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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
and the corrupt judgement handed down by the corrupt supreme court. He had the opportunity during his coup d'état to fire the slimy little fuckers and install MPs that aren't compromised by the far right, or who aren't deeply unwell religious extremists and fanatics 🤷 Magic beans, going cheap!
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
European Court of Human Rights, something we're still signed up to btw That way the judgement could be declared as per incuriam and made non-binding And brown-hair starmer could fire philipson and streeting, and stephenson from the ehrc But, he won't. Why not, you ask? Because he agrees with them
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I also have some magic beans for sale… Literally parliament has sovereignty, and could repeal the constitutional reform act (2005) to shut down the supreme court as the most extreme solution The least extreme is to accept Scottish ministers as direct contravention of judgements by the higher
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
See how easy it is @andyburnham.bsky.social ? You can admit this govt is an abject failure of humanity, fire and remove the whip from philipson, streeting, and a few others, and take the first steps towards fixing this far right mess Or you can admit you're part of the problem by doing nothing
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I wonder if she has a coin-shaped hole in the top of her head; put 50c in for another dumbass take from a broken Zoltar fairground animatronic from the needful things ep of Rick & Morty
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10/10/2026
Following along @mzakharuk.bsky.social's reread of @juliaserano.bsky.social's "Whipping Girl". Barely any cis people understand the rampant rape culture inherent to the medical gatekeeping of trans healthcare. These "professionals" know the power they hold over trans people and often abuse it.
> In the 1970s, Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna came across several instances in which gatekeepers were rather blatant about this practice: “A clinician during a panel session on transsexualism at the 1974 meeting of the American Psychological Association said that he was more convinced of the femaleness of a male-to-female transsexual if she was particularly beautiful and was capable of evoking in him those feelings that beautiful women generally do. Another clinician told us that he uses his own sexual interest as a criterion for deciding whether a transsexual is really the gender she/he claims.”
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Or the depths of the cesspool lowe will dive down to just to prove the morons will follow, apparently How do I stop the planet? I wanna get off it's making me nauseous and I've had enough please and thank you
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why??? And how has this petition got over 100k signatures???
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
EdenOpenly has what looks like an objective rundown of the facts: edenopenly.com/advocacy/wgs... It's concerning they previously said the panel would be psychiatrists/psychologists, then the surgical lead etc, now A&G but the chair isn't named? The QSOC minutes are gonna be an interesting read
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The Welsh Gender Service pause: an analysis of the published record – Eden Openly
Seventeen published documents on the Welsh Gender Service surgical pause, read against each other and against the NHS England specification. Every quotation, figure and date independently checked; eve...
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So… lemme get this straight: The referral-based concern that apparently led to the review (and £48k pricetag) is the GDNRSS, which is run now as a national waitlist for each clinic's individual waitlist, that is run by [drum roll] Arden and GEM? Are we looking at a conflict of interest?
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That someone could make money while helping people, instead of bleeding them dry and turning them into hedonistic indentured servants desperate for money to pay rent and buy whiskey in a dystopian micro-economy controlled by 1 avaricious man It's the Christmassy reimagining of "The Grapes of Wrath"
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The stupid thing about the IaWL red scare was that the film isn't even anti-capitalist. The B&L makes profit; it has to do for staff salaries and rent, etc. Bailey isn't a communist or whatever; he uses his privilege to help people where potter wants to control them, and that's what they disliked–
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Best season of #JetLagTheGame by a megaparsec Utterly phenomenal!
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Do they have a vending machine that, for 50p, dispenses clones of nathan cofnas? Because if he's the master race lord help us all (with a flood, for real this time, go all in no wrong answers)
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To add; they've clearly *still* not started the "review" after 6 FUCKING WEEKS, and there *still* appears to be no time-binding for it to actually start I'd have been fired 17 ways to fucking Sunday if I showed the level of apathy, not to mention the level of incompetence, they're displaying
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The nwjcc have published the terms of reference for the "review" @cwiar.org @plaidcymru.bsky.social I'm assuming they've done this as quietly as possible therefore they've actively notified no one jcc.nhs.wales/policies-res...
