Together with my COSRT colleague, Jo Coker, I was pleased to have been invited to attend a panel event on trans equality, held at the Speaker’s House in the Houses of Parliament on 15th May 2018. The event was jointly…
We were recently featured in the Glasgow Herald about a very important issue: sex and dementia. Care Scotland recently launched a press release on this difficult area, and they are advocating for more support for people with dementia who wish…
We were concerned to read the following piece on the BBC News website on 02 November 2017, which gave examples of two clients having experienced abuse at the hand of their therapists. Also concerning was the suggestion that as an…
Since the publication of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), there have been many worrying and misleading media headlines, which seem to have been completely mis-interpreting or mis-representing what the MOU seeks to achieve. Indeed, there have been many sensationalist stories…
As the Memorandum of Understanding on conversion Therapy (MoU) launches in the UK, Kirstie McEwan COSRT Trustee, discusses and shares her thoughts on gender – what is it? Perhaps it is easier to say what gender is not – it…
Today sees the publication of the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy in the UK – version 2 (MoU) which I attach MoU2_FINAL. The updated MoU now includes protections for gender as well as sexual diversity. The primary purpose of this…
