Author & Founder of Transgender Trend
Stephanie Davies-Arai & the story of Transgender Trend
LILY MAYNARD – 28 FEBRUARY 2021 – https://lilymaynard.com/
If you’re reading this, the chances are you know a bit about Transgender Trend already. You might have asked for one of their schools’ packs to be sent to your child’s school or club; you might have referred a friend with a gender-confused child to their website and you’ve almost certainly heard about the importance of their contribution to the Keira Bell case.
But how did the organisation get to where it is now? And what do you know about its founder, Stephanie Davies-Arai? How and why did she become so focused on to protecting children who don’t conform to society’s expectations of gendered behaviour?
Pop the kettle on, make yourself a cuppa. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin…
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Vindication for ‘transphobic’ gender-critical campaigner named in Queen’s Birthday Honours list
GORDON RAYNER – 1 June 2022 – The Telegraph
A gender-critical campaigner who said she has wrongly been labelled “transphobic” has received a British Empire Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Stephanie Davies-Arai is the founder and director of Transgender Trend, a parents’ group that has campaigned against the increase in children being referred to clinics for gender dysphoria medical treatment.
The organisation was one of several that successfully lobbied Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, to launch an NHS inquiry earlier this year into possible harmful practices at gender clinics.
Responding to her award, Ms Davies-Arai said that labelling views such as hers “bigoted” was “very dangerous”.
She also came out in defence of JK Rowling, the Harry Potter author, who became a target of intense criticism and occasional abuse by some trans rights campaigners.
Transgender Trend claimed that there is “no scientific basis” for labelling children transgender and that young people who are sent to gender clinics undergo “irreversible life-long effects” from their treatment.
Instead, it pointed to figures showing that many trans children first come out as gay and claimed that “80 per cent of [gender dysphoric] children ‘grow out of it’ and come to accept and be happy as the sex they were born”.
In 2018, Stonewall, the LGBTQ+ charity, said that Transgender Trend’s views were “dangerous” for young people and “factually inaccurate”…