Alex Ashman
@alexashman.bsky.social
ENT surgery | RCS England Emerging Leaders 2023 | WENTS UK social media | Pride in Surgery Forum | BMA EDI Advisory Group Invited Member | they/them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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"biological pronouns" is an insane phrase
BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts.
Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
November 7, 2025 at 4:22 AM
"biological pronouns" is an insane phrase
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On behalf of Women in ENT Surgery UK:
Our first full podcast episode of Season 2 is out now! Our host Alex Ashman talks to Michaella Cameron about taking leave and returning to training, tips for success and the art of keeping all the plates spinning.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1792796
Our first full podcast episode of Season 2 is out now! Our host Alex Ashman talks to Michaella Cameron about taking leave and returning to training, tips for success and the art of keeping all the plates spinning.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1792796
September 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
On behalf of Women in ENT Surgery UK:
Our first full podcast episode of Season 2 is out now! Our host Alex Ashman talks to Michaella Cameron about taking leave and returning to training, tips for success and the art of keeping all the plates spinning.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1792796
Our first full podcast episode of Season 2 is out now! Our host Alex Ashman talks to Michaella Cameron about taking leave and returning to training, tips for success and the art of keeping all the plates spinning.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1792796
On behalf of Women in ENT Surgery UK:
Our first full podcast episode of Season 2 is out now! Our host Alex Ashman talks to Michaella Cameron about taking leave and returning to training, tips for success and the art of keeping all the plates spinning.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1792796
Our first full podcast episode of Season 2 is out now! Our host Alex Ashman talks to Michaella Cameron about taking leave and returning to training, tips for success and the art of keeping all the plates spinning.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1792796
September 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
On behalf of Women in ENT Surgery UK:
Our first full podcast episode of Season 2 is out now! Our host Alex Ashman talks to Michaella Cameron about taking leave and returning to training, tips for success and the art of keeping all the plates spinning.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1792796
Our first full podcast episode of Season 2 is out now! Our host Alex Ashman talks to Michaella Cameron about taking leave and returning to training, tips for success and the art of keeping all the plates spinning.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1792796
UN experts warn that the UK may once again be in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights, following interim guidance from the EHRC that called for the exclusion of trans people from public spaces.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
UN experts warn of legal uncertainty and rights implications following UK Supreme Court ruling
GENEVA – A group of independent human rights experts* today expressed concern about the implications of the recent UK Supreme Court judgment interpreting the definition of “woman” under the Equality A...
www.ohchr.org
May 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
UN experts warn that the UK may once again be in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights, following interim guidance from the EHRC that called for the exclusion of trans people from public spaces.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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NEW: Sure Start generated widespread, long-lasting benefits for children in education, health, absences, and SEND.
Every £1 of up-front spending on Sure Start could generate around £2 in total benefits over the long run.
THREAD on our new @nuffieldfoundation.org-funded report:
[1/11]
Every £1 of up-front spending on Sure Start could generate around £2 in total benefits over the long run.
THREAD on our new @nuffieldfoundation.org-funded report:
[1/11]
May 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
NEW: Sure Start generated widespread, long-lasting benefits for children in education, health, absences, and SEND.
Every £1 of up-front spending on Sure Start could generate around £2 in total benefits over the long run.
THREAD on our new @nuffieldfoundation.org-funded report:
[1/11]
Every £1 of up-front spending on Sure Start could generate around £2 in total benefits over the long run.
THREAD on our new @nuffieldfoundation.org-funded report:
[1/11]
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Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Are you a BMA member? 🦀
Would you like to support your trans colleagues by calling out recent coverage in the BMJ? 🏳️⚧️
If so, please join me and opt out from receiving the fortnightly BMJ. 1/
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Would you like to support your trans colleagues by calling out recent coverage in the BMJ? 🏳️⚧️
If so, please join me and opt out from receiving the fortnightly BMJ. 1/
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May 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Are you a BMA member? 🦀
Would you like to support your trans colleagues by calling out recent coverage in the BMJ? 🏳️⚧️
If so, please join me and opt out from receiving the fortnightly BMJ. 1/
rallystarter.com/rally/2566/b...
