Always give a wide berth to any organisation which demands lower caps where upper caps should be observed. In the case of akt (previously the Albert Kennedy Trust), it was originally a charity which helped same sex attracted teens with housing problems. Nowadays, of course, it is LGBTQ+ focussed and has the heterosexual trans activist celebrity couple Hannah and Jake Graf as patrons. akt makes a lot of income from partnerships with companies like M&S, Morrisons, Hello Fresh, Whitbread, and Pret, etc. akt claims that ‘24% of young homeless people aged 16-25 identify as being LGBTQ+’ and currently runs a trans-specific project, helping those made homeless by ‘transphobia’.
Category: LGBT training
Executive Briefing: Allies Coming out for Trans+
The day before it started there was a faux pas; a demand for proof of identity on entry because ‘duty of care is paramount in this toxic environment’, with a lame assurance that if the name we booked in didn’t match our legal record, we would be treated discreetly, without clarifying what this actually meant. ‘Not really trans allyship, is it?,’ I thought, and it seems an assortment of pink- and blue-hairs concurred, as 24-hours later, we had another email, more or less saying ‘we didn’t really mean it’. Of course, the fear was that some angry terfs were going to gate crash and liven things up but alas this happens only once in a blue moon. It’s really only our events which get disrupted.
Active Bystander training c/o Transport for London
Protection Approaches is a registered charity with four supposed programme areas: communities, schools, training and atrocity prevention. Yep, you read that correctly. Atrocity prevention. Thankfully they define ‘atrocity’ as genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and war crimes, rather than microaggressions like misgendering. However, it is not explained why they, a lowly DEI training provider, would have any influence in international politics.
Including trans people in sport
Simon opened the training by saying that trans people don’t feel comfortable in sport and ‘self-select’ out of it. However, inclusion was possible, it just required us to reappraise ‘stereotypes’ and change the way we do things.
Simon read a quote from GI’s ‘research’ from a trans person who was relying on sport to keep them going whilst they waited for ‘hormones and surgery’. A quote from the IOC told us that ‘sport was a human right’. So why did ‘trans folk’ find it hard to take part?
Trans awareness training with Amanda Jette Knox
About this event In her signature talk, based on her bestselling book by the same name, Amanda shares the personal story of her family’s journey
Focus on the T – LGBT training
About the event In the fourth and final event for our 2022 Legal Pride celebration, we will be joined in conversation by a senior LGBTQ+ leader
The Lies They Tell 
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