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Woman's Hour

Scottish Government consultation on gender recognition laws, Hazel Hunt, Pragna Patel, Rosie de Courcy & Megan Nolan

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

How widely is the Scottish Government consulting on its plans to allow people to legally change sex without a medical diagnosis? Emma Barnett speaks to Lisa Mackenzie from MurrayBlackburnMackenzie, an Edinburgh-based policy analysis collective who say the SNP is breaking a manifesto promise, by only meeting with groups representing trans rights since last May’s Holyrood election.

Military mums rally in protest at the decision to award former Prime Minister Tony Blair a knighthood. Hazel Hunt, whose son Richard died in Afghanistan, is considering sending back the Elizabeth Cross that her family had received as a mark of protest.

Southall Black Sisters was founded in 1979 to address the needs of Asian, African-Caribbean and minority women and to empower them to escape violence. Pragna Patel was one of the founders of Southall Black Sisters and today is her last day as Director. We talk to her about the chages she’s witnessed and the role she’s held for over 30 years.

It's ten years since the popular fiction writer Maeve Binchy died and forty years since her first best seller Light a Penny Candle was published. What has been her legacy for the generation of Irish women writers that followed and what is the role of editors in creating best-sellers? We talk to Rosie de Courcy Senior Editor at Head of Zeus publishers and Maeve's long-time editor, and Irish author and journalist Megan Nolan.

Taking photos or video recordings of breastfeeding mothers in public without their consent is to be made a crime in England and Wales, punishable by up to two years in prison. We catch up with the woman who started the campaign Julia Cooper.

Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Donald McDonald

Transcript

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0:41.0

Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womensa from BBC. podcasts. to be joined by a lot of women fighting for change campaigning lobbying or

0:55.0

demanding action from Pragna Patel one of the founders of the campaign group

0:59.3

Southall Black Sisters on her last day as director of that, a role she's had for over 30 years,

1:05.6

to Julia Cooper, who's just won a change in the law to make taking photos or videos of women

1:10.8

breastfeeding a crime.

1:13.2

Yesterday we talked about New Year's Graces.

1:15.5

Gift to yourself, kindnesses instead of resolutions.

1:18.2

So many of you got in touch with what you're planning on doing.

1:21.5

Well, what's your fight this year we're still in

1:23.9

the first week of twenty two what are you going to be focusing on what are your

1:28.6

efforts on your energy what's that being directed towards what are you

1:32.3

channeling who are you campaigning what are you channeling?

1:33.0

Who are you campaigning?

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What are you campaigning about?

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