I am appalled by that abstract - do we know how it was received? And whether NUS, who have a no platform policy re Bindel, were informed about it? It is fairly clearly a remarkable piece of hate speech.
One of the reasons why JB has a Guardian column and not me is that I am too busy with other bits of my writing to try and get one - my byline does get around, but it is mostly as a cultural critic and reviewer of books, film and television. But I do take the point.
I have been worried for some time about trafficked trans people - it is one of those things which I've suspected was going to happen sooner or later. Do you have any actual current evidence about it, because it is something we should be campaigning about?
I've always regarded the GRA as a stepping stone to something better - something better we really were not going to get at the time. SW gave a very good speech at the Trans With Pride conference in 2007 which outlined room for improvement, pretty much along lines I'd agree with (and which parallel the policy I wrote for Liberty and the line I took in my Reclaiming Genders piece.
What I would say, in defense of the Forum, is that sometimes politics really is the art of the possible.
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Re: Helen says
Date: 2008-11-08 06:14 pm (UTC)One of the reasons why JB has a Guardian column and not me is that I am too busy with other bits of my writing to try and get one - my byline does get around, but it is mostly as a cultural critic and reviewer of books, film and television. But I do take the point.
I have been worried for some time about trafficked trans people - it is one of those things which I've suspected was going to happen sooner or later. Do you have any actual current evidence about it, because it is something we should be campaigning about?
I've always regarded the GRA as a stepping stone to something better - something better we really were not going to get at the time. SW gave a very good speech at the Trans With Pride conference in 2007 which outlined room for improvement, pretty much along lines I'd agree with (and which parallel the policy I wrote for Liberty and the line I took in my Reclaiming Genders piece.
What I would say, in defense of the Forum, is that sometimes politics really is the art of the possible.