Would you like to support your trans colleagues by calling out recent coverage in the BMJ? 🏳️⚧️
If so, please join me and opt out from receiving the fortnightly BMJ. 1/
rallystarter.com/rally/2566/b...
Are you a BMA member? 🦀
Would you like to support your trans colleagues by calling out recent coverage in the BMJ? 🏳️⚧️
If so, please join me and opt out from receiving the fortnightly BMJ. 1/
rallystarter.com/rally/2566/b...
Would you like to support your trans colleagues by calling out recent coverage in the BMJ? 🏳️⚧️
If so, please join me and opt out from receiving the fortnightly BMJ. 1/
rallystarter.com/rally/2566/b...
Rally Starter
Rally Starter is a digital advocacy platform to mobilize communities and build movements that benefit humanity. Create your campaign and influence change now!
rallystarter.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Are you a BMA member? 🦀
Would you like to support your trans colleagues by calling out recent coverage in the BMJ? 🏳️⚧️
If so, please join me and opt out from receiving the fortnightly BMJ. 1/
rallystarter.com/rally/2566/b...
Would you like to support your trans colleagues by calling out recent coverage in the BMJ? 🏳️⚧️
If so, please join me and opt out from receiving the fortnightly BMJ. 1/
rallystarter.com/rally/2566/b...
Barclays bank has decided to go with "cisgender only" toilets, despite reports that the law does not actually mandate this.
Folks, if you bank with Barclays, now is the time to vote with your feet.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Folks, if you bank with Barclays, now is the time to vote with your feet.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Barclays says bank will bar trans women from using female bathrooms
Boss confirms policy change as businesses move to comply with recent supreme court ruling
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Barclays bank has decided to go with "cisgender only" toilets, despite reports that the law does not actually mandate this.
Folks, if you bank with Barclays, now is the time to vote with your feet.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Folks, if you bank with Barclays, now is the time to vote with your feet.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
This FAQ by @jessothomson.co.uk suggests that trans-exclusionary single-sex toilets aren't mandatory; providers will be making an active choice to exclude trans people. 1/
www.wearequeeraf.com/faq-ehrc-int...
www.wearequeeraf.com/faq-ehrc-int...
EHRC Interim Update: What does it mean for workplaces and service providers?
An interim EHRC update instructs UK orgs to segregate Trans+ people in public single-sex spaces - how much weight does it carry and what does it mean for workplaces and service providers?
www.wearequeeraf.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This FAQ by @jessothomson.co.uk suggests that trans-exclusionary single-sex toilets aren't mandatory; providers will be making an active choice to exclude trans people. 1/
www.wearequeeraf.com/faq-ehrc-int...
www.wearequeeraf.com/faq-ehrc-int...
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My latest thread for WENTS UK on Threads/Twitter:
As news lands that the Equality and Human Rights Commission are recommending segregating trans people out of mainstream toilets and changing rooms, let's look at previous examples of segregation in the UK and how they are Not A Good Thing. 🧵1/
As news lands that the Equality and Human Rights Commission are recommending segregating trans people out of mainstream toilets and changing rooms, let's look at previous examples of segregation in the UK and how they are Not A Good Thing. 🧵1/
April 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
My latest thread for WENTS UK on Threads/Twitter:
As news lands that the Equality and Human Rights Commission are recommending segregating trans people out of mainstream toilets and changing rooms, let's look at previous examples of segregation in the UK and how they are Not A Good Thing. 🧵1/
As news lands that the Equality and Human Rights Commission are recommending segregating trans people out of mainstream toilets and changing rooms, let's look at previous examples of segregation in the UK and how they are Not A Good Thing. 🧵1/
My latest thread for WENTS UK on Threads/Twitter:
As news lands that the Equality and Human Rights Commission are recommending segregating trans people out of mainstream toilets and changing rooms, let's look at previous examples of segregation in the UK and how they are Not A Good Thing. 🧵1/
As news lands that the Equality and Human Rights Commission are recommending segregating trans people out of mainstream toilets and changing rooms, let's look at previous examples of segregation in the UK and how they are Not A Good Thing. 🧵1/
April 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
My latest thread for WENTS UK on Threads/Twitter:
As news lands that the Equality and Human Rights Commission are recommending segregating trans people out of mainstream toilets and changing rooms, let's look at previous examples of segregation in the UK and how they are Not A Good Thing. 🧵1/
As news lands that the Equality and Human Rights Commission are recommending segregating trans people out of mainstream toilets and changing rooms, let's look at previous examples of segregation in the UK and how they are Not A Good Thing. 🧵1/
The UK's Equality and Human Rights body are instructing orgs to segregate trans people.
