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In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Jillian Spencer, a child and adolescent psychiatrist from Brisbane, Australia, who has found herself at the center of a heated debate surrounding so-called “gender-affirming care” for children. After raising concerns about the practices at her hospital's gender clinic, Jillian was suspended and is now embroiled in legal battles that could redefine workplace protections for those with gender-critical beliefs. What led her to take such a bold stand, and what are the implications for mental health care?We explore the concepts in a not-yet-published paper Jillian recently co-authored with Dr. Roberto D'Angelo, analyzing the interpersonal dynamics between gender clinicians and their patients using psychodynamic theory. How do psychological dynamics such as repression, collusion, codependency, projection, and reaction formation play into relationships between distressed, vulnerable patients and the professionals who “affirm” them? And what are the risks involved in psychiatry's shift away from psychodynamic thinking?We analyze the alarming trend of fast-tracking youth with suicidal ideation to gender clinics and the dangerous message this sends to vulnerable adolescents, potentially incentivizing personality disordered behavior and risking permanently entrenching vulnerable people into problematic problems for life that they could have grown out of in adolescence if only provided with the proper support.Jillian Spencer is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Brisbane, Australia. In April 2023, she was stood down from her job at the Queensland Children's Hospital for raising concerns about gender interventions for children. Since that time, she has spoken out in the Australian media about her concerns which has led to further allegations of breaching the employee Code of Conduct. She remains suspended from her job. Jillian has launched legal action claiming political discrimination in the workplace due to her belief in biological reality, that people can't change sex, in the hope of achieving a Forstater decision in Australia. This court case will occur in early 2025. She is also awaiting an employment commission outcome as to whether she is officially a ‘whistleblower'. If so, this would help her to retain her hospital job. You can follow her on X @jilliantweetingNote: I mentioned that an episode with James Esses would come out the week before Jillian's. The timeline for the release of James' episode has been pushed back a few weeks to allow him time to finish a project we hope to be able to announce with that episode. Be on the lookout for my conversation with James in November. 00:00 Start[00:02:39] Psychodynamic thinking in therapy.[00:05:36] Gender clinic referral practices.[00:09:39] Suicidality and gender clinic access.[00:12:20] Trans identity and self-harm.[00:16:04] Parent-Child Dynamics in “Trans” Care.[00:19:07] Gender clinic assessment validity.[00:23:15] Whistleblower protections in Queensland.[00:27:22] Political discrimination and beliefs.[00:30:49] Multidisciplinary care model critique.[00:34:43] Psychodynamic perspective in treatment.[00:37:49] Clinician influence on therapy dynamics.[00:44:36] Projection and hate in therapy.[00:46:11] Power dynamics in gender clinics.[00:50:35] Psychological health and gender distress.[00:53:11] The wounded healer archetype.[00:56:32] Transgender identity and empathy.[01:00:17] Gender non-conforming youth sexuality.[01:04:16] Downfall of psychotherapy.[01:08:03] Self-care and well-being tips.ROGD REPAIR Course + Community for Parents is available now! Are you concerned about an adolescent or young adult with Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria? Join at ROGDrepair.com and get instant access to over 100 lessons designed to equip you with the psychological insights and communication tools you need to get through to your kid. Use code SOMETHERAPIST2024 to take 50% off your first month.TALK TO ME: book a discovery call. Find all other information about my consulting work at stephaniewinn.com and the podcast at sometherapist.com.LOCALS: Ask questions of me & guests; get early access to new episodes + exclusive content. Join my community.SUPPORT THE SHOW: subscribe, like, comment, & share or donate.EIGHTSLEEP: Take $200 off your EightSleep Pod Pro Cover with code SOMETHERAPIST.ORGANIFI: Take 20% off Organifi with code SOMETHERAPIST.Watch NO WAY BACK: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care. Use code SOMETHERAPIST to take 20% off your order. 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J K Rowling first became embroiled in the trans (or gender) wars after she leapt to the defence of Maya Forstater, a researcher whose contract was not renewed because she stated that trans women were not women. Her gender critical beliefs were deemed by the judge not worthy of respect, and she lost everything. #gender #jkrowling #lgb Get our bonus segment on: http://andrewgold.locals.com Support her org. Sex Matters: https://sex-matters.org Follow her on X: https://x.com/MForstater Andrew on X: https://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Insta: https://www.instagram.com/andrewgold_ok Heretics YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@andrewgoldheretics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Forstater and Nathan Neuman are co-Founders of Dreambird the new Web3 powered filmmaking and streaming platform. In this episode, they discuss the pitfalls and structural problems associated with the current film financing model and outline their vision for Dreambird as a marketplace designed to foster creators' collaboration, decision-making, and project participation. In a wide ranging conversation - that draws on Mark's rich experience as a producer (including Monty Python and the Holy Grail no less!) - we also explore generative AI, NFTs, interactive storytelling and the history - and future - of the industry. About Mark Forstater Mark Forstater is a highly experienced producer with over 40 years in the film and television industry and a pioneer of independent British films. He has extensive credits including cult classics like "Monty Python & The Holy Grail" and "XTRO,". His recent films, "Swipe Fever" and "The Lullaby Killer," highlight his continued commitment to pushing boundaries and film production. About Nathan Neuman Entrepreneur and filmmaker with a background in music and post-production, Nathan has managed production companies and talent agencies in the UK and US, while also working as a producer for global corporations in music, advertising, fashion, and technology. Nathan directed the feature film "Swipe Fever" and designed the game "Viral Survival."

Maya Forstater (middle) and colleagues at the launch of the #RespectMySex campaign, 2022Since 2004, when trans activists first came after me, I and many others had fantasised about what it would be like to engage with them under the normal rules of public debate. The whole LGBTQQIA2Spirit+ Rainbow Community has been drip fed no debate by Stonewall for years, and I used to dream of a scenario where a group of us, five on each side, had been locked in a building and, becoming bored with the lack of Netflix or booze we ended up having the argument. It would be filmed of course, and subsequently leaked to the world. This kept me going during the bleak years where few spoke out about the danger of trans identified men invading single sex spaces. But suddenly, despite the odds, this wish came true, thanks to Maya challenging this crazy ideology in court.The debate, much to the chagrin of the blue fringe brigade, was aired during a three-week employment tribunal during which the Emperor appeared buck naked, his lady dick waving for all to see. Even the cute pink and blue trans flag could not cover his humiliation. In October 2018 Maya Forstater was employed as a consultant by the US-based non-profit Centre for Global Development (CGD). Some staff in the Washington DC office raised internal concerns about a number of her tweets, which they claimed were “transphobic.” An internal investigation followed, and weeks later, her contract as a consultant at CGD was ended, and subsequently, an offer to continue as a visiting fellow was withdrawn. Maya decided to sue CGD on the grounds of discrimination under the Equality Act 2010, but in November 2019, the Employment Tribunal ruled against her. They held that her “absolutist” beliefs, that trans women are NOT actual, literal women, and that sex and gender identity are not the same, are “not worthy of respect in a democratic society.”She appealed the judgement, and in June 2021 the decision was published. Maya had won and would be able to continue with a discrimination claim. A fresh tribunal was convened which was tasked with the job of deciding whether Maya's behaviour in the office amount to harassment of, or discrimination against, trans people, and whether she herself was discriminated against on the grounds of her beliefs. The rest is history. And earlier this year, Maya was awarded over £100.000 in compensation. Too bloody right. Here she is. Enjoy the chat. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

“...Because we recognize that taxes are not a funding operation, there's this myth that people who support MMT don't want to use fiscal policy to promote equity. Of course, taxes are redistribution … Things have gotten way out of hand, so taxation is also intended to promote equity, to affect distribution and allocation. Resource allocation.”Mat Forstater was on this podcast four years ago (episode 21!) recounting the history of MMT. He described his early days at Levy Institute and UMKC, his relationship with Warren Mosler and Pavlina Tcherneva, and how they established MMT as interdisciplinary, expanding into law and humanities. If you haven't listened to that episode, we urge you to check it out.This week, Mat talks to Steve about the role of taxation in the economy and its relation to government spending. It's not enough to understand how taxes create a demand for the nation's currency and give it value. Mat always reminds us to consider the total impact of any policy — from using taxation to encourage or discourage behavior, to its ripple effects and unintended consequences.They touch on the importance of decoupling taxation from federal programs and the need to design tax policies that consider the indirect effects on society. They also talk about the potential deflationary impact of programs like Medicare for All, and whether a job guarantee can address unemployment and provide quality jobs.Dr. Mathew Forstater is a professor in Economics at the University of Missouri/Kansas City and the Research Director of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. having received a Ph.D. at The New School for Social Research. His research focuses on the History of Economic Thought, Economic Methodology, Political Economy, Public Policy, Economics of Discrimination, Environmental Economics, African and African American Economic History. @mattybram on Twitter

