Keep your loved ones away from this nightmare study
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This is not how you design a research study to see whether puberty blockers are beneficial.
This is how you design a research study to show they have little benefit.
This is how you design a research study to show they have little benefit.
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is not how you design a research study to see whether puberty blockers are beneficial.
This is how you design a research study to show they have little benefit.
This is how you design a research study to show they have little benefit.
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Those of you who know my work know that misgendering on death certificates has been a preoccupation of mine for several years now. I have been really concerned to hear that even though we now have specific guidance on the issue, there are some Coroners who have not been following it.
The tendency of Coroners to ignore guidance from the Chief Coroner, the reality of trans existence, and the wishes of bereaved parents, and express their own views in the death certificate, is both contemptible and unlawful.
We have a legal team ready to go; we will challenge it in the High Court.
We have a legal team ready to go; we will challenge it in the High Court.
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Those of you who know my work know that misgendering on death certificates has been a preoccupation of mine for several years now. I have been really concerned to hear that even though we now have specific guidance on the issue, there are some Coroners who have not been following it.
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Imagine, if you can, a parent whose love was not up to the task of saving their child from the environment Wes Streeting has created for young trans people. Imagine the effect on that bereaved parent of a coroner who saw that tragedy as a stage on which to perform their own prejudice.
The tendency of Coroners to ignore guidance from the Chief Coroner, the reality of trans existence, and the wishes of bereaved parents, and express their own views in the death certificate, is both contemptible and unlawful.
We have a legal team ready to go; we will challenge it in the High Court.
We have a legal team ready to go; we will challenge it in the High Court.
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Imagine, if you can, a parent whose love was not up to the task of saving their child from the environment Wes Streeting has created for young trans people. Imagine the effect on that bereaved parent of a coroner who saw that tragedy as a stage on which to perform their own prejudice.
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Those coroners stand with Hilary Cass who described parents who fear their children will die without puberty blockers as "shroud wavers"; Wes Streeting who chose to deny children life saving drugs; and Louis Appleby who wrote an intellectually dishonest whitewash into the effects of the denial.
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Those coroners stand with Hilary Cass who described parents who fear their children will die without puberty blockers as "shroud wavers"; Wes Streeting who chose to deny children life saving drugs; and Louis Appleby who wrote an intellectually dishonest whitewash into the effects of the denial.
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Dream blunt rotation
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Dream blunt rotation
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"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More than that, Sex Matters - and the pseudoscientific legalistic sophistry they peddle along with every other GC transphobe - is wrong.
Sex 'matters' insofar as gender also matters. Both possess material reality. Both are materially mutable. They are inextricable and one does not trump the other.
Sex 'matters' insofar as gender also matters. Both possess material reality. Both are materially mutable. They are inextricable and one does not trump the other.
11/ It is clear that the Regulations referenced the medico-legal fact of gender reassignment, and it does modify the interpretation of sex and gendered terms. No reference was made to the religious or legal fiction of a so-called biological sex.
The Supreme Court is wrong.
The Supreme Court is wrong.
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
More than that, Sex Matters - and the pseudoscientific legalistic sophistry they peddle along with every other GC transphobe - is wrong.
Sex 'matters' insofar as gender also matters. Both possess material reality. Both are materially mutable. They are inextricable and one does not trump the other.
Sex 'matters' insofar as gender also matters. Both possess material reality. Both are materially mutable. They are inextricable and one does not trump the other.
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“…belief and its manifestation should not be treated separately. Tribunals must assess whether the belief, and how it’s expressed, infringes others’ rights. Otherwise, beliefs that effectively strip trans people of dignity are too easily granted legal protection”
chroniclelaw.co.uk/blogs/2025/0...
chroniclelaw.co.uk/blogs/2025/0...
Are UK Courts Getting Gender Critical Cases Wrong?
Oscar Davies critiques recent rulings on gender critical beliefs, warning they risk undermining trans rights.
chroniclelaw.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“…belief and its manifestation should not be treated separately. Tribunals must assess whether the belief, and how it’s expressed, infringes others’ rights. Otherwise, beliefs that effectively strip trans people of dignity are too easily granted legal protection”
chroniclelaw.co.uk/blogs/2025/0...
chroniclelaw.co.uk/blogs/2025/0...