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Kathleen Richardson is the Author of Sex Robots The end of love, Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots & AI at De Montfort University. Kathleen joined our afternoon panel at the Derby Women’s Festival in May 2026 - an event organised by the Women’s Rights Network Derby and Staffordshire group.

Kathleen chaired our morning session - Mother - and gave a speech in our afternoon session on the Child with her talk Abolishing child abuse: building a politics of love through I-you attachment.

The event gave Kathleen the chance to debate and network with the audience and other speakers - Sorcha Nic Lochlainn from The Countess, Ruth Lewis from MoMa Breastfeeding Lexi Ellingsworth from Stop Surrogacy Now, Jennifer Gourley from Protect and Teach, and Stephanie Davies-Arai from Transgender Trend

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Heather Binning is joined by two of the Darlington Nurses - lead claimant Bethany Hutchison and Lisa Lockey.

In 2023, eight nurses from the Day Surgery Unit at Darlington Memorial Hospital filed a discrimination claim against County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust for for sexual harassment and sex discrimination.

Female staff were forced to share their female changing room with Rose Henderson, a male member of staff. Henderson was described by the tribunal as "a biological male who identifies as female and has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment".

The Employment Tribunal ruled that the NHS unlawfully discriminated against and harassed the nurses by requiring them to share female-only changing rooms with a male member of staff, and confirmed that the Trust's policy allowing men into women's spaces was unlawful and violated the rights of female staff.

Bethany and Lisa speak candidly about what drove them to take action and the underhand tactics deployed by management before and during the tribunal.

Hear first-hand accounts of the highs and lows of their legal battle and how some colleagues, through fear or pressure, have distanced themselves from the women.

Bethany also discusses the newly formed Darlington Nursing Union, founded to help other medical professionals fight unlawful treatment.

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Tribunal Transcript: https://tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/eight-nurses-v-county-durham-and

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Heather Binning is joined by Nick Wallis, one of the UK's most distinguished investigative journalists.
Nick's groundbreaking work on the Post Office scandal followed by his book, The Great Post Office Scandal, has received widespread praise for its detailed and compelling account.

Today, Nick lifts the lid on the frustrating roadblocks he continues to encounter in the media sector, and why he believes journalists collectively are still failing to expose what he considers the greatest scandal of a generation - the capture of institutions and the medical harms emanating from gender ideology.

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Heather Binning is joined by Fiona McAnena - a woman who has spent years at the sharp end of the fight to restore and protect women's rights.

After five years as Sports Campaigning Lead at Fair Play For Women, Fiona joined Sex Matters in 2024 as Director of Campaigns. In this conversation, she reflects on the pivotal moments that sparked significant surges in the movement, the long battle to hold mainstream media to account, and why grassroots activism remains the most powerful force of all.

A former Cambridge Blue, Fiona still rows and is a committed parkrunner.

Also joining us briefly is Maya Forstater, who offers a timely reminder of just how much weight a well-timed response to a public consultation can carry.

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Ruth Lewis, founder of Moma Breastfeeding, joined our morning panel at the Derby Women’s Festival on Saturday 9 May 2026 - an event organised by the Women’s Rights Network Derby and Staffordshire group

Ruth was here to talk about “Breastfeeding support and the mother-baby dyad” . MoMa is a mother-led, not-for-profit organisation, dedicated to providing mother-to-mother support for breastfeeding.

The event gave Ruth the chance to debate and network with the audience and other speakers - Sorcha Nic Lochlainn from The Countess, Lexi Ellingsworth from Stop Surrogacy Now, Jennifer Gourley from Protect and Teach, Stephanie Davies-Arai from Transgender Trend and Kathleen Richardson Author of Sex Robots - The end of love, Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI at Leicester’s De Montfort University,

Find Ruth on X @MoMaBfing and for more information take a look at the website https://momab.org.uk/

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Faye McGinty is joined by Sophie Power, an elite ultra-runner who, whilst famously known for completing the gruelling 106-mile Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) while stopping at aid stations to nurse her three-month-old baby, is also a fierce advocate for structural change. As the founder of SheRaces, she is leading a vital movement demanding that the running industry dismantle its 'one-size-fits-all' approach.

We sit down with Sophie to discuss how gear, race policies, and training schedules must evolve to truly support the unique physical, physiological, and lifestyle realities of the female body.

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Lexi Ellingsworth, co-founder of Stop Surrogacy Now UK, joined us at the Derby Women’s Festival in May 2026 - an event organised by the Women’s Rights Network Derby and Staffordshire group.

Lexi was here to tell us why we should ban all forms of surrogacy and what people can do to work towards this aim. Lexi spoke on ‘Surrogacy - Erasing Mothers: the exploitation of women and denial of the mother baby dyad.’

The festival speakers were able to debate the issues with the audience and listen to talks by Stephanie Davies-Arai from Transgender Trend, Ruth Lewis from MoMa Breastfeeding, Sorcha Nic Lochlainn from The Countess, Jennifer Gourley from Protect and Teach and Kathleen Richardson Author of Sex Robots - The end of love, Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI at Leicester’s De Montfort University

Find Stop Surrogacy Now on X @WombsNotForRent and for further information take a look at the website https://stopsurrogacynowuk.org/

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We met Sorcha Nic Lochlainn of The Countess at the Derby Women’s Festival in May 2026 - an event organised by the Women’s Rights Network Derby and Staffordshire group.

The Countess is a non-profit, volunteer-led organisation formed to promote the rights and interests of women and children in Ireland. Sorcha was with us to discuss the importance of language with her talk, ‘These words belong to us: why language matters'.

She described her day at the Festival as “brilliant” with the opportunity to debate issues throughout the day with the audience and fellow speakers.

She joined the morning panel with Lexi Ellingsworth from Stop Surrogacy Now and Ruth Lewis from MoMa Breastfeeding. In the afternoon she joined the audience to hear Jennifer Gourley from Protect and Teach, Stephanie Davies-Arai from Transgender Trend and Kathleen Richardson Author of Sex Robots - The end of love, Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI at Leicester’s De Montfort University.

Find Sorcha on X @TheCountessIE and for further information take a look at the website https://thecountess.ie/

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