UN Women UK: Pickard 1

Bobbie Pickard 1

As part of my series on UN Women U.K. I am going to have a look at all the men who have been chosen as delegates to the United Nations at a conference to represent Women. First up is Bobbi Pickard. There is quite a lot to cover on Pickard so this will be Part One.

Pickard came out officially. as a faux woman, in 2017. He has been employed as a senior manager with British Petroleum for much of his career, either directly or as a self employed consultant. He is also CEO of Trans in the City which we will cover more in Part Two. According to his linkedin he has a HNC in Electrical Engineering. As you can see from the above profile he also has links with Stonewall. He was also appointed a trustee of Mermaids in May 2020.

According to Mermaid’s accounts he was not a trustee for long. (Note the two anonymous trustees.). His departure from Mermaids was for personal reasons related to him having genital surgery. He regards the ex CEO of Mermaids. Susie Green, as a personal friend,

Pickard is a heterosexual man who has fathered two children, although he now describes himself as a lesbian and if you don’t like it, you can mind your own business!

When I find late transitioning males, who are heterosexual and claim to be Lesbians, I generally look for reports of early cross dressing which is, almost invariably, present. Pickard is quite reticent about how his gender identity manifested itself, prior to deciding he was a woman. He is at pains to deny any link to fetish or a sexual motivation as illustrated by this, now deleted, comment 👇 on his website. He favours a medical explanation.

The deletion of the above 👆 is interesting. Having read many of these narratives the reference to cross dressing, sometimes with an acknowledgement of the sexual motive, is a recurrent theme. Pickard does admit to dressing up at his nan’s house as a five year old. However, Pickard also talks about an over bearing father, who was injured when Pickard was a small boy, and became mentally unstable. He also talks about the roots in trauma for a cross sex identification which could be a factor or an attempt at deflection. I have had long discussion with a detransitioned man whose motive to transition was rooted in childhood trauma so I would not totally dismiss this interpretation. In any case this is the less interesting part of Pickard’s story as I will demonstrate in part two.

Pickard does have a twitter account @BobbityP but is not very active. I am blocked but it seems to mainly consist of celebrating various awards from LGBTQ+ organisations and there does not seem to be India Willoughby levels of vitriol. He claims that he is a very contented in his “trans” identity but there is one slightly unhinged reaction to a Boots question. The levels of male entitlement and, frankly, insanity to object to being asked your sex. Your sex is a good indicator of the propensity to some diseases and the likely severity.

This is not a casual bit of snark. The NHS is capitulating to the sex denialism and this is doubly disadvantageous to women because the default medical research subject is male. Like it or not, SEX MATTERS, Yes, even in flu.

Disorders of Sexual Development/Intersex

The insistence on a biological reason for his being “trans” is a recurring theme in Pickard’s appearance in the media. He seems to rely on Anne Fausto-Sterling who famously said being “intersex” (not “transgender”) was as common as being a redhead. She also claimed there there were five biological sexes a claim that has been subject to, at a minimum, serious challenge. Pickard makes this claim in a discussion with Peter Tatchell.

Fausto-Sterling’s claims have been comprehensively debunked in this article by Leonard Sax.

Fausto-Sterling also later claimed that her insistence on five biological sexes was tongue in cheek in this exchange with biologist Colin Wright.

Pickard and Peter Tatchell.

It is worth watching the discussion with Tatchell, in full if only for this astonishing claim by Tatchell.

I am not going to spend too much time on Tatchell, for the purposes of this post, but I might add to my series on Tatchell which you can find here:👇

Peter Tatchell

He does deserve calling out this statement which attempts to paint feminists as the one unwilling to debate as if we don’t all recall that the #NoDebate hashtagcame from his side.

