Fas­ci­nat­ing and dis­turb­ing account of an out­spo­ken Quak­er* UK anti-trans activist named Emma Roberts who has start­ed a video pod­cast inter­view­ing promi­nent Friends. Most of the episodes have noth­ing to do with gen­der and sex­u­al­i­ty but some do.

The aster­isk up is there because the pod­cast­er appar­ent­ly renounced their mem­ber­ship in the Soci­ety of Friends when Britain Year­ly Meet­ing passed a minute on trans inclu­sion. I appre­ci­ate some­one dis­agree­ing with a year­ly meet­ing res­o­lu­tion and even stay­ing in the fold despite the oppo­si­tion. But when an affirm­ing minute that doesn’t actu­al­ly affect you (just your ide­ol­o­gy) is such a bur­den that you leave… well then the ques­tion is why you would put such effort into a pod­cast of your ex-religion. it doesn’t seem like a project borne in good faith.

Clair does a great job bring­ing the receipts and explain­ing the con­text (I haven’t been fol­low­ing the details of the UK back-and-forth on this).

A Quak­er anti-trans campaign 

How much work will Quak­ers do to wel­come trans peo­ple, after our year­ly meet­ing min­utes expressed such powerful…

Clare Flourish