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Ollie Östlund

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Docent in biostatistics at Uppsala University and Expert Statistician at UCR, Uppsala Clinical Research Center. Randomisation is the only true magic. (Edit: And estrogen.)

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Maria Gunther @mariagunther.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ICECUBE FÅR FYSIKPRISET, OCH JAG LIGGER HEMMA MED FEBER! JAG VILL STÄMMA ALLA. #NobelPrize #nobel Men gissade Halzen och IceCube 2021: www.dn.se/vetenskap/no...
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Maria Gunther: En kreativ italienare eller ett sydpolsexperiment kan få Nobelpriset i fysik
Årets Nobelpris i fysik kan gå till italienaren Giorgio Parisi eller till ett experiment på sydpolen tippar DN:s vetenskapsredaktör Maria Gunther.
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Ollie Östlund @ostlundollie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I just managed to make the "Search" tab in Outlook always visible!🙏
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Phiskpinne @phindus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
När till och med antitrans-aktivisten Róisín Michaux säger att Moteris (grundad av bl a Sveriges Kvinnoorganisationer med EU-peng via MUCF) är ”TERFY” då måste man väl få säga att SKO är en antitrans-organisation. (Sen tycker jag att Feministiska organisationer (ej antitrans) ska ha mer pengar)
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Róisín Michaux 
@RoisinMichaux

Currently attending a hearing in the European Parliament on funding for women's organisations around the EU.
This is TERFy as hell.
Organised by @ENoMW @HungarianWomen, Swedish, French and Lithuanian women's lobbies.Research brief:
”MOTERIS
Harassment of WROs and WHRDs is universal and increasingly normalised in the digital era. 
A majority of respondents in Croatia, Latvia and Portugal report attacks or harassment linked to their work, much of it online. Organised "manosphere" and masculinist networks are named as a main threat in France and Sweden, while abusers use of online forums to coordinate legal tactics are reported in reland. In the Crech Republic and Poland, podcasts and other social media enables the spread of anti-women's-rights narratives. In Spain, the so-called "Gag Law" restricts freedom of expressing audassembly, and activists report physical attacks. The use of the justice svstem for intimidation, and strategic lawsuits used to silence organisations (SLAPPS), are reported in both Spain and portugal Gramications focused on protection of women from sex-based discrimination. eliminatine sexual and reproductive exploitation are often framed as "exclusionary" and"anti-rights".

Women as a policy category, and sex-based protections, are being diluted. Equality bodies and laws Austria, Ireland, Spain), weakening women-only services and sex-disaggregated data. The conflict are merging into broader "diversity" or "gender-neutral" frameworks (Portugal, Lithuania, Belgium, between sex as a legal category in law and gender identity based frameworks results in weakening of women-focused service provision and frameworks on VAWG while creating a divide in the women's movement (Austria, Latvia, Ireland, Belgium, Spain), leading to self-censorship and exclusion from the
movement.”

Forts med Organisationhistoria.Twitter:

Róisín Michaux
@RoisinMichaux

Extremely controversial: bunch of women standing outside the European Parliament shouting "women's rights are sex-based rights" right now. Organised by EU-funded (!!)
project called Moteris.

