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Transgender Trend meeting on Tuesday, Feb 12
Haringey Resisters has organised a talk by Stephanie Davies Arai and Claire Graham on Tuesday evening, (Feb 12) 7pm, at a local venue. Stephanie is the founder of Transgender Trend, which produced an evidence-based information pack to help schools best support transgender children and their peers. Clare Graham is an education specialist, plus has knowledge of the condition commonly referred to as intersex. Julie Bindel will chair.
The meeting is for anyone concerned or who would like to know more about the social and medical transitioning of children and the introduction of gender identity teaching in schools.
Stephanie was shortlisted for the John Maddox Prize for Science in November. The prize recognises the work of individuals who promote sound science on a matter of public interest often in the face of adversity.
The meeting is open to all and free.
There is a poster about the meeting on the website - haringeyresisters.org - which says the venue will be announced at 4pm on Tuesday.
The meeting is for anyone concerned or who would like to know more about the social and medical transitioning of children and the introduction of gender identity teaching in schools.
Stephanie was shortlisted for the John Maddox Prize for Science in November. The prize recognises the work of individuals who promote sound science on a matter of public interest often in the face of adversity.
The meeting is open to all and free.
There is a poster about the meeting on the website - haringeyresisters.org - which says the venue will be announced at 4pm on Tuesday.
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"A recently released guide, targeted at schools about transgender children, has been slammed by LGBT groups, who say it perpetuates myths and could potentially harm young trans people."
"Stephanie Davies-Arai, a sculptor with no direct professional, therapeutic or clinical experience with transgender children, is NOT qualified to comment about a policy designed to prevent trans youth from being exposed to harm and rejection by abusive parents"
"That’s why the ‘schools resource pack’ produced by Transgender Trend this week is so dangerous. Masquerading as professional, ‘evidence-based’ advice for schools on how to ‘support trans and gender nonconforming young people’, the pack in fact provides the reverse. It is a deeply damaging document, packed with factually inaccurate content."
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/02/14/trans-kids-guide-is-inaccurate-and-deeply-damaging-say-lgbt-activists/
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/our-work/blog/education-youth/creating-trans-inclusive-school-environment-response-transgender-trend
Oh dear. You seem like a real set of ****.
It's just a bit damming when I check in with the community you claim to help and they're all saying you're worse than Hitler.
But after scratching the surface a bit it seems the people you are trying to represent are all telling you to cock off and you are harming them.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/transgender-trend-crowdfunder-school-children-young-people-resource-pack-suspended-a8379556.html
To be fair, that article is pretty clearly anti-TT, although I would still like to know if it represents TT accurately. This article gives a more balanced view of the issues, I think:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/may/15/transgender-row-teachers-afraid-challenge-breast-binding
I think that it is apparent that TT represents one perspective in an extremely charged argument, with which some parents may agree, and others disagree (strongly, in both cases).
http://id34100.securedata.net/subud-sica/Sections/SICA/SICA03/Pages/NewsSpecial.html
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/14269099.to-sell-the-site-to-a-cult-is-ludicrous-row-over-sale-of-13m-site-for-less-than-half-of-what-its-worth/
She has no academic qualifications, nor professional experience, that qualify her to talk about trans children (she claims to only have met "around ten" trans people in her life).
[I don't know why she was nominated for the seemingly credible John Maddox Prize - certainly not for the easily debunked distortions of scientific research and out-and-out lies that litter her schools resource pack - but it's probably worth mentioning that Chuck Tingle was shortlisted for a prestigious Hugo Award for his 2015 short story Space Raptor Butt Invasion.]
Transgender Trend has been described by conversion therapy experts as "a carbon copy of 'ex-gay' campaigns".
https://thequeerness.com/2018/02/18/transgender-trend-follow-in-the-footsteps-of-other-anti-lgbtq-organisations/
This link also illustrates serious safeguarding concerns surrounding Transgender Trend's advice to schools.
Then there's transgender trend's links to the Christian Right - their earliest followers on twitter were US evangelicals
and Arai-Davies has praised Evangelical anti-abortion activists
"Find out more about the rise of transgender children, and how to support them and other children at school" is what the flyers for this event say. It's a disgrace for the organisers to pretend that this event will actually provide useful information rather than a very one-sided and widely discredited view of the topic. It's taking advantage of less informed but well meaning parents looking for genuinely helpful information. I'm with joust and their use of '****' on this one. Shame on whoever's behind this.
they'd probably tell you that it's because they're being silenced, which is why Julie Bindel has a column in the Guardian and Stephanie Arai-Davies seemingly unfettered access to the news pages of The Times.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/two-women-disrupt-meeting-to-harass-trans-woman-in-appalling-video_us_5c52fe89e4b04f8645c84ee0?guccounter=1