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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Rates have fallen since 2023, are comparable with other european countries and less than in north america The overwhelming majority of us don’t care what gender you are. The odds that any trans person from overseas visiting our ‘hateful little island’ actually facing violence is negligible.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Ok, please show me this evidence that demonstrates how many trans visitors to the UK are victims of violence, or that these are vastly greater than any other group of visitor to Britain. And you don’t know anything about me, my sexuality or my personal politics. When you assume…

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The overwhelmingly vast majority of british people literally could not give a shit what your gender is. We. Do. Not. Care. The idea you’re unsafe coming to Britain is as ridiculous as me being unsafe wherever you’re from.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Oh don’t be so bloody ridiculous. The likelihood of anything happening to you on a british street because you’re trans is close to zero. I’m more like to be a victim of violence on a british street than you are.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Aww grok still won’t talk to me.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

You do know that there aren’t actually packs of gender critical feminists hunting down anyone claiming to identify as a different gender in the UK. You’d be as safe here as I would be in Canada.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

We used to be able to go on a bike ride to the next county 15 miles away, using the main roads, without an adult, and no one would care.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Yeah… you’re perfectly safe travelling to the UK.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

If I were to ever go to one of the big US GTs I’d so go through customs wearing a T shirt saying “Death to the False Emperor”

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I’d give a 50% chance it opens and a 50% chance GW has to withdraw from the US when they declare war on Europe by invading Greenland. And I’m only half joking.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Looks like Grok is happy to talk to me about Warhammer 40k army lists, but not about creating pornographic deepfakes of children

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I increasingly hate the iphone keyboard.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Incidentially the UK is increasingly an outlier compared to our peers with relatively few actively pro natalist policies (although of course raising access to free or state sponsored childcare would be such a policy)

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I’ve had thought Reform would be well up for a clearly pro natalist policy. Or are they like a all far right parties - they want (white) women to have more kids. But don’t gibe a shit about them once they are born.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

If that happens all US military bases in previously allied countries would immediately cease to be defensive assets and become security threats - so States should immediately forcibly close them, seize all equipment and deport all US military personnel.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

“Mm i love this chicken. Tastes like chlorine”.

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Beth Britton MBE 💚 @bethyb1886.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

So we knew the US had decided it no longer wants to be a maritime and mercantile empire based on military alliances and global free trade. Now we know its decided it wants to be a 19th century style continental, colonial power. It won’t end well for anyone.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

BBC Scotland features an article on our work with people with dementia to develop teaching for nursing students, led by people living with dementia. I lecture nursing students about my dementia - I want to show it can happen to anyone www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I lecture Stirling University nursing students about my dementia

When Joan Lyon was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2023 she set out to share her experience while she still could.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

We found similar findings from Scittish projects making direct payments to care experienced young people and people living with dementia in Scotland. Funnily enough both groups can and ro make excellent decisions about their needs and how the money can help them meet them.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Agreed. Saw some similar work and findings around care experienced young people and people living with dementia in Scotland. Funnily enough both groups can and do make excellent decisions about what their needs are and how the money can help them.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

1. Sat across a train carriage from Leslie Grantham. 2. Dickie Bird crashed my brother’s engagement dinner. 3. Gave a lecture to the King and Queen of Sweden.

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Dementia Community @dementiacommunity.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

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Dementia Community @dementiacommunity.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

USA is generally okay. While well below replacement its fertility rate is a lot higher then most other advanced countries. They also have a big rebound/echo generation in the millennials. They dont face a Korea/China scenario until the end of this century - so they have time to turn things around.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Yep. Although govts could make them - they’d have to find some way to effectively increase taxes on automation to cover the loss of employees income taxes when we all lose our jobs.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Problem with the argument that AI and robots will fix everything forget that its not just about production. Robots and AI don’t consume. And if there’s not enough people (locally or globally) to buy all the stuff you make because they wee never born, it becomes really hard for an economy to grow.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

But yes hard agree China, Russia, italy and Germany are all looking at demographic collapse in the next 10-20 years

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Japan is now in a better place than the other countries listed here. It saw it coming and put policies in place to alleviate it. Its fertility rates are now positively high compared to its neighbours - Korea and China. But its still nowhere near replacement levels. No ones achieved that.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Pro-natalism in terms of altering society to encourage people to have more children isn’t a bad thing. But stripping women’s rights to achieve it will 100% be a disaster for any country that tries. But no country, right or left has made pro natalist policies actually work.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Or face up to the decision they have to make. So we’ll carry on, stagnating and decaying.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

It would be a reckoning for our entire political class. But either would have to be better for the UK than this. Until a decision is made the UK will remain stuck in this purgatory. Sadly none of our politicians have the collective balls to face up to the mess they’ve made.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

But Brexit has been a disaster that leaves the UK in its worst place since WW2. And we wont start to recover until we recognise that brexit is like self sanctioning ourselves. We need to make a decision that will be humiliating. To crawl on hands and knees to the EU, or on our bellies to the USA.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Note I’m not automatically saying we should “rejoin”. I’d like us to, but Europe is becoming at best a museum, at worst a mausoleum. Rejoining would be better than this, but not by much. Would I prefer a US tilt? With Trump hell no! But as globalisation breaks there are reasons to go this way.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

This shit has been going on for 7 years now. No one in any UK govt, tory or lab can actually make a grown up, serious decision about what we do now post brexit. So we continue in this purgatory of stagnation and decay, a country with no clue about what it wants to be, or what to do to get there.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

And what pray tell is this vision? Because I don’t see any vision from Labour. That’s the point. You campaigned on “change” without being able to say what that change would be. That’s the core of the problem Labour faces.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

As an academic who teaches dementia care practice I don’t mind the tiktok or cadbury ads. They are a hell of a lot better then the recent Alz Soc and Alz research UK ads. These show human connection and pleasure with a person remains possible through things like taste even in advanced dementia.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

At this point universities should just say “sorry guys, we’re just not doing REF this time”

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Lets reverse this. Imagine if Kier Starmer were able to sue the USA for £10bn, paid directly to him, in such a way it had to be paid by US taxpayers. The US Govt would go to war to stop it happening.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Lolling at the ludicrousness of the orange manbaby suing the BBC for $10bn. This is literally Trump suing the UK taxpayer, expecting us to cough up $10bn into his back pocket. There is no way in this world that any UK Government could allow that to happen. They’d pass legislation to stop it.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

That’s an interesting interpretation of Jack Reacher…

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Anyone else drowning in peer review journal article requests at the moment. I’ve honestly lost count of the number I’ve received in the last week. I’m happy to do as many as I can but at this rate it’d become a full time job to do them all.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

There’s also the ethical question of whether its right to steal high value individuals that would support the growth of other countries.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Plus what happens when we run out of migrants? The BR of most countries where people migrate from are declining faster then ours did. Only continent where BR are still above replacement is Africa and even there BR’s are declining far faster than they did in Europe.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I agree but the thing is even immigration is just a sticking plaster. Germany - the country with among the worst demographics in Europe would need to bring in 2m people every year for decades just to stay where it is now. Bringing in 1m in a year blew up Merkel’s chancellorship.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Some countries (eg Eastern Europe, scandinavia) have managed small improvements in birth rates, but nothing close to above the replacement levels of 2.1 children needed.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

UN world fertility reports are a good place to start.

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