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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 03/04/2026

Headlines caused by Streeting, and now reported without journalists in PinkNews's 'reporter free newsroom'- who would provide his comments critical context and analysis

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 03/04/2026

I guess this is what a reporter free newsroom looks like. An op-ed from a Labour health secretary who has overseen some of the most damaging policies towards Trans+ youth in a decade www.thepinknews.com/2026/04/03/w...

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 21/03/2026

Media spaces have cultures where predatory and bullying behaviour often goes unchecked. Journalists deserve safe and supportive work environments. 🔗 Screenshot from: www.wearequeeraf.com/pinknews-to-...

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 10/03/2026

If you want to top us up, and win those books - you can do so here. Entry from as little as £1 👇🏳️‍🌈📚 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/win-a-slec...

Illustration of queer and Trans+ themed books floating above a sofa in a cozy library setting, with text reading “Win a selection of beautiful queer, Trans+ and history books!” Logos for QueerAF and Jessica Kingsley Publishers appear below.

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 25/02/2026

We've released these as part of our annual crowdfunding, which is currently matchfunded - so now is an incredible time to support @wearequeeraf.com Donate £10? We get £20. Support with £50? It's doubled to £100. Give generously with £250? That's £500 for us. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/queeraf202...

Graphic reading: “QueerAF pledges to expose the anti-trans machine, uncover trans+ healthcare inequality, and deliver news of queer wins and joy. Help us fight back.” On the right are screenshots of QueerAF journalism about gender clinics and trans issues displayed on a website and smartphone screen.

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 07/02/2026

We don't give up on a story easily We won't be scared off by government reports We're doubling down on our queer accountability journalism and investigations That’s why we’re crowdfunding to protect access to journalism that fights back. Support us 👇 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/queeraf2026

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 07/11/2025

Is hope back on the agenda? Tomorrow in the @wearequeeraf.com newsletter I examine the lessons for Labour (and wider UK politics) from New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's shock victory - and the Green Surge. 👉 Join 9500+ readers: wearequeeraf.com/subscribe

Collage of pictures of zohran mamdani at New York event Papi Juice, as well as Green Party leader Zak Polanski with a megaphone

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 09/06/2025

And wonderful to see so many @wearequeeraf.com contributors in the list too including @s3xtheorywithdee.bsky.social, @smartypantsmarty.com, Jua O'Kane, Sophie Edwards and more 👏

Jamie is the founder of non-profit LGBTQIA+ publisher QueerAF. A Forbes Under 30 recipient with a decade-long award-winning career in journalism (BBC, The Guardian, City A.M, Attitude), he is a leading voice on media change and developing talent pipelines for queer creatives. In the last year, he mentored 70 queer creatives, created documentaries for National AIDS Trust and Love Tank CIC, supported Trans+ History Week’s launch and published investigative journalism with bylines in QueerAF, Forbes & Fortune. His works sees him lead the UK's only non-profit, press regulated LGBTQIA+ news publisher, advocate and lobby media owners and brands for change, as well as mentor a new generation of queer creatives to change the media.

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 09/06/2025

🏆🥰 So lovely to be recognised by We Create Space as a queer leader in the media and creative influence category of their awards this year for my work with @wearequeeraf.com

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 06/06/2025

That's because debunking doesn't work - it only affirms the myth. There are numerous studies that show this, and we need to improve our approach to discussing misinformation. We have got to lead with the truth and avoid repeating the lie as much as possible. frameworksuk.org/resources/be...

Framing essentials: beware of mythbusting
It’s a communications technique that’s well-used and well-loved, but here’s the sad truth about mythbusting: it doesn’t work. Worse still, multiple studies have shown that it often backfires and reinforces the myth we’re trying to bust. People can even remember us as the source of the false information.

This is because mentioning false information at all immediately prompts people to think of it.

Despite the best intentions, mythbusting subtly repeats and reinforces the beliefs we are trying to rebut. On top of that, mythbusting often involves making the information we are trying to counter more prominent in layout and design.

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 06/06/2025

Constantly bemused by BBC Verified, who - thanks to unfortunate headlines - un-do their work. On the left, journalism that proves Ukraine attacks with satellite imagery. On the right, a headline about fake satellite images. Most people will not be able to differentiate between the work 🧵

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 02/06/2025

We're still the UK's only registered non-profit and press-regulated LGBTQIA+ publisher, and we reinvest every penny into our mission: To change the media, to change the country. Help us fight back 🏳️‍🌈 Join the membership drive: 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/

Membership drive counter with 8 members of 100 signed up already. Text that reads 'Join 550+ LGBTQIA+ pros including:' with pictures of nine QueerAF members from a mix of backgrounds, intersectionalities and identities.

