Anna Friel hopes trans drama can help change perceptions like Brookside's lesbian kiss

[HandsOffMyRights]

Mermaids are pushing Anna Friel's new drama. I think they had some input.

What's the betting it shows just one side? No realities of surgery, no Twitter trans activists and no safeguarding rules broken. And that puberty blockers are fab?

www.irishnews.com/magazine/entertainment/2018/09/18/news/anna-friel-hopes-trans-drama-can-change-perceptions-like-brookside-lesbian-kiss-1436506/

Oh and this suicide ideation. Put suicide ideation into google. You get the Samaritans helpline first.

Floral

I’m re-reading Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials with my sons. That scissor-wielding parent graphic made me think of the Gobblers. I just deleted the second half of my post but any one familiar with the concept of excision (in the novels) can fill in the blanks.

Its interesting timing....
Radio 4 played the fourth series of 'Just a Girl' this summer

Twitter thread by AlfredBelpaire, 'Thread on how the BBC has played a crucial role in pushing transgenderism in the past five years, especially on children'
(extract)
'"BBC Radio 4 produced ‘Just a Girl’ in 2014. Mark Davies Markham acted as stenographer for Susie Green & Mermaids. The programme pushes puberty blockers, though they are used off-label without any clinical evidence for efficacy."
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1028807563880656896.html