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Vic Stamp

@vickerystamp.bsky.social

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Disability studies & LGBTQ+ health, community & chronic illness, community knowledge production. Trans & disabled (he/him, they/them)

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Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · Dec 29

Biggest dislike about BlueSky so far is the lack of bookmarks. Using likes to save things for later is an awful system but I don't have a better one!

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Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · 12h

If you need me I'll be hibernating.

Compared to fluctuations in cities around the world, the daily (intraday) fluctuation forecasted in [blacked out place] ranks in the top 10%, meaning that the pressure changes from hour to hour are quite significant

Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · 12h

Barometric pressure is extra funky fellow North West (and I assume also other parts of England/UK) chronically ill folk so if you feel extra shit today that might be why.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 22d

The only problem with people working illegally in the UK is that them working is deemed illegal

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 27d

There is, btw, absolutely no evidence of large scale fraud wrt PIP. It's already so unnecessarily difficult to get that I know multiple people with actual trauma in relation to the assessment process.

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Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · 28d

Interruption of studies or being signed off sick is not actually a solution to inaccessibility.

Time off also won't cure chronic illness, nor necessarily result in improved symptoms once back at work.

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Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · Sep 18

Or not at all as it turns out...

Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · Sep 18

It's definitely done locally not by NHSE but still very positive!

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Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · Sep 18

I know thats not an approach that works for everyone and I respect that.

But if the meds are benefiting you does it really matter if they are treating ADHD or cPTSD?

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Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · Sep 18

The conclusion I have come to as someone who has PTSD & trauma in childhood is that I will never know & it doesn't really matter (at least for me) - drawing on techniques for coping with ADHD & PTSD that work for me has been a lot more meaningful than focusing on labels or causes.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · Sep 13

The far right turnout today is much smaller than the number of people who came to protest at London Trans Pride this year, but the far right will of course get infinitely more press coverage.

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TransHealthNow @dadtrans.bsky.social · Sep 11

The adultifying & sexualisation of children because they are Trans is deeply disturbing & harmful. This article is talking about discriminating against 12 and 13 year old girls simply because they are Trans.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Sep 11

The Telegraph going after trans girls being in a computer class with cis girls.

Won't lie, thought this was about trans spies and I'm very disappointed.

Spy bosses let trans women join girls’ computer lessons, group says
The Daily Telegraph11 Sep 2025By Daniel Martin Deputy political editor

ALLEGED ATTACKER JOHN COWEN
SPY chiefs have been accused of flouting the law after allowing biological males to enter a scheme to encourage girls to study computing.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has started a competition for schools to encourage more women to get into the cyber industry.

But the rules of the Cyberfirst Girls competition state that it is open to “all female-identifying students” – meaning boys who have transitioned into being girls at school will be able to apply.

Critics have raised concerns that the organisation is in breach of April’s Supreme Court ruling that the word “sex” means “biological sex” under the Equality Act.

This means that if a job is offered to a woman it should be to a biological woman and not someone who identifies as one. However, the rules of the NCSC competition state: “All team members must identify as a girl”.

The NCSC is an offshoot of GCHQ, the Government Communications Headquarters, which monitors other countries’ radio output.

The competition was launched to counter concerns that only 17 per cent of UK cyber jobs are filled by women.

Women’s rights group Sex Matters said it was concerned that an initiative to promote girls in computer studies could be undermined by allowing biological males to enter. In a letter to the centre, Maya Forstater, chief executive, said: “I am writing to express concern about the eligibility criteria for Cyberfirst Girls, which breach equality law in Britain, and to request that they be urgently amended in order to bring the programme into compliance. The video for teachers says that the competition aims to encourage girls to study computer science and then says that it is open to all ‘female-identifying students’ in the UK in the specified school years.”

The competition is open to girls in year eight, which is the second year of second

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Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · Sep 9

Its already disrupted so Im just crossing everything I get there

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Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · Sep 9

As a gauge of how tired I am, I just searched 'trans' in my email and was surprised when that did not in fact immediately locate my transpennine express booking confirmation given the rest of my inbox.

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Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · Sep 9

I am exhausted to levels of my being that I didn't know existed at this point.

Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · Sep 1

I dont even have my laptop - I was out when he got the call! But yes eduroam is definitely a perk I've used plenty in waiting rooms and when inpatient.

Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · Sep 1

It worked out all good and he's getting the test now thankfully.

(And asked him if I could share this to be clear)

Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · Sep 1

As if it's not enough of an operation to try and converge him, me and our driver friend in one place within an hour to avoid waiting months more for this test, we did that that with no idea if he'd be seen when we got there.

Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · Sep 1

I talk a lot about ways the PhD and my life are inseparable but unexpectedly working from a hospital wait room after my partner got offered a cancellation slot for a test with an hours notice but the number to call back didn't work! And no one picked up when transferred from the switchboard!

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Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · Aug 28

As cool at this one it, am extremely grateful to not be lugging it anywhere

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · Aug 28

You tick a box that says "male" the app will assume you don't have breasts. You tick the box that says "female" it will assume you don't have testicles. Many trans women, of course, have both.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · Aug 28

I do not think that a good health triage system would ignore that some of us are trans.

I think it's important that the question gets asked in a way that is sensitive enough that trans people won't just immediately reject it, avoid healthcare, or cover up trans status.

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Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · Aug 27

Commissioning an organisation who already thinks this about their tool to review whether their tool works is certainly a choice.

Ellen Miller, chief executive of SafeLives, the charity
that initially developed Dash and promotes its use,
told the BBC that the "beauty" of the questionnaire
was "its simplicity, its universality and its
accessibility"".

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Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thanks for sharing!

Vic Stamp @vickerystamp.bsky.social · Aug 22

Studying systemic harms that affect you is weird.

I can stand there and tell you many details about the rock, I can thoroughly analyse the hard place - I can even tell you what machinery would get folk free.

But ultimately I am still stuck between a rock and hard place without any tools.

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Dreamliner Again @entirelyharmless.bsky.social · Aug 20

This is what British “gender criticals” want too.

No NHS gender care, at all.

No ability to change gender markers.

Access to HRT, even privately, criminalised.

“Dignity and respect” as they segregate, dehumanise and criminalise.

FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · Aug 20

"It's just your healthcare"

Federal employee health plans barred from covering gender affirming care “regardless of age”
www.opm.gov/healthcare-i...

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