Author Archives: emibee1

I spent some time yesterday searching through old emails from four years ago trying to find some information I had been sent by a friend. I had met her earlier in the day for the first time since the dreaded pandemic has hit our mobility and it was lovely, a special couple of hours. AsContinue reading “A reflection”

It has been a strange month, Pride month with many events and gatherings taking place despite the continuing Covid restrictions. What has impressed me has been the sheer number of people attending and being out and visible together with the substantial number of people who have not been able to attend and visibly sending theirContinue reading “Pride”

This week I have strayed from simply trans matter as I have been shown an article published in the News  Review of The Sunday Times, written by Tim Shipman, entitled “How the Tories Weaponised Woke”. I was surprised it was in The Sunday Times, a Rupert Murdoch paper, as I understand his papers are encouraged toContinue reading “Woke Wars”

The Court of Appeal confirmed that Maya Forstater was entitled to hold the view that sex is immutable and you cannot change the sex you are born with. The Gender Critical view point. As I have said previously I did expect that. However it is not the great victory that the gender critics hoped forContinue reading “Forstater again”

I don’t know where to begin really. I wanted to write about the concerted attack on Stonewall in the media concerning advice that the charity gave to the University of Essex. The advice had resulted in two academic speakers being excluded and centred around freedom of speech. It would seem that the charity did giveContinue reading “At a loss for words”

It has been a long weekend and for once in more years than I care to remember I have not done any work. I have been self-employed for over 40 years and holidays are designed for me to catch up with whatever has not been done so that I can start the next week withContinue reading “A day off”

It is five years since I really started to transition and although I have known all my life that I was transgender I had always managed it with coping techniques. I had followed the well-trodden road of thinking I was a cross dresser that dressing was just a way of calming the nerves and feelingContinue reading “Authentic”

I have been really disappointed in what happened with the present government on many things but in particular over their efforts to reform the Gender Recognition Act. The fact that they were making the right noises that they were going to do away with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria caused huge disappointment and disillusionment andContinue reading “It beggars belief”

I was pleasantly surprised to read a report of the refusal of the application for a judicial review of the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the definition of single sex spaces. That in itself was pleasing, what was even better was that the Judge Mr Justice Henshaw said that the applicants case “was unarguable”Continue reading “Unarguable!”

An Appeal has been lodged by Maya Forstater against the original finding against her by the employment Judge. My immediate reaction was oh no, here we go again. What seemed worse initially was that the Index for Censorship and the Commission for Equality and Human Rights had intervened. I was, many years ago a practisingContinue reading “Here we go again-the Forstater case”