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Norah Vincent, Who Chronicled Passing as a Man, Is Dead at 53 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/obituaries/norah-vincent-dead.html  Norah Vincent in 2001 in her neighborhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. For a book, she spent 18 months living as a man named Ned, putting him in hypermasculine situations. Credit...Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times Penelope Green Aug. 18, 2022 In the winter of 2003, Norah Vincent, a 35-year-old journalist, began to practice passing as a man. With the help of a makeup artist, she learned to simulate stubble by snipping bits of wool and painting them on her chin. She wore her hair, already short, cut in a flattop, and bought rectangular framed glasses, to accentuate the angles of her face. She weight-trained to build up the muscles in her chest and back, bound her breasts with a too-small sports bra and wore a jock strap stuffed with a soft prosthetic penis. She trained for months with a vocal coach at the Juilliard School in Manhattan, who...

NHS England is shutting the Tavistock gender clinic over safety concerns following a damning external review Tavistock gender clinic "to be sued by 1,000 families"  The Times, August 10, 2022 The Tavistock gender clinic is facing mass legal action from youngsters who claim they were rushed into taking life-altering puberty blockers. Lawyers expect about 1,000 families to join a medical negligence lawsuit alleging vulnerable children have been misdiagnosed and placed on a damaging medical pathway. They are accusing the gender identity development service [GIDS] at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust of multiple failures in its duty of care. This includes allegations it recklessly prescribed puberty blockers with harmful side effects and adopted an “unquestioning, affirmative approach” to children identifying as transgender. Last month NHS England announced it was shutting the Tavistock clinic over safety concerns following a damning external review. Care will be handed to regi...

Labour's trans-rights policy is looking increasingly absurd By Suzanne Moore Finally, we are having the debate that Stonewall said we must not have. Their policy, remember, over trans/women’s rights was “no debate”. To their supporters, to debate was to essentially deny the existence of trans people. To question their dogma was transphobic and one would be shouted down, deprived of work and, if you were a woman, issued with death and rape threats. That strategy, however anti-democratic and bonkers, actually worked – entire organisations swallowed it whole.  No one denies the existence of trans people. That’s patent nonsense. No one wants to take away their existing rights or make their lives any more difficult. All of us described as “gender critical” have just wanted to maintain sex-based rights for women.  Many of those who organised themselves around this – whether at Woman’s Place meetings or the Labours’ Women Declaration or parts of the deteriorating Women’s Equality Par...

David Bell, a former staff governor at the Tavistock clinic in north London, noted that the Sandyford service in Glasgow was strikingly similar to its model Psychiatrist pleads to shut down Sandyford gender clinic in Glasgow Helen Puttick, Scottish Health correspondent wednesday august 3 2022 The psychiatrist who blew the whistle on children’s gender services at the Tavistock clinic has called for the equivalent clinic in Scotland to close immediately. David Bell, a former staff governor at the Tavistock clinic in north London, noted that the Sandyford service in Glasgow was strikingly similar to its model  David Bell said that the Sandyford young people’s gender service in Glasgow was based on a similar model to the north London clinic that is being shut down over safety concerns. Bell, a former staff governor at Tavistock and author of a report that raised concerns about its gender identity development service (Gids), also warned that the SNP government’s stance on affirming gend...

The truth about trans teaching in schools The LGBT advocacy group Stonewall has come in for criticism over recent months with many big name organisations – including the BBC and the cabinet office – withdrawing from its diversity champions programme. Yet rather than toning down its controversial claims and divisive rhetoric, the charity insists on doubling down. It now seems to have children firmly in its sights. ‘Research suggests that children as young as 2 recognise their trans identity,’ Stonewall recently declared. ‘Yet, many nurseries and schools teach a binary understanding of pre-assigned gender. LGBTQ-inclusive and affirming education is crucial for the wellbeing of all young people!’. Following a huge backlash to that tweet, Stonewall clarified that it does not 'actively work on nursery education'. Indeed, Stonewall goes so far as to claim that 'young children should be able to play, explore and learn about who they are, and the world around them, without having a...