Jamie Wareham

@jamiewareham.co.uk

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I help you understand the LGBTQIA+ news and support queer creatives. Founder of @wearequeeraf.com 🏳️‍🌈 He/Him Forbes Under 30 listed Try my 4.8/5⭐ newsletter - https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

A culture where predatory and bullying behaviour often goes unchecked. Journalists deserve safe and supportive work environments. As allegations from former staff members have continued to emerge over the last two years, I've spent a great deal of time speaking to and supporting a number of people close to the brand. Journalists have had little to no well-being support amid difficult allegations, and have often been left in the dark. This, while trying to pursue the role they thought they were there to do: Producing journalism for the LGBTQIA+ community, so we can all be better informed about the growing attacks on our rights.
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Framing essentials: beware of mythbusting It’s a communications technique that’s well-used and well-loved, but here’s the sad truth about mythbusting: it doesn’t work. Worse still, multiple studies have shown that it often backfires and reinforces the myth we’re trying to bust. People can even remember us as the source of the false information. This is because mentioning false information at all immediately prompts people to think of it. ​​Despite the best intentions, mythbusting subtly repeats and reinforces the beliefs we are trying to rebut. On top of that, mythbusting often involves making the information we are trying to counter more prominent in layout and design.
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Gov report rebukes our journalism Content warning: mentions of suicide. Following our reports on whistleblower evidence seen by the Good Law Project, the government has rebuked some of the language we used, but has confirmed that there have been a number of suicides and unexplained deaths among trans people on waiting lists for gender identity clinics. An independent review ordered by the government has rebuked claims that there has been an "explosion" of trans suicides on waiting lists. Written by Professor Louis Appleby from the University of Manchester, the report says the data available does not support the claim and that leading journalists repeated these claims in a distressing and harmful way - gov.uk Analysis and our response: There is a huge irony in a government report calling the media like QueerAF irresponsible for reporting on trans suicides, in case it harms young people's wellbeing.
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Groups, including Sex Matters, the LGB Alliance and the Bayswater Support Group of parents who advocate abusing trans children, were all invited to contribute to the consultation - Eva Echo The consultation went to 51 stakeholders, including a mix of charities, academics and clinicians. Of those, 59% opposed making the order permanent - but Streeting sided with the 27% who supported it - GOV.UK
Adult Patients Over 18 years The advice in this document supersedes previous advice set out in the NHS circular “Primary Care Responsibilities In Regard to Private Online Medical Service Providers to Prescribe Hormone Treatments for Transgender People”, 2018 (Appendix C) in so far as it relates to children and young people under 18 years of age. The advice in this document does not extend to adult patients over 18 years of age. However, in recognition that unregulated healthcare services pose a potential risk to patient safety across all age ranges, NHS England will address the management of adults who source medications outside of the NHS-commissioned gender dysphoria service, including the management of those who are using atypical levels of medications, within its current work to establish a clinical commissioning policy for exogeneous hormones in 2025/26.
The private care providers who will be worst affected Two private healthcare providers are named in the guidance, drawing a target on their back. Extensive details about GenderGP and Anne Healthcare have been provided to GPs. GenderGP has been at the centre of intense scrutiny by both medical bodies and the press after one of its founders, Dr Helen Webberley, was suspended for her work with a young transgender teenager. This was later overruled, and the company has since moved its operations overseas - BBC The guidance also names a newer start-up, Anne Healthcare Ltd, which, though registered in the UK, is not registered with the Care Quality Commission. Including both organisations in the document could have a vast impact for patients who are seeking new or have existing shared care agreements in place with the organisations if GPs follow the new guidance.
QueerAF website screenshot Headline: NHS England tells GPs to refuse blood tests to some trans children and refer parents to safeguarding Image: Screenshots from NHS Guidance document TL;DR: NHS England guidance has instructed GPs to refuse any care that supports under 18s to receive gender affirming care like puberty blockers and hormones. It also warns specifically against entering into shared care agreements with some of the UK Trans+ communities most used private health care providers of gender affirming care. It signals this approach could happen for adults too.
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Screenshot of QueerAF article that says: Headline: No executive order can truly erase LGBTQIA+ people, we've always been here. TL;DR: TL;DR: In the first hours of President Trump's second term, he used sweeping executive orders to end DEI programs, attack Trans+ rights and demonise immigrants. Within his first week Trans+ people have been banned from the military, Trans+ prisoners will be forced to go to prisons that match their sex assigned at birth, and Trans+ people will no longer be able to have their gender recognised on legal documents.
Quote of Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace can’t imagine there’s anything more cathartic for a white southern conservative than getting to personally segregate a restroom Original tweet: Nov 19 I never thought we would need a sign for this, but women's restrooms are for BIOLOGICAL women. Not men.