2 posts published by Clare Flourish during August 2025| 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
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
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
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