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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A very astute activist friend of mine recently observed that trans people aren't rebuilding rights from the 2010s, we're rebuilding them from the 1980s.

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

With regard to lectures and discussions by Prof Sarah Paine on continental power mindsets versus sea power power mindsets: Trans people are refusing to play the zero sum game. We will only work with people who support a win-win. Support us or lose an election. Your fate is now chained to ours.

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It was wonderful to meet @robinince.bsky.social last night, to thank him for being a much needed and constant voice in support of the trans+ community. Thank you Robin for taking the time to chat about our campaign and encouraging cis women to sign our letter 🙏 🔗 notinourname.org.uk

A smiling man, wearing glasses rests his chin on a placard he is holding that reads “Will you sign our letter? Not in our name, women in support of the trans community”

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Sammi Narramore @narramoreart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Can you imagine being approved for a surgery, waiting years for the appointment, and when they day comes you finally meet the surgeon - it's cancelled by a subcommittee which has decided too many people in your country want the surgery.

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Sway @sway.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A lot of people don’t realise how much that day hit trans people. That day the UK declared us unwelcome in our own country. That day we knew the years we spent jumping through hoops to do everything asked of us meant nothing. The day we began looking for an escape route in whatever form we can….

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yup. They’ve undermined public confidence in the service and the only way to get it back is for them all the be sacked and NHS Wales to apologise

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 17/09/2026

6/ The sole appropriate response is to restore the services at once, launch disciplinary investigations against those responsible, and then have the committee members resign in shame.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW: Llais, the health watchdog for Wales, is investigating the decision by NHS Wales’ Joint Commissioning Committee to indefinitely pause access to gender-affirming surgeries. If you have been affected - they have asked you to share this with them: www.llaiswales.org/news-and-rep...

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Update on our work regarding NWJCC’s decision to pause gender-affirming surgery | Llais

Ar ddechrau'r mis hwn, cyhoeddodd Gwasanaeth Rhywedd Cymru - a gomisiynwyd gan Gyd-bwyllgor Comisiynu GIG Cymru (CBCGC) ac a gynhaliwyd gan Fwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Caerdydd a'r Fro (BIPCAF) - y byddai ...

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“I was always against this!” says Jenny Lindsey, writer for ‘The Scotsman’.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14/09/2026

It will take a generation or more to undo what Labour have done. I turn 51 in a few weeks and I don't think I will see it reversed properly in my life time. Hope I'm wrong but I fully expect to die with fewer rights than every cis person I know.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14/09/2026

This is what has happened with Labour in the UK. Most people don't believe that Labour could be transphobic - they aren't the Tories or Reform after all - and refuse to see it, and they are the most transphobic government of my life. So much harder to fight against, so much more damage done.

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The FWS ruling & the English government's meddling in Scottish law over trans folk being able to change birth cert, the pausing of trans healthcare in Wales and the UK SC ruling's incompatibility with NI law proves trans folk will eventually unite Ireland and lead to Scots/Welsh independence.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Transgender people deserve to have a nice life. That is the entirety of the argument. If you disagree, you’re saying that you do not believe in liberty or justice for all.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 13/09/2026

Honestly, little has made me feel more depressed and hopeless in a while than seeing the way trans people are being spoken to by our "allies" of late. Difficult to describe just how bone tired I am. This work utterly drains you. Yet we are not even given the grace of being treated like real people.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PSA

Andy Burnham is the most transphobic
Prime Minister ever.

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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 11/09/2026

"The Government have rejected concerns raised by a panel of eleven UN experts who say EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces risks 'institutionalising discrimination,' against trans people." thebricknewspaper.substack.com/p/government...

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Government rejects UN experts’ warning on single-sex spaces guidance

“There are clear laws in place to protect trans people from discrimination,” a Government spokesperson said.

