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Jessica North is the Politics Reporter at the Scottish Daily Express (SDE). Her bio at the Scottish Daily Express reads: Jessica is a Scottish Daily Express Politics Reporter. “Starting out her career as a TV journalist, she moved to print and started writing for the Daily Record where she eventually landed with the politics team at the Express. London born but having grown up in the HighlandBased in Glasgow and Holyrood she graduated from Napier University. She has a special interest in shining a light on culture wars”. If you think that bio doesn’t read great – it’s probably down…

By Steph Continue Reading 20th July – The Women’s Network Event

Labour are not working for trans people just now. Continue Reading Trans Allies and the Labour Party.

Feminism and the gender war. “I talk to Tories, so you don’t have to” was a strapline from a left-leaning former City Councillor I know. Just the same, I talk to some gender-critical (GC) folks, and to my surprise, most of those I have spoken to on a one-to-one basis are decent people. Sure, I have found the odd abhorrent “transphobe”, but they are few and far between. I appreciate that many GC women have been in horrific relationships with men and have often been sexually assaulted or raped. These experiences impact women’s lives forever, and it is reasonable that…

The Daily Mail & News Corp lead the pack against us. Continue Reading The UK Media Know That By Throwing Enough Mud It Sticks

Dear Sharron, Mara, Emily and Jon So, they think it’s all over – well, it is now the Commonwealth Games have finished, and I guess you (and others like you) are proud because you helped #SaveWomensSport. People from over seventy nations ran, jumped, threw, swam, punched, flicked, bowled, dived, cycled, fought, kicked, hurdled, batted, and pole vaulted to gold, silver, and bronze medals in some 280 events. And for sure, some are on the way home happy, hurt, or sad. But one person who isn’t going home sad is Emily Bridges – because you (and others like you) campaign…

  Gender-critical people and trans people rarely agree – but both “sides” are relieved that Tavi is closing. The crux, though, is not Tavi; it’s puberty blockers. Gender-critical people invariably don’t want them used. Trans people want them used much earlier – to be precise, at Tanner Stage Two. Whatever the rights or wrongs of this debate – I would like to moot a sobering thought. For every child prescribed puberty blockers via the Tavistock – two babies pass away suffering from SIDS. If you are unaware of what SIDS stands for, it’s Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. And with better SIDS…

The Titanic disaster multiplied by thirty three times. Continue Reading Around 50,000 Deaths in the UK from Coronavirus COVID-19

All trans women like me know that “T” (testosterone) is the enemy. We all should know our enemies, and trans women have more than most. Some wish to completely eradicate us from this earth, such as one Republican politician, Robert Foster, who tweeted that a firing squad should execute all transgender people. Others, over thirty thousand worldwide, wish to eradicate trans women, supporting a document known as the “Women’s Declaration”. In short, these people don’t want a trans woman like me visible because I give the name ‘woman’ a bad reputation – allegedly taking away “sex-based rights”. Um. For all its…

By Steph Continue Reading BBC Radio Four Antisocial