An open letter to Shahrar Ali.

On 6th August you wrote the following tweet… https://twitter.com/ShahrarAli/status/1556008954219700225?s=20&t=-1MMcFTPvm26lfCt852GDg I would suggest that many of the ‘usual suspects’ who may otherwise have responded you blog post around “Gender-Affirming Heathcare, Actual Green Party Policy and Cass” were ‘deafeningly silent’ because they did not see your post due at least in part to the fact that you …

An open letter to the TES

Dear Sir/Madam On the 22nd June you published an opinion piece - branded as “analysis” entitled “Trans students: the legal risks for schools”. In the current climate where trans people and especially trans young people are the subject of a moral panic being perpetrated by the right wing media and politicians, it appears to me incredibly …

The true cost of a GRC

Even without introducing so-called self ID, the government could have done so much to reform the process, even within the existing legislation. If the GRP would accept a wider range of evidence and from not just a short list of U.K. clinicians, and been more liberal with evidence (a 2 year old change of name …

Books by trans and nonbinary authors coming out in 2022

This post has been a long time in the making. I have spent such a long time searching for books by trans and nonbinary authors being released in 2022…Books by trans and nonbinary authors coming out in 2022

An International Human Rights Law Analysis of the WHRC Declaration

This post concerns the Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights produced by a group called the Women’s Human Rights Campaign. This Declaration self-…An International Human Rights Law Analysis of the WHRC Declaration

Rosie Duffield and a media driven moral panic

At the weekend, the Sunday Times’s front page was dominated by the headline “Speaker's anger as extremists terrorise female Labour MP: threats after feminist branded 'transphobic'” and related story. Story from front page of The Sunday Times, 19th September 2021 One response came from the Archbishop of Canterbury and while this response IS inspired by …

An open letter to Shahrar Ali, Green Party leadership contender.

On 15th September 2021, you took part in the Green Party Leadership Hustings organised by LGBTIQA+ Greens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDa3LZPMVHk&feature=youtu.be ...the following day you posted on twitter a clip highlighting your answer to a question about Stonewall and I would like to respond to you regarding this answer. I have already posted a version of this response …

An open letter to Rosie Duffield.

On the 10th September 2021 you wrote a Twitter thread, in response to an opinion column in your local paper written by a Tory councillor. In it you set out you “gender critical” views, none of which was a surprise to anyone being that they reflected your comments and tweets over the previous years. I …

Thoughts on… white feminism

It was recently suggested to me that far from rejecting white feminism, trans-inclusive feminism is the epitome of white feminism, a claim that I find preposterous. White feminism is criticized for its feminist theories that focus solely on the experience of white women and fail to acknowledge and integrate the notion of intersectionality in the struggle for …

A reply to Peter Daly…

On the 10th June, Peter Daly wrote a blog post entitled “The Forestater Judgement: What Next?” In it he addresses the ruling in the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruling Forestater vs CGD Europe and others (hence forth I shall refer to ‘CGD Europe & others’ as simply CGD); however (and IMO noting that he is …