In this episode, Yasmin sits down with Peter Daly, an employment law partner at Doyle Clayton, to discuss his career and the high-profile philosophical belief cases he's been focused on recently. They discuss the significance for employers of the judgment Forstater, as well as the wider societal impact of such cases. For more episodes that touch upon related themes, we invite you to listen to those featuring the guests below: EP. 04 – Robin White (https://pod.fo/e/149f99)EP. 79 – Freddy McConnell (https://pod.fo/e/d596e)EP. 110 – Ellie Krug (https://pod.fo/e/154d45) Find out more at tr.com/TheHearing

Schlechte Nachrichten, Schlammschlachten und Skandale... Nein, es geht nicht um eine neue Show der Kardashians, sondern die sogenannte WIZARDING WORLD: Dazu zählt man sämtliche Projekte, die je zu HARRY POTTER oder PHANTASTISCHE TIERWESEN erschienen sind. Das beliebte Franchise zeichnet sich aktuell aber nicht mit guter Unterhaltung aus, sondern mit unheimlich provokanten Aussagen. Wir sprechen heute über die unserer Meinung nach stagnierende Qualität der aktuellen Filmreihe von FANTASTIC BEASTS, wir erklären euch die Aussagen der Harry-Potter-Autorin Joanne K. Rowling und wir berichten euch vom neuesten Stand des großen Videospiels HOGWARTS LEGACY. Für dieses große Special haben wir sogar einen ganz tollen Gast dabei: Barbie Breakout! Die Aktivistin, Podcasterin und Autorin ist nicht nur Potter-Fan der ersten Stunde, sondern erzählt uns heute auch, wie sie die Aussagen zur Trans*-Thematik von J.K. Rowling einordnet. Auch Jonas Ressel und Xenia Popescu ordnen heute die Wizarding World für uns ein. Moderiert wird das Ganze von Alper Turfan... und damit ein herzliches Willkommen hier auf CINEMA STRIKES BACK! Hier findet ihr Barbie Breakout auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barbiebreakout/?hl=de https://linktr.ee/barbiebreakout Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Anmoderation 00:01:27 - Intro 00:01:34 - Der mangelnde Erfolg 00:05:20 - Die mangelnde Qualität 00:07:46 - Die mit ihrem Franchise verwachsene Autorin 00:08:58 - Die Trans*-Thematik 00:19:00 - Rowlings neue Bücher 00:23:48 - Ihre Stars wenden sich ab 00:27:19 - Nicht nur sie 00:33:36 - Das verwunschene Kind 00:36:12 - Ein Lichtblick 00:43:03 - Wie geht's weiter? 00:47:11 - Abmoderation Soundtrack des Videos: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/14tLThFoju1s1THp3ywzKP?si=646e99cc8e6f4660 John Williams - Hedwig's Theme Mavins, Crayon, Ayra Starr, LADIPOE, Magixx, Boy Spyce - Overloading (OVERDOSE) Tove Lo - No One Dies From Love Julia Wolf - Gothic Babe Tendencies (feat. blackbear) Debbie, BERWYN - Cousin's Car Thom Yorke - Analyse Jessie Murph - Drunk in the Bathtub Pheelz - Ballin THEY. - Set Me Free Warpaint - Stevie Quinn XCII - Let Me Down (with Chelsea Cutler) Powfu - shade of blue (feat. Rxseboy, Tia Tia & Shalfi) JVKE - golden hour Lola Young - Stream Of Consciousness Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Shape I'm Takin' alt-J - 3WW Avril Lavigne - Mercury In Retrograde BoA - Forgive Me The Neighbourhood - Daddy Issues Arlo Parks - Softly Alaina Castillo - sad girls always finish first Cautious Clay - Puffer alt-J - The Actor Fontaines D.C. - Roman Holiday Charlie XCX - Beg For You (feat. Rina Sawayama) Hayley Williams - Dead Horse Hercules & Love Affair - Dissociation Quellen: Maya Forstaters Aussagen: https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/09/30/maya-forstater-tala-library-hertfordshire-mascot-alien-gender/ Rowling unterstützt Forstater: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/j-k-rowling-s-maya-forstater-tweets-support-hostile-work-ncna1105201 Tweet "People Who Menstruate": https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269382518362509313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Tweet @Aleens Antwort: https://twitter.com/Aleen/status/1269394953299361793 J.K. Rowlings Statement: https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/ Tweet Rowlings "Honorarscheck": https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1580639051774054404?lang=de Zusammenfassung von Rowlings Aussagen: https://www.glamour.com/story/a-complete-breakdown-of-the-jk-rowling-transgender-comments-controversy Gender Recognition Act: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/7/contents Scientific Americans Beitrag über "Transphobia": https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia/ "Wie transphobisch ist Rowlings neuester Roman? Sehr": https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-transphobic-is-jk-rowlings-new-novel-troubled-blood-very?ref=scroll Debatte um Böses Blut: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/debatte-um-boeses-blut-von-j-k-rowling-trans-menschen-100.html Tweet Sammlung Morddrohungen: https://twitter.com/dataracer117/status/1272737061703790592 Rowling wird angefeindet: https://news.sky.com/story/jk-rowlings-address-tweeted-by-activist-actors-after-author-spoke-up-for-womens-sex-based-rights-12475708 Bücherverbrennungen: https://www.newsweek.com/jk-rowling-books-burned-tiktok-transgender-issues-1532330 Daniel Radcliffes Statement: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/daniel-radcliffe-responds-to-j-k-rowlings-tweets-on-gender-identity/ Katherine Waterstons Satement: https://www.indiewire.com/2021/07/katherine-waterston-stands-against-jk-rowling-anti-trans-1234654067/ Robbie Coltrane verteidigt Rowling: https://www.insider.com/hagrid-actor-robbie-coltrane-defends-jk-rowling-over-transphobia-claim-2020-9 Jon Stewarts Aussagen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzffpeYnv-w&ab_channel=TheProblemWithJonStewart https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/campaign-against-antisemitism-defends-j-k-rowling-jon-stewart-goblin-claims-1278891/ Tweet von Kampagne gegen Antisemitismus: https://twitter.com/antisemitism/status/1478739540307230720/photo/1 Troy Leavitts YT-Kanal: https://www.youtube.com/@TroyLeavitt https://kotaku.com/hogwarts-legacy-lead-designer-used-to-run-anti-social-j-1846316222 Leavitts Tweets: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/mak8o8dpkc05yuy3kve3.png Hogwarts Legacys trans*inklusiver Charakter-Editor: https://www.thegamer.com/harry-potter-hogwarts-legacy-transgender/ Hogwarts Legacy FAQ: https://www.hogwartslegacy.com/de-de/faq Moderation: Alper Turfan Interviewpartner: Barbie Breakout, Xenia Popescu, Jonas Ressel Kamera & Ton: Patrik Hochnadel Redaktion: Alper Turfan Schnitt: Patrik Hochnadel #harrypotter #film Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cinemastrikesback/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/csb_de Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/CSB_DE/ Cinema Strikes Back gehört zu #funk. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/funkofficial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/funk TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@funk Website: https://go.funk.net https://go.funk.net/impressum

In our weekly podcast, David Hossack and Fiona Meek, discuss the recent case of Forstater v CGD Europe and Others, where the Employment Tribunal concluded that the claimant had been discriminated against due to her gender-critical views.

In our weekly podcast, David Hossack and Fiona Meek, discuss the recent case of Forstater v CGD Europe and Others, where the Employment Tribunal concluded that the claimant had been discriminated against due to her gender-critical views.

