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https://static.wixstatic.com/media/db6d9a_c0f4fdfff531427b9a745efa5af61f52~mv2.jpg Faika El-Nagashi is a political scientist and former Member of Parliament with Austria’s Green party, with 30 years of experience in human rights advocacy. She has worked on women’s rights, migration and LGBT issues. Her work now centres on addressing ideological shifts that, in the name of inclusion, constrain women’s rights and democratic debate across Europe. She is the founder and director of the Athena Forum, a new European initiative for sex-based rights, democratic values and political courage.   About Athena Forum Athena Forum (https://athena-forum.eu/)is a European initiative for sex-based rights, democratic values and political courage. We work to safeguard and advance women‘s rights, children’s rights and the rights of lesbians and gay men across law, policy and civil society.   We recognise sex-based rights as foundational to legal and societal protections. We insist that public policy reflect material reality and be guided by robust evidence and transparency. We affirm the right of minors to bodily integrity and protection from premature or ideologically driven medical interventions. We defend open debate and the freedom to discuss complex issues, even when uncomfortable or controversial.   We interact with European institutions and advocate for clarity, accountability and respect for sex-based rights in policy and decision-making. We provide cross-sector analysis and engage the media and the public. We convene public forums across Europe, supporting democratic processes.

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/db6d9a_138c3282d8f94ba18154c9c640f5ecfc~mv2.jpg Women's Space Vancouver interviews Susan Smith of For Women Scotland discussing the landmark ruling by UK's Supreme Court interpreting the terms "woman" and "sex" under the Equality Act 2010 to refer strictly to biological sex. The court ruled that "woman" and "sex" in the Act refer to biological sex, meaning a person's sex, and not to gender identity.

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/db6d9a_c3f43f11d8924b4887ce2bf358bbd9de~mv2.jpg Irish journalist Helen Joyce writes a monthly column for the Critic,(https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthecritic.co.uk%2Fauthor%2Fhelen-joyce%2F%3Fref%3Dthehelenjoyce.com&data=05%7C02%7Callison.mcdonald%40bchydro.com%7Cddcaf3bc937c4656898e08dd70c8df5f%7C8fbb85e80cbc48c3a2e9528cef30ec27%7C0%7C0%7C638790730262787417%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=75bNAXZs1hjNomvxmwqssGCUQpt7PgE2vC4B9tYWxgQ%3D&reserved=0) and between 2005 and 2022 was a staff writer for The Economist. Prior to 2017, Joyce was blissfully unaware of the fact that some people thought the words “man” and “woman” weren’t simple descriptors of biological sex in our mammalian species.  After 2017, Joyce became best known as an author. Her first book, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, was an immediate bestseller, named by the Times, Spectator and Observer as one of their books of 2021. It was reissued in 2023 under the title: Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women’s Rights. Many have described the book as the most powerful and readable book on this topic. Trans is a compelling, overdue argument for viewing self-ID more critically. Even those outraged by Joyce's positions would benefit from understanding them….’ (New York Times) ‘A tour de force…simply a must-read’ (Evening Standard)   As well as freelance work in journalism and consultancy, Joyce works part-time with human-rights charity Sex Matters,(https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsex-matters.org%2F%3Fref%3Dthehelenjoyce.com&data=05%7C02%7Callison.mcdonald%40bchydro.com%7Cddcaf3bc937c4656898e08dd70c8df5f%7C8fbb85e80cbc48c3a2e9528cef30ec27%7C0%7C0%7C638790730262798995%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JW%2Bg5wvMU%2FR9HT4mRttpNj3cEYKF9CLLbSOJ8eMGT54%3D&reserved=0) which campaigns for clarity about the two sexes in law and in life.  For those who haven’t heard Helen Joyce speak, you’re in for a treat. Helen Joyce’s talk at Genspect Conference, 2024(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs4FYlgy90c) Richard Dawkins interviews Helen Joyce(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu72Lu5FqE4)

