Duty To Question

In this episode, we speak with professor Alice Sullivan. Alice is a professor of sociology at University College London and was recently commissioned by the government to lead a review into the collection of data pertaining to sex and gender. She has also edited the book Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader. Within the discussion, we cover the ways in which sex and gender data becomes unclear, why this is bad for everyone, how it can be improved, and some of the unexpected and shocking safeguarding concerns that were raised by the review.

EBSWA podcast, discussing how and why the best interests of the child principle has been forgotten by the  "affirmative" approach to gender identity in children. Robin Carling, Maggie Mellon and Miriam 

An Evidence Based Social Work Alliance Podcast, EBSWA's Robin Carling which George Fielding, disability rights campaigner, Sarah Philimore, barrister in the family courts, and Miriam a children's social worker discuss the impact of disability on development of sexuality and how embracing gender identity can offer distraction from realities of disability”.

Stephanie Davies Arai, founder and director of Transgender Trend in conversation with Robin Carling of EBSWA on the likely or hoped for impact of the recent Supreme Court ruling (FWS V Scottish Government) that S*x means biological s*x and is not changed by a Gender Recognition Certificate or by any process of gender reassignment. What should  this mean for children's services?