Conference: “DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET”: SEX,GENDER and PUBLIC POLICY
A One day Conference
‘The trans movement has advanced through Britain’s institutions with extraordinary speed. The only thing more extraordinary … is how little scrutiny it has faced & the aggressive intolerance directed to those who question it’
Do Not Adjust Your Set:
Sex, Gender and Public Policy
9-00 Welcoming remarks and introduction 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 David Pilgrim
a) contextual approach to evidence and research Dr Heather Brunskell Evans
B) Institutional and professional capture Ms Julie Bindel
10-45 discussion
11-15 Philosophical and sociological perspectives
Chair 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 and Susan Evans
2-15 Discussion
2.45 Feminist perspectives
Chair David Pilgrim
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 Sophie Kemp legal expert in Public Law.
5-30 Final Plenary
6-00 Close