Sailor Pip Hare. Children and puberty blockers. Stalking slogans on Valentines Day Cards

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Pip Hare has been competing in the Vendee Globe race, sailing around the world, solo, non-stop and without assistance. She is on the home straight now and currently 20th place. Pip speaks to Emma from the Atlantic Ocean.

Following a ruling by the High Court at the end of last year that children under 16 with gender dysphoria are unlikely to be able to give informed consent to being treated with puberty-blocking drugs, younger children now need a clinician to apply to the Court to be able to access puberty blockers, and all current referrals and appointments have been paused. We hear from Dr David Bell, former staff governor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and a consultant adult psychiatrist and get a response from the Trust.

There is a stalking genre in valentines cards. Slogans on cards such as: Your stalker wishes you a Happy Valentines Day and stalker is a hard word - I prefer valentine. Katy Bourne, Sussex police and crime commissioner and main spokesperson on stalking for association of police and crime commissioners tells us why she wants them banned.

Presenter Emma Barnett Producer Clare Walker.

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
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0:41.1	Hello, it's Emma Barnet here.
0:43.0	Welcome to the Women's Hour Podcast.
0:46.0	Good morning.
0:47.0	You may have hoped that the pandemic could have given you a break from Valentine's Day,
0:51.0	or you may love it and be planning a weekend of love.
0:55.0	Either way there is a genre of card out there that you may or may not be familiar with or of
1:00.4	because I have to say I hadn't seen this until it was brought to my attention by a woman we're going to hear from shortly
1:06.3	With regards to stalking there is a stalking genre
1:10.3	It's trying to be funny around Valentine's Day and people loving each other so much.
1:16.0	There's cards such as Happy Valentine's from your favorite stalker.
1:20.0	I'll give you some more examples and describe how those cards look in a minute but what I wanted to know from you is have you seen these
1:25.4	A lot of people of course shopping for their cards online this year they may have already been doing that but more and more people you have to
1:31.6	Because of the shops not being open
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