Dylan

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Jewish, Socialist, Atheist Tinkerer, Fettler, Maker, Fixer of Things Degrees in Philosophy and Biology Multi-skilled maintenance worker Ten careers before ADHD and Autism diagnoses he/they

Screenshot of page 35 of the Cass Review with this text highlighted: Recommendation 6: The evidence base underpinning medical and non-medical interventions in this clinical area must be improved. Following our earlier recommendation to establish a puberty blocker trial, which has been taken forward by NHS England, we further recommend a full programme of research be established. This should look at the characteristics, interventions and outcomes of every young person presenting to the NHS gender services. • The puberty blocker trial should be part of a programme of research which also evaluates outcomes of psychosocial interventions and masculinising/ feminising hormones. • Consent should routinely be sought for all children and young people for enrolment in a research study with follow-up into adulthood.
Photograph of the magnificent bearded drag queen Nana Arthole in a deep blue and silver, bejeweled gown, looking at the camera with a deeply shady expression as, in the background and slightly out of focus another drag queen in teal and gold shows her ticket to a doorman in a colourful shirt and dark suit.
groin coastal engineering Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica groin, in coastal engineering, a long, narrow structure built out into the water from a beach in order to prevent beach erosion or to trap and accumulate sand that would otherwise drift along the beach face and nearshore zone under the influence of waves approaching the beach at an angle. A groin can be successful in stabilizing a beach on the updrift side, but erosion tends to be aggravated on the downdrift side, which is deprived by the groin structure of replenishment by drifting sand. Partly to counteract this tendency, often multiple groins are built in so-called groin fields, which can stabilize a larger beach area. See also breakwater; jetty.
Picture of a large, dark, slightly cracked fruitcake in a black metal tin. The tin is on a cooling rack on a blue tablecloth with a pattern of leaping hares in white, there is a bowl of apples and squash and a jam jar with some rooting plant cuttings in the background.
Black and white photograph of a cat sleeping in a patch of sunlight, the cat's head is foremost and central in the frame, resting on one paw with its claws visible. There is a shadow of its ear on a polka-dot pillow to the left and deep shadows in the foreground and background.
Photograph of three dried poppy seed pods, the two in the foreground are in focus and one can be seen fading into a blur behind them. The pods are a pale blue-grey, they're connected with light brown stems and crowned with yellow and brown caps. The background is off-white and out of focus.
A photograph, in the left corner of the frame a balding man with light brown skin is wearing a black jacket, his body faces away from the camera while his face, illuminated by setting sun, is turned up and right watching a piece of bread he has just thrown high into the air above a calm, tree-backed lake. On the right side of the frame a black-headed gull is climbing through the air at a 45 degree angle, it's wings extended fully upward and illuminated by the same low sun. Other gulls are visible throughout the scene but only the central gull has any chance of snatching the prize.
Image of tram tracks converging as they seem to disappear into a bright blue-grey sky with the sun peaking out from behind a high-rise building to the right of the shot. Electrical wires suspended from t shaped poles follow the tracks from the left to the centre of the picture until they disappear into a line of distant trees which divides the land from the sky. There are long shadows cast by the silhouettes of a few people in the lower right section of the photograph.
Photograph of a brown cat with cream coloured whiskers sat comfortably on a brown sofa with a brown wooden door and a cream coloured wall out of focus in the background.
Image of an old film camera mounted on a tripod facing the viewer. The background is autumnal parkland with mossy rocks to the left, grass to the right, a central stone path and trees in the distance just turning from green to brown.
Four very different squashes arranged on a wooden table. The front row has a cream coloured patty pan, a butternut squash and something that looks like a cantaloupe melon but is in fact a pumpkin, back row is a giant orange pumpkin.
Photograph of a light skinned man with dark wavy hair a short dark beard and metal framed round glasses gazing towards a recently sharpened sickle. The image looks faintly like a piece of soviet propaganda.
Image of a grey 1980s cassette boom box with the words "it's 1987 and you just bought this. What's the first song you play?" written above it
Black and white photograph of a rhododendron which fills the majority of the centre of the frame. The image is quite high contrast with the leaves highlighted almost white. The canopy is domed upwards but almost flat based with 4 thin trunks which taper down to a central point behind some foliage. There are slightly wonky graves in various shades from black to grey dotted through the picture into the background which recedes into an out of focus canopy of horse chestnut trees. The rhododendron is simultaneously lit from above and behind meaning a bright highlight on the grass behind the tree causes it to stand out sharply from the background.
Drawing of two human figures, one holding a tennis racket in an overarm stance with their outer elbow highlighted and labelled with "lateral epicondylitis" written beneath and another holding a golf club I'm an underarm stance with their inner elbow highlighted and labelled with "Medial epicondylitis" written beneath
Picture of a red lifting crane viewed through the focusing screen of a modified brown and black medium format camera. The crane sits atop a partially constructed tower block on the right side of the frame and extends up and left. A row of trees is visible on the horizon and a split prism focusing aid obscures the centre of the image.