@RFKhumanrightUK - the organisation that *took a human rights award* from JKR after she spoke up about sex and gender got 4 likes for their panel of luminaries
Four years ago today I left CGD and sent this email to colleagues.
I said that that the world depends on institutions that follow the evidence and enable open debate and that good organisations need heart, strength, strategy, integrity and resources.
I also published my article on sex and gender in development and asked development and gender people to be brave enough to have an open discussion on the topic (it turned out they weren't)
Meanwhile women and gay people wanting to speak about how their rights are compromised by gender ideology face violent and threatening protests @lowles_nick
This is what Hope Not Hate say it does. But it has lost its way.
When you see the far right campaigning against something the thing to do is *not* to knee-jerk support whatever the far right is against but to understand the underlying concerns of ordinary people
Case report: local authority tries (and fails) to stop a family taking their 15 year old daughter who thinks she is a boy abroad to have her breasts surgically removed
It's notable how much the Equal Treatment Bench Book language of calling this child "he", and assigned female gender at birth, and referring to "top surgery" distances it from the reality of what is being done to this girl.
The local authority start with "harm" and "welfare" but then retreat to whether the operation is legal in the country where is it is being undertaken and whether the child consents. Eventually the council drops it's objections.
This professor seems to have taken leave of reality.
He asserts that @ProfAliceS is making misleading statements because there may be homicide victims who are trans but who are never recorded in England & Wales, or reported as trans the media?