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How-To Guide for UK Parents: Setting Parental Controls and Protecting Children from Online Dangers and Social Media

How-To Guide for UK Parents: Setting Parental Controls and Protecting Children from Online Dangers and Social Media

As a parent in the UK, keeping your child safe online is a top priority. The internet offers incredible opportunities but also poses risks like exposure to inappropriate content, cyberbullying, and excessive screen time—especially on social media. This guide will…

Exploring the Roots of British Culture: A Brief Journey Through the History and Origins of Britain

Exploring the Roots of British Culture: A Brief Journey Through the History and Origins of Britain

British culture and history are a rich tapestry woven from the traditions, ancient migrations, and innovations of the peoples who have inhabited the islands of the United Kingdom—England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland—over millennia. Long before the arrival of the…

The harmful “chest feeding” phenomenon

Clip regarding the harmful "chest feeding" phenomenon - full video on linked tweet - plus an article on the harms and effects
Two women #AdultHumanFemales
Both doctors, what "science" do you want to follow?
Medical Facts or Sociological Theory?
#Safeguarding
CASE STUDY 2 – Experiment of Induced Lactation in a Trans-identifying Male (excerpt from ‘Born in the Right Body’)

The Paedophile Information Exchange: Timeline of press cuttings 1975-2014 & brief history

Brief history & Press cutting linked to PIE: The Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) was a British pro-paedophile activist group, founded in October 1974 and officially disbanded in 1984. The group campaigned for the abolition of the age of consent. It was described by the BBC in 2007 as "an international organisation of people who trade obscene material".

The NHS is 75 years old today!

I fully support the idea of a National Health Service….. here is some history of how it came to be and where we are now:

The Emergency Hospital Service (later Emergency Medical Service) was established at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, giving central government a right of direction over voluntary and municipal hospitals. The service was a loose alliance of separate organisations, working together to deal with a national emergency, but paved the way for separate and competing institutions to come together as part of the National Health Service.

A Brief Look at the History of Medicalising Sex & Gender — Part One

The first F-M sex-change operation in a transsexual patient, i.e. the construction of a penis (so-called phalloplasty), allegedly took place in the Netherlands in Arnhem in 1959–1960. The first university-based gender clinics operated in the United States from the early 1960s to approximately 1980. During this two-decade period, doctors and researchers would attempt to find a cause and a psychiatric treatment (i.e., a cure) for transsexuality.

They would ultimately fail in this search for an aetiology/etiologic cause and would move toward surgical and hormonal treatments….

Apotemnophilia, Paraphilia or Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), Dysphoria Resolved by Self-Amputation (GB 1992): Case-History 12-Year Follow-Up (2009) with Medical Ethical Issues— to 2023

READ ON MEDIUM HERE OR BELOW: Body integrity dysphoria (BID, also referred to as body integrity identity disorder, amputee identity disorder and xenomelia, formerly called apotemnophilia) REFERENCES: Mia @_CryMiaRiver Ottawa, Ontario & Jen @JenKTeach England, UK