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It’s hardly news to discover that a prospective Tory prime minister is a terrible human being, but even by their usual standards the current crop have revealed themselves to be particularly unpleasant. Speaking to the media yesterday, Esther McVey followed in the footsteps of Andrea Leadsom by taking the side of the homophobic protestors outside [more]
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The ongoing protests against inclusive education in Birmingham continue after the latest talks broke down. With some irony, it seems the anger against “no outsiders” is being whipped up by outsiders. Those outsiders are spreading lies and deliberately stirring up hatred. Nafir Afzal is the person with the unenviable job of mediator. “I’ve looked at [more]
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A beautiful, sad piece by Jenny Boylan in the NYT on Trump’s latest attack on trans people. We live in a country in which white supremacists march with torches, in which the president mocks the disabled, advocates violence and calls the press the enemy of the people. Was it for this that you voted for Donald Trump? …That’s why I wept. [more]
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This is what “reasonable debate” about trans people looks like. Update: that’s not even the maddest thing these yahoos and their supporters have claimed today. Apparently it’s impossible to raise estrogen levels to typical female levels artificially, which is going to be a surprise for the endocrinology profession and the many cisgender women on hormone [more]
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It’s not like me to get annoyed by little things. Okay, it’s very like me. And today’s little thing is the language used by Scottish news websites. Here are some examples: Masked thugs firebomb prison guards’ motors [The Sun] Lags at four nicks are getting state-of-the-art football pitches [The Sun] Motors? Lags? Nicks? Who’s writing [more]
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Let’s talk about gender recognition. I mean, it’s not as if it’s a controversial subject. [Carrie looks sideways at the camera while comedy music plays] Here’s the thing about the WHO’s long-anticipated removal of “transsexualism” and gender dysphoria from its classification of diseases and disorders: if being trans isn’t a mental disorder, which it isn’t, [more]
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There isn’t a single day when I don’t see somebody claiming that trans people are mentally ill and/or degenerates. Here’s some geniuses from this morning. A huge problem is that public awareness of trans people – and of what the medical consensus is about trans people – is incredibly out of date. For a long [more]
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Writing on Twitter, co-founder Ev Williams (@ev) talks about the problem of abuse and harassment on the platform. *And*, yes, we (Twitter) should have invested more heavily in abuse before. I think we did more in the early days than we often get credit for (and they are doing way more today). *And* I personally [more]
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Live by social media, die by losing your social media accounts. [more]
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This is where it leads. The “reasonable concerns”. The “just asking questions”. The denial of science. The platforming of extremists who seem like such nice people. The endless articles telling you trans people are dangerous. The Trump administration says it’s okay to let trans people die. Under the discrimination administration’s latest plans, healthcare can be [more]
Read me in books
My debut memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was a Scotsman book of the year and Damian Barr’s Literary Salon book of the week, and it was shortlisted for the 2023 British Book Awards book of the year in the Discover category.
My latest book, Small Town Joy, is a celebration of queer influences on and queer artists in Scots music and is out now.
I’m also a contributor to the excellent anthology Fierce Salvage, which is also out now.
