Mail on Sunday - Trans Writes

The Trans Agenda #11 Ferrets, debates, murder, paper obsession & more

Lee Hurley - 18 March 2024

The Trans Agenda #11 Welcome to The Trans Agenda, a newsletter that will arrive in your inbox Monday to Friday if you are subscribed. You...

A transgender pride flag flying above the Foreign and Common Wealth Office in London. Photo by Foreign and Common Wealth Office.

Most senior UK politicians ignore Trans Day of Remembrance

Lee Hurley - 21 November 2022

Trans Awareness Week is over for another year, coming to a close with Trans Remembrance Day, but given the silence of the UK's politicians, you'd be forgiven for thinking that it had been deliberately ignored by many.

Mail on Sunday upset doctors told to treat trans people like everybody else

Lee Hurley - 16 October 2022

Michael Powell and the Mail on Sunday are upset that doctors are being 'told not quiz patients on trans status'.

Trans talking points: Bailey, Joyce + more

Lee Hurley - 20 September 2022

As it has been very quiet in the papers since the death of the world's largest landowner, I thought it a good idea to...

‘Cancelled’ Starkey unrepentant as he takes on trans lobby Daily Mail2 Sep 2022 UH- OH, Dr David Starkey is whipping up a storm again — and this time he’s taking on the notoriously prickly trans lobby. The television historian, who was ‘cancelled’ after making racist remarks in 2020, has now publicly questioned the right of transgender women to identify themselves as female. ‘One of the terrible problems of the age that we live in is the refusal to confront the truth,’ declares the Tudors expert. ‘The whole world of so much of the social media, the whole world of critical race theory, and the whole world of transsexuality is a gigantic lie.’ He explains: ‘It’s an act of faith — it’s preposterous the idea that a man can become a woman. ‘These are simple absurdities. ‘And large parts of the population — the young population, those who, one would hope, are more questing, are most disillusioned with fiction — swallow fiction.’ Speaking on LBC’s Iain Dale All Talk podcast, Dr Starkey (pictured) adds: ‘We don’t need a new Jesus Christ; we need a teller of blunt, cruel truth. Well, perhaps that was Jesus. If you read the Bible, the Bible was brutal.’ Dr Starkey, 76, apologised after his incendiary remarks about slavery. He was dropped by his long-standing publisher, HarperCollins, and his literary agency, Rogers Coleridge & White, as well as losing top academic posts after he claimed that slavery did not constitute genocide. Last year, however, he shocked diners in London’s Soho by saying he stood by his original offensive comments. ‘I don’t regret that statement,’ he said at the London Grill Club. ‘I regret how I said it, and the fact that I gave a handle to my enemies, which is a stupid thing to do. ‘I regret stupidity, I don’t regret a moral position.’

GCs and media continue to erase lesbians: The week in trans 04/09/22

Lee Hurley - 4 September 2022

Another week, another series of articles talking nonsense about trans people in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, and Times.

2 pages from the Daily Mail on "JK Rowling and the female feud tearing the literati apart"

Trans people do nothing, media blames them anyway: The week in trans 21/08/22

Lee Hurley - 21 August 2022

The biggest story that got most people talking in Trans Land this week featured JK Rowling and absolutely no trans people, again.

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