Wellies & Wool
@WelliesAndWool
Followers
311
Following
12K
Media
387
Statuses
3K
. busy mum . craft . bake . allotment holder . book lover . partial to afternoon tea . blue sky & sunshine make me smile inside .
UK
Joined August 2013
We are delighted to hear the Supreme Court ruling in favour of @ForWomenScot Being able to accurately recognise, formally record and acknowledge someone’s sex is vital in all healthcare settings. This common sense decision recognises the realities of medicine and science and
5
74
280
On International Women’s Day we want to thank Naomi Cunningham for her contribution to protecting sex based rights. This is a lovely interview which tells us a bit about her. Thank you Naomi! #sexmatters
https://t.co/Z8QmUjmMt9
holyrood.com
As the issue of sex and gender plays out in UK courts and judges wrestle with the vexed question of ‘what is a woman’, b...
2
38
198
This evening, His Majesty The King received the President of Ukraine, @ZelenskyyUa, at Sandringham House. 🇺🇦
9K
17K
157K
No one seemed to object when Churchill turned up at the White House in his war-fighting gear.
2K
3K
17K
At last, a serious principled challenge to educational psychologists and their leaders from D'Lima, McGuiggan and Robertson in "The Cass Review: How and when will educational psychology respond?" https://t.co/mrD4rywx4x
1
3
8
Good to see that @rcgp is campaigning to ensure that children and young adults experiencing gender distress can have talking therapy without professionals being accused of ‘conversion therapy’,
1
2
13
Menopause can have a huge impact on your mental health – it's more than hot flushes #KnowYourMenopause #MentalHealthDay
2
8
16
Coming up: An exclusive interview with Dr @Hilary_Cass six months on from the Cass Review. @BBCNuala hears about the impact of her landmark report and progress on improving child gender care ⬇️
61
172
737
I was too busy saying 'Thank You' about a thousand times to take a photo, but yesterday, at the Women of the Year Awards, I met this incredible woman, Dr Hilary Cass. Her courage, integrity and tenacity are beyond words and I feel so lucky to have shaken her hand. #CassReview
27
577
4K
I don't want walks, I don't want breakfasts, I don't want fundraisers … I just want women's health to be taken seriously and given the finance and the research it deserves
1
21
115
@BBCBreakfast Are they going to investigate GPs who send women away with antidepressants instead of HRT because they don’t keep themselves up to date with menopause training or don’t want to know about peri/menopause? Who leave women suffering & even suicidal? @CareQualityComm @MenopauseOrg
2
1
11
"It is unclear how the BMA can hope to replicate four years of work by Cass & her team in just five months".. Thanks @wesstreeting for standing firm on #PubertyBlocker ban & #Cass implementation in full. https://t.co/4Rxsli65QY
thetimes.com
The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
37
183
671
Don’t worry about your A-level exam results, in 20 years’ time you’ll be more worried about: 1. Not being able to move your neck for half a day because you slept a bit funny 2. Hoping any event you attend has adequate seating 3. Staying in for parcels with a delivery window of
261
1K
8K
The settlement statement to James Esses A total and complete apology "They accept that I was trying to protect children. They accept breaching policy. They apologise to me and state that this will never happen to another student" Our head on challenge to the BPS comes tomorrow
1
24
72
My daughter's Y3 teacher is the absolute GOAT. She single-handedly crocheted a mini-me of each kid in her class as an end of year gift. Approx. 8hrs per doll. Even the hairstyles and clothes are spot on. What a legend.
1K
5K
66K
No @NadiaWhittomeMP This is not how evidence-based medicine works. Anecdotal self-report is not a substitute for empirical evidence. And there is not a single reliable study to show that halting or tampering with the body's most significant developmental phase outside of the
Only a small number of young people are prescribed puberty blockers. Those who are often describe them as life-saving. I know the distress the puberty blockers ban is causing them. No matter what happens in court, I will continue fighting for the government to scrap it.
55
697
3K