@ATeamAmy
It will be interesting whether or not politicians feign ignorance over what safeguarding means a la TRA rhetoric.
Do watch the end of the Select Committee meeting after the CN question (It's around 10 more minutes and gold). This is exactly the point KB goes on to make: that the way CN framed her question was a deliberate attempt to make KB look like a transphobe (and designed to whip up hatred against her from TRAs), rather than someone concerned about safeguarding. CN's face at the end is a picture.
Yes, thanks for the clip, it was very interesting indeed.
Kemi sounds so sensible and rational asking for open debate without people being intimidated into not talking. And she talks about Keira Bell, and Baroness Faulkner. So we know who is being intimidated and who's doing it
She has the 'true trans' position. Where there are some men who are deserving of certain dispensation and others who are not.
(That's not my position, partly because I don't think that access to women should be based on what men think, but what women think.)
But would be interesting to see exactly what sorts of access she will grant, and on what basis.
Because however it sounds in theory, I can't see how it's ever going to work in practice. It might have done 40 years ago, but transactivists have blown it.
I'd also like to see some in picking of what she means by trans children.
It's interesting that she talks about it in the context of conversion therapy and clinicians. It would appear she sees it very much as a medical issue, not a civil rights one.
I would, however, say that she appears fairly up to speed about the various strands, issues, bullying, and misrepresentation going on.
I'm so glad I watched it.