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Alastair Lawrie @alastairlawrie.bsky.social · 1d

“The research from Stubbs Terrace continues to be used to promote the idea that gender diverse children’s thoughts, feelings and behaviour can be suppressed, changed or corrected so that they become cisgender adults.” #wapol #aushealth
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Rainbow Futures WA: Ban on conversion practices 'cannot come soon enough'

"The government must urgently introduce legislation to protect LGBTQA+ people from these abhorrent practices.”

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 1d

A new report published in The Medical Journal of 🇦🇺 argues that the 🇬🇧’s Cass Review should not be used as a guide for the care of young trans people.

It also asserts that 🇦🇺’s approach to treatment is recognised internationally as best practice.

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New Australian report says UK's Cass Review should not guide care for trans young people

Australian researchers argue that the UK's Cass Review is deeply flawed.

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Stevie Lane @stevielane.bsky.social · 1d

Good medicine centres the values of the patient, not the clinician, politician or commentator. #TheCassReview is shaped by stigma not science & fails #trans people. A must-read journal article from #TransHealth experts in Australia 🏳️‍⚧️ #GenderAffirmingCare #Transgender

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Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people

Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...

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Stevie Lane @stevielane.bsky.social · 2d

What happened to Jayne McFadyen wasn’t care, it was conversion. At 10, she was locked in a Perth psych hospital & forced to act “like a boy.” Her story is now being used to oppose #TransHealthcare. We need #ConversionPractices laws to stop this harm repeating. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

'Conversion therapy' survivor speaking out against trans health study

A decades-old psychiatric study is influencing current debates over transgender youth health care. But a new analysis led by a survivor says the findings were deeply harmful and dangerously misleading...

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 16d

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope

Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights.

While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

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Stevie Lane @stevielane.bsky.social · 4d

FOI data on #trans healthcare in the UK:

➡️ 48,000+ people are waiting for a first NHS gender clinic appt (a 12.5% rise since 2024)
➡️ The Avg wait time is 25 years. Some face decades longer
➡️ For every person seen, 4 are added to the list

Cruelty by design.

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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

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 9d

Some people sincerely feel that:

— Migrants are destroying communities. It’s still racist.

— LGBT folk are corrupting children. It’s still homo/transphobic.

— Disabled people are burdens in workplaces. It’s still ableist.

Emotional sincerity without critical reflection makes dangerous politics.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 8d

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression

I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

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Stevie Lane @stevielane.bsky.social · 5d

#LavenderMarriages have long showed how #queer people balance love, safety & survival. A recent article in @theconversation.com from Assistant Professor Gio Dolcecore from @mountroyalu.bsky.social explores their history & resonance now 💜 theconversation.com/lavender-mar...

Lavender marriages: What queer unions and relationships can teach us about love and safety

Are lavender marriages making a comeback? The answer is complicated.

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Stevie Lane @stevielane.bsky.social · 5d

Last night at Rabble Books I heard legal scholar @profgerber.bsky.social in convo with RFWA CEO Dr Misty Farquhar OAM, speak on her new book ➡️ Sex, Gender & Identity: Trans Rights in Australia. A timely look at the vilification of #trans people & how we move toward respect, protection & inclusion.

Misty and Paula sitting on chairs in front of a brick wall. There is a progress pride flag hanging behind them, and lots of green plants. Misty (on the left) is an Anglo-Indian non-binary person with short grey hair. They are black framed glasses, a beige blazer with the sleeves pulled back, a blue and pink tie-dyed shirt that says ‘Trans Rights are Human Rights’, black pants and brown dress shoes. They have tattoos on their arms. They are holding a microphone and reading a quote from Paula’s book which they are holding in their other hand. Paul (on the right) is looking over at Misty as they read. They are a white person with short grey hair wearing round framed glasses, a blouse with lots of green, blue and white squares on it, and black pants.

The front cover of Paula’s bee book. It has a pink background and the words ‘In the National Interest’ in the top left hand corner. In bold uppercase white lets it said ‘PAULA GERBER’ on a hot pink background, and underneath is the title of the book on a light blue background: Sex, Gender & Identity: Trans Rights in Australia.