Bild på manifesterande kvinnor med banderoll som säger: ”Where is the money for womens rights?” och skyltar med bl a texten: ”Women’s sex-based rights are not optional.”
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Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hej då 👋 Carl-Oscar Bohlin (M), Ministern för civilt försvar som suttit på X och spridit högerextrem desinformation (en tråd 🧵) www.etc.se/inrikes/civi...
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Ministern ville varna för desinformation – spred inlägg från högerextremister
Desinformationsexperten: ”Extra pikant att ministern som borde ha koll delar detta” 
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Ollie Östlund @ostlundollie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
MMR shot 2, 46 years after shot 1! For us gen-x-ers that only got one dose as children. Weird size for a soda can. Free in Uppsala county right now, book at your GP.
Blond woman in a blue dress. In the foreground her left upper arm with a small plaster.
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Ollie Östlund @ostlundollie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bättre lycka den här gången!
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Anna Bark Persson @annabarkpersson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I Reeds bok är könsidentitet och transerfarenhet centrala inslag, snarare än en feministisk gimmick, och det lyfter verkligen bokens skildring av mötet mellan mänskliga kulturer som har helt olika förståelse för kön och hur det organiserar deras respektive samhällen. Läs den.
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Anna Bark Persson @annabarkpersson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Jag klagar ju som bekant mycket på att det numera skrivs så lite bra queer och feministisk sf som faktiskt vill grotta ner sig i kön och sexualitet som sociala kategorier, så därför ska jag nu lista relativt nyutkommen fantastisklitteratur som faktiskt gör det bra. En om dagen tills jag tröttnar.
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Yrvädersjäntan @kilnoutica.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Länken ovan är FELAKTIG JAG BLIR KNÄPP kan man inte redigera sina inlägg här vad är detta för ociviliserat ställe ens? Nu 👏 måste 👏 Alla 👏 återbluppa 👏 detta 👏 istället TACK på förhand igen ❤️☘️❤️: ko-fi.com/asamariahedb...
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Visit Åsa Maria Hedberg's Shop!
I've opened a shop. Come take a look!
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Yrvädersjäntan @kilnoutica.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hann inte beställa igår så även idag går det UTMÄRKT att skicka dina bästa svordomar till mig med vändande blupp, behöver fler OBS: INTE det du säger till en viss dum person utan såna ord som passar när en tappar tårtan uppåner eller valtjafset går dig på nerverna. RB=❤️ bsky.app/profile/kiln...
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Tom Axe @tomaxe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's a misunderstanding to say that European social democrats copy the (often populist, anti immigrant) right wing because they think it's a winning concept. They do it because they believe in right wing positions.
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Viktor Karlsson @viktorkarlsson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ryss-skandalen i SD är ingen engångshändelse. Dagens måsteläsning är signerad @amandasokolnicki.bsky.social: www.dn.se/ledare/amand...
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Amanda Sokolnicki: Ska vi verkligen ge ryssvännerna i SD nycklarna till rikets hemligheter?
Sokolnicki: Ska vi verkligen ge ryssvännerna i SD nycklarna till rikets hemligheter?
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Jourhavande Filosof @systerfrida.se · 07/09/2026
Nu när det är en vecka kvar så vill jag once again erbjuda er att ställa vilka frågor ni vill om den svenska valsystemet. Jag har jobbat som röstmottagare och rösträknare i röstningslokal på valdagen i 10+ år AMA
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Grodaeu @groda.eu · 03/09/2026
I had a relative in Säffle. Tiny town on the lake. We went there when I was a kid. For some reason we watched tennis? They eat that dreadful "lutfisk". Lut is sodium hydroxide. So you take fish and put it in sodium hydroxide because why the hell not. The forest drives people mad.
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Anders H. Eide @anderseide.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Congratulations to Isar Aerospace on today’s successful #Spectrum rocket launch from Andøya Spaceport, 🇳🇴Norway A good day for European resilience and competitiveness 🚀 defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/isar-aerospa...
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Isar Aerospace: Second launch strengthening Europe’s autonomous access to space
Isar Aerospace has successfully completed its second launch from its dedicated launch complex at Andøya Space in Norway, with its Spectrum rocket reaching orbit. This is the first time a privately dev...
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How fast to things change in academia? I wrote this as a new lecturer in 14 years ago, clearly optimistic about how web 2.0 would change scientific publishing, but it's only gotten much, much worse. darrendahly.github.io/post/2012-02...
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How can we fix scientific publishing? |
Principal Statistician | Senior Lecturer
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 20/08/2026
@supremecourt.uk Showing their bias on permanent public display. We are watching and keeping the receipts. This crusade will end. We will ensure all involved are held accountable. supremecourt.uk/news/new-exh...
Image of Lady Rose of Colmworth, Justice of the Supreme Court, with a quote reading "The judgment hand down was unusual because no one knew the result in advance. Our usher had warned the packed court room: no cheering or shouting. When lord Hodge announced our decision, there was a gasp then the women joined hands silently, many weeping, it was a memorable moment."Image outside the court of 'gender-critical' women, with  a banner reading "we know what a woman is"; a caption underneath reads "the dispute arose from Scottish legislation concerning gender representation on boards."
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/08/2026
The ball is in your court, Pinker.
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Jonas Grenfeldt @grenfeldt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Förstår plötsligt den här SD-annonsen
Sd tycker att Dalarna behöver billig och stabil elNyheter på samma sida i Falu Kuriren om hur sds toppnamn stulit el sen 2024 och är polisanmäld.
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 19/08/2026
"When a classmate was deported, I stopped studying Swedish … I no longer see a future for myself here." | As a result of its restrictive, arbitrary, and capricious migration policy, international talent no longer consider Sweden an attractive destination: www.tn.se/arbetsmarkna...
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Därför väljer internationella talanger bort Sverige – ”Har skrämt många”
