@NotRightRuth 1/ Completely untrue. What benefit is there for you in such lies?

The pressure was from medical ethics in the light of what became obvious after GIDS responded to the lead of their 🌍 medical peers & peer clinics.

In 2009 the veteran gender expert Prof Richard Green, recently…

@mikeroscoe67 @NotRightRuth 2/…retired head of the world's largest adult GIC - London's Charing Cross - was so disgusted🔗 at the psychoanalytically-based pediatric clinic, GIDS' stubborn refusal to prevent the harm he had seen to those arriving at adult clinics…
https://t.co/SPrWX9C2BB
@mikeroscoe67 @NotRightRuth 3/…by neglecting to provide "blockers" (GnRH agonists) other clinics had used for >20yrs(📽️1995) that he organised a conference of 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇧🇪🇩🇪🇬🇧 experts, patients & families on hormone treatment in adolescence with trans patients at @imperialcollege to…
@mikeroscoe67 @NotRightRuth @imperialcollege 4/…advise them. The heads of GIDS - which had sought & just been granted an exclusive national contract - just sat silent the entire day. That so upset Prof Spack🔗📽️ of @BostonChildrens that he announced that any UK family with a trans adolescent…
https://t.co/sfRoQDvs8C
@mikeroscoe67 @NotRightRuth @imperialcollege @BostonChildrens 5/…who could get to Boston🇺🇸🖼️ would be treated free of charge. Yet it was another 4yrs before those peer clinics finally budged them by showing them that their last ground for refusal - that 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 patients were different & it was impossible for GIDS to know which were trans…
@mikeroscoe67 @NotRightRuth @imperialcollege @BostonChildrens 6/…& would continue to insist on the need for transition - was baseless by having them join the pooling of results of the multi-clinic use of a standard battery of psychological diagnostic tests🖼️ that revealed any change during treatment (it was never, as 'Newsnight' claimed…
@mikeroscoe67 @NotRightRuth @imperialcollege @BostonChildrens 7/…a trial of blockers but an audit of diagnostic reliability in patients from a different catchment area). When it was obvious their results were indistinguishable from those of other clinics GIDS dropped its excuse (although staff🔗 at the trust…
https://t.co/JFD5efh2ZQ
@mikeroscoe67 @NotRightRuth @imperialcollege @BostonChildrens 8/…with psychoanalytic beliefs continued to promote their conversion therapy beliefs) & provided blockers to those diagnosed using 🖼️over 12yo whose puberty was not completed (but not at the very start of puberty - Tanner2 - as @TheEndoSociety @EuroSPE guidelines recommend🖼️

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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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make products.

"If only someone would tell me how I can get a startup to notice me."

Make Products.

"I guess it's impossible and I'll never break into the industry."

MAKE PRODUCTS.

Courtesy of @edbrisson's wonderful thread on breaking into comics –
https://t.co/TgNblNSCBj – here is why the same applies to Product Management, too.


There is no better way of learning the craft of product, or proving your potential to employers, than just doing it.

You do not need anybody's permission. We don't have diplomas, nor doctorates. We can barely agree on a single standard of what a Product Manager is supposed to do.

But – there is at least one blindingly obvious industry consensus – a Product Manager makes Products.

And they don't need to be kept at the exact right temperature, given endless resource, or carefully protected in order to do this.

They find their own way.
MDZS is laden with buddhist references. As a South Asian person, and history buff, it is so interesting to see how Buddhism, which originated from India, migrated, flourished & changed in the context of China. Here's some research (🙏🏼 @starkjeon for CN insight + citations)

1. LWJ’s sword Bichen ‘is likely an abbreviation for the term 躲避红尘 (duǒ bì hóng chén), which can be translated as such: 躲避: shunning or hiding away from 红尘 (worldly affairs; which is a buddhist teaching.) (
https://t.co/zF65W3roJe) (abbrev. TWX)

2. Sandu (三 毒), Jiang Cheng’s sword, refers to the three poisons (triviṣa) in Buddhism; desire (kāma-taṇhā), delusion (bhava-taṇhā) and hatred (vibhava-taṇhā).

These 3 poisons represent the roots of craving (tanha) and are the cause of Dukkha (suffering, pain) and thus result in rebirth.

Interesting that MXTX used this name for one of the characters who suffers, arguably, the worst of these three emotions.

3. The Qian kun purse “乾坤袋 (qián kūn dài) – can be called “Heaven and Earth” Pouch. In Buddhism, Maitreya (मैत्रेय) owns this to store items. It was believed that there was a mythical space inside the bag that could absorb the world.” (TWX)