When my ovaries failed prematurely & I suffered full force of absence of hormones on body & mind 1 thing which struck me was total lack of discussion in feminism about what was happening to me. I realised feminism had v little to say about loss of ovarian function in general

What I could find were lectures on accepting this loss of function & its devastating panoply of mental & physical impairments because it was “natural”. These lectures were usually delivered by older women, younger feminists had nothing to say. I presumed it prompted the ick.
Which is how society in general responds. It wants you to shut up, stop being so hysterical. Accept your lot! Despite premature ovarian failure, & appropriately timed menopause, intersecting with class to deliver an absolute gut punch of inequality.
When I talk about this stuff on here I get very little engagement. Feminists are no more likely than the general population to have an interest. Men are wont to respond with what I presume is disgust & just hope you stop talking about it as soon as possible.
You don’t get star columnists or high profile QCs jostling to take on the cause of women who face a life of premature morbidity & even premature mortality as well as exclusionary social effects because their ovaries packed up early doors & the NHS provides v limited care.
This is how I came to the issue of hormone blockers. I knew when my ovaries stopped producing the hormones I required the effects I experienced were truly astonishing. This isn’t hyperbole. My body desperately needed oestrogen.
A bone scan revealed the few short years in which I had had insufficient oestrogen had wrought a devastating effect on my bones. I had osteopenia which could mean facing an older age of disabling fractures & breaks from minor events like coughing.
But what was happening to my brain was the scariest part. The brain is packed with oestrogen receptors. It needs oestrogen to function properly. Being articulate was my thing & here I was frequently unable to form sentences. I was also in the grip of anxiety & depression.
Oestrogen is vital in the process of so many bodily functions. So it concerned that the blocking of sex hormones in a developing body could have similar effects. I went hunting for research, genuinely hoping to be wrong, but I found I was right to be concerned.
NHS draws particular attention to risks of blocking hormones in adolescence to bone & brain development. The mental health effects even carry a risk of boosting gender dysphoria.
Yet here we are being told we are “hysterical” by the cool girl “feminist” who is unutterably bored by it all. Unfortunately feminism is far from immune to the sexual competition which tries to consign middle aged women to the bin.
Hormone health is an area where natal women & the trans community should be able to link arms in a fight to access good & timely care. It’s a just fight. This doesn’t mean pretending there aren’t risks to this care. It means understanding those risks.

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The UN just voted to condemn Israel 9 times, and the rest of the world 0.

View the resolutions and voting results here:

The resolution titled "The occupied Syrian Golan," which condemns Israel for "repressive measures" against Syrian citizens in the Golan Heights, was adopted by a vote of 151 - 2 - 14.

Israel and the U.S. voted 'No'
https://t.co/HoO7oz0dwr


The resolution titled "Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people..." was adopted by a vote of 153 - 6 - 9.

Australia, Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and the U.S. voted 'No' https://t.co/1Ntpi7Vqab


The resolution titled "Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan" was adopted by a vote of 153 – 5 – 10.

Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and the U.S. voted 'No'
https://t.co/REumYgyRuF


The resolution titled "Applicability of the Geneva Convention... to the
Occupied Palestinian Territory..." was adopted by a vote of 154 - 5 - 8.

Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and the U.S. voted 'No'
https://t.co/xDAeS9K1kW
@Suman68082748 @thetwinkwolff @x_karran_x @Sunil9130 Lets stop the criticism guys. The lad is good. Losses happen. Losses to unranked players happen too. As do wins vs top 10ers. Let's accept both. Remember Sumit and the likes of him are the best we have. See the bigger picture please.

@thetwinkwolff @x_karran_x @Sunil9130 When the Europeans or South Americans were getting quality practice and tourneys week in week out at reasonable costs, our kids were playing on dung courts or learning outdated serve and volley on grass. Appreciate the fact that the last 10 years have been a hell lot better than

@thetwinkwolff @x_karran_x @Sunil9130 the 10 before that. Real change can't come in a day or even in 10 years. So let's grit our teeth and bide our time till we have an organic self sustaining system in place.

@siyer30 @SportaSmile @Cric_Writer @RomilShukla @amanthejourno

@thetwinkwolff @x_karran_x @Sunil9130 @siyer30 @SportaSmile @Cric_Writer @RomilShukla @amanthejourno Tennis is my favourite sport in the universe. Has always been. Will always be. I was in love with Steffi and Pete a lot before I fell for Sachin. And while I would love every toddler in my family to play sports professionally, I won't encourage them to pursue my favourite sport.

@thetwinkwolff @x_karran_x @Sunil9130 @siyer30 @SportaSmile @Cric_Writer @RomilShukla @amanthejourno It will be career suicide. In other sports, I can actually plan for my ward to be the next Lin Dan or the next Tiger Woods or the next Schumacher even from a base in India. With tennis, in 2020 I can't do that realistically. Just doesn't adds up. Even for total freaks of nature.
Brief thread to debunk the repeated claims we hear about transmission not happening 'within school walls', infection in school children being 'a reflection of infection from the community', and 'primary school children less likely to get infected and contribute to transmission'.

I've heard a lot of scientists claim these three - including most recently the chief advisor to the CDC, where the claim that most transmission doesn't happen within the walls of schools. There is strong evidence to rebut this claim. Let's look at


Let's look at the trends of infection in different age groups in England first- as reported by the ONS. Being a random survey of infection in the community, this doesn't suffer from the biases of symptom-based testing, particularly important in children who are often asymptomatic

A few things to note:
1. The infection rates among primary & secondary school children closely follow school openings, closures & levels of attendance. E.g. We see a dip in infections following Oct half-term, followed by a rise after school reopening.


We see steep drops in both primary & secondary school groups after end of term (18th December), but these drops plateau out in primary school children, where attendance has been >20% after re-opening in January (by contrast with 2ndary schools where this is ~5%).

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