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Dr Robert Bohan

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Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é Buy my work here: https://robbohan.etsy.com

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 7d

🧵 We have the tail-end of a couple of Gulf hurricanes heading towards us in Ireland. I like when there are dark skies & colours are more pronounced. I see colours as energy & that’s why I love using them powerfully in my one-off ink drawings. You can see them if you scroll down in this thread! [1]

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1m

I’m fascinated with the IT companies promoting this nefarious propaganda. Presumably they’re OK with people pirating their software & technology?

Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 7m

‘Industries’, which rely on theft, are better known as criminal concerns. Fortunately this form of lawlessness is illegal in the EU. Companies indulging in it should be putting many billions aside for the fines. Copyright theft is illegal & artists’ bodies are tracking it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1h

I think that to stop bullying it needs to be challenged at every level. I think there’s a responsibility on guardians who believe in a just society to teach their kids to stand up against the bullying of others. That never happened when I was a kid, it does now in all my little relatives’ schools!

Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1h

Jaysus, Jenrick really wants to be Führer of the Conservative Party! What will Badenoch say to outdo him? And then Farage, to outdo her? And then Starmer, to outdo all of them?

It really is astonishing how quickly British politics is collapsing.

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 8h

Top Tory names judges he would sack for bias bit.ly/3KE7cBY some have allowed immigrants to stay in the UK for reasons Robert Jenrick disapproves of. He wants Ministers to appoint (and sack) judges. But top judge Sumption warns this could lead to an authoritarian state

Robert Jenrick names judges he would sack for ‘pro-migrant bias’

The shadow justice secretary has accused ‘activists’ within the judiciary of having links to political causes that compromise their independence

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1h

In 2023 there were 18,367 cosmetic plastic surgeries for breast & cosmetic implants in the UK.

If changing how your body looks for non-trans ppl is so OK, you had no idea the number of cases, is being upset at trans ppl doing it not just transphobia?

Breast and Cosmetic Implant Registry - January to December 2023, Management Information - NHS England Digital

This is the 7th publication of data from the Breast and Cosmetic Implant Registry (BCIR). The report includes data for England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.  It also includes breakdowns of dev...

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1h

In the UK & Ireland it is illegal for minors to have ‘sex change’ surgery. So if you hear the extremists claiming this, you know it’s untrue. For adults, once their med consultants agree, they can have it. If you find this problematic, you probably care deeply about plastic surgery for movie stars?

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1h

These groups always try to conjure ideas based on ignorance [remember Trump claiming that schools were turning kids trans in a day?!]

And the bodily interventions of the five? 3 bleached blonds, 1 permed hair & 1 contact lens wearer.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1h

… that by banning puberty blockers for trans kids there was a significant risk of increased suicidal ideation & of suicides amongst these kids. It’s equally ludicrous that HRT for adults be banned, just for trans adults. If it’s so wrong, why is it prescribed for non-trans women & some men?

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1h

… suicides amongst children impacted. Because of people like the extremists the British govt has banned such blockers for trans kids claiming [without evidence] that they are unsafe. Yet it did not block them for non-trans kids. In fact experts from the NHS warned the Labour & Tory govts…

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1h

…allow puberty take place. They are used every day by non-trans kids to deal with precocious puberty. The medical community views them as safe, tried & trusted. They also give the child more time to think about who they are & also have been shown to dramatically reduce suicidal ideation &…

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1h

*these interventions were completely ignored as they railed against ‘trans healthcare’. Trans healthcare for the vast majority of adults is essentially counselling & HRT. For kids, in a small number of cases, it’s puberty blockers. These are hormones which once they stop being taken…

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1h

I was looking at a photo of five anti-trans ppl railing against trans healthcare*. Yet all five had procedures to assert their gender. Four had used the dangerous chemical, peroxide, & the fifth had had a procedure to implant devices.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve changed who can reply as these ppl will be scouring social media today.

Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2h

… contraception, divorce & the separation of church & state.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2h

In Ireland groups that hate trans ppl claim that they support gay ppl. In fact when you investigate them they have all taken part on the ‘No’ side to the same sex marriage referendum & also the ‘No’ side to abortion. They were also no to decriminalisation of homosexuality as well as to …

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2h

…confuse them. Most people have no issues with gay kids. So they then think they are ‘saving’ these kids from being trans. That is completely wrong. Trans kids & adults have ALWAYS existed. Some trans ppl are straight, some are Queer.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2h

The editors of the UK & Ireland’s Queer media have ALL said the conspiracy theory that trans ppl are gay kids who can’t accept who they are is completely false. So has every group that represents Queer ppl. This conspiracy theory seeks to indoctrinate & confuse regular ppl &

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2h

…have been subject to such frivolous cases. Even anonymity online is no protection with social media happily handing over details which v expensive lawyers can then use to track the anonymous person down. So be very careful. If you are not in the UK/Ireland do not comment on individuals in replies!

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2h

You’ll notice the coy way that the newspaper describes the event in its headline. This is because of UK defamation law. Frivolous & v expensive lawsuits are made by some extremists for repeating what they say & stating what it is. Most ‘public’ LGBTQ ppl in the UK & Ireland…

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2h

This nastiness relies on gay men & women being mentally ill & pretending to be trans. If you give it even a second’s thought, why would lesbians want to be more hated as trans men?

Gender critters accused of ‘hateful’ remarks after suggesting trans rights supporters have ‘broken brains’

Gender critical activists accused of ‘hateful’ remarks about trans women

Labour MP Richard Quigley said he was ‘appalled by the comments, but not surprised’

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2h

Are you still at school?

Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2h

…that trans adults & children are non-biological.

Yet even the BBC does it. And as the most trusted news source in the UK it influences people & set the terms in how minorities are viewed.

Teach your kid to be friends to the kids who are bullied.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2h

…schools rules. The problem is when not just their guardian is saying things, it’s when the media & politicos are too.

You see this clearly in UK media where they have taken to calling cis people ‘biological’. And using that to dehumanise trans ppl. It doesn’t get more extreme than stating…

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2h

..& ask them to repeat it, so everyone can learn, & then ask them to explain it. Mostly they knew they shouldn’t have said it, but occasionally we were hearing the guardian’s words. So then you had to get the kid to think for themselves. You were always operating within supporting the…

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve taught kids who are a year older & I knew what they were up to & what was happening within their group. Questions need to be asked about their teacher. Sometimes in much older ones they would come out with something sexist or racist etc. You’d stop the class…

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