Genspect
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.
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…
‘Seahorse’ is a BBC documentary, recently aired, about Alfred McConnell, a ‘trans man’ who identifies as gay. That’s a person born a woman who believes that they are a gay man. Freddie has been taking testosterone for a while and passes as a man. Freddie likes going to the gym. At some point, for reasons…
Once again, the press brings us news about gender ideology in schools. As a child of a transitioner, it was shocking to read in this week’s Times that a Headteacher on the Isle of Wight, following Cornwall school guidance, wrote to the parents of a six-year-old to state the child would be viewed as transphobic…
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…
First of all, thank you to everyone for the positive reception of my piece on autogynephilia, which received more views than all my previous pieces combined last year. I also highly recommend this article on the subject, although it focuses more on the position of the T within LGBT, given that most of the ‘T’…
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,…