Dr Igi Moon is a chartered psychologist whose work focuses on psychotherapy, gender, sexuality and emotion.
They are also chair of the Coalition for the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Against Conversion Therapy, which includes 17 major therapy organisations, such as BPS and UKCP, GPs, NHS England and NHS Scotland, and is pushing for a ban on conversion therapy in the UK.
Moon told
PinkNews why a ban on conversion therapy in the UK is vital, and why all healthcare providers “must come together again and fight to stop any of our community being told they need to be ‘cured ”.
Are you a white cis gay man in your mid-60s living in London? Then you may have been given conversion therapy. Against your wishes. Simply because you needed to be ‘cured’.
19 Jan 2021
A newly uploaded video of an NHS seminar on the “problem” of “whiteness” shows a post-lecture discussion devolving into something resembling a Maoist struggle session, with white attendees lamenting their “white guilt” and efforts to relieve the “burden of [their] whiteness”.
The Tavistock and Portman National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, perhaps best known as one of the leading providers of child gender swap procedures in Britain’s state-run socialised healthcare system, first put on the ‘Whiteness – A problem for our time’ virtual seminar in November, repeating it on January 14th after 700 people attended.
The NHS trust uploaded a video of the January seminar to YouTube on Monday, including a post-lecture discussion showing white attendees, most of whom appeared to be linked to psychotherapy, offering self-denouncements in response to speaker Helen Morgan urging them to confront their internalised “privilege”.
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 .
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 .
Ms Moran, who is releasing a book called The Work of Whiteness in 2021, will argue the UK is systemically racist and white privilege and racism are maintained by white fragility, the colour-blind approach and the silencing of process of disavowal that develops in the childhood of white liberal families .
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 .