TAG: UK
Anti-trans attacks in sports: a necessary update
By Nana Soares. In July 2022, we published an article echoing and contextualising the guidelines then adopted by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) regarding the participation of trans women in their competitions. As we highlight in the article, gender policing in sports is not a new debate, but it is one that has intensified and taken on new forms in recent years.
Read moreReport LGBT in Britain: Hate Crime and Discrimination
Stonewall’s new report LGBT in Britain: Hate Crime and Discrimination is out now and reveals high levels of hate crime and discrimination in the UK: The report reveals high levels of hate crime and discrimination in the UK: Experience of hate crime by lesbian, gay and bi people in Britain has gone up by […]
Read moreThe First British Surgeon to Perform a Successful C-Section Was a Woman Disguised as a Man
Today I found out that James Barry, the first British surgeon to perform a C-section in which both the mother and baby survived, was born a woman. It is believed that “James Barry” started out in life as Margaret Ann Bulkley. She was born around 1789 in Ireland. Not much is known about her childhood, […]
Read moreBattle over the unborn: “Anti-abortion protester showed me foetus doll”
BY PATRICIA DEVLIN – 14 MARCH 2015 Followed down the street and told my unborn baby had been ‘christened’ James, an anti-abortion protester pulls out a tiny plastic foetus doll from her pocket and tells me: “This is what your baby looks like”. I was told I would become suicidal, that I would regret […]
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