=”font-size: 11pt”>Both Sarah Lucas and Gavin Turk are old BritArt hands.
Lucas's Sandwich is "an ambiguous emblem of nationhood and proletarian festivity. Awesome in scale and raw in its appearance, Sandwich opposes the pomposity of traditional public sculpture with its prosaic absurdity and functional accessibility."
Turk's big door, taking its name from the Bunuel film, "questions notions of home, security, architecture and also the bolder concepts of inside and outside".
Enough.
rred for NHS treatment.
Clear Chemist in Liverpool can deliver the drugs thanks to a loophole allowing the dispensing of prescriptions from Switzerland or a European Economic Area country. The prescriptions are from GenderGP, a private company founded by Helen Webberley, who was fined in 2018 for running an unlicensed transgender clinic from her home in south Wales. She was suspended by the General Medical Council.
She moved her clinic to Spain and last year it was acquired by a Hong Kong-registered owner, Harland International. She still features on the website and is a non-medical adviser….
GenderGP requires “information gathering sessions” by video link, charged at £65, but its other counselling and support services are voluntary. Children using NHS services have a GP referral, a telephone assessment, three to six therapy sessions and two appointments with an endocrinology team before treatment is approved.
Mermaids, a transgender charity, removed a GenderGP link from its website in May last year. However, The Times has seen redacted screenshots taken this year from forums on the Mermaids site, in which parents discussed experiences with GenderGP.
One said there were “no invasive questions like we had at Tavi”, referring to the Tavistock and Portman NHS clinic in London. Another said: “My son spoke to the counsellor three days after we signed up and they are happy for him to start puberty blockers.”
Parents may have been bullied into thinking that their children are at high risk of suicide if they're not allowed their way with the gender change – thanks to propaganda from the likes of Mermaids and Stonewall – or they've swallowed the whole homophobic line about "sensitive" boys really being boys with a girl brain, or tomboys really being girls with a boy brain. Either way it's clearly a grotesque abuse of parental responsibility to allow such damaging and life-changing drugs near their children at such a young age.
And it's particularly distasteful to see Mermaids now trying to be the responsible ones…
Exciting news about the Women’s Prize for Fiction:
One of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, the Women’s Prize for Fiction was known as the Orange Prize for Fiction between 1996 and 2012 and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction between 2014 and 2017. It celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world.
The winner receives a cheque for £30,000, anonymously endowed, and a limited edition bronze statuette known as the ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the artist Grizel Niven.
FAQs:
The inspiration was the Booker Prize of 1991 when none of the six shortlisted books was by a woman, despite some 60% of novels published that year being by female authors. A group of women and men working in the industry – authors, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, journalists – therefore met to discuss the issue.
Research showed that women’s literary achievements were often not acknowledged by the major literary prizes. The idea for the Women’s Prize for Fiction…was born.
Now well into its second decade, the Women’s Prize for Fiction is firmly established, is respected throughout the world and has made a major impact on the literary landscape in the UK and beyond. It also makes a significant difference to the profile and sales of authors shortlisted.
Excellent. And now, just released, a statement regarding eligibility:
As a prize which celebrates the voices of women and the experience of being a woman in all its varied forms, we are proud to include as eligible for submission full-length novels written in English by all women. In our words and conditions, the word 'woman' equates to a cis woman, a transgender woman, or anyone who is legally defined as a woman or of the female sex.
The trustees of the Woman's Prize Trust would like to reassert that we are firmly opposed to any form of discrimination or prejudice on the basis of race, sexuality or gender identity.
So not quite the Women's Prize any more.
Not everyone is pleased.
members outside rather than inside. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals.
Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold. Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.
Well exactly.
You can sign the so-called Great Barrington Declaration here.
ea and single-storey dwelling houses in the ri of the county, he said with great satisfaction that the People's Army is making world-startling achievements under the energetic leadership and meticulous guidance of our Party.
He said he was greatly impressed by the patriotic deeds and revolutionary fighting stamina of the soldiers of the People's Army who brought about another miraculous event in the wake of the recovery of Kangbuk-ri, Kumchon County, adding that such results brought about by the People's Army is the spiritual wealth most valued by our Party, before just simple material creation.
He continued to say that the noble mental and moral traits of the People's Army by which it displays indefatigable mental power with firm resolution to go through thick and thin without any slightest vacillation and hesitation despite whatever disasters and hardships if they are for the sake of our Party, the people and the prosperity of the country, and creates a thing out of nothing and turns a misfortune into a blessing are the key secret to the creation of all miracles on this land.
He repeatedly asked the chairman of the county Party committee if the people of the county were pleased and, upon hearing that they were all happy with it, he said he has nothing more to wish. He continued in real earnest that nothing will be pleasing and more worthwhile struggle if people take back their happy life in modern dwelling houses suited to the ideal and highly civilized society planned by the Party, after shaking off backwardness.
Happily, there are pictures of these newly-built modern dwelling houses, clearly well suited to the ideal and highly civilized society planned by the Party, after shaking off backwardness. Also, pictures of the Supreme Leader showing off his latest dance moves:
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Tower Cranes, Cunard Lines, England, 1934
[Photos © E. O. Hoppé Estate—Curatorial Assistance, Inc.]
