🌱🌹🌺 Self-discovery (or 'coming-out') is not an overnight process. It's a long, bendy path with plenty of ups and downs 👁 #ContemporaryGender

If an individual does get a #gender recognition certificate, there's a dangerous assumption that the individual will be that gender till they die 🌗 Well, nothing is set in stone 🌈 #ContemporaryGender

Blown away by keynotes at #contemporarygender. @megjohnbarker working through the lazy misinformation and contradictions in the trans panic. If the real concern is nonconsensual irreversible surgeries on kids, why is the media silent about medical procedures on intersex people?

The moral panic isn't about any single issue but joins up totally unrelated things: medical treatment for kids, political correctness, prisons, access to domestic violence services.... Many of which echo the Section 28 panic #contemporarygender

Combined with the huge backlash against tackling gendered stereotypes in schools, this all points to the driving force as people clinging on to gender normativity #contemporarygender

Trans people are scapegoated to avoid questions about pay inequality, masculinity and suicide, #metoo and sexual harassment... Linking back to Travis @megjohnbarker places trans as a gift, opening wider intersectional discussions we urgently need #contemporarygender

Then Gender Ben troubling the trans/cis dichotomy for missing intersectional positions. Then there are questions about the dividing line: gender takes time and fluctuates. Thinking through behaviour vs identity and the assumptions people make across them #contemporarygender

Gender Ben points to the danger of the cis gaze in framing trans lives. Ending with a perfect David Attenborough to bring attention to lazy cis-ness and how cis discourses are wrapped up in power systems #contemporarygender

Gender Ben turns the cis gaze on its head: why do we gender cars by putting eyelashes on headlights and how did eyelashes get coded as female in the first place?! What do we really lose if we leave an object the same but remove a gendered label? #contemporarygender

Considered, humorous critical much needed #contemporarygender rounded off by travel with the Excellent @ssisteroutsider

And we're done! (Three hours ago.) Fabulous day - many thanks to all who contributed! Hope everyone left with new ideas, knowledge and connections following ten glorious hours of gender! Do check our website to read more about our presenters and their work! #contemporarygender

On the train back west feeling tired but validated, positive and excited after the Gender in the Contemporary World conference yesterday. All the speakers were amazing 😍 /quits job to do masters in queer theory/

gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-queer-hi… Gender in the Contemporary World you've all put ideas in my head.🙈

Important points from Ed Zephyr **DEACTIVATED** on #trans acting, representing All About Trans at Gender in the Contemporary World's conference on Sat. Check out #contemporarygender to catch up on the panels and discussions. x.com/krheyam/status…

Thanks to Ed Zephyr **DEACTIVATED** for leading on this critically important work for Equity :) x.com/contempgender/…