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Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says (www.thepinknews.com)

submitted 6 months ago by LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

There may have been an organized effort by the far right to take over various national subreddits. It gives the impression that their views are overwhelmingly popular in the country, when really they're not. The subreddit /r/Canada also got dominated by the far right, which led to the creation of /r/onguardforthee. At least one of the mods of /r/Canada was shown to be an active neo-Nazi, and another declared himself a white supremacist. There is still too much support for the far right in Canada (and we're looking at a big lurch to the right in the next election), but it's not as dominant as you'd think from that subreddit.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Tbf, leftists did this also. r/northernireland had a big bunch of American IRA larpers who never set foot in the country, and edgy youth from the Republic.