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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 5h

sounds like Hilary Cass 😱

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 6h

My favourite 😊

Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 8h

Every time I mention it, I usually end up buying a pack of…

Some four-packs of Bundaberg Ginger Beer sitting on a grey supermarket shelf.

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 8h

Want.

A close-up shot of a pile of large, soft Pokémon plush toys. A blue Squirtle is in the center, with a yellow Pikachu to the right, a brown Eevee to the left, and an orange Charmander in the background. All the Pokémon have their eyes closed, appearing to be sleeping peacefully.

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 8h

Friends and colleagues often say I radiate Retiree Energy™ because of the things I used to do in my twenties. But having a public afterlife is even funnier.

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 8h

The Green Party’s energy reminds me of my former public life down under, which was just as intense. Perhaps I’m now enjoying a kind of public afterlife.

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 8h

3/ The coroner has no power to act if they receive a non-response like that. We’ll find out in a few months.

h/t @ajlanes.bsky.social

Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 9h

However it looks like the coroner has no power to do anything about this. (From www.judiciary.uk/guidance-and... )

45. Where no reply is received, it will be consistent with keeping the bereaved at the heart of an investigation, to write and inform the bereaved (and all other recipients of the original PFD report) of the absence of a response and explain to them that the non-responder is now in breach of Reg 29(3) and Schedule 5 part 7(2), but as the inquest has concluded the coroner has no authority in law to take any further steps. In explaining the situation, the coroner should use neutral terms and not express irritation or frustration at the failure of a PFD recipient to comply with their legal obligation.

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 9h

oh I didn't know this. thanks

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 9h

2/ I understand that the DHSC’s response will be published. The Senior Coroner is well known for his independence and for taking a no-nonsense approach. I suspect the response will simply state that the Cass Review recommendations will be implemented.

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 9h

1/🧵 In the Prevention of Future Deaths report concerning the death of Leia Sampson-Grimbly, the Senior Coroner required Wes Streeting’s DHSC to set out the concrete steps it would take to reduce waiting lists at gender clinics w/ a timetable for action. The DHSC should have responded last month.

5 CORONER’S CONCERNS

During the course of the inquest the evidence revealed matters giving rise to concern. In my opinion there is a risk that future deaths could occur unless action is taken. In the circumstances it is my statutory duty to report to you.

The MATTERS OF CONCERN are as follows. – Waiting lists are far too long for first appointment at a Gender Dysphoria clinic.
6 ACTION SHOULD BE TAKEN

In my opinion action should be taken to prevent future deaths and I believe you [AND/OR your organisation] have the power to take such action.
7 YOUR RESPONSE

You are under a duty to respond to this report within 56 days of the date of this report, Namely by Friday19th September2025I, the coroner, may extend the period. Your response must contain details of action taken or proposed to be taken, setting out the timetable for action. Otherwise you must explain why no action is proposed.

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 10h

medium.com/@notashley/t...

Trans Inclusion at Kenwood Ladies’ Pond: A Case for a Local Act of Parliament

Hey, we don’t need to follow the Supreme Court’s transphobic judgment

medium.com

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 10h

I wrote that we can petition Parliament for a special concession for trans inclusion at Kenwood Ladies’ Pond. The deadline to submit such private Bill for it to become a local Act next year is 27 November. If we want to make an impact, we must act now.

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 11h

🫠

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 11h

Somehow there is no unworkability re marriage discrimination, etc.

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 11h

Apparently, the street I am living on is getting rapidly gentrified. Then I remembered I just moved in this year. I am the gentrifying force. Fuck.

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 12h

hahaha “there is something quite surprising, and quite jarring, about the way in which this judicial language seeks to diminish the significance of a legal document”

journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...

View of 'For Women Scotland' [2025] UKSC 16, [2025] 2 WLR 879: ‘Paper certificates’, Gender Recognition Certificates and other legal documents

journals.kent.ac.uk

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 12h

A vegan diet.

A pack of three inari sushi, which are fried tofu pouches filled with rice and sprinkled with black sesame seeds, sits on a wooden table. A separate package of tofu is visible underneath the sushi.

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 13h

3/ Comment: From the judges’ privileged perspective, it was ooooh soooo smooooth.

“the legal past is omitted or flattened: reconstituted as an orderly legal progress in which common law and statute developed smoothly, needing nothing more than clarification to achieve consistency and correctness.”

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 13h

2/ (cont.) It was the outcome of many decades of campaigning in response to discrimination, exclusion, poverty, violence and death. Gains were hard-won from a state which was often not just indifferent but actively hostile.”

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 13h

1/🧵 My comment: Unlike the generation before them, Lady Hale’s generation, the five judges were just graduating from law school in 1975, when the Sex Discrimination Act was enacted. I say this helps explain their attitude.

“The Equality Act 2010 was not the generous gift of a benevolent government.

View of The (non-)use of history and its significance in 'For Women Scotland' | feminists@law

journals.kent.ac.uk

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Caroline Derry @carolinederry.bsky.social · 19h

My new short piece in Feminists@Law considers the use of history in the For Women Scotland judgment.

It's part of a 'rapid response' special issue, 'Interrogating For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers'.

The (non-)use of history and its significance in 'For Women Scotland' | feminists@law

journals.kent.ac.uk

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 13h

third in the series!!!

from the creator (or author, lol) of Computer Engineering for Babies.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bab...

Simple Machines Made Simple

A board book featuring your favorite simple machines each with an interactive demo.

www.kickstarter.com

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 14h

I always know what I want.

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 17h

I find the term global majority quite cringy and does not reflect the reality we face...

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 20h

Good news!
New HIV diagnoses in the UK fell by 4% in 2024.
The UK remains among the top countries in the world for diagnosis (95% of all living with HIV are diagnosed), treatment (99% of diagnosed on treatment) and viral suppression (98% ‘undetectable’ - and so can’t pass the virus on sexually).

Graph from UKHSA showing overall dramatic drop in diagnoses between 2004 and 2024.
There was a rise after 2020 as a result of increases in testing rates, following significant low levels of testing as a result of COVID.

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