Maya Forstater is a researcher, writer, and advisor working on business and sustainable development. She is one of the founders of Sex Matters, the UK-based, not-for-profit organization that seeks to re-establish that sex matters in rules, laws, policies, language, and culture. In 2019, she lost her job after tweeting and writing about sex and gender. She had begun talking and tweeting about news articles that she felt espoused bizarre new beliefs about gender and what the implications may be. For example, while building a campaign to combat overly-sex-segregated toys for children, called Let Toys be Toys, Maya observed that society had shifted from fighting sex stereotypes to claiming that some children were neither girls nor boys. It was fascinating to learn that even when researching tax policy, Maya found herself calling out unrealistic, utopian ideas and ruffling feathers among her liberal peers. In this conversation, Maya also reflects on her unlikely position in her landmark court case which established that gender-critical views are protected as a belief under the equality act. Despite her reluctance to jump into a complex and messy legal process, she felt a strong conviction to take this on. Links: Wider Lens Renewal Retreat — Arizona 2022: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wider-lens-renewal-retreats-arizona-2022-tickets-368655377157 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wider-lens-renewal-retreats-arizona-2022-tickets-368655377157) Sex Matters: https://sex-matters.org/ (https://sex-matters.org/) Let Toys Be Toys: https://www.lettoysbetoys.org.uk/ (https://www.lettoysbetoys.org.uk/) Twitter Handle: https://www.twitter.com/@MForstater (https://www.twitter.com/@MForstater) More of Maya's Writing: https://a-question-of-consent.net/ (https://a-question-of-consent.net/) Extended Notes In 2017, Maya took notice of the gender wars and started the “Let Toys Be Toys” campaign. Maya believes women are women and women have rights. It is widely spread that Maya is a Tax Accountant but her role in social justice is much more than that. Maya challenges people to engage in issues on Twitter and in her workplace. An employer told Maya that because she retweeted Kathleen Stock she was a bigot. Maya retained her job after explaining her plight on a blog and Twitter. Her father's legal experience influenced Maya about whether or not to sue others. There is a legal time limit on discrimination cases. At the moment Maya was prepared to launch a public campaign, a major social justice law firm dropped her case. Maya has public support from those unable to raise their voice at work. The first hearing, that Maya lost, was about sex being real and a protected philosophical belief. In the first trial, a judge called Maya an Absolutist. A tweet from JK Rowling catapulted Maya's campaign into the international spotlight. In 2021, Maya finally won a case that created a precedent that gender-critical people have the same rights as religious people. Sex Matters is an organization Maya founded to educate people about their rights. This podcast is sponsored by ReIME and Genspect. Visit https://rethinkime.org/ (https://rethinkime.org/) and https://genspect.org/ (https://genspect.org/) to learn more. For more about our show: https://linktr.ee/WiderLensPod (https://linktr.ee/WiderLensPod)

Today on The Day After, (17:18) Headlines: Gove calls for the PMs resignation: Will Boris Johnson survive? (26:02) What You Sayin? What would it take for you to go? (43:55) Headlines: Woman discriminated against for trans tweets (46:54) Word On Road: Jake Paul & Tommy Fury fight canceled, Beyoncé #MeToo checks, P Square reunion tour, Fake news about Dave. Haters say he died (01:14:02) The People's Journal: The Pound falls again, Most have less than 5 bills in their account!, Whiskas & Heinz not sold in Tesco (01:33:28) Love Island: The Day After (02:05:49) Headlines: British Airways cancels 1500 flights, Triathlon bans trans women from all-female events (02:09:04) Done Out 'Ere: The employers who tried to sack Ms Forstater for her views (02:13:56) Outro --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thedayaftertnb/message

On the podcast, Meghan Murphy speaks with Maya Forstater, co-founder of Sex Matters and the 'Respect my sex if you want my X' campaign.

Maya Forstater, co-founder of Sex Matters and the Respect My Sex campaign, joins Brendan O'Neill to discuss how trans activism silences women and the importance of defending biological sex.  Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/  Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/  Sign up to spiked's newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/

The brilliant Maya Forstater is here to shake your believes and show you the truth: SEX MATTERS. The fantasyland world wanted by few, where gender completely replaces biological sex, is dangerous, particularly for women and children. Maya is a victim of abuse, she was fired only because she politely expressed her beliefs on Twitter: that [...] The post EPISODE N. 34: MAYA FORSTATER. SEX MATTERS IN LAW AND IN LIFE appeared first on Paola Diana.

With worldwide sales in excess of 15 million albums, the Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Joss Stone is without question among the most iconic soul singers of the modern era. She rose to fame at the age of 13 by winning a BBC talent competition and more recently won The Masked Singer. Joss has now reunited with legend Dave Stewart for her new album Never Forget My Love. In an exclusive interview in the week that her employment tribunal case continues, Maya Forstater speaks to Emma about losing her role at a company in 2019, after she had posted tweets and had conversations about sex and gender. She took her case to an employment tribunal on the basis that, amongst other claims, she had been discriminated against because of her belief – that biological sex is real, important, immutable and cannot be conflated with gender identity. Maya lost the preliminary hearing, on the basis that her beliefs were not protected under the Equality Act 2010, but she appealed and in June 2021 that decision was overturned. The ruling meant that gender critical beliefs are a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010. This week the next part of her employment tribunal starts, and it will decide whether her employer discriminated against her because of her belief. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Mangaer: Tim Heffer

Mat Forstater joins Money on the Left to discuss the origins of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), the vicissitudes of heterodox economics, and the challenges of building alternative institutions in and beyond the academy. As one of the principal architects of MMT, as well as teacher and advisor to many of the more recognized MMT scholars and advocates today, Forstater is perhaps the best equipped heterodox economist to give us the details on the innovative assumptions and arguments that created the firmament for what we now know as Modern Monetary Theory. More importantly, how Forstater came to shape the project greatly defamiliarizes popular assumptions about MMT, which tend to reduce what is in truth a rich intellectual and political movement to a narrow and technocratic set of truisms and just-so stories. From experimental poetry and Black political economy to the problems of futurity and invention, Forstater's circuitous path reveals MMT's origins to be far more interdisciplinary and heterogeneous than it is often understood to be by opponents and advocates alike.Visit our Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula: www.nahneenkula.comTranscriptThe following was transcribed by Richard Farrell and has been lightly edited for clarity.

36 Commercial webinar on Discrimination law: Forstater, Cancel Culture and Where Employers Go From Here, with: Richard O'DairFergus McCombieSinead KingEveryone has a right to their own beliefs. The problem for employers is how to react when employees broadcast beliefs inside or outside the workplace which are deeply offensive to others and may lead to internal or external complaints. Particular fault lines arise around self-definition of gender, and religious belief and homosexuality, where employees may have equally entrenched and deeply opposed beliefs, and the beliefs may involve the refusal to accept the validity of an important aspect of a person's identity. This seminar will consider the issues raised by the ET case of Forstater v CGB Europe, its subsequent reversal by the EAT and the guidance of the Court of Appeal in Page v NHS Trust Development Authority. The Seminar will focus on setting out the current legal position together with some suggestions about how to manage the difficulties that arise in practice.

Catch up on what you missed on an episode of The Richard Syrett Show. 4th Year journalism student at Ryerson University, Jonathan Bradley talks about his op-ed about Egerton Ryerson in the National Post. Independent MP of Hastings-Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Derek Sloan, along with Dr. Patrick Phillips, & Dr. Byram Bridle discuss censorship of doctors & scientists. Founding member of caWsbar, Amy Eileen Hamm speaks on the Maya Forstater case. Lou Schizas returns once again for News Not In The News. Plus, Co-Founder of New Blue Party of Ontario & Cambridge MPP Belinda Karahalios.

In this episode of The Critic Podcast, Josephine Bartosch, journalist and regular contributor toThe Critic, speaks with Maya Forstater about her recent victory at the Employment Appeals Tribunal. Forstater had lost her job after posting tweets on gender recognition, following which she lost her original case at a tribunal in 2019. However, last week a High Court judge ruled that her "gender-critical" beliefs fell under the Equalities Act. -- Music: “Modern Jazz Samba” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this episode of The Critic Podcast, Josephine Bartosch, journalist and regular contributor toThe Critic, speaks with Maya Forstater about her recent victory at the Employment Appeals Tribunal. Forstater had lost her job after posting tweets on gender recognition, following which she lost her original case at a tribunal in 2019. However, last week a High Court judge ruled that her "gender-critical" beliefs fell under the Equalities Act. -- Music: “Modern Jazz Samba” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When Maya Forstater first started expressing “gender critical” views in late 2018 (ie that biological sex is real and important), she was a researcher at a progressive think tank called the Centre for Global Development. Her views caught the attention of the bosses in Washington DC — and one dismissal, one tribunal verdict and an appeal judgement later, she now finds herself part of the history of gender laws in this country.Today's successful appeal establishes Ms Forstater's views in law as a “philosophical belief” that must be protected from discrimination. This means that corporations, schools, government agencies or any other organisation cannot discriminate against people holding the mainstream view that men and women are different but equal, and that your sex doesn't change even if you identify differently. She joined Freddie Sayers on the latest episode of LockdownTV to tell us about her experience and what it means.For more read The Post from UnHerd See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We talk to Paloma Faith about her music, her films, being a mother of two daughters, and harassment towards women and girls. She's got a new single out called Monster which is about her relationship with her career. We hear from two nurses who tell us how the past year and a half has been for them. In the light of a report published earlier this week by the Health Select Committee we discuss burn-out and how health staff are so tired because of the pandemic that many are quitting and morale is at an all time low. Dr Gwen Adshead is one of Britain's leading forensic psychiatrists and has spent 30 years providing therapy in secure hospitals and prisons. She worked extensively with violent women. Her book, The Devil You Know, co-authored with Eileen Horne, is a collection of 11 stories about men and women who've committed acts of terrible violence. And we have bring you the breaking news that Maya Forstater has won her Appeal against an employment tribunal. Maya Forstater went to a tribunal in 2019 when her employment contract wasn't renewed after she posted tweets about gender recognition. She lost that case, but this morning - having taken it further - she's won the Appeal.

