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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 11h

I don't think enough is made of Starmer appointing a SexMatters director into number 10 as comms manager.

Or that SexMatters wrote to NHSE asking for the blocker study to be cancelled because being trans in the UK with no rights is undesirable.

Letter here..
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...

Behind the ruling: how ‘Sex Matters’ is shaping UK policy on trans rights

The UK Supreme Court ruling redefined ‘sex’ – but for trans people, it’s the start of something far more sweeping and exclusionary

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 11h

I don't know what that refers to.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1d

Just wow!

@zackpolanski.bsky.social absolutely kills it in the @greenparty.org.uk party political broadcast.

"Let's make hope normal again"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxt4...

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 7d

NHSE keep quiet the good news that ex Tavistock under 18s are not subjected to the new clinics. Any that were already approved for blockers were sent to a wraparound service. It undermines their argument that medication is unsafe.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

Questions remain over NHS youth gender care, despite Cass Review

One of the services treating the Tavistock's former patients appeared to be taking cues from American healthcare guidelines.

www.newstatesman.com

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 7d

Exactly.

If I thought immigration was as big a problem as Labour suggest, I would vote Reform.

Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 8d

Starmer said we're becoming an island of strangers.

He has refused to open up safe routes, although he has kept open the one for white people: Ukrainians.

He demonises immigrants.

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 8d

Labour are saying Owen Jones is a security risk.

It's the same playbook used by Trump and Reform.

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 8d

I'm surprised people don't make more of the SEZs that Starmer is introducing.

Deregulation beyond the wildest dreams of Brexiters.

Will make rejoining almost impossible.

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 12d

Blair has tried to exploit situations many times to get his ID cards.

He tried it with Covid.

Now it's immigration.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15d

Gordon Guyatt, a distinguished professor of medicine at McMaster University, was a reluctant icon of the movement against trans health care.

Until August, when Guyatt and four colleagues made waves with a letter arguing that their work had been “misrepresented and misinterpreted.”

Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown

The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

www.motherjones.com

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 14d

Keir Starmer said he feels that we have become an island of strangers because of immigrants.

There is no chance of him leading anything other than a Reform coronation.

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 19d

Social media is the only chance the public have of calling out journalists and politicians.

Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 20d

Starmer talked to Trump about Palestine Action vandalising his golf course then he banned them.

Starmer taught Trump how terrorist legislation can be used for this.

Previously Starmer taught Trump how to ban trans healthcare citing safety reasons and the Cass report.

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 21d

Is Streeting aware that the puberty blocker study still hasn't started?

His predecessor gave two days' notice to ban them, he immediately extended the ban.

Now heading towards 2 years before a study that allows a few to get them.

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 24d

Starmer's Enoch Powell speech about feeling that he lives 'in an island of strangers' was proof enough.

Then we have Cooper's anti immigrant stance such as barriers to asylum seekers bringing their family. Even a Telegraph journalist complained about how far right that one was.

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 28d

Absolutely.

Puberty blockers were banned with 2 days' notice using emergency legislation.

The puberty blocker trial is close to two years late in starting.

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 28d

Starmer has no values, so it can't work.

He talks passionately against tuition fees, FPTP, war crimes, transphobia and many other things.

Then when he gets in he takes the opposite side.

He is Boris Johnson with a comb.

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · Sep 2

SexMatters asking for the puberty blocker study to be cancelled because the supreme court made being trans undesirable.

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...

Behind the ruling: how ‘Sex Matters’ is shaping UK policy on trans rights

The UK Supreme Court ruling redefined ‘sex’ – but for trans people, it’s the start of something far more sweeping and exclusionary

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · Sep 2

The white ones will still be able to bring families over, eg Ukrainians.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Sep 1

Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · Aug 22

Reform will do the same. Starmer has already done the groundwork for them as they heal this Island of Strangers, full of geriatric terrorists and trans predators.

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · Aug 22

Best inclusive language in a traditional setting goes to York Racecourse

Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · Aug 21

As the parade walked over that footbridge the cars below were beeping their horns in support. It was wonderful.

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · Aug 21

I'm impressed that your list of attributes didn't hit any that Starmer possesses.

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