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Where are they? Where is the announcement they've even started, let alone completed, the first tranche of reviews one way or another? One of my MSs happens to be Rhun ap Iorwerth, so I'm gonna CC him and Mabon ap Gwynfor into my email to the nwjcc, may I suggest you CC your Plaid MSs, too?
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
(more realistic 18th Dec because ain't nobody gonna be doing medical reviews Christmas / NY week) That's 12 weeks. 60/12= 5 reviews need completing per week to meet their deadline. We've had a whole week (28th Sept → 2nd Oct) which means 5 reviews should already be completed and letters/emails sent
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You're welcome ❤️ I'm gonna be making similar points with them, so the more people asking similar questions of them makes it more difficult to ignore and sweep away Also, to add arrows to your quiver, think about it like this: Review start 28th Sept Review end 31st Dec
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And she says "21st Sept" as the start date, yet we know from the meeting on the 22nd they hadn't even appointed the review panel at that time, and didn't anticipate that happening before the 25th Sept, meaning any review couldn't start (in earnest) until 29th Sept The letter is dripping with lies
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When it comes to the stats they're doubling down on, the numbers are both mathematically and epidemiologically incorrect; you cannot compare small numbers of surgical referrals to entire national populations - given the disparity between E & W popn sizes, it immediately over-inflates Welsh rates
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Masculinising bottom surgeries take, on average, at least 5 years to get to the first (of many) surgeries The WGS didn't exist before 2019, which means no one could get started with referrals until 2025 at the earliest with backlogs, etc., which immediately explains the lower number
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Privatised prisons don't make a privatised profit unless pricks like him can fill them to the rafters with privatised prisoners The reality is, though, that prison spaces should be filled with people like him 🤷
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"if we allow [gay] marriage equality, then people will be allowed to marry their pets and (apparently) their cutlery" Not sure what the article is dripping with more; bitter and resentful hatred or vituperative stupidity. I also question what the difference between the options is 🤷
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Run the World (squirrels)
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nova is a kinder and less prideful woman than I am, which is why I’ll add the thing she would never say: Every NHS manager who created this crisis must be punished and every patient who was made to wait a second longer than the 18 week “maximum waiting time” should be paid compensation 🔥
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well, the labour party do seem to be losing a lot of votes right now, so maybe she's right; labour proscribing Palestine Action has, at least, contributed towards curbing support for the far right 🤷 I dunno. The woman is a clock that's always 15 minutes behind - never correct and always slow
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes, budget cuts and "tame spending" is how China has become a world economic hyper-power with over 4,000miles of high speed rail where we have like 2 miles and even that's a stretch Y'know, I think you should rename yourselves to the "fucking useless at economics and financial stuff times" Idiots
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's like 3% of the total annual govt spend, surely this is now just death by 1000 paper cuts? Swingeing on spending to justify billionaires and corporations not being properly taxed is just evil at this point, especially when the people paying the most tax are the ones most affected by cuts
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Bought and paid for, weasley streeting is remarkably cheap for a UK politician; at least farage had the stones to go for ~£100 million, streeting was bought for pennies by comparison (I'm not saying the £100m is good btw, I'm just saying streeting sold out for magic beans and snake oil)
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"just a lil' more austerity stan, just a lil' more mkay don't tell your mother mkay?" I find it pitiful how anyone can fall for the lies anymore. It's not like you've not had 16 years of this bullcrap to learn it's all total bullcrap I'm ashamed and disappointed in all of you that believe the lies
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@plaidcymru.bsky.social @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social You need to read this. Every last one of you needs to read this And then read it again. And again. And again until you realise you're part of the problem now Get the NWJCC bought to heel by firing ian green, juliet brown, and iolo dull
Iolo dull, on the NWJCC "town hall" held on September 22nd 2026, holding his middle finger up as the representative from Llais made what I'm sure she thought was adequate representations for the Welsh trans community (hint: it wasn't by a country megaparsec)
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Those Ancient Greeks were really onto something when they shoved hope into a jar with all the evils of the world If all you have is hope then you have nothing at all; & that's why it belonged in Pandora's jar; the false promise things will be better if you just buy the magic beans one more time
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'd be delighted to see some stuff happen, too: 1) the removal of MPs expenses and benefits, including their MPs salary and pension 2) the whole lot of them thrown in prison coincidentally with a triple lock (and all welded shut) The UK isn't a democracy; this shithole is a corruptocracy
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm so sorry this has happened to you If it's any consolation at all, you're 10x the person than those 900 commenters combined It takes a lot to stand on a podium and speak with dignity and poise like that, to argue for a better world. Anyone that would tear you down is just repugnant & deplorable
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
While we're talking about the poorest of life choices, let's talk about them neck-pubes Or not. Yeah, let's not actually
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's the story of the surviving men after WWII told this time by some enlisted men, Sammy and Lew, and is set in post war New York
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today is the only day I will entertain the American date system, but on this first 9-25 Dolly Day, what are you reading? I am getting through Joe Heller's last novel, the sequel to Catch-22, Closing Time
A photo of the cover of a 1st edition copy of "Closing Time", Joseph Heller's last novel and the sequel to his first novel, the book he is most famous for, "Catch-22".

