Dr Natacha Kennedy Goldsmiths College, London The indefinite puberty-blocker ban announced by Keir Starmer’s Labour government this week bears a hideous resemblance to Margaret Thatcher’s Section 28 introduced in the late 1980s, which targeted LGBT children at school....
Feminist Gender Equality Network
The Feminist Gender Equality Network (FGEN), a major new global movement, dedicated to countering anti-trans propaganda at home and abroad, and spear-headed by academics in UK universities, was launched by Professor Sally Hines, Chair of Sociology at the University of Sheffield and Dr. Natacha Kennedy, Lecturer in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London
“There is now a sense of outrage, within academia, at the complete misrepresentation of trans and gender-diversity related issues in the UK. The reality is that there is a broad consensus in favour of the inclusion of trans people in society, coupled with a richness of work exploring the complex meanings of gender and sex in the 21st century.
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Rebel Moves on the Sales Floor
Thurs 7th Nov 6-8pmNew Art Spaces WarringtonSankey Street (entrance next to Nationwide Building Society ATM) On Thurs 7th Nov there will be a specially devised contemporary dance intervention, Rebel Moves on the Sales Floor, choreographed by Miriam Levy in...
Events
Conference
'Living Gender in Diverse Times' Feminist and Gender Network First Annual Conference
FGENs first conference ‘Living Gender in Diverse Times’ brings Network members and international keynote speakers in trans, gender and sexuality studies together over two days to share ideas and work to forge future collaborations.
Press Statements
The Cass Scandal: Labour’s Section 28
Dr Natacha Kennedy Goldsmiths College, London The indefinite puberty-blocker ban announced by Keir Starmer’s Labour government this week bears a hideous resemblance to Margaret Thatcher’s Section 28 introduced in the late 1980s, which targeted LGBT children at school....
Is the government encouraging pharmacists to snitch on doctors over puberty blockers?
The Labour Government's attacks on trans people have reached a new low. With this new guidance (inaccurately dubbed ‘new legislation’), pharmacists are threatened with a criminal offence for distributing GnRH’s to under 18s for gender affirming care. The government...
FGEN Statement on Suella Braverman’s advice to schools regarding trans children
FGEN is appalled by Suella Braverman's misinterpretation of the Equality Act in relation to trans children. This is an attempt by the Conservative Party to implement a Section 28 for trans children. Trans children deserve protection from bullying and abuse, just like...