Ludovic Parsons
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Ludovic Parsons
@ludovicparsons.bsky.social
Queer British journalist reporting on LGBTQ+ issues for Attitude, British Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Gay Times etc.
Lead investigative journalist @wearequeeraf.com

https://linktr.ee/ludovicparsons
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lots more to come this month in this new investigative series The Gender Clinic Files from @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com – look out for the first podcast featuring @clairestranstalks.bsky.social diving deep into the data on Monday. Claire has done immense work on this 👏🏻
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The Levy Review into adult gender services - commissioned following the Cass Review - is now out.

We have a rapid response TLDR by @vic-parsons.bsky.social out this afternoon. Plus a larger, analytical look this weekend in the QueerAF newsletter.

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December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Looks like Levy may be dropping at 2pm.

1) Dont panic
2) Itll take some careful analysis so beware people jumping the gun
3) put your own mental health first.

If youre posting stuff, be responsible and mind other mental health. Use warnings etc as appropriate.

Looks like a busy weekend for me.
December 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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This isn't a criticism of the hunger strikers: it's a reflection of genuine fear that unless Labour has plans to add a 'Cat and Mouse Act' amendment to its Crime and Policing Bill, ministers are likely to let people die.

We have to raise public awareness for the demand that the state blinks first.
Kevin Blowe of @netpol.org told QueerAF that hunger strikes are a “very dangerous strategy”.

“It becomes a game of chicken between those people who are wondering how far they're prepared to push a hunger strike and how far the government is prepared to do nothing."
December 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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@wearequeeraf.com will keep prioritising stories mainstream titles won’t even consider.

Support our accountability journalism, which helps you understand why the news is happening - so you know how to fight back 🤝
Information is a tool for liberation - help us fight back
We need to use nuanced, detailed analysis as the base for our activism. That's what QueerAF does best.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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One of the most significant hunger strikes in four decades is happening right now in UK prisons - and it was begun by queer activists 🧵
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December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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"Gender clinics create the bottlenecks for treatment"

@vic-parsons.bsky.social examines what it would take to fix the transgender healthcare crisis in the UK, and clear the 48,000 people waitlist 👇

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...
Gender Clinic Files: What would a healthcare system that works for Trans+ people look like in the UK?
What would it take to reduce the 48,000-person wait list for transgender healthcare in the UK?
www.wearequeeraf.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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The national picture shows waiting times for gender identity clinics that far exceed the NHS's recommended maximum of 18 weeks.

But drilling down into the data from our investigation, 'The Gender Clinic Files' reveals huge disparities across the UK

👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...
October 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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We have heard that the Green Party has passed a motion at conference calling for desegregation of trans healthcare and to end the practice of GICs and to move it to primary care.

And you can definitely see why they voted for it here:

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...
Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist
Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care
www.wearequeeraf.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Let's be clear: this is the result of deliberate political choices to make accessing trans healthcare substantially impossible. It's what Streeting and his ilk want.
In Glasgow, there is a 224-year waiting list for gender clinic appointments.

224 YEARS.

This is institutionalised discrimination. It's unacceptable, it's ruining people's lives and it needs to change.

We have the solution. Time for politicians to act.
October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
lots more to come this month in this new investigative series The Gender Clinic Files from @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com – look out for the first podcast featuring @clairestranstalks.bsky.social diving deep into the data on Monday. Claire has done immense work on this 👏🏻
October 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.
October 4, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Around 1 in 5 of the entire trans+ population is on an NHS waiting list, up from 1 in 8 two years ago.
October 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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🆕️🚨 After painstaking research, dozens of FOIs and months of analysis we release the Gender Clinic Files which reveal waiting times for every GIC in the country.

