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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 4d
Oh cool, that's my local GIC. I should just about get there by 2250.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 6d
"I didn't want to be labelled as transphobic", claims person who hired the most transphobic lawyer in the country to represent her.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 7d
Progressive policies AND bigger boobs? Oh no. How terrible.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 8d
I don't want to win over racist voters. Why would I want that?
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 8d
I believe it's this one: www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cyp_...
CYP Gender Identity services - statistics - a Freedom of Information request to Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Dear Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, I am raising this FOI about the Specialist Service for Children and Young People with Gender Incongruence, which is commissioned by NHS England. In the...
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 9d
"This blew up" was perhaps not the best choice of words.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 11d
Imagine not knowing that the Stephens-Deviant-Behaviours are one of the preeminent families in UK journalism.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 12d
Also, maybe the existing surveillance state actually isn't fine at all? Maybe it sucks and we just can't do anything about it! That's not a reason to make it even worse.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 14d
Ah, yes, that well-known slogan, "anti-ICE". That thing everyone is saying.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 14d
LMAO WORST GOVERNMENT OF YOUR LIFE? I GUESS YOU'RE ONLY ONE YEA *spontaneously combusts*
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 17d
The study the economist is mangling was of a subset of trans youth who had socially transitioned no later than the age of 12, with parental support. 87% of them got puberty blockers, hormones, or both, and only 3% stopped:

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 17d
Why are you fearmongering about "nearly a fifth" of the group when the study in question shows that 87% of the trans kids studied began some sort of medical treatment, and only 3% stopped?
Puberty blockers suppress the physiological changes brought on by endogenous puberty, while gender‐affirming hormones cause the development of secondary sex characteristics associated with the other binary gender (e.g., facial hair growth in transgender boys, breast development in transgender girls). The majority of youths in the Recruited as Transgender group started puberty blockers (86%) and/or gender‐affirming hormones (68%) at some point during the study. Within the Recruited as Transgender group, 16% started blockers and continue to use them without having begun gender affirming hormones, and 66% started both blockers and gender‐affirming hormones and continue to use gender‐affirming hormones (roughly one‐third of these youths have stopped using blockers). The remaining youths who medically transitioned started blockers and then stopped (1%), started blockers and gender‐affirming hormones and stopped both (1%), started blockers and gender‐affirming hormones but stopped the latter (1%), or never started blockers but started hormones (1%). The mean age at which youths in our sample began blockers was 11.18 years (SD = 1.15, range: 8–14.5 years), and the mean age at which they began taking gender‐affirming hormones was 13.21 years (SD = .99, range: 10.5–16 years). More details about this sample's experiences with gender affirming medical care are reported in Olson et al. (2024).
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 17d
Why are you fearmongering about "nearly a fifth" of the group when the study in question shows that 87% of the trans kids studied began some sort of medical treatment, and only 3% stopped?
Puberty blockers suppress the physiological changes brought on by endogenous puberty, while gender‐affirming hormones cause the development of secondary sex characteristics associated with the other binary gender (e.g., facial hair growth in transgender boys, breast development in transgender girls). The majority of youths in the Recruited as Transgender group started puberty blockers (86%) and/or gender‐affirming hormones (68%) at some point during the study. Within the Recruited as Transgender group, 16% started blockers and continue to use them without having begun gender affirming hormones, and 66% started both blockers and gender‐affirming hormones and continue to use gender‐affirming hormones (roughly one‐third of these youths have stopped using blockers). The remaining youths who medically transitioned started blockers and then stopped (1%), started blockers and gender‐affirming hormones and stopped both (1%), started blockers and gender‐affirming hormones but stopped the latter (1%), or never started blockers but started hormones (1%). The mean age at which youths in our sample began blockers was 11.18 years (SD = 1.15, range: 8–14.5 years), and the mean age at which they began taking gender‐affirming hormones was 13.21 years (SD = .99, range: 10.5–16 years). More details about this sample's experiences with gender affirming medical care are reported in Olson et al. (2024).
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 17d
Lee, I did *not* need to get a notification on my phone starting with the words "Wes Streeting wants to be friends" today. Nearly gave me a heart attack.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 20d
One explanatory note was dismissed with words to the effect of "the government wouldn't have said that if they'd thought it through as carefully as we did", which is just mind-blowing hubris.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 20d
The analogy doesn't even work on its own terms. The guillotine was invented as a more reliable, humane alternative to beheading by axe, which was often quite hit and miss. It could take several swings of the axe to actually finish the job. Why would anyone regret a less painful death?
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 21d
If Phillipson wants to prove that she's in favour of trans rights, there's actually a very easy way she could do that right now!
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 21d
Tagging @katymontgomerie.com both as a recommendation, and a source of more.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 22d
Lister's answer was great too.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 22d
Musk's personal stash, I guess.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 22d
A message from Saturn would take less than 90 minutes to arrive!
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 23d
"seems legit" - Hadley Freeman.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 24d
Any electoral system where less than a third of the vote can win a majority is fundamentally broken.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 24d
There are many, many things for which an apology is an appropriate, sufficient, and laudable response. Advocating for mass murder is, uh, not one of them.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 24d
What a waste of money! I could express opinions I don't hold firmly and won't remember in a few days time for no more than £1.8 million. Call me, people.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 25d
Countdown to Starmer saying that he hears peoples' concerns about his continued living, and that they are right to be concerned.
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