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Good analysis, Milli. I’d like to know if the QBC continue to make £££.

My theory: in 2021, conferences & in person training were still affected by pandemic-related restrictions. A ninety quid zoom session would have less competition than in normal years. Also, not everyone thinks they need or want this training. The market is niche, imo. It might be the QBC reached the low hanging fruit of naïfs & allies in 2021 and two to three years on, it’s run out of clients.

Plus the fact more and more people are sceptical of the whole thing.

I might be wrong,of course. But while the NHS as a whole remains captured, I suspect the grifting is less appealing.

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Unfortunately they are still going strong, or it would seem so from their website. They've branched out into lactation and also 'fat birth'. Have a look at their website. xx

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they've done workshops for pretty much everyone but I guess there's nobody else doing similar and they've made it very difficult NOT to do a workshop with them, because then it looks like you don't care about LGBTQ competency, hence = protection racket!

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The word ‘decoupling’ is a great word for how our female bodies are being decoupled from being women. I shall use that, too. Thank you for it!

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Excellent, please do! x

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Thanks Milli, a pleasant change not to have too many eye-rolls this week but where oh where were the tips on how to use up my panic-bought cheese….?! 🧀

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Haha, well, what can I say...'Apply to Face', that's my only tip. 😆

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Thanks milli I’m loving the fact you have no examples to send me to a darkened room this week .

The decoupling is a good way to understand and to explain it to myself as I often find it hard to justify my thoughts where others are convinced TWaW .

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Cynical me thinks that "the things we don't know about sex" are things we don't know about women because until relatively recently, medical science and research ignored us, in favor of a belief that "people" are all the same, but us 'womanly' ones are just smaller, faulty versions of the default person, who is of course male.

Re AJ Silver, I have been bemused by the proclamations of women I have known for years who have suddenly discovered they are "queer", despite not changing a single thing about their hetero lives, other than perhaps buying a TRA tee shirt. Although this is better than transing their kids as some do. Or setting out to deliberately "queer" a poor motherless baby like this guy: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/queering-babies-is-there-no-escape

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