Before we watched the film, Rosskam wanted to contextualise where things were right now for trans people, in the US there were ‘522 anti-trans bills’ and the UK had just banned puberty blockers for children. These were dangerous times. There was also ‘genocide’ in Gaza and we were watching governments ‘essentially decide who gets to be human and who gets to live’. Although the two issues may not seem related, they were, it was to do with the way governments ‘restricted bodies’.
Non-Binary in Higher Education report launch and panel discussion
The survey was run for six weeks starting in April 2019, thus it has taken more than four years to analyse the results and publish this report. FOUR YEARS! A worldwide pandemic has come and gone in between, which we’re pretty sure saw most hackademics sunning themselves in their gardens for about 18 months, but I digress.
Review of documentary: Life of Kai
The documentary is piss poor in every sense, lack of direction, lack of interest in its subject. Absolutely no nuance. Cloying animated interlinking segments. It’s like the whole thing was put together by people wearing boxing gloves. Not to mention the unforgivable pun in the film’s title. But for all that it is still incredibly revealing. There’s no hiding the grooming, nor My Genderation’s intimate involvement in pushing Kai, and others like her, along the path of an irreversible transition.
Review of book: ‘Transsexual Apostate’ by Debbie Hayton
Mother would throw her laddered tights in the bin and little Dobbie would retrieve them, covered in potato peelings, ‘or worse’ (Loc 142) and wear them. He was aged five. There is no additional information about how a pair of tights stretched out to an adult woman’s dimensions fitted a five year old boy and I would suggest that would be because it never happened.
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.
Review of Grayson Perry’s: A Show All About You
The show promised to explore identity and that it would literally make us ‘reassess who you really are’. Perry alternately explained to us that identity was extremely important, whilst also claiming it wasn’t a replacement for personality. One idea that he clearly wanted the audience to take away though, was that our identity requires the buy in and support of other people.
The Lies They Tell 
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