Psychoanalyst will argue that whiteness is racism and UK is systemically racist
The trust runs the UK s only gender identity development service for children
An NHS trust which faced court for giving children puberty-blocking drugs is hosting a second antiracist seminar on white privilege and white fragility .
The seminar, titled Whiteness – A problem for our time , will examine the view that the problem of racism is a problem of whiteness .
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A summary of the event hosted by the Tavistock and Portman Trust in London on January 14 says that speaker Helen Morgan will examine white privilege and white fragility from a psychoanalytic perspective .
Boris Johnson. (Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
The trans community is “exhausted” by repeated consultations on trans rights while women are being “silenced” on the issue of the Gender Recognition Act, a group of politicians has heard.
In what will be the first of several evidence sessions, the Women and Equalities Select Committee heard on Wednesday (9 December) from six academics about the Gender Recognition Act (GRA).
This forms part of the committee’s Gender Recognition Act inquiry, announced in the wake of Tory equalities chief Liz Truss’ decision, in September, not to reform it.
Despite a huge 2018 public consultation finding clear support for comprehensively reforming the GRA – including removing the requirement for trans people to get a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria before being able to have their gender legally recognised, legal recognition for non-binary transgender people, the removal of the “spousal veto” and the lowering of the age for legal