Gender Identity: Safeguarding Children and Young People - For Women Lancashire

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There seem to be a number of meetings coming up. Not sure if this one has been posted here, but if it has sorry for repeating. This one doesn't seem to be getting much publicity.

A talk on the question of child transition and the policies surrounding it.

Featuring speakers:
• Stephanie Davies-Arai - Transgender Trend
• Helen Watts - Ex - Guide Leader & Campaigner
• Michele Moore - Expert in Inclusive Education and Disability Studies, and co-editor of "Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body
• Katie Alcock - Senior Lecturer in Psychology , Lancaster University

for further information contact mailto:[email protected]

www.facebook.com/events/804732483197822/

Tickets £2 - £5 - Book online @ www.trybooking.com/uk/book/event?eid=6413&&fbclid=IwAR1H-ZwNvwHXW_82p3kaiR9ZROeXmQX4qylqdhkFnqG6-xXldZJviStviYA

should be interesting

Sounds excellent.
Drat, I'm going to be on my hols.

So I shall just have to bump the thread occasionally by way of participating.

Just booked my ticket. My first public gender critical outing!!

Could someone on twitter ask Lancashire resisters to retweet? Their handle is lresisters I think.
It looks excellent.

I does look excellent, i hope to go

Great!

Bump, near me and I can’t go but buuuuump

Hope you make it BeautifulDay

Sounds great!

Hope to see you there newtlover

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Looks like a brilliant lineup. I wish I could go, but unfortunately I live across the water.

Still some tickets left for this event on Saturday

Bumping this up to the top again. It looks good and important.

Am going to this alone but a bit nervous. Anyone know if there is a meet up beforehand?

Just got back from this brilliant meeting with a stellar panel of sheros. We'll worth the long drive. Michelle Moore, Heather Brunskill Evans (WEPs treatment of Heather peak trans me), Helen Watts and Katie Alcock. Particularly interested to hear Katie Alcock's contribution. Katie is an experimental, developmental psychologist whose area of expertise is how children gradually come to understand what sex they are. Studies on this have been carried out since the 1920s and the results are consistent and unchanging.

3 year olds understand the difference between male and female on the basis of stereotypes. Most boys they meet have short hair so if someone has short hair they are a boy and long hair for girls obviously! Show them a doll with short hair and they will say it is a boy. Put a dress on the same doll and they say it is a girl. They don't really understand the difference between appearance and reality until they are 7 or 8 years old. A woman in the audience confided that her 8 year old had asked how you know the sex of a baby because it doesn't have any clothes on. For children with autism it takes even longer to understand the concept of how to understand what sex they are.

Basically, up to the age of 7 or 8 children think that you can change your sex by changing your clothes. They rely completely on stereotypes. 5 out 8 DM5 indicators of gender dysphoria for children in this age group are based upon stereotypes.

Katie Alcock said that she did not believe that psychiatrists and psychologists working in GIDs clinics have any training in developmental psychology. This is really shocking.

I wasn't able to be there but wanted to say thanks to the women who put a lot of effort into organising this event.

Yes fabulous and important event last night. Speakers were all so inspiring. Huge thanks to all the organisers for their hard work.

That's such a great line up - Katie Alcock's talk sounds fascinating.

Are there / will there be a video uploaded of the talks?

Betsvigi9 - I studied developmental psychology as part of my degree in the 80s (and for a psy degree in the early 2000s). This was well known back then. Dog with a cat mask and all that.

I think the organisers are planning to share some videos of the talks, but I guess it might take a few days....maybe they'll post a link here

Katie Alcock said that she did not believe that psychiatrists and psychologists working in GIDs clinics have any training in developmental psychology. This is really shocking.

It's bloody terrifying.

And it also ties in with the many discussions about the No Outsiders programme and its background in "queering the curriculum" - where child development is completely ignored in favour of everything about childhood being a social construct, in the same way as sex is ignored in favour of gender being a social construct.

Everything we know about child development, child protection and the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults is being undone before our eyes. The results will be catastrophic.

So glad the meeting went well!

There's some info here re Katie Alcock's talk last night - she said psychiatrists don't get this training...

There are several tweets after this one explaining further!

twitter.com/LResisters/status/1122570548549226496