Kay Crosby

This evening I’ve got glowing student feedback and a rejection on a funding bid. And I can’t help but feel that the two are somehow connected.

Even the most well-meaning cis can generally be placated with ‘yes I’m fine thank you’.

Do you know how I know the cis are broadly fine with the endlessly spewing shit pointed at us? I generally only hear from them re anti-trans politics when they’re popping up to tell me how stupid I am, and how they know what they’re talking about because they’re an ally.

'Hello, can I speak to Kay please?'
'Yes that's me.'
'Hello I'm calling from victim services can I speak to Kay please?'
'Hello I am Kay.'
'No sorry I'm trying to speak to Kay please.'
'Yes, that's me.'
*Caller puts phone down*
You may think your voice is ok, but it will never be enough for the cis.

"In a UK survey of over 4,000 trans people, TransActual found that 99% say media coverage has harmed their mental health, 99% have heard politicians express transphobic views, and many have been refused non-transition healthcare simply for being trans."
transactual.org.uk/trans-lives-...

Kansas invalidated a trans woman's license even though she never changed her gender marker.

It's not about the gender marker. It's about targeting trans people and making their lives unlivable.

This is a data change brought about by antitrans campaigners with the overt aim of getting trans women onto a prostate screening programme that does not exist and off a breast cancer screening programme that does exist. This is designed to create clinically worse outcomes, up to and including death.

Lae'zel is the obviously correct answer.

Many alleged suicides of Black trans women are in fact modern-day lynchings, report finds Jill Collen Jefferson, the founder of JULIAN, explains what happens when a transgender woman’s death is ruled a suicide and a community calls it something else.

This is terrifying

www.advocate.com/news/crime/b...

I’ve said this before, but if anyone would like to talk trans or transfeminist legal history at the SLS, I am co-convenor of the legal history stream for the next three years and would very much like to accept your paper. Deadline for abstracts 27 March, conference 2-4 September.

Please share.

Like so many anti-trans campaigners, Foran is trying to make "sex-based rights" into the ticket that gets him to a place where he can exclude all trans folk from anti-discrimination considerations. Hence he writes 40 pages in search of little crumbs he can glue into a "sex-based rights" shape. 10/

I appreciate that Labour have three and a half years remaining in which to do as much harm as possible to as many people as possible. But i sincerely hope that this is the last opportunity for harm that they ever have.

Protocols for new NHS Trans Kids study released under FOI, reveal a shocking return to 1960s conversion therapy methodology.

The trans women in women's sports thing annoys the fuck out of me because trans women were first allowed to compete as women in the Olympics in 2004. This was the policy for at least 6 summer Olympics, at which not a single trans woman ever won a medal.

Right. It has in many ways been a very bad day. But I have also written a fairly serviceable 1,561 words.

Do I know anyone who’s worked on or knows anything about employers requesting to see birth certificates during the 1920s and 1930s? Legal requirement I haven’t heard of? Common practice in some sectors?

Ok boss

I think you’re right, though. I am speaking here as a hypocrite, as I still have a private shared care agreement through my GP. But I think that widescale DIY is basically the only way in which the model of psychiatric pathologisation can ever be brought to an end. It is a political future.

Categorically not.

Observe this "debate" over who should decide on what clothes kids are allowed to wear. Labour say parents, Tories say the state. Both of course in total agreement that the kids themselves should have no say in it at all.

My entirely uninspired but nonetheless deeply held view is that when I die I would like you to do to my body whatever is necessary for my remains to feed a tree.

There's an awful lot of stopping teachers teaching about at the minute, isn't there?

Anyway. I started the day off by writing a thousand words on legal gender recognition in the interwar period. But then I encountered the NHS as a trans person and the wind has been utterly blown out of my sails.

If my FWS article ever sees the light of day, it is very much not written in that mode.

As the discourse continues to rove through the various failings of the state provision of trans healthcare, I would just say that my working assumption remains that I will never see the inside of a gender clinic.

If we can exclude for a moment the small hard core of anti-trans campaigners, where are all the academics who have read Patrick Hodge's work in For Women Scotland, and not concluded 'this man is a fucking idiot'?

lol I am in the UK

Do you have a job in feminist legal history for me?