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Heather Brunskell-Evans vs. transgender people

Heather Brunskell-Evans is a British philosopher and anti-transgender extremist.

Brunskell-Evans was a Director of anti-trans front group Women’s Declaration International from 2019 to 2020.

Background

Heather Brunskell-Evans was born in April 1950.

After comments opposing gender affirming care for minors on The Moral Maze, Brunskell-Evans was removed from a position at the Women’s Equality Party.

Brunskell-Evans appeared in the 2018 anti-trans propaganda piece Trans Kids: It’s Time to Talk hosted by Stella O’Malley.

Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body (2018)

This 2018 anthology is edited by Brunskell-Evans and Michele Moore.

Inventing Transgender Children and Young People (2019)

This 2019 anthology is edited by Brunskell-Evans and Michele Moore.

References

Defining Gender. Moral Maze https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09dz416

H Brunskell – Feminist methodology. in Researching society and culture, 1998 – Sage London

Brunskell-Evans, Heather (November 14, 2022). The making of an illusion: Gendered intelligence and the “trans child” The Critic https://thecritic.co.uk/the-making-of-an-illusion/

Brunskell-Evans, Heather (2020). Transgender Body Politics. Spinifex Press, ISBN 978-1925950229

Brunskell-Evans, Heather; Moore Michele (2018). The Fabrication of the ‘Transgender Child.’ in Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ISBN 978-1527503984

Brunskell-Evans, Heather; Moore Michele (2019). Inventing Transgender Children and Young People. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Brunskell-Evans, Heather (June 25, 2019). The purge of Trans -cceptical academics. Spiked https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/06/26/the-purge-of-trans-sceptical-academics/

Brunskell-Evans, Heather (November 29, 2018). Free Speech and Transactivism. Medium https://medium.com/dr-heather-brunskell-evans/free-speech-and-transactivism-ed552d2774c6

Inventing Transgender Children and Young People: 9781527555983: Michele Moore, Heather Brunskell-Evans, Michele Moore, 

Media

Object UK (May 11, 2021). The Illogicality of Transgender Theory – Heather Brunskell Evans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThAhHhVNcAE

Benjamin Boyce (May 14, 2021). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLv0_oYlIKg

Graham Linehan (October 17, 2020). Foucault & Butler for grownups: Heather Brunskell-Evans gets real about Queer Theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDKm-Xcazcs

Resources

Heather Brunskell-Evans (heather-brunskell-evans.co.uk)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

Twitter (twitter.com)

Medium (medium.com)