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Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

cis isn't a slur trans-identified male/man is though. I don't "identify" as trans - YOU identify me as trans. I'm just a woman.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 23/01/2025

The failure to reckon with transphobia as a currently central motivation of the far right will continue to plague those disturbed by its rise for a decade or more Rather than standing with trans people many liberals have pursued appeasement and helped the wider shift to the far right in the process

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

FGEN is considering holding an event every 7th Sept to remind the world of how the Guardian censored Judith Butler. Being able to remember one of the media’s most spectacular and obvious abuses of power is overdue.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/09/2026

I'd like all cis people to stop and just read this headline and really take in how trans people are spoken about in the media.

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Cathode Ray Blanchard @shivs.kindgirls.online · 10/09/2026

need a pussy need a new face need to lose 20kg need to get a job need to become hot or what's the point

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have asked the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission to come to Brighton, and today Brighton came to me with so many stories of how the EHRC Code of Practice is impacting them. Trans lives are already being harmed, and the EHRC needs to hear this.

Image is of Siân with three staff members from Refuge UK. They are stood smiling in Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament. A crowd of people is visible in the background participating in the mass lobby for trans equality.

Image is of Siân holding a notebook and pen. She is stood in front of desks, staffed by people in high-vis jackets. A placard is resting against a table and reads: Trans people deserve real equality.

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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 09/09/2026

it really is insufferable being trans in the uk you can’t go one day without some dickhead giving interviews gaslighting you about science and reality half remembering a high school biology class you took in 1980 doesn’t qualify you it means you have the same level of understanding as a child

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Important to remember today: If ANY Labour MP talks about “respecting” the Supreme Court misjudgement, they are *lying* to you. Parliament can overturn ANY SC decision & the government can amend the Equality Act to include trans people. The SC misjudgement still stands because Labour WANTS it to.

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anyone at the mass lobby today. You can tell them about my kid. Supported at school for years. Now out of school - driven out by hateful segregationist school policy introduced by Labour. Trans kids are being persecuted by this government

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It is really sad to see @fiercemum.bsky.social leaving the UK because of Burnham’s transphobic policies. They are a great academic who has published some groundbreaking work relevant to life in the UK today. A very great loss :-(

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Reminder: Bully Burnham’s attempt to impose toilet segregation and Bully Burnham’s Uber-Section 28 for trans kids is all about outing trans people. It’s Labour’s equivalent of the pink triangle. And don’t get me started on the “gender-critical” lawfare…

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Jacey is a suitable combo of my actual name for privacy reasons @spacegrace.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Welcome to the UK, where using the magic word ‘trans’, allows you to skip standard process with no evidence of harm or wrongdoing. Just send a complaint! We all know they wouldn’t take the same action for any other form of healthcare. @plaidcymru.bsky.social cavuhb.nhs.wales/our-services...

What evidence is there that patients were referred inappropriately?
At this stage, it is not known if patients have been referred inappropriately. The purpose of the Independent Clinical Review is to assess this.

Have any patients undergone surgery inappropriately?
At this stage, the NWJCC has not identified any patients who have undergone surgery inappropriately.
However, there are cases where patients have been referred into the surgical pathway but have not gone on to have surgery, including where NHS England providers have identified that referral criteria had not been met. It is also recognised that concerns have been raised by some patients about the referral
process.
The purpose of the current review is to better understand these concerns and provide assurance that patients are being appropriately supported, assessed and referred, and that the necessary clinical governance arrangements are in place.

Does this mean patients may have come to harm?
No immediate patient safety concerns have been identified by the NWJCC, and therefore they are not concluding that patients have come to harm.
However, concerns have been raised through complaints to the NWJCC, correspondence, and other information received about the gender affirming surgery pathway. As a precautionary measure, referrals, surgical assessments, and surgery are paused while further review work is undertaken.
These prompt actions have been taken to ensure any potential risks
are identified and addressed as quickly as possible, and that patients continue to receive safe and high-quality care.

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Cwiar Cymru @cwiar.org · 05/09/2026

Just 426 people were referred for gender-affirming surgery in Wales last year. This compares to: - 8,213 hip replacements - 7,851 knee surgeries - 25,633 cataracts surgeries Until NHS Wales publishes its reasoning, patients will be left in the dark about the future. It's time for answers.