They lay bare, how far off the mark the Health Secretary's estimation of the average wait is 👇

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...
Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist
Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care
www.wearequeeraf.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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This Saturday after painstaking research and FOIs by @clairestranstalks.bsky.social with @whatthetrans.com, we'll publish 'The Gender Clinic Files' in our newsletter:

A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare

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October 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
me for Attitude Magazine breaking down where UK political parties stand on LGBTQ+ rights

www.attitude.co.uk/main-stories...
Question time: As Labour breaks promises to LGBTQs, who will be our voice in Westminster?
Over the last year, Labour and much of the UK government has shifted to a less supportive position of queer people. Here, Attitude examines the policies of all of the political parties
www.attitude.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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7/ Analysis - @vic-parsons.bsky.social

Some Pride organisers contacted by QueerAF had a ‘not to worry’ approach to the new policing bill – because Pride events are not a site of ‘criminal activity', so police won’t be able to use the powers at Pride.

But recent history tells a different story.
September 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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"Pride started as a queer uprising against police brutality – our elders surely would have taken this expansion of police powers seriously and fought back. Why aren’t we?" - @vic-parsons.bsky.social

www.wearequeeraf.com/new-police-p...
New police powers could criminalise wearing a mask at Pride
The police will have the power to make it a criminal offence to cover your face at a public protest if Labour’s proposed policing bill becomes law, putting LGBTQIA+ people attending Pride events in da...
www.wearequeeraf.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Congrats to @vic-parsons.bsky.social on this excellent podcast, that I was also interviewed on. Check it out on the QueerAF podcast!

"The multimillionaire who shaped modern trans healthcare"
August 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Cal Horton & Morgan Page are featured on the latest @wearequeeraf.com podcast. @fiercemum.bsky.social provides a clear & informative history to the UK escalating destruction of healthcare for Trans youth in the UK podfollow.com/queeraf/epis...
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creatives: The multimillionaire who shaped modern Trans+ healthcare
Reed Erickson was an eccentric trans multimillionaire who transitioned in the US in the 1950s. Erickson’s access to wealth and relationship to trans healthcare went on to greatly shape how Wester...
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August 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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"In the time lawmakers have been debating, delaying and breaking their promises to LGBTQIA+ communities, so-called ‘conversion therapy’ groups have been proliferating in the UK, harming untold numbers" - @vic-parsons.bsky.social

www.wearequeeraf.com/conversion-t...
‘Conversion therapy’ groups soaring £2M spend since ban on “abusive” practice promised
Exclusive - Spending by so-called 'conversion therapy' groups has increased by 165% since the government first promised to ban the ‘cruel and abusive’ practice
www.wearequeeraf.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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At Trans Pride London, scenes of both joy and defiance - @vic-parsons.bsky.social

“The lack of corporate floats means the density of the march is made up of real people, rather than corporations that don’t do anything for trans people the rest of the year”

www.gq-magazine.co.uk/gallery/tran...
At Trans Pride London, scenes of both joy and defiance
In a deeply challenging year for trans people, set off by the Equality Act ruling in April, more than 100,000 marchers came out to show their support for the community. We spoke to those on the ground...
www.gq-magazine.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
i've joined @wearequeeraf.com as their lead investigative journalist. it feels exciting and timely to be coming on board now given how vital it is at this moment for us to have independent and rigorous queer media.

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🚨 @vic-parsons.bsky.social first exclusive into damning data about anti-LGBTQIA+ groups is out July 12, 2025 in our free newsletter👇

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July 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Cannot wait to moderate this! TODAY: Vital transatlantic discussion about where we go from here on defending trans+ people's human rights *sign up now* now to hear from: @zoandbehold.bsky.social @imarajones.bsky.social @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social @dylantippetts.bsky.social @vic-parsons.bsky.social
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June 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Join our Trans Atlantic Political Exchange virtual event 11th June @ 4pm BST
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May 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
for Trans Day of Visibility i wrote about my unintentional mirror-free experiment for Gay Times. 10/10 would recommend.

magazine.gaytimes.com/trans-invisi...
Trans invisibility: on my year of living without mirrors
Vic Parsons reflects on how a year without seeing their own reflection impacted how they relate to gender and identity.
magazine.gaytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:40 AM