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Transit is the Catalan gender identity service. It's rather peculiar, and, like Tavistock, it has close ties with trans activism. But don't take my word for it. Here's the director of Transit telling its history:
1. She came up with the idea while she was on a leave of absence:
1. She came up with the idea while she was on a leave of absence:
2. She claims that she was allowed to create it because her boss, at the public health system, owed her. And that she didn't have knowledge on transsexualism or gender identity
3. It started as a gynecology service, but soon she started prescribing hormone treatments too. No pyschological evaluation needed.
Having watched the balanced documentary #GenderWars last night, the open letter by Finn Mackay, Dr Gina Gwenffrewi, Kass Caldicott, Andrew C, Lily, Charlie C, and Dr Stephen Whittle OBE looks even more unhinged
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These signatories (in no particular order) can't really believe that this documentary fails any normal standard of journalism.
No, what they are desperate to do is to clarify to their censorious peers that they should not be cancelled
No, what they are desperate to do is to clarify to their censorious peers that they should not be cancelled
I got a good review in the Guardian, which will give more people permission to watch it.
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I thought that was pretty good. (That being #GenderWars)
Obvs everyone would have wanted more time for their partic angle, but let's face it, there's about four hundred different docs that could be made on this.
And probs will be. 1/
I thought that was pretty good. (That being #GenderWars)
Obvs everyone would have wanted more time for their partic angle, but let's face it, there's about four hundred different docs that could be made on this.
And probs will be. 1/
I was personally struck by the final comment of @bindelj about how, when you get called 'TERF' that's all you are allowed to be. Your entire history of good things wiped out. I've had that the last few years and it *does* hurt. Like your entire memories are scuffed 2/
Similarly, though, Nicole Jones makes the point about how true friends aren't those who do that. I also enjoyed the final scene with Linda and Katy Jon, and was struck that, in the Edina poetry scene, that's where I *was* before the hell of 2019. I see the pain of being 3/
