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We NEED your help ! Please RT ! This is what @Keir_Starmer replied to our plea for help in the ongoing search for Ben #helpfindben 💙 #benneedham gofundme.com/f/Helpfindbenne…

When a woman risks everything to defend what it means to be a woman, the least the rest of us can do is stand beside her. I stand with Amy Hamm (@preta_6). Today, November 10, Amy’s appeal began in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. I have tremendous admiration for this lady. Despite the professional and financial consequences she’s faced, she has refused to abandon her convictions. She’s fighting for her own future now, but she took that stand for all of ours. Amy is appealing a professional misconduct finding over public statements concerning sex and gender identity. I find it extraordinary that a nurse, whose profession is grounded in human biology, faces professional discipline over statements about biological sex and women’s sex-based rights. I consider it the ultimate expression of misogyny to tell women that a man can simply declare himself a woman, and that we must accept his declaration as equivalent to biological sex. We spent generations fighting to have our rights as women recognized, only to find ourselves having to defend the very definition of a woman. A society that demands women’s silence in the name of protecting women’s rights has lost sight of what those rights were meant to protect. Inclusion becomes exclusion when belonging requires the erasure of what was sought to be included in.

Signs a man might ☠️ you.

Every day now is filled with phone calls from finders of out-in-the-day hedgehogs. And they are all saying the same thing: "We brought him in, put him in a box and gave him food, he was starving." They don't realise, but these sweet kind people have just sealed this hedgehog's fate. Please NEVER feed a daytime wildlife casualty. I know, it's so hard not to. When we see a suffering animal we feel a strong, innate impulse to help, and a desire to provide immediate tangible comfort; equating food with survival and care. Feeding feels like a direct, immediate and nurturing action to alleviate suffering. Yet it is the most catastrophically harmful thing you could ever do. Especially hedgehogs out in the day, who will be hypothermic. It takes a lot of energy to digest food, energy these compromised animals just don't have spare. Every last bit of their energy is being used to maintain vital bodily functions - to keep the heart beating, to oxygenate the organs. Forcing energy away from these critical functions for something as non-critical as digesting food will be a death sentence. It won't be immediate, it may take hours, or a couple of days, but eventually, no matter what the experienced rescue you later take them to tries, the animal is already on the unstoppable journey into shock, organ failure and death. It's tragic for the casualty and heartbreaking for the rescues. So please help in the right way. An out-in-the-day hedgehog needs *contact* warmth, a safe indoor space away from flies, and cover to reduce their stress (please see advice below). They are not going to die of starvation in the couple of hours between you finding them, and getting them to a rescue.😊 And please remember - any website that gives you DIY information on caring for or feeding injured or orphaned wildlife is, by default, wrong. The ONLY right action is to get them to a good rescue (never a vet) where their complex needs can be met. Even if you have seen this vital information before and understand it, feeding wildlife casualties is a powerful compulsion because it directly activates human instincts of empathy and compassion, often overriding the scientific advice against it. So please remember this warning and spread it as far as you can. Helping a wildlife casualty get to the expert treatment they need is an incredibly kind, altruistic act of great humanity. Just remember to provide them with what they need, not what you need.🥰