We’re Still Here Conference 8th September: A report from the inside

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Hi all

First off, I’m a regular poster, have been here for years under various usernames, it I’m posting here on a name change as I don’t want this traced to me.

On 8th September there was a conference held in London a Bloomsbury Baptist Church which was called We’re Still Here, which featured a variety of panels and workshops and was attended by many prominent people in the pro-GRA reform camp.

I decided to attend to find out what was being said as it was clear that they did not want anyone to attend that wasn’t a TRA or an ally.

What follows are my notes from the day. But first a few notes on attendance:

There were probably 80-100 people in attendance. Overwhelmingly white. Mainly older transwomen. A couple of transmen. Some Mermaids delegates. Some fellow travellers/ allies. And me.

Okay. So here’s my notes

1. Health Panel: Chair was Dr Ben Vincent of GIRES.

Part of the discussion on this panel was around GPs reluctance to prescribe “bridging hormones”. GPs are reluctant/afraid to prescribe them for liability reasons. Apparently a brand of T-Gel was withdrawn and GPs are reluctant to switch brands.

There was then a bit of chatter about whether a person’s sex was relevant for healthcare stats.

Then there was discussion about trans children. Dr Vincent was very scathing about GIDS-said there was disgusting and unethical practices. BV spoke about dispelling the myths about desistance and the myths of ROGD- BV called this “concern trolling, malicious and ethically bankrupt”. BV would like a review of the whole system.

Then Dr Vincent said that they’d received a review copy of “Born in your own body” edited by Heather Brunskell-Evans and Michele Moore. BV is reviewing it for some Royal College and said “I will tear it a new arsehole”

Also (and they didn't want this tweeted) BV is also planning a book called Terf Wars which will be a “rigorous takedown of terf arguments” which is getting serialised as articled in some peer reviewed journal- I’m sorry but I couldn’t catch which one.

Dr Stuart Lorimer, of the Tavistock and Portman who was also a panellist- said that ROGD is “evidence free”.

There was a great deal of discussion as to the health risks for transwomen taking certain brands of hormones- one person said they knew three other people who’d died taking them, and they’d nearly died as well.

Thank you.
It is chilling and so this is exactly where the light needs to be shone.

I am wondering what the weekend newspapers will bring.

Crikey O'Reilly, that was some scary reading.

You are brave. Thank you!

This is all so super creepy. Especially the child stuff and the consent stuff.

Well done for attending, and the write up.

Chilling stuff.

wow. It is so clearly a groomers', abusers' and paedophiles' charter.

OP I salute you and if we ever meet I will buy you a huge drink. Brava 💐

Great work. There is our next point of call. Our GPs. Anyone with a good GP. These could be new allies

We baby children because we don't let them go to war at 12!! I can't believe anyone could formulate that as a view

There are some very questionable views held by trans rights activists.

Thanks for attending.
It's interesting because it shows all the different strands. People with GD being concerned about medication. Campaigners/lobbyists admitting the civil service support and entryism.
Grooming and age of consent issues.
Sexual assault by deception.

No concern over women's issues ... I wonder why that is ...

This needs be be condensed into some kind of blog and then circulated en masse to things like womens orgs to warn them

Very insightful. Well done!

Mark Rees (not Reece) was the pioneering litigant at Strasbourg.

When the GRA 2004 was finally passed, Rees did not apply for a GRC as "he" wanted to retire at the female pension age.

There is our next point of call. Our GPs. Anyone with a good GP. These could be new allies

My GP practice has filled out the consultation - very worried about being asked to share care for youth (ie provide prescriptions) with cowboys like Helen Webberly.

jgrobinson

So, not gaming the system at all, then?

We baby our children because we don't have child soldiers on the frontline, dear God. We don't send them up chimneys or down the pits any more either.

But the likes of CB are happy to use them as cannon fodder, never mind the cost to the children, in order to try to control the narrative and sell the like that men can become women and that it's ok to create lifelong medical patients out of young kids.

This is shocking but not surprising. Thank you to the OP who managed to make it through the day...it must have been pure hell to contain herself with all the rubbish and dangerous implications. Women's groups take note. You are being infiltrated. Don't let them do this.

Fucking hell

Dawn Butler is a disgrace, isn't she? What an appalling person to be representing the interests of women in the Labour Party.

As for the rest of it, well, it is, as others have pointed out, a very small group of people with extremist views who are hellbent on infiltrating mainstream organisations. It's very like the Militant Tendency and other Trotskyist groups that use infiltration as their main tactic for gaining power and influence.

Dawn Butler is a disgrace, isn't she? What an appalling person to be representing the interests of women in the Labour Party.

Private Eye this week have revealed further details of this.

Jesus. I feel sick.

This is shocking but not surprising. Thank you to the OP who managed to make it through the day...it must have been pure hell to contain herself with all the rubbish and dangerous implications. Women's groups take note. You are being infiltrated. Don't let them do this

^^
This

Every space on the school governors, parish council and all the other committee things we are supposed to do but do not have the time for is an opportunity waiting to be filled by people who push their own agenda.

Interesting window on their casual dismissal of all others but themselves and planned virtue signalling.

I desperately wish all the no doubt well meaning, albeit brainwashed masses backing this scary shit would realise what a nasty twisted web it really is. Thank you for going, and for this.

When the GRA 2004 was finally passed, Rees did not apply for a GRC as "he" wanted to retire at the female pension age.

Cake. Eat it.

We need an investigation into Dawn Butler!

Thank you so much.