An open letter to the BBC from Transgender Trend
Dear BBC We are writing to you as a matter of urgency concerning an article on the BBC website by Ben Hunte. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55369784 Mr Hunte misrepresents the High Court ruling…
Dear BBC We are writing to you as a matter of urgency concerning an article on the BBC website by Ben Hunte. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55369784 Mr Hunte misrepresents the High Court ruling…
by Michael Biggs, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. The Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) and University College London have finally released the results of their experiment on puberty…
The High Court ruled in the case of Keira Bell and Mrs A v the Tavistock that children under the age of 13 are ‘highly unlikely’ to be able to…
by Michael Biggs, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. Keira Bell’s and Mrs A’s claim against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust led to a momentous judgment on 1…
In a landmark judgment that will have repercussions around the world the High Court today ruled that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are experimental treatments which cannot be given to…
Trans Kids May Reject Family, Not the Other Way Around, by journalist and filmmaker Tina Traster, was published today in Psychology Today. It was up for three hours. It had…
The Women and Equalities Select Committee (WESC) has launched an Inquiry into reform of the Gender Recognition Act (GRA). The Inquiry asks for evidence in two areas: 1. The government…
Last year the BBC commissioned Professor Richard Sambrook to review the online behaviour of programmes and staff as part of ongoing work on the issue of impartiality. Although the Sambrook…
The link between autism and gender dysphoria is explored in this guest post by Millie (a pseudonym), an Autistic solo mum, researcher and advocate. Millie was diagnosed with autism late…
The new Department for Education guidance on the teaching of Relationships and Sex Education re-establishes common-sense and evidence-based reality in schools. Although the new guidelines are for the RSE and…