When doctors are being deliberately misleading on an issue of child safeguarding, it’s time for the authorities to intervene. Firstly, a huge THANK YOU to the brave (ex) trustees of La Leche for their courage in speaking up for child safeguarding. All the people who have spoken out to protect children have helped tremendously. Ruth…
By a CoTs member I’m horrified to see that UK’s College of Police ‘Domestic abuse guidance’, like the Crown Prosecution Service guidance which preceded it, effectively criminalises the children and female partners of trans-identified men if we resist abuse and coercion. Thank you to retired police chief Cathy Larkman, of WRN Wales, for highlighting this,…
Here is my speech at the Genspect conference in Lisbon in September 2024. A big thank you to everyone at Genspect to helped to make this happen. It’s a huge deal for us to have a voice on an international stage.
The forthcoming Victim’s Bill requires ‘Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and local authorities to work together when commissioning support services for victims of domestic abuse, sexual abuse and other serious violence. …It will … ensure that victims can access the services they need, regardless of where they live.’ https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/628cc371d3bf7f1f40ca5151/draft-victims-bill-explanatory-notes.pdf This sounds…
Many readers have seen Children of Transitioners’ letter from Sussex NHS Trust (thanks for your help Lottie/ Biology Matters project) link here. Policy Exchange Biology Matters COTS Letter Many press reports focus on the male secretion content rather than the ethics of unnecessary experiments with unlicensed drugs on babies or the use of infants in sexual…
Before you go any further, there is some disturbing content in this article that is unsuitable for people under 18. This has been quite a year so far for children of transitioners and people are more aware of us than ever before. From the revelations about Jan Morris and his treatment of his daughter to…
It’s been an important week for children of transitioners in the UK and Europe, as the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that trans people do not have the right to alter their child’s birth certificate. We were quoted in Jo Bartosch’s excellent article on the ruling: https://thecritic.co.uk/mother-means-something/ Here’s the perspective of a frequent…
Taking Stock I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how language works, how we as a society adopt ideas, and how we can achieve a kind of liberation by reframing our thinking. In Kathleen Stock’s book Material Girls, she lays out four philosophical claims that trans activism makes: This was very much in my mind…
Note from Emma: it hasn’t escaped our notice that the UK police seem to have become very invested in their own brand of trans rights advocacy. Recent events, such as police taking two men into custody over a tweet deemed to be ‘anti-trans’ (Police force is savaged by its own crime commissioner over the arrest…
Readers from the US will undoubtedly be more familiar with the news reporter Katy Tur than those in the UK. She has been a broadcast journalist for years and is noted in particular for her coverage of the Trump campaign. She is barely known in the UK, so you will forgive me I hope that…