Interesting Links for 22-01-2026

[andrewducker]

1. Changing gender in the UK involves a legal declaration that you will live as the gender you are changing to. With legal consequences if you don't.

(tags:law UK gender transgender LGBT )

2. Prolonged air pollution linked to increase of incurable muscle-wasting diseases

(tags:pollution disease )

3. Six key takeaways from the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry (cover-ups leading to patient deaths)

(tags:scotland hospital OhForFucksSake death )

4. MAGA's 'Manifest Destiny' Coalition Has Arrived - "It's up to us to keep pushing for the orderly governance of the world via American imperialism"

(tags:usa politics OhForFucksSake )

5. Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback

(tags:ai art comics )

6. Anti-trans 'data vandalism' damages scientific research, study finds

(tags:LGBT research bigotry transgender gender )

7. When the United Kingdom annexed a north Atlantic island (and what they might do with it)

(tags:scotland uk politics history funny )

Comments

[mountainkiss]

Hah! I thought it would be Rockall.

[cmcmck]

1. It does indeed and I'm amazed people weren't aware of the fact.

And for most of us it couldn't be a bigger none issue if it tried! How the hell else would I want to live after fifty odd years?

[dewline]

2. Not surprising. So of course, Fossil Fuel Money will dig in deeper in reply to this.

5. Good.

6. Vandalism...a good word for this.

[bens_dad]

1. It took a surprising amount of effort to read any suggesting that the state isn't living up to its side of the formal contract into the article.

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A GRC is issued under the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and “facilitates” a change of legal sex to male or female for most purposes of UK law.​

For most purposes. Is that in the 2004 Act or a reflection of the supreme court decision last year ?

[andrewducker]

No idea, I'm afraid!

[cmcmck]

It always was 'for most purposes' What people don't seem to be able to haul on board is that it always WAS possible to make exceptions.