He will proceed to argue that those “trans” people who won’t debate are in fear for their safety; whilst not extending the same consideration to women. He also makes this statement before arguing that women are only partially oppressed on the basis of their sex. No, they are singled out more for their gender non-conformity which is, he thinks, why we should make common case with men who want to express themselves in stereotypical ways.🤷‍♀️

Pickard’s contribution is that he’s always been trans, has known since he was six. Since he partnered with a woman and had children, before coming out in 2017, I am a tad skeptical.

He then goes on to advance arguments about brain sex; female brain in a male body, then an appeal,to emotion that it was either “transition” or commit suicide. I won’t cover those arguments here because he repeats them in a one to one interview which I will cover next.

You can find this discussion here 👇

Peter Tatchell and Bobbi Pickard

Pickard interviewed by Emma Woollcott

Mishcon de Reya: An international Law Firm

Here is more information on Emma which contains the delicious irony that, among other things, she is head of reputation management and advises charities on reputational risk and data protection concerns. Think about this when they get on to discuss Pickard’s role as a Trustee of Mermaids!

I had a squint at Woollcott’s Linkedin and, of course she has pronouns in her bio and I could not resist adding this clip from her feed. Not only are women not just smaller men a massive bloke (or a small one) is never a woman! It’s is worth noting that Emma did an internship with the law firm Clifford Chance , who are themselves proponents of transgender ideology.

I will leave the revelations about the organisation Trans in The City until part two. I will cover Pickard’s theories about why he is “transgender” and his promotion of Mermaids.

Here is a link to the interview: 👇

Pickard interviews by a She /Her

Bearing in mind that this man goes into schools to promote his magical thinking.

Woollcott asks Pickard to describe his journey to coming out as transgender and why transgender people exist. She sets up the question by telling the viewer that he has done his research which lends a veneer of credibility to his theories. As above he goes the brain sex route:

I am highly skeptical about this claim after years of observing the hyper masculine behaviour of heterosexual men, who identify as women. There is research that suggest there are detectable brain differences between straight men and gay men so, those that don’t control for homosexuality are missing a confounding variable. Some studies also didn’t exclude the men who had taken cross sex hormones and did not allow for the impact of neuroplasticity. Could regular cos playing as women have had an impact on the brain due to neuroplasticity?. Reading the work of Dr Ann Lawrence, himself an autogynephilic male, also lead me to wonder if the sexual fantasies of those with autogynephilia also may have an impact on brain structure that is noting to do with female brains in male bodies.

You can read my series on Lawrence here:

Dr Ann Lawrence

Perhaps the stronger argument agains the prenatal hormone argument is identical twins where only one of them identifies as “transgender”. Based on my reading the result is higher than in non identical twins but nowhere near a 100% correlation.

I found his body language quite interesting at this point, looking down, fiddling with his hair and smirking. I would not be at all suprised if he doesn’t believe a word of it and this is an exhibition of dupers delight.

I find this argument, from Pickard, more plausible. A boy whose father suffered an injury and subsequent mental health issues at an impressionable age. Over identification with the mother, Perhaps the father was abusive to the boy, maybe even the mother. I could well imagine a rejection of being male when your own role model is so negative.

I was almost minded to sympathy at this point but the clear failure to identify with women’s concerns soon made me have a word with myself. Here he is on the proposed reform of the Gender Recognition Act. I have done a series on Gender Recognition Certificates this is fanciful nonsense. I also very much doubt so much political capital would have been expended on something that is “already the case”

You can read my series on Gender Recognition Certificates here: 👇

Gender Recognition Certificates

Where Pickard lost any goodwill I might have had was his schilling for Mermaids. The disgraceful lies about suicide which are easily debunked. Likewise the statement on puberty blockers, also easily disproved. 98% of those who start on puberty blockers, to block puberty from starting, progress to cross sex hormones. As a result they will be sterile and likely anorgasmic. Reminder that Pickard had children and, presumably a satisfactory sex life.

Those of us who have been writing about this for over six years can now point to the fact that puberty blockers are now banned, at least for under 16’s.

More on the most marginalised group, ever, in part two.

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