• • Cwiar
Cymru
Cymraeg →
It's time for answers from
NHS Wales.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yeah, but the Government need to ask hard questions of the NWJCC. Given that JCC have admitted that at this stage there is no evidence that anyone has been referred inappropriately, and no evidence of any patient harm, why did they pull all surgeries? Just because Nick Wallis and pals told them to?

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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Organising - why bother? Lots of despair from trans folks on the tl and other places of late. Things are horrible and scary. I also think we’re doing brilliantly at fighting back given the asymmetry of arms at play. We are so deep in a pit at the moment in terms of trans rights in the UK.

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Cwiar Cymru @cwiar.org · 03/09/2026

🏛️ Nearly every Plaid Cymru backbencher has demanded answers from the NHS on trans surgeries. In a joint letter, they asked what evidence, risk assessments, and consultations the NWJCC took in its decision. It's time for answers from NHS Wales.

Senedd Cymru
Welsh Parliament
Plaid Cymru
By email lan Green OBE
Chair
NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee
Cc: Suzanne Rankin, Chief Executive, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Kirsty Williams, Chair, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
1 September 2026
Dear Mr Green,
RE: Pausing of gender-affirming surgeries by the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning
Committee
We are writing to express our profound disappointment at the abrupt pausing of planned operations within the Welsh Gender Service. The sudden nature of this decision by the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee has left patients, many of whom have been preparing for surgery for months or years, without the care they were expecting and relying upon.
The impact on individuals and the wider trans community in Wales has been significant.
Understandably, this development has caused distress, fear, and a deep sense of uncertainty.
This comes at a time when the rights and dignity of trans people across the UK are increasingly under pressure. You will know that gender-affirming healthcare in Wales is clinician-led, patient-focused, and carefully paced; it is not rushed, nor undertaken lightly.
In light of this, we would like to raise the following urgent questions on behalf of our constituents and the wider community:
• Why has surgery been halted for a form of treatment that has among the highest levels of psychiatric screening and one of the lowest regret rates of any procedure offered by the NHS?
• What specifically is the cause for concern?
• What evidence informed this decision?
• Why were patient stakeholders not consulted before the decision was taken?
• Was any risk assessment carried out regarding the impact of cancelling treatment at such short notice? If not, why?
• What role, if any, did NHS England play in influencing or directing this decision?
• What is the scope of any review now underway, and when can we expect its conclusions?

Senedd Cymru
Welsh Parliament
Plaid Cymru
• When can patients expect surgeries to recommence?
• What safeguards are in place to protect patients' mental health during this pause?
• What commitment can be given to the continuation of therapies and hormone treatment during this period?
Patients deserve clarity, reassurance and a clear pathway forward. We would be grateful for a detailed response addressing each of the above points, together with confirmation of how the Welsh Gender Service intends to support those affected during this period of uncertainty.
This letter is also being copied to Suzanne Rankin and Kirsty Williams, Chief Executive and Chair of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, given the board's role in administering the Welsh Gender Service.
We look forward to your reply.
Matthew Jones MS
Nick Carter MS
Donna Cushing MS
Kerry Ferguson MS
Marc Jones MS
Lis McLean MS
Rebeca Phillips MS
Niamh Salkeld MS
Lindsay Whittle MS
Lyn Ackerman MS
Alun Cox MS
Safa Elhassan MS
Leticia Gonzalez MS
Kiera Marshall MS
Anna Nicholl MS
Sarah Rees MS
Elyn Stephens MS
Elfed Williams MS
Beca Brown MS
Sara Crowley MS
Sera Evans MS
Carrie Harper MS
Becca Martin MS
Peredur Owen Griffiths MS
Mair Rowlands MS
Elwyn Vaughan MS

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Interesting point here - even by the late 1990s, years before the GRA, the legal assumption is that a trans person will change the gendered facilities they use as soon as they "begin to present permanently in the sex to which they identify" No mention of medical transition or "sex"/"gender" dualism

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 01/09/2026

Only on Assigned Media: Inspiring news from Finland where a movement is growing to oppose the country's restrictive, humiliating approach to transition care. Read about it from @evanurquhart.bsky.social here: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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Discontent With Finland’s Transpoli Erupts in Growing Protests - Assigned Media

Organizers encouraged by increased visibility and a growing appetite for action to oppose the repressive trans care system in Finland.

