We are appalled but not surprised at the Government’s reported decision to row back from banning conversion practices for trans people. Just a few months ago, this same Government called […]
Author: TransActual Editor
Giving evidence to the Women and Equalities Committee on 8 September 2015, Dr John Dean authoritatively summarised the genesis of gender identity clinics [GICs]:
“there is quite considerable diversity of opinion between different clinicians and different clinics. All seven gender clinics in England arose out of the special interest of an individual a long time in the past. There has not been a lot of planning of their development, and there certainly is no training pathway for medical practitioners or others who work in this field.” [1]
Who were these individuals ‘a long time in the past’, how did they come to define the lives of trans people, and why are GICs such a focus of criticism from the patients they exist to serve?
by a community member I arrived at the dimly lit Heathrow in the dead of winter. “You have a good day, sir,” said the immigration officer as I first set […]
The reports from VICE news this afternoon, outlining the draft guidance on single-sex spaces the EHRC is considering, are incredibly alarming, For the EHRC to even think that it’s in […]
TransActual expresses its disappointment at the EHRC’s failure, once again, to understand that they need to protect the rights of trans people as well as everyone else. Today’s EHRC statement, […]
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BBC Cover-up?
It began with a piece on October 26 headlined lesbians pressured into sex by some trans women. There’s no demographic whose every member is pure as the driven snow. That is why we do not expect to read screeds based on dubious surveys by hate groups setting out the argument of that same hate group. Would the BBC run a story alleging some cis women are pressured into sex by lesbians?