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Ewan Somerville
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Ewan Somerville
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    Ewan Somerville
    @ewansomerville
    Oct 16, 2023
    JK Rowling: "I’ve looked around and realised that it has to be someone who can take the hit. And it has to be me. I can afford it.” The author's words at the #FiLiA2023 conference are found only in the Telegraph today.
    JK Rowling: I can afford to take the hit and speak out on trans issues
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Ewan Somerville
    @ewansomerville
    Oct 29, 2022
    Oxford University's vice-chancellor has used the famous matriculation ceremonies to tell every new student that they must “hear the other side” of arguments and prepare to be offended digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1138/read…
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    Ewan Somerville
    @ewansomerville
    Jul 26, 2022
    The first drag queen “story hour” for children in a UK-wide tour of council libraries has descended into chaos after it was stormed by protesters and the performer was given a police escort
    Protesters storm first drag queen storytime for primary school children
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Ewan Somerville
    @ewansomerville
    Jan 13, 2023
    The NHS has U-turned on controversial transgender plans after a revolt by midwives. NHS England now facing questions over "ideological capture" and use of taxpayer cash after "no evidence base" for new 'birthing people' training for maternity wards.
    NHS U-turns on transgender plans for maternity care after midwives revolt
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Ewan Somerville
    @ewansomerville
    Dec 5, 2022
    Mermaids is refusing to let staff see a report into ousted boss Susie Green’s leadership because there are not "safe spaces" in which to read it. More whistleblowers have now approached the @Telegraph after "very heated and hostile" meeting today.
    Mermaids refuses to let staff see report on former chief amid ‘safe space’ fears
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Ewan Somerville
    @ewansomerville
    Dec 2, 2022
    NEW: The Charity Commission has launched a full statutory inquiry into Mermaids, the scandal-hit child transgender group. The escalation follows “newly identified issues about the charity’s governance and management”. More to follow @Telegraph
    Mermaids transgender charity under formal investigation
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Ewan Somerville
    @ewansomerville
    Mar 8, 2021
    Cambridge University students are hosting the UK's first "re-platforming" event for academics & researchers who have been no-platformed over their views. More in @Telegraph today
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    Ewan Somerville
    @ewansomerville
    May 30, 2022
    EXC: Trans activists have hounded Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi off University of Warwick's campus, accusing him of “inciting hatred” by defining women as “adult human females". Watch below @Telegraph
    Watch: Trans activists hound Nadhim Zahawi off university campus
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Ewan Somerville
    @ewansomerville
    Dec 4, 2022
    The National Police LGBT+ Network is being investigated after blocking critics of wokery on Twitter. "This is not Iran, we do not have 'morality police'," says @WeAreFairCop @BadLawTeam
    telegraph.co.uk
    National police LGBT network under investigation for blocking critics of wokery on Twitter
    The Home Secretary has told officers nationally to focus on tackling crime and 'stop debating gender on Twitter'
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    Ewan Somerville
    @ewansomerville
    Apr 28, 2022
    Midwifery students at Edinburgh Napier University are being taught how to help men give birth, in a guide experts say is "inclusion to the point of nonsense". Regulator the Nursing & Midwifery Council told @Telegraph the module has "clear inaccuracies".
    Midwifery students being taught how to help men give birth
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Ewan Somerville
    @ewansomerville
    Jan 20, 2023
    Training by Mermaids has been scrapped at the NHS trust replacing the Tavistock clinic, after concerns were raised in The Telegraph
    NHS trust drops Mermaids training scheme after concerns raised
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Ewan Somerville
    @ewansomerville
    May 25, 2023
    54 peers have formally complained to Ofcom about Channel 4’s “irresponsible attack” on Britain’s equality chief, saying the broadcaster is “complicit” in an attempted coup to overthrow her. Full details of their letter here as backlash grows:
    Equality chief backed by peers after ‘emotive and one-sided’ Channel 4 report
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Ewan Somerville
    @ewansomerville
    May 26, 2023
    NEW: Britain's equality watchdog has suspended an investigation into its chief Baroness Falkner amid a growing backlash over an attempted coup by trans-activist civil servants.
    Victorious equality chief says ‘we need to say less and do more’
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Ewan Somerville
    @ewansomerville
    Nov 20, 2022
    Excl: Ministry of Justice staff given 35-point list of "transphobic coded language" they shouldn't use to be trans allies - including "gender critical", "protecting women and girls", "sex is immutable" & "same-sex attracted". More p4 Sunday Telegraph
    Ministry of Justice officials warned that talk about 'protecting women' could be transphobic
    From telegraph.co.uk