​​​ https://static.wixstatic.com/media/db6d9a_525191f58f3847078d2ebb17dab9fe61~mv2.jpg Julie Bindel is a feminist campaigner, writer, and investigative journalist. She grew up in a working-class family in a north-east England council estate and has lived in London since 1987. She is a keen broadcaster and has travelled far and wide to investigate stories which relate to misogyny. For her book The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth (2017), Bindel interviewed 250 people in nearly 40 countries, visited brothels, and spoke to prostitutes, pimps and the police. Her book Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation (Little Brown, 2021), explores the tsunami of misogynistic backlash that feminists have encountered this past decade and more. Her new book, Lesbians: Where Are We Now? will be released in the spring of 2025. Bindel's views have resulted in personal backlash and attacks, both online and in person. In June 2022, her talk at Aspley Library, in Nottingham, was cancelled by Nottingham City Council following protests and complaints. The talk took place outside the library instead and after Bindel took legal action, the council later apologised for their unlawful action and paid for losses incurred.  ​Bindel is the co-founder of the law reform group Justice for Women (justiceforwomen.org.uk)(http://justiceforwomen.org.uk), a feminist organization that supports and advocates on behalf of women who have fought back against or killed violent men. She is also the founder and co-director of the Lesbian Project (thelesbianproject.co.uk)(http://thelesbianproject.co.uk). Her wit and sense of humour are intact and sharp - to be enjoyed weekly on the Lesbian Project Podcast (thelesbianprojectpod.com)(http://thelesbianprojectpod.com), co-hosted with Kathleen Stock. Bindel's new podcast series is Julie in Genderland (juliebindel.substack.com)(http://juliebindel.substack.com). Bindel writes for Unherd, Observer, Sunday Times, The Critic, Spectator, Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, Tortoise, Prospect, among other news outlets. To relax, she imagines a world free of male violence towards women and girls. If that doesn't work, a negroni and a browse of Netflix usually do the trick.

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/db6d9a_304fe17dd9d044e1a7341405b6fbe007~mv2.jpg Kathleen Stock is a contributing writer at Unherd,(https://unherd.com/) a co-director of The Lesbian Project,(https://www.thelesbianproject.co.uk/) and the author of Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (https://www.google.com/search?q=Material+Girls%3A+Why+Reality+Matters+for+Feminism&rlz=1C1GCEA_enCA983CA985&oq=Material+Girls%3A+Why+Reality+Matters+for+Feminism&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCDIzMTNqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&ip=1&vld=cid:289a3c07,vid:EppfWmtbP2Y,st:0)(Little Brown 2021).   Until 2021 she was a Professor of Philosophy at Sussex University. Stock has written for UK national newspapers on a range of issues, and especially on sex, gender and women's rights. In 2023, she was shortlisted for Columnist of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors; in 2024 for Tabloid Columnist of the Year at the Press Awards; and in 2022, she was voted World’s Top Thinker in Prospect Magazine. Stock was awarded an OBE for services to higher education in 2020.  ​ Since being hounded out of her job at Sussex University (for her belief in biology and sex), Kathleen Stock has become an internationally renowned writer and speaker. With a focus on the UK’s Lesbian Project, she will be joining Women’s Space Vancouver for a webinar on June 9th, 2024.  ​ About The Lesbian Project Led by Julie Bindel and Kathleen Stock, the Lesbian Project gives voice and influence to women whose stories are too often overlooked. The Lesbian Project works to build knowledge about lesbian lives, promote sensible and evidence-based policy and contribute to building lesbian community in the UK and internationally. A not-for-profit organization (with Martina Navratilova as founding patron), the Lesbian Project is non-partisan.

