UK trans stats from 2021. About 1% of people in England and Wales are trans.
Digging out some statistics for my own edutainment
pewresearch.org/short-reads/20… Estimates about 1.6% of USAns trans or non-binary.
About 5% of young adults in the U.S. say their gender is different from their sex assigned at birth
1.6% of U.S. adults are transgender or nonbinary. Also, a rising share of Americans say they know someone who is transgender.Carrie Blazina (Pew Research Center)
This Instituto Camões application form has a drop down field where you can list your occupation. The choices are somewhat eccentric:
Astrólogos. / Astrologers.
Parapsicólogos. / Parapsychologists.
Toureiros. / Bullfighters.
Outros artistas tauromáquicos. / Other bullfighting artists.
The neighbours in Spain might explain the last two but I am at a loss as to why astrologers and parapsychologists make the cut for what is quite a short list.
Some points, and a question for uk politicians;
- There are around half a million trans people in the uk, including eggs.
- There are a few thousand TERFs.
- Trans people will vote for you if you treat us like human beings.
- Nothing you do will ever satisfy TERFs.
And so to the question: why are you so bad at basic arithmetic?
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"Peace in our time"
"640k should be enough for anybody"
"Nobody is threatening our place in the single market"
"Your Roomba's bin is full"
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I see that the press is once again trying to present terfism as nuanced: “we don’t want to stop trans women wearing skirts, we just don’t want them in our (SIC) spaces”.
Stop press, Joanne. They’re our fucking spaces too, because as we’ve been explaining for fucking years: trans women are women.
- Trans women get breast cancer, therefore we need breast cancer screening.
- Trans women get gynaecological problems, therefore we need gynaecologists.
- Trans women get raped, therefore we need rape crisis counselling.
- Trans women suffer disproportionate levels of domestic violence, therefore we need DV shelters.
And so on, and so on.
Do you fucking get it yet?
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@Yamiyume Disagree.
It ends up naked, with zero personal hygiene, surrounded by empty pot noodles, hunched in front of a monitor yelling on social media about how you lost custody of the kids because of the trans.
Lobbied hard for this headline. Glad that they went with it.
newstatesman.com/comment/2024/…
The joy of the Liberal Democrats
The tensest, most uncertain, most goddamn exciting political debate I have witnessed in the whole of last year concerned – you may want to sit down for this – the Liberal Democrats’ housing policies.Jonn Elledge (New Statesman)
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I have the luxury of not needing to vote Labour to keep anyone out, but I had let myself believe there was some sort of political hope. I guess it's just as well Labour let us all know it's not them.
Honestly what with Tony Blair, Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting all sharing their _aperçus_ on the subject of trans rights – short version, trans people don’t exist, should be shunted into “side rooms” in hospitals – I’m swinging very firmly back towards voting Green. They have their own terf wing, sure, but they seem to have largely locked them away for the duration of the campaign – rather than free-associating the abolition of trans rights on LBC, say
@considermycat I am utterly unconvinced by those of my friends who are honestly claiming that the larger his majority is, the more Starmer will feel emboldened to be more radical in Government.
I believe that he has already shown us exactly who he is, and that the larger his majority is, the more he'll be encouraged to behave exactly as he has done in opposition.
IMO, it is *Labour* that need to be tactically voted against, not the Tories (who are toast). 1/
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Unlike Ben(*), I do think that a larger majority will make the government more radical. I agree that I don't think that Starmer will want it, but I think the natural Peoples Front of Judea tendencies in the party will make it happen. Maybe I'm just overused to the Labour/TUC conferences of the eighties, but there's gonna be factions, right?
I don't see much point voting elsewhere, tbh. The tories are worse, the Lib Dems are untrustworthy (given bastards will always exist, look which party enabled the 2010 government which set this whole disaster going, and achieved none of their major policy goals) and the others don't have enough of the population agreeing with their policies, to make it just an ethical-vanity vote.
(*) The wider ActivityPub world is still a bit of a mystery to me. I can't comment, but I don't know if I'm not allowed or can't find the button.
Trans actual challenge GnRH analogue (so-called puberty blockers) ban in court.
transactual.org.uk/blog/2024/0…
Press release: TransActual issue urgent court proceedings – TransActual
In partnership with the Good Law Project, today (18th June 2024), TransActual alongside an anonymous trans young person acting as Second Claimant have issued court proceedings against the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.transactual.org.uk
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I remember @Ben Harris complaining when I expressed appreciation of tea with "om nom nom". "You can't nom tea!"
Can you nom tea?
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4F5545745CAF3200<br>which outputs
4F5545745CAF3200<br>TINY's Quiney!
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Did you know the World Meteorological Organisation has a document on Sea Ice Nomenclature? No? Well now you do.
This week's #FailureFriday is MV Explorer.
Built to explore the polar regions, it explored exciting grounding opportunities in the Antarctic in 1972 and 1979. Definitely lost in 2007 after accidentally hosting a meeting of the Titanic Reenactment Society.
The accident report later suggested that the invitation for an iceberg to join the passengers and crew for an exciting evening of events had been extended rather too hastily.
Also Antarctic ice "is harder", apparently.
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@Peternimmo the accident report is available online, and the loss is pretty convincingly explained.
There's passenger video of the ice field, it rammed into a "wall of ice" without slowing down - maybe don't try that in future - and the speed of sinking implies the damage was far worse than the "fist-sized hole" originally reported.
The expert above was interviewed before the facts came out, I've just been unfair!
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Obv I have no insight into a bird's inner state though I'd be unsurprised if they had at least some emotional existence. But one can posit things that incentivise it to move without needing to invoke boredom.
Like it's got hungry enough that it's gone off to feed; or some kind of patrolling setup where it wants to check each of several territories at least so often. Or it's spotted something that you or I wouldn't notice - perhaps overhearing calls of another bird?
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#ModelRailway #Hornby #ModelRailways #digitalcommandcontrol #modelrailroad
Hornby's Zero1 Digital Control System
Hornby Railway's Zero1 was the first Command Control system built around a custom microcontroller from Texas Instruments. The Zero1 name was chosen to reflect that it was a Digital system.DCCWiki
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I see Sunak has been winning hearts and minds in his dwindling core vote by buggering off home early from the D-Day commemoration.
Even Farage managed to stay to the end, and his side lost.
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Product idea: Peril sensitive hearing aids.
Automatically shuts off if right wing politicians start speaking.
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Dearest @CountBinface:
I don't know if you're registered yet as a candidate anywhere, but if you're not I would like to suggest you stand in Clacton and approach all the other parties to support you as a modern day Martin Bell
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The nation is now sharing an experience with many trans people.
We're all on a waiting list for Tory Replacement Therapy.
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Boosting this as it's interesting: Medicines regulation is a reserved matter under the Scotland Act 1998 (Sch. 5 (II)(J4)), so Holyrood cannot legislate in this area and Atkins is not stepping on Holyrood's legislative competence toes here.
@Lisa DiFalco @Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖ The subject matter of the Medicines Act 1968 (under which this Order was made) is a reserved matter under the Scotland Act 1998.
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in reply to Alexandra Lanes • •Adam
in reply to Alexandra Lanes • • •I am reminded of my dealings with the Job Centre, telling them that I was looking for a job as a lexicographer, which was not in their system. IT is rather a worse omission though!
(the job centre had IT but it didn't have specific subdomains that I was actually looking for like "natural language processing" so it was all a bit of a pointless exercise)
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