Q&A with Sam Feder, director of ‘Heightened Scrutiny’
Feder described the first time she met Mila as ‘so organic’. This was at the school board meeting, which appears in the documentary. Feder claimed she attended it as a ‘concerned adult’ and that 12 year old Mila approached her, coming out of the crowd ‘like a parting of the sea’, explicitly telling her: “You…
Juno Dawson gives a lecture on children’s literature
Okay, my first complaint is that Dawson claimed to have only written the speech the day before. No, just no. No, you did not write your fucking speech only the day before, Dawson. Not possible. What a lie! Second complaint – okay, not really a complaint, more just noting how utterly predictable a TIM is…
Documentary review: Heightened Scrutiny
Beginning with portentous music and court scenes, Heightened Scrutiny follows the story of pip-squeak lawyer, Chase Strangio, a trans-identified female working for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), as she attempts to persuade the courts – and us – that GnRH agonists are, in fact, life saving healthcare for pre- and -pubescent children. A vast…
Lecture on Gender, Sex and the Law, a UCL Law Event
Shaz was there at the beginning of it all, i.e. the 2004 Gender Recognition Act (GRA). There had been a Telegraph article titled: Gender is no substitute for sex. (In fact, the article is no such thing, rather a jokey piece written by the Telegraph’s sketch writer, worth reading, especially for a dig at a…
Review: Trans Mission – A Solidarity Concert
For the benefit of the Fox Killer’s coffers. My review I came, I saw, I conkered (quite literally the most spelling mistakes evs). Not everyone is a fan of my work, however … But nice to see people fighting back against my fat phobia … Again, probably not fans but Ayn Rand being compared to…
In conversation: Petra Lord and Juno Dawson
When Dawson wrote Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, he was looking for a new magical world, because he felt one particular magical world was no longer accessible to him as a trans person (that’s right, a full grown man crying about an author’s personal views outside of her fantasy series). This tragedy lead to him thinking…
Are you kink curious?
Kink play is an ’emotionally rich’ but ‘confusing terrain’ to be in. This was due to ‘social taboo’, of course, rather than normal psychological responses we experience in response to danger. For example, when engaging in ‘blood play’ and other types of dangerous BDSM, we needed to think ‘about our triggers’ and ‘how to keep…
Trans book fest
Pechey introduced himself as a they/them, describing himself as having ‘strawberry blonde hair,’ when we could all see he’s bleached blonde. Despite being an ‘award winning author, presenter, educator,’ the hand wringing began immediately. Things were so awful right now, Pechey was so very thankful that the other panel members had managed to roll out…
Keynote panel talk at the Barbican’s ‘Dirty Weekend’ takeover
One panel member had been scared off being her real self due to the conservative push back, affecting how she ‘showed up online’ and had been forced to take twelve months out to do an art residency so that she could regain her confidence. She wanted now to make pieces (dildos?, I really don’t know)…
Review: TESTO by Wet Mess
Interestingly, the blurb published for TESTO obscures the fact that the show is about the trans-identified female experience of taking exogenous testosterone. Now why would the Southbank want to do that? At least it had an age-guidance of 18+ though.
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