RECORDING NOT AVAILABLE Meghan Murphy is a Canadian writer who founded Feminist Current in 2012, the first feminist outlet in Canada articulating a feminist critique of gender identity ideology. She has since hosted the Feminist Current podcast and launched a second podcast, The Same Drugs. You can find her writing on Substack at meghanmurphy.ca.(http://meghanmurphy.ca)   Meghan published the first op-ed against (https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalobserver.com%2F2016%2F10%2F25%2Fopinion%2Fopinion-bill-c-16-flawed-ways-most-canadians-have-not-considered&data=05%7C01%7Callison.mcdonald%40bchydro.com%7Ccb02c0115d534300e31108dbd7ca9968%7C8fbb85e80cbc48c3a2e9528cef30ec27%7C0%7C0%7C638341037375756255%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=L07UOkM6Ra5STUdRbWb1SX6G9gMRnmGSINfmOqo4YKA%3D&reserved=0)Bill C-16 in a Canadian mainstream news outlet in 2016, criticizing Bill C-16 from a feminist stance, and testified against this legislation at the Senate in 2017. She was the first in Canada to give a talk a(https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fwatch%2F%3Fv%3D330686790845945&data=05%7C01%7Callison.mcdonald%40bchydro.com%7Ccb02c0115d534300e31108dbd7ca9968%7C8fbb85e80cbc48c3a2e9528cef30ec27%7C0%7C0%7C638341037375756255%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Bk5K%2BEFcYHsd8r%2BD9qVP9Spy8fsIEgr2ddsD8GYK42Q%3D&reserved=0)bout women's rights and trans activism in October 2018 in Kitchener, ON and the first to debate t(https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-yawM1CRWxE&data=05%7C01%7Callison.mcdonald%40bchydro.com%7Ccb02c0115d534300e31108dbd7ca9968%7C8fbb85e80cbc48c3a2e9528cef30ec27%7C0%7C0%7C638341037375756255%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=47D9Yow7vj2LMrA2%2FYqFGU3IE6FlM99%2B2K2GuIFAH5o%3D&reserved=0)his topic with a trans activist in Canada at Mount Royal University in Calgary in 2019. According to the police, there were 700 protesters outside her speaking engagement in Toronto in 2019, where she was there to address the conflict between women's rights and gender identity legislation. She was permanently banned from Twitter in 2018 for referring to a man as 'he' and for saying that 'men are not women', and her account was restored in November 2022 after Elon Musk took the reign. She’s spoken on this issue in New Zealand, Scotland, London, Vancouver, Calgary, Ontario, Seattle, New York, and beyond. She’s been one of the most outspoken and brave women to address this issue in Canada.     Jonathan Kay is a Toronto based journalist, author, editor, and speaker. He was the editor-in-chief of The Walrus, and is a senior editor of Quillette and a host of the Quillette podcast. He was previously comment pages editor, columnist, and blogger for the National Post, and continues to contribute to multiple publications in Canada and the US. His recent books include "Panics and Persecutions“ and "Magic in the Dark: One Family's Century of Adventures in the Movie Business“. In November of 2022, the court dismissed a defamation lawsuit launched against him by lawyer Richard Warman, a board member of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) who sued journalists Jonathan and Barbara Kay for tweets that criticized CAHN’s links to the Antifa movement in the United States.

About the Speakers Dr. Susan Bradley Founder of Gender Identity Clinic for Children and Adolescents at Clarke Institute of Psychiatry 1975.    Dr. Joanne Sinai  A Canadian psychiatrist who became interested in gender dysphoria when she began to notice increasing numbers of young adults referred to her clinic with psychiatric issues and gender dysphoria. Sinai is now one of two psychiatrists in Canada speaking up publicly about concerns regarding the gender affirming model in youth medicine. About the Talk ​Dr. Bradley and Dr. Sinai share their research, practice and evidence-based approach to examining issues such as: ​​ • What is gender dysphoria? • Does gender dysphoria create a suicide risk?  • Why has there been such a dramatic increase recently in the numbers of children and youth with gender dysphoria -- especially girls?  • What harms are being done by gender affirming care?  • Why is the medical profession reluctant to research this issue or apply evidence-based practice?

RECORDING NOT AVAILABLE Gender Dysphoria Alliance (GDA) was established in 2021 by people with personal experience of Gender Dysphoria (GD). It is volunteer run, non-partisan and not for profit. The way in which gender and GD are often discussed today assumes that there is just one way people experience gender dysphoria and only one way to manage it. Too often, people talk about related processes such as medical transition, in ways that make it sound as though everyone thinks, or should think, the same way about these issues. People don’t always feel comfortable asking questions, feeling doubt or disagreeing with the dominant activist framework. GDA's central aim is to help create a more evidence-based, less ideological conversation about GD. They work to broaden the way we all talk about this condition to help show the richness and reality of individual experiences. They believe that honesty and transparency about the full range of experiences of those with GD are in the best interest of all. Aaron Kimberly is a female to male transsexual who started to medically transition in 2006, having experienced a Gender Identity Disorder since age 3. He’s a Registered Nurse with a specialization in psychiatric nursing and has worked in a psychiatric stabilization unit at St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, BC, was a nurse educator for the British Columbia Specialized Adult Tertiary Eating Disorders Program, and a counsellor and case manager within a network of community-based clinics for youth ages 12-25. From January-March 2023 he was a clinical instructor at Brandon University, Department of Psychiatric Nursing and currently works as a community mental Health nurse in rural Manitoba. Aaron Terrell is an American transman interested in the causes of gender dysphoria as well as the sociopolitical trends that facilitate medical transition. Aaron transitioned in 2011 at the age of 27. In 2017 he became concerned by the exponential rise in adolescent girls seeking gender transition and what he has come to view as institutional negligence on the part of the healthcare establishment's response to the phenomenon. Aaron has spent countless hours in FtM communities (both online and off) and offers valuable insight into the subculture influencing these young people.

