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
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Liberal Voices for Women member harasses LGBT members at 2024 conference.
On the 19th March the Liberal Democrats LGBT Committee released a statement that said members of their group were harassed at the Liberal Democrat Autumn conference in 2024 by the anti trans activist group Liberal Voices for Women. Explaining that a LVW member had harassed a member of the “LGBT+ Continue Reading
Trans Allies Systematically Intimidated Inside Tavistock
Content warning: Mentions of suicide, self-harm and child deaths. Transphobia and systematic workplace harassment. Every time I speak to people working inside the NHS, I hear this line without fail: “I’m going to sound like a conspiracy theorist here.” But with every person I speak to, it always rings true. Continue Reading
Did the Cass Review shred the truth?
tl;dr Almost a year ago, when the Cass Review’s final report was released at midnight, I was preparing for a long night of reading while making a cup of tea. As I skimmed through the 388-page document, I quickly tweeted out potentially problematic claims from the report to help more Continue Reading
Yet Another Court Finding for Marriage Equality in Japan
On 13 December 2024, the Fukuoka High Court found that the current state of Japanese law which disallows same sex marriage is unconstitutional. This is in keeping with two previous High Court rulings, one in Sapporo and the other in Tokyo, which we have reported on earlier. While the other Continue Reading