So, here I am back in Darkest Somerset, trying to catch up on work after two days away. Here are a few quick notes.

Christine Burns tells me that she won’t have time to edit the audio recording for a while so I’ll see what I can do myself. However, I very much doubt I’ll have time to look at it for several weeks.

One of the things that got discussed during the tour was this excellent article from the BBC on the issue of intersex people in sport. One thing of particular interest is that it appears we can no longer call intersex people “intersex”, we have to say that they are “suffering” from “Disorders of Sexual Development”. So what used to be a purely natural human variation is now a “disorder” that has to be “fixed”. *sigh*

The most interesting thing to come out of the Trans London meeting was the discovery that the UK now has a group called Trans Media Watch (Facebook group here) that will keep an eye on our media in the same way that GLAAD does in the US (though just for trans people, which is necessary because Stonewall is LGB only). I’m delighted to see such a group being formed. However, given the outcome of the Jan Moir / Stephen Gately case, there’s clearly no fucking point in trying to work through the Press Complains Commission. If 25,000 people being outraged and major companies such as BT and M&S withdrawing their advertising doesn’t suggest to the PCC that a journalist has perhaps crossed the line there’s no hope for any future complaints by LGB people, let alone trans folk.