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Theresa Verity

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Theresa Verity

@theresaverity

GIDS kid referred in 2000. Treated with Puberty Blockers and transitioned decades before you realised we existed. We've always been here! #ProtectTransKids

Joined December 2012

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Theresa Verity
@theresaverity
Jul 29, 2025
25 years ago, as a schoolkid, I received Puberty Blockers - one of the first few GIDS kids to do so. It was a tough time to be a trans kid in an age when barely anyone knew we could exist. It's even harder now we are a culture war battleground. Listen to us. Not to the lies.
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Theresa Verity
@theresaverity
Jan 18, 2025
It warms the cockles of my heart that two of the nastiest people on earth spent vast amounts of time and effort to build secret alt identities to dramatically reveal in showers of self-importance - but both had their grand reveals spoiled before they'd gathered any steam.
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Theresa Verity
@theresaverity
Jan 18, 2025
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Rowling's first Galbraith novel sold fewer than 500 copies in its first three months. It barely gathered any buzz and dropped to only 43 copies a week until an AI analysis of it found it was written by Rowling - which was then 'accidentally' confirmed by a lawyer. Whooops.
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Theresa Verity
@theresaverity
Dec 18, 2024
Hey gang look, new bigotry just dropped It's illegal for us to have sex! Yup, you heard right. It was kinda ambiguously illegal for us to have sex in the UK since 2013 but it's just been clarified to be very definitely explicitly illegal for us to do so now. Merry Christmas!
India Willoughby
@IndiaWilloughby
Dec 18, 2024
The legislation that is quietly being implemented by the UK Establishment against trans people right now by this Labour Government is truly horrific. Trans people in the UK must now declare their birth sex to a partner before sex - or face prosecution for rape. Outing themselves
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Theresa Verity
@theresaverity
Jul 29, 2024
I was prescribed Puberty Blockers a quarter of a century ago by the NHS's GIDS team. There are so many things I am able to do today that I could not have been able to do without them. I have never experienced a health complication from taking them. They. Saved. My. Life.
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Theresa Verity
@theresaverity
Nov 8, 2025
It was Brianna's birthday yesterday. Her 19th birthday. The UK government decided to honour her memory earlier this year by declaring that trans girls like her should be forced to share single sex facilities with murderous male transphobes like Eddie Ratcliffe.
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Theresa Verity
@theresaverity
Jan 18, 2025
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More recently, Elon Musk created a bizarre alt identity of 'Adrian Dittmann', claiming to be a ??Belgian?? native German speaker with the apparent intention of boosting his influence in German politics and gamer culture.
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Theresa Verity
@theresaverity
Jan 18, 2025
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She'd planned to pull a Bronte sisters but instead humiliated herself with a complete damp squib. We don't actually know whether it was accidentally or 'accidentally' leaked in order to save it, but either way her smug secret pseudonym only lasted a couple of months. Sad trombone
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Theresa Verity
@theresaverity
Jan 18, 2025
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A couple of days after this steam, after he'd gone viral and absolutely destroyed any chance of ever being taken seriously, he finally admitted to being Elon Musk. He'd wanted an 'I Am Iron Man' moment of smug revelation, but instead made an absolute ass of himself.
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Theresa Verity
@theresaverity
Jan 18, 2025
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One notable low point was when, with mastubatory glee, he used his 'Adrian Dittmann' account to tell himself on Twitter that he is a great father. He was clocked very quickly since his speech patterns and accent make his identity incredibly obvious.
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Theresa Verity
@theresaverity
Jan 18, 2025
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Nonetheless, he continued to maintain the Adrian Dittmann identity beyond the point of reason when he joined a Fortnite steam and endured three agonising hours of abject humiliation from the host live in front of millions while being unable to respond without dropping the facade.
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Theresa Verity
@theresaverity
Jan 18, 2025
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He went to an enormous amount of effort to set this identity up, including using voicemod and pre-recorded streams to make it appear that both were publicly active in different locations at the same time.
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Theresa Verity
@theresaverity
Jan 18, 2025
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Oh, by the way: I was prescribed Puberty Blockers a quarter-century ago as a trans schoolkid. They had a huge positive impact on my life and I am hugely thankful for the opportunities I've had due to them. Gender affirming care works. Stop torturing children. #ProtectTransKids
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Theresa Verity
@theresaverity
May 1, 2024
Hi @Keir_Starmer. I was treated with Puberty Blockers 24 years ago by the NHS under a Labour government. I am physically and legally a woman. I have been using NHS single-sex services and accommodation all my life without issue. Why are you throwing me under the bus now?
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