Sunflower

@sunflowerdreams

She/her. Politics, education, SEND, LGBTQ+. Parent to a trans kid. Cats, books and gaming.

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Sunflower@sunflowerdreams· Sep 10

The new policy from DoE is regressive and harmful. Young people who are trans deserve our care and support. Not to be singled out and othered! Intentionally using the wrong pronouns for a trans person is abusive. This goes beyond failing to safeguard trans youth, it is enabling abuse.

[Extract from Department of Education Policy Statement]

4. Use of Pronouns

Neither pupils nor teachers should be compelled to use pronouns other than those which reflect biological sex.

Sunflower@sunflowerdreams· Aug 21

No idea why the image above didn't post properly but here it is again:

Text taken from the LGB Alliance Trustees Report for the year Ended 30 November 2024 reading:

"After the success of our 'Gay teens aren't sick' campaign, in March we launched the 'Best practice, not private practice
campaign by writing to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care urging her to close the loophole that allows private
sales of puberty blockers for kids. We were very pleased that our efforts in this area were successful, and the government
committed to banning private clinic prescriptions of puberty blockers in May 2024."

Sunflower@sunflowerdreams· Aug 21

Absolutely sickening to see LGB Alliance boasting proudly about how they campaigned to ban puberty blockers in the UK. Ignorantly patting themselves on the back over achieving something which has zero impact on them, but is causing real harm and distress for trans kids like mine.

Sunflower@sunflowerdreams· Jun 19

Never mind, they published this directly underneath lmao. And the world is, sadly, as I expected once again. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...

Two newspaper article titles taken from the main page of the Telegraph website.
The top one reads: JK Rowling radicalised by terfs, says Stephen Fry
The second one underneath reads: Stephen Fry embodies everything wrong with our cultural elite

Sunflower@sunflowerdreams· Dec 13

It's possible but it's illegal - at least when it comes to puberty blockers. Re HRT I don't know the legalities, but at the very least I suspect you'd have social services at your door if they caught you allowing your under 18 to take them. Or perhaps deem you a supplier and arrest you.

Information from the Mermaids website reading: What could happen to me if I obtain these medications through another source?

The explanatory notes to the restrictions explain that:

“From the 3 June 2024 a breach of the Order is a criminal offence under the Medicines Act 1968. This also applies to possession, where the individual had reasonable cause to know that the medicine had been sold or supplied in breach of the ban.

A person guilty of breaching the Order is liable on summary conviction to a fine of up to £400, or on conviction on indictment to a fine and/or to imprisonment for a term of up to two years.”

Sunflower@sunflowerdreams· Nov 27

And so ends two days of cis people, mostly men, sitting around talking about about trans people, and all pretending the endless transphobic diatribes we had to listen to had anything to do with "women's rights". I'm cis and even I'm angry. Not one trans people in that court room. It's a disgrace.

Picture shows the supreme court room 1 as lawyers, judges and others stand up to leave for the day.

Sunflower@sunflowerdreams· Nov 16

Started reading this wonderful book by Eliza Fricker about her experience with Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA). Barely 10 minutes in and it's already brought me to tears. Sadly, it's just too relatable. Then for us, there are the extra barriers created by the school for trans kids.

Sunflower@sunflowerdreams· Nov 6

Sunflower@sunflowerdreams· Oct 31

Oh and a lot of them aren't even confirmed as trans.

Sunflower@sunflowerdreams· Oct 31

And I'm using the quotation marks as it includes such gems as people who have won Jeopardy. And hot dog eating competitions. A lot of them are highschoolers. A lot didn't compete and are listed as "Would have won". The figures are garbage.

Sunflower@sunflowerdreams· Oct 31

I was looking into this on twitter earlier and discovered she's talking about the UN Rapporteur's report from 27 August 2024, but that in itself pulls the figures from an explicitly transphobic website designed to collate the names of transgender "athletes".