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 02/06/2025

We've just launched our Pride Month membership drive We’re looking for 100 members to support us 💪 I know that’s totally doable, especially with a sale on memberships meaning they start at just £3.60 a month–and we have such an incredibly loyal audience 🏳️‍🌈 www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/

If you find our journalism and investment in queer talent valuable. Imagine what more QueerAF could do for LGBTQIA+ people with a little extra capacity?

Join our Pride Month membership drive, and grab a sweet discount while you can - we need to find 100 new members. Are you one?

Every pound will be reinvested into our award-winning output, critical investigations, and work supporting a new generation of queer creatives to change the media.

The more perks you choose, the better the discount you can grab:

🙏 10% off 'Supporter': Monthly / Annual
🏳️‍🌈 15% off '100% QueerAF': Monthly / Annual
✨ 20% off 'Editor': Monthly / Annual

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 02/06/2025

This Pride month is going to feel different 🏳️‍🌈 Charged with palpable anger, passion and vigour unparalleled to recent years. The long-discussed and often trite ‘is Pride still a protest?’ conversation has a clear and present answer this year — fuck yes 💪 So what do we need to keep in mind? 🧵

Screenshot of QueerAF website with headline: This Pride Month is going to be unparalleled to any in recent years with photo of QueerAF founder Jamie Wareham and Audience Development Producer Dee Whitnell holding placards that read: Let Trans+ People Tell Their Own Stories and Trans Kids Deserve To Grow Up. Photo by Alyx Bewell and What The Trans

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 17/05/2025

When we first covered this story and scoop revealed by @goodlawproject.org - it rang true because a literal government report has tried to warn us off covering the wider issue at play. That's usually a pretty obvious 🚩 - it's something worth investigating www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...

Gov report rebukes our journalism

Content warning: mentions of suicide.

Following our reports on whistleblower evidence seen by the Good Law Project, the government has rebuked some of the language we used, but has confirmed that there have been a number of suicides and unexplained deaths among trans people on waiting lists for gender identity clinics.

An independent review ordered by the government has rebuked claims that there has been an "explosion" of trans suicides on waiting lists. Written by Professor Louis Appleby from the University of Manchester, the report says the data available does not support the claim and that leading journalists repeated these claims in a distressing and harmful way - gov.uk

Analysis and our response: There is a huge irony in a government report calling the media like QueerAF irresponsible for reporting on trans suicides, in case it harms young people's wellbeing.

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 26/04/2025

All we're asking for is the price of a coffee a month. If you value the work we do, please take action, and help us fight back against the hate. 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 26/04/2025

Last night, as my friends were dancing and the who’s who of queer activism were at the DIVA awards, at 8pm on Friday evening the EHRC published guidance. It set out how the UK will ultimately force the segregation of Trans+ people in public spaces My reflections 🧵👇

Screenshot of QueerAF website wearequeeraf.com

Headline: Interim EHRC guidance instructs UK orgs to segregate Trans+ people in public single-sex spaces

Picture: Trans flag with Not Safe To Be Me written on it, held over backdrop of UK union flag

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 16/04/2025

Tell me I'm wrong - but from my view: @WeAreQueerAF.com is the only publisher in the UK, mainstream or queer, to work with a Trans journalist today to cover today's ruling? If you agree that's the way journalism should be been done, support our journalism: 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 14/04/2025

They also would have listened when the vast majority of respondents said they didn't agree, and warned of the harm it could do 👇 Source: www.wearequeeraf.com/puberty-bloc...

Groups, including Sex Matters, the LGB Alliance and the Bayswater Support Group of parents who advocate abusing trans children, were all invited to contribute to the consultation - Eva Echo

The consultation went to 51 stakeholders, including a mix of charities, academics and clinicians. Of those, 59% opposed making the order permanent - but Streeting sided with the 27% who supported it - GOV.UK

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 12/04/2025

9/ Are adults the next target? The advice states though it doesn't impact adult care, it does show how this is a risk to patient safety "across all age ranges". It says NHS England will address adults who source medications outside of the NHS by the end of 2026, and as early as this year.

Adult Patients Over 18 years
The advice in this document supersedes previous advice set out in the NHS circular “Primary Care Responsibilities In Regard to Private Online Medical Service Providers to Prescribe Hormone Treatments for Transgender People”, 2018 (Appendix C) in so far as it relates to children and young people under 18 years of age.
The advice in this document does not extend to adult patients over 18 years of age.
However, in recognition that unregulated healthcare services pose a potential risk to patient safety across all age ranges, NHS England will address the management of adults who source medications outside of the NHS-commissioned gender dysphoria service, including the management of those who are using atypical levels of medications, within its current work to establish a clinical commissioning policy for exogeneous hormones in 2025/26.

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 12/04/2025

5/ Who does it consider unregulated? It considers any provider that does not operate in the UK, whether regulated in other countries or not, as unregulated. It specifaclly names both GenderGP and Anne Healthcare - putting a target on existing shared care arrangements with the orgs.

