Category: Blog
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Welsh gender clinic “potential Service of Concern”
… but the surgery referrals won’t stop. The Welsh Gender Service (WGS) has been described as a “potential Service of Concern” in an internal NHS document published online. A Service of Concern is a formal NHS designation, meaning there has been “significant singular service failures, or cumulative or systemic concerns regarding a service or setting”.…
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Call for NHS therapists to “educate” clients
The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) has proposed requiring its therapists to “actively promote inclusion” during therapy sessions and “ensure that any discriminatory attitudes and behaviours are challenged” when expressed by patients. The BABCP regulates psychotherapists and BABCP accreditation is considered important for any Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT) working in 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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NHS Doctor Attacks Videographer
On Saturday 11 April various women’s groups around the country got together for a series of events under the One Year On banner, marking the first anniversary of the For Women Scotland Supreme Court ruling. The 2025 ruling essentially established that in law, the word “woman” definitely means biological female. The One Year On event…
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All the Red Flags
I am grateful to an Aussie correspondent for drawing my attention to the work of Minus 18, a state-sponsored LGBTQIA+ concern, which exists to create an “Australia where all young people are safe, empowered, and surrounded by people that support them”. Minus 18 was founded by a man called Colin Roland Billings who, at the…
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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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Cross-post: Glenna Goldis
I’m new to Glenna Goldis’ work. Glenna is a lawyer in New York City with experience in consumer fraud, family law, government, and civil legal aid. Her substack newsletter, Bad Facts, covers the movement for transgender rights. I stumbled across a link to Glenna’s newsletter on substack and after reading her long and informative legal analysis…
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Captured institutions and bad decisions
I first met Peter Daly in a hotel bar in Portugal in 2024. I found him great company and good fun. Peter is a lawyer (and partner at Doyle Clayton) who has spent the last 15 years working as a whistleblowing, employment and discrimination solicitor, specialising in representing claimants. He acted for Maya Forstater from…
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What exactly is a neophallus, then?
This is the second blog post on a theme. The first is called “What exactly is a neovagina, then?“ This post is about the creation of an artificial penis for women who believe they are men. The operation (or series of surgeries) appears to be known generally as a phalloplasty – described by the NHS…