Migrationsverkets allt hårdare granskningar, indragna visum under pågående studier och nya begränsningar av studenters rätt att arbeta får masterstudenter vid Karolinska Institutet att söka sig till a...
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Ollie Östlund @ostlundollie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Väldigt mycket "eftersom de har olika förslag i skogsbruksfrågorna så borde de inte debattera dem mot varandra" på bsky.🤷‍♀️
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Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Jättebra! Centern och Miljöpartiet vill lyfta klimatfrågan i valrörelsen med en gemensam debatturné. ”Vi har inte alltid samma syn på lösningarna men vi är överens om att klimatmålen ska nås och att tempot måste öka”, säger @parholmgren.bsky.social omni.se/a/y5Vd2r
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We cannot know if "revolutionary" science is correct until it is (or is not) confirmed by "normal" workaday scientific practice. And even if correct, we cannot know if "revolutionary" science is revolutionary until it is proven to extend our capabilities in "normal" workaday science and tech.
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s. baum @transvestigations.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I have a dire update on this story. I have reason to believe my source, Aurora Rush, was taken by the federal government as a political prisoner. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...
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Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police
An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.
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Ollie Östlund @ostlundollie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"international human rights law requires that such measures are inclusive of all women and girls, including transgender and intersex women"
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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
People who "almost got hit by a bicycle" are extremely numerous while people who actually got hit by cars remain unavailable for comment.
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Ollie Östlund @ostlundollie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hjälpt familjens jazztrummis flytta till folkhögskola idag. En utflugen, en kvar. (😭)
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Grodaeu @groda.eu · 17/08/2026
When I stared here I saw furry content all the time because there was so little else so people reposted it out of desperation
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Mathias Kilsti Hals @kilstihals.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
hei folkens, kul ny ting på gang 👀👀
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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Jason Arday saga made me furious and sad in equal measure so I wrote about it. The whole thing is deeply unpleasant. gidmk.substack.com/p/the-jason-...
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The Jason Arday Saga Is Terrible And Everyone Involved Should Be Ashamed Of Themselves
The whole thing makes me furious
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/08/14/u...
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Nigel Farage wins election in which his main rival was a trash can | CNN
Nigel Farage has comfortably won a special election that he triggered, meaning he will remain as a member of parliament after a contest that all the other major British parties boycotted, leaving his ...
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Ollie Östlund @ostlundollie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Trans sports bans are not intended to be some kind of concession or compromise position. Rather,they are a stepping stone toward further bans and restrictions[--]That’s everything that the average person needs to know about the issue of trans people and sports.So you can stop reading now if you wish
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
before the bans, the requirements for trans women to participate in women's sports leagues was typically about 2 years being on estrogen and anti-androgens. if this transphobic dipshit is committed to the bit, let her do it, she'll become dysphoric after a few months & face transphobia within a year
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Ollie Östlund @ostlundollie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"RCT:s are completely unethical, utterly unfeasible, and extremely slow and expensive"...🙃
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Anna Davour @landetannien.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
En låda med gamla filmstjärnor. Är det något som någon kan vilja ha, tro, eller är det bara att hiva?
Små kort med foton på filmstjärnor, huller om buller i en låda. Brigitte Bardot, Elvis Presley, Rod Cameron, och massa fler.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Networking: where you repeatedly tell people who you are until you wish you were no longer that person
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/08/2026
I mean, apparently this fact is news to some people, but my primary readership is comprised of dudes, there's a reason I say I'm everyone's dad's favorite living science fiction author, I just do that without actively going out of my way to exclude every other possible potential reader
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Solar eclipse coming up so here’s one of my favourite maps
Top is a map of the US with “Google search volume for “eyes hurt” April 3 to April 10 2024” with a hot line running from Texas north east through to Maine.  The bottom map shows the path of the total solar eclipse which runs in a lone from Texas through to Maine
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Signe Krantz @signekrantz.swifties.social · 28/07/2026
Transfobi är inte ett obskyrt fenomen utan har blivit en av de ledande logikerna för vår auktoritära tid. De som inte förstår strömmen kommer svepas iväg av den. www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/zO9...
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Extremhögern älskar att hata transpersoner
Extremhögern älskar att hata transpersoner
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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
mildly funny that X is having blazing rows about Nolan’s Odyssey because he cast black people in it and Bluesky is having blazing rows about whether a noted Homeric translator’s LRB review of it misses the point or not
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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 27/07/2026
"Sex at birth (observed)" is now a mandatory data item in the NHS core information standard (v2.0.1). It also appears (if I am reading this correctly) that gender identity and pronouns have been removed. The NHS are transphobic as fuck!!! standards.nhs.uk/published-st...
"Summary - Information model changes in this release
| Location | Data item | Update | Detail | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Person demographics |

