It appears that mention of Gender dysphoria in children and young adults has gone from 1:60,000 to 1:1200 in the last ten years, The overwhelming demand is from biological females. It also seems there is no overall strategy for treatment and following the Cass report, the use of blockers and hormones is on hold.

I attach a link to the article. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/24/children-engla...

I thought I knew about all this. I was wrong and it was a coup attempt which Trump lied his way out of again. Also, it seems republicans have shorter memories than woodlice. How do I know, I'm a scientist.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/03/januar...

I will be at a conference all day tomorrow, I'm chairing one of the sessions and will be too tired to write, sorry for any inconvenience to my readers.

My kitchen mixer tap has been dripping for some weeks. Yesterday I tried to get the cap off and failed. I went and finished reading a novel instead. Today, with a renewed feeling of intent, I got a selection of screwdrivers and set to. I had bought some washers in the week so hoped I could do the job. I have never been good at plumbing, I'm still not, but it seems mixer taps don't have washers, they have cartridges. I watched a couple of you tube videos to see what I had to do, I then looked on Screwfix site to see how much they were. There are loads.