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      Why the Tavistock gender identity clinic was forced to shut ... and what happens next

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 31 March - 11:00 · 1 minute

    The clinic at the heart of a heated national debate formally closes this weekend. The journalist who told the inside story of its practice reflects on those it leaves behind

    It was a report in this newspaper that sparked my real interest in Gids – that made me ask “what’s going on?”. It was November 2018 and the article, by Jamie Doward, revealed that the Gender Identity Development Service, to use its full title, was undertaking a review. The details were scarce, but a senior member of staff had claimed that the service was “failing to examine fully the psychological and social reasons behind young people’s desire to change gender”.

    In the week that Gids’s 35-year history has finally ended , I’ve been thinking about that time. How it set the scene of what would unfold over the next few years, and how things could have been so different. What if NHS England had acted when it saw a report of those concerns? It didn’t, and the service remained open for another six years. A service which referred children for puberty-blocking drugs, without robust data to support that this was beneficial, and that shut down the concerns of a growing number of its own staff.

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      Protesters deliver letter to Garrick Club condemning exclusion of women

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 28 March - 18:59

    Dozens of lawyers and MP sign letter attacking club as ‘a symbol of exclusivity, a bastion of power maintained by the privileged few’

    Protesters demanding women be admitted to the men-only Garrick Club have delivered an open letter to its members saying discrimination on the grounds of sex is “nothing short of scandalous”.

    The move came after the Bar Council said exclusive members’ clubs created “the potential for unfair advantage” , with the Garrick’s membership list showing it to be favoured by many senior members of the legal profession.

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      UN picks Saudi Arabia to lead women’s rights forum despite ‘abysmal’ record

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 27 March - 18:31

    Kingdom chosen to chair Commission on Status of Women after unopposed bid, to dismay of human rights groups

    Saudi Arabia has been chosen as the chair of the UN commission that is supposed to promote gender equality and empower women around the world, after an unopposed bid for leadership condemned by human rights groups because of the kingdom’s “abysmal” record on women’s rights.

    The Saudi ambassador to the UN, Abdulaziz Alwasil, was elected as chair of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), by “acclamation” on Wednesday, as there were no rival candidates and no dissent at the CSW’s annual meeting in New York.

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      Perimenopause has brought chaos to my life - but also peace

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 27 March - 12:00

    Trying to learn about menopause has been disorienting, but Angela Garbes has also experienced ‘a softening, an openness’

    In my 20s and 30s, I went hard, driven by a desire to live life fully. I wanted to stay up all night having heated conversations, collect experiences and adventures, make art and meaning from everything that happened. Somewhere in the far-off distance I pictured myself making it to age 40, but never thought further than that: I would turn 40 ... and then I’d be s65?

    My naivete died three years ago in the middle of the night. I woke up drenched in perspiration, shivering. It was shocking to find myself suddenly so cold and in the dark. Within a month, I was waking at least twice a week – three, four or even five times a night.

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      More than half of UK female musicians have experienced discrimination – report

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 27 March - 08:48


    Insight report based on data from UK Musicians’ Census also found 33% said they had been sexually harassed in the industry

    More than half of women have experienced gender discrimination while working as a musician, with a third reporting being sexually harassed, a report has revealed.

    Female musicians are more than eight times more likely to have experienced gender discrimination than their male colleagues, at 51% compared with 6%.

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