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James Kirkup a journalist wrote ’ During a Westminster career which began as a junior Commons researcher 25 years ago, I have never encountered a movement that has spread so swiftly and successfully, and has so fiercely rejected any challenge to its orthodoxy ..............The transgender movement has advanced through Britain’s institutions with extraordinary speed. The only thing more extraordinary than the rapid spread of this new orthodoxy is how little scrutiny it has faced and the aggressive intolerance directed towards those who question it.”

Do Not Adjust Your Set:   

Sex, Gender and Public Policy

9-00   Welcoming remarks and introduction   Dr David Bell

9. 15 The Growth of Transgender as an Ideological Force This will examine  the remarkable growth of the trans agenda from a number of perspectives 

Chair Prof David Pilgrim

a)  contextual approach to evidence and research  Dr Heather Brunskell  Evans

B) Institutional and professional capture   Ms Julie Bindel

10-15  Discussion 

10.45. Break 

11-15 Philosophical and sociological perspectives

Chair Dr David Bell

a)    The Curate’s Egg of Identity Politics: A Critical Realist Examination   Professor David Pilgrim

b)    A Socio- cultural perspective-  Dr Michael Biggs

12- 15   Discussion   

12-45   Break

1-15   Clinical Perspectives   

Chair Dr  David Bell

a) Transgender in Children a Psychoanalytic Perspective   

Lisa  Marchiano 

b) A Different model of clinical  engagement with children suffering from gender dysphoria Marcus Evans Sue Evans

2-15   Discussion

2.45  Feminist perspectives

Chair Susan Matthews

a)       Ideology and academia

Professor Selina Todd

b)  Transgender and the erosion of woman’s rights : a perspective from India 

Ms  Vaishnavi Sundar

c)    The personal and the political 

Ziggy  Melamed

4-15  Discussion

4-45  Break

5-00   The significance of the Judicial Review 

Chair David Morgan

A discussion with David Bell and Sophie Kemp legal expert in Public Law.

5-30  Final Plenary with panelists

6-00  Close

Dr David Bell

Consultant Psychiatrist and former President of the British Psychoanalytic Society. He has just retired from the Tavistock where he led a unit for complex/enduring  psychological disorders . He has been deeply involved in thinking about Gender Dysphoria in children since  his  2018 report on GIDS.  This report,  submitted in is role  as staff representative on the council of Governors of the Trust, raised very serious concerns about the service many of which are  echoed in the recent Judicial Review. He is one of the UK’s leading psychiatric experts in asylum and immigration.

Heather Brunskell-Evans

Academic philosopher and Foucault Scholar. She is extremely troubled by the trans politicisation of childhood. She analyses how the Tavistock has been led to believe medicalising children is not only reasonable but ethical  

Julie Bindel

Investigative journalist, author and feminist campaigner. She has been a target of extreme transgender activists and their allies since 2004.

Prof David Pilgrim

Honorary Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool and Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology University of Southampton. His recent books included Critical Realism for Psychologists and Child Sexual Abuse: Moral Panic or State of Denial? Currently he is writing a book in identity politics.

Dr Michael Biggs

Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College. His research focuses on social movement and collective protest, from strike waves in the 19th century to transgenderism in the 21st century.

Selina Todd 

Professor of Modern History at Oxford University. Her research focuses on working-class women.

Lisa  Marchiano

Writer and Jungian analyst in private practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has worked with parents of gender dysphoric youth, gender dysphoric and trans identified young adults, and detransitioners. Her writings on gender have appeared in Quillette and Psychological Perspectives. She has contributed chapters to several books on the topic of gender and has presented nationally and internationally on the subject as well. Lisa is the cohost of the popular podcast This Jungian Life and teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia. Her book Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself will be published by Sounds True in May, 2021. 

Susan Evans

A psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She trained as a general and then psychiatric nurse and worked for nearly 40 years in the NHS, in a variety of mental health services  including the national gender identity service for children. She now has a private practice in South -East London. She is a member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation, the London Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Service, and is registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council. Susan was the original complainant with Mrs A   in the judicial review, before handing over to Keira Bell, on February 2020,  but remained a witness in the case. 

Marcus Evans

Psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society . He worked as a nurse in mental health services and as an adult psychotherapist in the NHS for forty years. For several years he was clinical lead of the Adult and Adolescent Departments at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust and head of nursing in the Trust for 20 years.  He is the author of Making Room for Madness in Mental Health and Psychoanalytic Thinking in Mental Health Settings. He resigned as Governor from the Tavistock Board of Governors over the management of the GIDS in February  2019, and acted as a witness in the case. He resigned as Governor from the Tavistock Board of Governors over the management of the GIDS in February  2019, and acted as a witness in the case. 

Susan Matthews

writes on histories of sex, gender and gender identity. She campaigns for better care for children and young people with gender dysphoria. 

Vaishnavi Sundar

Writer, filmmaker and women's rights activist based from Chennai, the south of India. Her film 'But what was she wearing?', India's only investigative documentary on workplace sexual harassment, was cancelled from screening due to her "transphobic views. During lockdown, amid further cancellations and COVID fears, she made a 4-part documentary series on the rise of gender identity ideology around the world, and its adverse effects on women and girls from developing countries.

Ziggy Melamed

A life-long left-wing and anti-capitalist activist. She is currently working for the NHS in Women's Health. She has become increasingly engaged with feminist politics in recent years.

Sophie Kemp

A partner in Kingsley Napley’s public law team, specialising in judicial review and public inquiries.

David Morgan

Psychoanalyst. Fellow of British Psychoanalytic Society. BPA and BPF .Chair Political Minds. Editor “The Unconscious in Political and Social Life” and “A Deeper Cut.Further Explorations”.