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How to Tackle Difficult Topics with Family or Friends Using Socratic Questions:
In today’s polarised world, discussing politics or social views with friends and family can feel like walking through a minefield. Emotions run high, opinions clash, and what starts as a casual chat can quickly spiral into a heated argument. But it doesn’t have to be that way. By using Socratic questioning—a method rooted in asking […]
Parental Resistance to Woke Ideology in Schools
Parents of course do not speak with one voice. Many may be comfortable with or support a social justice vision of schooling, and polling indicates that on some of the most contested issues there is a sizeable minority which has yet to take a view, which would indicate that greater transparency over curriculum content would […]
An Honest Review of the Netflix Drama ‘Adolescence’ by a Qualified Teacher
A Labour MP brought up the Netflix series “Adolescence” and asked Keir Starmer if he will support the creators calls to show it in schools to counter “toxic misogyny early” Starmer replied: “Yes, and at home we are watching Adolescence with our children… it’s very good” Adolescence on Netflix: A Critical Look at Its Suitability […]
Say No to ‘Banter Bouncers’ Write to your MP
MPs vote next week on a law that could force pubs, stadiums, and universities to police ‘offensive’ conversations—or risk being sued. The Opposition has tabled an amendment to scrap it. Use the Free Speech Union campaign tool to email your MP now—it takes just a minute! Say No to Banter Bouncers Clause 18 of the […]
Mistaken identity: article from 2004, twenty years ago! Definitely one to read:
Once, if you felt you were born the wrong gender in the wrong body, you had to put up with it. Now, there are up to 400 sex change operations a year carried out in Britain. Some transsexuals who resort to surgery live to regret it, others decidedly do not. David Batty hears their stories […]
Dr James Davies BA. MSc. MA. D.Phil. : The Origins of the DSM
“Psychiatry under the dominance of the biomedical model over the last 40 years has wrongly medicalized increasing numbers of people in contemporary Society so apparently one in four of us now suffers from a mental health disorder in any given year and I’m going to argue that this figure is so startlingly high because Psychiatry […]
NHS loophole allows puberty blockers for children
Prescribing drugs that stop children from developing physically and neurologically banned by health service last month after interim review Michael Searles, HEALTH CORRESPONDENT ; Daniel Martin, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR and Dominic Penna, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT7 April 2024 • 7:57pm https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/07/puberty-blockers-nhs-loophole-liz-truss-dr-hilary-cass/?mkt_tok=OTA3LU9EWS0wNTEAAAGSXeAYO8nQuveBd0MHt1_8DQ0PAiMhZbZ4ZNVvJ_Ybc5TIYFuS-KfArIXVTqTDzuUbMgT8qh7sj9XbmJAFVSuypipjBgwVbldx82RvuJRB3soc9ld7ng An NHS loophole allows puberty blockers to be prescribed to children who want to change gender despite the drugs being banned following a landmark review. […]
How puberty blockers for teenagers became normalised in the NHS
Trusted organisations turned over leadership on gender identity to an American group with little evidence to back its ‘gold standard’ claims Lucy Bannerman Thursday March 14 2024, 6.00pm, The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/639545a5-9aea-4dca-a7b2-3ad522b05155?shareToken=c7f54397f1c51326653087476accb7cc Whistleblowers have been warning about the dangers of puberty blockers for years, but how did the experimental use of such controversial drugs become so […]
Clinical Policy: Puberty suppressing hormones – Puberty suppressing hormones (PSH) are not available as a routine commissioning treatment option for treatment of children and young people who have gender incongruence / gender dysphoria.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/clinical-policy-puberty-suppressing-hormones/ These documents may not be fully accessible to all users. If you require the information in a different format please email england.scengagement@nhs.net. https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/clinical-commissioning-policy-gender-affirming-hormones-v2.docx https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/evidence-review-gnrh-analogues-october-2020.pdf https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/psh-clinical-panel-report.pdf The results of the studies that reported impact on the critical outcomes of gender dysphoriaand mental health (depression, anger and anxiety), and the important outcomes of body imageand psychosocial […]
At least 77 trans doctors have registered change of gender with GMC
Concerns that medics are being allowed to self-identify at will without further checks Charlotte Gill 10 February 2024 • 8:02pm https://web.archive.org/web/20240210214340/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/10/trans-doctors-register-change-gender/ At least 77 doctors have changed gender on the General Medical Council (GMC) register, The Telegraph can reveal. The figure, supplied by the GMC to Labour’s gender-critical Baroness Hayter, is for records since 2003 and has raised […]
Inside NHS England’s faltering plan to replace the Tavistock
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has been called on to rescue the opening of two new NHS gender identity services for children and young people. By Hannah Barnes https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2024/01/inside-nhs-englands-faltering-plan-to-replace-tavistock The NHS’s once flagship children’s gender clinic – the Gender Identity Development Service, or Gids, based at London’s Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust – has […]
EXCLUSIVE Tavistock scandal campaigners raise fears over £60k Department for Health and Social Care job to advise the NHS on puberty blockers for children policy – months after it pledged it would ban them
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12964273/job-advert-puberty-blockers-help-advise-distribution.html By DANYA BAZARAA PUBLISHED: 15:19, 15 January 2024 | UPDATED: 15:21, 15 January 2024 Questions have been raised over a new Civil Service job being advertised to help advise on the policy around puberty blockers for children – despite a decision over the summer to only prescribe the treatment as part of clinical research. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Leading womb transplant experts say it’s ‘medically possible’ for transgender women to have natural pregnancies – and they hope to offer procedure to trans couples in years
By EMILY JOSHU HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 13:47, 17 August 2023 | UPDATED: 15:58, 17 August 2023 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12410117/Leading-womb-transplant-experts-say-medically-possible-transgender-women-natural-pregnancies-hope-offer-procedure-trans-couples-years.html Doctors pioneering womb transplants believe they are on the cusp of allowing transgender women to give birth to their own children. The team at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB), became one of the first in the country to offer the medical procedure to hysterectomy patients and women […]
Transgender ideology has created the biggest medical scandal of our generation
Story by Camilla Tominey Demonstrators hold placards as they take part in a protest march for trans rights and to show their support for the Scottish gender reform bill, in central London, on January 21, 2022© Provided by The Telegraph I’m not sure what’s more offensive about Costa Coffee’s cartoon, featuring a young trans person who has […]
Changing the Conversation – First Do No Harm
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Born in Lancashire, but now a happy resident of Yorkshire. With over 25 years experience working in the Health, Social Care and Education Sector. Volunteering has been part of my life for over 30 years, all of my present pursuits are currently linked to my interests in Social Care and Education.
Jennifer Thetford-Kay
I have a very common sense approach and try to avoid jargon, wherever possible!
Former Registered Manager – Advanced Practitioner & Lecturer in Health & Social Care QTLS. Currently a Researcher, YouTube Educator & Creator for various organisations, Coach & Mentor.
