Our Duty has a truck! It is in Los Angeles, and it is, we hope, raising some interest as to exactly "Who is Keira Bell?" Why a truck? What happened to the billboard campaign? The story is that every single company we asked after the last board came down early said no. https://ourduty.group/2020/12/14/billboards-in-usa/ Our Duty … Continue reading Keep on Truckin’
Newsletter – March 2021
On March 8th a Westminster Hall debate was held at the House of Commons to discuss a proposed ban on conversion therapy. Unfortunately, almost all the participants in the debate were promoting the idea that gender identity should be treated in the same way as sexual orientation. Doing so would create a chilling environment for … Continue reading Newsletter – March 2021
Prisoner of Conscience
In Canada, a devoted and brave father is confined to prison pending trial on April12th, 2021 Robert Hoogland has a daughter who wants to be a man. While we all know that it is impossible for a girl to become a man, and we know that it is a parent's duty to lovingly bring their … Continue reading Prisoner of Conscience
Billboard Chris
Chris Elston a.k.a. Billboard Chris is a father of two daughters. He is also a big fan of J K Rowling with her Harry Potter books being a staple of the Elston family bedtime story routine. When Chris became aware of gender ideology he realised the threat that it posed to his daughters. And when … Continue reading Billboard Chris
Detransition Awareness Day
March 12, 2021 the inaugural 'Detransition Awareness Day', provided an opportunity to raise awareness of detransition and of the stories of detransitioners. While Keira Bell is perhaps the most famous of the detransitioners. Many others have found it necessary to unite and to campaign for better treatment, both by society and by the medical profession. … Continue reading Detransition Awareness Day
Conversion Therapy Petition
On Monday 8th March a 'Westminster Hall Debate' was had in the United Kingdom parliament in response to a petition calling for a ban on LGBT Conversion Therapy. The full debate in Parliament is available on Parliament TV The petition calls for the Government to make running conversion therapy for LGBT people a criminal offence. This … Continue reading Conversion Therapy Petition
Newsletter: February 2021
February 2021 got off to a good start with Our Duty founder Keith Jordan getting a wider audience for concerns around the United Kingdom's approach to medical treatment in respected magazine The Critic: https://thecritic.co.uk/what-the-media-missed-about-the-care-quality-commissions-tavistock-report/ The Irish College of GPs reverses its stance on puberty blockers, and this was reported in The Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/irish-college-of-gps-reverses-stance-on-puberty-blockers-nh7kj6xbm An interesting … Continue reading Newsletter: February 2021
Dutch call for More Research
More research is urgently needed into transgender care for young people: 'Where does the large flow of children come from?' Thomas Steensma, Dutch researcher into gender treatments and one of the co-authers of the so-called 'Dutch Protocol' has expressed concerns that existing research is an insufficient basis upon which current pathways used to treat adolescents … Continue reading Dutch call for More Research
Billboards in USA
In an effort to raise awareness about the medical treatment of children and teenagers with gender dysphoria, a group of parents commissioned a billboard in Los Angeles. It went up in October 2020 and received minimal attention. A second billboard was commissioned in November in close proximity to Kaiser Permanente Hospital where there is a … Continue reading Billboards in USA
Research Updates – Summer 2020
In a short thread on Twitter, renowned Harry Potter author JK Rowling neatly summarised these new papers: NHS identity clinics have been functioning as if acting outside the ordinary requirement of good medical and psychiatric practice.Some may dismiss this paper by experienced psychoanalyst Marcus Evans, but they do so at their own peril.Freedom to ThinkIt … Continue reading Research Updates – Summer 2020