Maya Forstater, a researcher, writer and advisor working on business and sustainable development and co-founder of Sex Matters, talks about having lost her job after tweeting and writing about sex and gender. She is the claimant in a landmark test case on whether the protected characteristic of belief in the Equality Act covers gender critical beliefs. In this episode, Forstater discusses her case and the larger implications this legal challenge holds for the future of free speech and the rights of women and girls pointing to the vulnerability of employees in the academic gig economy who are often targeted by institutional policies that are quickly replacing the age-old role of the church throughout history. Examining the structure of her legal case which is based on the protection of a belief that impacts how the subject lives her life, Forstater postulates the social framework for disagreement or discussions about belief in an era where the presumed moral high ground of an employer can be the means for terminating one’s employment. Covering compelled speech and the institutional capture of gender ideology where women are forced to accept the personal and professional costs of free speech—to be polite or to save one’s job—in order to talk about what they see, Forstater discusses the legal system that has also been caught in the very paradigm her case addresses: ideologically-driven NGOs like Stonewall and Gendered Intelligence have pushed private and public institutional policies to adopt religious, anti-science beliefs which are also parroted by judges who instruct women within the courts to refer to men with a “gender identity” as “she.” Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

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Welcome to episode 63 of Activist #MMT. Today is part six of what was originally supposed to be a five-part conversation with one of MMT's original developers, Mat Forstater. Mat first resolves the unexpected cliffhanger from the end of episode five, regarding the purpose of MMT and how it is sometimes misunderstood. (Here are links to parts , , , , and .) As Mat told me at the start of today's episode, "The purpose of MMT is not to be a complete theory of capitalism, but rather to correct some crucially-important mistakes that have very important and practical policy implications." Specifically, MMT is an accurate description of the financial system at the heart of modern capitalist economies. It has as implied by that description: a floating exchange rate, a federal jobs guarantee, and a permanently, near-zero central bank target rate. In other words, MMT is deliberately limited in its scope which is sometimes twisted to portray MMT as not enough. What MMT actually says is that many things desperately needed by millions can be safely provided right now and, in fact, can always have been provided. There is no need for the issuer to "obtain the money" from anyone or anything in advance in order to do so. This is because the issuer has no choice but to spend by issuing new money. This reality is misinterpreted, for example, in some popular Marxist critiques, as if MMT enables or even promotes terrible things like imperialism and inequality. MMT shows that we don't need to reduce the belligerent military or reduce inequality in advance of doing these things. What these critics miss is that reducing the military and inequality is a good thing to do for its own sake – not because we need their money in order to pay for those things. The military must be made less belligerent because we reject belligerence as a moral stance. We must reduce inequality (partially by taxing the rich), because we reject inequality as a moral stance and also because that money is being used to kill our society and the long-term existence of our species – at least as far as most of us here in the 99% are concerned. Conversely, the limited scope of MMT is positive in the sense that it allows those things it leaves unaddressed up to interpretation – without compromising its core findings. For example, MMT allows for Islamic economics (as discussed in episodes 56 and 57 with Asad Zaman). It allows for the Marxist worker revolution (as discussed an episode 58 and 59 with Jim Kavanagh). As Mat and I discuss in today's episode, MMT allows, encourages, and even requires personal feelings, instinct, intuition, and even imagination and dreams. To quote Mat, "MMT builds bridges between economics and other interdisciplinary fields." Mainstream allows for none of these things, and in fact, discriminates viciously against anyone who dares even consider them. This is the only way it can preserve its dominance since clearly it can't win on the arguments. In the second half of today's episode, Mat and I discuss the connection between economics and the second law of thermodynamics. The first law of thermodynamics states that the total energy in an isolated, or closed system, such as the universe, is constant or fixed. Energy can transition from one form to another, but it can't be created or destroyed. The second law states that any utilization of matter and energy permanently decreases the amount available and accessible to that same system. This is called, or leads towards, entropy. To bring this back to economics, the idea that the so-called "free market," which is another example of a closed system, can survive without injections of new money from the currency issuer, is just as nonsensical (if perhaps in different time scales) as the idea that a television can continue to function when its no longer plugged in. It might last for a few seconds, but soon enough, it no longer functions. Major corporations needing federal ballots bailouts every decade or so...

Welcome to episode 63 of Activist #MMT. Today is part six of what was originally supposed to be a five-part conversation with one of MMT's original developers, Mat Forstater. Mat first resolves the unexpected cliffhanger from the end of episode five, regarding the purpose of MMT and how it is sometimes misunderstood. (Here are links to parts one, two, three, four, and five.) As Mat told me at the start of today's episode, "The purpose of MMT is not to be a complete theory of capitalism, but rather to correct some crucially-important mistakes that have very important and practical policy implications." Specifically, MMT is an accurate description of the financial system at the heart of modern capitalist economies. It has three (and only three) policy prescriptions as implied by that description: a floating exchange rate, a federal jobs guarantee, and a permanently, near-zero central bank target rate. In other words, MMT is deliberately limited in its scope which is sometimes twisted to portray MMT as not enough. What MMT actually says is that many things desperately needed by millions can be safely provided right now and, in fact, can always have been provided. There is no need for the issuer to "obtain the money" from anyone or anything in advance in order to do so. This is because the issuer has no choice but to spend by issuing new money. This reality is misinterpreted, for example, in some popular Marxist critiques, as if MMT enables or even promotes terrible things like imperialism and inequality. MMT shows that we don't need to reduce the belligerent military or reduce inequality in advance of doing these things. What these critics miss is that reducing the military and inequality is a good thing to do for its own sake – not because we need their money in order to pay for those things. The military must be made less belligerent because we reject belligerence as a moral stance. We must reduce inequality (partially by taxing the rich), because we reject inequality as a moral stance and also because that money is being used to kill our society and the long-term existence of our species – at least as far as most of us here in the 99% are concerned. Conversely, the limited scope of MMT is positive in the sense that it allows those things it leaves unaddressed up to interpretation – without compromising its core findings. For example, MMT allows for Islamic economics (as discussed in episodes 56 and 57 with Asad Zaman). It allows for the Marxist worker revolution (as discussed an episode 58 and 59 with Jim Kavanagh). As Mat and I discuss in today's episode, MMT allows, encourages, and even requires personal feelings, instinct, intuition, and even imagination and dreams. To quote Mat, "MMT builds bridges between economics and other interdisciplinary fields." Mainstream allows for none of these things, and in fact, discriminates viciously against anyone who dares even consider them. This is the only way it can preserve its dominance since clearly it can't win on the arguments. In the second half of today's episode, Mat and I discuss the connection between economics and the second law of thermodynamics. The first law of thermodynamics states that the total energy in an isolated, or closed system, such as the universe, is constant or fixed. Energy can transition from one form to another, but it can't be created or destroyed. The second law states that any utilization of matter and energy permanently decreases the amount available and accessible to that same system. This is called, or leads towards, entropy. To bring this back to economics, the idea that the so-called "free market," which is another example of a closed system, can survive without injections of new money from the currency issuer, is just as nonsensical (if perhaps in different time scales) as the idea that a television can continue to function when its no longer plugged in. It might last for a few seconds, but soon enough, it no longer functions. Major corporations needing federal ballots bailouts every decade or so is all the evidence needed to prove this. They don't just require periodic bailouts, they require outsized influence over our media and educational institutions, and all three branches of our government. Without the ability to push all real and financial costs onto their workers and society in general, they would need much more than a massive bailout every decade or so, in order to survive. Most importantly, regarding the economy (and as I understand it), the second law of thermodynamics seems to fully hold from the point of view of the non-government sector. However, from the point of view of the currency issuer, it does not hold. The first law states that the amount of energy is fixed. But energy and matter are physical things and therefore subject to the laws of... physics. From the issuer's point of view, money is not physical; it's merely numbers in accounting ledgers. In other words, they're essentially tally marks. Tally marks are a concept, not a physical thing. As long as humans exist, their capacity to create (and destroy!) their own money is limited not by physics but their imaginations. Therefore, to not provide the money desperately needed by millions, and to provide it to those who need it the least (or use it to hurt others), is not for a lack of finance but imagination and morals. Resources, from Mat: The first law of thermodynamics is better put: "matter/energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but can only change in form." And the second law, aka entropy law: "any utilization of matter/energy decreases the total available matter/energy." What’s with the "matter/energy"? Matter is energy ( E=mc2 ). Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, The Entropy Law and the Economic Process (book) Herman Daly, Beyond Growth (book) Herman Daly and John Cobb, For the Common Good (book) Herman Daly, The economic thought of Frederick Soddy in the Winter 1980 edition of the journal History of Political Economy You can see how degrowth could follow from the entropy law, or zero growth. On creative discovery, see George Polya, How to Solve It? (book). My 1997 paper: Policy Innovation as a Discovery Procedure: Exploring the Tacit Fringes of the Policy Formulation Process Working Backwards: Instrumental analysis as a policy discovery procedure See my Levy working paper, Policy Formulation as an Innovation Process, 1999, or article Working Backwards from 1999, Review of Political Economy. It might be called Policy Innovation as a Discovery Procedure, the 1999 Levy Working paper

