This is incredibly shoddy work @TRF @hugo_greenhalgh @rachelmsavage @antozappulla and does not stand up the @Reuters principles of integrity, independence, and freedom from bias

My case is not "pushing back against transgender rights" it is case about belief discrimination.

It is about the right of people not to be discriminated against at work & by service providers for holding or not holding a belief about the nature of sex and gender identity.
Adding up some numbers in the public domain is not much of an investigation.

It is the work of a pocket calculator and 15 minutes.

The rest of the time was spent looking for the fabled shady right wing money... none was found
“Basically, money is being used to bully" says Clara Barker

Is Thompson Reuters saying that women like me, @BluskyeAllison @8RosarioSanchez are bullying the institutions that discriminated against us by having the temerity to raise money to hire lawyers ?
“It certainly feels like there (are) deeper pockets for those challenging our rights than those trying to protect our rights” says Clara .

The average donation to my crowd funder is £27
Clifford Chance is just one of the magic circle law firms with deep pockets that has signed up to give pro bono legal support to strategic litigation for trans rights cases - for example the 'X' passports case. https://t.co/DPMcEXsiPy
Another one, Dentons wrote a report advising campaigners on how they should be secretive in their lobbying to change the law so that children can change their legal sex without the involvement of medical professionals or parents https://t.co/uSQHeLYaFl
How did Dentons and the transgender organisations get together... there was a matchmaker.

That would be.... Thompson Reuters Foundation
As @GlenTarman then head of the Trust Law, the pro bono law programme of the Thompson Reuters Foundation said "We hope this report will be a powerful tool for activists and NGOs working to advance the rights of trans
youth across Europe and beyond."

https://t.co/bVJSDumSzO
This takes a particular view of "rights of trans youth".

The judges in the case of Keira Bell v Tavistock were of course also considering rights of these children

The right not have experimental medical treatment w life long consequence at an age when they cannot weigh these
Trust law says that since they launched ten years ago they have generated the equivalent of $172 million in free legal assistance to NGOs and social enterprises "on the frontlines of social change"

I doubt any of that went to gender critical feminists.
So @TRFdotORG an organisation with the power to raise millions in donated legal time from the worlds biggest lawfirms is larping as @Reuters the trusted news agency to put the boot into a bunch of grassroots women raising funds by putting together their £20's on payday.
It even managed to get @msjenniferjames crowdfunder taken down by @gofundme for "hate"

This is one that has been running since January 2018.

What hate did gofundme only notice after 2 years when Reuters flexed its muscles?

https://t.co/E9EVM6kk77

https://t.co/rjg4HhyZrL
Clara Barker was right “Basically, money is being used to bully"

This is not news reporting.

It is propaganda by an organisation that is committed to one side of the debate.

Reuters should be ashamed.

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SkyNews reporting "a major leak containing a register w/the personal identifying details of 1.95 mil Communist Party members [in #China], mostly from Shanghai, there are also the details of 79,000 Communist Party branches, many of them inside companies”.

What appears to be so newsworthy about this particular leaked list is the presence of CCP branches in not only foreign-invested firms in #China, but also in firms entirely located overseas.

This is by no means new-- I wrote several years ago about #China's massive Party-building drive to construct new CCP branches in Shanghai's NGOs in @chinaquarterly (The Advance of the Party: Transformation or Takeover of Urban Grassroots Society?*
https://t.co/I1XKmkPKty )...

As well as the CCP's attempts to "comprehensively cover" 全覆盖 Shanghai's private sector in "The New Life of the Party: Party-Building & Social Engineering in Greater Shanghai" in the #China Journal, but what's apparently of concern in the leaked list..

...is the number of new Communist Party branches & committees now in Chinese-invested companies abroad. This is unsurprisingly going on on a massive scale in countries housing #China's Belt and Road projects as part of the CCP's "going out" 走出去efforts...#OBOR #BRI #一带一路
A quick thread on the new variant, pulling together information from news sources, twitter, genomic databases, and word from well-placed peers.


The new variant in the UK consists of several mutations in the spike protein, including ΔH69/ΔV70 deletions & other receptor binding domain mutations such as N501Y.

The variant is described here in this pre-print from @GuptaR_lab.

https://t.co/ui2U1r1ANA


The ΔH69/ΔV70 variant continues to increase quite rapidly as a proportion of overall positives (roughly doubling in the last 2 to three days), and is apparently now the dominant strain in test positives in some regions.

Extensive efforts have gone into enhanced surveillance for the ΔH69/ΔV70 deletion with and without RBD mutations, and it is good that we are aware of this.

There is a need for calm and rational thinking, and more evidence is needed.

But the early data is certainly concerning

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