The private care providers who will be worst affected
Two private healthcare providers are named in the guidance, drawing a target on their back. Extensive details about GenderGP and Anne Healthcare have been provided to GPs.

GenderGP has been at the centre of intense scrutiny by both medical bodies and the press after one of its founders, Dr Helen Webberley, was suspended for her work with a young transgender teenager. This was later overruled, and the company has since moved its operations overseas - BBC

The guidance also names a newer start-up, Anne Healthcare Ltd, which, though registered in the UK, is not registered with the Care Quality Commission.

Including both organisations in the document could have a vast impact for patients who are seeking new or have existing shared care agreements in place with the organisations if GPs follow the new guidance.

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 12/04/2025

This is a complicated story, but its impact is simple: It makes an already vastly difficult situation for Trans+ under 18s - practically impossible to navigate. And that's its design. This is what you need to know 🧵

QueerAF website screenshot
Headline: NHS England tells GPs to refuse blood tests to some trans children and refer parents to safeguarding
Image: Screenshots from NHS Guidance document
TL;DR: NHS England guidance has instructed GPs to refuse any care that supports under 18s to receive gender affirming care like puberty blockers and hormones. It also warns specifically against entering into shared care agreements with some of the UK Trans+ communities most used private health care providers of gender affirming care. It signals this approach could happen for adults too.

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 10/04/2025

It's as simple as filling out this form which is on every page our website, our linktree, and sent out as a reminder in every weekly @WeAreQueerAF.com and monthly @lgbtconsortium.bsky.social newsletter - whom we've teamed up with on this initiative! ✅ erv8ks078ir.typeform.com/to/KRiX9yEt?...

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 07/04/2025

🤢 Major ick - I finally got the Meta AI forced update: I hate the creep of Meta finding a way to see, even a glimpse, of what's supposed to be private encrypted messages 👇

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 01/02/2025

We're only able to publish scoops like this in @wearequeeraf.com's ad-free newsletter thanks to the support of our readers. If you value journalism like this, please donate to our crowdfunder, so we can deliver even more critical investigative journalism 👇 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/queeraf2025

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 01/02/2025

We're only able to publish scoops like this in our ad-free newsletter thanks to the support of people like you. If you value journalism like this, please donate to our crowdfunder, so we can deliver even more critical investigative journalism 👇 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/queeraf2025

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 28/01/2025

No executive order can truly erase LGBTQIA+ people. We’ve always been here 🏳️‍🌈 and always will be 🏳️‍⚧️ Here's everything you need to know about the anti-queer orders Trump made, including how to get pumped for the fight back 🧵 for @wearequeeraf.com 👇

Screenshot of QueerAF article that says: Headline: No executive order can truly erase LGBTQIA+ people, we've always been here. TL;DR: TL;DR: In the first hours of President Trump's second term, he used sweeping executive orders to end DEI programs, attack Trans+ rights and demonise immigrants. Within his first week Trans+ people have been banned from the military, Trans+ prisoners will be forced to go to prisons that match their sex assigned at birth, and Trans+ people will no longer be able to have their gender recognised on legal documents.

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 11/01/2025

Point blank allowing calling trans people "freaks" is not about allowing free speech: It's about allowing hate speech. This is what LGBTQIA+ people need to know about a week where big tech, including Apple, Meta and TikTok aligned with Trump 🧵

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 25/11/2024

3/ What spurred this to happen? The move stemmed from a clip of South Carolina Representative elect Nancy Mace adding a 'biological' sign above a women's restroom, and then campaigning to refuse to share a bathroom with McBride.

Quote of Rep. Nancy Mace
@RepNancyMace

can’t imagine there’s anything more cathartic for a white southern conservative than getting to personally segregate a restroom

Original tweet:
Nov 19
I never thought we would need a sign for this, but women's restrooms are for BIOLOGICAL women. Not men.

Greta
@GretaGrace20
It's always about bathrooms.

Represntative Nancy next to an old picture of a race segregated bathroom with a woman standing in front

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 25/11/2024

Bathroom bans and policies don’t do what they purport to do. The argument is they're created to 'protect women', but they usually do the opposite. To turn a phrase, they stink all round... Here's why 🧵

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 09/11/2024

I'm pissed off and angry too. But here are some things I know and some things I refuse to do, as both a queer and a journalist this Trump presidency 🏳️‍🌈 And I invite you to join in 🧵

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 04/11/2024

Will be bringing my usual @wearequeeraf.bsky.social articles, threads and insights here too. Stories like these 👀

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 04/11/2024

An editor once told me to stop pitching gay stories 👎 So I launched @wearequeeraf.bsky.social to change the media🏳️‍🌈 (and challenge its transphobia🏳️‍⚧️) No one should be told their lives aren’t worth telling a story about. Agree? Join 4.9K QueerAF readers ⤵️ www.wearequeeraf.com

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