Welcome to episode 62 of Activist #MMT. Today is the final part of my five-part conversation with one of MMT’s original developers, Mathew Forstater. Mat concludes his many varied stories from the history of MMT, heterodox economics, and his long career. He starts by talking about how truly full employment can only be attained and maintained, both in good times and bad, by a federally-funded job guarantee. In the same vein, only a federally-funded job guarantee can be flexible enough to respond effectively to both structural and technological changes – again, in both good times and bad. (Here are links to parts , , , and .) Mat also describes how the term "flexibility" has been distorted to give the appearance of an increase in options, when in reality it is a ratcheting down of worker rights. It also relates to how mainstream economics assumes for-profit businesses to be perfectly flexible and always trending towards full employment. In my interpretation, this is the excuse used to assert that any government intervention is not just pointless and redundant, but decidedly detrimental. It also hides the fact that what gives private industry this flexibility is their ability to push all real and financial costs onto workers and, secondarily, onto customers and society in general. This is as evidenced by the very existence of involuntary unemployment and underemployment. Mat ends by describing an experience of how an unsubstantiated criticism he saw in the comment section of a New Economics Perspectives blog-post worked its way into a journal article. Instead of the journal editors addressing the error directly, they offered Mat an opportunity to publish a response. Although he wrote it, he never sent it, feeling that it would be embarrassing to the original author, despite their bringing it on themselves. He says the experience is representative of how the academic community selectively applies its standards, depending on who in the moment it happens to benefit. Finally, a programming note. Due to an unfortunate technical glitch, today’s episode ends very abruptly. And now, back my conversation with Mat Forstater. Resources Parts and of my Historic-ly interview with a #BlackLivesMatter organizer on #GeorgeFloyd, the systemic racism that led up to it, and the performative changes in its wake.

Welcome to episode 62 of Activist #MMT. Today is the final part of my five-part conversation with one of MMT’s original developers, Mathew Forstater. Mat concludes his many varied stories from the history of MMT, heterodox economics, and his long career. He starts by talking about how truly full employment can only be attained and maintained, both in good times and bad, by a federally-funded job guarantee. In the same vein, only a federally-funded job guarantee can be flexible enough to respond effectively to both structural and technological changes – again, in both good times and bad. (Here are links to parts one, two, three, and four.) Mat also describes how the term "flexibility" has been distorted to give the appearance of an increase in options, when in reality it is a ratcheting down of worker rights. It also relates to how mainstream economics assumes for-profit businesses to be perfectly flexible and always trending towards full employment. In my interpretation, this is the excuse used to assert that any government intervention is not just pointless and redundant, but decidedly detrimental. It also hides the fact that what gives private industry this flexibility is their ability to push all real and financial costs onto workers and, secondarily, onto customers and society in general. This is as evidenced by the very existence of involuntary unemployment and underemployment. Mat ends by describing an experience of how an unsubstantiated criticism he saw in the comment section of a New Economics Perspectives blog-post worked its way into a journal article. Instead of the journal editors addressing the error directly, they offered Mat an opportunity to publish a response. Although he wrote it, he never sent it, feeling that it would be embarrassing to the original author, despite their bringing it on themselves. He says the experience is representative of how the academic community selectively applies its standards, depending on who in the moment it happens to benefit. Finally, a programming note. Due to an unfortunate technical glitch, today’s episode ends very abruptly. And now, back my conversation with Mat Forstater. Resources Parts one and two of my Historic-ly interview with a #BlackLivesMatter organizer on #GeorgeFloyd, the systemic racism that led up to it, and the performative changes in its wake.

Welcome to episode 61 of Activist #MMT. Today is part four of my five-part conversation with one of MMT’s original developers, Mathew Forstater. Mat continues telling his many varied stories from the history of MMT, heterodox economics, and his long career. Today’s conversation is highlighted by a detailed story of how his then-student, Pavlina Tcherneva, became part of the MMT project. Pavlina was an undergraduate at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, a straight-A student, and a triple-major in economics, mathematics, and Japanese. After her summer plans to return to her home country of Bulgaria fell through, she requested a paid summer internship. Despite being long after internships were decided, Mat wrote a brief letter on her behalf and sent it out to three prominent economic email listserves. He got three responses. (Here are links to parts , , and .) Around the same time, Warren Mosler was sharing his new ideas in a draft of a short book called . At the suggestion of Art Laffer (the same Art Laffer whose curve serves as the foundation of trickle-down economics) Warren found his way to the Post-Keynesian Talk (or Thought), PKT email forum. It was there he saw Mat’s letter, and offered Pavlina a paid internship at his home in West Palm Beach, Florida. After Mat confirmed it was safe, Pavlina spent the summer writing a critical review of Warren’s book and ideas, comparing it to the ideas in the history of economics. She also helped organize a 50th-anniversary meeting of the Brettonwood’s conference. Since then, what MMTers such as Mat, Pavlina, and Randall Wray added to the MMT project, was confirmation and validation of Warren’s ideas by the historical record, both in and out of economics. The most prominent example Mat gives is how tax-driven money was confirmed by, among other sources, many of the various books from Mat’s undergraduate degree of African American Studies. Mat also talks about the opportunities, tensions, and discrimination, resulting from the new source of research funding that Warren provided. The tension was exacerbated by an environment of artificial scarcity, as imposed by a society and government that frowns upon having its ideas being challenged. And now back my conversation with Mat Forstater.

Welcome to episode 61 of Activist #MMT. Today is part four of my five-part conversation with one of MMT’s original developers, Mathew Forstater. Mat continues telling his many varied stories from the history of MMT, heterodox economics, and his long career. Today’s conversation is highlighted by a detailed story of how his then-student, Pavlina Tcherneva, became part of the MMT project. Pavlina was an undergraduate at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, a straight-A student, and a triple-major in economics, mathematics, and Japanese. After her summer plans to return to her home country of Bulgaria fell through, she requested a paid summer internship. Despite being long after internships were decided, Mat wrote a brief letter on her behalf and sent it out to three prominent economic email listserves. He got three responses. (Here are links to parts one, two, and three.) Around the same time, Warren Mosler was sharing his new ideas in a draft of a short book called Soft Currency Economics. At the suggestion of Art Laffer (the same Art Laffer whose curve serves as the foundation of trickle-down economics) Warren found his way to the Post-Keynesian Talk (or Thought), PKT email forum. It was there he saw Mat’s letter, and offered Pavlina a paid internship at his home in West Palm Beach, Florida. After Mat confirmed it was safe, Pavlina spent the summer writing a critical review of Warren’s book and ideas, comparing it to the ideas in the history of economics. She also helped organize a 50th-anniversary meeting of the Brettonwood’s conference. Since then, what MMTers such as Mat, Pavlina, and Randall Wray added to the MMT project, was confirmation and validation of Warren’s ideas by the historical record, both in and out of economics. The most prominent example Mat gives is how tax-driven money was confirmed by, among other sources, many of the various books from Mat’s undergraduate degree of African American Studies. Mat also talks about the opportunities, tensions, and discrimination, resulting from the new source of research funding that Warren provided. The tension was exacerbated by an environment of artificial scarcity, as imposed by a society and government that frowns upon having its ideas being challenged. And now back my conversation with Mat Forstater.

