Fran Amery
I research topics that make everyone feel very comfortable like periods, transphobia and abortion
co-convenor @reacpolrn.bsky.social (she/her)
- Gf had an appt a while back about a chronic shoulder injury and the GP had printed out her (extremely long) report and diagnosis from the gender clinic and left it prominently on the desk. Not sure if trans broken arm syndrome or whether GP just thought they needed a manual to talk to a trans person
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- Reposted by Fran AmeryMisoprostol is used in many aspects of OBGYN care (abortion, miscarriage management, cervical prep) and to treat ulcers. Methotrexate is used to treat ectopic pregnancies and in the management of autoimmune disorders like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriasis.
- My partner (who works in mental health) is on a kick about how bad the images in 'easy read' versions of documents often are, and sent me the following example (ironically from a guide to how to produce easy read documents):
- Reposted by Fran Amerywas epstein uniquely responsible for evil or is he just the one obscenely wealthy person whose emails we're getting to read
- Reposted by Fran Amerybtw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...
- Reposted by Fran AmeryBetween April 2019 and March 2025, 107 of the 647 children who died by suicide in England were LGBTQ+. Forty-six of these children were trans – seven per cent of all children who died by suicide. www.wearequeeraf.com/one-in-six-c...
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- Reposted by Fran AmeryIf you want some background on Matthew Goodwin, I wrote a couple of years ago about his kind of grifter, their reactionary bad faith politics and how they are in service of the powerful and enabled by the mainstream elite jacobin.com/2023/05/righ...
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- Reposted by Fran AmeryPlease spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Fran AmeryDoes women’s health need sex-specific algorithms? In a paper just out in Big Data & Society (bigdatasoc.bsky.social) we at the GenderSci Lab warn against the growing use of so-called “pink” and “blue” algorithms, arguing that they risk embedding biological sex essentialist assumptions into medicine.
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- This slaps
- You know you want to 👀 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/beyond-pro-l...
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- Reposted by Fran AmerySmall numbers make any increase appear large in percentage terms. A useful quirk for moral panic framing.
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- Reposted by Fran AmeryI came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
- Guardian headline: 'use of ADHD meds has more than tripled!! 😱😭🚨' Article details: barely anyone who might need the meds has access to them 🤷🏻♀️
- Reposted by Fran AmeryAttn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.
- Something more people should know is that Money's research didn't *result* in intersex children being coercively surgically 'corrected'. This was already happening and 'gender' (as pioneered by Money) only provided new justifications for it on the wake of assumptions about binary sex collapsing.
- Reposted by Fran AmeryNew research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢 This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID. doi.org/10.1080/0958...
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- Reposted by Fran AmeryThe effective conclusion of the ET is that trans people have to use third spaces. I think based on very poor legal analysis and uncritical adoption of "gender critical" talking points. But as I say, not binding, and all the relevant issues hopefully to be decided shortly by the High Court.
- Judgment here www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
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- Caught a cryptid
- Reposted by Fran AmeryA woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
- Reposted by Fran Ameryif you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed. everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.
- Reposted by Fran Amerythey didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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- Reposted by Fran AmeryIncredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.
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- Reposted by Fran Ameryamazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
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- I hadn't realised menstruation also came up in the Peggie case. I would love these people to answer, why is it inherently more degrading for a trans woman to see one's menstrual blood than a cis woman? Bonus points if they can do it without saying 'biological male'.
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- Reposted by Fran AmeryMini thread on the ET decision in Peggie Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law. 🧵👇
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- Reposted by Fran Amery🚨new article🚨 "Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive 🧵Thread🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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- Reposted by Fran AmeryContact us if you have been affected by the policy changes of Girl Guiding or the Women's Institute. This could be as an individual, or because you lead a local Brownie group who don't want this policy change. We want to help protect trans inclusion. goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
- Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive: goodlaw.social/cpfx
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- Reposted by Fran Amery📣New interview📣 'Terms like “detransitioner,” like “transitioner,” reduce people to the act of transitioning and frame transitioning as an extremist act or impulsive decision' @katfuller.bsky.social discusses transphobic moral panics on the far right. reacpol.net/moral-panic-...
- Reposted by Fran AmeryThis is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
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- With the Observer yesterday in its Glinner interview describing Derrick Jensen as 'an environmentalist who has been ostracised for his views on trans issues', this is worth a read to know what Jensen and DGR are actually about.
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