Angharad

Angharad

@angharad.tech

Trans geek girl. Y drwg yn y traws. Interests: Trans rights, indy Wales, programming stuff Diddordebau: Hawliau traws, annibyniaeth, unrhywbeth cyfrifiadurol She/her/hi

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Imagine feeling like your country's newsmedia could at any time turn its back and begin this level of hate campaign against you, to the point that they harass you and everyone you love to the literal ends of the earth, mining you for content until your death and even after. How would you live life?

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social

Another one here where the British press just smashed fuck out of a member of the public’s life for no good reason, just because they wanted to and nobody will stop them doing at. And they’re still going, even now.

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NEW: FOI requests reveal NHS Wales used unverified 'family concerns' to stop trans surgeries

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it is of course transphobic bigotry but it should be pointed out that the lie “people need the right healthcare for their biological sex” kills trans people. trans women get breast cancer at far higher rates than cis men. trans men get prostate cancer. hrt changes your sex.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social

It would IMO be better if MPs had not utterly deranged their own brains on Twitter dot com, wildly radicalising themselves and each other.

I've had a reply from my MS, and she says this change does not apply to NHS Wales, nor is she aware of any plans to make that change. I know Plaid have not been great regarding the trans surgery pause, but I doubt she'd be lying about this.

Angharad@angharad.tech

I've emailed my local Plaid Cymru MS to see if I can get an answer to this question.

I've emailed my local Plaid Cymru MS to see if I can get an answer to this question.

Angharad@angharad.tech

I suppose it's too much to ask that @plaidcymru.bsky.social might reassure trans people in Wales that this policy will *NOT* be coming here, isn't it? @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social

Hey @lsrplaid.bsky.social, I can see you have been online here in the last half hour - could you please ask the Senedd Minister of Health to make some kind of statement about whether the trans segregation recommended by NHS England will be coming to Wales. Asking for many concerned trans people.

Angharad@angharad.tech

I suppose it's too much to ask that @plaidcymru.bsky.social might reassure trans people in Wales that this policy will *NOT* be coming here, isn't it? @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social

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I was tempted to pirate HP, curiosity and all that. But @jessiegender.bsky.social is right - think of the amount of times HBO commented on GOT leaks and downloads, just as an example. They DO track these things, and even that drives interest. Let this show die. Trans people deserve better.

Totally unrelated to the story - can anyone explain to me why Americans take Welsh boys names like Evan and Bryn, and give them to girls?

Evan Barker quit the Democratic Party and voted for Trump. Now she’s telling (a few) stories about what she saw in a new book that mixes gossip and condemnations of ‘woke.’ Her old colleagues aren’t happy.

To think that my granddad's generation fought and killed the Nazis, only for their grandkids to become Nazis themselves.

Bringing down the NHS waiting lists by cancelling all trans people's surgeries. Genius.

Plaid Cymru@plaidcymru.bsky.social

Today, the Plaid Cymru Welsh Government sets out a new ambition for a modern, thriving, ambitious and confident nation ✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 This is how early action will be turned into lasting results 👇

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tonymurray1964 You see, Richard, your problem is that Reform is, basically, a bunch of horrible bastards doing horrible bastard things in a conspicuously horrible bastard way. In general, people don't like horrible bastards. I hope that's cleared things up for you Richard, you horrible bastard.

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Don’t use pronouns for AI. It is not a person nor ever will. Sam Altman isn’t making the god computer of his wet dream nightmares. They’ve made a shitty tool built on theft thats destroying the planet & is meant to lower human critical thinking while given military weapons by rich idiots.

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1/🧵 From the agenda for next week’s meeting at NHS Wales. But we can assume the arbitrary decision to “pause” referrals was made on a summary of the same information. And, after a month, there is still nothing of substance that can be presented. Sorry, but people should lose their job for this.

theotheories.bsky.social@theotheories.bsky.social

The WGS decision was apparently made on the basis of the Welsh Vs English whole population figures, not the number of patients seen in the clinic. This is absolutely ridiculous, serious medical decisions should not be made like this. It's not an appropriate comparison!

I've just read a post on Facebook that @plaidcymru.bsky.social have taken a defector from Reform. Reform! Maybe I'm alone in thinking this, but how on earth can anyone who has stood on a platform of immigrant hatred ever be welcome in a party that claims to be progressive?