Welcome to episode 60 of Activist #MMT. Today is part three of my five-part conversation with one of MMT’s original developers, Mathew Forstater. Today, Mat and I start with a light-hearted conversation about music, parenting, Twitter, and the book club his two sons gave him for his birthday this year. He then proceeds to tell many stories from the history of heterodox economics, his own career, and his role in the early history of MMT. Along with several other UMKCers and MMTers, Mat was recognized by a 2015 Bloomberg article (original, archive) for properly predicting the Euro currency would be a disaster. The other MMTers are Wynne Godley, Warren Mosler, L. Randall Wray, Warren Mosler, and Stephanie Kelton (along with the seriously-not-MMTers, Milton Friedman and Margaret Thatcher!). (Here are links to parts one and two.) UMKC is one of the few universities in the world with a PhD program in economics through an MMT lens. With the assistance of Warren Mosler, the program was begun by Mat, Stephanie Kelton, Randall Wray, and others. Over the years, the program has resulted in hundreds of MMT-educated professors now teaching around the country. Mat also discusses the economist who is the subject of his own dissertation, Adolph Lowe. Lowe was a professor at The New School, and one of Lowe’s students, Robert Heilbronner, later became Mat’s own professor at The New School. Mat describes the early history of The New School, originally called "The University In Exile,” which was created by a group of disaffected professors from Columbia University. In part four, Mat tells the full story of how his then-undergraduate student Pavlina Tcherneva became involved in the MMT project. But for now, let’s get right back to my conversation with Mat Forstater.

Welcome to episode 60 of Activist #MMT. Today is part three of my five-part conversation with one of MMT’s original developers, Mathew Forstater. Today, Mat and I start with a light-hearted conversation about music, parenting, Twitter, and the book club his two sons gave him for his birthday this year. He then proceeds to tell many stories from the history of heterodox economics, his own career, and his role in the early history of MMT. Along with several other UMKCers and MMTers, Mat was recognized by for properly predicting the Euro currency would be a disaster. is one of the few universities in the world with a PhD program in economics through an MMT lens. With the assistance of Warren Mosler, the program was begun by Mat, Stephanie Kelton, Randall Wray, and others. Over the years, the program has resulted in hundreds of MMT-educated professors now teaching around the country. Mat also discusses the economist who is the subject of his own dissertation, Adolph Lowe. Lowe was a professor at The New School, and one of Lowe’s students, , later became Mat’s own professor at The New School. Mat describes the early history of The New School, originally called "The University In Exile,” which was created by a group of disaffected professors from Columbia University. In part four, Mat tells the full story of how his then-undergraduate student Pavlina Tcherneva became involved in the MMT project. But for now, let’s get right back to my conversation with Mat Forstater.

Welcome to episode 50 of Activist #MMT. Today is part two of my five-part conversation with one of the original developers of MMT, Mathew Forstater. Mat is a professor of economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City, or UMKC which, according to Sam Levey, who was my first-ever guest and is also UMKC economics PhD. student, is where MMT was born. Mat is also research director for the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and research associate for the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. (Here is a link to part one.) Today Mat starts by describing the difficulties endured by women and people of color throughout the economics discipline, whether heterodox or mainstream. We spend the bulk of our time, however, discussing the sad reality of unemployment statistics in the United States. This begins with the overly rosy and highly unrealistic U-3 measurement by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or BLS. The less unrealistic measurement by the BLS is called U-6. I wouldn’t go as far as calling it "better," but it is less bad. What both leave out is the millions upon millions of Americans who simply do not exist as far as those statistics are concerned. Not only are they not counted in the report, this flaw is not even recognized or acknowledged as a flaw. The non-acknowledgment is perpetuated by media, the general public, and finally, lawmakers. As Mat describes in his chapter in the 2013 Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, called "Unemployment and Underemployment," those who are disappeared from the employment statistics include, among others, the homeless and phone-less, simply because the survey is conducted by phone. Further, because of the realities of our society, including de facto racism and slavery, such as the war on drugs and the 13th Amendment, black Americans are much more likely to end up in prison. This is because, since our federal representatives do not prevent mass suffering when they clearly could, many citizens choose to enter the military because it provides good pay and benefits, in exchange for the risk of being blown up. Of course, those who enter the military or are put in jail are usually among the most disadvantaged in society. In other words, these millions don’t just magically disappear from the labor pool, they are actively pushed out.

Welcome to episode 50 of Activist #MMT. Today is part two of my five-part conversation with one of the original developers of MMT, Mathew Forstater. Mat is a professor of economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City, or UMKC which, according to Sam Levey, who was my first-ever guest and is also UMKC economics PhD. student, is where MMT was born. Mat is also research director for the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and research associate for the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. (Here is a link to .) Today Mat starts by describing the difficulties endured by women and people of color throughout the economics discipline, whether heterodox or mainstream. We spend the bulk of our time, however, discussing the sad reality of unemployment statistics in the United States. This begins with the overly rosy and highly unrealistic U-3 measurement by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or BLS. The less unrealistic measurement by the BLS is called U-6. I wouldn’t go as far as calling it "better," but it is less bad. What both leave out is the millions upon millions of Americans who simply do not exist as far as those statistics are concerned. Not only are they not counted in the report, this flaw is not even recognized or acknowledged as a flaw. The non-acknowledgment is perpetuated by media, the general public, and finally, lawmakers. As Mat describes in his chapter in the 2013 Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, called "Unemployment and Underemployment," those who are disappeared from the employment statistics include, among others, the homeless and phone-less, simply because the survey is conducted by phone. Further, because of the realities of our society, including de facto racism and slavery, such as the war on drugs and the 13th Amendment, black Americans are much more likely to end up in prison. This is because, since our federal representatives do not prevent mass suffering when they clearly could, many citizens choose to enter the military because it provides good pay and benefits, in exchange for the risk of being blown up. Of course, those who enter the military or are put in jail are usually among the most disadvantaged in society. In other words, these millions don’t just magically disappear from the labor pool, they are actively pushed out.

Today I talk with one of the original developers of MMT, (Twitter/@. Mat is a professor of economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City, or UMKC which, according to Sam Levey, who was my first-ever guest and is also a UMKC economics PhD. student, is where MMT was born. Mat is also research director for the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and research associate for the at Bard College. In this first of a five-part episode, Mat and I first talk about how he grew up in Philadelphia, where I also grew up and still live near. He attended Temple University in North Philly and earned a bachelor’s degree in what was originally called Pan African Studies but came to be known as African-American studies. According to Mat, quote, "everything seemed to keep coming back to economics." He says he also decided on economics because economists and their theories "affects peoples lives” in a more immediate sense than other subjects. Although all subjects are important in their own way, there is a reason, he says, that every countries’ leaders have economic advisers. Mat then talks about his long career as a heterodox economist and professor, and the difficulties he experienced and witnessed among the heterodox community, substantially due to the lack of support from (and benefit to) those in power. The infighting and factionalism he describes is similar to the concepts in his 1999 paper regarding Abba Lerner, called "Functional Finance and Full Employment." In it, he talks about how the artificial scarcity of jobs and funding imposed by the central government and currency issuer, causes bad behavior and decisions by workers and unions, in an effort to protect their artificially limited jobs at all costs. This understandably results in discrimination against the most disadvantaged. As Stephanie Kelton describes it, it is a cruel game of musical chairs. Mat calls Fred Lee an important figure in promoting and supporting a "big tent" for Post-Keynesians, in order to address some of these concerns. (This interview was Fred Lee's book, A History of Heterodox Economics.) One of the primary examples Mat gives of discrimination by neoclassicals is how heterodox economists were told that if a concept could not be modeled or expressed in math, then it wasn’t really economics. I see this as a tool to make economics inaccessible to the general public, and also as a way to take the real world, which is complicated, difficult, and beautiful, and reduce it to meaningless numbers and formulas. This is not unlike focusing on a child’s report card or standardized testing grades and ignoring the child himself. This intentionally myopic view of the world obviously ignores real world suffering and also makes it very easy to justify not alleviating it. Resources (Paul Davidson) 2004 book by Virgil Henry Storr, 2015 by New School's Mike Isaacson, "" 2011 paper by Mat Forstater, regarding Byard Rustin, called "" (The latter half of the title is indeed the same as the below Lerner paper.) Papers written by Mat (unless otherwise stated) that I read in preparation for this interview: 1999: : Some excellent insights from Abba Lerner, as it relates to the MMT-designed job guarantee (which is MMT proposed solution to Lerner's goal of always balancing full employment while avoiding inflation). 1999: (): The many reasons why the private sector cannot achieve (or maintain) full employment, and why only the public sector can (and must). 1999: (here is the same paper, but ): The only thing that can cause people to spend more (recycle their savings) is an injection of new money by the federal government – that is, deficit spending. 1999, with Warren Mosler: 2002: : A more technical look at the unique advantages the federal government has over the private sector, regarding achieving and maintaining full employment. 2005: 2005 with Warren Mosler: (One of the to those interested in learning more about MMT.) 2012: , a chapter from the...

