Author: Nick Wallis
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Jonni Skinner: Still Walking, Wounded.
“I was severely, severely misled.” Jonni Skinner is a 23 year old detransitioner from Michigan. I met him at the Life Beyond Transition conference in Washington DC earlier this year. Jonni spoke on a panel about his experience of being medically transitioned and the harm done to him as a result. Jonni’s recent testimony has…
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NHS: Gender Doctors Harmed Children
An NHS investigation into the activities of WellBN – a Brighton GP surgery which prescribed cross-sex hormones to children – has found it caused “actual potential harm” to its young patients and “fell substantially below” the professional standards of care required. A Patient Safety Investigation Report, completed on 8 May, but published on the NHS…
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Depoliticising the Workplace
Tanya de Grunwald has a podcast strand called This Isn’t Working, in which she invites business leaders to consider employee activism and the vicissitudes of DEI. Her live events, under the banner This Is Working, are aimed at bringing business leaders together to discuss how organisations can move forward from where we are now. There…
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Sex and Gender Law Association is Go
Fair play to Simon Cheetham KC. He opened his talk by thanking the chair Dr Julius Grower for listing the gender cases he’d been involved with, adding “what that flattering biography failed to mention is that in terms of the cases involving these issues, I’ve lost them all.” There was laughter, compounded by his pay…
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WGS issues raised in Welsh Parliament
Concerns published on this website about the Welsh Gender Service have been raised in the Welsh Parliament by Natasha Asghar MS. During a plenary session in which the Health and Social Care Minister outlined his priorities for the parliamentary session, Asghar said: “Recently, there have been some rather concerning revelations about the Welsh Gender Service,…
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Welsh Gender Service: Going Rogue?
The Welsh Gender Service is an interesting outfit. It is the only NHS clinic in Wales taking adult referrals from GPs. It is run by Dr Sophie Quinney, who was last seen in April, grabbing a camera out of a videographer’s hand, and allegedly having to be restrained by the police. According to information released…
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Gender Clinic Investigation Stays Secret
A parent taking the WellBN gender clinic in Brighton to court over the treatment of his child has lost his bid to see the results of a recently completed investigation into potential malpractice at the clinic. The report was commissioned in June last year. As part of its scope, investigators were asked to: Their report…
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Linehan is Acquitted: Smiles All Round
At 2.55pm today, the Honourable Mrs Justice Tipples overturned Graham Linehan’s conviction for criminal damage to a trans activist’s phone, on the basis that she and her panel could not be sure that Linehan caused the alleged damage to the phone. Speaking afterwards Linehan said: “The decision of the court to throw out this case…
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Glinner Rides Again
or: Day 1 of Graham Linehan’s appeal against his conviction for criminal damage at Southwark Crown Court The first and most important thing to know about this appeal is that it is essentially a re-trial. In order for Graham Linehan to have a fair re-trial neither the judge nor the two lay panellists sitting either…
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Avoiding Compelled Speech in Court
In March, the Crown Prosecution Service made fools of themselves, reporting that a “woman” had been found guilty of murdering “her” partner. Reader, the woman was a man. The CPS’ defence was that Aurin Makepeace was afforded female pronouns in court, and this justified the CPS lying to the public. It is the logic of…