Category: Pronouns
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Linehan is Acquitted: Smiles All Round
At 2.55pm today, the Honourable Mrs Justice Tibbles 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…
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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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A message to you, GPs
I am in touch with a doctor who is concerned about gender-affirming care, and the expectation that GPs in the UK will prescribe hormones for young adults who have been seen by Gender Identity Clinics. She has written what follows mainly for other clinicians, but it is of interest to the lay reader, too. Introduction…