Drag Queens https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/5317604/flowjob-drag-queen-paisley-primary-school/ https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/dundee-based-msp-wades-into-row-over-drag-act-flowjob-reading-to-kids-at-primary-school/?fbclid=IwAR3cx27Vm0VFUtmVF2fVi9UoZsNEOyS2_RZz9OgnEl-G-2QsQkLJ2wxqNdM   2) David Steele - https://www.theweek.co.uk/105872/david-steel-steps-down-as-report-criticises-responses-to-westminster-abuse-claims?_mout=1&utm_campaign=theweekdaily_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter 3) Tyson Fury – https://twitter.com/thony_yhl/status/1231508798080200704?s=12 https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/boxer-donated-9-million-purse-from-fight-to-house-the-homeless/#.XlTXpteftWD.twitter 4) Maya Forstater - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ0NnEWOXv0&app=desktop https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/22/ssweden-teenage-transgender-row-dysphoria-diagnoses-soar https://pluralist.com/transgender-women-womb-transplants/ 5) Dawn Butler – Sex Work https://www.anz.com.au/promo/lovespeech/?cid=sc%7C3636033%7C23769256%7C1328036%7C268379235&dclid=CjkKEQiAv8PyBRCmy-L_vIq0wd4BEiQAFdF87fflg4XUTrIRGtL6SokRaiyjKqrgtE5NL6kmDjxi9LLw_wcB 6) Harry Miller –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=x0wC7c9Sywk&feature=emb_logo  7) Domestic violence in Queensland - https://www.smh.com.au/national/queensland/killer-father-had-history-of-domestic-violence-20200220-p542td.html 8) Woke Novels – Emma – Play some of this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsOwj0PR5Sk https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/too-woke-we-re-making-great-novels-more-relevant-says-bbc-plkqkcdvv 8) The Great Escape – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbsuAbTTsV8  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/fiery-chaplain-was-true-spur-to-the-great-escape-tftrkjmqr?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter    9) The Music of Hagi Sofia – https://www.npr.org/2020/02/22/808404928/listen-the-sound-of-the-hagia-sophia-more-than-500-years-ago?fbclid=IwAR3Eso65grNIelJa3drH0joV2jOtsUBjiSU0N8HU06r3Ew7yuuYtHGWOa9U    

Mathew Forstater insists that if something can be done it can be undone. To what is he referring? Listen to episode 55 and find out.

The mainstream media has created a pasteurized and homogenized version of Martin Luther King, Jr, befitting the neoliberal cultural bell jar. That being said, our friend Mathew Forstater reminds us that Dr King had a laser-like focus on economics and unemployment. The massively successful August 1963 march was called The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom for a reason. Without economic security, the social and political advances of the civil rights movement cannot take hold. Steve kicks off the interview by asking Mat to speak about MLK in the context of today’s debate about a Universal Basic Income versus the Federal Job Guarantee. Dr King and other civil rights leaders promoted an economic bill of rights that was specifically and intentionally not a UBI. The three-part platform demanded a job for anyone willing to work, an income guarantee for those who cannot work, and a raise in the minimum wage sufficient to lift the working poor out of poverty. All three prongs are necessary -- a job guarantee alone doesn’t help those who cannot work; raising the minimum wage doesn’t help the working poor. Dr King’s vision of a job guarantee encompasses four vital components:     1. The development of education and skills must be outcomes of the program and not prerequisites. Rather than being trained for nonexistent jobs, people are to be hired first and trained while they’re being paid.     2. Any jobs should produce community services -- the public and social services that are in short supply and benefit the neediest communities. Labor is directed to our most pressing demands, including environmental and social justice.     3. The program generates income for families that have unmet basic needs. There must be an improvement in basic standards.     4. Acknowledge that there are numerous psychological and social benefits for individuals, families, communities, and the nation as a whole. This is based on MLK's recognition of the social and economic costs of unemployment. Research outside the field of economics (anthropology, social psychology, sociology) confirms the importance of work. In contrast, a UBI provides no development of skills and no production of public services to benefit the community. In a UBI only the income piece is addressed. Supporters of the UBI tend to look at work or human labor not as it was meant to be -- a pursuit of one’s life mission. They're looking at dead-end low-paying jobs with horrible working conditions. It's understandable that they would oppose that kind of work. We have always distinguished our version of a job guarantee from draconian workfare -- the kind that forces welfare mothers to take underpaid jobs where they'll develop no skills or knowledge. Our plan is built around the understanding that people enjoy contributing, working with others, and developing their talents. For models, we look to successful programs of the past like the WPA, CCC, and Argentina’s Plan Jefes. In the rest of the interview, Mat explains that Dr King was not alone in advocating for a JG. He talks about the history of the Humphrey-Hawkins Act, which was originally intended as full-employment legislation but ultimately was gutted. From 1946 to 1978 virtually every major African American leader and organization came out for full employment, including James Farmer of CORE, Bayard Rustin of the AFL-CIO’s A. Philip Randolph Institute, and Oliver C. Cox, who wrote a number of Marxist critiques of capitalism. The second demand of the Black Panther Party’s 10 Point Program was that the government provide “full employment for our people.” We know our Macro n Cheese audience will appreciate this fascinating history of the intersection of the civil rights movement and the ongoing fight for a Federal Job Guarantee. Mathew Forstater is a Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and Research Director at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. http://www.global-isp.org/research-director/ @mattybram on Twitter

Guess who's back with a brand new podcast! That's right, it's the return of 'Having A NatteRR' as Simon, Dave and Sam bring you the first instalment of Series 2 of our mind-numbing ramblings.As it's all anybody in the world of Employment Law wants to talk about at the moment, this episode discusses the very recent ruling in Casamitjana v League Against Cruel Sports and the recognition of "ethical veganism" as a philosophical belief protected under the Equality Act.The boys also have a bit of a chat about the recently published judgment in Forstater v CDG Europe and Others in which an Employment Tribunal ruled that any assertion that a transgender person with a GRC would remain or continue to be their birth sex would not be a philosophical belief.

