Press Release: Independent Medical Experts called at today’s Pre-Inquest Review

Posted on May 19, 2021 by dorsetiww

Pre-Inquest Review Hearing on the disappearance and death of Dorset teenager Gaia Pope was held today at Bournemouth Town Hall.
Gaia’s family believe she died due to failings by police and mental health services following an incident of rape.
The Coroner has confirmed that she will now instruct two independent medical experts to provide opinions on Gaia’s care ahead of the full inquest in April 2022.

Wednesday 19 May: inquest proceedings into the death of 19-year-old Gaia Pope from Swanage resumed today with a Pre-Inquest Review hearing at Bournemouth Town Hall. Senior coroner for Dorset Rachael Griffin has confirmed that she will now be instructing two independent medical experts to provide opinions regarding the adequacy of the epilepsy care Gaia received as well as another expert to comment on the sufficiency of this care in light of Gaia’s mental health difficulties.

It was also confirmed that the family will be…

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TERFs: You are being conned

Posted on May 10, 2021 by dorsetiww

Anarchasteminist

A lot has been written on the relationship between TERFs, the broader Gender Critical (GC) movement and the right. There is increasingly obvious evidence of considerable practical collaboration and ideological crossover between ostensibly “feminist” transphobes and open fascists and religious fundamentalists. A great deal of money raised by GC causes has been raised under the banner of feminism and ended in the pockets of an anti-choice, anti-feminist activist solicitor. In this piece I want to focus on a particular example of GC/right-wing cooperation and the dynamic it exemplifies. I do this not to shame or berate anti-trans feminists, but to ask them – Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?

In February 2020, the Lords and Commons Family and Child Protection Group, a right wing all party parliamentary group (APPG) held a briefing chaired by homophobic DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson at which a number of anti-LGBTQ+ activists spoke against…

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