KJK is interviewed for 73 minutes by Tanya de Grunwald, an HR commentator and host of This Isn't Working podcast about HR issues.
A long listen. Tanya is now more clearly than ever GC. What really caught my ear was her account of attending a Trans in the City event at Barclays HQ, where a group of young people, many of whom revealed they were autistic, were love-bombed and groomed by Pickard and pals who I imagine were trying to create more transactivists to infiltrate the influential finance sector. Tanya talks about her extreme discomfort there and about the burdens that HR and managers having to carry. She talks about a young woman who approaches a manager for 10 weeks off for a double mastectomy and the moral and ethical stress involved. She makes the point that this is not something work (and colleagues) should have to deal with.
Also, earlier in the interview, some interesting reflections on how groups set up to offer support to minorities (LGB, TQ+ in particular) led to activism within organisations. Give them a budget, give them a senior executive, and the next thing you know all the toilets are mixed sex...