Introduction “Dress however you please,” Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling posted on Twitter, Thursday, 19 December 19. “Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill.” In response, Vanity Fair reports: “JK Rowling is a TERF” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) was trending within hours, and the conversation continued throughout the day. It led a handful of parents to question on Twitter whether it was appropriate to keep reading Harry Potter to their children, and may affect the way the books and their creator are seen by progressive Americans. From the Washington Post: “Rowling’s tweet triggered backlash almost immediately, attracting condemnation from individual users and organizations alike: ‘Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people are non-binary. CC: JK Rowling,’ the Human Rights Campaign account tweeted. Replying to Rowling’s tweet, one fan wrote that she grew up reading the Harry Potter series as a trans child, and that the author’s decision ‘to support people that hate me’ brought tears to her eyes.’” That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode.  Continuing J. K. Rowling’s Twitter post is the very combination of courtesy and respect for others and acknowledgment of important science that I strive for in my life, and commend to others in their lives. How is it that others could disagree--and disagree so deeply and loudly? The woman referred to in Rowling’s tweet is Maya Forstater, a tax expert who lost her job at a UK Poverty think tank after tweeting that trans women can’t change their biological sex. Basically adhering to the argument that has somehow become bitterly controversial: that men are not women, and women are not men. Forstater’s contract as a visiting fellow at the Washington- and London-based nonprofit Center for Global Development was not renewed, according to the Guardian, after they found her tweets to be exclusionary toward trans people. On Wednesday, Judge James Tayler at the Central London Employment Tribunal dismissed Forstater’s claims of wrongful termination, per the Guardian, calling her “absolutist in her view of sex” and her expressed beliefs “not worthy of respect in a democratic society.” Struther Martin’s character in the excellent movie “Cool Hand Luke” set the tone for today’s episode. Martin, oh-so-fittingly--is the Captain in a brutal Southern chain gang prison. Luke, “Cool Hand”, Paul Newman’s character who is idolized by his fellow inmates for his independent spirit, has just been dragged in, beaten and broken. As Luke lies there, surrounded by his fellow prisoners, here is what the Captain says. “Run one time, get a set of chains. Run again, get two sets of chains. Won’t be no need for no 3rd set; cause you gonna get your mind right. And I do mean right. Take a good look at Luke here (completely broken and unmoving). Cool Hand Luke.” A so-called think tank came up with this firing. Someone with the title of judge supported this termination, saying in part, that Forstater beliefs are, “not worthy of respect in a democratic society.” The woke world is taking the steps needed to get Rowling’s mind right. Mind you, Rowling has a history of being on the left, including having made  major donations to the British Labour party, and is a self-described anti-Trumper. The world of “I say it, therefore it is true.” will not let up until Rowling--and all of us--have our minds right--completely right, and in full alignment with current doctrine. Here’s another representative tweet in response to Rowling’s defense of the science that observes that sex is immutable: “What, exactly, is to be gained by using your platform to be cruel and exclusionary to one of the world’s most vulnerable populations? N.B. There is no attempt to argue the science.

Over the past week, I’ve put up two posts about something that really gets my goat, which is the way in which those who contend that it’s possible to change ones gender — that is, to be “transgender” — are leading a very aggressive war against reality. In doing so, they are accidentally or deliberately partnering with Marxists to destroy Western culture. Reality will always win, but that fallout from a society’s break with reality can be terrible. If you prefer reading to listening, or if you want links to the articles I cite in Part 2 of this two-part podcast, the two posts are: 1. J.K. Rowlings’ fallout with the so-called transgender movement is instructive 2. An addendum to my previous post about the “transgender” movement

Over the past week, I’ve put up two posts about something that really gets my goat, which is the way in which those who contend that it’s possible to change ones gender — that is, to be “transgender” — are leading a very aggressive war against reality. In doing so, they are accidentally or deliberately partnering with Marxists to destroy Western culture. Reality will always win, but that fallout from a society’s break with reality can be terrible. If you prefer reading to listening, or if you want links to the articles I cite in Part 1 of this two-part podcast, the two posts are: 1. J.K. Rowlings’ fallout with the so-called transgender movement is instructive 2. An addendum to my previous post about the “transgender” movement

Did Donald Trump and JK Rowling get impeached in the same week? It appears so.  Rowling backed up Maya Forstater, awho calls herself a “gender critical” feminist. Maya's contract was dropped for international think tank that campaigns against poverty and inequality, when they found she participated in an anti-trans campaigns online. On Twitter, Rowling wrote: “Dress however you please,Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who'll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill.” Of Forstater, the judge reviewing her case concluded her to be innately hostile to transgender people. From the judgement: “I conclude from … the totality of the evidence, that [Forstater] is absolutist in her view of sex and it is a core component of her belief that she will refer to a person by the sex she considered appropriate even if it violates their dignity and/or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment. The approach is not worthy of respect in a democratic society.” We talk about this, the Rowling transphobia history , Trump impeachment and more.... With co-host Brody Levesque.

Did Donald Trump and JK Rowling get impeached in the same week? It appears so.  Rowling backed up Maya Forstater, awho calls herself a “gender critical” feminist. Maya's contract was dropped for international think tank that campaigns against poverty and inequality, when they found she participated in an anti-trans campaigns online. On Twitter, Rowling wrote: “Dress however you please,Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill.” Of Forstater, the judge reviewing her case concluded her to be innately hostile to transgender people. From the judgement: “I conclude from … the totality of the evidence, that [Forstater] is absolutist in her view of sex and it is a core component of her belief that she will refer to a person by the sex she considered appropriate even if it violates their dignity and/or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment. The approach is not worthy of respect in a democratic society.” We talk about this, the Rowling transphobia history , Trump impeachment and more.... With co-host Brody Levesque.

Special guest Mathew Forstater was there when Modern Monetary Theory first took root in academia. He and Steve follow its history to the powerful, multi-faceted movement it is today. If you’re interested in the Job Guarantee or Green New Deal, don't miss this episode.

There was a time when Mathew Forstater & Warren Mosler would conduct regular counts of MMT believers. There were 11 or 12, and they knew them all well. In this interview, Forstater takes us back to the late 1990s, when Modern Monetary Theory first took root in academia.   Today he is Research Director of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, but his story begins with his first post-doctorate teaching job. He secured a summer internship for an undergrad named Pavlina Tcherneva. Her assignment: write a critical review of Mosler’s first book.   The relationships they formed resulted in the creation of a research institute, the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability at the Levy Institute. Randall Wray and Stephanie Kelton descended upon it. After a couple of years, the MMT nucleus moved to UMKC, where they established an interdisciplinary program. Today it’s an international movement with a reach into other disciplines and far beyond the walls of universities.    Forstater emphasizes the importance of keeping policy discussion on the table. What distinguishes them from mainstream economics is they recognize the need to be grounded in reality. MMT is not just theoretical.   Steve asks him to talk about some of the specific policies associated with MMT. Forstater believes that the Job Guarantee should be a central piece of Green New Deal by demanding only sustainable jobs, or jobs with minimal negative effect. The federal government isn’t subject to the pressures of the private sector which, by the very nature of the capitalist economy, must minimize production costs regardless of environmental impact. The JG can be a vehicle for other policies as well, establishing a minimum wage and standards for health care coverage.   Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity   http://www.global-isp.org/research-director/

PREVIEW: An unabridged reading of Mathew Forstater's December, 2018 paper: "Working for a better world: Cataloging arguments for the right to employment", published in Philosophy and Social Criticism in 2014. This paper is seven pages long. The paper: http://cas2.umkc.edu/econ/economics/faculty/Forstater/papers/Forstater2014/Sen-symposium.pdf *** This is a PREVIEW (The entire reading has been recorded and is ready to release, but until I get official permission to do so, I am only releasing half. Please consider contributing or becoming a monthly patron in order to make this process easier, and to encourage the recording of more #MMTaudioBooks. Link to contribute is at the bottom.) *** This audio recording: https://soundcloud.com/peopleconversations/forstaterjgargumentspreview This is the third recording in a larger effort to read aloud unabridged versions of various MMT-based economic papers and books (either with permission, or those old enough to be no longer copyrighted) and to provide them online, for free, forever. Four more readings have already been recorded and are currently in post-production. Although I'm learning a lot, creating these recordings is a very labor intensive process. In total, it takes more than an hour of effort per page. Please consider supporting this effort by contributing, and especially consider becoming a monthly patron: https://citizensmedia.tv/contribute/

Illicit financial flows have been under the spotlight recently. Both the Panama and subsequent Paradise papers exposed large amounts of money held in tax havens—some under questionable circumstances, and the United Nations has included tackling illicit financial flows as a target within its Sustainable Development Goals. In this podcast, the Center for Global Development’s Maya Forstater talks about how much or how little we really know about illicit financial flows. Forstater was invited to speak at the IMF as part of the Developing Economies Seminar Series. Maya Forstater is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development.

Host Stuart Wright talks with Xtro producer Mark Forstater about the 35th anniversary of this cult classic sci-fi horror. Second Sight Films release XTRO: LIMITED EDITON Blu-ray (region free) July 2nd 2018. Packaging will feature a rigid slipcase with both original UK theatrical and video artwork, each flipped vertically on either side so you choose which is front. Inside will be digipak containing Blu-ray and CD soundtrack plus soft cover book. For more on the release see https://www.facebook.com/SecondSightFilms/ Credits Intro/Outro music is by Chris Read. He can be contacted at www.thecomposers.tv Podcast from www.britflicks.com You can support the @Britflicks podcast by pledging money via www.patreon.com/stuartwright, subscribing to it via iTunes or leaving a review - this helps attract more listeners.