August | 2025 | Clare Flourish
2 posts published by Clare Flourish during August 2025| Clare Flourish
2 posts published by Clare Flourish during August 2025| Clare Flourish
My sex is female. My legal sex is female, my biological sex is female, my sex at birth was female, I have always been female. My sex assigned at birth is a private matter, and nobody, cis or trans, should ever have to answer such a question. I hate the phrase “biological sex” with a […]| Clare Flourish
Party across the city! I walked with my trans flag down the hill from my home. As I passed the pub, drinkers outside cheered. A man came up, gave me a rose, and said, “Happy Pride”. A woman said, “…| Clare Flourish
It is one struggle, one fight. Don’t dehumanise Palestinians. Don’t dehumanise trans people. I was marching with the Quakers at trans pride. I strode along with my flag again. We met in Cavendish Square. There were drummers chanting for Palestine. There were some brilliant signs. And lots of allies. Humanity needs empathy. Palestine, again. There […]| Clare Flourish
What can we do, at the time of genocide in Gaza? An activist is going round Quaker meetings, reading out an email from a Palestinian journalist waiting in a house as the IDF closed in to kill him. The journalist writes, if you let this happen to us, anything can happen to you. This is […]| Clare Flourish
From September 2026, the Relationships, Sex and Health Education Guidance for Schools will change. It is not as bad as the Tory draft, but it’s not good. Here is the 2019 guidance, available on arc…| Clare Flourish
The British Government has today published a consultation, and hopes to introduce legislation early next year. Under a pretence of opposing conversion therapy, it proposes civil powers which will h…| Clare Flourish
Philosophy professor Kathleen Stock OBE apparently does her job, here, addressing the philosophical questions What is reality? and What do words mean? She gives five putative ways in which one migh…| Clare Flourish
Is there a problem with free speech in universities? No. Kathleen Stock, OBE, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, is the great hero of the trans-excluders, yet she has published li…| Clare Flourish
Professor Kathleen Stock, OBE, gave a talk calling for the drastic reduction of academic feminism. Though she barely referred to trans rights, her talk only makes sense if you realise she considers…| Clare Flourish
The concept of the “genuine trans woman” promotes transphobia and transphobic violence by suggesting that some people are merely pretending to be trans women, for misogynist, immoral or…| Clare Flourish
4 posts published by Clare Flourish during February 2025| Clare Flourish
8 posts published by Clare Flourish during January 2025| Clare Flourish
My poster. At Victoria underground, entering from the National Rail entrance and going to District Eastbound, we see the Transport for London pride posters for this year, including this one of TransActual. Jane Fae invited me, and Cherry Auhoni took the shots. They are nonbinary. It was great fun. It’s good to see Palestine flags. […]| Clare Flourish
Equinet is the European Network of Equality Bodies. What has it to say about gender identity? On its front page, it has a sketch of a trans woman, with a speech bubble: “Because I am a trans woman,…| Clare Flourish
What do “Sex Matters to Quakers” have to say? I had a look at their facebook page, and this is what I found. Content: transphobia. Quakers are trans-inclusive. We have a YM minute which says, “With glad hearts we acknowledge and affirm the trans and gender diverse Friends in our Quaker communities, and express appreciation […]| Clare Flourish
The gender dysphoria never goes away. So much has brought it up, this past week. In the case of US v Skrmetti, the US supreme court has not only removed discrimination protection for trans people, and allowed the medical treatment we need to be banned, but also undermined anti-discrimination protection for everyone. Trans people have […]| Clare Flourish
The European Court of Human Rights has again affirmed the human right to change gender. TH has won their case against the Czech Republic. The judgment is available here. TH identifies as “intergender”. The court describes this as nonbinary, para 6. So I will use they/them pronouns, though the judgment uses male pronouns because when […]| Clare Flourish
We can only be our most iconic selves. We have no alternative. Some people seek safety in obeying the rules. Primo Levi observed that in Auschwitz the rules were designed to kill, so there was no s…| Clare Flourish
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Nonbinary identities are valid. Transphobia is any opposition to or denial of these necessary facts.| Clare Flourish
Is FiLiA an anti-trans campaigning group? It grew out of Feminism in London in 2008, so is older than the groups set up for anti-trans campaigning, such as Transgender Trend, Brighton Sisters, WPUK…| Clare Flourish
Do laws specifically permitting trans women in women’s toilets affect the rates of crime in those toilets? Of course not. The predatory men who might want to attack women have far easier meth…| Clare Flourish
Anyone who wants to be is a woman. Trans women are women. I am going to argue what the word “woman” means and what it should include, considering various conservative and feminist argum…| Clare Flourish
In 1998, I realised how much I wanted to die. I thought, the world is grey, life is horrible, it can only get worse. That Autumn, I had my introduction to Carl Rogers’ thought through a couns…| Clare Flourish
I spoke as one with authority. That allusion is conscious. A Catholic academic theologian had joined us, and a group of Quakers were talking with him in a second-floor room. He asked about giving m…| Clare Flourish
This is a serious legal argument, not just satire. The Equality Act s7 protects “transsexual persons” from discrimination under the protected characteristic of “gender reassignment”. The people pro…| Clare Flourish
The Supreme Court judgment is a cataclysm for trans people in Britain. It is an assault on trans people’s human rights, and in no sense merely a technical exercise in statutory interpretation. It i…| Clare Flourish
We must avoid that. How? In 2020, I met many Americans on Zoom. One of my partner’s acquaintances voted for Donald Trump, and she is trying to understand. Her brother lives in Florida. Authoritaria…| Clare Flourish
Possibly I should be journalling rather than blogging, but here goes.| Clare Flourish
Ol Rappaport is a transphobe, which is a very bad thing to be. I was rebuked for calling Donald Trump “a racist”. We should divide the person from the act: acts can be evil, but people have the pos…| Clare Flourish
Nobody likes to see themself as the villain. People expend great mental agility to see themselves as good. At the heart of the anti-trans prejudice is an Ew of disgust at another human being. Ew. T…| Clare Flourish
Does Joanne Rowling want to be a serial killer? Probably not, she only says “some people want to be serial killers”. She is a bigot, apparently beyond hope of seeing the humanity of her victims. Da…| Clare Flourish