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Our response to NHS Wales suspending all gender-affirming surgeries. This cruelty will kill people. We will resist. ( 1 / 4 )

The NHS Wales Commissioning Committee has forced the Welsh Gender Service to suspend all gender-affirming surgeries.

This nakedly cruel policy shift will wreak havoc on the lives of Welsh trans people. it will force patients into months of limbo that massively disrupt their lives, while NHS higher-ups take their sweet time to cook up yet another sham "investigation".

at worst, patients will be driven into worse mental health and suicidality. despite government cover-ups, we all know the true statistics about our community.

The Welsh gender care system, while not perfect, is one of the best in the uk, and delivered for trans people by collaborating with the community and with GP surgeries, proving that positive change is possible.

This massive u-turn comes under pressure from the Welsh Tories, whipped into a frenzy by a terf blogger and Murdoch rag ‘The Times’, which claimed that wales having higher surgery referral rates than England somehow proves that harm is done.

that’s all it took to obliterate healthcare for hundreds of trans people.

one blog from a terf, and a single article from the times.

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted.

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Robot Mel @robotmeile.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wales has stopped ALL gender affirming surgeries! Schools have just declared an end to social transition and inclusion for trans kids. I do not think enough people are paying attention to how utterly and quickly trans rights have been stripped away in the uk!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have never seen a moral panic grip a country so quickly or thoroughly

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Levy Review of England’s GICs concluded that waiting times were unacceptable, that this had serious knock on effects on patient welfare, and that the unnecessary waits for surgery also put unnecessary additional strain on the services (requiring repeated, redundant 6 monthly reviews)

33. Waiting times for these services are unacceptable.
Immediate steps must be taken, and all commissioned GDCs need to work as a national network to deliver patient pathway improvements.

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You know who else called their reviews “independent” Hilary Cass Alice Sullivan Neither was. Both are extreme transphobes.

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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 28/08/2026

*For clarity it’s currently unclear if the cancellations are because of NHS Wales, GIC or individual hospitals, but Welsh trans orgs have assured us this was not a decision made by the GIC or by the Welsh Gender Service

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Seems the person “raising concerns” was Nick Wallis 🤦🏻‍♀️ (Then picked up by Welsh Tories) nation.cymru/news/welsh-t... Wallis recently did an interview with Genspect genspect.org/beyond-gende... Genspect is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Centre as a hate group www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...

Freelance journalist Nick Wallis has written an article on his Gender Blog after making a series of requests under the Freedom of Information Act.

He states: “Over the last three years the WGS has seen around 800 patients a year. The average age of those patients is 26. The crucial question is how many of those patients are recommended for cross-sex hormones after one or more appointments. Astonishingly, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board tells me ‘this information is not centrally recorded or collated’. The WGS doesn’t know what percentage of its intake it sends to the NHS’ Local Gender Teams (run by individual health boards) around Wales for endocrine assessment and hormone prescription.

“Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, which appears to be responsible for WGS, did give me some figures from March 2023 to Dec 2024, which suggested that throughout that period the monthly conversion rate from initial appointment to hormone plan varied between 51% and 88% of patients, though it did also say the data ‘was manually tracked and entered and so cannot be assumed to be 100% reliable’.

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Rebecca Jones 🔶🇪🇺 @rebeccajones03.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think this sums up this situation well:

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Note that all of the things listed were claimed at the time to have nothing to do with objections to trans adults getting hormones or surgery.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A reminder of the extreme level of suffering caused when you ban gender-affirming healthcare (in this case from trans kids). The word of one GC blogger overrides published, peer-reviewed research, multiple international academic studies & the consistent testimony of thousands of trans people.

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Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban

This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...

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