Gender
Sex
| Removal of data item(s) | Data items removed following consultation. | | Person demographics |
Sex at birth (observed)
Administrative gender
Gender identity
Additional information about gender identity
Pronouns
| Addition of data item(s) |
Sex at birth (observed) is a mandatory data item.
Administrative gender is a required, read-only legacy data item for England only to represent the data held on the Personal Demographics Service (PDS).
All other new data items are required in the core information standard.
Back to the"
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration, several of them sellers of experimental peptides, dismissed the concerns of the agency’s scientists on Thursday, voting in favor of allowing broad production of poorly understood peptide treatments.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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A Peptide Showdown: F.D.A. Scientists May Clash With R.F.K.’s Agenda
Agency scientists are advising against allowing widespread use of several peptide injections. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, has said people should be free to experiment.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/07/2026
(Me, learning that someone I thought was interesting and maybe even cool is anti-trans) Huh, well, that's that then (Drops the whole person into the bin)
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/07/2026
1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.
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Crybaby 💧 @creepyweeper.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
nån som vet vilken bok detta handlar om? läser inte så ofta deckare men en "deckare med notapparat" byggd på vetenskaplig empiri låter onekligen som att det skulle kunna vara right up my alley
bild på en boksida, där det står följande:

En krispig vinterdag sitter jag och petar i mig sushi med en professor i Uppsala som har något att berätta. Tre år har gått sedan han i ett försök att utveckla det vetenskapliga skrivandet, popularisera om man så vill, kom ut med en "deckare med notapparat" om en svensk seriemördares världsbild. Den vetenskapliga empirin var klanderfri, boken recenserades mycket uppskattande i nästan alla stora svenska tidningar, ansågs förmedla enorma mängder kunskap, blev pocket, sålde 18 000 ex och genererade över hundra föreläsningar utanför akademin - men i vetenskapsordningens meriteringssystem var denna bok, vilket varje ung forskare vet, noll och intet värd, Helt poänglös.
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 17/07/2026
And if you're "checking all the links" the spicy autocomplete is giving you, how are you saving time over (checks notes) typing into a search bar yourself? And not restricting yourself to whatever a stochastic parrot randomly serves up?
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2
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Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Journal was contacted: May 26, 2021 September 9, 2022 November 7, 2025 Today: Expression of concern. pubpeer.com/publications...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/07/2026
JK Rowling through her TERF organization, Beira's Place have sent Amnesty International a demand letter seeking a full retraction of their report, a public apology, and a bar to future criticism of gender critical groups as anti rights orgs. If they don't comply, they'll commence legal action.
The first page of a formal, typed legal letter dated 14 July 2026. It is addressed to the leadership of Amnesty International UK: Helen Horton (Chair, Amnesty International UK Section), Sandy Ruthven (Chair, Amnesty International UK Charitable Trust), and Kerry Moscogiuri (Chief Executive). The contact information and phone numbers in the top-right corner are redacted with a large black block, and a footer at the bottom is also blacked out.
​The subject line reads: "BEIRA’S PLACE | AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL UK PUBLICATION DATED 8 JULY 2026".
​The body text states that the sender acts on behalf of Beira’s Place, a sexual violence support service for women in Edinburgh and the Lothians. It asserts the legal right under the Equality Act 2010 to provide single-sex services and references the Supreme Court ruling in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers to define "woman" by biological sex. The letter strongly objects to page 20 of a newly published Amnesty report titled "A growing threat; the anti-rights movement in the UK", which allegedly categorizes Beira's Place as an "anti-rights organization." The letter calls this categorization "grossly offensive and entirely without foundation."The second page of the formal legal letter, maintaining the same clean, typed layout with a heavy black redaction block covering the footer at the bottom.
​Under the heading "Defamation and Malicious Publications (Scotland) Act 2021", the text argues that labeling Beira's Place as "anti-rights" is defamatory and legally actionable. It claims the report has caused severe damage, including threatening correspondence and a 600% spike in hostile website traffic. The text notes that Beira's Place, with the support of its founder J.K. Rowling, will not allow its reputation to be tarnished.
​Under the heading "Remedies", the letter lists legal demands to avoid litigation, including:
​A permanent withdrawal of the Amnesty report and its methodology.
​A public letter of apology on the homepage of Amnesty’s website, apologizing to Beira's Place, its staff, and service users, as well as acknowledging the protected belief that sex is real and immutable.The final page of the typed legal letter, featuring a large black redaction box covering the signature block in the middle and another covering the footer at the bottom.
​The page contains the conclusion of the legal demands, including a third remedy requiring Amnesty to commission an external investigation into how the report was published.
​The letter warns that if Amnesty does not agree to these terms, counsel will be instructed to prepare for court action. It concludes with a note that J.K. Rowling, as founder of Beira's Place, will make a formal complaint to the Charity Commission or other appropriate regulator and supports other listed gender-critical organizations taking their own legal actions. It signs off with "Yours faithfully" before the blacked-out signature block.
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