Portfolio GP. Ethics and Law MA. Care about problems of overdiagnosis and too much medicine. Feminist. One of: @biologyinmed https://xitter.gq/t.co/3K3TOnBV6s
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This approach makes one a maverick. We need more mavericks in medicine.
Alice Hodkinson retweeted
1/ It's vital that as many people respond to the conversion bill consultation as possible before the short consultation period ends at 5PM on Monday 16th November.
SM have a great guide here, you don't have to be a lawyer or expert and it can take as little as 15 minutes.
⏰ Only 7 days to go to submit evidence to the Conversion Practices Bill committee.
The government’s planned law could put loving parents under criminal investigation for ordinary, responsible parenting.
Tell it to think again ⬇️
sex-matters.org/posts/update…
Alice Hodkinson retweeted
Women and girls are being put at risk of sexual crimes every time they try on clothes in high street retailers that only provide mixed-sex changing rooms.
🚩 Allowing males access to women and girls in a state of undress is a safeguarding failure. The majority of high street stores have now moved to mixed-sex changing rooms. Stores that do have separate women’s and men’s changing rooms often allow males into the women’s facilities. 🚩
Every single one of the sex crimes listed in this thread could have been prevented if high street retailers recognised that they have a duty of care to look after their customers.
First, a woman trying on a bikini in M&S… 1/8
Alice Hodkinson retweeted
We are glad to see the women and girls of Afghanistan receive this award. They are persecuted and their rights are eradicated due to their sex. Their treatment is a human rights catastrophe.
This award not only recognises their courage and resilience, but keeps their predicament in the public eye and not conveniently hidden and forgotten. Women and girls matter.
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In a ceremony last night the women of Afghanistan were awarded the 2026 @ChathamHouse Prize in recognition of their courage and resilience in the face of systematic gender persecution, and for their determination to defend the rights and futures of women and girls.
@EliSafdari, the former goalkeeper for Afghanistan's Women's National football team, accepted the prize on behalf of the women of Afghanistan. The prize was presented by former Prime Minister and President of Chatham House @theresa_may.
As part of the ceremony, @ShaharzadAkbar, @ZahraJoya, @Orzala, Benafsha Yaqoobi and @Fawziakoofi77 spoke with @bbclysedoucet about the challenges facing the women of Afghanistan and how the international community can respond.
Watch the 2026 Chatham House Prize ceremony in full: bit.ly/4fhyiev
Alice Hodkinson retweeted
“We call on politicians to abandon this Bill and focus instead on enforcement of existing protections and accessible support for anyone facing abuse or coercion.”
Strong words from Archbishop John Sherrington of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
Archbishop’s statement on the Draft Conversion Practices Bill: cbcew.org.uk/archbishops-sta…
Alice Hodkinson retweeted
The Crown Prosecution Service @CPSUK has been consulting on updating the Code for Crown Prosecutors.
It plans to remove “gender” and “gender identity” from its section on bias, but instead of adding in sex it has mixed up hate crimes and the Equality Act. 🤷🤷
We have responded!
sex-matters.org/posts/update…
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"Baroness Cass has called on the National Lottery to stop funding a website that helps children get around a ban on puberty blockers".
It's incredible that this needs to be said. Withdrawing funding doesn't begin to cover what action needs to be taken.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
Alice Hodkinson retweeted
Baroness Cass said: “I am appalled to hear that both the National Lottery and Wellcome Trust are supporting an organisation that is producing materials that the DHSC has rightly described as irresponsible and unacceptable.
“It is irrelevant whether they are funding this project or The Love Tank’s other projects. No ethical national body or charity, and particularly one which professes to promote health, should give funds to an organisation providing dangerous information to children, any more than they should support the tobacco industry.”
The Love Tank’s guide is right that there are “significant concerns about the ethics” of the NHS puberty blocker trial.
Why is Baroness Cass still supporting an unethical state-sponsored trial?
🚨 NEW: Baroness Cass has called on the National Lottery to stop funding an organisation behind online guides advising children on how to access puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones without medical supervision.
Today’s Telegraph piece also reveals that the guides promote Anne Health, one of two organisations the NHS has specifically warned GPs not to work with over patient safety concerns.
Anne Health co-founder Lizzie Jordan is also a non-executive director of The Love Tank - the community interest company behind the guides.
The Government is now facing calls to intervene.
My latest in The Telegraph with @gordonrayner
Link below 👇
Alice Hodkinson retweeted
We are relieved that @Hilary_Cass and @YvetteCooperMP have taken notice of this breach of safeguarding and the law. Hormones harm patients when not used in line with biological need.
Cross sex hormones are dangerous and must stop 🛑
telegraph.co.uk/gift/1aee0d8…
Alice Hodkinson retweeted
Receiving intimate medical care in hospital, women should be confident in the knowledge that their wards will only be shared by other biological women, as the law stipulates. In case you'd like to know more about sexual assaults in hospitals (most of which can only be carried out by men with male bodies), please read this report written by @JoPhoenix1 for @WomensRightsNet
womensrights.network/nhs-dat…
Alice Hodkinson retweeted
I believe that so-called conversion practices bans are among the most dangerous and pernicious pieces of legislation. They enshrine the concept of the "trans child" in law and impose a model of compulsory affirmation that extends the self-ID delusion to all of society.
Alice Hodkinson retweeted
It is not just injury risk that women and girls face when men participate in their sports. There's also a safeguarding risk. Privacy and dignity also matter.
Link to our report in next post.
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Alice Hodkinson retweeted
We can now add sport to Labour’s long list of safeguarding failures for women and girls.
They have the gall to say that reducing violence against women and girls is one of their priorities but their actions speak louder than words.
@DarlingtonUnion @SportSEENuk
@WomensRightsNet
@wsusportsunion
@SexMattersOrg
@NoMinWPrisons
Alice Hodkinson retweeted
The Conversion Practices Bill committee has not accepted the offers of detransitioners and parents to give oral evidence.
@HJoyceGender: “The committee must listen carefully to these vulnerable victims of a major medical scandal, who know better than anyone the dangers of gender affirmation.”
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
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National Lottery funds website with puberty blockers guide @telegraph
@DerryBanShee: “This so-called guide is reckless and irresponsible...promoting barely legal ways to bypass the UK medical system and obtain puberty blockers.”
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
Alice Hodkinson retweeted
This is a disappointing allegation of dishonesty from a @UKLabour affiliated group
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1/ The report by me & @KishwerFalkner analysed the #ConversionBill in detail & explained why it’s wholly inadequate to protect parents from improper criminalisation>
policyexchange.org.uk/public…
Is this an official Labour account? To describe the scrupulous, line by line analysis of the Conversion Practices Draft Bill by @akuareindorf & Baroness Falkner as “straightforward disinformation” is outrageous cobblers.
And if that’s your best argument, the Bill is in trouble
Alice Hodkinson retweeted
The idea of a pocket guide to puberty blockers and a DIY HRT programme is horrific enough. The fact that this organisation receives funding from the taxpayer is beyond the pale.
I’ve written to the National Lottery Fund to seek urgent answers. This must be stopped.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
Alice Hodkinson retweeted
I spoke with the Telegraph about the conversion practice bill and my concerns surrounding this. You can read it here:
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
Alice Hodkinson retweeted
It is very dangerous to criminalize a parent for pushing back on a child's claims.
Alice Hodkinson retweeted
Do patients even understand why a senior doctor like a GP would ask a patient to go to A&E? Are they aware that the GP has access to “ZERO” emergency lab investigations?
A lot can be dealt with a good history, stethoscope, exam & Rx but not everything
