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Jesus it's all so relentless and utterly depressing.

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May 3, 2021Liked by JL, mole at the counter

Thanks, JL for keeping us up to date!

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Thanks JL, for your sterling and depressing work. This has been a bad week. Again. But the David Bell interview in the Observer is superb, well worth a read. I'm surprised it was even published, tbh. Maybe the tide is turning, just a little? Here's a quote:

[Bell] had long believed a case would be brought against the trust, though he thought the most likely scenario was that a former patient would sue for damages (Keira Bell instigated a judicial review). “It was inevitable,” he says. “I warned the trust of this.” But the Keira Bell judgment has done little to alleviate his concerns. Whatever the outcome of the appeal, he believes more questions must be asked, particularly about the rise in the number of girls presenting at the clinic (three-quarters of patients are now girls; the gender balance used to be closer to 50:50). “We do not know why this is happening.” He worries that too much emphasis is placed on gender and not enough on sexuality – “the children are often gay” – and he continues to be anxious about co-morbidities such as anorexia, autism and history of trauma in its patients. “Some of the children are depressed. It’s said that it’s their gender that is the cause of this, but how do we know? And why don’t we try to treat that first?”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/02/tavistock-trust-whistleblower-david-bell-transgender-children-gids

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May 3, 2021Liked by JL, mole at the counter

Thanks JL, another grim week.

I think part of that Frank Furedi quote is bananas though: “the age-old historical distinction between a man and a woman.” In the same vein, we might talk about “the age-old historical distinction between the sea and the sky.”

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I read the full article about policing of micro aggressions at the university (still hilarious to me because how do you even get through life this way? Women’s lives are a minefield of constant micro aggressions, micro aggressions which trigger unpleasant stress and memories related to the macro aggressions- rape, medical sexism, DV, overt sexual harassment- we also experience, and somehow we manage to get on with it; furthermore, no one has ever responded as seriously to women’s requests to stop macro aggressions such as workplace sexual harassment as they have to these trans activists’ insane requests for people who aren’t trans-identifying not to talk about our own experiences with gender- it’s absolutely insane and not at all to scale with the level of harm), and of note was that it said that “avoidance of trans people” would also be considered a reportable micro aggression which could get you called in for re-education.

So now we’re not even allowed to *avoid* the eggshells? So we must interact, and interact nicely, in exactly the manner they want us to- or else?

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May 3, 2021Liked by JL, mole at the counter

I have reported the petition for Child Abuse: Children are being indoctrinated with Gender Identity Ideology despite the fact that there is no scientific evidence to support a separation of "sex in the mind" from biological sex. You get the drift.....

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Bloody hell. Really. I was such a creep at school, and I still don't walk on the grass. It has been a long old journey realising that I should not always respect authority. Yet that 13 year old girl is demanding that adults lose their jobs, livelihoods and reputations. What a moron - a gender neutral insult.

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Ian Hjust now

It seems Anderton Park was not teaching the No Outsiders programme it was a more general LGB content about children having two mums or dads.The nearby Parkfield school did teach No Outsiders. A lot of the protesters outside Anderton Park were just plain homophobic.

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In French the name Thomas Lecaque, Literally, means "Dick Shit". I bet he wears a blue and gold striped blazer and is so against 21st century thinking that he owns a barge pulled by horses and rides into town on a penny farthing so he can have a pint while telling the barman his son is a dickhead for not wearing a dress

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