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Indeed a great day. Thank you for your wonderful blog and I hope you find another identity on Twitter - I complained about the silencing of @scarlysimon and I will complain again loudly about @glinner! I collect feminist AND male support, like you and Allan Hennes (husband of Maria McLachlan) and Harry Miller (FairCop), and medical professionals like Prof Carl Henegan (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford Uni) and some others.

I have read the 38-pages of judgement carefully. No wonder Paul Conrathe, lawyer for Keira Bell, is pleased. It goes rather further than we had dared hope. I am encouraged that this might be used to bring a case against the NHS on behalf of transwidows. We have been treated in an utterly shoddy way. In my case, by the GIS at Charing Cross Hospital and Dr James Barrett. Starting in 2008 he behaved atrociously towards me, ignoring my letters asking about my (then!) husband, offering me no information, no reassurance or support, nothing, just fobbing me off with the awful "Women of the Beaumont Soc". I have never felt so enraged, humiliated and silenced even when just before my husband left in a fit of "narcissistic rage". Feeling desperate I stumbled across a "hub", a on-line thread by an American teenager called "My Dad wants to be a transsexual woman" (https://discover.hubpages.com/relationships/My-Dad-wants-to-be-a-Transsexual-Woman) and then I started to find the world of sane people and a sense of purpose again. I was so lonely before then.

Final comment: I do think that Keira Bell's lack of anger is hugely to her credit: she is so visibly sane in comparison with all the "gender affirming" psychiatrists and commentators who opposed her.

Thank you again.

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A great day, take a bow yourself too. I see their stock prices are down but I wonder what the drug companies will do to get around this ruling... they are evil wizards with deep pockets.

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Brilliant fun on a great day 👍. In the short, medium and long term, young people are and will be protected. I was shocked to see just how poorly GIDS/Tavi handled data collection and follow up....it was fully exposed in this landmark case. Almost as if the ideology was considered more important than the long term health of their young patients. Very glad this poor practice was highlighted in the judgment.

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Your hari-kari was rather excellent. Sadly I didn’t find your account on twatter.

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If you identify as funsexual, that makes you trans. Why is it only people without mental illnesses are allowed to say "I am who I say I am" ? I identify as genderfree, so I'm trans too.

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Oh my, this is so good. I hope its the start of the fall of the whole house of cards ideology. Well done ladies.

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About time the woke castle started crumbling. ☺️

There are too many "I am Graham Linehan" to spot the real one. Substack makes it easy. 😂

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