RECORDING NOT AVAILABLE https://static.wixstatic.com/media/db6d9a_7b13b0d4aca1493cb87c62233f444282~mv2.jpg In 2022, feminist Tonje Gjevjon was reported and investigated by the police in Norway for hate speech. She was charged initially then recently, without explanation, charges were dropped. ​ Tonje is a Norwegian visual artist, composer, editor, filmmaker and activist who has participated in the Norwegian and international visual art, film, music and LGB scenes since she was 16 years old. Her main project, the lesbian performance group Hungry Hearts, participated in the Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest final in 2016. ​ Tonje has published articles about issues related to women, the arts and the LGB community since 2005 and is editor and producer of the 2020 book We ate, slept, and drank feminism. As a blogger at the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, she kicked off the debate in 2017 on how the legislation of gender identities has consequences for women’s sex-based rights, language, children, parenthood and society as a whole.    About the talk In 2023, the LGB Alliance and Lesbian Labour in the UK organized a Lesbian Not Criminal Roadshow tour where Tonje spoke about her experience. Now on Saturday, April 15th, 2023, Women’s Space Vancouver will be hosting Tonje Gjevjon, who will tell us her story about how women in Norway are being criminalized and charged with hate speech for speaking out about the rights of women and lesbians.

RECORDING NOT AVAILABLE Dr. Linda Blade (https://worldathletics.org/be-active/lifestyle/linda-blade-life-in-athletics)is a former NCAA All American and National Champion of Canada in track & field (heptathlon) with a PhD in Kinesiology. For the past 26 years, she has run a private consulting business as a Sport Performance Professional coach in Edmonton, Alberta working with athletes in over 15 sports (beginner to elite).   Since 2014, Linda has also served as President of the Board for Athletics Alberta, where she has a duty to represent the province of Alberta at Canadian national sport policy meetings.   Linda has been fearlessly speaking out against gender ideology and its impact on women’s sports. In order to increase public awareness of this threat, Linda has partnered with journalist Barbara Kay to author a book titled: UNSPORTING: How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport. (https://www.unsporting.com/) ​ About the talk Should we believe male leaders in sports when they say they consulted with women on including trans identified males in women’s sports? Who were the women consulted and why are those who disagree with “trans inclusion” seen as a fringe minority? Why are women who demand to be included treated as if none of them can lay claim to having legitimacy in representing the vast collective of female persons nationally or globally?  ​ The question surrounding FEMALE representation of women’s sports has proven to be far more difficult than anyone might have thought. Over the past year, an International Consortium on Female Sport (https://www.sportsconsortium.org/)has taken form and is on the cusp of making a charge at the drawbridge that shields the males who presume to impose their will upon women’s sports.   Linda will share with us her journey fighting to save women’s sports.

RECORDING NOT AVAILABLE A discussion with Jacqueline & Natalie from the Vancouver Lesbian Collective on the current threats to lesbians and to learn how to support their campaign at sexbasedrights.ca.(http://sexbasedrights.ca) ​ The Vancouver Lesbian Collective (https://www.vancouverlesbiancollective.com/)is a group of mostly Vancouver-based lesbians founded in 2015. They advocate for the rights of lesbians to define themselves and their boundaries and to organize politically in pursuit of women’s liberation from patriarchy. Get in touch via the Contact page o(https://www.vancouverlesbiancollective.com/contact-us)r through Facebook o(https://www.facebook.com/FeministDykesVancouver)r Instagram.(https://www.instagram.com/vancouverlesbiancollective/)

