The Hannah Barnes book

Hmmm, so the LSE event is hybrid: both in person and on line. You need to register for the on-line. They also suggest that it will be streamed live on YouTube.

The in-person will not be ticketed. They suggest that they don’t ticket in person events where they don’t expect much demand, but to check back later to see if arrangements change. My assumption is that they will discover that the event is contentious, because obviously a critique of an NHS service that might be harming children is contentious, and switch to on-line only, because they don’t have the security to handle a problem audience.

Its fine. They will advertise it worldwide via their alumni and other networks. It is free to register for the online version. It will be on YouTube under the LSE brand and available as a resource.

Oh gawd, bet the protestors will be out in intimidating belligerent force for those.

If anyone is in London, Hannah Barnes is doing a couple of talks in May, hosted by universities: LSE on 23rd, and UCL on 25th. Both are open to the public but spaces are limited and you need to register. Details on her Twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/hannahsbee?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

gosh that's one to remember thanks

WPATH - Damage limitation strategy. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4790976-wpath-damage-limitation-strategy

Marci Bowers now doubling down?

I listened to Hannah's podcast interview with Chris Williamson on Modern Wisdom. I thought it was excellent.

New podcast interview with Hannah Barnes:

https://sites.libsyn.com/115004/611-hannah-barnes

The Anderson image upthread is extremely useful to shoot down twats who proclaim the book is biased and transphobic.

Thanks @fabricstash

And yes to the MB book with the shelf blurb. I read a bit of it waiting for DH and i feel very sorry for MB but I don't care how tough growing up as a camp mixed race gay boy is - it doesn't make MB female or a woman.

No copies in Windsor again and no click and collect possible. 3 copies "on order but can't say when they'll arrive"

same in Clifton Waterstones today

There was one copy in the New Releases section at Waterstones in Hitchin, Herts, yesterday - next to Monroe Bergdorf's new book. Guess which one had a shelf-edge blurb advertising it though...😡

Time to Think is available in the US in the Kindle edition.

I suppose Time to Think might seem a bit too niche to a US publisher (as it’s about a
single NHS clinic)?
Perhaps Hannah will get a US distribution deal even if no US publisher? IIRC that was the middle ground that Helen Joyce’s Trans ended up with?

I think on a podcast I heard Hannah Barnes say she had not found a US publisher

It was on Jesse Singal's Blocked and Reported.

She left WPATH and is considered a turncoat/ gatekeeper but she still has a huge outreach in America. I think on a podcast I heard Hannah Barnes say she had not found a US publisher

ArabellaScott · 14/03/2023 12:34

Well, Waterstones is a private company. They can choose not to stock any book if they wish, whether it's a bestseller or not.

Yes, quite. Perhaps they shouldn't be selling hate-filled books. Not when they have such peaceful tomes as this, a snip at £25.00:

www.waterstones.com/book/mein-kampf/adolf-hitler/9780712652544#:~:text=Mein%20Kampf%20%2D%20My%20Struggle%20by%20Adolf%20Hitler%2C%20Rudolf%20Hess%20%7C%20Waterstones

Unfortunately I've not been about to read it - post covid brain fog and a new fur baby.

Have no qualms buying on audible too though. Awesome woman

It might have been interesting to know something more about the background of ideology etc - I completely get why the author decided to keep things very focussed but occasionally you do sit back from the book and just think "How could intelligent and well-meaning adults end up in this space?"

Trans by Joyce being the reading companion?

Helen must be ready to write part two by now.

Wow.

Though I imagine Erica is being dismissed these days as a turn coat?

That's seismic.

Is Erica still part of WPATH?

Your not the only one to finish it!

Finished the book yesterday - obtained from my local library which has a long waiting list.

Anyone thinking it is transphobic is off their trolley - it's scrupulously fair, features trans people who are happy with the treatment they received and most of the clinicians interviewed aren't even completely against the use of puberty blockers.

The people who come off worst from it are Mermaids and Gendered Intelligence who just come over as utterly malign.

It might have been interesting to know something more about the background of ideology etc - I completely get why the author decided to keep things very focussed but occasionally you do sit back from the book and just think "How could intelligent and well-meaning adults end up in this space?"

No copies in Chesham Waterstones today. No copies of HAGS either, interestingly.....

Thank you for the link. In his words: “A monumental scandal”.