PODCAST – Trans Kids’ Delivery Service

This week on another exciting* episode of What the Trans?! Comrades Alyx, Flint and Ashleigh go over: 

• The Office for Students have fined a university more than half a million pounds in a row over Kathleen Stock.
• An update to the much-criticised Sullivan report.
• Catching up with news from the USA.
• Our regular romp through Loser’s Corner.
• A story about a cute l’il cartoon racoon!
• For our main segment, an interview with some members of Trans Kids Deserve Better, talking about their recent protests and daily deliveries of cardboard coffins to Wes Streeting’s constituency office, which has now been going on for more than 200 days.

*your mileage on the use of this term may vary. 

References:

Action Alley

Trans Liberation Front Brighton Protest – April 12th

Bristol Against Posie Parker Counter-protest – April 13th

Supporting hormone services in the USA:

HRT – Harm Reduction Toolkit | Crowdfunding with Omprakash

borderless: “Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I’m not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red…” — Bluesky

Trump’s Executive Order

Trump’s Anti-Voter EO Could Disenfranchise Hundreds of Thousands of Trans People

Travel Advisories

Not Just Passports: Several Countries Have Issued U.S. Travel Advisories Over Anti-LGBTQ Policies 

Detentions at US border prompt UK, Germany, and Nordic nations to revise travel advic

California School Funding

Trump Admin Threatens To Pull California School Funding Unless It Forcibly Outs Trans Students 

Cory Brooker

Cory Booker makes longest Senate speech in 25-hour stand against Trump – BBC News

University of Sussex

Regulatory case report for University of Sussex: OfS decisions relating to breaches of conditions E1 and E2 and the imposition of monetary penalties – Office for Students
“Student regulators’ findings will make universities ungovernable”, says Sussex Vice-Chancellor : Broadcast: News items 

The Kafkaesque investigation into our university looks like political scapegoating

Sullivan Update

Technology secretary Peter Kyle asks ChatGPT for science and media advice

It’s uncomfortable for a Leftie like me to admit, but Trump is right on trans issues – Telegraph (Archive Link)

https://pcse.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/patient-registrations-enquiry-categories/adoptions-and-gender-reassignment

https://pcse.england.nhs.uk/help/patient-registrations/adoption

World Athletics

Consultation – Recommendations to the eligibility conditions for the Female Category

Wren the Racoon

https://bsky.app/profile/hleehurley.com/post/3ll6ukc3kis2l 

BBC respond to right-wing backlash over ‘non-binary’ racoon 

Loser’s Corner