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Podcast: Who Who Is Wes Streeting and Why Is He Like That?

Last month I returned to the fabulous Red Medicine podcast to talk all things Wes Streeting. I joined the socialist writer Jonas Marvin and host Sam Kelly to discuss the UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s political background, possible motivations, and current challenges.

Red Medicine always offers a great deep dive into health-related topics of the day. Streeting’s alignment with transphobic pseudoscience and conversion proponents means that obviously I had a lot to say about his impact on trans healthcare. However, our conversation was offered a great opportunity to grapple with the wider context of Streeting’s ideology and actions, discussing wider matters such as class, party politics, and trade unionism: highly relevant given current discourse around the proposed strike by resident doctors! I also talk a little about my encounters with Streeting in the 2000s, back when I was a campaigner with the National Union of Students’ LGBT and Women’s Campaigns.

You can listen to Red Medicine through all the major podcast platforms – or through the link below.


You can also hear me talking about the Cass Review on a previous episode of the podcast in June 2024.

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Trans Day of Visibility events

I am doing a couple of events for Trans Day of Visibility (Wednesday 31 March).


Katy Montgomerie’s TDOV livestream

I’ll be joining Katy Montgomerie‘s TDOV livestream, in which she will “talk to a load of cool trans people about whatever!” I’m dropping by for the start of the event at circa 19:00 BST (British Summer Time) – join us for chill times, and stick around for conversations with a load of great trans thinkers, writers, and Youtubers. You can watch through the link below:


Spectra Interview

I did an interview with Joanne Espada for Spectra’s Trans Programme. We spoke about the Trans Learning Partnership, the background to my research work, and my decision to become “visibly” trans in my mid-20s after several years living stealth. You can watch the full thing through the link below!