allmyownwork.bsky.social
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One doesn't have to wonder very hard.
The answer is no.
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So he’s a transphobic Tory gay doctor?
Just add “Christian” and we’ve got the cognitive dissonance full house.
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Yuck.
I think it's worth replying anyway. I've written at least three times to mine now, including pointing out where I thought her approach was unhelpful.
At this point if MPs wave through the EHRC guidance they're basically condone citizen vigilantism.
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For some reason I've always found opening post trickier – as in, more triggering – than reading emails. Perhaps it's because, these days, *really bad* news tends to arrive in paper form? Idk.
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"Biological reality" 🚩
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Quite right. Cat has his own blanket too, for exactly the same reasons 😉
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Ty!
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Ralf knows what’s what! 😂
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Oh I do hope you’re right.
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They arrived! 🙂
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Good.
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Plague of the greenfly
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Everyone thought The Shaman were making an extremely thinly veiled song about party drugs but actually they were simply using pop rave music as a medium for advocating for removing barriers to trans healthcare
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Wow!
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If you are a business, service provider or venue who is responding, please make sure your make your response public or share it with @transactualuk.bsky.social so that we can hold the EHRC to account.
For everyone else, ask your MP to demand the EHRC show their working! bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Surely “human rights warriors” Sex Matters 😉😉😉
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Yep.
It was a problem even before the proliferation of smartphones and GPS, though. Mountain biking is my thing and in the 90s it wasn't uncommon to find lost riders whose only means of navigation was a torn out page from a magazine (and no map reading skills) 🙄
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I’ve seen businesses use focus groups in a similar fashion, with similarly disastrous results.
It’s lazy and reductive. Leadership is *hard*. Leaning hard on polls just allows mediocre people to pretend that they’re making decisions.
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Also: OS maps are, by far, the best civilian maps I’ve ever used, anywhere in the world.
Like the shipping forecast, they’re a British art form of which we can all be proud. They’re just stunningly good.
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Start by learning to read a map. It’s an incredibly useful skill and could save your life one day.
IME it also helps with the feeling that you’re immersed in the landscape. You develop a relationship with it, which is impossible to replicate when you’re just following an arrow on a screen.
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I found that having a goal of transitioning was a really good incentive to start losing weight :)
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A lot of GPs seem to weaponise their relative lack of knowledge in this area. It's infuriating.
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Yes, I've had to deal with a few, erm, people in the NHS before as well...
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The team is lovely, and very responsive to emails. Such a contrast to my early experience with GenderCare (a loose collective of NHS specialists who also do private work).
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It very much depends how long you've been on HRT. If you're already 12 months in it's £100/month and if it's 24 months or more it's £50/month.
It's more ££ but there's no AI chatbot nonsense. I'm happy so far.
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Can't remember the phrasing that SpaceX used. It wasn't "rapid unscheduled disassembly", for a change 🙃
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NHS clinicians' politeness and professionalism in no way mitigates the distress caused by needless pathologisation.
It's (mostly) the system, not the people.
But good healthcare shouldn't cost so much. It should be available to all.
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They're dangerous IMO.
You can't have effective diplomacy or geopolitical decision-making if some of the people involved actually *want* Armageddon.
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*bad
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Unfortunately I have fairly bag astigmatism, so I'm going to need a spendy prescription pair 🙄
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Yeah, could do with being a little further away. I’ll see if I can rearrange the desk a tad (not much scope to push the monitors back though).
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I almost entirely avoid “The News” (deliberate scare quotes) now.
I was a news junkie for years.
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😂