October 3rd 2020 All comments welcome. Either comment below the post or email sarahvphillimore@gmail.com EDITS 4th October IN BOLD Comments in italic Thanks to all for your comments. If you made them on Twitter, apologies if they got lost, I may not have captured all. With regard to the ‘self evident’ truths I think we …
GRARG met for the 3rd time remotely on 3rd September 2020. It was clear we remained in a limbo with no news on any Government announcement about reform to the GRA. On 19th September the fog cleared a little with a leaked report in the Sunday Times that Self ID was NOT going to be …
At the third meeting of GRARG at 8pm on 2nd September we will be discussion the results of our contact with MPs. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4247888422 As you can see from the spreadsheet below, as of August 30th we have an idea about the position of 140 MPs and SMPs. However, only 10 are based …
This is a project with two aims: first that we make our MPs fully aware of our views on the ‘sex/gender’ conflation and the harm it is doing. Second, that we build up a clear idea of the views of our own MPs. What follows is a suggested draft letter – please edit it or …
Policy and strategy discussions 15th July 2020 NEXT MEETING: 22nd July IF there is a Government announcementZOOM LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4247888422OTHERWISE: Wednesday 2nd September 2020 8pm This document is a mixture of some strategy proposals made by one group member and a summary of action agreed at the meeting on 15th July.The strategy proposals are presented as …
Issues around education and medical treatment. Some useful resources and commentary Briefings from Transgender Trend https://www.transgendertrend.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RSE-and-gender-identity-briefing.pdf https://www.transgendertrend.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RSE-Parliamentary-Briefing-No-Outsiders.pdf Child-on-child sexual abuse in schools:www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/09/child-on-child-sexual-assaults-soar-police-figures-reveal Marcus Evans, former Director at the NHS Tavistock and Portman Trust:www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/03/tavistock-centre-gender-identity-clinic-accused-fast-tracking-young-adults Susan Evans, phycologist and former nurse at the NHS Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS). Her request for a judicial review:www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/11/fear-young-trans-patients-could-sue-nhs-negligence-former-tavistock/ Kirsty Entwhistle, …
The law and its development Legal commentary Development of the law regarding gender ID in the European Court Home Office Report of the Interdepartmental Working Group on Transsexual People April 2000 The Forstater Employment Tribunal judgment: a critical appraisal in light of Miller Karon Monaghan February 2020 To sum up: statute and case law recognises a …
15th July 2020 8pm It’s been an eventful few weeks since the meeting on 24th June 2020 – I’ve been banned from Medium for the crime of posting a summary of our first meeting. But happily we have found a new home. We’ve had the shocking spectacle of Google joining forces with Stonewall and Gendered …
The next meeting of the Gender Recognition Act Reform Group – GRARG Read More »
What is the GRA and why does it need to change? The Gender Recognition Act ‘Where a full gender recognition certificate is issued to a person, the person’s gender becomes for all purposes the acquired gender (so that, if the acquired gender is the male gender, the person’s sex becomes that of a man and, …
Summary of the First Meeting of the Gender Recognition Act Reform Group On 24th June 68 people ‘met’ via Zoom for the first meeting of the Gender Recognition Act Reform Group. I set out a brief agenda and some further reading in this post.I will set out here a summary of what we discussed, some particular …
