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Transgender Trend’s Schools Resource Pack – Read it, discuss it, share it!

2018.02.172018.07.03 FPFW 1797 Views min read

This week Transgender Trend published its Schools Resource Pack. It was developed in response to an urgent need for clear factual information for schools seeking advice on a very recent and unprecedented phenomenon. It is refreshingly different to all the other guidance produced by the transgender and LGBT organisations which

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Gender dysphoria in children – This is feminism 5

2017.07.252018.11.16 FPFW 1205 Views child gender, children, gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, gender non-conforming, jazz jennings, transgender kids, transgender youth, treatment min read

Catherine Drury in Feminism 5: This is the hardest of my pieces to write as it concerns some of the most vulnerable people in our society: children and teenagers. Our children look to us to learn about the world around them, and also to protect them from harm. What is the best way to do that, and what are the implications?

Children Gender

When I was a little girl – I was a little boy

2017.01.182018.07.03 FPFW 2623 Views boyish girl, childhood, children, diane ehrensaft, famous five, female, fluidity, gender questioning, identity, liz harris, Mermaids charity, personality, puberty, reassignment, stereotypes, swallows & amazons, tim adams, tomboy, transgender, transgender youth, womanhood min read

I envied the way boys could pee up walls and really felt as if I was lacking. I tried to pee standing up. Being a boy meant strength, adventure, toughness and vigour; I felt trapped and imprisoned as a girl … Growing up meant loss of freedom, although at twelve I could not articulate that. As my body began changing, I felt a sense of wonder: a deep, but unexpressed, pride and excitement about my maturing female body. Where was the little boy of not long ago?

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Response to ‘Transgender Kids:Who Knows Best’

2017.01.142018.07.03 FPFW 1223 Views autism, bbc, brain sex, children, disney, documentary, dr kenneth zucker, dysphoria, femininity, gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, gina rippon, hormones, julia long, neuroscientist, princess, puberty blockers, sterility, suicide, superhero, transgender youth min read

Fair Play for Women would like to state our support for the BBC, who, despite co-ordinated efforts to prevent the broadcast, aired the documentary Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best? on BBC2 this week. The subject of gender identity and the attendant push to ratify gender identity rights into UK

Slide from Mermaids presentation at TELI16 launch conference

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Mermaid’s lies and the trans youth suicide myth

2016.11.282018.11.16 FPFW 7659 Views Alan Briddock, APMS, attempted suicide, Cathy Jaquiss, children, David Bufton, distressed, Dr Helen Webberley, Dr Norman Spack, Garden Court Chambers, Jane Fae, Jess Bradley, Kate Hutchinson, Leigh Day, LGBT, Linklaters, mental health, Mermaids, Mermaids charity, Michelle Brewer, Michelle Bridgman, NHS, One Pump Court, PACE, sample size, Self-harm, statistics, study, suicidal ideation, suicide, survey, susie green, Tara Hewitt, teen, teenagers, TELI16, trans youth, transgender, transgender youth, young people min read

Created by parents struggling to help their gender-questioning children, Mermaids Transgender was a support group. Now it’s a registered charity, receiving large grants and consulted by the UK Government, the NHS and others. And is still a group of blinkered evangelists. Despite their elevated status, Mermaids have shown themselves incapable of handling facts or seeing wider contexts. Our distressed young people need support, not sterilisation. We explain.

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The boy who ‘lived in stealth’: Judge challenges emerging orthodoxy

2016.11.132018.07.03 FPFW 2242 Views activist, artemisia, cafcass, child gender, child J, childhood, family court, Judge Penna, Justice Hayden, Mermaids, professional, social services, transgender min read

Re-posted from 4thWaveNow: The following guest post, by 4thWaveNow contributor Artemisia, is Part 1 in a series. In this piece, Artemisia investigates a recently reported case of a 7-year-old child in the UK who was removed from the custody of his mother. The court found that the child had been essentially

Children Gender

Gender – the new youth tribe?

2016.10.302018.07.03 FPFW 2403 Views commercialisation, consumer culture, corporate, genderqueer, glamour, non-binary, pinkification, rebellion, teen, teenagers, transgender, tribe min read

Gender identity is the new black. No other recent movement has spiralled as quickly as that which questions ideas around gender and to the confusion of parents, more and more young people are ‘coming out’ as Gender Fluid, Genderqueer, or any one of the numerous new trans identities. Of course, questioning gender is no bad