Trans people are to be banned from using facilities, in some cases both men's and women's facilities.
Instead, trans people are to be forced into separate spaces.
www.wearequeeraf.com/interim-ehrc...
Trans people are to be banned from using facilities, in some cases both men's and women's facilities.
Instead, trans people are to be forced into separate spaces.
www.wearequeeraf.com/interim-ehrc...
Interim EHRC guidance instructs UK orgs to segregate Trans+ people in public single-sex spaces
The UK's equalities watchdog has recommended that to comply with last week's Supreme Court ruling, public single-sex spaces should segregate Trans+ people
www.wearequeeraf.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The UK's Equality and Human Rights body are instructing orgs to segregate trans people.
Trans people are to be banned from using facilities, in some cases both men's and women's facilities.
Instead, trans people are to be forced into separate spaces.
www.wearequeeraf.com/interim-ehrc...
Trans people are to be banned from using facilities, in some cases both men's and women's facilities.
Instead, trans people are to be forced into separate spaces.
www.wearequeeraf.com/interim-ehrc...
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A very important THREAD. There may be a case against the UK on procedural grounds as well as on the outcome of the SC case.
I've been reflecting some more overnight on the For Some Women Scotland case. 🧵
April 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A very important THREAD. There may be a case against the UK on procedural grounds as well as on the outcome of the SC case.
On behalf of WENTS UK:
Register now for the 2025 ENT UK / WENTS Leadership Course, to be held on 13th May at RCS England in London.
We're glad to be able to offer the course at just £40 for ENT UK members and £60 for others.
Register here: www.entuk.org/events/320/w...
Register now for the 2025 ENT UK / WENTS Leadership Course, to be held on 13th May at RCS England in London.
We're glad to be able to offer the course at just £40 for ENT UK members and £60 for others.
Register here: www.entuk.org/events/320/w...
March 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
On behalf of WENTS UK:
Register now for the 2025 ENT UK / WENTS Leadership Course, to be held on 13th May at RCS England in London.
We're glad to be able to offer the course at just £40 for ENT UK members and £60 for others.
Register here: www.entuk.org/events/320/w...
Register now for the 2025 ENT UK / WENTS Leadership Course, to be held on 13th May at RCS England in London.
We're glad to be able to offer the course at just £40 for ENT UK members and £60 for others.
Register here: www.entuk.org/events/320/w...
Great to see our spread on surgical outcomes in the RCSEd Surgeon's News, featuring a main piece by Katherine Conroy and Arghavan Salles, and media analysis by myself.
www.rcsed.ac.uk/news-resourc...
www.rcsed.ac.uk/news-resourc...
March 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Great to see our spread on surgical outcomes in the RCSEd Surgeon's News, featuring a main piece by Katherine Conroy and Arghavan Salles, and media analysis by myself.
www.rcsed.ac.uk/news-resourc...
www.rcsed.ac.uk/news-resourc...
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Not so much a nail in the coffin but a stake through the heart of the Cass Review.
Olson-Kennedy et al (2025) Emotional Health of Transgender Youth 24 Months After Initiating Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy. Journal of adolescent health.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Olson-Kennedy et al (2025) Emotional Health of Transgender Youth 24 Months After Initiating Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy. Journal of adolescent health.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Not so much a nail in the coffin but a stake through the heart of the Cass Review.
Olson-Kennedy et al (2025) Emotional Health of Transgender Youth 24 Months After Initiating Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy. Journal of adolescent health.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Olson-Kennedy et al (2025) Emotional Health of Transgender Youth 24 Months After Initiating Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy. Journal of adolescent health.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The framing that "there's no such thing as trans children" is absolutely key to the denial of rights to trans children and to the erasure of the harms of anti-trans policy. It is key to efforts to try and "eradicate" trans children, and trans people, from existence.
NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...
January 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The framing that "there's no such thing as trans children" is absolutely key to the denial of rights to trans children and to the erasure of the harms of anti-trans policy. It is key to efforts to try and "eradicate" trans children, and trans people, from existence.
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1/🧵 Latest shocking revelation: the Cass “review” likely engaged in unlawful destruction of public records. NHS England claim that they do not hold internal drafts of the final report.
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cass...
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cass...
Cass final report drafts - a Freedom of Information request to NHS England
Please send me the internal drafts or snapshots of the Cass review final report at three-month intervals, covering 15 periods from October 2020 to April 2024. You may send any one version on any day w...
www.whatdotheyknow.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
1/🧵 Latest shocking revelation: the Cass “review” likely engaged in unlawful destruction of public records. NHS England claim that they do not hold internal drafts of the final report.
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cass...
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cass...
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The ban on puberty blockers undermines the well-being, safety and mental health of trans youth
“They should be supported by knowledgeable and well-trained professionals, to access appropriate medical treatments in a timely manner.”
www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...
“They should be supported by knowledgeable and well-trained professionals, to access appropriate medical treatments in a timely manner.”
www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...
The ban on puberty blockers undermines the well-being, safety and mental health of trans youth
When trans young people try to access care, they deserve to be listened to and respected.
www.lbc.co.uk
December 11, 2024 at 9:49 PM
The ban on puberty blockers undermines the well-being, safety and mental health of trans youth
“They should be supported by knowledgeable and well-trained professionals, to access appropriate medical treatments in a timely manner.”
www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...
“They should be supported by knowledgeable and well-trained professionals, to access appropriate medical treatments in a timely manner.”
www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...
As the government enacts an indefinite ban on puberty blockers for trans kids, a reminder that:
👉 puberty blockers are widely considered to be safe and reliable.
👉 puberty blockers are still in routine use to reduce psychological distress in kids who aren't trans.
👉 puberty blockers are widely considered to be safe and reliable.
👉 puberty blockers are still in routine use to reduce psychological distress in kids who aren't trans.
December 11, 2024 at 7:47 PM
As the government enacts an indefinite ban on puberty blockers for trans kids, a reminder that:
👉 puberty blockers are widely considered to be safe and reliable.
👉 puberty blockers are still in routine use to reduce psychological distress in kids who aren't trans.
👉 puberty blockers are widely considered to be safe and reliable.
👉 puberty blockers are still in routine use to reduce psychological distress in kids who aren't trans.
We've started! If you've registered, check the ENT UK event page for the Zoom link!
www.entuk.org/events/298/w...
www.entuk.org/events/298/w...
December 4, 2024 at 7:42 PM
We've started! If you've registered, check the ENT UK event page for the Zoom link!
www.entuk.org/events/298/w...
www.entuk.org/events/298/w...
On behalf of WENTS UK:
We're excited to invite you to the first of our new webinar series. Dr Arghavan Salles PhD will be speaking on the subject of patient outcomes and the reasons behind variation of outcomes with physician sex.
Register here: tinyurl.com/wentsresearch1
We're excited to invite you to the first of our new webinar series. Dr Arghavan Salles PhD will be speaking on the subject of patient outcomes and the reasons behind variation of outcomes with physician sex.
Register here: tinyurl.com/wentsresearch1
November 19, 2024 at 4:57 PM
On behalf of WENTS UK:
We're excited to invite you to the first of our new webinar series. Dr Arghavan Salles PhD will be speaking on the subject of patient outcomes and the reasons behind variation of outcomes with physician sex.
Register here: tinyurl.com/wentsresearch1
We're excited to invite you to the first of our new webinar series. Dr Arghavan Salles PhD will be speaking on the subject of patient outcomes and the reasons behind variation of outcomes with physician sex.
Register here: tinyurl.com/wentsresearch1
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Hey folks! We're on Bluesky now, give us a follow! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✨
November 14, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Hey folks! We're on Bluesky now, give us a follow! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✨