Joseph Heller's name is at the top in gold lettering, just under the smoke trails from the engines of a B-52 bomber as an homage to the events of Catch-22.

Underneath the authors name is a shadow image of 7 people in various poses while holding each others hands in a chain.

Underneath the people is the novel's title in large black capitalised lettering, "Closing Time"

And under that is a small tagline that states the book is the sequel to Catch-22
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an interesting point & there's a good chance you're right I was thinking they'd want to be as clandestine as possible with the pretence of transparency, which I base on how the "town hall" went; they didn't seem happy being watched, + how they avoided questions apart from the broad strokes
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From my POV, for a surgical review you'd want someone that understands the process and what could impact surgical candidacy. Psychiatrists imply they're looking for, as you say, neurological comorbities like ND and/or mental health issues Maybe they believe the review is in good faith, maybe not 🤷
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of the '?' above my head was why they'd gone for psychiatrists in the review panel. I'd only skimmed the IA; my blood pressure can't take any more anger right now, but them recognising ND people are gonna be hit harder starts building a picture of why they want psychiatric reviews
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How long until your words, your actions, your desperation for clicks on a website gets someone killed, huh??? And, when you do drive lonewolf vigilantism to murder, I bet you won't fall on your sword and admit you were at fault, that you caused preventable death? Leveson 2 please and thank you
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah, the messages she was sending meant that no one under her care was safe, let alone any minority groups Maybe you should think about what you're saying first, because clearly minority groups aren't safe around C4 news while you're running cover for the deranged bigots to act with impunity
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They demonstrably lied at least 2x in the meeting: 1) they said they'd contacted all 60. I'm seeing reports that no one, beyond the 1 call from GDNRSS, has been contacted by anyone, and 2) the evidence "was enough to force the 'pause'" in August despite being received in July, a clear month earlier
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At this time I see no reason to expect any of the 60 are gonna move forwards, save for a handful they allow with gritted teeth because they cannot deny them without revealing their true (hostile) intent, therefore exposing their flank to attack (and possible removal from role(s) and power)
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
and "why can't we all just get along" attitude That being said, I have a bad habit of betting on the 3-legged donkey in the 2-horse race, so I'm not exactly the best predictor of these things, but from my years near the top of the corporate echelons, this stinks of a hit-job from hostile people
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If they're politically savvy they could sell a 100% return to surgery as a "robust pre-existing system working as intended" But that's not what this is about. This is a targeted attack on trans people as well as a backdoor attack on @plaidcymru.bsky.social by exploiting their political naiveté
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
But, more importantly, why am I not surprised she's already been found at the scene of other crimes against trans people??? This is a hatchet job with a predetermined conclusion. I'm so furious plaid have bent the knee to these evil fucks; you know, the party that claims good LGBTQIA+ allyship
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River no. 1,789 (she/they) @legoenby.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You sure you want me to write to her and tell her my feelings, because I feel she should be locked up for attempted manslaughter Smart money's on only a few of the 60 moving forwards onto surgery, and them rewriting the surgical criteria in their own image, one where hardly anyone qualifies after.
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