Close it all down
So now they’re closing down actual training because “transphobia.”
Great Ormond Street Hospital has been forced to cancel a top trainee doctors conference after trans activists protested that speakers would make Zoom attendees feel “unsafe”, The Telegraph can disclose.
Note the “Zoom attendees” bit – how can you feel “unsafe” at a Zoom conference?
All trainee child psychiatrist finalists from across London were due to attend the day-long video conference on March 16 on how they can support gender-questioning young people.
High-profile speakers from across the trans debate were invited by a group of trainees at the hospital to speak on panels, including major trans charities, academics and gender-critical groups.
But the programme quickly descended into chaos as trans activists refused to appear alongside gender-critical speakers, trainee doctors sent dossiers of allegations about speakers they disagreed with, and two feminist writers were cancelled.
So, no need to bother then. They already know what to do, so why get further training?
Helen Joyce, an editor at The Economist, was due to discuss her best-seller, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, in a panel discussion alongside academics on the opposite side of her gender-critical stance about biological sex being binary and immutable.
But a trainee child psychiatrist sent a list of allegations to the organizers warning them about how “unsafe” it would be for Helen Joyce to say things.
Following a string of other internal protests, including a speaker refusing to appear alongside her, her invitation was revoked just five days before the event.
Also cancelled was Stephanie Davies-Arai, the director of Transgender Trend, a gender-critical website for parents, after two separate dossiers of allegations were sent to organisers by a trainee doctor and Mermaids, the child trans charity.
In her intervention, Susie Green, the chief executive of Mermaids who was due to speak alongside Ms Davies-Arai and other charities on a panel about support for trans youth, told organisers that Mermaids “cannot be a part of a conference that gives a platform to Transgender Trend, regardless of whether their work is in the public domain or not”.
She went on to tell NHS staff in an email that “in addition to Transgender Trend, I would suggest that CAMHS (child and adolescent mental health services) stay clear of anyone involved with anti-trans pseudo-medical platforms that have been set up with the sole intention of attacking trans people (especially trans youth) and their healthcare.”
And Mermaids was set up with the sole intention of what now? Susie Green is a reliable source how exactly?
I wonder how many people have to have their bodies and lives ruined before this madness runs its course.
The true faith may not be questioned.
“But the programme quickly descended into chaos as trans activists refused to appear alongside gender-critical speakers, …”
They were told in advance that this was to be a conference with “speakers from across the trans debate”. Did they accept and then renege? Fine, cancel their panels and don’t invite them again now that they’ve revealed their acceptance was a lie.
“…trainee doctors sent dossiers of allegations about speakers they disagreed with, …”
Same deal with these clowns. The conference was known in advance to be all about airing and discussing different views, they can participate on those terms or not.
“…and two feminist writers were cancelled.”
Meaning the organisers granted two veto requests before realising that the requests would not stop until the multi-view event was reduced to a single view.
Perhaps now, finally, hopefully, the organisers know the nature of the trans activism beast. It is the scorpion that knows only how to sting.
Naomi Cunningham at Legal Feminist nails it.
https://twitter.com/legalfeminist/status/1505499850569392131
I’ve been there and had that done to me in a DEI session at work three years ago. Afterwards a woman who was a co-worker of mine asked me privately about the trans-identified male who led the workshop and I really had no answers for her then. I do now. It’s manipulation pure and simple and my HR department is definitely captured by trans ideology, mistaking it for gay rights when it’s really a sexist wolf in inclusive sheep’s clothing. I didn’t notice at first because I’m male, but women certainly have.
Thank you, that prompted me to re-read the post from last year, and it’s useful.
https://legalfeminist.org.uk/2021/09/09/dont-be-that-employer/