RECORDING NOT AVAILABLE Ghislaine Gendron has been active in feminist organizations since 2014 and sat on the Board of Directors of ‘Pour le droits des femmes du Québec’ until 2021. While with that organization, she was involved with two strategic committees focusing on gender identity and surrogacy. She has written numerous articles published in Québec newspapers, she has contributed to submissions to the provincial and federal governments and she has done interviews with media. Ghislaine has presented on surrogacy in French and English. ​ Ghislaine recently co-wrote an article with Ghislaine Sirois that is being published in a book, “Ventres à louer” (Wombs For Rent), now available in France and in Canada; 26 authors from around the world contributed articles. Ghislaine is currently national co-coordinator for Women’s Declaration International (WDI) Canada, responsible for Québec and francophonie.  ​ We offer this link to an article co-written by Ghislaine on surrogacy: https://actualnewsmagazine.com/english/surrogate-mothers-quebec-must-say-no-to-the-regulation-of-the-commodification-of-women-and-children/(https://actualnewsmagazine.com/english/surrogate-mothers-quebec-must-say-no-to-the-regulation-of-the-commodification-of-women-and-children/)   As well, you’ll find commentary from the Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children here:  https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-sale-of-children/surrogacy(https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-sale-of-children/surrogacy) ​ This recent article (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-wartime-labour-how-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-has-exposed-the-reality/)from the Globe and Mail examines how the Russian invasion of the Ukraine has exposed the reality of the Surrogacy business there.

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/db6d9a_a2995a44072e4b0ca16cd562b0c9b9cc~mv2.jpg Heather Mason is an Advocate, Activist, Former Federal Prisoner, Survivor of Fentanyl Addiction, Founding Member of caWsbar,(https://www.cawsbar.ca/) and on the Board of Directors for Strength in SISterhood.(https://www.strengthinsisterhood.net/) She submitted an insightful brief on this topic to The Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security in June of 2021. She has helped organize protests at prisons in 2021 and 2022 to create awareness for the public, who have no concept of what's happening to women in women’s prisons. https://static.wixstatic.com/media/db6d9a_e4182c47b4f24fc39472db52423a8f58~mv2.jpg ​Alia is also a former federal prisoner, advocate for women and member of Strength is SISterhood. The alarm has been sounded, who’s going to respond? (https://www.womenarehuman.com/the-alarm-has-been-sounded-whos-going-to-respond/)is an excellent article on the subject written by Heather for the website Woman are Human.(https://www.womenarehuman.com/)

RECORDING NOT AVAILABLE Renee Gerlich is a feminist writer from New Zealand whose work can be found on Feminist Current, Savage Minds, and her blog, reneejg.net.(http://reneejg.net) In 2021 she founded Dragon Cloud Press to publish her Brief Complete Herstory, an illustrated herstory of the world from the birth of life to neoliberalism that is available at dragoncloudpress.com.(http://dragoncloudpress.com)   Cherry Smiley is a feminist, artist, and researcher from the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) and Diné (Navajo) Nations. With other women, she works to end male violence against women. She is in the final stages of completing a PhD in communication studies at Concordia University where her thesis examines the prostitution of Indigenous women in Canada as a form of male violence and proposes a female-centered definition of colonization and decolonizing feminism. She is the founder and executive director of Women’s Studies Online, (https://wmstonline.com/)a platform for decolonizing feminist research, education, action, and community-building.   We offer this link to an article that we think provides important information about one element of how we got here – the funding of the ideology. Renee and Cherry won’t be speaking specifically to this aspect of the question, but we thought you’d find this information of interest. It was published in an online media outlet that is known for being right wing. Don’t let that deter you. Before very recently, it was incredibly difficult for feminists and those who questioned Gender Identity Ideology to find venues for their research and analysis. https://thefederalist.com/2018/02/20/rich-white-men-institutionalizing-transgender-ideology/(https://thefederalist.com/2018/02/20/rich-white-men-institutionalizing-transgender-ideology/)

RECORDING NOT AVAILABLE Stella O’Malley is a psychotherapist, best-selling author, public speaker and a parent. In addition to her B.A. in Counselling and Psychotherapy, and M.A. in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, she is currently studying for a PhD in gender dysphoria among children and adolescents. Much of Stella's counselling and teaching work is with parents and young people which culminated in the publication of her two bestselling books Cotton Wool Kids i(https://stella-omalley.squarespace.com/cottonwoolkids)n 2015 and Bully-Proof Kids i(https://stella-omalley.squarespace.com/bullyproof-kids)n 2017. Her latest book, Fragile, was released in 2019 (focusing on overcoming anxiety and stress). Stella is a regular contributor to local and national media, fast becoming one of the leading voices on what’s influencing people’s behaviour in Ireland today. She’s spoken extensively, locally and internationally, on the impact of gender ideology on the development of children and youth. ​ Pamela Buffone created Canadian Gender Report (https://genderreport.ca/)after people started reaching out to her after her family’s human rights case went public. What she heard from parents and others echoed their experience dealing with our school – yet most people were afraid to speak out using their own names. She is a strong believer that activism and wishful thinking are no substitute for evidence and common sense. The activism on this topic has gone way too far and is poisoning our ability to come together as Canadians to understand and discuss critical issues on the sensitive topic of gender and identity.

