Author: Nick Wallis
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“The Guardrails Are Collapsing”
“If I if I get struck off as a psychologist and I’ve got to go and stack shelves in Tesco, then at least I know I did the right thing. I can’t do this anymore.” Dr P is a clinical psychologist and an expert witness in child protection. She has a severely disabled daughter in…
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Corporate Stupidity Files: Infinity War
This story is an example of how companies act against their own interests by sacrificing themselves on the altar of gender ideology. Two years ago, John Lewis set up a Pride in Partnership photography exhibition at its Oxford Street store in London. It also published a staff magazine produced by the partnership’s LGBTQIA+ network. Both…
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FWS day 3: Suicide is Shameless
The arguments advanced by the Scottish government in court today boiled down to a simple proposition: banning men from women’s prisons puts transgender prisoners at increased risk of suicide, and that is “unacceptable”. Gerry Moynihan KC, acting for the Scottish government, told the judge, Lady Ross, that a blanket ban on men in women’s prisons…
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FWS day 2: Dawn of the Intervenors
Today brought a range of textures and styles from the learned folk arguing the toss in Edinburgh’s Court of Session. There was a lot of tedious guff, briefly enlivened – mainly by Janys Scott KC, who spoke for the Equality and Human Rights Commission as an intervenor (you can download their submission at the bottom…
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For Women Scotland back in court
Ten months after the Supreme Court confirmed trans-identifying men are not women, the campaign group For Women Scotland were back in court today aiming to give the Scottish government another shoeing. This time Trina Budge, Susan Smith and Marion Calder were at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, seeking to have the Scottish policy of…
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Mandy Clare: V for Victory
On the day I speak to her, Mandy Clare should have been in court, standing trial for assault by beating and criminal damage. Instead she is reflecting on a horrendous few months which saw her arrested, charged and suspended from her job simply for – in her view – doing her job as a local…
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Tavistock whistleblowers call for immediate halt to puberty blocker trial
Susan and Marcus Evans – two of the first whistleblowers involved in exposing the scandal at the Tavistock’s GenderIdentity Development Service (GIDS) – have written to the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, asking him to “immediately halt” the proposed UK puberty blocker trial. The whistleblowers believe “the proposed research risks causing iatrogenic harm to children who…
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Belfast Film Festival: Written Closings
As subscribers to the GenderBlog newsletter will know – yesterday was the final day of Morrison v Belfast Film Festival at the Belfast Employment Tribunal. Sara Morrison has made a claim against her former employer, alleging discrimination for her gender-critical/sex-realist beliefs and constructive dismissal. In yesterday’s newsletter I laid out the closing oral submissions from…
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Morrison: Written Closings
As subscribers to the GenderBlog newsletter will know – yesterday was the final day of Morrison v Belfast Film Festival at the Belfast Employment Tribunal. Sara Morrison has made a claim against her former employer, alleging discrimination for her gender-critical/sex-realist beliefs and constructive dismissal. In yesterday’s newsletter I laid out the closing oral submissions from…
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Sara Morrison’s speech
As it is a matter of some significance to her employment tribunal, I have reproduced a transcript of Sara Morrison’s speech at the Let Women Speak event in Belfast on 16 April 2023. You can also watch the speech on youtube. Sara starts 1hr 4mins in. It’s only four minutes long. The transcript immediately below…