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Mandy Clare: V for Victory
Read More…: Mandy Clare: V for VictoryOn 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
Read More…: Tavistock whistleblowers call for immediate halt to puberty blocker trialSusan 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
Read More…: Belfast Film Festival: Written ClosingsAs 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
Read More…: Morrison: Written ClosingsAs 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
Read More…: Sara Morrison’s speechAs 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 […]
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Morrison v Belfast Film Festival: Week 1
Read More…: Morrison v Belfast Film Festival: Week 1This employment tribunal is taking place at Killymeal House in Belfast. Sara Morrison is the Claimant. Belfast Film Festival (BFF) are the Respondent. Morrison is claiming discrimination against her for her gender critical (or as she prefers “sex realist”) views after she was socially cancelled for speaking at this Let Women Speak event (see 1hr […]
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Tribunal bias claim: Panelist steps down
Read More…: Tribunal bias claim: Panelist steps downA member of the panel convened to decide the outcome of Sara Morrison’s discrimination claim against Belfast Film Festival has stepped down after Morrison’s legal team applied to have the entire judging panel removed. Professor Deborah Boyd voluntarily stepped down for health reasons after Morrison’s barrister Naomi Cunningham accused Boyd of bias and failing to […]
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Sara Morrison v Belfast Film Festival
Read More…: Sara Morrison v Belfast Film FestivalSara Morrison used to be an inclusion and audience development co-ordinator working full time at Belfast Film Festival. She has an adult, trans-dentifying son. But she is a heretic. Because? “I just don’t want men in women’s spaces”, she says. It was expressing this sentiment in a public place (and criticising those who oppose it) […]
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Rex v Linehan: the prosecution and defence cases in detail
Read More…: Rex v Linehan: the prosecution and defence cases in detailGraham Linehan, the writer and campaigner, is on trial Westminster Magistrates’ Court for harassment and criminal damage. The agreed facts of the case are on the record. Between 11 and 27 October 2024 Linehan sent a number of tweets about the male Trans Rights Activist, Sophia Brooks. On 19 October, Brooks sought Linehan out and […]
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Cambridge students launch single-sex Society for Women
Read More…: Cambridge students launch single-sex Society for Women“We’re now at a point where I no longer can see inaction as just inaction. I now see a lot of it as just cowardice, and I’m not interested in it anymore.” – Maeve Halligan, CUSW President and Co-Founder. Three Cambridge University students have today launched the Cambridge University Society of Women (CUSW) with the […]
