Photos © 2025 “Blue Boy Trial” Film Partners In 1969, a verdict was delivered in a criminal trial that resulted in a moratorium on GRS in Japan for the next three decades [*]. The trial involved an intersection between medical ethics, prostitution, police power, and eugenics. It became known as Continue Reading
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M&S: Misinformation & Spin
This week, our podcast will not contain any of our usual segments, including the news coverage that makes up the bulk of our show. We’ve given over the entire episode to a longform interview and discussion with Jasmine Qureshi about queering ecology, and queering as a practice. It’s some fascinating Continue Reading
Durham Uni Form Allegedly asks for Students “Biological sex”
In early June, a post was submitted on the r/TransgenderUK subreddit. In the post was a Uni student who got an offer to study at Durham University. However, as they were filling in forms for accomadation, the university had allegedly requested the student to disclose their “biological sex at birth”, Continue Reading
Compilation of Petitions for Trans Rights
Summary While the petitioning system is advisory only and the government is not required to take action on any given petition, this system can both require them to respond to specific inquiries and force them to schedule time to debate discrete issues within Parliament. If the Government has to spend Continue Reading
Why I left the NHS LGBT Sounding Board Group
Last week I made the decision to resign from the NHS LGBT Soundingboard. At this point some of you are probably going, ‘Huh, what’s that then?’, so some background is probably in order first. The Soundingboard started about three years ago as an initiative between NHS England and LGBT Foundation, Continue Reading