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Documentary review: Beyond The Aggressives: 25 Years Later

Despite Peddle’s flex that the progressiveness of gender identity ideology (aka queer theory) liberated these women, they are just older and a little bit wiser. Less angry. Time has worked its natural effect, basically. Obviously Chin Tsui has fared worst, since, as a direct result of trans activism’s impact on detention policy, she experienced 18…

A talk with Sarah Jane Baker

‘I kidnapped and tortured somebody and got seven years for that and whilst in prison I tried to murder somebody, who hurt me,’ Baker admitted. We all nodded empathetically, as if we understood. Baker said he deserved every single day of the time he served for those crimes and that the victims hadn’t deserved it.…

Trans Symposium at Birkbeck – ‘Existing Otherwise’

As regular tweeps know, we never shy away, having said that, even we couldn’t help being a bit rabbits-in-headlights when facing down the agenda for the Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence ‘Existing Otherwise’, published on Bluesky.

Items were as follows:

a Meditation titled “We Are Here.”

a Creative Collage Workshop, titled “Remapping Masculinity.”

Derek Jarman Annual Lecture – given by trans-identified female

The Derek Jarman lecture is Queer@Kings flagship event and captures the politics of what they aim to do at the University. It is King’s College, of course, who are running the puberty blocker trial for gender dysphoric children. The blurby bit On the Derek Jarman lecture series The Derek Jarman lecture is Queer@Kings flagship event…

‘Learn what life is like for transgender teens’

Lambeth Libraries have made the documentary shorts of The Youth and Gender Media Project, an initiative founded by filmmaker Jonathan Skurnik, free to view for library members and invited him to talk on the topic. Skurnik started the project because he wanted children who didn’t conform to ‘gender roles’ to feel valued, the upshot of…

IDAHOBIT* with The Love Tank

Participants could live, work or socialise in Tower Hamlets to contribute to the council’s ‘needs assessment’, meaning, if you’ve ever bought a matcha latte on Brick Lane, your opinion was as good as any. There were 25 research participants in total, 22 of whom attended a dinner party, with three additional interviewees outside of that…

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…

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