Sparking a love of nature; the Keira Bell judgement; Evil women; US female voters

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Woman’s Hour Power List 2020: Our Planet is celebrating the women making a significant contribution to the environment. Today, we’re speaking to two women who strive to spark a lifelong love of nature in others. Beccy Speight is the CEO of the RSPB, the UK’s largest conservation charity and Miranda Lowe is a curator at the Natural History Museum in London.

The High Court has ruled that children under 16 with gender dysphoria are ‘unlikely’ to be able to give informed consent to undergo treatment with puberty-blocking drugs. The case had been brought against Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. Health Correspondent for BBC Newsnight Deborah Cohen joins Krupa to explain the judgment and its potential implications for clinical practice.

In the recent US election an estimated 90% of black women voters supported President-elect Joe Biden. And while college-educated white women further cemented their shift to Democrat support, white women overall continued to vote for President Donald Trump. We speak to Professor of Political Science, Wendy Smooth from Ohio State University about what created this divide, the significance of the women’s vote and the overall pattern of women’s political choice.

What makes an ‘evil woman’? From Eve and her original evil, to the true horrors of Myra Hindley, Professor Joanna Bourke’s new series of Gresham College lectures explore some of the women described as such – and how the bar for evil has changed over time.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello, this is Krupa Party with Wednesday's
0:07.5	edition of the Women's Hour Podcast. Today, we'll be hearing another two women from
0:13.0	this year's Women's Hour power list. One of whom, Miranda Lowe, is here with me in the
0:17.8	studio. We are exchanging smiles as I speak. They'll be talking about their work in getting
0:22.8	us and keeping us interested in nature and the environment. Let's admit, this year,
0:28.4	the outdoors has really been our savior. Also, on the show, the American election, how
0:33.6	significant were female voters in getting President-elect Joe Biden passed that finishing line? And
0:40.2	we're going to talk evil to be precise what makes an evil woman. We're always keen to
0:44.7	hear from you on evil women or anything else. You'll find us over on Instagram and Twitter
0:50.3	and that handle is at BBC Women's Hour. And of course, there's always email or text.
0:55.5	That number is 84888, do get in touch. Now, the High Court yesterday ruled that children
1:02.8	under 16 with gender dysphoria are unlikely to be able to give informed consent to undergo
1:09.2	puberty blocking drugs. The case has been brought against the Tabestock and Portment NHS
1:15.3	Trust. You run Gender Identity Clinics by a young woman called Kirabel and a parent
1:20.5	just known as Mrs A. I spoke to Health Correspondent for BBC News Night Deb Cohen earlier about
1:26.6	that judgment and its implications for clinical practice. I asked her first, what the term
1:31.9	gender dysphoria means. So, gender dysphoria is essentially struggling with your gender identity.
1:39.2	And that is the gender you are either assigned at birth or your little sex. And it can be quite
1:47.0	traumatic for a young person if they do not feel at one with their sex or gender.
1:54.7	I understood and it's obviously really important to clarify what it means from a medical
1:59.7	perspective and similarly puberty blockers. So, puberty blockers are a drug that is called
2:06.6	tryptorellen. And when used in gender dysphoria, they stop the development of the secondary
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