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The government must take action to restore surgeries for trans people in Wales. 10 LGBTQ+ organisations from Across Wales have written to Llais, the statutory patient watchdog, demanding action to keep politicians' fingers out of our healthcare. cwiar.org/en/2026/09/1...

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No candidate, regardless of party, will ever get my vote if they call me a "biological man" and advocate for laws targeting my community. Its that simple.

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What is consciousness? What is sentience? These are philosophical question that have been asked since the dawn of time. How lucky we are to live in a time where 7 people in Northern California realised the answer is “being able to predict the most statistically significant next word in a sentence”

@plaidcymru.bsky.social You need to get off Twitter. It's cooking your brains. It's probably influencing your willingness to throw trans people under the bus.

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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the big AI danger is not companies suddenly inventing skynet - that's marketing rubbish, musk promising mars colonies by 2030 type stuff. the danger is companies claiming to have invented skynet and then putting what they actually have, a chatbot, in charge of stuff that's important

Angharad reposted

The coverage of the Welsh gender surgery cancellations is some of the most appalling and degrading reporting on trans health this year. Every mainstream editor, clearly tickled at the decision, is going out of their way to add wholly irrelevant sections debasing patients’ bodies to a surreal degree.

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Plaid Cymru has the power to intervene to restore lifesaving surgeries for trans patients - but it isn't. No review should come before patient welfare. There is still time to act and put people first.

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Once again a party that claims to support trans people caves when it comes to doing anything meaningful.

Cwiar Cymru@cwiar.org

The Welsh Government has responded to us and will likely NOT be overruling the NWJCC. “The Minister understands the concerns of people affected by this decision and expects the health board and the NHS Wales JCC to provide appropriate support and to take forward any necessary action as a priority."

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Replying to @plaidcymru.bsky.social

✅ Betraying all Welsh trans+ people by allowing a large part of their care to be removed without any kind of resistance.

The complete lack of outrage on Welsh bluesky about the attacks on the Welsh gender service is as depressing as it is predictable.

This is not good enough. Why do surgeries need to be stopped during this "review"? No patients complained. No doctors complained. It was only some transphobic journalists and MSs who complained, and we all know what they want - the end of all transgender care.

Plaid Cymru@plaidcymru.bsky.social

Following the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee's decision to temporarily pause gender-affirming surgeries, Plaid Cymru reaffirms our commitment to the trans community. We will continue to press for answers from the NWJCC and ensure any review is undertaken swiftly and effectively.

Angharad reposted

Words will come as little consolation to the hundreds of people who have had lifesaving surgery ripped from them. Plaid Cymru is in government - it has the ability to change this, not just ask. We cannot allow unaccountable NHS boards to go against evidence and democratic mandates.

Plaid Cymru@plaidcymru.bsky.social

Following the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee's decision to temporarily pause gender-affirming surgeries, Plaid Cymru reaffirms our commitment to the trans community. We will continue to press for answers from the NWJCC and ensure any review is undertaken swiftly and effectively.

Angharad reposted

Ni fydd geiriau’n fawr o gysur i’r cannoedd o bobl sydd wedi cael llawdriniaeth achub bywyd wedi’i rhwygo oddi wrthynt. Mae Plaid Cymru mewn llywodraeth - mae ganddi’r gallu i newid hyn, nid dim ond gofyn.

Plaid Cymru@plaidcymru.bsky.social

Yn dilyn penderfyniad Cyd-bwyllgor Comisiynu GIG Cymru i wahardd llawdriniaethau cadarnhau rhywedd dros dro, mae Plaid Cymru yn ail-gadarnhau ein hymrwymiad i'r gymuned draws. Byddwn yn parhau i gwthio am atebion gan yr NWJCC a sicrhau bod yr adolygiad yn gyflym ac yn effeithiol.

Angharad reposted

Replying to @angharad.tech

You speak of your mandate, but seem not to care that some of your votes were gained on the back of promises made to the trans community that you apparently have no intention of keeping. Shame on you all.

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Replying to @lsrplaid.bsky.social

Why are you all silent on the cancellation of all trans surgery, and why are you pushing stories published in the horribly transphobic Nation Cymru blog?