RECORDING NOT AVAILABLE Shahdin Farsai is a lawyer that practices in Kelowna, British Columbia. She originally immigrated from Iran to Canada at the age of 8. She obtained a law degree from the University of Ottawa. She has recently come under fire by some members of her profession for speaking out about a court practice directive that strayed too close to compelled speech. She was not successful in getting an article published expressing her concerns until it was eventually published in the C2C online journal magazine. She has put a resolution on this issue before the Law Society, the outcome of which will be known on October 5, 2021.   Lindsay Shepherd is the author of "Diversity and Exclusion: Confronting the Campus Free Speech Crisis." She holds fellowships with True North (www.tnc.news)(http://www.tnc.news) and the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (www.jccf.ca)(http://www.jccf.ca). Lindsay has had personal experience being ‘cancelled’ in the academic environment.

RECORDING NOT AVAILABLE On June 12, 2021 Women's Space Vancouver hosted an event with Stephanie Davies-Arai (https://stephaniedaviesarai.com/)the founder of the UK organization Transgender Trend.(https://www.transgendertrend.com/) Her presentation included a summary of the Keira Bell case (https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/12/01/the-judgment-in-keira-bells-case-upsets-trans-groups)and the global impact the issues in that case raise for children's health. ​ Stephanie is an accredited communication skills trainer, writer and author of the book Communicating with Kids.(https://www.amazon.ca/Communicating-Kids-Stephanie-Davies-Arai/dp/1784621080) She has delivered courses and workshops for parents and teachers for over twenty years. ​ From 2013 - 2015 Stephanie was a prominent member of the No More Page 3 campaign,(https://theconversation.com/no-more-page-3-how-a-feminist-collective-took-on-a-media-behemoth-to-challenge-everyday-sexism-156478) speaking on female objectification at schools, universities and organizations including Girlguiding and the Institute of Public Policy Research. ​ She founded the organization Transgender Trend (https://www.transgendertrend.com/)in 2015 and produced a schools guide Supporting gender variant and trans-identified students in schools in 2018, for which she was shortlisted for the John Maddox Prize which “recognizes the work of individuals who promote sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest, facing difficulty or hostility in doing so.” ​ Stephanie has delivered presentations on the subject of transgender children at events across the UK, including in the House of Commons and House of Lords, and has appeared numerous times on TV and radio, including Newsnight, Good Morning Britain, the Today Programme and Woman’s Hour. ​ Stephanie contributed chapters to the best-selling books Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body (https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-0398-4)(2018) and Inventing Transgender Children and Young People (https://cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-3638-8)(2019), both edited by Heather Brunskell-Evans and Michele Moore and published by Cambridge Scholars. She also contributed a chapter to Transgender Children: A Discussion (https://www.civitas.org.uk/publications/transgender-children/)published by Civitas (2019). ​ You can find Stephanie on Twitter @cwknews (https://twitter.com/cwknews?lang=en)and on email at hello@stephaniedaviesarai.com(mailto:hello@stephaniedaviesarai.com)

RECORDING NOT AVAILABLE Suzanne Jay from Asian Women for Equality (https://www.endslaverynow.org/asian-women-coalition-ending-prostitution)works to advance equality for women and to create opportunities for Asian women to have meaningful participation and to take leadership roles in civil society. They fight the sexualized Asian women stereotype. Trisha Baptie co-founded EVE,(http://www.educating-voices.com/index.html) a volunteer, non-governmental, non-profit organization of former sex-industry women dedicated to naming prostitution violence against women and seeing its abolition through political action, advocacy, and public education. Cherry Smiley is an artist and feminist activist from the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) and Diné (Navajo) Nations. Feminist sex trade researchers cite Indigenous women and girls as “Canada’s first prostituted women.” Cherry Smiley speaks nationally and internationally on the topic of prostituted Indigenous women and girls in Canada.