There are some odd little mistakes, mind. "Camwell Laird" for "Cammell Laird", for instance. Or here, the mysterious "Lambert Bridge", lost somewhere between Lambeth Bridge and Albert Bridge.
to children under 18 … I am worried about [my ability to have] children. I want that option to be there.”
A mother whose autistic 16-year-old daughter is on the Tavistock’s waiting list is fighting the case alongside Bell. She does not want her daughter to receive the kind of medical interventions Bell received. The legal action questions the basis on which the clinic obtains “informed consent” to treat children.
Paul Conrathe, Bell’s solicitor, said: “The case challenges the clinic’s continuing practice of prescribing puberty-suppressing hormone blockers and after that cross-sex hormones to children.” Bell was referred to the service aged 14, having read about transsexuals on the internet and decided she had been born “in the wrong body”. She said she had only five appointments before being referred, at 16, for hormone injections to suppress puberty. Bell was injected with testosterone at 17 to develop male sexual characteristics.
She attended many of the appointments on her own because her father strongly disagreed with the treatment.
The puberty blockers induced an artificial menopause. After she took the cross-sex hormones, her voice dropped, she grew facial hair and her genitals changed. At 18 she was referred to the adult gender clinic and, aged 20, she had a double mastectomy.
After deciding to stop the treatment and live as a woman, Bell said she felt that “a weight has been lifted”.
The Tavistock said: “We welcome the opportunity this [case] provides to talk about the service and to stand up for our dedicated staff who put the best interests of the young people and families at the heart of their practice.”
They may say that, but many of their "dedicated staff" have already raised concerns – like Marcus Evans, who resigned from the Tavistock over his belief that a fear of being labelled transphobic was pushing counsellors and mental health service providers into over-hasty diagnoses of gender dysphoria in troubled young people.
Plus, of course, trans activist groups like Mermaids have been pushing this gender dysphoria stuff ever since CEO Susie Green read about puberty-blockers and sex-change operations and the like, and decided that her son Jack – sensitive and effeminate, apparently – wasn't gay or anything unpleasant like that, but was really a child born with a ‘girl brain in a boy body’. They've been pushing for medical intervention such as puberty-blockers ever since, for children as young as twelve.
Fortunately the tide seems to be turning, with teachers, who previously welcomed Mermaids and the like into their schools, being told in new government guidelines that this should no longer be the case.
And now here, with this court case. Will the Tavistock finally be made to stop this abusive medical intervention against vulnerable and confused adolescents, in the service of a regressive and homophobic agenda?
waters of gender identity. With that silence in mind, we can draw our own conclusions about the significance of Murray’s final remark. Was it the sound of a feminist putting her foot down?
Well yes it was. Murray has now written about why she left:
I was not leaving, contrary to popular rumour, as a result of ageism on the part of the BBC. I made the decision a year ago when it became clear to me that it was time to move on and be free of the leash which, in recent years, had caused me to be what I can only describe as ‘cancelled’.
First came the furore concerning an article I had written in which I acknowledged that I was entering the most controversial and, at times, vicious, vulgar and threatening debate of our day.
I made clear that I was not transphobic or anti-trans. Indeed, I emphasised my belief that everyone — whether transgender or those of us who hold to the sex assigned to us at birth — should be treated with respect and protected from the bullying and violence that so many like me have suffered.
I merely asked the trans activists to acknowledge the difference between sex and gender, a trans woman and a woman, respect our right to safe single-sex spaces and abandon the nonsensical idea that we should be known as ‘cis women’.
We are women. No need for further definition. I begged trans activists to understand feminism and the struggle we had experienced in fighting for our right to be viewed as equals to men.
I reminded them that feminism had fought against sexual stereotyping, and that it was ridiculous to assume a girl who liked cars and trousers really wanted to be a boy, or a boy who loved dolls was ‘born in the wrong body’ and needed to be a girl.
Of course, I was branded a TERF — a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist — on social media and threatened with all kinds of violence. But what shocked me most was the BBC’s response.
I was roundly ticked off publicly and informed that I would not be allowed to chair any discussions on the trans question or the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act. I had lots of emails and tweets asking me why I had not been involved in this debate, as it was so important to Woman’s Hour listeners. You have the answer.
You'd think a formidable and experienced Woman's Hour presenter would be free to state the blindingly obvious – that women for all their differences are united by one thing: their sex. But no. That is not encouraged. That is transphobic.
orced labor served an economy that supplied the Wehrmacht. We might be tempted to think of this as ironic; for Margolin it was simply the end of his world: “Both sides were inhuman reflections of everything we held dear and sacred.” There was nothing surprising, for him, in “Russia’s alliance with Nazi Germany.” A Jew in Soviet confinement, he had to endure pro-Nazi propaganda: “The rare Soviet newspapers that landed in the camp were full of pro-German publicity.” The Soviet press was reprinting the speeches of Nazi dignitaries. “In line with Hitler’s successes,” Margolin recalls, “antisemitism increased in the camp.” Although he was a Polish Jew, and well aware of Polish antisemitism, no one called him a kike until he was in a Soviet camp.
As to the question of whether the real Russia is the one that celebrates victory over Nazi Germany on Red Square or the one that exists in the uncharted universe of concentration camps that formed the gulag, there's little doubt which answer Margolin – and Snyder – would give.
